[Homestead] Don't feed your bees on rhodies, laurels or azaleas

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 12 00:35:49 EDT 2006


At 9/11/2006, you wrote:
>  It was originally used as a hedge but spread
>into places where it was hard to kill -- swamp, for example -- where
>it made an impenetrable barrier to most moving creatrues bigger than a
>possum.

In the mid fifties it was given free to farmers to plant as wind 
breaks.  Now it is a weed.  There are many examples, it is not just granola 
eating hippies who fight this, it is real scientists who know the down sides.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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