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9 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Cover your stuff, looks like a chance of a rare May frost coming in this weekend.

Goofy weather.

I have lost 15 bee hives this spring because of it.  Cold snap traps them on the brood and away from the honey food supply, they starved to death.  This spring has sucked all around for the bees.

               Bummer on your bees JD. Mine too. I have a friend with swarm traps out trying to get me a swarm. I put out a hive with lemongrass scent and old comb in it. Wild bees know it is there. Check it daily and no takers. Seen a couple wax worms in it so pulled the foundations and froze it. I am trying another route. If I get bees it may or may not work. I will try to get pics together and PM you. 

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

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11 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

               Bummer on your bees JD. Mine too. I have a friend with swarm traps out trying to get me a swarm. I put out a hive with lemongrass scent and old comb in it. Wild bees know it is there. Check it daily and no takers. Seen a couple wax worms in it so pulled the foundations and froze it. I am trying another route. If I get bees it may or may not work. I will try to get pics together and PM you. 

Good luck Marty.

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           I wish someone that is close would please come and get you some Bok Choy!   I feel like some wild animal going out there numerous times a day picking some and grazing right in the garden. Tastes like raw broccoli. As much as I don't want to go to town today may have to get me some French dressing and go al la @Terrierman and put some on it.

   It's a good green to grow. As they say Good stuff Maynard. 

"We have met the enemy and it is us",

Pogo

   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend"

Lefty Kreh

    " Never display your knowledge, you only share it"

Lefty Kreh

         "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!"

BilletHead

    " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting"

BilletHead

  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs"

BilletHead

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Yesterday I was mulching some flowers and heard what sounded like a drone buzzing. Nope,huge swarm of bees passing overhead.  Seeing quite a few bumble bees on the honey suckle too in the morning. 

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Figures just when I transplant more maters into the ground we get another chance at a frost.  They don't like all this darn wind either. 15-20+ every dang day, man. I can't even remember the last day the wind didn't blow like crazy all stinking day. Now even more rain coming again they say. 😕

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Kind of had to walk around altitle today and shake my head at.the strawberries,.maters, pepper etc that took a viscous beating frim the hail.  Didn't look closely at peach and apple trees, can't do anything about them anyway.

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I have a bloom on one of my Cherokee purple tomato plants!  Will cut the wire tying cages to T posts and pull all the cages on the tomatoes Friday night - scattered frost predicted for Saturday morning here.  Everything will get covered with a bucket. 

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Its swarm season.  First nice day and they split the sheets this time of year.  I think one of mine swarmed last Thursday, they looked like they were thinking about it at lunchtime when I came by.  Friday, when I cracked the hive open, there were swarm queen cells that I used to boost another queenless hive.  Hopefully, I left one in the hive for it to make a queen.  Did not go thru it all of the way, just assume.  Will know in 2 weeks if no brood.

Beekeeping is a unique way of farming.  You really can't get lazy and let them do things on their own.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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1 hour ago, Terrierman said:

I have a bloom on one of my Cherokee purple tomato plants!  Will cut the wire tying cages to T posts and pull all the cages on the tomatoes Friday night - scattered frost predicted for Saturday morning here.  Everything will get covered with a bucket. 

Aint that funny.. only supposed to get to 36 by 6am here in Cedar Rapids IA with 8mph winds... I dont plan on covering with the wind...hope i'm not wrong in the decision.

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6 minutes ago, N9BOW said:

Aint that funny.. only supposed to get to 36 by 6am here in Cedar Rapids IA with 8mph winds... I dont plan on covering with the wind...hope i'm not wrong in the decision.

I've been wrong before.  Better safe than sorry though.

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3 minutes ago, Terrierman said:

I've been wrong before.  Better safe than sorry though.

Oh absolutely. I agree Rick!.. was just pointing out that you can have frost down there and not up here... I've been watching it too.. kinda freaking me out a bit as I've been beating my backside getting in the ground all I have and its starting to look good.. but I cant cover it all.. just gonna have to roll the dice up here!... You gonna have any wind??? that really helps keep the frost away

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