Finman
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2008
- Messages
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- Location
- Finland, Helsinki
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
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I just describe our nature and bee pastures.
Raspberry is now too early. Hives are not ready but.... It started blooming now, when its normal blooming is kast week of June.
I have drived with car searhing places. Finally I found about 20 hectares cutted forest inside one square kilometre. Cutted areas are full of raspberry and fireweed.
Even if air temp dropped to 15 C, cutted openings are wind sheltered and there will be good microclimate. I believe that yield will be huge.
Raspberry is dry sentitive. Buttons drop easily off, if it is too dry.
That is why forest area must have moist soil all the time. It is same with fireweed. It does not give nectar, if soil dry up easily.
Even if I have here much free space without other beekeepers, it is difficult to find very good places.
Sometimes I have shoosen places where I got nothing.
I have 2 box hive alone in one place. When raspberry started blooming, hive was filled with nectar in 2 days. So it started to lay in swarming cells.
Yeah. It needs much work, that I get good yields, and countinuous care that they do not srart swarming in those conditions. Nothing comes with "do nothing way". Not even nothing.
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I just describe our nature and bee pastures.
Raspberry is now too early. Hives are not ready but.... It started blooming now, when its normal blooming is kast week of June.
I have drived with car searhing places. Finally I found about 20 hectares cutted forest inside one square kilometre. Cutted areas are full of raspberry and fireweed.
Even if air temp dropped to 15 C, cutted openings are wind sheltered and there will be good microclimate. I believe that yield will be huge.
Raspberry is dry sentitive. Buttons drop easily off, if it is too dry.
That is why forest area must have moist soil all the time. It is same with fireweed. It does not give nectar, if soil dry up easily.
Even if I have here much free space without other beekeepers, it is difficult to find very good places.
Sometimes I have shoosen places where I got nothing.
I have 2 box hive alone in one place. When raspberry started blooming, hive was filled with nectar in 2 days. So it started to lay in swarming cells.
Yeah. It needs much work, that I get good yields, and countinuous care that they do not srart swarming in those conditions. Nothing comes with "do nothing way". Not even nothing.
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