WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:04.440
Katie r h Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

2
00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:11.160
advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip rictor

3
00:00:11.279 --> 00:00:37.200
It's sho Crazy Trip. Just watch
him as the septazy gas not a Simon

4
00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:45.799
credits. Well, Hello, and
welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad

5
00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:49.439
you're listening today. And as I've
been telling you this morning, we have

6
00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.359
some folks from the b Supply here
today and we're gonna be talking about bees

7
00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.520
for the next hour. So if
you have questions, anything you want to

8
00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.960
know about bees or be keeping,
we're going to be giving you a lot

9
00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.079
of information. And in fact,
if you are not even a beekeeper or

10
00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:07.159
thinking about being one, you're going
to want to hear about this. The

11
00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:10.879
wonderful world of bees is something that
every time I learn more about it,

12
00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.159
it just fascinates me. It's it
is amazing with those little creatures, what

13
00:01:15.239 --> 00:01:19.879
they can do. I want to
welcome Paul to the show. Paul from

14
00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.799
the Supply in Data and Texas.
Tell us about the be supply. Okay,

15
00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:30.319
we basically we supply bees. We
have lots lots of bees. We

16
00:01:30.359 --> 00:01:37.680
sell beekeeping products to beekeepers. We
really focus mostly on the hobby beekeepers right

17
00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.719
at the store, and so we
we the thing that we really pride ourselves

18
00:01:42.760 --> 00:01:46.840
on is all of our education that
we do. We have lots of classes

19
00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:52.159
we have you know, anytime someone
wants to come in and talk about bees,

20
00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.920
we're there. We're happy to do
that, answer questions and and it's

21
00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:00.519
it's really our goal to have everybody
be successful. Well, I I picked

22
00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.840
that up the first time I was
out there. I just got the sense

23
00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.400
of it's not like a shop.
We're here, go buy some stuff and

24
00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.319
I go leave us alone. You
welcome people coming back and asking you eight

25
00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:14.280
hundred questions. I know that must
get old at times, but you understand

26
00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.159
what it's like being a new bee
keeper and it's like I need help here,

27
00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.360
I need more information than you guys. Just provide that service after the

28
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:24.840
sale and on and on, because
you know, if they're successful, then

29
00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:29.240
everybody's happy. Right, Yeah,
that's our goal. We'll do a good

30
00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.120
job of that. We'll think.
I like the classroom you guys have set

31
00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:35.000
up in there. That's kind of
nice where people can come in and do

32
00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.680
some in the store education. And
then you got bees outside where I guess

33
00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:42.520
you take them. Tell us a
little bit about like if I were interested

34
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.319
in becoming a be keeper, would
what would it mean to go to a

35
00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.280
class there? Well, you can. We have classes. We'll have classes

36
00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.840
at least once a month from January
through November during and then during b season

37
00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.960
from I guess February through June,
will have two classes a month, and

38
00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:05.560
it's a it's a pretty much an
all day class on a Saturday, but

39
00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.680
we do spend time. It's it's
the beginning beekeeping class, and that's what

40
00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:12.759
we'd really recommend because we do cover
all the basics and really help set a

41
00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:17.759
good foundation for beekeeping. And then
in the afternoon we will put on our

42
00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:23.639
beekeeping suits and go out into the
b yard and let the participants actually do

43
00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:28.240
high inspections for themselves and see what
they need to look for. And while

44
00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.919
we're out there helping answer questions and
guide them as they do that. And

45
00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:35.520
it's been a it's been a really
good class. Kyle and I both teach

46
00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.080
the class, and we've had we've
had a lot of good reviews from from

47
00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.680
the class, and so we're we're
we love teaching that class and seeing the

48
00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.120
success that people have. Well,
you know, I kept bees for a

49
00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:53.280
while back in Willis, Texas up
North Conroy area. I had bee hives

50
00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:54.199
and took care of him. And
when I went into the store, I

51
00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.960
visited with you guys. I don't
know, it's probably an hour or more,

52
00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:00.479
and I learned so much more about
bees just in talking to you.

53
00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:06.520
It's like it's an unending topic of
information and fascination. I just I just

54
00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:12.240
think it's great. Yeah, there's
there's there's always something to learn. Yeah.

55
00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:15.080
One of the things, and I
probably have said this to you myself,

56
00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.879
but one of the things that amazes
me is that when you think about

57
00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:23.439
what bees are able to do.
We think of bees as well, they

58
00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.120
make honey, But what's involved in
that? And you open up a beehive

59
00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.800
and you have all these little six
sided cells that are in perfect lines,

60
00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.079
straight lines across the combe, and
they do all that in the dark.

61
00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:39.319
I couldn't draw that with a pen
with light shining down on the paper,

62
00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.439
and yet these guys are working in
the dark and they do all that perfectly.

63
00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.480
And the whole process of taking from
an egg all the way to an

64
00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:53.279
adult bee. Could you talk to
us a little bit about how how that

65
00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:55.920
happens, Like an egg is laid, and what are the what are the

66
00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.399
workers and everybody do that makes that
bee turn into what it's going to turn

67
00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:06.639
into. I'm kind of leading you
into the okay. Well, whenever the

68
00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:12.279
queen lays the egg, the first
thing is she can lay her body weight

69
00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.759
and a half every day in eggs, up to two thousand eggs a day.

70
00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:25.600
And so the first three days of
bee's existence, the older, the

71
00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:32.240
bees that are two weeks old ten
to her, and then after that the

72
00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:38.399
younger bees take care of her.
The reason why for the first three days

73
00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:46.240
they feed the egg roll jelly,
which is again without going into a lot

74
00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:50.079
of bee biology, it's female hormone, okay, And so it turns the

75
00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.199
eggs fully into females. And then
they continue growing up for twenty one days

76
00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:01.120
that they're in the egg in the
cell, and then the day that they're

77
00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:05.480
emerged. The thing that's so fascinating
to me about bees is from that moment

78
00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:12.199
on they are working. They literally
are cleaning the cells around them before they're

79
00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.800
even born. Wow. And then
so they they come back into the cell

80
00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:21.480
that they were just hatched out of
and they clean it some other bees come

81
00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:28.680
in and they reline it and within
about three or four hours in the springtime,

82
00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:30.360
there'll be another egg in that safe. Right after they hatch out,

83
00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.639
they have to clean their room.
I mean that teenagers that are listening to

84
00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:38.720
this, it's not as tough as
you think. You're saying how many times

85
00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:42.759
their weight. That'd be like a
lady having what twelve to fifteen babies a

86
00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:47.360
day. Yeah, that's an accomplishment
right there every day. Wow, that

87
00:06:47.639 --> 00:06:56.040
what a reproductive potential. That's amazing. Yeah. So basically what I always

88
00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:01.199
say is is bee lived six weeks. They the first week they clean and

89
00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.560
ten for the for the young.
The second week they ten for the young,

90
00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.600
The third week they make wax,
the fourth week they learn how to

91
00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:14.319
fly, the fifth week they do
fly, and the sixth week they die.

92
00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.480
Wow. That we're gonna I hate
to stop it in the middle,

93
00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.920
but you talk about a teaser.
We'll be right back. I've got to

94
00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:24.120
take a break for a commercial.
But those six weeks is an amazing I

95
00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:26.439
want to come back to that right
when we get back. Hey, you're

96
00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.079
listening to garden line. I am
visiting with folks from the bee supply today

97
00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.480
and we're gonna talk all about bees. If you got any questions, call

98
00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:39.000
us at seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back

99
00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:42.160
to garden Line. We're glad you're
listening. Our phone number is seven one

100
00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.879
three two one two fifty eight to
seventy four. If you've got a question

101
00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.279
about bees, be keeping, the
world of bees, we're talking about all

102
00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.360
that kinds of stuff. Uh,
just before we went to break, we

103
00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:57.519
were talking about the steps of the
bees, the stages of the bees life,

104
00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.600
like a week doing this. Would
you repeat that and then let's continue

105
00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:05.399
a little bit with that. Okay. So one of the first things is

106
00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.879
in the springtime, about eighty five
to ninety percent of the bees in a

107
00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:16.720
bee hive or female. Male bees
really don't have any purpose other than being

108
00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:22.040
male bees. They can't they can't
grow pollen, they can't make honey,

109
00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.279
they don't have stingers, they can't
defend the hive. So there's really no

110
00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:30.680
purpose other than reproduction. And so
bees are so incredibly efficient that the queen

111
00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:35.919
literally won't make male bees. And
she has that choice. She can decide

112
00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:37.799
before she lays the egg if that
egg's going to be male or female.

113
00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.039
How does she decide that she turns
her semen sacks on and off? Are

114
00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.840
you kidding me? Oh? Wow, that's amazing. Yeah. So the

115
00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:50.960
joke in the bee businesses is a
male bee has a grandfather but has no

116
00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.480
father. And the reason why is
so because the queen has a father,

117
00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:03.639
but there's no semen in makeing a
male bees, so it doesn't have a

118
00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:09.559
father. And so that sounds like
a country song. Go ahead, I'm

119
00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:16.960
sorry, I didn't mean to do
that. It's just the first thing that

120
00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.039
came to mind. Well, the
old hill Billy and Me comes out right

121
00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:24.360
there, but yeah, we'll leave
that one on the table. So but

122
00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:33.799
anyway, so the as the the
bees age, different metamorphosis happens in their

123
00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:39.120
bodies and they and they do different
things, and so they can go backwards,

124
00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:43.480
but they can't go forwards. So
like if if something happens in a

125
00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.039
beehive and you don't have one week
two week o bees, a three week

126
00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:54.960
o bee can come back and feed
the the eggs, but not as efficiently

127
00:09:54.039 --> 00:10:00.879
as they can. And so that's
the reason why different ways of getting easier

128
00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.960
because you have all six ages of
bees, and so the first week of

129
00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.799
their life, they're able to they're
not able to make royal jelly, so

130
00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.559
they feed the eggs that are older
that don't need role jelly, and then

131
00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:20.000
the second week of their life,
they can produce roll jelly, which comes

132
00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:24.600
from a secretion from behind their heads, and they feed the bees roll jelly.

