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  1. Sean Birt

    Location query

    Ahhh right i see, well that answers my question about lettin em swarm. That is good research. so your not actually helping the bee numbers if you let them swarm. Hmm Thanks i have been on wnklba, even sent an email to the training hive site, dont think i got a reply. But i will be joining up...
  2. Sean Birt

    Location query

    Oh right i see. I didnt know that it seems ive more reading to do hehe. You learn so much on this site its great. Thanks again.
  3. Sean Birt

    Location query

    i see Enrico, like i mentioned i just don't know which way i am going to go. may i ask why you stopped clipping?
  4. Sean Birt

    Location query

    Ahh i see, so will the half a colony still thrive? Because if the bee population is in such a dire situation then i would have thought letting them swarm would help with the number or that just stuput? I am in 2 minds.... Also i have seen people selling honey around bawsey like on leziate drove...
  5. Sean Birt

    Location query

    Hello again people, im back for more. I just have a couple of questions if thats ok.are there any bee keepers around the bawsey area that are on here? And done alot of reading since i was last on here and i have lots questions but ill start with this n see if i can work some of the others...
  6. Sean Birt

    Beekeeping advice

    Oh no redwood, we have just moved in. Wouldnt dream of that, settled n love it. As i stand here now having a cheecky smoke, im listen to 3 tawny owls calling and strangly a robin ohuh. Wouldnt change that for the world bud. Ill get there afterall i got books, courses, internet and you lovely...
  7. Sean Birt

    Beekeeping advice

    got it ta.
  8. Sean Birt

    Beekeeping advice

    Thanks for that everyone. Very informative. I hope they do get irony, hehe. Hi Pete, cheers. I have been in contact with the people at wnklba, and am going to miss most of the intro course, but i have emailed the man in charge at the blackborough end apiary to see about going to the upcoming...
  9. Sean Birt

    Beekeeping advice

    thanks for all that. it is not an average size back garden its 90ft to the back of the house by 50ft wide, should be big enough to tuck them in down the bottom. i do have nieghbours but only a few, i think there is only 8 on our stretch of road and most are spread out. i do have one either side...
  10. Sean Birt

    Beekeeping advice

    Hello all, i am very new to all this and have a few questions can anybody enlighten me. i am thinking of starting up 1 hive in my back garden, i was going to get/build the hive join my local beekeeping group to pick up some experience and then get some bees for this summer. or use this summer to...
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