podcast 181: more on mason bees

Jul 09, 2012 16:21:08

This is the first new podcast in two weeks! This was actually recorded over a month ago, but we had some technical difficulties. Everything seems right as rain now though.

Over a year ago I recorded a podcast with Dave Hunter about Mason Bees. This new podcast covers a few things that were left out of that one, plus new things that have happened since the first one. One really important thing: you can attract mason bees to your yard with nothing more than a brush pile.

http://www.richsoil.com/permaculture/1854-181-mason-bees-part-2/

Jul 11, 2012 09:22:07

this was a good one, I put it on facebook, hope people will listen to it. I didn't realize that my leafcutter bees and some others were in the same class as mason bees and I was not aware that brushpiles and hollow trees and logs were used by them, which I have gobs of on my property. I always leave lots of standing dead perennial parts in the gardens and pond areas and keep most of my brush on my property in piles in the woods, so I guess maybe I'm doing the right thing for my mason bees. Love to watch them by the thousands in the mud in the spring.

Jul 14, 2012 07:11:48

Dave I do not have long distance on my phone. Burra also felt your post should not contain a phone number. You can send me a private message on here and I will contact you by email or PM..

We kept yelling "heart attack" and he kept shaking his head. Charades was the tiny ad's idea.

The new kickstarter is now live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-cards