133
00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:30.440
Now, to make a queen,
they have to feed them that role

134
00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:35.639
jelly the entire time that they're in
the egg. And that's what makes the

135
00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.720
queen super female. So instead of
it just being a worker female, they

136
00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.600
feed it that way, and suddenly
it turns into a queen and they make

137
00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.000
the little cell bigger for that.
They do make a special sale for her

138
00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.600
so that she can hold her whole
reproductive organs because the rest of the of

139
00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:58.679
the bees. Again that's a forty
five minute discussion, but a normal every

140
00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:05.559
day can't lay a reproductive bag.
She can never be a queen. And

141
00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:11.519
so then after the third week they
start making wax and they and they produce

142
00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:16.399
all the wax that the hive needs, and they can't really control it,

143
00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:18.399
so they have to make wax.
And so that's the reason why you'll see

144
00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.480
wax and a hive that's that's not
really doesn't have a purpose because they're like

145
00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:26.159
kids. They're chewing bubble gum and
they got to put it somewhere. They

146
00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:28.960
just stick it places, so generally
they do put it where they need it

147
00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.960
to be. And then the fourth
week of their life they do their orientation

148
00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.799
flight and they start learning how to
fly and where they live, and because

149
00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.000
where they live is critically important because
they have to go back to their home.

150
00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:48.720
They're not they're not welcome back in
any other hive around. And then

151
00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.960
the fifth week of their life they
actually do go out and start forging,

152
00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.440
and they will everything the hive needs. They'll make honey, and they'll make

153
00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:05.960
profl which is like bee calk and
what keeps the eye sterile. They also

154
00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.240
gather water, and then, unfortunately, the sixth week of their life,

155
00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:16.240
generally the ones that do make it
to be six weeks, which is probably

156
00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.399
about one percent of the bees.
Oh wow, the birds get a lot

157
00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.759
of them, cars get them,
pest aside and all the other things.

158
00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.240
They become guard bees and they also
carry the dead bees out of the hive,

159
00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:33.519
and that's really all they do.
And then they die. So you

160
00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.000
ask while ago, which is quite
kind of fascinating to me how honey is

161
00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:45.000
actually made. So the forger bees
go out and they gather the little part

162
00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:48.279
of them drop of honey, and
they bring it back to the hive,

163
00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:54.799
and they go mouth to mouth with
another bee and they pass it mouth to

164
00:12:54.840 --> 00:13:00.639
mouth like a bucket brigade. Then
that bee swallows it and puts the enzyme

165
00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.440
of the age of bee that she
has in that drop little honey. Okay,

166
00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.120
Then they bucket bagated over to another
bee, and it continues bucket brigading

167
00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.000
up until it moves up to the
honey cell. But each one of those

168
00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.440
bees is a different age, and
each one of them swallows it, and

169
00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:20.559
each one of them has a different
set of enzymes in their mouth. And

170
00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:26.440
so generally anywhere from seven to eighteen
bees will swallow that drop of honey before

171
00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:28.960
it makes it actually into that cell, and each one of them will add

172
00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.720
another little piece of that honey to
change the flavor profile and add the microbials

173
00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.639
and all the other things that that
honey actually needs. Wow, And I've

174
00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.399
never heard that one. I just
assumed one bee brought it in. I

175
00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.039
always think it's interesting. I've asked
gardners before. I said, you know,

176
00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.000
bees get nectar and they make honey. But you've ever seen a bee

177
00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:54.039
carrying a sack or a bottle?
No, And there's only one way into

178
00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.200
an organism, and there's two ways
out of an organism, and neither of

179
00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.360
them is a very pleasant thing to
think about as to where you're a honey

180
00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:05.600
comes from that those bees are ingesting
the nectar into a special stomach that they

181
00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.320
then regurgitate out and you're saying,
pass it along through several bees before it

182
00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.879
ends up as honey. Honey is
an amazing substance too. Maybe we can

183
00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.600
get to that in a minute.
I want to talk a little bit about

184
00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.320
some of the things you guys are
going on. I know you have something

185
00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:22.159
called a concierge service, and I'd
like to hear a little bit about that

186
00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:28.799
out at the bee supply well.
So the concierge service is really going to

187
00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.200
be for people who like who would
like to get and ag valuation or were

188
00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.759
commonly known as an aag exemption on
their property, but they don't necessarily want

189
00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:45.200
to work bees or any livestock or
anything like that. So what we would

190
00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:48.600
do is we would come out and
put the hives. The number of hives

191
00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:54.679
that the County requires on the property
and maintain the boxes and just completely take

192
00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.320
care of them for the for the
customer. Oh wow. And then we

193
00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:03.000
would give a detailed about what the
hives produced, since that's a part of

194
00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:05.000
it. They do have to be
able to produce things. We would give

195
00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:09.840
a detailed letter to the landowner about
that so they could continue having that evaluation

196
00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:13.519
on their property. Wow. And
so it's a it's it's a new thing

197
00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.639
that we're that we're looking at doing. And Kyle would probably be the main

198
00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.120
one going out and working the hives
and taking care of all that. But

199
00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.240
it's because we've had a lot of
people ask over the years if we do

200
00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:31.120
that, and so I finally decided
that, you know, hey, let's

201
00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.039
let's do it. So yeah,
that's a great idea. That's amazing.

202
00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:39.159
Well, so if someone listening is
interested in maybe becoming a beekeeper, what

203
00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:43.399
would you recommend? And I know
they need to come and take a class

204
00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.159
and things, but what are what's
some of the basic set up? We've

205
00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:48.399
got about two and a half minutes
here for the next break. What are

206
00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.000
some of the basic setup that they
would need to come in and do?

207
00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:56.120
What would what would you say step
one, two three. Whatever they need.

208
00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.759
Well, first thing is, of
course, you know you need to

209
00:16:00.799 --> 00:16:04.080
find out if you know that you
need bees. And so what we would

210
00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:08.840
do is is different bees, have
different species of bees that which all have

211
00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:14.039
different characteristics, and we'll just pick
out a bee that works best for you

212
00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:15.519
for what you want it to do. So a honey bee is not a

213
00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:19.600
honey bee. There's a lot of
there's some variations. So tell us just

214
00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:26.000
a little bit about what that means. Okay, So like different what the

215
00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:30.600
analogy I use is just easier for
people to understand. You can eat a

216
00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.240
whole steing cow and milk and angus, but you're not going to be very

217
00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.559
successful at it. Gotcha. Well, bees are the same way, good

218
00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:42.159
earth. There's some bees that are
better at making honey, some bees are

219
00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:48.080
better suited for living in town.
Some bees are better suited for living in

220
00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.440
the country because of their temperament and
all the other things that they do.

221
00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.159
And so that's kind of the way
that we do it now. I mean,

222
00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.200
again, it's as easy as working
with cows. There's all different types

223
00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:06.160
of bees, and all different bees
have different characteristics, and so whatever characteristics

224
00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:08.799
you're looking for, we can make
that bee do that. And so after

225
00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:14.799
you find the bees, we will
get you protected. People ask me every

226
00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.599
day do you get stung? I
do, But I'm not very smart.

227
00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.279
Whenever I teach a bee keeper,
I teach them not to be stung.

228
00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:27.119
But you know, I'm an ol'hill
billy in so I get kicked by cows

229
00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.759
pretty often too, you know,
but you don't have to, but I

230
00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:36.440
take unnecessary risk. And so but
you know, that's the thing that people

231
00:17:36.640 --> 00:17:41.519
ask about getting stung. And really
I'd rather be bit by bee than stung

232
00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:45.680
by a fire in any day of
the week, because it's a whole lot

233
00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:47.759
less. You know, people think
about, you know, when I'm gonna

234
00:17:47.759 --> 00:17:52.920
put bees in your backyard that I'm
gonna put I'm gonna put sixty thousand wasp

235
00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:57.359
in your backyard. A huge difference. I have battled a red wasp and

236
00:17:57.440 --> 00:18:02.319
I've been stung be honey bees more
than one on and yeah, there's yeah,

237
00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:03.920
it's not in day difference, No, not day difference. Well,

238
00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.839
that is interesting. I want to
come back to the circle though, so

239
00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.599
as people come in, you probably
have a little we have about thirty seconds

240
00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.680
here about a little setup, right
that like here, here's what you need.

241
00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.559
Here's your options. We can say
some bees, we can say hive

242
00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.039
and everything. When we come back
from break, I'd like to talk a

243
00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:26.000
little bit about what are the basic
options for getting started in that? Will

244
00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:30.519
you give the phone number for your
store? Do you have that on top

245
00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.960
of your head? I kind of
catch you, catch you off guard.

246
00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:34.440
If not, I here, I'll
grab it. Yeah, it's uh it's

247
00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:40.319
eight hundred three five six four two
two nine. And the Dayton store is

248
00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:45.640
Extension three. Eight hundred said again, eight hundred three five six four two

249
00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.160
two nine, and the Dayton store
is Extension three. All right, we

250
00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.960
want to take Nikki in the news
and we'll be right back to talk more

251
00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:55.240
about bees. Our number if you'd
like to call and ask about bees seven

252
00:18:55.279 --> 00:19:00.720
one three two one two five eight
seven four. Welcome back to garden Line.

253
00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.680
Boy Josh is doing a heck of
a job playing bee music as we

254
00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.920
come in here. Listen. If
you are looking for a quality nursery that

255
00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:11.480
has a lot of different kinds of
things that you just can't live without,

256
00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.799
that is buchanans native plants in the
heights. If you can't specialize in native

257
00:19:15.799 --> 00:19:18.960
plants, but they got everything,
I mean all kinds of things from house

258
00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:22.160
plants. By the way, they
still have plenty of Christmas trees on the

259
00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.480
lot. Get you set up with
that, as well as wreaths and other

260
00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:30.119
things. But you just need to
check them out. And those native plants

261
00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.680
I got some cool stuff. Like
next time you're by there, ask them

262
00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:37.279
about their rough leaf dogwood. That's
different than the East Texas dogwood. This

263
00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.240
is a very drought hardy Texas native
that is just beautiful and by the way,

264
00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.319
it even has good fall color,
the rough leaf dogwood. Now,

265
00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.200
Buchanans is on Eleventh Street in the
Heights and their website is Buchanansplants dot com.

