Information on Bees

[journey11]

There is a corrrelation btween those wild blackberries and the stink bugs. That's probably where they are multiplying.
Did you ever accidentally bite into a stink bug on a blackberry while picking them? I did YEEECH!!

(CFL lightbulb comes on overhead.) That never occurred to me before. I don't think I've ever eaten the bug itself, but you can taste it if they have been there... I have a very small patch of wild blackberries just a few yards from my garden (you'd think they'd work as a trap crop?) and cultivated blackberries off in another portion of the yard. But there's nothing I can do about the thousands of wild blackberries over the hill in my neighbor's field anyway... So far I have yet to meet a cultivated blackberry that tastes better than a wild one. My toddler pecks at my tame ones most of the summer, but when it comes time to make pies and jam I go a huntin'.

Hey nittygrittydirtdigger, about how long/how many seasons will the wedding tulle last? I will have to do some research on that compared with the price of the UV resistant stuff....

 

[hoodat]

The same for strawberries. Those tame ones may be big but they don't hold a candle to those tiny little wild ones when it comes to flavor.

 

[Whitewater]

As to strawberries, hoodat, I've got 2-3 in my patch ripening right now that I have grown organically from the start and are just as big, if not bigger, than the tasteless, woody ones you buy in the store. I am so excited to taste my own Will get pics when they get picked.


Whitewater

 

[wsmoak]

I noticed two different kinds of bees on the clover this afternoon.

Some were normal honeybees, yellow and black, fairly small, doing their thing.

The others were much larger, with more intense black/yellow coloring, and moved very fast from flower to flower. I'd say they were not quite twice as big as the honeybees -- but not as big as a bumble bee or a carpenter bee.

Are they just a different type of bumble bee maybe? I tried to get some pictures but they were not very cooperative.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

At www.fabricdirect.com you can buy a 40 yard bolt of 72" wide nylon netting for $26, or 50 yard bolts of 50" wide tulle for $26. The tulle is a closer weave than the nylon netting. At my local store, either fabric is under $2 a yard.

To me, the choice is cabbage with poison on it, or cabbage with worms on it, or cabbage with a 'wedding veil' on it. I'll take the wedding veil stuff, please.

If there is anyone here who thinks this man and this woman and this cabbage should not be joined together speak now or forever after hold your peas.

 

[journey11]

Good one!

 

[Southern Gardener]

At www.fabricdirect.com you can buy a 40 yard bolt of 72" wide nylon netting for $26, or 50 yard bolts of 50" wide tulle for $26. The tulle is a closer weave than the nylon netting. At my local store, either fabric is under $2 a yard.

To me, the choice is cabbage with poison on it, or cabbage with worms on it, or cabbage with a 'wedding veil' on it. I'll take the wedding veil stuff, please.

If there is anyone here who thinks this man and this woman and this cabbage should not be joined together speak now or forever after hold your peas.

When I was a kid we had clover galore growing in the yard. My sisters and I would lay in the middle of it and listen to the bees buzzing around us. Today I have an abundance of clover growing in my yard and I have no bees. I've only seen a couple of honeybees on my lavender but they don't seem to like the clover.