🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[drstratton]

Sweet clover is a biennial. You may get some light, late blooms the first year but it really doesn't bloom fully until the second year after which it dies. It may or may not come back from the seeds it produces.

Thank you, that's good to know. Glad we're also putting in the bee plant, Butterfly weed & blue flax.

 

[R2elk]

I'm thinking you must have more rainfall than we get. We average about 10 inches. Getting the most rain in November, around 1 inch.

I don't think so. This year's total for me is 7.83" so far, a lot of which was snow melt.

This month I have had zero recordable rainfall.

 

[Sally PB]

Google Lens says it's Chicory.

It is growing in very xeric conditions with no supplemental water.

I grabbed a bunch of seed pods but haven't checked for seeds yet.

We have chicory growing down both sides of our road. It doesn't seem to mind how dry it's been! I have never seen a honeybee on them, but that doesn't prove they don't visit. Occasionally, the flowers will be white instead of blue.

The root can be roasted, ground, and has been used in place of coffee at times. I've never tried it.

 

[drstratton]

I don't think so. This year's total for me is 7.83" so far, a lot of which was snow melt.

This month I have had zero recordable rainfall.

Didn't think about checking totals so far, just looked at average. So, I just looked at the total we've had this year so far, 2.7 inches, which is below the average of 4.44 inches for this time period. It's been a dry year. Just enough sprinkles to make the dust stick to the cars a few times.

We really don't get any measurable rainfall June-October. Trees don't grow here unless you pour lots of water on them. Thankful we have a good well. We're surrounded by sand and sagebrush.

According to The Almanac, it's supposed to be a mild and wet winter. Maybe we'll make up for the lack of rain we've had so far.

 

[R2elk]

Didn't think about checking totals so far, just looked at average. So, I just looked at the total we've had this year so far, 2.7 inches, which is below the average of 4.44 inches for this time period. It's been a dry year. Just enough sprinkles to make the dust stick to the cars a few times.

We really don't get any measurable rainfall June-October. Trees don't grow here unless you pour lots of water on them. Thankful we have a good well. We're surrounded by sand and sagebrush.

According to The Almanac, it's supposed to be a mild and wet winter. Maybe we'll make up for the lack of rain we've had so far.

I live on a sand dune. When I bought this place there were 2 chokecherries and one honeylocust. Everything else was sagebrush and prickly pear.

If I didn't water there would not be any trees.

 

[drstratton]

I live on a sand dune. When I bought this place there were 2 chokecherries and one honeylocust. Everything else was sagebrush and prickly pear.

If I didn't water there would not be any trees.

Sounds about like us.