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    Ground Elder

    Yes glossphosphate works a treat, but what will we do when the eu ban it.
  2. M

    Ground Elder

    Nettles are one of the best soil conditioners going, make good tea and soup plus play host to lots of bugs.
  3. M

    Tree identification please

    Front left small group, to slow.
  4. M

    Sugar Tax??

    Huge factory in Milton Keynes make most of the girder drink.
  5. M

    Shrub Id

    Genista stenopetala
  6. M

    Shrub Id

    Looks like Genista spachiana .
  7. M

    Jars for sale.

    Must bee your lucky day, i have just found another box of jars that i will throw in.
  8. M

    Jars for sale.

    Sold to you. Cheers Nick.
  9. M

    Jars for sale.

    Jars are new unused, boxes are dusty from shed storage. All came from Bottle company ltd (south) Orcio 314ml. 3 boxes thats 160 Jars. Orcio 212ml. 1 part used estimate 50 left. Octagonal 12 oz. 2 boxes thats 168 Jars. I have a good number of lids but probably not as the same amount as jars...
  10. M

    Caught a swarm

    Well in my case, other than i have already said. The second swarm if i should call it that are twenty feet up a hawthorn tree going nowhere fast at the moment, they have the smelliest dirty frame i could find parked next to them. Once i get them back i would be lucky if they fill two frames so...
  11. M

    Asparagus

    No use to honey bees, we have two Asparagus beds at work and a wild colony of honey bees in the roof of an adjacent building, i have yet to see a bee on the Asparagus.
  12. M

    Caught a swarm

    Bigger than a tennis ball and smaller than a football. Yes did wonder about another queen, seems to be a strange year for swarm behaviour.
  13. M

    Advice trying to catch lost swarm

    I have a very big chainsaw, please let me help:drool5:
  14. M

    Caught a swarm

    OK just an update and may be some one can work out what is going on. Swarm collected for the second time on the evening of 7 june, a few left in the tree, rain and high wind yesterday kept most in the nuc, however the small amount left in the tree had expanded to a tennis ball size by last...
  15. M

    Caught a swarm

    If they go, then they had better keep going because i am not scaling that tree again. Ps would you like to borrow my glasses ;);):)
  16. M

    Caught a swarm

    No, positive ID she was in the box, as she is once again.
  17. M

    Caught a swarm

    Caught a swarm last night 9.30 ish, loads of problems erecting ladders into the tree they were in. Pruned a few branches to clear the way so i could drop them into a home made catch sack, all went ok, down the ladders i comes with a bag full of bees, great i think. Tip the bag and shake into a...
  18. M

    Gripping power

    Me i use an air nailer and glue for hive work, can't be messing with screws far to slow.
  19. M

    Hives, nucs for sale

    All sold thanks for looking.
  20. M

    Hives, nucs for sale

    Its been a very long day and the frames have grown to 14x12
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