Another new member

tricky6 · Post: # 5833Post **tricky6** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 2:40 pm

Hi all,
Thought I'd drop you a line tolet you know I've discovered the forums. My wife and I keep bees both on our garden and on a friends paddock. Once our new allotment has been cleared by the council we'll put a hive or two there too to boost the honey income for next year and to pollinate our crops.

In the garden at the moment we have french beans, dwarf beans and runner beans - we're harvesting about 2lb a day and are starting to get sick of them! We're also picking about 15lb of marrows a week (my stupid idea for planting them as a means of suppressing the weeds on an uncultivated patch of garden! We also have tomatoes, baby corn, beetroot, turnips, carrots and broccoli. In the greenhouse we have peppers and a melon (currently grapefruit sized) and we have a few fruit bushes too.

It'd be nice to have some chickens but I think the bees are as much as the neighbours would tolerate!

Tricky

Wombat · Post: # 5841Post **Wombat** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 2:00 am

G'Day Tricky,

Nice to see you here, sounds lke you have a pretty good set up! Look forward to seeing your posts.

Nev

Millymollymandy · Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:22 am

But chickens don't sting!!

Hiya Tricky and welcome to the forum. Sounds like you've got plenty there to keep you busy, both outside and in the kitchen. What more are you going to plant on your allotment?

Wombat · Post: # 5850Post **Wombat** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:36 am

M3, you've never been pecked by a rabid chook?

Nev

shiney · Post: # 5855Post **shiney** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 1:29 pm

Hi Tricky

Nice to see you here and welcome.

Good to know you are getting plenty of vegetables to harvest. The marrows are going to be a challenge on the eating front! At least beans freeze down well. I actually like marrows, not everyone (especially the kids) are as enthusiastic about them.

2steps · Post: # 5863Post **2steps** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 5:25 pm

hello

ina · Post: # 5876Post **ina** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:29 pm

Hi Tricky and welcome!

You are making me go

... You've got all that what I am always talking about! Bees and hens, and a lot more veg than I have managed to grow in my garden. (Mind you, being on my own I wouldn't fancy 15 lb of courgette a week! But I'll get some yet.)

Anyway, whereabouts are you? It's nice to be able to put you in a geographical context, when we are showing off what our gardens produce!

Ina

diver · Post: # 5880Post **diver** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:22 pm

hello Trickt, where are you...I am so jealous of your bees. I am dying to have bees but they are not allowed on my allotment site and my neighbours would never agree to them in my garden. I am about to join the local bee keeping association to learn how to go about keeping them and then I WILLfind somewhere for a hive. I think I may be picking your brains a lot soon...anyway it's a great site ..enjoy

gunners71uk · Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:27 am

WOW U LUCKY i have to clear my allotment me self 6ft of blinking weeds.lol all the best and welcome .

Millymollymandy · Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:55 pm

Oh! I thought he meant cleared as in the red tape/paperwork! See what happens when you live in France............

Shelle · Post: # 6002Post **Shelle** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:00 am

Hi and welcome Tricky:)

I have never considered Bee's .... would love to hear more about that.

Andy Hamilton · Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:49 am

Hello there tricky6 and a very delayed welcome to the site.

There is a post on here somewhere talking about keeping bees in the loft, apparently they can fly out through the ventalation!