Hello to all here, I’m a new beekeeper and have joined a local group in West Sussex for an intro course starting end March. I have purchased a National with a brood and two supers with lots of frames and some basic kit from Thorne’s. just placed an order for some bees from Paynes in Sussex as I can collect. So excited!
Bonus is my sons girlfriend is super excited and wants to get involved with looking after them too so possibly two new beekeepers. I hope to have a couple of hives at home as I have plenty of space and a couple perhaps next year in the secure garden behind my office which I visit 5 days a week and is only 3.5 miles from home.
I went for the slightly wider top bars SN5’s? But these don’t seem to be that popular, my thinking was that as a newbie I would have fewer problems with them.
My first question is should I have a dummy board as a beginner? I have a couple of excellent books but they don’t really mention them.
Regards
Goss
Bonus is my sons girlfriend is super excited and wants to get involved with looking after them too so possibly two new beekeepers. I hope to have a couple of hives at home as I have plenty of space and a couple perhaps next year in the secure garden behind my office which I visit 5 days a week and is only 3.5 miles from home.
I went for the slightly wider top bars SN5’s? But these don’t seem to be that popular, my thinking was that as a newbie I would have fewer problems with them.
My first question is should I have a dummy board as a beginner? I have a couple of excellent books but they don’t really mention them.
Regards
Goss