➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

But anyway, gotta eat cause it’s been on my table like 10 minutes now lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

Memorial Day weekend was quiet here. We worked in the garden after pulling out all the elderberries. Hubby moved the roots to a wet terrace and covered them.
I pulled turnips and beets and picked salad greens.
Picked and shelled peas too.
Then Monday we started to bring up dirt and compost to backfill the big bed again.
BUT we stopped when we noticed a swarm of bees hanging from a limb on one of the smaller apple trees. I grabbed a complete bee hive (two hive bodies, the top and bottom and two supers) out of the garden shed. We set it up just outside the garden, cut the branch and gently shook the bees down into the hive. The rest of the swarm joined the main mass.
While they settled in the hive we did the dirt work.
We were talking about getting a bee hive again. Last week I had filled the honey trays with beeswax sheets. Mother Nature just dropped a huge savings in our lap!

Wow that is awesome!! Huge savings for sure haha so they only swarm when they are looking for a new hive?

 

[Kiki]

I grabbed a complete bee hive (two hive bodies, the top and bottom and two supers) out of the garden shed.

Can you take a picture of this.
I don't know what it is.

 

[Kiki]

But anyway, gotta eat cause it’s been on my table like 10 minutes now lol

Turn your phone OFFFFFFFF for a few hours.
Forget you have it for a few hours.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Turn your phone OFFFFFFFF for a few hours.
Forget you have it for a few hours.

I only had it in cause I was replying to people haha wanted to finish relying before I ate. That’s all. Eating now though and starting to feel a little better. I might turn it off though or at least put the Spotify playlist on shuffle and drive around. Too cold and rainy to walk or hike or anything though cause I’m in shorts. Unless I go get some sweatpants and higher socks since I’m near Walmart. Haha that’s an idea. Instead of just wasting gas and miles. But I think I’d rather eat and then go drive around a while haha

 

[Tesumph]

Need some practical gardening advice.
I can’t afford to fill my front gardenbed with plants right now, so I’m settling for weeding and doing a good mulch job for the summer. The problem is these damn fern things that are thriving in the front. There’s two planted at the back but they’re much smaller.
These things are needle sharp and make me bleed every time they stab me, and yes I do wear gloves.
I HATE everything about them so I’m getting rid of them already.

Question: how do I get rid of very large and very sharp demon plants by myself? I can’t just reach under them to get to the base. Do I attack it with a shovel, leaving a giant crater in front of my house?

I’m seriously considering duct taping one up and seeing if I can rip it out by hand (at the risk of being the laughing stock of my neighbors).

 

[ShrekDawg]

Maybe you could cover it with a huge tarp or something and hope it and all the weeds die??? Then pull it out??

 

[NanaKat]

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We had a friend visit the coop today. Picture doesn’t show how big it was

Looked to be 4 feet.

Wow that is awesome!! Huge savings for sure haha so they only swarm when they are looking for a new hive?

With all the storms and trees down could be a hive in need of a new home or an existing hive has split as the pollen and nector sources grow.
We had bees years ago...5 hives... and harvested our own honey. Local produced honey is helpful with allergies.
I had ordered new hive boxes when our hives began to die from vario mites. So I had those stored for a while.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Looked to be 4 feet.


With all the storms and trees down could be a hive in need of a new home or an existing hive has split as the pollen and nector sources grow.
We had bees years ago...5 hives... and harvested our own honey. Local produced honey is helpful with allergies.
I had ordered new hive boxes when our hives began to die from vario mites. So I had those stored for a while.

I’d say that’s probably a good estimate! It was longer than our 6-bird roost board and I think that’s 3.5ft long.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Looked to be 4 feet.


With all the storms and trees down could be a hive in need of a new home or an existing hive has split as the pollen and nector sources grow.
We had bees years ago...5 hives... and harvested our own honey. Local produced honey is helpful with allergies.
I had ordered new hive boxes when our hives began to die from vario mites. So I had those stored for a while.

Oh wow that’s really cool! Thanks for all the info!!

And I am glad you are able to get use out of the hives finally!!

And I need to find some local honey then haha