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They must be laying good, then! I've got a waiting list for eggs, honey, milk, and cheeses, and not enough of any of it to go around.

Yours are quite a bit younger, actually. Mine hatched February 24th...:/

Thanks for the advice! We do have issues here with Africanized bees, which is what makes me a little nervous around these, knowing they were wild-caught. I'm sure my techniques are less than ideal, since this is my first try at things...they probably think I'm a big clumsy idiot lol. They seem...

Hmm...maybe I'll plant a couple and give it a week to see if it goes well. I wouldn't think it is something a rabbit would have interest in, but then again, the ones here eat our stuff like there is nothing else in the world to eat.

They've been in the barrel for about a year, they were captured by my friend as a swarm. There really are no frames, and that's the biggest issue I have. He covered the barrel with slats of wood that fit together tightly, and the bees have hung their comb down from that, pretty much however they...

I had a gift certificate for a bulb company, so I ordered some Dutch Iris, I just love them. However we have a bad problem here with rabbits and chipmunks eating all our stuff...I know they won't mess with the tops of iris, since I grew them in Colorado and the deer and everything else stayed...

Violas (mini pansies, johnny jump-up) bloom pretty early I think. And so do crocuses if you like bulbs. I don't know if either particularly attracts bees, but they are pretty.

By the way, I like your little chicken cage. I may need to build some of those!

Nice! My husband was the same way. He wanted goats or sheep....I laughed at him for that since he's always been a city boy...we got goats...he quickly lost interest and now I have goats. I wanted to get some chickens, and he said no. I kept quietly looking at chickens online. One day he caught...

Well, the bees have been here a week now. They've been out and about checking out the garden in between rain storms. It turned out they were not in a "real" beehive, it was some homemade contraption in a plastic barrel that is pretty hard to get into to work with, so we will be building a new...

Very nice!

You might need to feed it, but I don't see why not, if the pot is big enough to accommodate enough roots for a healthy pumpkin plant.

We finally have a little sun again here. I've been worried about the new plants I just put in the garden, because it is both cold and soggy, and the soil can't drain well since it's so high in clay. I think they're going to be fine though, if the sun decides to come out again tomorrow. :D

Yes they do! But my goats would eat them, and I don't think I want hallucinating goats. They're strange enough as it is! :lol:

My goat shed and current chicken coop are made of pallets. I'm also building a new chicken coop/yard out of pallets, actually even using the pallets as the fencing (with chicken wire on one side to keep smaller birds from escaping and bunnies from getting in to eat the feed). It's a good way to...

Amen to that! I haven't seen the sun in about 5 days now. The rain was nice, but enough is enough. My ducks are swimming in the driveway.

What risks do you mean? I did an experiment once with my raw goat milk. It sat on the counter for nearly 3 days at 75 degrees and was still sweet and drinkable. It took a little over 3 days before it got slightly sour, but still acceptable, tasted like buttermilk. I made cheese out of it...

Yay, someone's going to grow my moonflowers. I was excited to get some seed from my mom's plants, she had them growing under my bedroom window when I was growing up. Then, I learned they are the same thing as a weed we have out here that is very poisonous to livestock, so I have not planted...

I'll take the nasturtiums. And offer: Tomato "Roma" Tomato "Red Cherry" Jalapeno Bell Peppers Buffalo Gourd Pumpkin "Connecticut Field Watermelon "Crimson Sweet" Beet "Detroit Dark Red" Corn "Golden Bantam" Acorn Squash Delicata Squash Zinnias, mixed colors Honeydew Melon Datura moonflowers

I've never dug up the roots, but I have also only ever grown them by seed.