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Bee Friendly Gardening
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. |
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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 |
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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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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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Bee Friendly Gardening
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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 |
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