Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Di,
What management is fearful of is that one person who is allergic to Bees and a
hive in the center of the garden is not a good idea. Bees are territorial and
there is a bout a 10 foot no be in zone that Bees get rather testy around there
hives.

So let me suggest a creative alternative......Mason Bees. They pollinate and
they are people friendly and you can have the kids build hives using straws and
the tubes from the center of the Toilet paper rolls and they can paint them and
you can mount them on poles through out the garden. Management will be thrilled
the kids have a fun project and the garden gets pollinated and the Mason Bees
get new homes. Everyone wins. No one gets stung,..... ever!!!
jeff

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From: Di Koehler <dikoehler@yahoo.com>
To: TomatoMania@yahoogroups.com
Cc: TheVeggiePatch@yahoogroups.com; Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com;
GardensAndNature-PlantsAndFlowers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 9:31:41 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: [TomatoMania] Re: Honey Bees

got this message from a friend who does her plants at the community garden:
This is a plea to the good folks who garden and would like to be (or already
are) part of the community gardens. This year, one of the gardeners added a
beehive to the gardens. These bees have been our dear friends and help everyone

in and around the garden (they can forage for miles). Our harvests have
increased, and the bees are very gentle. No one has been harmed by them, yet
the management requested they be removed. Please help us explain to the
committee for the garden that bees are always present in the garden, and giving
them a home (inside the middle of a fenced plot, where no one can disturb them)
is not a bad thing.
Could really use some help from those of you knowledgeable on this. I want bees
around.

Dianne Koehler
Austin, TX zone 8b
visti my garden blog: http://dianne-gardening-in-wells-branch.blogspot.com/
George's New story: http://www.scribd.com/george_koehler

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