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Thanks to you & Steve for great advice which makes sense to me. I live in rural SW Ireland & belong to newly formed FIBKA branch.

Am promised a new queen with 4 frames. Plan to add 2/3 frames with foundation and fill rest with dummy board. Want to go into Winter with a maximum strong colony so assume that I would have one super to keep either on top of brood or nadired. Correct if wrong as am a learner still to get 1st bees.

If you get a Nuc in July, will you stick with a brood box or add a super?

Thanks Guys, as an expectant beekeeper (non-overwintered Nuc expected) its good to have these reflections and to realise that things happen and not to beat ourselves up when it looks like our failure.

Makes you less susceptible to trench foot!

Will have only enough equipment for one colony with brood + 2 supers polly hives as start-up. Would not want to go beyond two colonies. Can I get away with one for the 1st year assuming all ok?

Beach sand works well to stop weeds and once you have the beach re-created you can get the deckchairs out!

Am trying to establish a small flowering meadow and to rework other beds to grow pollinators which will be close to my hives. Read somewhere that bees need some flight distance to travel from pollen/nectar source to hive for better honey process, surely my own bees will still profit from my...

Piggybacking onto this old thread for relevance: Am about to site the 1st of my hives in my rural 1/2 acre setting and would ask for advice: 1. Most sheltered site is facing South and behind a 25ft pollytunnel but not sure if that is an acceptable flight path? 2. open mown managed lawn windy...

Have a start-up kit: Maisemore brood + 2 supers with flexi-plastic "crown board" and included is a 4 pint feeder. Any ideas how/ where to install the feeder?

I ended up getting a cheap end-of-line tin of Gloss and had a light green colouration added. After two coats, it looks very well sealed and with no obvious odour so think it should be ok.

Excuse this question but am new here. There are some "advisers" who insist that paint for polly hives should be masonry paint, is that incorrect in your experience?