266
00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:52.559
You need to stop by there.
They're open Today, be a good

267
00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.799
day to get out and do that. I think what we're going to do

268
00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:02.359
next here is go talk to Angel
and Conro. Hello, Angel, are

269
00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:06.920
you there? Yes, I'm here. How can we help today? I

270
00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:12.000
would like to know how many hives
it would take to produce or how many

271
00:20:12.400 --> 00:20:18.599
how many how much honey would each
hive? Does each hive produce? All

272
00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:27.079
right? Good question, le right. Well, one thing is we're lucky

273
00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.680
in this part of the of the
state. This is what the beekeepers call

274
00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.920
the Golden Triangle of honey, and
so we make more honey in this part

275
00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.920
of the state than to do any
other part of the state. Generally,

276
00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.240
what I would say is is a
good strong bee hive is going to make

277
00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:51.519
you somewhere between forty and one hundred
pounds of honey per year. And a

278
00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:56.000
pound is like a pint of honey. Or how does it? How does

279
00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:00.400
volume wise? Sixteen ounces? About
sixteen ounces roughly? Okay, yeah,

280
00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:07.160
so that's about yeah, sixteen ounces. And that's an o hard translations for

281
00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:12.000
bees, because we bee keepers we
sell pounds on hunting, right but be

282
00:21:14.279 --> 00:21:18.759
but consumers buy ounces of honey.
So that's that's always tricky for us.

283
00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.240
People ask while ago, how much
honey will one bee make? Yes,

284
00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.440
and so in a bee's six weeks
life span, they will make a twelfth

285
00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:36.359
of a teaspoon of honey in the
whole life of the worker, in their

286
00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:41.039
whole, entire life of the work. So how many did you were sand?

287
00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:42.119
That was? How many bees does
it take to make a pound of

288
00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.720
honey? So if if my math
is correct on that, I think I

289
00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:51.720
figured up it's one fifty two bees
to make one pound work work in their

290
00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:55.480
whole six week life. Yeah,
make a pound makes you appreciate that pound

291
00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:57.960
of honey absolutely So you were saying
that, But a typical hive here,

292
00:21:59.160 --> 00:22:03.519
assuming it's a decent year, is
going to produce how many pounds between forty

293
00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:07.160
and one hundred pounds. It's a
lot of honey. Angel, Can you

294
00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:11.400
eat that much? You have no
idea. I go through one or two

295
00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:14.240
pounds a week. I mean,
I'm baked with it. I have it

296
00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:15.480
in my tea. I love it. Well. I think you need to

297
00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:19.759
slap a label on it. And
you've got Angel's perfect Christmas gift for friends

298
00:22:19.799 --> 00:22:26.200
and family right there, the Angel
Honey Company. Hey, thank you.

299
00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.839
I appreciate the call. I appreciate
that very much. That is pretty amazing.

300
00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.640
So if someone is coming in and
they're going, Okay, I want

301
00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:33.920
to get started, What do I
need to buy? What kind of equipment

302
00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:37.000
do I need? What's the starting
I know there's you know a lot of

303
00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:40.559
answers to that, but basically,
what do I need to get going?

304
00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:47.680
Actually there's really not. That's the
funny thing about bees. The hive that

305
00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:55.039
ninety percent of people run was built
by doctor Langford in the early eighteen hundreds,

306
00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:57.400
and we're still running that exact same
bee hive every day, the same

307
00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:03.119
box, the same box. Looking
at some of my granddad and great granddad's

308
00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:06.000
equipment, I think we're still running
some of that stuff in my face.

309
00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:11.039
But anyway, the same exact box. And it's American standard. And so

310
00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:15.720
if you decide to get a box
and then you want to go to some

311
00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:19.720
of the other boxes that all the
equipment still entered locks with each other.

312
00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:25.079
It all works. It's all standardized
sizes. And so if you were to

313
00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:27.319
get computer manufacturers to do that,
yeah, that wouldn't that be great.

314
00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:33.759
So if you were going to get
into bees, basically all that all that

315
00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:38.880
you do is is you just get
a box of bees. And unfortunately it

316
00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:45.559
is extremely precise on because what we
refer to as as bee travel is an

317
00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.880
eighth of an inch, and so
it's pretty hard to make a box.

318
00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:53.319
But you can buy a box pretty
easy, and so you really only have

319
00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:59.240
a few options on the way that
a box is configured. And so then

320
00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:07.480
you get your boss and then basic
a couple of basic hand tools and some

321
00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:12.000
basic protection and all that's in different
levels and how much protection and how much

322
00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.319
time you want to actually spend in
your bees. And so in reality,

323
00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:22.759
it's actually a reasonably cheap hobby to
get started in. There's not a cheap

324
00:24:22.799 --> 00:24:27.160
hobby out there, and so you
can spend as much money or as little

325
00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.440
money as you want to and just
depending on how much you know you want

326
00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.920
to get into your bees. So
it'd be easy to kind of start small

327
00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:37.200
and work work your way into it. We have a call from Mike.

328
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:41.400
Let's go. I think Mike has
a question about b B breeds. Hello,

329
00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.240
Mike, are you there, Mike? Hello, Yes, sir,

330
00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:52.079
Yes, sir, i do have
a question about the best breed. I've

331
00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:57.079
my wife and I have tried Italian
bees a few times and we've lost our

332
00:24:57.200 --> 00:25:03.079
hives either they've warmed or something else. But what we've lost those hides and

333
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.240
we're trying to to set in.
Part of the issue why we did Italian

334
00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.400
was that that I have a moderate
allergy to bees. My wife actually takes

335
00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:18.279
care of the bees for the most
part. We'd heard that maybe re requeening

336
00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:25.519
with a Texas uh bee and making
a hybrid would be good. What what

337
00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:34.160
would you suggest? The first thing
is is the breed of bee probably wasn't

338
00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:41.440
your problem. That goes back to
what we were talking about earlier with classes

339
00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.799
mentors. What probably happened was the
bees probably got sick and left, or

340
00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:52.279
I mean that's generally what happened is
they got sick and left. But a

341
00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:56.039
Texas breed is better. One of
the one of them that we run is

342
00:25:56.119 --> 00:26:02.880
called the Texas five thousand, and
it's simply spectacular bee, but it's an

343
00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:07.480
Italian Carnolian cross. I would tell
you that I would either run a probably

344
00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.640
a Carnolian bee. It's a little
bit more docile than an Italian bee.

345
00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:15.119
All right? Does that helped me? And and they're hardy there. They're

346
00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:21.160
gonna tolerate maybe some some disease or
something a little bit better or mites or

347
00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:27.279
yeah, better than the Italian.
I'm out the saying most all your commercially

348
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:33.319
purchased bees are going to have the
might resistance in them. But you're still

349
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.759
going to have to address that in
some way. All right, Mike,

350
00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:37.920
we're gonna have to run to a
break if you want to hang on,

351
00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:41.319
if you got to follow up,
you're welcome to do that. But thank

352
00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:44.599
you, thank you very much for
that call. Our phone number is seven

353
00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.720
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We are visiting with Paul

354
00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.200
and Kyle from the b Supply and
we'll be right back. Well goo ahead

355
00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.559
after or good morning. Still you're
listening to Guardenline. I'm your host,

356
00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:00.440
Skip Richter. We're here to answer
your gardening questions. It is. Our

357
00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:03.839
phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Right

358
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:10.039
now we're talking about bees uh with
Paul and with Kyle from the Bee's Supply

359
00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.759
company. Hey, someone called earlier
about a tree problem and I was telling

360
00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:18.359
them about Martin spoon Moore, an
affordable tree service. Now Martin has been

361
00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.400
doing this for a very long time. He He's got decades of experience taking

362
00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.279
care of Houston's tree So if you
need something done, you need to call

363
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:32.920
Martin Spoon Moore. The number is
seven one three six nine nine twenty six

364
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.839
sixty three. Listening someone comes to
trim your trees. If they don't know

365
00:27:36.880 --> 00:27:40.480
what they're doing, they have messed
those trees up for a lifetime. I've

366
00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:44.920
seen botch jobs all the time.
Trees look like hat racks. They weren't

367
00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:48.519
proune properly. And you can try
to help the tree back, but it's

368
00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:51.839
never going to be the same.
Don't do that. Just because they own

369
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:55.519
a pickup truck and have a business
card to sticking your door does not make

370
00:27:55.559 --> 00:28:00.319
them a tree person. Call Martin
seven to one three six nine nine twenty

371
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.119
six sixty three, or go to
the website aff Tree Service dot com.

372
00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:07.799
You need to call him soon though, telling me from the garden line.

373
00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:11.279
That puts you at the front of
their line. And he's already booking things

374
00:28:11.359 --> 00:28:14.680
up for the wintertime. And so
get on the schedule now, even if

375
00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.359
you're not going to get the work
done until later, go ahead and get

376
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:21.599
on the schedule. Because someone that
does things right and treats their customers right,

377
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.599
they stay busy. That's how that's
how life works. And that is

378
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:30.519
certainly true of Martin an Affordable Tree. We're gonna go now back to Mike

379
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:33.960
out here, and I think Mike
you had a follow up question. Uh,

380
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.559
yes, sir. As far as
trying to maintain the health of the

381
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:45.599
bees, how often should you be
getting into that hive to maintain God would

382
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:53.000
say every two weeks or sos ok, yeah, daring be season now this

383
00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:57.240
time of year, most everybody's got
their bees what we call lockdown, and

384
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:02.599
so if it's about sixty five degrees, you can get into your bees,

385
00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:06.039
but if it starts getting below sixty
five degrees, you really need to leave

386
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:08.519
a bee. I've closed and there's
not really much happening there this time of

387
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:15.559
year, but in April through June
or July, you should be in it

388
00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:19.160
every couple of weeks at least,
especially until you know really what you're looking

389
00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:25.279
at. Okay, I'm sorry,
going to keep bugging you. One last

390
00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:32.039
thing. So different sources talk about
feeding your bees versus not feeding your bees,

391
00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:41.359
and what's your take on that.
My take on that is is it's

392
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:48.960
livestock. And so if your bees
are are healthy and wealthy and wise,

393
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:53.920
then you don't really have to feed
them much. But if they have ran

394
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:59.039
into some kind of problem or or
human intervention has kept them from it,

395
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.200
then you do need to feed them. I've spent in the last two months

396
00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:08.559
making a sugar brick that we feed
through the winter that's got all types of

397
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:15.200
nutrition and different things, and it's
like a bee super feed and so we

398
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.839
but if your bees are healthy,
they should be able to be self sufficient.

