The sunflowers have started to bloom and the bees are befuddled, but grateful. Well, a bit grateful. It appears the bees have gone feral. The Creative Reinventor went to say hello to them the other day and was stung for his trouble. It may have been his black t-shirt, but the consensus is they've gone feral. Fortunately he's not allergic.
Neither reinventor can deal with this disaster. We'll have to pay a proper apiarist to do something. Either take the hives away and requeen. Or just take the hives away. The hives sit in quite a large bit of back garden that is now out of bounds.
In other news, there are lots of green tomatoes. Of all sizes. There's a slim possibility, if the sunny weather holds (it won't, there's rain predicted for most of next week) that they're in a sheltered enough position to ripen. We could, of course ripen them on a windowsill with a sacrificial banana. Or we could make green tomato chutney. With the rip-roaring success of the ripe tomato relish, the chutney idea is winning.
