{"id":2673,"date":"2012-06-04T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2012-06-04T17:42:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:42:26","slug":"bee-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"Bee Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: rest day]<\/p>\n<p>One of the problems with bee hives is keeping the grass trimmed.\u00a0 Bees don&#8217;t like lawnmowers or weed-whackers.\u00a0 And we are not inclined to spray a bunch of herbicides around either.<\/p>\n<p>If the grass gets too high it can start to impede the traffic in and out of the hive.\u00a0 So about once a month we put on our bee suits and tackle the mowing and trimming.\u00a0 I do some hand trimming and push mower while my wife does the riding mower.\u00a0 We usually do it pretty early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Some people put their bees on concrete.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read about people using old house shingles too.<\/p>\n<p>I had this red shredded wood stuff left over from another landscaping project.\u00a0 I was hoping it would keep the grass down a bit.\u00a0 It has helped but we still have to trim and mow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=2674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2674\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2674\" title=\"bees and grass\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GEDC0306-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GEDC0306-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GEDC0306-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: rest day] One of the problems with bee hives is keeping the grass trimmed.\u00a0 Bees don&#8217;t like lawnmowers or weed-whackers.\u00a0 And we are not inclined to spray a bunch of herbicides around either. If the grass gets too high it can start to impede the traffic in and out of the hive.\u00a0 So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}