Thanks Kay. I appreciate the positive feedback on my gardening guides! Happy gardening. 🥷🤘🌿 Ps make sure you checkout my blog www.gardenninja.co.uk for hundreds of free gardening guides.
Thanks! Make sure you subscribe for more and checkout my blog where there are hundreds of free gardening guides, www.gardenninja.co.uk 🌿🥷 Happy gardening! Lee
You’re welcome. I’m glad you’re enjoying my garden design video guides. Make sure you always check out my site www.gardenninja.co.uk for hundreds more gardening guides and how to’s! Lee Garden Ninja 🥷🌿🤘
I have to bild a bug hotel for the school of my son. It will be outside in a free field. Could you just write me the names of the plants for the roof which you can find easily and low budget in Italy(reagon Treviso). This is the best bug hotel i saw till now!!! Thank you!!!
Great vid ! Could I use the dried stems of the pheasant berry ( Leycesteria formosa ) AKA Himalayan honeysuckle, in various diameters instead of bamboo ?
Hi Colin. No! Leave it as it is. The messier the better for bugs. If you clear them out you will be removing eggs, larvae and a habitat that can take years to establish. If anything simply add some more pruned herbaceous material to it but that’s it! 🥷🌿👌
@@Gardenninja Will do. I have my backyard packed with everything from Sugarcane to Australian native limes , heaps of Veggies and have recently become “ dogless “ for the first time so I bought a group of fertilizer’s that being 6 Rabbits and 4 Guinea Pigs. They leave the veggies ( mostly ) alone and seem to prefer the grass and the odd carrot etc. I love your enthusiasm and your polite well versed responses. You got me mate, I came for the haircut but stayed for the bug hotel ….. I’m in Sydney if you ever come down under I’ll take you rock fishing and show you my baby bunnies perhaps. Lol !
Love your hotel for the solitary bees! And I’m glad you mentioned the maintenance bit because I had no idea. In a rental so I’m not sure my landlord will appreciate me drilling holes in their fence but I gave some bits of scrap wood that might do the trick if I can make sure to hang them high enough
Hahaha welcome ASEJ! You’re now a fellow member of the Garden Ninja army. Enjoy the 150 plus guides and there will be more content to come! Happy gardening! Lee 🥷🌿
Great video Lee. Really easy use of pallets. It’s a really important tip about cleaning out the bee holes after they have hatched to prevent disease and mite infestations taking hold. Bye bye bamboo canes hello healthier bees. 😊🥰
Hi Deborah. It does have a roof! Did you watch all the way to the end? More here if not www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-make-a-bug-hotel-the-right-way/ 🥷🌿🤘
Hi loving watching your vlogs to get ideas for my patch of land that I want to turn wild. Mine's on a steep hill and the soil is like concrete! Saw your other vlog about how to loosen up the soil and put grass cuttings in, great tip. As regards to bug hotel, I have been told that pallets are treated with lots of nasty chemicals that are not garden friendly. How would I go about finding pallets that have not been treated?
Hi Kate. You can check the pallets for codes. The UK created ones have a series of numbers which are usually fine. Check Google for the code interpretations. It’s more the imported ones that contain all sorts of nasties. Hope that helps. 🥷🌿 Lee
Thanks JM. Well sometimes it’s just about working with what we have rather than consuming more and more that we probably don’t need! Happy gardening! Lee
Hi MartaS, Most fence posts these days have been heat treated. Obviously if they’re creosoted or any of the old toxic paint varieties which most of which have been banned in the Uk I wouldn’t recommend using them. Happy Gardening! Lee 🥷🌿🤘
Wouldn’t it be better to have drilled holes of a variety sizes in the same posts and have them sloping slightly upwards to prevent rainwater penetrating deeply ? Another way of making a solitary bee home is to get containers of tin or plastic about 16cms by 10 cms and fill them with ordinary drinking straws. Then hang then around you home, garden or in the wild. Each year you can either wash and return the used straws or use fresh ones. If you wish you can mix the straws with some of nature’s own of various sizes to find the most popular with the bees.
Hi John. The issue with drilling them at angles is that water, debris or even frost can then fill up in the tubes. Remember: they don’t get drilled all the way through. Solitary bees lay their eggs into individual chambers inside the drilled holes. Which are capped at each end. In the spring they emerge eating their way out of the tube through the chewed up matter the mother bee leaves. Such as pollen and nectar as the chamber walls. I’m not a fan of using plastic as it’s not breathable. Their chambers can ‘sweat’ I prefer wood, bamboo or even cut back herbaceous perennials. Which ever method you choose though you’re certainly doing more to help than hinder bees. Happy gardening! 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja Thanks for the prompt response and I take your point about, ‘Sweating’. I won’t be using straws again. I was aware of the other matters. About the upward slope I have used it and it does work. I’m talking of a slope of only a half on inch over six inches. Thanks once again for passing on your expertise.
You’re welcome John! It’s good you ask such sensible questions I’m always up for helping explain further or take on board other peoples experienced. No ninja is an island! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🤘
well presented👍
Thanks Kay. I appreciate the positive feedback on my gardening guides! Happy gardening. 🥷🤘🌿 Ps make sure you checkout my blog www.gardenninja.co.uk for hundreds of free gardening guides.
