Thursday, September 15, 2016
The Bees Will Have the Buffet
From the scout to full on feeding frenzy. The Bee Gs (girls and guy) are trying a new feeding method. Seems the bees were hungry and needed a larger amount of food per feeding. It's not exactly how I want to use poultry waterers, but it is a wonderful idea. They can hold two gallons and that's a bit more than a mason jar.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Junior Beekeepers Unite
We put some pie pans filled with rocks out for watering the bees. This idea came thanks to a post Becky shared. It talked about bees drowning because they don't have anywhere to land and rest while imbibing. Pearce and I have experienced this, finding at least 10 dead bees in the wading pool.
Of course the munchkins had to get there pics taken with the "bee troughs".
I never thought about bees needing water, but they do. Kristi keeping bees is turning out to be a real education. The only hard thing is desensitizing the kids to the bees. They are so funny. They'll stand next to one of the hives for 5 minutes then run when you tell them they're near a hive.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Got a Beat Down Today
The rain was a good thing ... and a bad thing. We needed the rain, but it came down so hard my sprouts suffered some damage.
Cucumbers
It seems the Calypso sprouts did the best out of all my plants. I need to get these babies in the ground.
Monday, April 25, 2016
Scouting the Garden
We are doing a program on planting a garden at scouts for an elective adventure for the Wolves. We planted tomatoes, cucumbers and squash last week. These are pictures of the results of one week's growth for Pearce and "auxiliary" Wolf Claire's seeds.
Funny thing about doing this adventure is that the scouts and Claire are all old hands at gardening.
These will constitute the deck garden here at the house. We'll transplant the sprouts to big pots and keep them on the deck for easy access.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Who Said Volunteerism is Dead
This right here is my absolute favorite kind of volunteering. I never planted garlic last year but, low and behold, I've got two of those suckers in the raised bed by the bees. Didn't see them till after I hit the bed with the weed eater. Can't wait to see if they turn good 'uns.
Monday, March 28, 2016
1 Seed, 2 Seed, 3 Seed, 4.
Pearce and Claire were actually fighting over who got to remove the seeds from the flower head. I guess we'll save two heads this year.
The Great Frame Up
The Great Frame Up
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Long Thought After Coop
Starting to work on the long procrastinated coop. Right now the plan is for a 5x4x4ish box with openings for egg retrieval and chicken eingang and ausgang. Not sure what that will look like yet, this is progress after a fashion.
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