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Will you be the one wearing a red rose in your beekeeping veil?

They'll likely ban sales of rhubarb root next. I'm worried that I will need a licence to transplant a few roots in the garden.

I bought fondant at the honey show last year at a reasonable price - avoiding the carriage helps but can't remember the supplier's name. Will be there again this year - anyone on the forum going with a chance of meeting up and putting faces to names!

I went for the smaller one but do ask for the right nails and get them in stock. It's workd well for me and great for tacking ply onto strips on crownboards when glueing

With super frames stored in old freezers a silicone loaf tin half full of acetic acid in with the lot for several weeks does the business with no release of fumes due to the door seal. Close the door and forget about it, No faff of sealing super joints with tape.

Or in Michael's case off cuts of timber from his workshop - remembering his hive-building talk at the honey show next year!!

Another 5kg of syrup (5kg sugar) given to the last light colony and that should be it. Roll on the ivy as a great top up. Wasps seem to have subsided a bit thank goodness, A bit more wax melted and filtered out in the solar extractor. Plenty now for next year's foundation.

Ivy just about ready to pop out - in a car park in the middle of Axbridge!!

I put the frames in and give it 3 or 4 days on. Turn it off and leave until ready to fill supers in the spring.

Put you comb/frames stored wet into an old freezer - you won't have wasps, honey bees robbimg, wax moth or mice. Peace of mind for the winter .

Took advantage of the sun and heat to get the solar extractor to get a couple of really nice wax blocks from cappings. Should get 8 of these from cappings so all loaded up this morning ready for the sun .....................

I fed mine from about two weeks ago - six hives after super removal. 60kg between 6 colonies which had a reasonable amount of stores. They have golloped it down and hefting shows all but one I can hardly lift so that will get a splash more. Then off with the feeders and leave them to the ivy...

I think if you are having an out apiary about half an hour away from home it's worth having at last 10 colonies there. to cut unit costs and give yourself a morning or afternoon's work at a time. Also gives an idea whether the site is a dud or a cracker and not just a random hive or two's...

Just been down to the bees and to be honest in all my years of beekeeping I have never seen so many wasps around the hives. With the double ended wasp guards fitted they are not getting into the hives but certainly buzzing around. Wonder if the late spring has contributed to this surge. Also...

Unbelieveable that anyone would want to get rid of a shed. Just goes to show that they aren't all locked up yet. What do they do when they want a place of solace. Likely watch football endlessly on Sky - one "hobby" more expensive than beekeeping with the difference that they have nothing to...

Lega say 47mm but worth checking that is across the threads https://www.ecrotek.co.nz/product/47mm-od-nylon-honey-gate-lega?srsltid=AfmBOoqyrgmNB8KAvPHDnMSsTkSfpsbzAAwGuK9gZ0ZyGuKqwdfUX6s_

I had a Swienty one like this. It is horrible when this happens as the wasps get cracking. Once the polystyrene is impregnated with syrup even when you seal them up the wasps eat into the boxes from the outside. In addition the whole box supports mould. Definitely paint with gloss or a few...

As many on the forum know I have been producing an uncapper for National frames which I use. A few enquiries have been made about a Langstroth sized model. Therefore I would now like to offer a prototype Langstroth uncapper to anyone is prepared to evaluate it for me. I don't have...

Or get the seamstress in the family to make a couple of drawstring bags out of this at a good price...

Pargyle, I don't actually have one but I do still have a vertical spin dryer which I used when I had access to heather honey when living in Scotland. In those days regulations were not so strict but saw this was stainless steel. I did have a stainless steel mesh lining the drum. which stopped...