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Lime has started to open in Acocks Green B'Ham.

That flat chewing gum original flavour. Can't remember the brand name.

SWMBO reckons my Hathorn Honey taste like chewing gum.

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks, @enrico, for the annual reboot of my favorite thread. Yes in Solihull the tree's are festooned with flowers. Early I feel this year*. Will update when they open. * update after reading last year's thread update and the Lime Flpwerong is not early but about right.

Do you sometimes get neglected brood were they faul to look after some of the drone brood?

Thinking out loud here. The honey comes from the the bees that come from the hive that is owned by the beekeeper. Surely the land owner therefore does not have anything to do with primary producer etc as else an awful lot of Tennant farmers or vast farm who lease the land would not be primary...

Tar, thought so.

I will be extracting my spring harvest thus weekend, I believe in majority its Hawthorne but with 30% ish (guess) of OSR, any ideas what to expect from the honey. Will it set Rock-hard as I suspect it will it be more useful?

Visited Thornes at their Rand production and shop yesterday. The group visit was arranged by my local BBKA Assoc. It's well worth a local associations arranging a visit, very interesting tour seeing all parts of their manufacturing process. Fascinating seeing the machinery and just how much is...

Just had a look at the Honey regs to remind me if them. Am I correct in my interpretation that as well as not being applied use the word "Crunchy" that "Soft-Set" is also not an authorised in the label too. Is "Crunchy" just an additional clarifying word, I can't see it being misleading. If...

Would be cheaper to Fly surely.

I immagine drone pheromone sticky pad may well soon become someone's research project whether PHD or, because their boss told them too fairly soon I suspect.

Got my car stuck in a field and had to be towed out so will need to handball the two colonies that didn't survive the winter. Oops. Sun may be out but the going is soft to boggy.

I do, right faff at times though.

Setup a wooden national with solid floor and lemongrass a number of years ago. Swarm arrived and settled with a pre-marked queen.

Guess spraying with water works then. I must admit it did pass my mind doing that. I have quite a few hives packed with Ivy honey.

Too many videos on YouTube of Americans doing this in their appiary, they call it feeding bees with syrup for winter.

A fork! Reminds me of a quote from the film Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Quite curtiusy of IMDB. [the Sheriff has said he'll cut out Robin Hood's heart with a spoon] Guy of Gisborne : Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe? Sheriff of Nottingham : Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.

Some of our suppliers of hive equipment don't help. I have bought two roofs for wood nationals, they have vents incorporated in them with no option for an unvented variant. Need to seal up the vents. New beekeepers come startup and from the get go even brand new hives still have ventilation. I...