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Thanks for your advice. I only have a couple of hives and tend to consume most of my honey myself plus a friend and family. I’m personally not a big fan off OSR honey but that’s just a personal preference. Plus it now so crystallised it’s going to make harvesting it very difficult. My fault for...

Thanks. Should I only feed it back to the hive it come from?

I’ve misjudge one of my supers and have ended up with a 5-6 frames of crystallised honey from OSR. I’ve been doing some reading, and as OSR honey is not the best anyway, I think i’ve decided to sacrifice the honey and feed the crystallised honey back to the bees in preparation winter. I plan to...

thanks Oxo - is that 5ml per 1 litre of 1:1 syrup?

Thanks, yacht varnish seem like a good idea!

I like the ideal but not sure how it would work?

I purchased a NUC box earlier this year which has a built in wooden feeder. Whilst its good in that it holds 3+ litre of sugar syrup it tends to go very mouldy very quickly. It came painted in white emulsion which over time has virtually come off as I’ve cleaned it. Does anyone have any...