Search results

And when the customer wants to see the comb?

Thanks for advice on price. It's those thin white rectangular plastic containers with slightly rounded corners and the clear pop on tops. Trying to keep the proportion of plastic down. Any other product I'd fancy up but honeycomb? Speaks for itself.

I've just started taking off my honeycomb - I use those simple white Thorne's containers to sell it in. Does anyone know what the price for honeycomb is this year?

In any case, they won't sting. why not take a good photo of a couple of them and send it to your local Wildlife Association for identification? They'd also be able to help you manage them (or at least manage your mowing round their timetable )

It's probably a bit late now, but bees can manage in the rain better than I wd have thought. One October morning I was called out to what the householder said was a swarm - a sodden heap, 2 handfuls on the path - had been there all night in the pouring rain. I stirred it with my finger, one...

I have heard that a hosepipe to dislodge them then a good spray of the branch with water and lemon juice will do it - it worked when a neighbour had a swarm under a gutter that was too high to reach.

And the fact that they're laying workers won't upset the colony they enter?

I have a small colony that I checked too late this year - entirely my fault- they had become queenless in the cold, wet days of early spring and when I realised and gave them a frame of brood and eggs, they refused to make a qc. They'd already become laying workers. There is some scattered...

I'm afraid it's now £23.99 for 25kg at Bookers.

My Sidney plum tree didn't flower at all this year after 10 years of providing more plums than we could shake a stick at. Do they take a year off or is it time to get out the saw?

I remember reading an old book on beekeeping where we were recommended to drink half a pint of bitter before an inspection - apparently the bees like the smell (?).

That's. absolutely amazing. Thank you, Bumblebee, for posting it.

My customers are very good - they always wash out jars before returning them. Nevertheless I put all my returned jars through the dishwasher at 65c, then into a pasteuriser with the water raised to 75c for 5 minutes. This is the time specified for pasteurising apple juice to remove e-coli and...

Forgot to say, the people I sell for £5.00 for 340g give me the jars and lids back because they know how much they cost.

Could I ask how much a tray of cut comb weighs?

I sell for £5 per 340g to everyone then my stallholder friend and the local art gallery both resell for £6.50 and we're all happy. But I'd like some advice on selling cut comb. I use the simple Thorne cases.

I've grown some "Sweet Million" tomatoes this year. They're sitting in their pots on the windowsill - just discovered that they grow to 7 feet - my polytunnel is only 4 ft high - can I tie them so the grow at an angle - they won't do outdoors at 600ft, will they?

Think I'll stick to the Pagden method - ending up with a full brood box and only flying bees sounds too weird - you're right Anduril.

I was told this method for swarm control by a more experienced beekeeper: Set up a new hive with broodbox and frames some way away. Move the empty brood box aside. Move the old brood box you want to split and set on new floor. 3. Move frames with brood from old brood box to new bb, being...