Mikeb123
House Bee
- Joined
- Sep 2, 2012
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- Location
- Rainham, kent
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 2
hi,
I'm starting my first year of beekeeping in spring and wanted some advice.
I have a fairly large garden so can accommodate many different flowers for my bees all season round.
I understand it would be best practice to give the bees a large variety of pollen/nectar sources for as long as possible but as far as the taste of the honey is concerned is it best to mix many different sources or try to stick to maybe one or two all season hardy flowers in the immediate area? or will the bees just forage many different sources further afield...
many thanks
I'm starting my first year of beekeeping in spring and wanted some advice.
I have a fairly large garden so can accommodate many different flowers for my bees all season round.
I understand it would be best practice to give the bees a large variety of pollen/nectar sources for as long as possible but as far as the taste of the honey is concerned is it best to mix many different sources or try to stick to maybe one or two all season hardy flowers in the immediate area? or will the bees just forage many different sources further afield...
many thanks