Feeding so far
Started feeding on the 21st of August 2015, I made a 2:1.3 mix, 2 kg of sugar to 1.3 ml of water. I usually feed a 3:2 mix but as…
Feeding time
After about 2-3 weeks of really hot weather, above 30 - 38 degrees Celsius nearly every day, and about 20 degrees during the night have come to an abrupt end…
10 stings later,
The bees have been acting quite protectively around the hive, the smell of honey is pretty overpowering so I am guessing for a very good reason they are acting the…
Photos from today’s inspection
Well after what seems like many days of rain and unsettled weather today we woke up to brilliant blue sky and sunshine, not that it stayed for the whole day…
Sun, Rain, Hail, Storms, …
We have just about had it all in the last two weeks, in between beekeeping we have been chopping wood for winter, making hay, generally keeping the garden in order.…
5th hive!
Well, I would not have believed it if somebody told me 12 days ago that I would have 5 hives with bees in them in our garden. No way, but…
4th Hive !
Yesterday afternoon, while I was sorting out the lawn edges I stopped to listen to the bees. They seemed to be pretty loud and a lot of them in the…
BEES ARE BACK IN MY BEEHIVES, HURRAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so chuffed. As of Monday the 11th of May I have bees. I actually have 3 hives of bees. It started with two hives, we went to a…
Back to three sheep,
Last weekend we said good bye to our black ram, since then our sheep have themselves for company once again. Seems like ages ago when they were three of them.…
Beekeeping came to an end in 2014 only to be picked up again in 2015, I am determined to re start again with a clean sleeve.
So I went through the remaining 2 hives and threw out the few bees that were hanging on, no Queen, the swarmed hive has definitely flown away and never to…