This weekend was unseasonably warm and the bees were out enjoying the "second crop" of borage. Bees LOVE borage and it's a self-seeding annual that I "allow" to grow amongst the garden vegetables. After I tore out the potatoes....the borage started to fill in again and is now blooming. It likes the COOL weather too - so far it's surviving the light frosts....
We BURNED our grasslands this spring - which yielded a healthy crop of asters this fall (the burning must activate the seeds - or perhaps gives them room to grow up from the grass). I find that the aster nectar gives the hives a "sour" smell. The first year I noticed this - I thought - OH NO - FOULBROOD....it wasn't....it was just ASTERS....
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