399
00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.400
So if they're having to be fed. Don't just throw food on them.

400
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:29.799
You need to find out what's wrong
with them and why they're not self

401
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.119
sufficient. Well that's good, that's
good, Mike, thank you. I

402
00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.200
appreciate that call very much. And
along those lines, you guys, if

403
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.079
someone didn't buy their bees from me, they didn't buy their highes from you,

404
00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.960
they can still come out to the
store and ask you any question because

405
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:45.720
you're not about just selling my product. You're about helping them. And so

406
00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:48.839
I just want to make that point, you know, for Mike or anyone

407
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.720
out there, that's what you're there
for. I mean, if they got

408
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.960
a hundred questions, just come on
out and y'all will help them. Right.

409
00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:59.920
Oh. Absolutely. We are a
family owned in Texas, own business,

410
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:04.839
and the man that owns our company. The chances are really good that

411
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.960
Blake's out somewhere to day talking about
bees, and and I travel all around

412
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.440
the state and the country talking about
bees. And it's a pretty good drive

413
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.039
out to Dayton. But we made
a really pretty store out there, So

414
00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.920
we're okay with you staying a couple
of hours and and sitting and talking with

415
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:26.759
us and and but that's what we
do. Yeah, we talk about that

416
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:29.400
store, and when we come back
from the next braavey that that's true.

417
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.680
Yeah, we're we're out there,
just really wanting to talk about bees.

418
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.200
I made the joke to Skip when
I came in here. He said,

419
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.880
we're going to talk about bees.
I said, that's reason when my wife

420
00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.680
won't go anywhere with me, because
wherever I'm at, I'm going to talk

421
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.720
about bees. There you hit me
an opportunity. I'm going to talk about

422
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.599
bees. All right. Well,
we're going to run out now to Spicewood

423
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.240
and we're going to talk to Clara. Clara, believe you have a question

424
00:31:51.400 --> 00:32:00.279
this morning. Hello, Hello,
we're here, Kay, Yes, I

425
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:04.319
have a question on I'm new to
bees, and they were just kind of

426
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.720
dumped on us in a sense because
we weren't used to doing it's never done

427
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:09.920
bees. But the lady you brought
him is not here, not with me

428
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:15.559
anymore. I guess that might bees. Uh. All of these are on

429
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.960
one on the upper on one side
of the hives, there's the lower.

430
00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:25.960
On the bottom four slats there's no
bees and there's no no activity. And

431
00:32:27.079 --> 00:32:31.880
on the other five there might they
might be working on four slats and those

432
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:43.880
slats are covered with bees. Is
that normal? Well, at the health

433
00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:47.559
of your bee houve is in Without
actually looking at it, I got bad

434
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:53.640
news for you. The bees are
probably on their way out, so the

435
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:58.160
bees are going to stay together.
So yes, ma'am, that is normal

436
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.240
for the amount of bees that's in
that Beehi. The problem is is there's

437
00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:07.440
probably not enough bees in there to
make it out of winter. Oh really,

438
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:12.920
yes, ma'am. I mean you
may so, but without looking at

439
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:16.039
it, I don't know. I
we'll say this so while while we're here,

440
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:20.759
it's a good point to ask it. We do make house calls and

441
00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:27.319
if you have bees that are that
are having problems or whatever, I'll travel

442
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.079
out and we'll and we'll look at
like a like a vet house call,

443
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:34.599
and so we'll make the call out
and then I can tell you how to

444
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.480
how to work your bees and and
actually teach you how to work them.

445
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:42.400
But oh, that would be awesome, Yes, ma'am. Just call us

446
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.839
there at the story and we'll set
something up and see if we can't help

447
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:49.640
you out with that. Okay,
okay, you have that number right?

448
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:53.640
Yeah? Okay, Oh, that
would be awesome. I certain got and

449
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:58.319
I will have both of my helpers
share with me, so we can you

450
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:00.640
know, yes, ma'am. And
like I said, we're all here for

451
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:05.960
the craft and we're gonna we're gonna
help take care of the bees. Okay.

452
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:07.400
The end result of this is we
don't have the bees, we don't

453
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:12.400
have the human race. Keeping the
bees alive is all of our responsibility,

454
00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:15.039
right, And they helped us some. I mean, our production for the

455
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:17.079
garden this year was so much better
than what it's been in the past,

456
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:22.880
and I attributed that to our bees. You know, yes, m that's

457
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:25.440
true. Unfortunately they had to deal
with an amateur. Uh. Well,

458
00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:30.480
we'll get You've called the right place
and we're gonna get you fixed up.

459
00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:31.800
Thank you, Clara. And I
just want to give that phone number out

460
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:38.400
again. That is one eight hundred
three five six four two two nine Extension

461
00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:44.480
three. One eight hundred three five
six four two two nine Extension three.

462
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:51.639
And it's Texas B Supply, Texas
B Supply out in Dayton. So you

463
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:57.159
I did not know you did.
House calls you you're going to wear your

464
00:34:57.360 --> 00:35:01.000
tires off. Kyle is our detective. He sounds like the bees. That's

465
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:07.599
good, funny, that's excellent.
Well, I tell you we've got good

466
00:35:07.679 --> 00:35:09.800
night. We're down to Oh my
gosh, we're down to no time right

467
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.639
now. We're going to take a
break. We're at the top of an

468
00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.079
hour's time for the news. You
are listening to garden Line and I'm visiting

469
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:22.519
with Kyle and Paul. We've got
to get Paul back on here from THEB

470
00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.639
Supply out in Dayton, Texas.
We're talking about everything bees. If you

471
00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:30.519
have all call Josh, it's seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

472
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.679
four. Let him get you on
the board and you will be first.

473
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:38.000
When we come back. We're going
to go into a little bit more about

474
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:44.079
bees, some of the information on
the classes that they have on some of

475
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:46.239
the tours. We haven't talked about
the tours, and that is something you

476
00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:52.360
have got to check out. And
the observation hive indoors. I don't know

477
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.559
if any of you are old enough
to remember growing up and driving down the

478
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:59.800
road and Nickerson Farns and stuckies in
those kind of places, sometimes you'd see

479
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.199
a bee hive in the wall where
you could watch them work. And I

480
00:36:01.280 --> 00:36:05.960
grew up as a kid doing that. Uh, they got something much better

481
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:07.280
than that at the B Supply and
we're going to tell you about it when

482
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:14.679
we'll come back. Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

483
00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:20.400
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to Katie r h

484
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:38.119
Garden Line with Skip Richter. It's
crazy trip. Just watch him as thanks

485
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:52.880
to sept Crazy Jumped not a sadd
Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line.

486
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:55.039
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to talk about gardening.

487
00:36:55.320 --> 00:36:59.199
Right now, we're talking about one
aspect of gardening, and that is

488
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:00.960
taking care of bees. Now,
I realize you don't have to be a

489
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:05.960
gardener to have bees, but those
of us who grow vegetables and fruit know

490
00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:09.159
the value that bees bring and how
that can increase our produce. So I

491
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.159
think every garden should have a little
set of bees in the back. By

492
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.960
the way, there are laws in
Texas regarding bee keeping and things, and

493
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:20.800
most people don't realize you can keep
bees in the city of Houston. Absolutely

494
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.480
tell us a little bit about like, if someone's interested in maybe keeping some

495
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:29.159
bees, getting set up and doing
that, what would you recommend that they

496
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:34.119
do just to check into things,
Well, you can come out and you

497
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.280
know, just take a class or
take one of our tours there at the

498
00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:40.800
store and find out if it's something
that you're really interested in. And then

499
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.960
once you get there, then you
know. There's two really nice bee clubs

500
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:52.280
here in the city of Houston,
and they're great programs, and go to

501
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.119
one of their meetings and find out, you know, just what people are

502
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:59.800
doing. Come out and actually come
in a beehive. If you want to

503
00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:04.320
come out to the store and open
a beehive and the weather's from itating,

504
00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:07.679
I'll surely dress you up and walk
you out there and let you walk into

505
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:13.239
a set of bees. And I've
literally never had anybody when I dressed them

506
00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:15.679
and got them in the bees come
back and say, you know, I

507
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:22.679
don't think that's what I want to
do. It's an extremely calmon feature about

508
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:28.480
bees, and so the apprehension of
raising bees goes away almost immediately, right.

509
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.599
That's something people just have the experience
to be able to understand that.

