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My congratulations and enjoyed reading the article in Beecraft, particularly as it's something that's a bit of a hobby horse with me. Not being used to losing colonies over winter due to starvation, I was a bit upset when it happened when we had the "Beast from the East". Isolation starvation...

Real Seed Company - Tomatoes (Ruby) to die for, Peas (Magnum Bonum) where you need support 6 foot high and a massive crop (like marrowfat but nice and sweet), no need to buy seeds again as they don't deal in hybrids, so save your own seeds. They also have some unusual and interesting stuff. Used...

I have been using my 9 frame feeders every year over the past 13 years without any sign of leakage. A mix of 4mm and 6mm plywood (nothing special and whatever I had left over from other jobs) with the ends and bottom being 9mm softwood, held together by Evostick exterior glue and a few frame...

It's difficult to find via Cake Stuff's website search. Don't know why!! Go to Google and enter "Cake Stuff emergency bee food". That works for me

Have had a Konigin tangential swing cage extractor for two seasons. Nice to use and efficient. Can hold 8 supers or 4 deep frames of any type. Able to alter speed of rotation and length of programme. Cleaning is fairly easy as you can take out the cages by undoing one locking nut and lifting...

As a norm, I only read posts and don't contribute my own views, but this reminds me of my experiences when I started 12 years back. It seemed to me that every colony I had suffered from nosema to some degree, some very severe and which I terminated, but most struggled through the spring and...

Your failed introductions may be because of the method you have used. If you want to introduce a new queen to address bad temper after removing the old queen or when you are introducing a queen of a different strain, such as a yellow queen into a dark colony, you want to be in control of the...