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To: Texas Fossil

We had a late frost as well. Not as severe as yours though IIRC. It got down to 35 in my yard and I lost a few tomato plants in the lower part of my garden to it.

The blueberries had already bloomed though. We had about 1/2 of those actually set. Lower than normal.

As I mentioned up thread. Hubby wants to get a hive and keep our own. Just so we keep them local to us. I wouldn’t even get honey from it if I could just be sure my stuff would get pollinated. Bees could keep the honey.

Playing squash pimp is a pain. Not to mention the gallons of strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries that I did NOT get this spring because of lack of pollination. I know my raspberries weren’t lost to frost as they didn’t bloom till 2w after our frost. They just didn’t have any pollinators on them.


60 posted on 07/03/2013 10:47:51 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

Our severe drought has dried up a lot of the plants that bees survive on. I am thinking of planting some Sain Foin to expand the available pollen source for them. Will have to order it out of Montana. Have threatened to do it for past 2 years. Might do it soon.


61 posted on 07/03/2013 10:56:38 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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