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Goodness ... that cotoneaster is early, mine is not even in bud yet - normally flowers in the second half of May here. My lilac tree is...

I moved double brood hives + supers a few years ago at this time of year. I was blessed with a cold wet day with no bee flight and no...

Butane cylinders not available at Tesco in NI. But the Pargyle suggestion of Fame valley stores provide a cylinder by post. Thanks P. I...

Welcome - hopefully you will find the forum a mine of information and innovation that you won't find in the bee books .. always...

Very carefully - it's your back you need to worry about. Have you got a hive barrow ? Ideally you want some means of transporting...

Who is going then ? I'll be there as I have permission from 'er indoors to go and bid for a pair of shears and some welders gloves...

:iagree: I've got stacks of poly nucs, all painted with garden shades, never primed, just given two coats when new, never been a sign of...

Probably intended to increase the number of drones in the area - Parthenogenesis (I knew there would be the benefit of a classical...

I've always used Cuprinol 'Garden Shades' or the LIdl equivalent that comes on sale (mucy cheaper than Cuprinol) from time to time...

Not in the apiary but not far from it ..I decided it was time to clean all my stored kit (empty hives and nuc boxes). Probably not the...

One of my beekeeping friends has a site on a farm where a lot of borage is grown and in a good year, at the right time, he gets a good...

Looks like you have something similar down there ...

It's basically activated resin in a solution of acetone - penetrates the rotten wood well and then cures leaving a surface that will...

I grew Sagita last year on your recommendation - had a good crop from them and they were nice potatoes - mine suffered a bit from scab...

We’ll see what it does next.