🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[fuzzi]

Your buckwheat honey reminds me of a local beekeeper in Livingston, Tx that has a huge operation. His honey is dark. It mainly comes from the Chinese tallow trees. Those are invasive, everybody hates them, they are the weeds of the tree world. Cut them down, they sprout back out. Poison the stump and new sprouts will come up from the roots yards away. I have some on my place and they are about to get cut. Next spring when they sprout back out, I will spray them. If my sheep could get to them, they would eat the new sprouts, but they are in the unfenced back field.

I had to rant about those damned Chinese tallow trees, AKA Tala trees and a lot of cuss words added. The honey is delicious! Or maybe thousands of people just have no taste. I dunno.

Here it's the mimosa that are invasive, oh...and the privet!

 

[Baymule]

Here it's the mimosa that are invasive, oh...and the privet!

We got them too.

 

[drstratton]

Here it's the mimosa that are invasive, oh...and the privet!

I planted a Mimosa in my yard!

I actually love it. It's a bit messy, but so pretty when blooming. Trees pop up all over my garden area, but they are easy to manage, they pull up very easily. I imagine under the right circumstances they would spread. It's so dry here, I don't think they'd spread beyond our property.

We planted a mulberry tree, they also come up all over. Much harder to pull out, even the seedlings. I hate them...lol

 

[fuzzi]

I planted a Mimosa in my yard!

I actually love it. It's a bit messy, but so pretty when blooming. Trees pop up all over my garden area, but they are easy to manage, they pull up very easily. I imagine under the right circumstances they would spread. It's so dry here, I don't think they'd spread beyond our property.

We planted a mulberry tree, they also come up all over. Much harder to pull out, even the seedlings. I hate them...lol

We had our mulberry removed...but just discovered another. It's growing along the fence, on the neighbor's side.

 

[drstratton]

We had our mulberry removed...but just discovered another. It's growing along the fence, on the neighbor's side.

I don't know how many my husband has cut down in our treeline, but I know we've pulled up and sprayed hundreds...lol

 

[fuzzi]

I don't know how many my husband has cut down in our treeline, but I know we've pulled up and sprayed hundreds...lol

Ours was HUGE, and one of the big branches fell on top of our old shed. The fruit stained our shoes, but fortunately not the carpets inside.

 

[drstratton]

I'm going to be sending some honey to @farmerjan & @fuzzi.

@Baymule, @SageHill, @Mini Horses and anyone I've missed that is following along, send me a message if you would also like some. I'd love to share with all of you too.

 

[drstratton]

Your buckwheat honey reminds me of a local beekeeper in Livingston, Tx that has a huge operation. His honey is dark. It mainly comes from the Chinese tallow trees. Those are invasive, everybody hates them, they are the weeds of the tree world. Cut them down, they sprout back out. Poison the stump and new sprouts will come up from the roots yards away. I have some on my place and they are about to get cut. Next spring when they sprout back out, I will spray them. If my sheep could get to them, they would eat the new sprouts, but they are in the unfenced back field.

I had to rant about those damned Chinese tallow trees, AKA Tala trees and a lot of cuss words added. The honey is delicious! Or maybe thousands of people just have no taste. I dunno.

One of our major nectar flows comes from the Russian Olive trees. They are invasive here and are all over the place. Listed as a noxious weed. Beekeepers love it as it makes good honey. But it really does take over native habitat.

 

[drstratton]

Ours was HUGE, and one of the big branches fell on top of our old shed. The fruit stained our shoes, but fortunately not the carpets inside.

I'm glad you were able to get it taken down. Thankfully our fruiting trees were in the treeline, but they keep popping up in our yard under the trees where all the birds sit aka s_it... They love mulberry's.

 

[drstratton]

Hubs set the empty frames out for the bees to clean up. He took a video for me to share.