510
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:35.880
So if anyone's interested, you were
still taking orders now for bees. We

511
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.480
talked about different strains of bees,
and you guys can help match them to

512
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:45.199
the strain that they need. But
you're taking orders now out there and tell

513
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.199
us a little bit about your classes
too that you have going on. So

514
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.079
our main class that we have is
that beginning class that we talked about earlier,

515
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.719
and that's the one we primarily have, but we've just added several new

516
00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.639
classes that we're really excited about and
looking forward to. That one that we've

517
00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:04.039
had for a while is a splits
class, So it's kind of a second

518
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.000
year beekeeping class when you make a
split out of a hive, so basically

519
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:09.400
make two hives out of one.
Okay, we'll teach you how to do

520
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:15.679
that. We also in the summer, we'll have a honey extraction class where

521
00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:20.119
we teach you how to extract honey
and how to pull the high pull the

522
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:23.039
boxes off, get the bees out
of it, uncap the honey, put

523
00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:28.119
it in an extractor, so we'll
we'll teach you all that. We're also

524
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:34.360
having some more artisan type classes where
we'll have a meat making class. We're

525
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:40.679
going to have a candle making class, wax wax class, wax rendering class

526
00:39:40.920 --> 00:39:45.159
is what we're having. And so
so yeah, we're having lots of classes

527
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.360
fun where we can teach you how
to do some of those things and and

528
00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:52.800
help help beekeepers like their hobby even
more. Now now, you were doing

529
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:58.239
the the beginner's classes about once a
month, and is that going to continue

530
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.400
at about a once a month schedule. It'll be, Yeah, it's on.

531
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:07.280
It's at least once a month from
January through November and then February through

532
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:09.800
June. We have two classes a
month. Yeah, and those are all

533
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:13.599
on our website. People can sign
up on the website and see all the

534
00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:17.960
different classes. And that website,
folks, is thebesupply dot com. Thebesupply

535
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:21.599
dot com. You also have the
honey tours. Tell us a little bit

536
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.400
about the honey tour, and this
would be somebody I don't care, I

537
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:25.760
don't want to ever keep bees.
I just want to learn about it and

538
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.320
have fun. Tell me about a
honey tour. How do we go about

539
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:32.880
that? Well, you can also
register for that online. We typically have

540
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.519
those on the first Saturday of the
month during be season. There may be

541
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:40.599
a couple of saturdays where we can't
do it, but typically it's the first

542
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:45.400
Saturday of the month. And it's
just a very very basic introduction to bees.

543
00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:49.559
So we'll talk a little bit about
what bees do. We'll let's taste

544
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:52.280
different types of honey, and then
we'll take you over to our observation hive

545
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:57.960
and let you see the bees actually
in action and try to explain a little

546
00:40:58.000 --> 00:41:00.639
bit about what's going on there.
And the best part about the honey tours

547
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:07.599
is are absolutely free and so yeah, so yeah, bring brings. It's

548
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:12.360
a good family thing or I mean
if you have a garden club or a

549
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.320
church group, or you know some
kind of school group, boy scout troup,

550
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.000
school group whatever. Yeah, so
yeah, that's great. It's great

551
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:23.079
science for kids too, because they're
going to learn a lot about that world.

552
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.280
We've been talking about that. Every
time I talk to you guys,

553
00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:30.400
I learned something else about bees.
So yeah, we had what four or

554
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:37.679
five hundred uh school kids come through
tours last year. Those were all private

555
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:40.800
and so but we but we still
anytime we get an opportunity to talk to

556
00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.679
the community about bees and just anything
we can do to help the community with

557
00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:50.079
bees, where we're always willing to
and give us a shot and to someone

558
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:52.119
has a group, well we'll do
tours midweek. They don't have to be

559
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.599
on a Saturday. We can do
tours midweek as well. They just have

560
00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:59.400
to give you a call out there, get set up for it. Well,

561
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.599
that's fun. When I went out
to the store, just seeing all

562
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:07.199
the equipment number one was fascinating.
But you guys have a lot of I

563
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.440
don't know, bee bling if you
will. I mean from T shirts to

564
00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:14.880
honey, to different kinds of cosmetics
made from I bought a cream, kind

565
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:19.800
of a facetop cream thing made out
of bee products. And you guys just

566
00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.639
have a lot of fun stuff out
there. It's not just a warehouse full

567
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:25.280
of bee stuff. And there's a
lot more of that coming too. I

568
00:42:25.440 --> 00:42:30.360
know the company right now is actually
working on a cosmetic line that's made out

569
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.079
of our honey, a coffee line, a tea line, so it's always

570
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.400
coming. The company is on the
very cutting edge of the bee technology,

571
00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:44.519
and so we're always working towards new
stuff. Well, we got about a

572
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:45.880
minute and a half, but I
want to go ahead and dive into tell

573
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:52.199
us about this observation hive is people
have got When you hear me say there's

574
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.119
an observation hive, you have no
idea what we're talking about here. Tell

575
00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:00.639
us about what this thing is.
So this is our second one. The

576
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:06.440
first one that we made was what's
called an open air concept, and it

577
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:13.159
just simply didn't work. The second
one that we're making that I made is

578
00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:19.159
a it's basically an entire bee high
standing where you can look at it like

579
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.159
in plexiglass, inside of plexiglass,
where you can see it, open the

580
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:30.360
doors and look in it. We
haven't been recognized yet, but it looks

581
00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:35.679
to be that it's going. When
it's full that it'll be the second largest

582
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:39.239
in the United States. Well,
and this is in the store, So

583
00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:42.760
bees have to come in a tube
to get there, right, Yes,

584
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:45.760
they come in in a tube,
which again is really interesting because it only

585
00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:49.719
takes three eighths of an inch for
a bee to move into your wall,

586
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.440
and so I've gave them plenty of
room. They've got a one inch tube

587
00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:54.960
that comes in. But you can
actually see the bees come in the high

588
00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:59.280
You can see them bringing pollen in
on their legs, and see them carrying

589
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:04.039
dead bees out and everything else that
they're doing. And so this tube comes

590
00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:07.599
from outside the store into this plexiglass
hive where people can go around it,

591
00:44:07.719 --> 00:44:12.760
kids can see ye and watch bees
work, and that right there is worth

592
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.280
the price of it. And it's
really cool because you can see the queen

593
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:19.079
and there were several times this past
summer where we were able to show people

594
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.760
what it looks like when the queen
is laying eggs and you can actually see

595
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.000
that process going on and see that
as they're storing the honey and the pollen,

596
00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:30.239
you can see them filling the frames
up. So it's really a neat

597
00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:32.639
hive to look at. I remember
when I first learned to find the queen

598
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:37.119
in a hive. You know,
you see this larger bee and all the

599
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:39.119
other bees are facing it. You
know, they're all gathered. No matter

600
00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:44.039
where she moves, they're all fate
turned facing or that's amazing. Hey,

601
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:46.199
I got to go to a break. It's time, but we will come

602
00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:51.920
right back. And we're talking here
with the folks from VB Supply out in

603
00:44:52.039 --> 00:44:53.519
Dayton, Texas. So if you've
got any bee questions, give us a

604
00:44:53.559 --> 00:45:00.480
call at seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. I think

605
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:05.280
we probably just played be related music
to the Cows Come Home. There's so

606
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:07.400
many good songs out there. Hey, I'm your host, Skip Rich or

607
00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:13.039
you're listening to garden Line and we're
talking to the folks from the bee Supply.

608
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:15.000
We got Paul and we got Kyle
here in the studio if you'd like

609
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:19.960
to give us a call and ask
a question about bees seven one three,

610
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:24.480
two one two five eight seven four. We were just talking about the observation

611
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:28.960
high that is so cool for people
to be able to come out and to

612
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.320
check it out. The fact that
you can go out and do free b

613
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:37.199
tours honey tours actually to give you
some things that I don't know. I

614
00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:43.280
just think it's an education that is
just fascinating. I mentioned earlier some aspects

615
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.239
of bees. We've been talking about
different aspects of bees that are just wow.

616
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:50.480
I did not know that. I
did not know that happened. I

617
00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:53.400
just find it interesting. I'm surprised
we haven't had somebody call the show already

618
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:58.840
and reinforce this fact that a bee
colony is basically a bunch of women doing

619
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:01.199
all the work and men land around
doing nothing until they finally get kicked out.

620
00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:07.880
And so that, I mean,
there's a lot of places we can

621
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:13.639
go with that, guys, but
that's basically what it is to Oh boy,

622
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:19.239
I want to talk a little bit
about gifts from the bee supply.

623
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.039
I know you guys have the website
where people can go they could order honey,

624
00:46:22.119 --> 00:46:25.679
or they could order anything that you
guys sell by gift. But maybe

625
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:30.719
there's people listening who they are,
their spouse or someone they know, maybe

626
00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:35.440
a dad or mom or a kid
would like to get interested in beekeeping,

627
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.159
and you guys can kind of get
them set up with that. And of

628
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.199
course there's the products that you could
set them up with. They could call

629
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:44.679
you and say, hey, here's
the situation. I want to be able

630
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:46.599
to give this. What would you
suggest how do we put that package together?

631
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:52.079
But also they could just give a
gift certificate where someone could then go

632
00:46:52.239 --> 00:46:58.440
out and I think Paul you mentioned
even a class certificate, So you want

633
00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:00.960
to talk a little bit about kind
of what that might look like from a

634
00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:05.440
gifting standpoint. Sure, yeah,
I mean we've had people gift classes the

635
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.679
beginning class for someone who they know
that they're interested in bees, and that's

636
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:12.880
that was there, that was their
Christmas gift. And and so you can

637
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:15.280
just do just like you're signing it
yourself up. Just sign up on the

638
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:21.119
website and and well we'll have the
record of it and they can they can

639
00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:22.199
come to the class. That'd be
kind of fun. Yeah, I think

640
00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.079
it'd be a good gift. You
know when you're trying to come up with

641
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.519
gifts. It's kind of like,
what do you get the person that has

642
00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:31.000
everything? I think I already got
every kind of electronic that I want and

643
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:35.400
some that I wish I didn't have, and you know that kind of thing.

644
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:39.280
But this is a it's an experience. It could even be something that

645
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:44.079
you and some of your kids go
and do together and learn together. It's

646
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:47.760
just kind of back to the kind
of gifts that seem to matter more than

647
00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:51.760
just you know, here's something I
found because I need to get a gift.

648
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:55.519
I like the products and things that
you guys have, and I think

649
00:47:55.599 --> 00:48:00.840
that people will too. So let's
talk a little bit more about bees though,

650
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:06.519
the world of bees, and one
of the challenges is be pests and

651
00:48:06.639 --> 00:48:09.960
diseases. There's actually pests of bees
and diseases of bees. And when I

652
00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:16.159
kept bees, we were always fighting
trachomtes and vomites and some other things.

