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- Hive Type
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- Number of Hives
- Too many - but not nearly enough
Bramble Jelly? - Made from blackberries.
Not from jelly!
Bramble Jelly? - Made from blackberries.
???? Must be something local about this. Here a bramble and a blackberry are the same thing. Never see them both with ripe fruit and flowers anywhere near the same time.
I'd still classify this as a very poor year, we never got any heat until June, so they were always trying to catch-up which just wasn't possible this year, will probably average only 40-45lbs hereInteresting quote from the Met office main man here in the paper this weekend.
July ( here in Ireland ) was average, every decade on average we get two really good summers, two really bad and six average. So this constitutes an " average" summer here and probably the same in the UK.
2014 was one of the two really good ones.
It is 15 degrees here today, grey, rained all day yesterday, 14 degrees.... if that is average God help us !
I live in hope... hope that had me assembling super frames yesterday, whilst watching the endless rain and howling wind ..
I'd still classify this as a very poor year, we never got any heat until June, so they were always trying to catch-up which just wasn't possible this year, will probably average only 40-45lbs here
Lol....I'd kill for that this year! Average thus far is a massive 4lb per colony with some still to extract, so might get up to 8lb from the blossom sources. However the heather is still to come but for now with the truly unpleasant forecast for a very cool and wet August I would take an annual average of 40lb with delight and move on to next year.
Lol....I'd kill for that this year! Average thus far is a massive 4lb per colony with some still to extract, so might get up to 8lb from the blossom sources. However the heather is still to come but for now with the truly unpleasant forecast for a very cool and wet August I would take an annual average of 40lb with delight and move on to next yearId say in euros of honey per hive your 40lb average would be similar enough if not better than my 55-60lb!! Is your weather similar enough to ours with a longer winter?
Id say in euros of honey per hive your 40lb average would be similar enough if not better than my 55-60lb!! Is your weather similar enough to ours with a longer winter?
No winter is longer than ours, as i realised yesterday evening when I had to put the central heating on !
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