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[cackleberrylinda]

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My garden did the same thing.I was really disappointed in the tomatoes.I couldn't grow zucchini this year either.It was a horrible year for gardening for me, I have high hopes for next year though.

My feathered ladies have started laying again, Big beautiful brown eggs!!!!!

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I have a new theory on the lack of zucchinis in the garden. I have had this prob for 2 years now and I am wondering if it has to do with the demise of the honey bees. Maybe the flowers aren't getting pollinated. I have had blossoms that just fizzled so I went out and pollinated them myself, well, you know, not exactly me... but...
And I did get some zucchinis on those flowers. But nothing on the other blossoms.
Going to watch that this coming season..
I have some Rhodies that used to be COVERED with bees and now, hardly any bees at all.
The blackberries and raspberries still seem to see the bees, perhaps someone has moved a hive or two to my area by then.
Anybody else notice this?

 

[Ogress]

My dog has been very dissappointed in the lack of bees this past summer - she likes to eat them! I don't get it. I thought the lack of bees was due to the fact that I lost all my lavender in a freeze the previous year, but then I heard a local beekeeper say he lost most of his hives to colony collapse. My plums still set plenty of fruit (darn bear ate them all, and busted most of the limbs from the trees). The only thing I saw buzzing around the plum blossoms were gnats.

 

[Rainwolf]

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My garden did the same thing.I was really disappointed in the tomatoes.I couldn't grow zucchini this year either.It was a horrible year for gardening for me, I have high hopes for next year though.

My feathered ladies have started laying again, Big beautiful brown eggs!!!!!

Commenting on an old post:
I have a new theory on the lack of zucchinis in the garden. I have had this prob for 2 years now and I am wondering if it has to do with the demise of the honey bees. Maybe the flowers aren't getting pollinated. I have had blossoms that just fizzled so I went out and pollinated them myself, well, you know, not exactly me... but...
And I did get some zucchinis on those flowers. But nothing on the other blossoms.
Going to watch that this coming season..
I have some Rhodies that used to be COVERED with bees and now, hardly any bees at all.
The blackberries and raspberries still seem to see the bees, perhaps someone has moved a hive or two to my area by then.
Anybody else notice this?

I "tickle" my tomatoes every year due to the decline of bees. I've been thinking I need a little beehive to help my garden next year.

Wish I had room for a big hive to get honey but a small one to get pollination will help.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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A hive that YOU can get honey from takes up no more space on the ground. The way you get the honey is AFTER you have stacked 2 deep boxes AND the bees have filled them then you add a honey super ( short box). If the super gets full add another. At the end of the season you can take everything above the 2 deep boxes. Also Mason bees actually do more pollination than honey bees but they don't produce honey.

 

[monicas]

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I will be easy to spot. Purple and blue in my hair and attached to a 5 year old built like a tank.

 

[HAL_9000]

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closer to elk,wa but address is newport...

I lived out in Chatteroy, but closer to Elk. But that was 11 years ago. Love that area, so pretty in the foot hills.

yea I live on top of one of the foothills... I am on 60 acres up on one of the mountains that make up Roers pass where highway 2 bends north of Spokane and heads east into Newport.. pretty here... too much snow right now... just more to come..

and I need to evict my leghorn teens to the coop... house is stinking...

 

[Ogress]

Just got this e-mail from our beef supplier; thought maybe some of you may be interested:

[pugetsoundfresh] Country Living Expo & Cattlemen's Winterschool, Stanwood


Registration is now open for the 2011 Country Living Expo & Cattlemen’s Winterschool! Over 150 classes are offered from raising backyard chickens, chain saw maintenance, naturally dye wool and fabric, organic gardening, to learning about having your own family milk cow. Other popular classes will cover raising a variety of livestock including beef, swine, sheep, horse, goats, poultry and alpacas, developing and marketing your small business, growing tomatoes, making cider, preserving food and many more educational classes on rural living.
The 2011 Country Living Expo & Cattlemen’s Winterschool will be held on Saturday, Jan. 29, from 7:30 am to 5 pm, at Stanwood High School, 7400 272nd Street N.W. in Stanwood. Early registration is available until Dec. 31. The cost is $55 per person and includes a selection of five class sessions from the more than 150 offerings, a smoked prime rib lunch or gourmet vegetarian, and an all-day trade show with over 70 vendors. After Dec. 31 the cost will be $60 per person.

