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What did you do in the garden today?
Good lord the amount of snow we got so far today, over two inches so far and climbing. -
What did you do in the garden today?
The snow just keeps coming, guess its not awful, just dealing with other drivers is the hard point. Garden is deep asleep, swept off the snow from the glass on the hot frame and everything is still green, not sure how I can open it and not let in too much cold air. -
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What did you do in the garden today?
Never heard of them, will have to give them a look. -
What did you do in the garden today?
do you cook then puree them before canning them or do you cube them/cook, then can? -
What did you do in the garden today?
Due to the likelihood of a bad winter I am taking extra precautions and giving them back up food on top of the 40 lbs of honey they have. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Garden is still a bit too moist go go play in. Got the candy boards made, they will set over night then I'll put them on tomorrow afternoon as long as the weather plays along. Also finished tearing apart 4 pallets for the materials. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Got the hives wrapped, will put on candy board next weekend then the girls are on their own except for checking their entrances come a large snow. Hot fames are doing well so far. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Cold weather is rolling in will wrap the hives this weekend. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Been busy cleaning up old honey frames, will melt/ clean once all is gathered. hot frames using old windows on metal raised beds is keeping things warm enough, or the plants appear to be as such. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Got my honey extracted. Letting the extractor "drip" down for the night. will clean out the rest tomorrow. Got mor things to do then time. Frustrating. -
What did you do in the garden today?
@Sally PB From my understanding once the nectar has gone into then regurgitated out of the bee/bees into the cell, then the only step is to get the moisture content down below 18%. Note: going to low can cause an increase likelihood of the honey to crystalize. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Picked another bag of cherry tomatoes, pulled the honey supers and put the honey under a tarp with a dehumidifier. I am slowly working on cleaning up the garden. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Some nutritional info on Black walnuts. -
What did you do in the garden today?
A lot of work in it. Granted they have others harvesting the fallen nuts. The hulling, washing, drying, cracking, separation is all on them.