Recent content by steve bee d

chucking it down in colchester. hoping to do my first proper inspection tomorrow, split some snowdrops, and plant a memorial plant for a beekeeper who has recently passed away. a flowering currant pollen for the bees, berries for the birds, rip ted williams

off with her head. sounds like the french revolution. Personally i put her in a matchbox and then freeze her.

i bought a bain marie off flea bay which will hold 28 jars at a time. easily controllable payed for itself in first season. where in essex are you.

made fondant last winter. disaster! Covered cooker in molten lava, burnt myself and fondant turned into glass. 3 hours to clean and unblock gas jets on cooker.3 days before wife spoke to me again. banned from making fondant now. just buying bakers fondant works for me.

quite a bit of himalayan balsalm around friday woods what area of colchester are your bees.also has been plenty of blackberry and willowherb. I think it is probably a blend of the above.

was planning to feed the 2 nucs in question to boost morale. Stores are ok at moment but not enough to over winter. The 8 full colonys have good stores but would rather not have to much ivy as have had issues with granulation before. Thought some syrup would help this.

Bees are the culprits here at my garden not seen many wasps. Will probably feed in early morning and confine for a few days and assess situation then. Would have feed tonight but chucking it down. Robbers seem determined and plentiful.

Hi, I need some advice here. Had 8 full hives and 4 nucs. Went to apiary yesterday 2 nucs totally robbed out other 2 nucs under siege but still strong. So have moved 2 strong nucs to my garden placed robbed out nucs in there place so hopefully robbers think gravy train is over and give up and...