Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Time for a beekeeping update from out apiaries, and after a week of decent weather things in our home apiary are looking up. Unfortunately though last time we looked at the bees in our out apiary things weren’t quite so good. Out Apiary In the out Apiary, where we thought the bees would thrive, there...
We put the moth trap out again last night, but with cooler temperatures and stronger winds there weren’t quite so many moths come the morning as there were the other night. That did of course make going through and identifying them a lot easier this morning and Morgan and I had fun doing so. It...
Check out this bright purple pollen being brought back to a hive by one of our bees. Does anyone know what flower it might have come from?
One of our Sweet Potato plants has started flowering… We’re still not sure how, if or when we’ll actually get any sweet potatos though.
I do like eating home grown produce and the garden is doing well at the moment. Last night I managed a meal with loads of fruit and veg that we had grown with our own fair hands. It was a bit of a mix and match meal as I grabbed it after a circuit training...
We haven’t had much of a summer so far and the wet weather has been perfect for slugs and snails. They’ve been having a great time in the garden munching their way through our plants. We don’t normally have an issue with slugs and snails here, but this year they’ve been pretty bad. We’ve still...
Things have been a little fraught on the bee-keeping front. The weather has been terrible for the bees. We seem to get one or two days where they can get out and fly, followed by 5-6 days of winds and rain that keeps them shut up in their hives. There just hasn’t been enough time...
The Purple Sprouting Brocoli in the garden provided us with plenty of delicious florets earlier in the year and keep us well fed for a few weeks. We then took our eyes off the ball and it went to flower. But that’s not a problem. The bright yellow flowers actually look OK in the garden...
The garden is going through a pink and purple phase at the moment, with Lupins and Foxgloves stealing the show. Although the little Primula Vialli are sticking up for themselves and matching the pinks and purples of both of the taller spires.
Our bees made the most of the warm weather on Tuesday and decided to swarm. I was just getting ready to go out when I had a phone-call from the neighbours saying I’m not sure what your bees are up to but they seem to be doing something, they may be swarming. Indeed they were...
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