On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:41:46 -0500, Becca > wrote:

>modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:54:21 -0700 (PDT), Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Bees are soooooooo critical to agriculture. ND is a big honey
>>> producing state. Most of the honey is clover honey at least in the
>>> fall. Our bees are trucked to warmer climes in winter. IIRC we won't
>>> get Africanized bees because it's too cold here in the spring and the
>>> fall.
>>> Lynn in Fargo
>>>
>>
>> The bees survived their journey to the garden, but it became apparent
>> yesterday that I'd placed the hive to close to the garden.
>>
>> So at dusk this evening, I moved them again -- this time about a
>> hundred yards away from the garden. Hive-haulin' modom, out there on
>> the prairie schlepping bees across the fields.
>>
>> I still need to figure out a water source for them, but it'll come.
>>
>
>
>The bees will drink water that adheres to the plants in the garden. Really.
>
>
>Becca

Yabut I'm in Texas, remember. Water doesn't grow on trees here. In
fact that's one of the garden's most pressing issues at the moment:
how do we irrigate responsibly?
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modom