Wild Flowers

Today as it started sunny and relatively warm, thought we would head off towards Erkheim as I wanted to see if the PYO Strawberry field was open for business (it wasn't). Apparently lots of local vegetable growers having serious problems with crops not growing or rotting.

In the Blip a field of so called GPS - a mixture of all sorts of things becoming popular for use as food silage or for gas production. certainly looks much better with its' poppies, peas, beans, cornflowers etc etc.

However coincidentally was dsmayed to hear o radio today that our county which prides itself on being the milk producing capital of Germany with visions of meadows, green, good environment etc etc has gthe lowest number of wild flower types in the whole of Bavaria. Of the 70 odd counties, some have 28 species, the average is 21 and we only have 14!!!!! Absolute disgrace. The reason: our meadows are so intensively farmed for grass that there is as good as no chance for wild flowers to exist.

I simply can't or rather don't want to believe it, even though I have often mentioned in my Blips that I know my bees have a harder time finding flowers than those in the towns and cities!. Surely this can't go on much longer.