653
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.159
Will you talk a little bit about
what are some of the common challenges and

654
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:22.719
what can people do. I know
they can call you and say, hey,

655
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:25.400
I got a problem here, help
me, but what are the things

656
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:29.480
they might need to be looking for, and what are the things we do

657
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:34.440
I know, acting soon rather than
later is probably pretty important. Yes,

658
00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:39.760
well, the leading calls of bee
death right now is an invasive species from

659
00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:45.599
China called the Veroo mite. It's
basically a tick that grows on honey bees,

660
00:48:45.679 --> 00:48:52.039
but it's the most deadly tick that
the world's ever seen. There are

661
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:58.280
tests farm and that's pretty much what
you have. The lady that called earlier

662
00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:02.519
and asked about the hive that only
half the hib is alive. That's what's

663
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:08.599
probably wrong with that hib is it's
got brower mince on it. And now,

664
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:15.159
you know, back in my granddad's
day, that was a hard challenge.

665
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.920
Now it's pretty much as easy to
take care of as taking care of

666
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:22.719
fleas and ticks on your dog.
And it's kind of the same way.

667
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.079
You know, in the bee world. It was a big separation there for

668
00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.000
a lot of years between what we
referred to as chemical and non chemical,

669
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:34.480
and now what we found out is
exactly what you just said. Skip.

670
00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:37.880
You know, if you catch them
early enough, everybody can go non chemical,

671
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:39.960
but if you wait until they're infested, kind of like your dog.

672
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:43.920
You know, you can start off
your dog with brewers yeast or whatever,

673
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.440
but if you let the dog get
infested with tea, with fleas and ticks.

674
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.360
Yeah, and you got to take
it to the bed and get that

675
00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:52.440
too and care of That's a good
analogy too, because you know, bees

676
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.400
are out and about, they're interacting
with other bees, are going to flowers,

677
00:49:55.440 --> 00:50:00.199
and it's easy to pick up the
mites as there interacting with other bees.

678
00:50:00.679 --> 00:50:05.960
Yeah. And the problem is again
back to those old boy bees.

679
00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.760
The boy bees are what are the
more social be of the of the world.

680
00:50:08.880 --> 00:50:14.480
And not only do they not work, but they bring diseases back home.

681
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:17.559
So you know, this is just
a what's the opposite of misogynist?

682
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.960
This is not don't guys, give
you guys a break here, man,

683
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:28.480
we're hammering on them too hard to
Okay, So back in my day of

684
00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:31.719
beekeeping, people talked about like a
winter green oil in there they we use

685
00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:36.599
the episcent strips, which is one
of the chemical end What are we doing

686
00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:42.039
now, what's the technology? So
now that well, we were never stopping

687
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:46.159
on that. Right now, The
primary chemical is a chemical called abatraz on

688
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:52.599
that in the industry it's abba bar, But there's abavar, there's alpagar,

689
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:59.440
there's a silic acid, and all
these different chemicals and and different ways to

690
00:50:59.519 --> 00:51:05.800
do it. But like I said, we work with the bee itself making

691
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.559
the bees more hygienic to it.
And that's one of the reasons why commercial

692
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:14.760
bees are working so much better than
the wild caught bees is because they do

693
00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:20.239
have that genetic to be more hygienic
and actually to groom themselves and keep the

694
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.280
bees off of them, and I
mean keep the mines off of them,

695
00:51:23.679 --> 00:51:30.960
and so that is helping with the
bees. I'm one of the people who

696
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.679
will say the North American bee has
actually went extinct. There's people out there

697
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:40.119
that are still saying that they are
self some North American honey bees out there.

698
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:44.639
I haven't seen one in many,
many years. So what do we

699
00:51:44.719 --> 00:51:49.320
have now? They're all European bees. Most all the bees now are being

700
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:53.440
brought in from either most of them
are Italian, some of them are Russian,

701
00:51:53.519 --> 00:52:00.320
but they're all European. They're just
have a hired genetic line and to

702
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:05.320
defend themselves against the health problems that
we have. Yeah, okay, well

703
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:08.960
that's good. We're going to go
now to a call from Ruben and Missouri

704
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:14.840
City. Hello Ruben, and welcome
to Garden Line. Good morning to both

705
00:52:14.880 --> 00:52:21.559
of y'all. Is BT powerful to
the bees binkill gardens? No, it

706
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:27.199
only the regular BT only kills caterpillars. It's got to be the larva of

707
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:31.199
a moth or butterfly for BT to
kill it. Okay, great, because

708
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:34.840
I do use a lot of BT
and I do have a lot of bees

709
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:38.159
around the garden area. So no, it's awesome. That's a good reason

710
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:42.239
to use it. Yeah, thank
you, Yes, sir, You're gonna

711
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:46.440
be careful with those pesticides, for
sure. Some of those persistent ones really

712
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.920
can hammer bees. You know.
One of the things I live up in

713
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:54.639
the College stationary during the week now, and we have a researcher up there

714
00:52:54.719 --> 00:52:59.559
that years ago did a little study
on pollen in the summer, and the

715
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:02.920
majority already a pollen coming in,
and the colostation area was coming from crape

716
00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:07.559
myrtle trees. That was the number
one plant source during the heat of the

717
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:12.599
summer, because crapes are bloomin at
that time, and we have a problem

718
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:15.559
with scale on crape myrtles, and
so there are systemic insecticides. You drench

719
00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.440
on the soil and it goes up
in the crpe myrtle and kill scale.

720
00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.480
Well, they've found those up in
the nectar, I don't know pollen or

721
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:28.599
in nectar, but a nectar of
the bees that the bees are accessed to,

722
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:32.159
and they concerned about it being one
of the contributions to be a declined

723
00:53:32.239 --> 00:53:37.800
colony decline. And so that is
something we need to be real extra careful

724
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:40.519
about because when you spray a flower
or you put it on the roots of

725
00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:45.159
a flower and it's taken up,
that's potential for doing a whole lot of

726
00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:47.079
harm. In addition to what you
were just talking about, the disease or

727
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:52.119
the vroomites. Yeah, and you
also have the thing that people don't think

728
00:53:52.119 --> 00:53:57.800
about is that the city and the
county is spraying for mosquitoes. There is

729
00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:02.159
a national database that you can rech
to your beehives on and what they will

730
00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:07.360
do is they'll spray after dark,
and so after dark the bees are back

731
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:14.000
up. And so agricultural pesticides are
not near as bad as the the other

732
00:54:14.159 --> 00:54:16.280
pesticides that we're putting out there.
The stuff you're talking about is coming out

733
00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:21.199
of the ground that's actually been soaked
into the plant, right, That's where

734
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:25.440
the problem actually comes into with the
killing of the bees. Yeah, that

735
00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:30.719
is that is absolutely true. Well, we just want to be careful with

736
00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:35.199
that as gardeners because we do need
those bees around. That is, that

737
00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:38.360
is for sure. While we're while
we're here talking, I wanted to I

738
00:54:38.400 --> 00:54:40.639
talk about a product a lot.
This had nothing to do with bees,

739
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:45.079
but the tree hugger sprinklers. If
you've heard me on the air before,

740
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.760
you've heard me talk about them.
Tree hugger is an ingenious little design.

741
00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:52.280
It basically is a sprinkler with a
hinge on it that you put around the

742
00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:54.639
base of your tree. Hook it
up to a garden hose, and it's

743
00:54:54.719 --> 00:54:59.480
for watering your trees where the tree
roots are. So maybe you put a

744
00:54:59.559 --> 00:55:01.719
new plant in this fall of antonia, you need to fall plant your woody

745
00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:05.599
ornamentals. You can turn it on
just a little bit and it water's that

746
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:08.000
little root zone that just went into
the ground with the cylinder of soil.

747
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.440
As that tree gets bigger and bigger, you turn it on higher. And

748
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:15.320
they're different sizes. There's a seven
inch, eleven inch and a thirteen inch.

749
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:20.239
I've got one of each. And
maybe you got a tree seven years

750
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.519
old. And we go into another
summer, like this last one. You

751
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:27.519
crank that sprinkler up and you're not
having to turn on your whole lawn system

752
00:55:27.719 --> 00:55:30.239
to water to save that tree.
You're just watering around the tree. So

753
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.320
tree hugger I consider one of the
tools that we should be having in our

754
00:55:35.400 --> 00:55:38.559
garden supply a shelf, or in
our garden barn if you will, like

755
00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:42.639
a hoe or a shovel or anything
else, just have a tree hugger there,

756
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:45.320
because if you plant anything like a
rose bush even you're going to want

757
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:49.599
to be able to water it to
help it get established. And that's what

758
00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:53.719
those are for. We're talking this
morning with folks from the Bee Supply.

759
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:59.159
We've got Kyle here, and we've
got a pall here, and we're talking

760
00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:01.920
all kinds of thing bees. We're
about to take a little break right here,

761
00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:05.400
but I just want to let you
know if you'd like to give us

762
00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:09.320
a call seven to one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

763
00:56:09.400 --> 00:56:15.039
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. If you live anywhere near the

764
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:20.760
north central part of the Houston area, you probably already know about Quality Feed

765
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:22.960
and Garden Supply. I used to
go to Quality Feed when they were at

766
00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:28.599
their previous location. Now they are
on Luzon Street, which is near the

767
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:31.880
intersection Equipment and Alesion. This place
has been run since nineteen twenty eight.

768
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:36.719
Ken and Chris have owned it for
the last thirty two years. They in

769
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:39.559
fact, they still have an antique
seed rack from nineteen twenty eight. You

770
00:56:39.639 --> 00:56:44.039
got to go there just to see
that. Of all things, every fertilizer,

771
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.440
I talk about, every kind of
pest disease, weed management thing.

