A bottom
A1d - agapanthus
A4b
A4c - cosmos
A5a - sunflowers and runners beans with buckwheat
A7a - yacon and comfrey
H4 - queen bee found (QF) - colony is queenright.
The queen bee (centre) swarmed as a virgin queen from Hive 2 on 7th June - and when I had retrieved the swarm I united it with the colony in Hive 4 on the same day. I removed the old queen from H4 before uniting the colonies. The title image is of brood/larvae in Hive 2, the progeny of the queen bee that the remaining colony in H2 produced after the swarming event on 7th June.
H1 - queen found (QF) (QR)
B bottom
B bottom - sunflowers
B4a - ragwort
B5a - skirret
B5b
B5b - borage plus others
B8a - double red sweetcorn and coreopsis (B7a - potato plants in foreground)
Calendula
Evening meal - beetroot, chilli peppers, french beans, basil, parsley, kale, garlic, nasturtium flowers
with pasta, parmesan cheese, olive oil, white wine vinegar and salt and pepper.
Path by main pond
Polytunnel - grapevine
P1 - cucamelon
P4 - hoverfly/achocha
P4 - parasitic wasp/achocha.
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