September Honey Flow

[Norfolktoad]

I took off 75lbs off 3 hives 10 days ago, and put the supers back to clean up. They are now full again but not capped. Has anyone had experience of honey from radish. There is a field of 50 acre+ with fodder radish being grown as a green manure, about 500 yard from the hives. 2 years ago the bees worked fodder mustard at this time of year and I took off a fair bit of honey. It was foul and crystalized quickly. Will it be worth taking some of this radish honey or should I leave it instead of feeding?

Mike )

 

[Amari]

OSR, mustard and radish are all brassicas = rapid crystallisation. Lucky days for the bees.

 

[Finman]

Feed the radish next summer to the bees and you get 60% back from that honey.

Put the frames between brood frames and bees clean them and move to supers.
They can be uses easily to swarms' comb building too

Honey is 20 times more expencive than Sugar. Not good idea to use it as winter food.