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Northwest Farm Credit Services, Snohomish County Farm Bureau, Sno/Skagit Cattlemen’s Association and others, at least the first 200 youth will receive a reduced registration rate of $10.

Details, including the day’s full schedule, a listing and description of classes, registration information and access to online registration are available at http://skagit.wsu.edu/CountryLivingExpo/ <http://skagit.wsu.edu/CountryLivingExpo/> .
Events sponsors, small farm vendors and non-profits are welcome to part of the trade show. For more information contact Program Coordinator, Joan DeVries 428-4270, ext. 240.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Nothing like putting a guy on the spot at the last minute !!!! In the strip mall by WalMart there is a McD's, Wendy's, Taco Dell Mar and Subway. There are also other places not far from the show depending on what people want. I kind of thought of meeting at the show and go from there as some may not want to go some where else and it may be easier.

Do people have an idea of what time they may want to meet. Or what time you may be at the show?
I am not sure right now and since it is close I am gonna play it by ear.

The wife and I were talking today and I told her I was going to make sure there was nocrates or boxes in the truck so she couldn's bring any chickens home. She looked at me held up both hands and said are ya gonna cut these off too?? I ask " what are ya gonna do with those"?? She said hold my new chickens in my lap !!!!

I should not be too hard to spot. I will be Da Fat Kid wiff PINK TAILFEATHERZ ( you will know when ya see).

 

[cheryl98117]

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My garden did the same thing.I was really disappointed in the tomatoes.I couldn't grow zucchini this year either.It was a horrible year for gardening for me, I have high hopes for next year though.

My feathered ladies have started laying again, Big beautiful brown eggs!!!!!

Commenting on an old post:
I have a new theory on the lack of zucchinis in the garden. I have had this prob for 2 years now and I am wondering if it has to do with the demise of the honey bees. Maybe the flowers aren't getting pollinated. I have had blossoms that just fizzled so I went out and pollinated them myself, well, you know, not exactly me... but...
And I did get some zucchinis on those flowers. But nothing on the other blossoms.
Going to watch that this coming season..
I have some Rhodies that used to be COVERED with bees and now, hardly any bees at all.
The blackberries and raspberries still seem to see the bees, perhaps someone has moved a hive or two to my area by then.
Anybody else notice this?

I noticed a major lack in bee's this past season. About 600 feet through the woods and across the road, there is a bee keeper. I talked to him the other day, and he said that he had lost 4 of his 8 hives over last winter.

I have these giant hawthorn hybrid trees, bordering my place and the road. Usualy during these tree's spring and summer blooms, there are so many bees flying around that the trees hum. This year it was silent. I think I saw maby a dozen honey bees all year, and most of those were seen in August.

This same bee keeper asked me last year if he could put a hive on my property, and just ride his bike over to maintain it... Now, I am deathly elergic to bee's, hornets, wasps... So I was hesitant when he asked. But honestly, what would the risks really be, if I allowed him to store a hive in a far corner of my property? How much more likely am I to get stung? Obviously I wouldn't go over and mess with the hive, and I would keep my critters a ways away from it. I don't know, what I do know is that if I do get stung, I have less than 30 minutes to receive antihistamines, or an epi-pen... I'm probably just better off leaving that risk to someone else... Anybody have any experience with keeping bee's?

 

[cheryl98117]

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I lived out in Chatteroy, but closer to Elk. But that was 11 years ago. Love that area, so pretty in the foot hills.

yea I live on top of one of the foothills... I am on 60 acres up on one of the mountains that make up Roers pass where highway 2 bends north of Spokane and heads east into Newport.. pretty here... too much snow right now... just more to come..

and I need to evict my leghorn teens to the coop... house is stinking...

I lived on the Little Spokane river, off of E. Euloyka Rd. I loved it out there, but family brought me back west.