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Have tried putting small stick down the centre hole then dribble syrup down it bees will use it like a ladder

My experience I enquired at 40 hives but was encouraged to wait. so I reappliedthe following season at 70+ still had to get a reference, evidence to support numbers ect

I use both super and brood. Use a foam roller to apply a good thick coat. I try to use all plastic foundation on the hives that go for heather. So much easier to scrape off heather honey. Brood foundation is used in older frames after they have had wax in them once. Still use wax foundation in...

Was pretty much going with screw press idea then went to bfa meeting recently and was recommended to get capping spinner. So still undecided. I spent too much money this year and big outlay on equipment that wouldn't get used for months isn't an option

I got the Konigan 8/16 swing cage last year it's a good budget machine but at 40" wide you need big doors to get it through. I gave up with the hand loosened way to slow. A lot of my honey boxes are now on plastic foundation so just scraped into buckets. But now spending too much time with...

this is wortha look at a fraction of the price of a lot of other machines £595 from thornes

It's scandalous the UK don't adopted the new honey testing regulations tp and China is dumping "honey" @ €1 per kg on us

this explains why supermarket honey is so cheap

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Hi marky greetings from just south of Barnstaple

I tried fishing line with not much success I used 15 pound line and they chewed through most of it with in weeks

Hi Jon don't know if you are aware that Thornes have a shop now behind quince honey farm

Osr ! What osr I have never seen so little grown as this year

Try Uog honey bee research another Canadian view of beekeeping

I wouldn't call a sublimox a boys toy or gadget at all . I've been using mine for years it's by far the quickest method of vapourising. when your time is money you have as efficient as possible.

6 miles from one of my apiaries

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-agriculture/how-mushrooms-might-save-honey-bee.html this popped up on my news feed today

This was the main topic on radio 4 farming today this morning . Funny how Monsanto and other chemical companies put up 3million of the 3.5m used in the study. Then rubbished it's findings by concentrating on the test group in Germany that had no ill affects. brushing over the fact that this test...

I tried ten paradise nationals and ten Paynes national and found paradise boxes are great for moving around and stack better on pallets with a short floor. Good handholds but only able to fit ten frames with plastic ends which isn't too bad as l run mostly double brood. The Paynes boxes are good...