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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: zzen01 on June 04, 2011, 09:52:16 pm
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We have LOTS of this stuff in the area where the hives are. Do Bees like this and is it good for honey Production?
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Sweet clover, yellow clover. Ya, it's good.
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Awesome.
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Best honey I ever had was from South Dakota from sweet yellow clover!
...JP
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White Clover (Sweet Clover)?
(http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae89/seaheli/DSC00980.jpg)
Magnolia
(http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae89/seaheli/DSC00971.jpg)
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I planted a small patch of it(yellow sweet clover) last fall from seed I got from Camp9 (Member on here). My bees are tearing it up. You can walk by it and here constant buzzing from all the honey and bumblebees working it. I plan on getting more seed and possibly drilling several acres with it.
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rail; that looks like one of the dutch clover http://www.pogueagri.com/Hubam_Sweet_Clover.aspx (http://www.pogueagri.com/Hubam_Sweet_Clover.aspx)
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Ya, that looks like dutch white clover.
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White dutch clover is great. But it's not sweet clover...
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White Clover (Sweet Clover)?
Magnolia
We have a magnolia, but it is still fairly young. The bumblebees have worked it for several years. I have not seen the honey bees on our Magnolia yet. Our Magnolia is a "Brackens Brown Beauty".
Shane
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That looks like what they call Alsike Clover here. I have not seen my bees work it but they say that it makes honey similar to other clover. It is considered a weed here and grows in peoples yards. I know you can mow it as short as you want and it will still bloom. I like it because my wife loves to mow and she can't stop it from blooming.
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This id what is looks like: http://www.pogueagri.com/Madrid_Sweet_Clover.aspx (http://www.pogueagri.com/Madrid_Sweet_Clover.aspx)
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This id what is looks like: http://www.pogueagri.com/Madrid_Sweet_Clover.aspx (http://www.pogueagri.com/Madrid_Sweet_Clover.aspx)
Yup, Yellow Sweet Clover. Thats what I have planted and the bees love it
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/1002919y.jpg/ (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/195/1002919y.jpg/)
This is what the stuff looks like.
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My bees were out there "workin" it!