Posted on 04/27/2012 8:13:43 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
This part of the country is all alkyline. The creek that runs through our area is the Salado (means salt).
The trees came from a big commercial tree farm that only deals with large companies, but will sell to locals.
They told me all they would need is ironite.
Two years ago I put in a yellow honey locust from Walmart...maybe 10ft tall, 1” trunk. I water it like crazy, feed it all kinds of stuff, and it’s gorgeous! It loves everything I do..and it’s in the same soil!
My New Mexico garden book suggests watering once a month until it get really hot...
“Monsanto may be many things, but they are not the monster that certain groups make them out to be. Without many of the chemicals developed and produced by Monsanto, including worm-resistant corn and weevil-proof cotton varieties, the world would be a hungrier and less-dressed place to live”
Bump.
I am tired of the demonization of Monsanto. The left’s green movement is pushed by people who have never been poor or hungry.
Dittos to that...
Awesome bee pictorial. I’m on the waiting list with the local bee club to acquire a colony when one becomes available after having been removed.
Please put me on your gardening ping list.
Thanks.
I have a removal coming up Saturday morning that I am dreading. I know the hive is at least 7 years old and is at least 8-9 feet long and 2-4 feet wide. We won't know exactly until we start removing siding, but I'm guessing at least 1/4 million bees. Will probably make 2 or 3 hives out of that one as I have some queens we're raising in nucs right now.
Where does this all end? Seems like at some point you would have enough bees, but it doesn’t sound like you’ll ever run out of supply. Sell them? Rent them out to orchards or farms? Launch a preemptive bee strike against the Canadians?
I could use a couple of active hives to pollinate my strawberries and raspberries but it is too cool for the Busy Bee to work here. Honey is always in demand as long as JADB has the time to harvest it and farm and garden at the same time....
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