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Nine full frames of honey

I'd show him a good documentary on bees then buy him a book

Scrape off the propolis from the joints. That's what one end of most hive tools is for. Look at hive tools some are strait some are angled. Scrape off top and bottom you'll find it easyer to part them next time but leave it long and its like super glue. Your ply seems better because it's more...

You can use as many as you like as long as the label is correctly batch numbered with all the other legalities met. You can't mix two batches with the same batch number. A batch is a bucket or any other container as big or small as you like with one run of honey bottled from the same container...

I have bees and I know for a fact they throw the mites off each other. They clean each other but every brood cycle I get thousands to replace them. I treat my dog for fleas and treat my bees for varroa. Its a case of responsibility for your stock. I want my stock to be healthy and happy. If that...

A treatment costs less than a jar of honey anyway

I get told of people keeping bees treatment free for years without I'll effects. Do I believe them? Not a whole apiary no. No ill effects? No I don't believe them. Try getting nits and not treating it for a month and tell me you have no ill effects. Bees get varroa all bees an I'd like to bet it...

If you dont have thymol or hive alive neat if you do it's your choice

But in the wild we wouldn't have took a crop so would have plenty of honey before ivy. Does it contribute towards disentry and isolation starvation?

It's definitely had more than five supers worth. I'm averaging two supers. So it's more than double my average per hive. The queen will get marked red and five hives with her queen cells in next year to test them

I have no reason to lie I have hives that have struggled to get two supers. Its a buckfast colony it's been my best ever hive and it's not huge but they are out performing every hive I have by far and have been all year

They were hanging out the front today waiting to get in 😂 so it probably needs four broods and the brood boxes still full of capped brood. It's rammed but no queen cells

Two broods for queen and a brood n super for honey. The bees fill three broods. I've already extracted once got two broods and a super so far. The brood is being capped and super nearly full. Oh and I'll get some capped frames out the brood boxes when done and replace the frames. When one is...

The mead idea sounds the best it's got my vote 😂

My take is it helps I've used it five years and I think it's a good product but I think that's down to the thymol in the product. It's expensive though so I'm making my own from thymol and lemongrass next year

A lot of people say it can cause problems if you don't feed to dilute it. I wouldnt know because I'm always feeding them to get them ready for winter so it gets diluted anyway. What's your opinion on a brood full of ivy honey for winter? Some of my bees pull a lot of it in and I had two hives...

Keep them on take exluders off feed them to get them full leave on for winter. You have more winter stores and that will help them in the winter and to build up early. You may have to spin a few out next year replace your queen exluders and make sure queens are in brood box if the queen lays in...

Wait until you need to split your hive make a six frame split and checkerboard between two 14x12s. They will draw the 14x12s and pull your other frames out below the bottom bar. Now you have two 14x12s. If you do it during a heat wave you shouldn't have a problem and you don't need to do a full...

You can still use 1/1 syrup to keep your queen laying good until mid September at least in most parts of the UK. You want to dilute the ivy honey too so base your feeding amount around that because if they get on that and have low stores they will cram every frame full of it if they can. They...

After reading most people are selling much too cheap imo but I'm not losing custom so people can sell at the price they want. I think a lot of people could downsize jars and keep the same price. My heather honey I think I'll try at £10 per 228g. If its not gone by Feb I'll drop it £2 a jar.