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Confession. Until I started keeping bees, I bought supermarket stuff so accepted the taste and smell as genuine. I "didn't care" as In my head then, a jar should cost say £1.50 and it tasted like honey or so I thought. A few generations have moved away from "the farm" and the vast majority of...

Me too except that I make a quick phone video so I can also see what I'm babbling about! Dead easy to come back to base and cuppa in hand, quickly transcribe it into note form. I've tried the record sheets but as I've 10 or less hives, I like keeping a ledger and being verbose.

What an interesting read. Glad you got a good honey return.

Do have a go at assembling Thorne sale seconds. They have ***** proof, step-by-step online guides which actually make sense. I found that by building my hives it really got me to understand how they worked in 3D all the quicker. Ps my utility room has a small squared "graph paper" pattern on...

That's an interesting bit of kit. If only I'd ever have a stack of supers like that. Wow.

Just dropping back here to give an update on my lively bees and their requeening. In the end I divided off the flying bees with a single frame as suggested and left them a single queen cell which should be emerging around today. OK it'll be a long shot to get anything worthwhile from them but...

Well said. Think of the Xmas present sales.

Thanks again. I'm picking up my PPE this week and will get cracking. I'm v grateful for the on-going discussions of when / how much till I get the hang of things.

Fab. Thank you both. That makes life much nicer!

Please go easy on this as I'll sound like a right numptie! I know OF no-one in my circle of beeks who vapes oxalic acid. Up till now I've been going through a rotation of various brands of treatment strips in early autumn followed by a winter oxalic acid trickle. I find the removal of the...

Just a heads up to beekeepers based in Ireland. I see Irish Bee Supplies are stocking the Instantvap Compact at 374 euros.

I've written that recipe into my book so am planning a batch of wheaten loaves with a honey cake in the next few days. It sounds lovely especially with ginger. Thanks to everyone for sharing.

I agree about the honey benefits. Read something recently (where?) That it's maybe even the honey compounds rather than pollen content that's key but hey if it works it's great. I'm so many return customers who almost panic now if they can't get their annual stash in so something's going on...

Half pound = 227g. All the local prices I quoted were that. Friend just spotted a v posh grocer's here doing the local honey 227g for £10. I mean...

Sun came out after a stormy morning so I headed up to my mountain spot and split my "bees from hell" then went to the nearby allotments to check on another queenless nuc - I've queens arriving shortly so fingers crossed. Sold the last of my 280 honey jars (from 3 colonies) - I increased my half...

In my teaching days we had one lass (now a doctor!) with a severe nut allergy. The "lovely" group of boys who resented her academic skills used to deliberately walk past her eating mouthfuls of nuts and blowing on her despite nuts actually being banned on-site. No amount of assemblies, talks...

Michael yes. I'm sorted thank you. I was getting prepared to do your fail safe "sieve" method which has been so useful in the past and which Ive shsred with a few fellow beeks here. As it was she just appeared in front of me. Ta-da! I generally have calm bees but inherited these loonies and...

Ordered!

I'd best not. I'll just try another source and spread my risk.

I have ordered. Thank you for the recommendation :)