Ivy honey

[Alf20]

Due to the bad year I had last year. Ivy was the choice of collection. Supers filled with the stuff, hard crystalline filled cells.
I tried extracting last year, some of this got into the honey that was spun out and set the whole lot off in the settling tank, rock solid.
I am tempted to dispose these supers because there is some left or keep and let the the bees consume?
Has anyone had a similar experience and what did you do next?

 

[Davelin]

It does not make very nice tasting honey so I take my supers off before the ivy flowers so that any they collect they can have for winter.

Don't know if they will take it back if it has set, I would be tempted to cut my losses.

 

[user 6228]

It does not make very nice tasting honey so I take my supers off before the ivy flowers so that any they collect they can have for winter.

Don't know if they will take it back if it has set, I would be tempted to cut my losses.

dissolve in warm water and feed back?

 

[MuswellMetro]

Due to the bad year I had last year. Ivy was the choice of collection. Supers filled with the stuff, hard crystalline filled cells.
I tried extracting last year, some of this got into the honey that was spun out and set the whole lot off in the settling tank, rock solid.
I am tempted to dispose these supers because there is some left or keep and let the the bees consume?
Has anyone had a similar experience and what did you do next?

Do as finman says in post three

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=24533

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Put the supers on for winter feed - they wouldn't collect the stuff if they couldn't use it. I've had some ivy honey in the brood box at autumn time - it's always gone come spring.