Hannah Stothard » garden http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:47:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Jack Frost came to visit! http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/allotment/jack-frost-came-to-visit/ http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/allotment/jack-frost-came-to-visit/#comments Sun, 08 May 2011 22:41:25 +0000 Hannah http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/?p=676 Everything seemed to be going so well. My tomatoes and runner beans were dominating my cold frames and what with peppers, chillies, aubergines and cucumbers all demanding room, I decided to take a calculated risk and plant some outside. After…

]]> Everything seemed to be going so well. My tomatoes and runner beans were dominating my cold frames and what with peppers, chillies, aubergines and cucumbers all demanding room, I decided to take a calculated risk and plant some outside. After all it has been the hottest April on record.

But the calculated risk didn’t pay off… 2 days after planting them out and only a few weeks after sun damage. Frost sneaked up on me and claimed them. So I thought I’d share a pic or two of what frost damage looks like. Guess I need to exercise a little more patience and wait a few more weeks before planting any more out.


Tomatoes on the left, Runner Beans on the right.

]]> http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/allotment/jack-frost-came-to-visit/feed/ 0 Leaf Cutting Bee Cocoons… or so I think?? http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/allotment/leaf-cutting-bee-cocoons-or-so-i-think/ http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/allotment/leaf-cutting-bee-cocoons-or-so-i-think/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:24:24 +0000 Hannah http://www.hannahstothard.co.uk/?p=232 I started to repot my tomato plants and as I tipped out the compost these little fellows fell out. They are intricately formed bullet shaped cocoons with perfectly cut rose leaves to seal the ends. Inside there is a clear…

]]> I started to repot my tomato plants and as I tipped out the compost these little fellows fell out. They are intricately formed bullet shaped cocoons with perfectly cut rose leaves to seal the ends. Inside there is a clear looking wet grub. After a quick google I found that these cocoons are most likely to belong to a Leaf Cutting Bee.



See more info here:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080710153242AAXU4Np
http://www.turning-earth.co.uk/leaf_cutter_bee.htm
http://zoologie.umh.ac.be/hymenoptera/photo_album/10_Megachilidae/imagepages/image9.html
http://www.moraybeekeepers.co.uk/solitary_bees.htm

I gently placed them back inside a pot of compost in the hope that they will eventually hatch.

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