Brilliant videos . Very educational
Thanks George! Glad you’re enjoying them. Make sure you subscribe for more! All the best. Lee 🥷🌿🤘
Cant wait to build the bug hotel, thank you Lee! We have a quiet area at the back of the garden, but its in shade, is that OK? Thanks so much!
Of course! Even better bugs prefer somewhere cool and out of the sun to overwinter and retreat to! Enjoy building your hotel! Lee 🌿🥷🥰
Thank you for this!
Thanks! Make sure you subscribe for more and checkout my blog where there are hundreds of free gardening guides, www.gardenninja.co.uk 🌿🥷 Happy gardening! Lee
@@Gardenninja oh yes I did! After seeing this video I subbed
Fantastic video, thank you
You’re welcome. I’m glad you’re enjoying my garden design video guides. Make sure you always check out my site www.gardenninja.co.uk for hundreds more gardening guides and how to’s! Lee Garden Ninja 🥷🌿🤘
I have to bild a bug hotel for the school of my son. It will be outside in a free field. Could you just write me the names of the plants for the roof which you can find easily and low budget in Italy(reagon Treviso).
This is the best bug hotel i saw till now!!! Thank you!!!
P. S. Is there something to ad for butterflies?
I just love your joy of gardening and nature. Barry is a great little terrier and an asset. Thanks for all your advice.
Thanks Valerie. Garden (and garden dogs) really are the best medicine to the craziness of the world at the moment!! Happy Gardening. Lee
Thanks Valerie. Garden (and garden dogs) really are the best medicine to the craziness of the world at the moment!! Happy Gardening. Lee
We're going to build our bug hotel today for Earth Day! My daughters are so excited!
Great vid ! Could I use the dried stems of the pheasant berry ( Leycesteria formosa ) AKA Himalayan honeysuckle, in various diameters instead of bamboo ?
Brilliant video, just what I was looking for some good clear advice. Thanks
Glad to be of help Tina. Make sure you subscribe to get access to over 100 of my garden design hints, tips and hacks! Happy gardening. Lee
I built one of these hotels of yours in my sitting room ,that was a bad idea
Well that was a bit short sighted eh! 🥷🌿😜
I thought that once I noticed they took over my tv and started eating all my popcorn
Great job, should the large bug hotel be cleared out at end of year ? From Australia
Hi Colin. No! Leave it as it is. The messier the better for bugs. If you clear them out you will be removing eggs, larvae and a habitat that can take years to establish. If anything simply add some more pruned herbaceous material to it but that’s it! 🥷🌿👌
@@Gardenninja Will do. I have my backyard packed with everything from Sugarcane to Australian native limes , heaps of Veggies and have recently become “ dogless “ for the first time so I bought a group of fertilizer’s that being 6 Rabbits and 4 Guinea Pigs. They leave the veggies ( mostly ) alone and seem to prefer the grass and the odd carrot etc. I love your enthusiasm and your polite well versed responses.
You got me mate, I came for the haircut but stayed for the bug hotel ….. I’m in Sydney if you ever come down under I’ll take you rock fishing and show you my baby bunnies perhaps. Lol !
I put up a bee house and small black and red ants raided it and killed everything in it. I was so disheartened.
Love your hotel for the solitary bees! And I’m glad you mentioned the maintenance bit because I had no idea. In a rental so I’m not sure my landlord will appreciate me drilling holes in their fence but I gave some bits of scrap wood that might do the trick if I can make sure to hang them high enough
Hey Sharaya. I’m sure he or she wouldn’t even notice! 😉🥷🤘🌿 Rebellion gardening at its finest! 😉🌿
Brilliant thanks for the vid. Will get this and the bee hotel made tomorrow
Don't even garden myself but find your videos fascinating. Cheers! :)
Thanks Retrovertigoes! Well, you never know..you may be tempted...to grab a trowel and see where it takes you! Happy non-gardening! Lee
@@Gardenninja Cheers Lee! May just do that :)
Can't BEElieve I have only just found your channel. Looking forward to deep diving all your videos. Thanks for all the best content!
Hahaha welcome ASEJ! You’re now a fellow member of the Garden Ninja army. Enjoy the 150 plus guides and there will be more content to come! Happy gardening! Lee 🥷🌿
@@Gardenninja one rainbow🌈 🥷 garden fighting ninja added to the pack :@)
I made it
tysm helped me alot this was a school project
You’re welcome Damson Li. I’m glad it’s been useful for you! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
Me and the kids going to have a go at this tomorrow! 😀
Brilliant! It’s great fun and you’ll be amazed at what takes up a home there! 🥷🌿🙌 Happy bug hotel building! Lee
Be careful pallets are often treated with insecticide.
I'll be copying both ideas. Really helpful video.
