I just went on a vine weevil patrol and shone the light into the bug hotel (air bee & bee as it's now know). There's at least 10 bees tucked up in bed in various tubes and holes as well as many full cavities stopped up with mud. I'm not sure there will be room at the inn for the leaf cutters later in the year so I might need to chuck an extension on there in a hurry.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I just went on a vine weevil patrol and shone the light into the bug hotel (air bee & bee as it's now know). There's at least 10 bees tucked up in bed in various tubes and holes as well as many full cavities stopped up with mud. I'm not sure there will be room at the inn for the leaf cutters later in the year so I might need to chuck an extension on there in a hurry.
Make sure the size of the extension falls within 'permitted development' rules. You could get the council buzzing round you otherwise.
Before I went away for one of my regular doses of North Cornwall I sowed a few yellow courgettes and french climbing beans seeds in pots on a tray covered in water retaining membrane, watered them well and bunged them in a cold frame. I wasn't that surprised when I got back about 10 days ago to find no seedlings and depressingly dry earth but ever the optimist, I doused the whole lot in water and the next day went to the hospital for my 2nd cataract removal op. Over the last week I've had 5 beans and 2 courgettes emerge which will do me fine although not enough to pass round to the rest of the family. Oh, and I've decided the first cataract op was an amazing revelation while the second is really useful so I have an awful lot of reasons to be cheerful
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