Mary Beth: Memorial Day weekend on Block Island was a busy one and if it hadn’t started to rain I’d still be out there. The reason I was so busy was that this is the year Ray and I decided to come up with a real solution to the deer problem — well, I decided [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Spring’
Deer Fencing and Other Spring Happenings
Posted in Bees, Block Island, California, Flowers, Garden, Hive, Vegetables, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, California, Deer, Deer Fence, Flowers, Fullerton Arboretum, Garden, Gardening, Herbs, Honeybee, Langstroth Beehive, Native Plants, Orange County, Organic, Plants, Queen Bee, Seedlings, Spring, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on May 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Shad in Bloom
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Hive, tagged Beehive, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, Flowers, Garden, Spring on May 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
B: Our spring landscape features acres and acres of pillowy white clouds covering most of Block Island. In the morning the bees shoot out of the hive straight into this gnarled, blossom-covered tree.
From here on out Mary Beth’s garden will be surging with new-green shoots. Then in a few quick weeks, with help from her [...]
Queen Bee Rules
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Hive, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, Garden, Honey, Honeybee, Spring on April 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After leaving the honeybees alone for a few days to let them get settled in, I opened the hive on Friday all suited up and nervous.
I checked the cage that had held the Queen and, to my immense relief, it was empty. Yea! They released her!
Burr comb is random, wild comb that the bees build [...]
Garden Critters
Posted in California, Critters, Garden, tagged Birds, California, Dogs, Garden, Gardening, Lizards, Spring, Towhee on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
B: In even the smallest gardens, amazing things happen all the time. Last week we had one of those perfect gardening days here in Southern California — blue skies, warm, wispy breezes. Gardening on days like this brings about a kind of meditative state, a peculiar slowing down of time that creates focused alertness. In [...]
Getting Ready!
Posted in Bees, Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Hive, Honey, tagged Beehive, Beekeeping, Beekeeping Supplies, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, Flowers, Garden, Honey, Honeybee, Langstroth Beehive, Spring on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MB: Before I give you an update, I thought this picture of almost-blossoming quince buds would cheer you up. Spring really is here, it’s just been a little hard to believe.
Ray made a slatted bottom board and a hive stand. So now the hive really is ready for its new residents.
I just finished making a [...]
Did Someone Say Chickens?
Posted in Block Island, Chickens, Garden, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Chicken Coop, Chickens, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Organic, Spring, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
B: Mary Beth’s been working feverishly to get ready for the main event, the arrival of her honeybees in less than four days — more on that in the next post. In the meantime, we thought we’d show you what the Block Island garden looks like in the last throes of winter.
As every gardener knows, [...]
Bees, Glorious Bees!
Posted in Bees, Garden, tagged Bees, Blossoms, California, Flowers, Fullerton Arboretum, Garden, Spring on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
What’s a bee blog without pictures of bees?! Our bees won’t be here for a few more weeks, but we had some pictures of spring bees taken at the Fullerton Arboretum. Aren’t the little creatures amazing?
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