nectar – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.11 44677425 Willow Trial Update http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/willow-trial-update/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:44:11 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3730 Earliest Flowering Willow Trial Last year I published a post about My Earliest Flowering Willow, and was surprised to see that the willow that flowered earliest for my was a hybrid called ‘Lapin’. I was up in the Forest Garden again today, ‘weeping’ at the damage done to my willows by rabbits, and noticed that […]

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Forest Garden Update July 2012 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/forest-garden-update-july-2012/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/forest-garden-update-july-2012/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:30:06 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1495 I wanted to get some current pictures of the Forest garden posted, with a short account of where I’ve got to so far, and what’s next. For those who haven’t visited the blog before, it might be worth  you checking out the Forest Garden paragraph of the Pictures, Designs, and Plans page, before continuing. The […]

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Will 2011 be the busiest year ever at The Sustainable Smallholding? http://sustainablesmallholding.org/will-2011-be-the-busiest-year-ever-at-the-sustainable-smallholding/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/will-2011-be-the-busiest-year-ever-at-the-sustainable-smallholding/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 20:47:11 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1392 If you have read my recent posts, you could be forgiven for thinking that all I’m doing at the moment is catching swarms. I did think that if ever I wrote an autobiography, this chapter would be entitled ‘Summers in a bee suit’, but I’m trying hard to keep up with all of the other […]

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Summer Bee Forage http://sustainablesmallholding.org/summer-bee-forage/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/summer-bee-forage/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:46:23 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1328 It might seem a bit premature to be thinking about Summer bee forage, but when growing from seed, if it’s not planted now, then it may not flower in time. Now I know that it’s possible to grow annuals, from seed, for flowering in Summer, but I prefer to grow perennial plants. That way, the […]

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Bees and Willow http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-and-willow/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/bees-and-willow/#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:04:25 +0000 http://deanom.wordpress.com/?p=1247 I always relax a little when my willow starts to flower, as it marks the beginning of decent quantities of nectar and pollen for my bees. I have quite a few varieties of willow, and the first to flower here is Salix daphnoides, the violet willow. Not only does it flower early, but the shoots […]

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