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Episode-158- Start Spring Gardening Now

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Tony Teolis

It’s time to begin gardening now. The winter has been long and cold but it is now officially spring and March 30 was a fine day to begin to begin transplanting Swiss chard, parsley and endive. I also had to delay sowing peas radish until yesterday due to the snow earlier this week. Rain was […]

Episode-157 – Make Fresh Pollen Patties For The Honey Bees

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Tony Teolis

In this episode I show you how to make fresh pollen patties for your honey bees. This nutritious mixture of fresh pollen, Ener-G-Plus Bee Diet, Honey B Healthy, pure cane sugar and water helps to keep honey bees fed and encourage brood rearing. The difficulty is that if I give too much then I risk having a […]

Feed Bees In Winter Quick And Easy

Posted on March 20, 2013March 24, 2013 by Tony Teolis

I want to share with you this easy method for feeding honey bees in an emergency that I came up with the other day. The weather was warm on March 9 and seemed to be trending that way as it did last year. The winter storess seemed light with respect to the number of […]

Episode-152- How To Start Growing Seeds Indoors 4/4

Posted on February 26, 2013March 13, 2013 by Tony Teolis

This final video of a four part series will show how I have reverted to using yogurt cups and seedling starter trays to get a large number of plants off to a fine start. I was trying to save time and effort with using compressed blosks of soil to start seeds and keep them growing […]

Episode-99- Inspect Honey Bee Hive A 5-12-12

Posted on June 6, 2012February 18, 2013 by Tony Teolis

The video for this episode depicts an inspection I did last month of Hive-A which was installed in April 2011. This hive has been doing well and is full of bees. So full in fact that I don’t see any evidence of a swarm occurrence. I checkerboard the hive in March 2012 and I think

Make A Safe Walkway

Posted on June 1, 2012May 23, 2013 by Tony Teolis

I wish to present the new walkway three months after construction. This was put in place in March 2012 to prevent the constant runoff of water and creation of a

Episode-94- Inspect Honey Bee Hive For Queen And Pests

Posted on May 22, 2012February 18, 2013 by Tony Teolis

Today’s episode is about an inspection of Honey Bee Hive-A I conducted on April 28, 2012. Previous episodes noted below show how well the honey bees came out of the winter here in northern Virginia. I installed this first hive last year. One thing I learned as spring approached was

Episode-80- Honey Bee Honey Bee What Is Up With Thee

Posted on April 21, 2012February 20, 2013 by Tony Teolis

Honey bees are small and a honey bee colony’s instinct is to start another and fly off. This is known as swarming and it is unnatural for the honey bee to be convinced to stay in one hive. According to the books I’ve read books and honey bee sources of information such as the beesource […]