Steve Peek wrote:
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You might want to check with local beekeepers, most honey from mint plants is not palatable or saleable. It's alright if you can segregate the honey and leave it for the bees to eat. Buckwheat is pretty much the same. It's the darkest honey you ever saw with a medicinal aroma and taste. However it is popular with the modern "hippie" types who use it like medicine.

Not trying to be a know-it-all here, just trying to prevent some of the mistakes I made 40 or so years ago.



i've never noticed anything medicinal about buckwheat
based honey, tastes could vary? i'm not sure it matters
anyways as what Snag asked about was feeding his bees
with flowers instead of having to feed them using sugar
water.

if you read back in my suggestions you may notice that
i suggested other plants in the mix, the buckwheat was
the gap filler for the rest of this season... the other
plants would help provide food for next year and years
after.

anyways, how is your blueberry season shaping up? are
your beans doing well this year?

i did not plant any of the greasy beans this season as
i was late and i knew they would not finish very well as
compared to the many other shorter season varieties i have
(which look to be doing great). also, i didn't have the
back trellis set up yet for more climbing beans so i did
not want to put anything back there. with the many
groundhogs around i wasn't sure i'd have much of anything
outside the fences actually surviving anyways...

today i went out and picked beans for making some three
bean salad tomorrow and there's plenty of cucumbers ready
to make some more pickles. we sampled the bread and
butter pickles (made a week ago) today to see if they were
edible before we started giving some away and they were
deemed good.


songbird