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Spring Garden Update: Strawberries

5 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer

Making use of old food containers I put holes in them and then placed Strawberry plants and added dirt and mulch. Within a few days leaves and flowers were forming from all the sides and on top. I made this video a month or so ago and since then its...

Mason Bees hatching from their cocoons - Video Lapse

3 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer

In the beginning of the video, Bees can be seen crawling around the trays I laid the cocoons in. I set my camera up and recorded all day using video lapse. By half way through the video I did not see any others emerge but there were a few in the beg...

Spring Garden Tour: Japanese Andromeda tree

1 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

Also known as Pieris, it is an early blooming plant. This is very important to me due to the kind of Bees I help raise. In February or Mach these flowers bloom and give the Bees a great nectar and pollen source. Since the Bees show up early on in th...

#BIWAKKITCHEN029- Outdoor companion avalabile on Kickstarter!

30 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Biwakkitchen

Hello, dear food lovers, adventure seekers, and friends! We are more than happy to announce to you the release of our outdoor cookbook. Over the past year, we've put our heart and soul in experimenting, optimizing and testing new recipes that are per...

Wren hanging around the Kestrel house

29 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer

In early spring, two Wrens moved into the bird house I built. Though not the bird I was expecting, it was still fun to watch the Wrens raise a family. I took my camera outside by the bird house and waited for one of the Wrens to return. It perched i...

Mason Bees constructing homes - Infrared Photography

28 May 2020 4 minute read 3 comments Solominer

While the Bees were busy, I mostly used my visual light camera to take video and pictures. Though I figured I should also take a few pictures with my infrared camera. I was expecting them to almost all be blurry, as using this infrared filter on my c...

Planting Goji berry bushes

28 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer

When I got these starter plants, I was expecting to get a Cherry tree as well. I ordered both together, though the Cherry tree was out of stock. It was a Royal Lee, which would be compatible with my Minnie Royal Cherry tree. Unfortunately it did not...

Late Spring Solitary Bee update

23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Solominer

A few of the bee boards has had its holes completely filled in, this is great as they are taking to what I built for them. I see mud all the way to the front of the opening, one of those tunnels is completely filled in. Mission complete by a ms Maso...

Solo's weekly picks: Gardening techniques

19 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer

With summer coming around and spring well under way where I live. I checked out some others gardens and homestead techniques that people on Hive were posting this week. I found alot of great content, and want to share with it with the community. Her...

Spring Garden Update: Highbush Blueberries

17 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Solominer

I bought four of these bushes about eight or so years ago, I found them at a flea market and since it was the middle of winter I got a good deal on the bushes. They have easily paid for themselves in the amount of berries produced. And since I broug...