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Gardening

mopinko

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12. thanks.

Reply to Botany (Reply #11)

Tue Oct 19, 2021, 02:04 PM

Oct 2021

goats work if they are kept at it. yeah. one time shot is only a pause.
one patch is slated to be torn up w the bobcat, and buried under a few feet of woodchips.
would still help to weaken it first.

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About Bumble Bees [View all] Botany Oct 2021 OP

thanks for this. just shared it mopinko Oct 2021 #1

FYI Wild Bee Conservation / A home grown national park Botany Oct 2021 #3

i really need to get around to making a bee hotel. mopinko Oct 2021 #5

You don't need to keep honey bees to have good pollination .... native pollinators (wasps, bees, ... Botany Oct 2021 #6

yeah, i think i will have to. unless i can get some goats in here. mopinko Oct 2021 #8

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yeah, i agree. mopinko Oct 2021 #10

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thanks. mopinko Oct 2021 #12

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