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Offline gardeningfireman

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Goldenrod "lack of flow"
« on: October 04, 2012, 09:40:54 pm »
The goldenrod has been blooming for quite a while, now. It is starting to fade. We had a drought here most of the summer. It started raining in mid August, just before the goldenrod started blooming. The bees have brought in hardly any nectar. I started feeding today. Out of the 14 hives I checked this week, only two are in really good shape, honey wise, and four more are so-so. The rest need some serious feeding. Would the drought before the bloom have affected the nectar flow? We have had a good amount of rain since the bloom started.

Offline wadehump

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Re: Goldenrod "lack of flow"
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2012, 05:27:09 pm »
should not have been a problem was same here with the late rain but still had a decent flow

 

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