Dear Trevor
Glad you and your neighbours are OK.
Can't you please everyone and get a second hive, this can be positioned where you want it.
My grammer is dead too.
paul and les
Pete
Finaly understand your post "Lead legs" is a forum member who lives in S***wick.
Going for a bee taster today in Cleveden. We are sure that if it goes well we will start in earnest.
Need to get a shopping list started.
regards
pau and les
Thank you all for your posts.
Will go for a Langstroth hive and probably plastic frames.
What are the reasons for different depth frames, is it to make the colony bigger?
Need to sort out a shopping list.
thanks again
paul and les
We are about to start Beekeeping, we think, we are going to have a hive experience on Sunday.
If we decide to go ahead we are going to go down the Poly Hive route.
As we have no "hang ups" or experience we will not know if we have got the "correct" one and we may never know.
I am also...
Our horses are pretty daft and tend to kick things all over the place (including their feed buckets). We have a fenced off area that has a small shed, we were gong to put them in there.
paul and les
We are going on a afternoon Bee introduction at Clevdon next week end.
In the Midlands there do not seem to be any local courses at the moment.
There is the local Hagley & Stourbridge Beekeepers Association
by us, which we may join.
Are there any members on this forum?
regards
paul and les
OK have got the tea sorted.
We have booked a bee keeping experience for next week end (we had done this before seeing Pete).
We do not want to make hives ourself - I am good at starting jobs but do not finish them all.
We are going to site the hive, where our daughter keeps her horses, its...
Lesley and I went to Hedgerow Petes allotment. He had very kindly offered to show his set up.
We had never been near a hive before and a couple of weeks ago thought it would be a good idea to get some bees.
So we turned up after reading a few articles, which were mainly goble de goop.
Within a...