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  1. REDWOOD

    All full

    I’ll have to do an extraction this weekend to free up more boxes for the last push. What’s the heather looking like this year as I haven’t had time for a little walk up the hills
  2. REDWOOD

    what to do with a failing hive

    Shame to hear that you and others are done with associations
  3. REDWOOD

    All full

    no supers left and bees are now foraging the HB. At this rate I’ll have a better harvest than 2018. All boxes full of bees even my spare brood box that I use for demaree with only 1 frame and lots of wild comb that I’ll have to sort out tomorrow. All new queens mated and laying well I’ll keep a...
  4. REDWOOD

    How Long Before Checking Queen

    Three weeks I wait for any splits or swarms, nothing else you can do by going in early
  5. REDWOOD

    Is it safe to split the hive in August?

    Keep your colonies strong going into winter
  6. REDWOOD

    Tanks fittings

    Not sure what you are looking for ?
  7. REDWOOD

    Tanks fittings

    Its just a honey gate valve? the only thing missing is an O ring seal
  8. REDWOOD

    Just wondering what the very light honey might be?

    Brown pollen is clover
  9. REDWOOD

    Swapping out brood frame?

    Not too easy to move without causing the wrong bee space with other frames and messing them ones up as well, probably better waiting until there is no brood in the frame then remove it altogether
  10. REDWOOD

    Washing Soda

    home bargains had plenty last week, or was it a week before that !!!
  11. REDWOOD

    Just wondering what the very light honey might be?

    could be lots of different sources, to be sure get or do a pollen analysis check
  12. REDWOOD

    Nuc into hive...to feed, or not?

    Asking a lot from the bees with starter strips, keep it in the nuc for now
  13. REDWOOD

    Enyoying the results of wild mating

    I done one in last winter, so bad they followed my land rover
  14. REDWOOD

    What's flowering as forage in your area

    Meadowsweet
  15. REDWOOD

    Early Evening Inspections

    They guy in the pointed hat looks dubious
  16. REDWOOD

    Haynes or Hooper?

    Most of what I learned as a new beekeeper was here, if 8 out of ten beekeepers agree you can bet its not far wrong
  17. REDWOOD

    Reluctance to draw comb ?

    Yes for now
  18. REDWOOD

    Caught a swarm! Help!

    o_O
  19. REDWOOD

    Reluctance to draw comb ?

    When there is a good flow on the will put it anywhere they can until they have time to move it into supers,
  20. REDWOOD

    Exploding hive.

    Add the supers below your clearing board only to give the bees more room
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