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May I ask what you use for insulation?

Literally just jarred up the last of the Green Tomato and Chilli Chutney. Now just to make Red Chilli Jam. Then summer is done!

Thanks very much to you both. Goodness it is helpful to ask questions! Thank you. Very helpful and informative. 👍 Have a good weekend!

I need to move 3 hives from a place that has become horribly soggy and damp, causing mould build up in the roofs along with an interesting array of slugs, spiders and wood lice. Could anyone give me some advice on (when I move them) how far they should be from any other apiary. I have spoken...

With £15 for delivery it is cheaper to buy elsewhere I'm afraid. £28.25 all in with them and £24.75 all in on Ebay....

Thank you everyone for all your helpful suggestions. Sorry for the delay, I'm not entirely sure where the time has gone!

Well done you! Sadly I don’t have that kind of printer so would still need to get them printed somewhere but I could have a try I guess. Thanks for imprinting the idea - sorry couldn’t resist. I’ll mull when I walk the dog now!

Anyone out there know of a label maker for my jars? I want to use my own photo and not one from Thorne's or wherever that are rather on the spenny side too. Thanks.

I love the “by finally giving bees a break". I think we clearly need to show bees how to do Pilates, go to the office, clean the kitchen or maybe they’d just like to watch Great British Bake Off!

My chillis have been a disaster this year. Chance of reddening now zero which is a shame as I love the colour of sweet chilli jam and pretty much anything else chilli and explosive.

I'll be lucky if I get two supers. Absolutely disastrous year for me. Lost a hive to varroa. Then a swarm. Then two queens failed to return from mating. The fact that I now finally have three hives functioning and working is the only thing I can be glad about. Now just to make sure they...

Calamintha Nepeta Bluecloud and Lavender in my garden.

I have slug storage too. Along with woodlice a scurrying through the roof.

I sell for £7/jar in Wiltshire and London. Both areas consider it to be good value and jars sell so quickly I'm gobsmacked.

My husband is near sh***ing himself as we seem to have a lot of hornets scooting around at the moment. I'm stunned and amazed at their size and gentleness and wondering where on earth they are setting up a nest and the other half looks like he's training for a marathon he runs away so fast!

hello Darren from Wiltshire! :nature-smiley-013:

That’s really interesting. Thank you.

Two weeks ago I checked my hives. Zero sign of swarming. I marked the queens and then (heaven forfend!) spent a weekend with some friends. Inspection two days ago and one hive had swarmed. Grr. The good news is I have now got rid of the nasty queen in another hive and can breed a new queen and...

Husband and allergy to wasp stings. Plus getting into the shed is like batting off a nightmare. And quite frankly I don’t want them eating my shed. So nice question but I have a real reason for asking it.

OK, so not strictly beekeeping (well not at all) but they have wings and last year my garden shed was scratched to death by wasps who then built nests in our home (an old barn with a wood outer layer) and in a cupboard on our deck. Any thoughts on what to use to cover/paint on the shed to deter...