beefaye
New Bee
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2012
- Messages
- 20
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- central scotland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
Hiya from rainy central Scotland...can't believe I chose the wettest year on record to start beekeeping. So grateful for the beginners course at the start of the year or I don't know how I would have coped.
I got my very peaceful Buckfast bees in June and have loved every minute since.
It was a slow start as I ended up with an infertile queen and took a while to get rid of the subsequent drones. I now have a stunning yellow dot queen and a hard working colony.
I've learned the hard way that bees don't stick to rules of the beekeeping books. Been adjusting feed and frames throughout the months.
Not enough stores for honey this year but didn't really expect it. Just going to apiguard them this week and get them in trim condition for winter.
Just please let the sunshine.
I have my hive sited with a small group of beginners, thanks to Falkirk council, but now feel ready to break away and do the beekeeping alone with mentoring from a distance. Going to move my bees to my garden over winter then hope to find a wee piece of land for next spring. Hoping for a split and have two hives for 2013.
I will rely on this forum for help so feel free to keep pointing me in the right direction and tell me if I am ever blethering rubbish.
Faye
I got my very peaceful Buckfast bees in June and have loved every minute since.
It was a slow start as I ended up with an infertile queen and took a while to get rid of the subsequent drones. I now have a stunning yellow dot queen and a hard working colony.
I've learned the hard way that bees don't stick to rules of the beekeeping books. Been adjusting feed and frames throughout the months.
Not enough stores for honey this year but didn't really expect it. Just going to apiguard them this week and get them in trim condition for winter.
Just please let the sunshine.
I have my hive sited with a small group of beginners, thanks to Falkirk council, but now feel ready to break away and do the beekeeping alone with mentoring from a distance. Going to move my bees to my garden over winter then hope to find a wee piece of land for next spring. Hoping for a split and have two hives for 2013.
I will rely on this forum for help so feel free to keep pointing me in the right direction and tell me if I am ever blethering rubbish.
Faye