Newbie from Normandy

[mrs whitecat]

Hello! I'm looking forward to gaining information for my new interest. I'm (actively) retired, and am fortunate to have a reasonably sized garden with lots of planted wildflower areas. I've got a couple of hives (Dadant type which is the standard one here in France). One has a previously wintered swarm, the other I've just recently acquired. Last month I harvested 6 litres of honey from my first hive's super and since then I've added a couple of additional supers. I've read (in the excellent Haynes Bee Manual) that I should be removing the supers this month in preparation for wintering. I'm hoping to get some more honey harvest from them and would like your good advice if I should just do a simple scrape and gravity method, or go for a slightly more advanced route (Extracteur miel tangentiel Bee Mini manuel 2 cadres de hausse Dadant ou 2 cadres Langstroth).
Many thanks in advance.

 

[madasafish]

Depends how much honey: under a super full of frames, manual scrape as an extractor can waste a bit of honey cleaning up

 

[BeeAdmin]

Hello and welcome. How long ago did you start beekeeping?

 

[Gary Rigby]

Hi,

I am a beekeeper and have a second home in Normandy. Whereabout are you in Normandy? I don’t keep bees in France, but if your near I would like to give you advice and help. I have been keeping bees for over 18 years.

 

[Blunt Spike]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[BeeAdmin]

Welcome to you too, Gary.

 

[petmate.ruth]

Hi,

I am a beekeeper and have a second home in Normandy. Whereabout are you in Normandy? I don’t keep bees in France, but if your near I would like to give you advice and help. I have been keeping bees for over 18 years.

Please move to Cote d’Amour and come help me lol

 

[BeeAdmin]

Please move to Cote d’Amour and come help me lol

Hey, welcome to the forum.