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Weekly Gardening Thread Vol. 17, April 27, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012 | JustaDumbBlonde

Posted on 04/27/2012 8:13:43 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde

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To: NautiNurse

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...


81 posted on 04/29/2012 5:38:26 PM PDT by WestwardHo
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

“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.


82 posted on 04/30/2012 6:59:18 AM PDT by dervish (female candidates: the last frontier)
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83 posted on 04/30/2012 7:17:09 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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To: dervish

Dittos to that...


84 posted on 04/30/2012 1:15:45 PM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

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.


85 posted on 05/01/2012 4:47:39 AM PDT by wm25burke
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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did a cutout 3 days ago that was a breeze ... lots of bees, but only two small pieces of comb. It was a new swarm that had moved into a wall and was just beginning to build.

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.

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86 posted on 05/01/2012 11:13:51 AM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies ... plan it.)
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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?


87 posted on 05/01/2012 3:07:03 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (No offense to drunken sailors)
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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....


88 posted on 05/03/2012 5:14:36 PM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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Oops - must've been the wrong hat!
89 posted on 05/04/2012 8:49:15 PM PDT by wm25burke
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