772
00:56:47.039 --> 00:56:51.480
They've got it there. They make
their own kins, potting soil. They

773
00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:57.239
have chicken seeds and feed and all
kinds of things. Qualityfeedco dot com,

774
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:00.280
qualityfeedco dot com. That's what you're
looking at for. Check them out and

775
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:02.840
say hi to Ken and Chris when
you're in there. We're going to go

776
00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:06.599
now to Nikky and the News.
If you'd like to give us a call

777
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:12.079
seven to one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to

778
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:16.039
garden Lines. I'm your host,
skip Rickcher, and listen. If you

779
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:20.519
have not been to the arbor Gate
lately, you need to go. They

780
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:23.599
always have stuff going on at the
arbor Gate. I know it's season for

781
00:57:23.760 --> 00:57:29.760
Christmas trees and for point settas and
cyclomen and all kinds of beautiful, beautiful

782
00:57:29.800 --> 00:57:32.920
holiday plants. It's a season to
go by their gift shop and find an

783
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:37.159
outstanding array of gifts. But it's
always a season to go by and pick

784
00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:43.440
up their one two three completely easy
system. That's an organic food for anything

785
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.159
that has roots. It's a four
four to three organic plus calcium. By

786
00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:51.639
the way, they're organic soil complete
and they're organic composts complete. That's the

787
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:54.920
one two three. Remember I always
tell you spend money on the brown stuff

788
00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:59.039
before you spend money on the green
stuff. What does that mean. Well,

789
00:57:59.079 --> 00:58:00.719
that means if you prepare there the
soil, you're going to have success

790
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:05.719
with plants. If you don't,
you're gonna have problems with plants. And

791
00:58:06.000 --> 00:58:09.360
Arburgate is set up to give you
just that. So when you grab a

792
00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:14.000
plant there to go home, first
take care of that soil, and when

793
00:58:14.039 --> 00:58:16.079
you put that plant in, it's
going to be very very happy. They

794
00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:22.199
are located out to the west of
Tomball on twenty nine to twenty about a

795
00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:25.199
mile and a half west of Highway
two forty nine. Or you can go

796
00:58:25.239 --> 00:58:29.880
to their website arbrogate dot com and
check out that new parking lot they got

797
00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:32.719
behind the store. Now, man, is that ever convenient on Trishel Road

798
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:38.119
right behind the store. Well,
we're visiting with both the folks from the

799
00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:43.400
Bee Supplied this morning. We got
both Josh here, excuse me, Paul

800
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.920
here. I don't know why I
said Josh because my producer's name is Josh.

801
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.440
We got Paul and we got Kyle
both here. We're going to talk

802
00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:52.480
all kinds of things bees here for
the rest of this hour. First thing

803
00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:54.719
we're going to do, though,
is go out to James and Spring.

804
00:58:54.840 --> 00:59:00.400
I think James you had a question. My question is, and you all

805
00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:07.440
have a great program, how does
the homeowners' association impact the bee keepers or

806
00:59:07.559 --> 00:59:15.719
dust it all? Right? What
I found is is if you go to

807
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:21.599
the homeowners association, they don't really
bother you much. Sometimes you have to

808
00:59:21.840 --> 00:59:27.000
educate a few people. But your
bees are will make all of the other

809
00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:30.920
flowers and gardens and all the things
in your neighborhood. It's so much more

810
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:37.639
prolific. And there's natural bees anyway
in your neighborhood, So bringing another beehive

811
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:43.400
or five six bee hives into your
neighborhood is not really going to affect the

812
00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:47.960
amount of bees that are in there. And the other thing is is that's

813
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:55.480
kind of interesting fact about that is
bees are so incredibly efficient that most hoa

814
00:59:55.639 --> 01:00:01.400
neighborhoods have privacy fences. Anyway,
if you put a bee high bob the

815
01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:07.559
privacy fence, the bees learn pretty
quickly to fly, to fly above the

816
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:12.480
privacy fence, which foots it above
your neighbors' heads. And so generally your

817
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.800
neighbors don't know the bees are back
there. The bees aren't just buzzing around.

818
01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:19.039
They fly up, they fly on
a straight line, then back down

819
01:00:19.079 --> 01:00:22.360
to the plants that they're going to
pollinate, and so they're really not having

820
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:28.159
any real effect. Yeah, I
give hush money to my neighbors and there

821
01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:31.800
you go, and or hush honey
in that honey, they're pretty happy.

822
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:37.119
Great as a great ass. So
thank you, Thank you, James.

823
01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.480
I appreciate appreciate that call very much. You know that's really true. I

824
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:45.519
mean people picture like there's swarms of
bees coming out and it's not that.

825
01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:49.159
And also, honey, bees don't
want to mess with you. I mean

826
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:52.679
I work with flowers all the time, and the bees are right there.

827
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.400
I wouldn't just grab one in my
hand and try to squeeze it. But

828
01:00:55.679 --> 01:01:00.679
they're not like wasps that are you
know, mean and and just looking for

829
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:04.880
something to sting. It seems like
bees it cost them their life to sting

830
01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:07.599
you, right, And that is
one of the things that's so critically important

831
01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:14.159
is as long as you're not actually
over there messing with that box, they

832
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:17.639
don't want to because again back to
that, they have to have thirty to

833
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.679
forty pounds a honey a year,
and so it takes a lot of bees

834
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:27.800
lives to make the honey that the
hive needs to stay alive, so they're

835
01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:30.800
not really out and looking to kill
themselves. And the other thing is it

836
01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:37.039
goes back to the bee species is
where that's one of the things that we're

837
01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:40.599
working with as bees is making them
more and more docile. The comparison I

838
01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:46.360
use is again, you know,
a wolf and a dog, it's not

839
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:51.719
necessarily even though it's the same subspecies, it's not the same animal. And

840
01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:54.199
so the bees, we don't want
them to be aggressive. Not only do

841
01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:59.159
we not want to work with aggressive
bees, but also we don't want them

842
01:01:59.199 --> 01:02:01.280
to kill each other. So we
you know, we got to have a

843
01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:06.159
bee staleive so well managed time is
actually a good thing to have her.

844
01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:08.880
Yeah, that makes sense. That
makes a lot of sense. Well,

845
01:02:08.880 --> 01:02:13.000
i'll tell you what. We're gonna
go out now to Katie and we got

846
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:15.280
Tony with a question. Good morning, Tony. Welcome to garden Line.

847
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.880
Tony you got Are you there all
right? Josh, I'm gonna put Tony

848
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:24.840
on hole. We'll see if we
can get him back. I think we

849
01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:30.639
lost him there for just a minute. Talking about bees, there's a lot

850
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:34.719
of fascinating aspects of bees, and
we've talked about some of them this morning,

851
01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:37.480
but I think you guys have a
few of the bee fun facts that

852
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:42.039
people are always interested in hearing about, and I just want to kind of

853
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:45.400
open the open the floor to discussing
some of those things that you have found

854
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:51.440
people especially interested in about bees.
Well one of the things, I mean,

855
01:02:51.519 --> 01:02:53.519
there's fun facts about bees, and
we're gonna talk about those two.

856
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:59.920
But I want to talk about another
thing that actually is important to us here

857
01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:08.360
at the b Supply, and that
is bees for veterans with PSD. The

858
01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:15.719
government has known since the Civil War
that the best treatment for military PSD is

859
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:22.360
working honey bees, and the government
has been actively giving veterans beehives since the

860
01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.280
Civil War. I was talking to
a gentleman this weekend. I was working

861
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:30.000
a bee conference and he was and
I made that statement. He said,

862
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:34.800
you know, I never knew that. And in three years I've been keeping

863
01:03:34.880 --> 01:03:43.719
bees, my night tremors have went
almost completely away. What they referred to

864
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:50.599
as be air, the air that
comes out of the beehive is therapeutic for

865
01:03:50.719 --> 01:03:54.800
people who are having lung disorders.
And now then they're starting the medical industry

866
01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:01.360
is looking into where those kind of
things can be naturally healing for people.

867
01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:09.639
Another thing I'm really excited about is
is everybody knows about Manuka honey out of

868
01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:15.719
Hawaii, and now then they have
found a honey right outside of San Antonio

869
01:04:15.400 --> 01:04:21.400
that's twice a'sdicinal, internal and external. Is Manuka honey? We get We

870
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:24.320
got to come back and talk to
that. Well, we're going to take

871
01:04:24.320 --> 01:04:26.840
a break here, but wow,
I want to hear more about that.

872
01:04:27.159 --> 01:04:30.800
That is that is amazing stuff.
You're listening to garden Line if you'd like

873
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:33.639
to give us a call and talk
to Kyle and Paul about bees. I

874
01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:36.760
got a question, well seven one, three, two, one, two,

875
01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:42.639
fifty eight and seventy four. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to

876
01:04:42.760 --> 01:04:45.119
Garden Line. We are glad you're
listening today. Well, Ago, I

877
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:47.000
was just talking about the arbigate and
the soils and things that they have out

878
01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.719
there and how soil comes first.
Well, I want to tell you something.

879
01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:56.400
Airdim Soils of Texas out Importer Texas
has a deal going on right now

880
01:04:56.679 --> 01:05:00.039
on bulk soil that you don't want
to miss out on. This is you

881
01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:01.639
know, if you need to build
a bed, maybe you're wanting to put

882
01:05:01.679 --> 01:05:04.559
in a landscape bet or put in
a garden bed, maybe buyable on them

883
01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:09.800
Vego beds and fill it up with
some good stuff they've got. The Veggie

884
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:14.599
and Herb soil is on fall special
for one hundred and nineteen bulk or one

885
01:05:14.679 --> 01:05:17.039
hundred and forty eight for the supersac. Now, the supersac is a cubic

886
01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:20.480
yard in a sack they bring and
set on your driveway. Yeah, it's

887
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:24.360
a big sack, a nice,
neat and clean, easy way to get

888
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.480
in and out of it. Rose
soil seventy dollars bulk are ninety nine dollars

889
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:31.159
for the supersac and both the Veggie
and Herb mix and the rose soil.

