8oz blossom honey @ £6 and 8oz heather @ £7 here and it sells very well.Always topping up my honesty box. The same honey posted to people is £1 more per jar plus postage. And a lot gets posted too.
Due to bees on the heather and what not I only got round to sticking apivar into hives on Saturday past. I had a quick peek through a few nucs and a hive at my front door here and some 8frame nucs were wall to wall brood, the only national at the house was very full too. I was pleasantly surprised.
Just home and no real big change from last week so it wasn't what I was expecting to find, although there was fresh nectar shaking out of the frames, its a tough tough gig!
Normally an apple press but this year I will be trying out a MG heather honey press that I bought from a beekeeper in England. Its a sturdy looking piece of kit.
Was up tonight around 7 and the bees flying strong and some with supers that will be filled in the next day or two. Any with broods as supers are around half full so looking good at the minute, gives the weather here staying not so bad also. Fingers crossed.
Ling looking very good here with me in the Mournes, lots out in flower but still more to come, very quiet though with the bees. Not that many years ago when it was well into August and early September when they had a flow on here that late so hope yet???
I was up with my bees today in the high Mournes and they were flying very strong bringing in lots of heather pollen, frames were getting drawn and nectar showing. They have only been there 4 days, all on the bell though, very little ling open yet.
Plenty of bell out in the Mournes but none coming into my hives at the house here yet, planning to move the first of them over the weekend, the ling is still a while off here yet. No real colour on the hills but bell def out.
I was up yesterday in the Mournes and started taking the first of my honey away. Also found that one of my hives had swarmed, managed to get them into a box. Would have been a dreadful wet and windy weekend for them had i not found them.
There was a lovely flow on this past few weeks in the Mournes, some hives with the second brood nearly filled, will get up tomorrow evening to see what the change in weather has done . Haven't been up since last Wednesday.