Winter Storage

[Brigsy]

Hi there,

I have been reading threads on storing supers over winter. Just a few questions arise.

If I wrapped my mostly dry supers in clingfilm and store in the garage , do people end up with moldy frames often? Was going to spray with certan with this method.

or

Stack outside in the apiary with queen excluder top and bottom with the intention of burning sulphur every now and then, wouldn't this let rain in?

Thanks

 

[For want of a better word]

A tried and tested method for dry frame storage is to stack them in a non heated shed and pour a cup of acetic acid over screwed up newspaper at the top and at the bottom of the stack in an empty super.... kills wax moth.

In the Spring the supers are "aired" before going back on.

Empty extracted supers can be stacked in the same fashion after spending 24 hrs in the deepfreeze.

Good post... interested to see what other beekeepers do for Winter storage,

Some do not like the idea of plastic getting anywhere near their honey... this post makes allowances for this little fact!

Yeghes da

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

veg used to wrap all his super stacks in industrial clingfilm.
I just top and bottom ma stack of wet supers with a iece of plywood and cinch them all up tight with a couple of straps they then get stored outside in an open sided shelter.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Wet. In a stack on one of those big garden trays with newspaper on the bottom. Plastic crown boards every two supers. One on top wooden roof on top of that. All kept in shed at the bottom of the garden.

 

[Brigsy]

Thanks. I have some ply that I could use. Ericha do you mean queen excluders? For mouse defence?

 

[pargyle]

Thanks. I have some ply that I could use. Ericha do you mean queen excluders? For mouse defence?

Probably not, I use the thin clear plastic crown boards that come with poly hives - ideal as they are thin but insects can't get through them, they don't absorb moisture and it's a use for them as I use thicker polycarbonate crown boards on the hives. I think it was her idea originally ....

 

[Brigsy]

Aha!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Pargyle has it......
PS.....I once stored six beautifully drawn brood frames that had little brood in originally in a Parke Poly nuc....The blooming mice ate through the bottom of the floor and chewed holes in all of the frames.........It was my first winter and I was really cheesed off with the loss.
So............I bought a large chest freezer