A topic near and dear to my heart; Bees
As you may or may not know, I write a column here in the Blackbaud Community every week called "The Buzz". It's been a long time since I featured anything bee-related in the column, so that ends today.
Good news for bees in Ireland as one inventor is looking to save bees in Ireland:
Good news for bees in Ireland as one inventor is looking to save bees in Ireland:
"An Irish designer is hoping to save her island’s native bee species by creating special hives grown from mushrooms.
Placing on the world Top 20 for the James Dyson Design Award for Sustainability, the prototype hive, called Econooc, is being designed specifically by Niamh Damery for the Irish black bee, as well as to get more people involved in conservation."
Read all about it HERE: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-sustainable-beehive-saves-irish-black-bees-and-is-made-from-mycelium/
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Ray Bergman, don't tell anyone, but you write some of my favorite blogs!!!
Especially this one! I love bees and might be a tad bit of a plant hoarder ...fun fact Another funsie, if still with me, unfortunate to know but hopefully, our bees thrive again one day but did you know... you can pollinate your plants by taking a paintbrush and gently brushing the tops of a starting bud...flower, fruit etc...and then gently brushing it onto the other leaves?
Beelieve it or not, it works
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Aww thanks Cammy Jagielski - my daughters and I will have to try the paint brush trick in our yard.
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Wow! Thank you for the paintbrush trick!3
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Nice to meet another plant hoarder! I can't stop propagating clippings ?. Thankfully I have come to love giving them new homes!2
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I love bees!! I used to sponsor a beehive through the British Beekeepers Association, but when they ended that scheme I switched to supporting the beekeepers I found on Patreon.3
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Who knew we could help the bees with a paintbrush?! I will certainly need to share this with my friends. Not much of a plant person myself, but I certainly enjoy the work our wonderful bees can do!3
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That's amazing!!!! Who knew??? And I feel like I've heard "mycelium" in a movie or series recently but I can't put my finger on it! Trying to catch up after a few days away!1
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Beth Hudson , me too!! Are you in Austin, maybe we can share? I love to propagate clippings and love to try randomly propping say, from just a leaf or something odd, where people say it would never prop...never say never! I have had some amazing outcomes which have been so fun to watch grow...
Latest prop funsie, last fall I threw my liliums from a bouquet outside on my patio, and when they died off, I cut the bottoms off and tossed in one of my many pots to see if they would bulb.
This past month, I had bulbs start budding, thoughd it was my previous Peace Lilly but was SHOCKED to see it was my liliums from one of the bouquets. I had two orange lilies...still thriving with greenery now though blooms fell off already. It was awesome!
One more Cammy fun fact: So, plants are so cute, I know it sounds weird, but have you ever seen a kalanche grow from the root? They are the cutest things ever when budding before blooming, if you can get them to bloom (they tease you) but it is the cutest plant ever, lol! AKA Mother of Thousands.2 -
Patti Hommes "mycelium" sounds like an off-looking white fungus that can appear across your dirt, can look like you shook powdered sugar across the top. I had something similar happen this year trying a new feed that was all organic and it about killed my plants. It wound up having too many live cultures, it molded across the tops of my dirt almost like a softshell across the top of my soil. I had to pick it all off and spin up the dirt as it would have prevented any growth had I left it on, needless to say, I returned to Home Depot with my feedback. This was one of those pump sprays so I would recommend NEVER just pumping it right onto the soil as it calls for, always mix in water first to dilute.
If just a typical white fungus, usually that is an easy fix with a spray fungicide. I have one that kills off up to 100 insects and diseases (SPIDER MITES ARE crazy right now). Spray a few times and I dust it off, usually doesn't harm and kill the plant! I do this at night too so nothing has time to burn potentially.
I can talk plants for days ha! If anyone wants to start a BAM team, I would love to join, share pictures, questions, how to, what if...1 -
Cammy Jagielski where do you live?? I need you to come to South Florida and diagnose my plants!!!!0
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Patti Hommes:
That's amazing!!!! Who knew??? And I feel like I've heard "mycelium" in a movie or series recently but I can't put my finger on it! Trying to catch up after a few days away!Star Trek: Discovery!!
Or the other one that springs to mind is Hannibal ?1 -
Ray Bergman, kindred souls! You're talking to the daughter of a hobby beekeeper here! My parents kept beehives for years, out in the garden, and we would harvest the honey in the autumn time. I have an oyster mushroom kit in my kitchen and a jar of sweet potato vines rooting in my windowsill which will go out into the garden next month to grow tubers for my Thanksgiving pies.
Funny bee story: one year, we had an awful drought in our area of Missouri. The summer was roasting, there was a water shortage, and aside from the sugar-feeder, there were no wild flowers anywhere for my folks' bees. Except the French marigolds in our garden. I always plant lots of French marigolds around our vegetables because they repel "all the things" like cabbage butterflies and vegetable pests, and once established, they keep blooming even in dry cracked ground. So the bees kept roving over the marigolds all summer long like it was their manna. Come autumn. It was time to harvest the honey. Weird fact, honey smells and tastes like whatever flower the bees have been feeding on. Anyone here ever smell a French marigold? My mom couldn't eat a bite of it! ?1 -
Ray, very cool!! I hope that works. People don't understand how important bees are!?
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