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How to Care for Hibiscus Plants
Posted by Scott Sharkey on Feb 20th 2021
One of my favorite tropical flowers to grow every year is the hibiscus plant. Living in a cold, upper mid-west climate like Northern Wisconsin, we don't have any tropical plants native to our area. So
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Add A Tropical Feel to Your House With Fiddle Leaf Fig Trees
Posted by Jeffrey Douglas on Oct 1st 2020
Fiddle Leaf Fig TreesFiddle leaf figs, or fycus lyrata, are unique
trees that are native to the tropical Cameroon in Africa. It belongs to the
fig/mulberry family. Even though its natural environmen
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Making A Propolis Tincture
Posted by Scott Veriha on Apr 23rd 2020
This year, in addition to tapping maples, I also tapped
40 birch trees, that has been an interesting experiment. Birch trees flow much
more than maple, but you need three times as much sap to make o
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Making Maple Syrup
Posted by Scott Veriha on Mar 25th 2020
Maple season came two weeks early this year. I normally tap around the
20th of March, but this year I put my first tap in on the 3rd
of March, and should have started a day or two before that. I was
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Bee Hives - The Langstroth Hive
Posted by Scott Veriha on Mar 2nd 2020
I am well on the mend, and into the recovery of my immune system, our
January thaw is over, the temps are dropping, but spring is coming, the days
are getting longer, and my Carolina Reapers are sta
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Building the Basic Bee Hive
Posted by Scott Veriha on Feb 8th 2020
I left
you all off with a brief introduction to my myself and my beekeeping, along
with a hint at some of my other interests. We will continue with the first
style of Bee Hive that I got started wi
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