The bee keeper diaries

[ghak99]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

On this front….i just enrolled all of my hay ground into a pollinator program for planting this fall. I upgraded to the monarch butterfly program. The seed is expensive as hell but it should look pretty cool around here surrounded by fields of flowers all year except winter. The butterflies won’t hurt my sisters photo taking business….and I’m hoping my bees will produce a couple of hundred extra pounds of honey having that Buffett all around them.


#deplorable as hell but doing more hippy earth shit than the hippies talking about earth shit

I don't care what they tell you, do not spread some of those seeds unless you want narrow strips of weeds and flowers instead of even fields of weeds and flowers. I had golden strips of what looked like the drunken yellow brick road to nowhere from above.

A lot of the flowers go away after the first year or two as well. Red clover thrown on the last snow makes for an easy replacement from then on.