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If you wish to help healthy shrubs barrier against honey fungus paint armillitox on the bottom 6-12inches of them the plants then take it down in the Cambium layer and the honey fungus doesn't like it. I have a customer who had half of her hedge killed by honey fungus, along with many trees one...

In one of my customers greenhouses we have a 3kw fan heater set to frost setting and it just nips the chill off the air and is just enough to keep the seedlings alive, we also have an electric propagator in there to get things moving along. I just want to get some decent weather so I can get the...

"Anyway, think carefully whether "cut comb" (real cut comb) might not be a very much better idea to try than the "sections" you have in mind." I think I may try both, I like the neatness of the sections but I understand your comments and will keep it in mind.

Hey guys, that's great thanks, what I'm after is the frames that are in the thornes company you directed me to that fit in a national super and hold the sections. I don't want a whole super full of section frames maybe just 3 or 4 frames with 3 sections in each.

I'm looking for some cut comb frames to put into my national hives, ones that I would like are wooden ones like on this site: http://www.honeybeesuite.com/category/comb-honey/comb-honey-production/page/3/ Where would I get them and what are they called I've been searching for hours today and...

As a daily method in your own garden you could try spraying soapy water (fairy, percil etc) as there's something in it that some insects dislike. I'm not sure if armillatox is bee friendly but its damn good stuff on roses against black spot, mildew and can be used as a lawn and hard surface moss...

As a professional gardener it is quite hard to avoid pesticides unless you have masses of time to dedicate to the gardens you work in. When these 'experts' come up with a bee safe pesticide that works as well as provado then I'll switch to it. By the way I'm not one of these with a knapsack and...

At a price that is less than buying a new phone or iPad.

The best way is provado ultimate bug killer, as a gardener with over 20 gardens on my rounds I'm not able to dedicate the time to individually picking off insects I have to rely on companion planting, traps and chemicals. I'm not sure if provado affects bees as its a systemic pesticide, I use it...

I'm not a fan of voice recognition, have any of you tried using Siri of the iPhone 4S and 5? It's heading in the right direction but its still no use to anyone. I can't offer much input with the practicality of using an iPhone or iPad while working at a hive as I've not got mine up and running...

Sorry I think I may have missed your question, Dave cushmans site gives all the measurements and diagrams of the different parts and how they are assembled, I found it most helpful. I printed off the parts that I was going to build and laminated them so when I was in t he workshop they didn't...

Homework is always good, I've been looking at a couple of top bar hives but I don't really want lots of different hive types but they do look very good. My plan is to keep a couple of hives for myself for a year or two before looking to site some hives with local farmers and in some local...

These are the two hives together before I finished one off.

He doesn't specify it will but I do hope I've got my measuring correct.

Hi, I used 18mm ply and butt jointed it. I do intend building more equipment but using better jointing methods

Hi all, I'm Matt. I've been interested in bees for many years my grandad always wanted to keep bees but he never did so I thought I'd go on a course ran by Brian Goodwin from the Shropshire bee keepers association, he was an excellent tutor and I would urge anyone interested to go to one of his...