I'm taking part in a sustainable initiative that wants to help save bees in London. We would really appreciate some information from people interested in gardenening to help push our project forward and make it as good as it can be. Here are a few questions:

Would you plant bee friendly plants? Do you know how to make your garden bee friendly?

Do you use any technology as an information source to help you in your garden?

How do you feel about using mobile technology to help you while you are in the garden?

Would you feel motivated to garden bee-friendly plants if you get discount on honey from local producers?

Please answer as many or as little questions as you'd like. Any contribution would be very much appreciated! Thank you.

On Feb 20, 7:15*am, lcc_student lcc_student.
wrote:
I'm taking part in a sustainable initiative that wants to help save bees
in London. We would really appreciate some information from people
interested in gardenening to help push our project forward and make it
as good as it can be. Here are a few questions:

Would you plant bee friendly plants? Do you know how to make your garden
bee friendly?

Do you use any technology as an information source to help you in your
garden?

How do you feel about using mobile technology to help you while you are
in the garden?

Would you feel motivated to garden bee-friendly plants if you get
discount on honey from local producers?

Please answer as many or as little questions as you'd like. Any
contribution would be very much appreciated! Thank you.

--
lcc_student

Good show! We BADLY need to save bees wherever. Hostile conditions,
such as pesticides and much more, are worrying not only home gardeners
but
commercial ones as well (and that includes small organic/non-organic
farmers).

The only one of your questions that I feel qualified to answer is:
YES, I would plant bee-friendly plants, and I THINK I know how to make
garden bee-friendly.

HB

On 2/20/12 7:15 AM, lcc_student wrote:
I'm taking part in a sustainable initiative that wants to help save bees
in London. We would really appreciate some information from people
interested in gardenening to help push our project forward and make it
as good as it can be. Here are a few questions:

Would you plant bee friendly plants? Do you know how to make your garden
bee friendly?

I already have plants that are bee-friendly: rosemary, Persicaria,
lavender, citrus, and others. Many of these will not survive the
climate in the UK.


Do you use any technology as an information source to help you in your
garden?

I use this newsgroup and the Web.


How do you feel about using mobile technology to help you while you are
in the garden?

Given the mud and moisture found in my garden, I would definitely NOT
bring a smart phone with me while gardening. Sometimes, when my wife is
not home, I bring out a cordless phone (land-line); I place it away from
where I am working and wipe my hands before answering.


Would you feel motivated to garden bee-friendly plants if you get
discount on honey from local producers?

No. I prefer "varietal" honeys, that is honey from a single
identifiable flower (e.g., clover, orange, sage). In any case, the bees
visiting my garden are generally wild and not from an apiary.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

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lcc_student wrote:

I'm taking part in a sustainable initiative that wants to help save bees
in London. We would really appreciate some information from people
interested in gardenening to help push our project forward and make it
as good as it can be. Here are a few questions:

Would you plant bee friendly plants? Do you know how to make your garden
bee friendly?

Do you use any technology as an information source to help you in your
garden?

Where do you live? GPS coordinates would be nice so that we could send a
drone to take out the local malignant, infection of ignorance. Do you
have the tiniest scintilla of understanding about the importance of bees
to agriculture? Wht not ask gardeners, if they would breath oxygen, if
given the chance?
How have you stayed alive so long?!!

How do you feel about using mobile technology to help you while you are
in the garden?

Would you feel motivated to garden bee-friendly plants if you get
discount on honey from local producers?

Please answer as many or as little questions as you'd like. Any
contribution would be very much appreciated! Thank you.

Cordially yours,
--

Billy

E Pluribus Unum

Palestinian Villages May Soon Go Dark Once Again
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,815476,00.html

Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly going to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important. What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

On 2/22/12 6:03 AM, lcc_student wrote:
Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly going
to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel
motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important.
What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for
being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening
tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points
in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

An operation such as you describe located in the UK would definitely NOT
benefit or interest me.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On Feb 22, 6:03*am, lcc_student lcc_student.
wrote:
Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly going
to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel
motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important.
What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for
being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening
tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points
in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

--
lcc_student

Where does it say that we don't think honey is important? Personally
I try to buy honey that has not been heated (destroys enzymes).
But those of us who live in large metro areas do not HAVE honey
producers nearby.

(I could check next time I am in one of our 4 farmers markets, just
out of curiosity.)

So if no producers available, how would scheme work?

HB
If there's something I don't understand...?

HB

But your original proposal

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:03:30 +0000, lcc_student
wrote:


Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly going
to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel
motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important.
What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for
being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening
tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points
in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

I think you may be missing the point. Most gardeners are already "bee
friendly." What's a garden without bees? Dirt?

One of my favorite sights is early in the morning, finding bees asleep
on the flowers. I don't need added incentive to keep bees happy. I do
understand that humankind is as rough on bees as we are just about
everything else and it's not in the planets best interest to
irradicate species that help us but perhaps you're targetting the
wrong audience?

Kate

lcc_student wrote:
Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly
going to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel
motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important.

I don't see that at all from the responses here, this is a pre-prepared
second round reply from you. If you want honest answers from strangers it
would be better to show your own bona fides and avoid thoughtless
copy/paste. The fact that you are missing is that, aside from honey, bees
fertilise many flowering plants including some significant food crops.
Something that HB and DER are no doubt aware of but didn't say this time.

What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for
being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening
tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points
in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

This scheme is sophomoric to say the least.

David

"David Hare-Scott" writes:

lcc_student wrote:
Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly
going to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't feel
motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that important.

I don't see that at all from the responses here, this is a
pre-prepared second round reply from you. If you want honest answers
from strangers it would be better to show your own bona fides and
avoid thoughtless copy/paste. The fact that you are missing is that,
aside from honey, bees fertilise many flowering plants including some
significant food crops. Something that HB and DER are no doubt aware
of but didn't say this time.

What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points for
being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and gardening
tools in gardening centers or could add them to your membership points
in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

This scheme is sophomoric to say the least.

Wow, another Usenet conversation off the rails.
Who would have guessed.

Hey, I'm as bee-friendly as anyone can get.
I put vinyl siding on my house.
The bees love that stuff.

--
Dan Espen

Dan Espen wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" writes:

lcc_student wrote:
Thank you very much for the replies. This information is certainly
going to help the development of our project.

I have however one more question. I see that many of you wouldn't
feel motivated to garden bee-friendly because honey isn't that
important.

I don't see that at all from the responses here, this is a
pre-prepared second round reply from you. If you want honest answers
from strangers it would be better to show your own bona fides and
avoid thoughtless copy/paste. The fact that you are missing is that,
aside from honey, bees fertilise many flowering plants including some
significant food crops. Something that HB and DER are no doubt aware
of but didn't say this time.

What if instead you take part in a scheme where you collect points
for being bee-friendly and you get to spend them on plants and
gardening tools in gardening centers or could add them to your
membership points in a food chain as the Co-Operative.

This scheme is sophomoric to say the least.

Wow, another Usenet conversation off the rails.
Who would have guessed.


What would you suggest instead then?

Hey, I'm as bee-friendly as anyone can get.
I put vinyl siding on my house.
The bees love that stuff.

Painted with honey hmmmmm.

D