Well its late fall here so there isn't much going on in my garden. The bee's are for the most part staying in there hives except on really warm days. | Linda's Dream Garden
Well its that time of year again, time to start thinking about planting your bulbs for spring. I found this grate picture that shows planting the depth for the most popular flower bulbs. | Linda's Dream Garden
Epsom salt or Magnesium sulfate is a cheep source of magnesium for your garden. By mixing 1 Table spoon of Epsom salt into each hole before you add your plant, or if you have already planted it you can add a table spoon to the soil around the plant. It will help it to grow larger, greener and leafier. You can also dissolve 1 tablespoon into a gallon of water and use it to water your plants, trees, fruit trees, roses, all types of flowering plants and veggies. | Linda's Dream Garden
Hindbæresnitter are one of my favorite danish cookies. They are very easy to make.| Linda's Dream Garden
Well after my issues with new bee keepers make mistakes. I gave them each a little pancake of Fonda made by rolling out about a kilogram of Fonda between two pieces of wax paper. I figured the wax paper was a good idea it makes it more manageable, its much easier to place it on top of the frames and it keeps the sticky mess from getting all over the frames. But I had no idea they would able to eat though that and about 2 liters of sugar syrup in 5 days. | Linda's Dream Garden
Sunday we found this little bird on the ground in Hals. His nest had fallen off of the wall and he was just siting there on the ground. He was very tame I put him up in a near buy plant and waited. After 4 hours he was still there and very hungry. We feed him some bugs, but he wasn't inclined to fly off. I could tell he was a juvenile common house martin he still had some of his baby fluff and not all of his feathers where out yet. I decided to bring him home with me. ...| Linda's Dream Garden
Last week I ordered 2 boxes of ApiFonda 15 kilograms each. Now the guy I bought my bees from said he used this as well. He even showed me how he puts the box right on top of the frames. I didn't think anything of this because even the company's website I bought it from shows them putting the full box right on top of the frames.| Linda's Dream Garden
Five drunken, threatening elk escaped from police after a party Tuesday night at Ingarö in the Stockholm Archipelago, reports aftonbladet.se.| Linda's Dream Garden
So after the garden stairs project I was left with a little mess / problem. The hill the stairs went up was lower then the stairs themselves every time it rained dirt was washed down onto the stairs. I have had a problem with this little hill for a while. A few years ago I put bark down to deter the weeds which worked very well, but every time it rained the bark would be washed down the hill into the grass. Looked terrible and had to be raked back into the bed before we could mow ...| Linda's Dream Garden
Back in June a local bee keeper captured a swarm. He installed her in a nice hive. But after a time he couldn't understand out where she was. He finally found this...| Linda's Dream Garden
I just got stung on the middle finger of my left hand, its the first time I have been stung by my home bees. If it swells up it should be funny. I really need to get a frame puller and / or where my gloves. It was my own fault when I put the frame back in and tried to push it into place i squished a bee between my finger and the frame. Wasn't her fault. But i gave her sisters 15 kilograms of fondant they should be happy for a while.| Linda's Dream Garden
There seem to be as many different ways of combating Varroa as there are bee keepers. I found this one mentioned on Denmark bee keeper societies website. I like it because it doesn't destroy the brood because of the fact that you do the treatment in the winter time, when there is no brood. Does anyone have any experience with using this? Being that it is found in nature and in honey naturally it seams to be a little less drastic then some of the other methods i have read abou...| Linda's Dream Garden
I just ran across these two live cams of bees. What a wonderful idea you can sit at home and watch the bees do there thing. The one from inside the have is grate you can see what they are doing. I find it very relaxing to watch the bees going in and out of the hive. They seam very busy today. | Linda's Dream Garden
Pardon me while I step up on my soap box now.| Linda's Dream Garden
August is gate time to plant seeds for a second harvest it can be productive as your early spring plantings. Late summer is a good time to plant these vegetables.| Linda's Dream Garden
I have two different compost bins in my garden. One for leaves, grass and trimmings from the hedge. The other is for kitchen waste. | Linda's Dream Garden
I was at my local bee keeper club meeting last night. It was feeding time. We removed the last of the honey supers last week so now its time to feed them up for the winter. | Linda's Dream Garden
Plant en egg.| Linda's Dream Garden
I just entered that picture in a contest. If I win the picture will be in the "2014 Bee keeping Calender". The picture was taken in may at my local bee keeping clubs apiary during one of my first inspections of a hive. I love the picture because if you zoom in you can see several stages of uncapped brood. | Linda's Dream Garden
defend itself with out bee keeper involvement.| Linda's Dream Garden
Having roses in my garden is a must for me. You can find roses of so many different shapes and colors. I love walking out on the terrace and being assaulted by the smell. A lot of people find roses hard to care for but really they are one of the eases plants to have in your garden.| Linda's Dream Garden
Robbing is a term used in beekeeping. Bees from one beehive will try to rob honey from another hive. Robbing behavior is especially strong when there is little nectar in the field. Strong colonies with the largest stores are the most apt to prey upon weaker colonies. Some robbing is carried out so secretly that it escapes notice. Most of the time, when robbing is going on, one can see bees from the opposing hives fight. The fights can lead to significant losses of bees. Robbing may go on ...| Linda's Dream Garden
Over the weekend i found the bees in the larger of the two hives dragging these things out. When i smashed it up it looked exactly like chalk. After Google around i'm convinced its calk brood but what do i do about it? | Linda's Dream Garden
One woman's trip into gardening and bee keeping. Tales of the incompetent beekeeper.| lindasdreamgarden.blogspot.com
One woman's trip into gardening and bee keeping. Tales of the incompetent beekeeper.| lindasdreamgarden.blogspot.com