I haven’t seen any bees emerging, and this is the first time they’ve built there, so I’m wondering if heat was a factor?
I’ll keep an eye on the spot (I can see the mud up under the siding against the field stone) and let you know.
Sunny day, blue skies, pretty good breeze. Things should dry out a lot today - plan on mowing tomorrow. The humidity should drop off this afternoon & be lower tomorrow.
I will definitely have to move my peppers to keep them from getting sunburned this afternoon. I might have enough agricultural cloth to make a shade.
I need to get those Lantana planted in our large pots. The dirt currently in them is just that: dirt. It packs hard & is from our old brush pile at the Old House. I want to refill all 3 pots with potting soil. I am hoping to recruit mom to help - she’s a workhorse & in my current ‘state’, I don’t think I can do the pots myself.
The lavender has taken off & grown a couple of inches. Once I can mow a path through the long grass/ticks to the metal beds, those can go in the ground & I think they will be very happy.
Do you still have the female pup who was being aggressive with Grover?
Stinkin’ deer found my pepper plants. I had them tucked into my herb garden since they leave that alone. Of course, they chomped the two ‘different’ ones: Pantera & Gigantia. I think there’s enough left they’ll survive - I need to trim them up a bit so not so ragged. They went from 18” to about 6”.
I want to build a ‘cover’ for that raised bed that will be a mini-greenhouse, provide shade during hardening off, & keep the deer off the plants. I’m ‘noodling’ on it, especially since I would like to use existing fence panels, but no designs have yet occurred. One issue is the raised bed is 6’ & the fence panels are 5’.
I was thinking heat and the rocks might be a factor. Just pick up a house. Now’s the time they will be filling it up. Mason bees are 80% better pollinators than honey bees. No stinging. No hassle, lots of your garden gets pollinated.