890
01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:35.119
Those two things will grow pretty much
anything you want to grow. And when

891
01:05:35.159 --> 01:05:40.119
you get the soil right, your
plants naturally do better. When you just

892
01:05:40.239 --> 01:05:44.199
get the best plant in the world
and stick it down in unprepared soil around

893
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:48.840
here, it's going to struggle.
So start with the soil. Heirloom Soilsoftexas

894
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:53.719
dot Com, Heirloomsoils of Texes dot
Com. Give them a call. This

895
01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.360
isn't gonna last forever, so make
a quick call there. Let's get that

896
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:00.119
ordered to your place. So when
you go back to your gardening for this

897
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:03.960
winter and spring, your plants are
just going to hit the ground running.

898
01:06:04.519 --> 01:06:11.119
Well, we're talking today with Kyle
and also with Paul from Texas Texas Bee

899
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:15.639
Supply all kinds of things regarding bees. I want to go first to Gallison

900
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:17.920
and we're going to talk to Michael. I believe Michael. You have a

901
01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:24.599
question, sure do kind of wondering
if the Heidey comb itself is edible and

902
01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:27.159
if it is to you can you
eat it raw? Do you have to

903
01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:33.840
pasteurize it? Yes, sir,
it's one edible, especially if it's natural

904
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:39.800
bee comb. Now, one thing
you do have to be mindful of when

905
01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:45.239
you're eating bee comb, is it
needs to be inside of a beehive.

906
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:49.119
You know, you see bee comb
that's coming out of a house or whatever.

907
01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:56.920
Bees wax and bees comb and all
that is extremely absorbent and it will

908
01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:02.519
absorb the chemicals that don't ever honey
that comes out of a house, like

909
01:07:02.599 --> 01:07:06.559
when bees invade the wall. Yeah, and what they call it cutout that

910
01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:12.440
honey will absorb asbestos and a lot
of other things. But just natural bees

911
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:15.239
wax. I chew it all the
time out in the bee yard. Just

912
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:17.559
cut off a piece and put it
in my mouth and chew it up.

913
01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:20.880
It's wax, and so I don't
normally swallow it, but sometimes I do,

914
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:26.360
but you can, Yes, sir, Wow, thanks a bunch,

915
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.599
Thank you, and have a good
day. That's pretty yummy, I tell

916
01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:32.400
you. When you get out there
and you're chomping on some bee comb that's

917
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:36.840
got honey on it and stuff,
that's about addictive right there. Yeah.

918
01:07:38.159 --> 01:07:41.320
It's one of the main many benefits
of being a beekeeper. You know,

919
01:07:41.440 --> 01:07:45.280
when you're out there eating honey or
working your bees, is just stiff your

920
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:47.800
your high tool in that warm honey
and put it in your mouth. That's

921
01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:51.559
an experience you like you can't normally
imagine, and an experience you can have

922
01:07:51.880 --> 01:07:56.480
out at the bee supply when you
go out and visit and you learn about

923
01:07:56.519 --> 01:07:58.840
all the things you guys are going
to teach about there. We're going to

924
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:00.760
go now to Alvin and dock to
Wayne. Hello Wayne, good morning,

925
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:04.239
Welcome to guarden Line. Good morning, Stiff. Hey, I got a

926
01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:11.440
quick question. Got above ground pool
and the neighbors got a beehive, sir,

927
01:08:11.519 --> 01:08:14.480
will bee has two of them didn't
make it. One of them has

928
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.159
and it's real aggressive. But my
issue is getting a lot of bees in

929
01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:24.079
the water of the pool. Is
there some way that I can help them

930
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:30.399
to where they can without covering the
whole thing, because that's pretty much impossible.

931
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:33.760
Is there some way I can put
on the water to help them get

932
01:08:33.880 --> 01:08:39.279
out? Well? One thing that
you can do, you know, is

933
01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:42.279
just float a piece of plywood on
it. I mean, not a full

934
01:08:42.319 --> 01:08:45.359
sheet. Just take a little small
piece of plywood and float it out there,

935
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:49.720
and the wood will absorb the water
up and they'll drink it. That's

936
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:55.960
one of those weird things about bees
that we just can't help. Bees are

937
01:08:56.039 --> 01:09:00.920
extremely attracted to swimming pools the higher
the chlorine level of the bees are.

938
01:09:01.720 --> 01:09:05.960
One of the weird things about bees
is they won't hardly drink pure water.

939
01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:11.920
Their first choice is high chlorine water. Then they're going to go to the

940
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:17.239
sewer water and creek water and I
mean literally fresh tap water is their last

941
01:09:17.399 --> 01:09:21.199
choice. And so whenever you do
have a pool, the bees are going

942
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:26.039
to be in it. But like
I said, that's the best way to

943
01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:28.439
do is just float a little piece
of wood arm. Give them something they

944
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:30.880
can land on and they won't have
to actually hover the water and they can

945
01:09:31.439 --> 01:09:34.960
actually light and then they can take
back off. That's a great idea,

946
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:40.319
I know with beneficial some of the
little tiny beneficial wasps that are helping us

947
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:43.439
fight pasts in the garden. We
talk about in a little bird bath,

948
01:09:43.520 --> 01:09:45.439
putting little pebbles in there so they
can get right up to the edge of

949
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.600
the water without falling in and drowning. And that's kind of what you're talking

950
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:51.319
about there on. Yeah, that's
what we do. And like we put

951
01:09:51.439 --> 01:09:57.159
pebbles in chicken water so that the
bees have access to water or food,

952
01:09:58.439 --> 01:10:00.319
same basic thing. And then you
can do the same thing you bird bath

953
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:05.720
fill, give the bees, rocks
or something form the stand on. You

954
01:10:05.840 --> 01:10:11.520
can also put a secondary water source
out for the bees and they'll leave it

955
01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:19.439
alone. Unfortunately, they your your
bees are really want that water dirty,

956
01:10:19.479 --> 01:10:24.279
and so then you're starting talking about
mosquitos and everything else before that water is

957
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:27.600
dirty enough that the bees will actually
drink it. Yeah. Sure, I'll

958
01:10:27.600 --> 01:10:32.159
switched secondary out and they still.
Uh I'm fishing out fifty sixty a day

959
01:10:32.239 --> 01:10:36.119
and it just kills me. Uh
So be supply with you talking one by

960
01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:40.960
one two but two uh yeah,
any of that, you know, just

961
01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:45.359
whatever you have laying around and just
just float some out there, big enough

962
01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:47.319
car, just flip over in the
water. But like you said, you

963
01:10:47.399 --> 01:10:51.000
don't need to You don't need out
there anything only the edge of the plywood

964
01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:55.239
that they need. Yeah right,
yeah, so just anything that will float,

965
01:10:55.439 --> 01:10:58.119
Yes, sir, I've never seen
them land upside down sunbathing on the

966
01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:01.520
dry part of the flywood. They
might do that, Wayne, Thanks for

967
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:04.840
the call. I appreciate that.
Well, I want to talk. We

968
01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:09.760
got just a couple of minutes left
here. I want to talk about bees

969
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.720
and our health. I was telling
you guys a story during break that one

970
01:11:14.760 --> 01:11:19.079
of my daughters works with folks that
are, you know, economically very disadvantaged,

971
01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:23.119
and one of them had a dog
that had gotten his neck really ripped

972
01:11:23.199 --> 01:11:26.960
up and they couldn't afford the vet, and the vet said, just put

973
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:30.760
some honey on it and put a
rag of gauze around there and wrap it

974
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:33.880
up. And it was amazing how
that heals up with just the honey.

975
01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:39.479
And would you talk a little bit
about some of the beneficial aspects for our

976
01:11:39.560 --> 01:11:43.800
health of honey. You mentioned the
air coming out of a beehive, right,

977
01:11:44.000 --> 01:11:46.560
and so, I mean, you
know, we're talking about since biblical

978
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:54.840
times in the in the tombs of
Egypt, they found honey and that was

979
01:11:55.000 --> 01:12:03.720
the medicine back then. Honey is
absolutely full of microbe and enzymes and all

980
01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:09.439
the other things that your body needs. Naturally, I tell people when raising

981
01:12:09.560 --> 01:12:15.439
bees, the more more probiotics you
put in something less antibodies. You have

982
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:17.600
to put in something that's a good
way to put it and be you know,

983
01:12:18.119 --> 01:12:24.800
when you're talking about the natural superfood
that is allergies, you know,

984
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:29.880
and if you got allergies, eat
natural bee honey. I mean, it'll

985
01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:33.880
take care of it. And now
one thing about that is I won't get

986
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:38.399
on that soup, off on that
soapbox. Skip. But make sure that

987
01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:43.279
your honey is real honey. If
you have honey and it won't crystallize,

988
01:12:43.880 --> 01:12:46.920
it's not real honey. So make
sure that you're buying real, legitimate,

989
01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:51.960
unfiltered, raw and unfiltered honey,
and then your your microbial levels will be

990
01:12:53.039 --> 01:12:55.399
in there. Boy, I wish
I had more time for this, but

991
01:12:55.520 --> 01:12:59.359
you were telling me about Texas honey, the microbial levels being so much higher,

992
01:12:59.560 --> 01:13:02.359
especially in parks of Texas like we
live in and some that have been

993
01:13:02.399 --> 01:13:06.640
discovered over in Santoni area, and
the benefits of that, and that's even

994
01:13:06.720 --> 01:13:13.800
sought after by companies. That's amazing. That's just amazing. Wow, Paul

995
01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:16.399
Kyle, thank you so much for
coming in today. We've been talking about

996
01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:20.680
to these folks about from the Texas
B Supply. You know, Texas B

997
01:13:20.800 --> 01:13:26.520
Supply has all the things you need
to get involved in the B industry and

998
01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:30.439
that includes when I say industry,
I'm talking about raising your own bees at

999
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:35.199
home if you'd like to give them
a call. Eight hundred three five six

1000
01:13:36.359 --> 01:13:45.159
four two two nine one eight hundred
three five six four two to nine.

1001
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:47.439
Hey, it's a good Christmas gift
for folks. It's a good thing for

1002
01:13:47.560 --> 01:13:50.239
you to get out and enjoy,
so take advantage of it.