Cheapest sugar ?

[Pete D]

yes that obviously works too.
I am new at this, first season and so far have only had to feed a small amount to the odd swarm.
Going in to my first winter so best I buy a drill !

cheers
Pete D

 

[oldtimer]

no asda is £1.22 for 2 kg

 

[Hivemaker.]

I rather enjoy mixing up sugar syrup,no problem really to turn a ton or two of sugar into syrup of an evening.

 

[xray7]

yes, my research suggests both Tesco and Morrisons are the cheapest at GBP 1.34 per 2 kg bag

I got my local Morrisons to order 180 kgs enough for 10 hives.

NB - I have heard that if you can buy liquid ambrosia wholesale it is not much different to the price of sugar and a whole lot easier.

 

[TBRNoTB]

I got a 5kg bag of tate and lyle cane sugar from Costco in brum a few weeks ago for 4.50 (but you have to have a card)

You could do what all the OAPs in West Bromwich do and go into a cake shop or cafe and have a cup of tea and then stuff your pockets with as many suger sachets as possible.

I beg your pardon!......but with the pension this dumb government give us, is it surprising?

 

[sugarbush]

My way is the cheapest. Don't feed.

Quoting Langstroth: The feeding of bees resembles the way many a child of the rich is reared.

Sugar is an incomplete diet for bees anyway, lacks the natural pollen, trace minerals, and amino acids that they need and honey has.

 

[user 6228]

40 jerry cans = 800 litres thats not a domestic food mixer. One idea for of mixing that qty would be a submersible pump in a 200litre orange juice drum (black ones with the big screw on lid) with outlet directed into the bottom of the drum to recirculate the water/sugar until it disolves. The sugar crystals would pass through the pump. Then use the pump to dispense the syrup.

 

[Hivemaker.]

40 jerry cans = 800 litres thats not a domestic food mixer. One idea for of mixing that qty would be a submersible pump in a 200litre orange juice drum (black ones with the big screw on lid) with outlet directed into the bottom of the drum to recirculate the water/sugar until it disolves. The sugar crystals would pass through the pump. Then use the pump to dispense the syrup.

Or just use a bio diesel unit to mix the sugar syrup.