Swn58
Field Bee
- Joined
- Oct 30, 2014
- Messages
- 662
- Reaction score
- 552
- Location
- Birmingham
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Less than 1.....more than 20!
As I already use national hives, I decided for the moment to stick with them. I did flirt with the idea of Langstroths. Then there was the problem of what type of hive. I decided to go with Polystyrene, which lead to a lot of agonising over what make! I have looked at loads of post on here over the last few months. Enough to make anyone just buy an old shoe box and hope for the best! In the end it came down to price I'm afraid. I would have bought British, but every version was £20-50 more than Swienty, Paradise Honey of Finland. I bought ten hives, each with two supers for a knock-down price of £95. They came from Bee-Equipment in Kent. All went well, they arrived promptly, along with a Queen rearing kit and other sundries. I realised that part of that kit was wrong, but not the end of the world. I decided to order another five hives, without supers. It was then that it all it all went horribly wrong.......