Late harvest

Acebird · January 01, 2016, 04:11:49 PM

Well we just harvested the last of our beets and a couple of brusselsprout stalks today. This is definitely a first for us in upstate NY.

Dallasbeek · January 02, 2016, 12:25:27 AM

You should be covered with snow. What's going on?

Dallasbeek · January 02, 2016, 12:28:35 AM

BTW, you are just 11 posts short of graduation to queen bee status. Congratulations in advance. Hopefully, we contribute something of value in those posts and makeour presence worth celebrating.

Acebird · January 02, 2016, 09:49:13 AM

Quote from: Dallasbeek on January 02, 2016, 12:25:27 AM
You should be covered with snow. What's going on?

El nino.

KeyLargoBees · January 02, 2016, 04:26:59 PM

Hey its better than the polar vortex you guys had the last 2 winters isn't it?

Acebird · January 02, 2016, 05:48:00 PM

The jury is sequestered. I didn't lose bees last year because of the vortex. I know some people don't think bees get use to a climate and act accordingly. I don't believe that.

Jim134 · January 02, 2016, 06:55:47 PM

Quote from: Acebird on January 02, 2016, 09:49:13 AM
Quote from: Dallasbeek on January 02, 2016, 12:25:27 AM
You should be covered with snow. What's going on?

El nino.

This whole thread sounds like a fish story to me

BEE HAPPY Jim 134

Acebird · January 02, 2016, 09:42:08 PM

Jim, you don't think we harvested beets and brussel sprouts? Would you like a picture of what is left in the garden?

We didn't eat the beets yet but the brussel sprouts were heavenly. My wife made angle hair and meat balls in our own sauce to go with it. She calls it crack. I never tried crack but it does make your head spin.

BeeMaster2 · January 03, 2016, 12:14:07 AM

Ace,
I think Jim is referring to the movie Searching for Nino.

Jim

Acebird · January 03, 2016, 08:45:29 PM

Was that a kid movie?

GSF · January 03, 2016, 09:16:34 PM

Jim I think the name was nemo/nimo or something like that.

Yep, a kids cartoon movie. Good enough to watch though.

KeyLargoBees · January 04, 2016, 08:33:23 AM

NO...the term "sounds like a fish story" means he thinks you are telling a "stretcher" since we all know fishermen are the greatest liars of all when telling stories about their catch ;-)

BeeMaster2 · January 04, 2016, 12:58:27 PM

Jim 134,
Who is correct?
Jim

little john · January 05, 2016, 05:53:23 AM

As I was driving to a boot sale (bring 'n' buy) on Sunday morning, I passed several fields where gangs of workers were picking daffodils for the wholesale markets - in the first few days of January ! Never seen that before.

To put this in context, daffodils are normally picked a week or so before Mothering Sunday (they're a traditional gift to mothers from children), which in the UK this year is March 26.

In some bad years they don't get picked until Easter (April), some 3 weeks later. But, I ain't never seen 'em about to bloom as earlier as this ...

All my colonies now have small jars of fondant on top of their crown boards (inner covers), to act as visual 'fuel gauges', so that I can give 'em some big slabs later if needs be.

LJ