Glad it’s helpful Keith. Your garden wildlife will far better appreciate more suitable (not to mention recycled) materials! Happy upcycling! Lee
Great work again, Lee! Standby Nanna on the case tomorrow! Just charged my drill up! 👍🏼🤗
Haha hey standby nanna!!! Good luck with your bug or bee hotels and enjoy the garden! 🥷🌿
Great vidro! Well done i love it!!! Its a win, win, win!! Thanks ♥️✨💚
Thanks Tanis. Glad you enjoyed it. Make sure you subscribe for hundreds more garden design hints and tips from me! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿👍
Great video Lee. Really easy use of pallets. It’s a really important tip about cleaning out the bee holes after they have hatched to prevent disease and mite infestations taking hold. Bye bye bamboo canes hello healthier bees. 😊🥰
Thanks Dawn. Exactly. It’s about those extra considerations that wildlife sometimes need over shop bought rough shod bug hotels! 🐜 🐛 🐞🥷🌿
You need a roof on it.
Hi Deborah. It does have a roof! Did you watch all the way to the end? More here if not www.gardenninja.co.uk/how-to-make-a-bug-hotel-the-right-way/ 🥷🌿🤘
As always, great advice! I need a deer hotel LOL Deer eat most of what I plant. P.S. your little assistant is absolutely precious:):)
😂 Id need bigger pallets!!! Happy gardening. Lee
Hi loving watching your vlogs to get ideas for my patch of land that I want to turn wild. Mine's on a steep hill and the soil is like concrete! Saw your other vlog about how to loosen up the soil and put grass cuttings in, great tip. As regards to bug hotel, I have been told that pallets are treated with lots of nasty chemicals that are not garden friendly. How would I go about finding pallets that have not been treated?
Hi Kate. You can check the pallets for codes. The UK created ones have a series of numbers which are usually fine. Check Google for the code interpretations. It’s more the imported ones that contain all sorts of nasties. Hope that helps. 🥷🌿 Lee
I have some old pallets and broken bricks, so making this would be great
Hi Josh. Great to hear it. We need more refuges for wildlife! Happy building. Lee 🥷🌿
Really enjoyed this video, have just set one up in the garden in front of the shed. Planning to put another in as soon as I find another pallete
Thanks so much! It’s a great way to reuse and recycle in the garden. Then you get to watch just how much wildlife you can attract! 🥷🌿🐝❤️
It's like a 5 Star bug hotel 😃🐛🐞🐝🦋🦠🐾
Thanks Seba! It’s the only way to do anything. 5 star!! 🥷🌿🤘🥂
0:41 Building a bug hotel, accidentally demolishing a bug house
A little disturbance for the greater good! 😜🌿 Happy Gardening. Lee
Interesting. Thanks.
Loved the hotel, but the fencepost hotel for solitary bees is genious!!!
Thanks JM. Well sometimes it’s just about working with what we have rather than consuming more and more that we probably don’t need! Happy gardening! Lee
You should drill the holes slightly angled down so water drains out.
Top vid bud I’ll be doing some of those bee hotels 🏨 👍
Hey Gav. Great to hear from you. How easy are those!!? Glad it’s helpful! Happy gardening. Lee
My next project next weekend at the allotment!
Fantastic news! More space for nature!! 🐝🥷🌿
Great ideas !
kool Natural way to do it
Thanks! Three more eco gardening tips on my site here too! www.gardenninja.co.uk/ 🥷🤘🌿
"why not use your wooden fence posts as (bee) hotels?" surely most of those are creosoted, or treated with another kind of wood preservative?
Hi MartaS, Most fence posts these days have been heat treated. Obviously if they’re creosoted or any of the old toxic paint varieties which most of which have been banned in the Uk I wouldn’t recommend using them. Happy Gardening! Lee 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja Good to hear!
Great video.
Thanks so much! 🥷🌿🤘
Wouldn’t it be better to have drilled holes of a variety sizes in the same posts and have them sloping slightly upwards to prevent rainwater penetrating deeply ? Another way of making a solitary bee home is to get containers of tin or plastic about 16cms by 10 cms and fill them with ordinary drinking straws. Then hang then around you home, garden or in the wild. Each year you can either wash and return the used straws or use fresh ones. If you wish you can mix the straws with some of nature’s own of various sizes to find the most popular with the bees.
Hi John. The issue with drilling them at angles is that water, debris or even frost can then fill up in the tubes. Remember: they don’t get drilled all the way through. Solitary bees lay their eggs into individual chambers inside the drilled holes. Which are capped at each end. In the spring they emerge eating their way out of the tube through the chewed up matter the mother bee leaves. Such as pollen and nectar as the chamber walls. I’m not a fan of using plastic as it’s not breathable. Their chambers can ‘sweat’ I prefer wood, bamboo or even cut back herbaceous perennials. Which ever method you choose though you’re certainly doing more to help than hinder bees. Happy gardening! 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja Thanks for the prompt response and I take your point about, ‘Sweating’. I won’t be using straws again. I was aware of the other matters. About the upward slope I have used it and it does work. I’m talking of a slope of only a half on inch over six inches. Thanks once again for passing on your expertise.
You’re welcome John! It’s good you ask such sensible questions I’m always up for helping explain further or take on board other peoples experienced. No ninja is an island! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🌿🤘