LimeWatch UK

[North End Bees]

I have just extracted a lot of lime honey - very pale with a greenish tinge. To me it tastes strongly of mint, but my wife thinks I am imagining it. I hope there is a market for toothpaste flavour honey.....

Yep honey which is almost all lime definitely tastes of toothpaste! But not in a bad way!

 

[enrico]

Yep honey which is almost all lime definitely tastes of toothpaste! But not in a bad way!

I cant say that mine ever did but I guess it depends what your toothpaste tastes like

 

[North End Bees]

I cant say that mine ever did but I guess it depends what your toothpaste tastes like

Yours isn't authentic lime then!

 

[OutStanden]

Yep honey which is almost all lime definitely tastes of toothpaste! But not in a bad way!

I sampled off the frame a few days ago and had the same thought. Floral with a hint of mint.

 

[Do224]

Lime flower aroma becoming rather faint but a couple of trees still being worked. Still a little bramble but receiving skant attention. Just hoping the white clover will become more interesting - plently under the nearby solar panels.

Our lime was completely finished a couple of weeks ago. I’m surprised yours is still going as would have thought ours here in Cumbria would be later than yours down there. Are there different varieties that flower at different times?

 

[SWHives]

Our lime was completely finished a couple of weeks ago. I’m surprised yours is still going as would have thought ours here in Cumbria would be later than yours down there. Are there different varieties that flower at different times?

The small leaf lime usually flowers a bit later. Although where I am those have finished last week.

 

[enrico]

Yours isn't authentic lime then!

Maybe it's your toothpaste that tastes like lime honey

 

[holmbee]

The small leaf lime usually flowers a bit later. Although where I am those have finished last week.

Yes. My lime avenue is all small leaf limes (Tilia Cordata) planted about thirty years ago by our local council. The aroma of lime flower is just on one tree and now becoming very faint. Still a hum of insects around it however!

 

[peterbees]

Heavy combs of lime honey. This will sell well at the Conwy Honey Fair on Friday 13th September.

 

[JohnRB]

This was my first box of Lime this season. There must have been a heck of a flow - I'd filled the box with mostly new frames and foundation just to get them drawn out before spacing them properly. In about 10 days, they'd drawn them out, filled them up and capped them off. I'm saving the very white cappings to make a candle for our honey show.

 

[enrico]

This was my first box of Lime this season. There must have been a heck of a flow - I'd filled the box with mostly new frames and foundation just to get them drawn out before spacing them properly. In about 10 days, they'd drawn them out, filled them up and capped them off. I'm saving the very white cappings to make a candle for our honey show.

When the lime flows it flows like water. Make the most of it, once in a blue moon I reckon

 

[North End Bees]

When the lime flows it flows like water. Make the most of it, once in a blue moon I reckon

May be your location. We get a very strong lime flow every year without fail.

 

[Curly green finger's]

My lime honey I brushed my teeth with it this morning and my teeth feel so good

 

[Curly green finger's]

Oops double post it’s that good

 

[Erichalfbee]

My lime honey I brushed my teeth with it this morning and my teeth feel so good View attachment 40853

Ha ha. Watch them fall out?

 

[North End Bees]

Ha ha. Watch them fall out?

Hope not, he's only just had them put in!

 

[Curly green finger's]

Ha ha. Watch them fall out?

Never!! lime honey doesn’t make your teeth fall out it’s the bloody cane/beet sugar that does that horrible stuff

 

[rolande]

Never!! lime honey doesn’t make your teeth fall out it’s the bloody cane/beet sugar that does that horrible stuff

This could make a good opening post for an independent thread but probably best not to...

 

[Curly green finger's]

This could make a good opening post for an independent thread but probably best not to...

best not to mate

 

[ericbeaumont]

different varieties that flower at different times?

Yes. Book that tells the full story is Plants & Beekeeping by Frank Howes (Faber,1945 & 1979) which has six pages of lime detail. The book was beautifully written and so good that William Kirk incorporated much of it into his book Plants & Bees (IBRA, 2012).

Flowering of different species in the 1940s at Kew (Howes was an entomologist there) started in early June and ended in mid-August, and a neat little chart gives detail. The 1979 edition lacks the photos of the first.