A neighbor lost a hive, and as we took it apart, I saw for the first time what honeybee starvation looks like. Bee Starvation can happen for a different reasons, here are a few: • There just isn’t enough food to get them thru the winter. This can happen if the beekeeper has taken too [...]
We had a really warm weekend last week, so i pulled out the cold frame hoop house that we built in the How to make a hoop house cold frame video here. I put in a mix of salad greens and mesclun mix, place a wireless thermometer in, and left it to grow. I’ve gotten [...]
We’ve had a cold winter here, and we’ve had few opportunities to open up our hives to check on the bees. It depends on which expert you are asking, but you should only open up a hive if its above about 45F. The rule I’ve read is if you have to wear a heavy jacket, [...]
A while back on GardenFork Radio I was saying how much I’d like one of those weather stations that sit on your roof and you can hook up to the internet. Then Allison House, a weather data company, sent us one. ( I like how this works ) We assembled the weather station, which is [...]
Henry was probably about 3 months old in this photo. The raised beds do help keep the Labs out of the garden.
I ran across this photo today from a while back. This is when Charlie Pup actually paid some deference to Henry
The Labradors and us people all love sugar snap peas. Thankfully they are pretty easy to grow. Someone has trained the pups to eat them right off the vine. My method of planting peas is simple: As soon as I can get a trowel in the raised bed, I plant peas. They will grow. They [...]
