rectory
| The May swarm - first inspection |
| We gave all starter strips rather than full foundation to the swarm collected end of May and they're drawing out the frames very nicely right across the brood. We saw the queen and eggs and she is l...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 07 June 2009 - 22:05:06 |
| After the rain ... |
| The weather had improved so today we were able to take a look at some of our hives. David had an appointment this afternoon so I went through hives 2 and 3 in the garden - both doing nicely and buildin...[more]
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| Posted on Tuesday 19 May 2009 - 19:27:52 |
| The heather's out |
| On our walk back from town yesterday, we noticed bees on the heather in one of the gardens in the village. Lots of them! Possibly ours but that answered our ponder as to what the bees were working...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 25 January 2009 - 17:13:53 |
| David has a new toy! |
| This could mean our path through the stinging nettles at The Rectory can be eased. ...[more]
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| Posted on Friday 29 May 2009 - 00:11:48 |
| Not another out-apiary? |
| Ever since we first talked about spreading out from our own back yard and found ourselves a possible out-apiary, we seem to have stumbled over more opportunities for spreading ours, and our bees' wing...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 08 February 2009 - 00:00:17 |
| Waiting for good weather |
| So far so good, and our bees have in the main fared well through the winter and are busy during these early sunny days of the year. The colony at the Rectory seems very small and we're not confident...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 08 March 2009 - 18:19:56 |
| Another winter check |
| As David has said, the bees are flying well right now and bringing in pollen so, fingers crossed, all is looking fairly positive. Today we took a look at each of the hives to check they had enough s...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 15 February 2009 - 19:35:07 |
| Better than we could have hoped |
| We hadn't looked at the bees at the Rectory for some time. We were a little worried as they had been a late swarm we supposed and had got off to a very slow start this spring. Sure they had very l...[more]
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| Posted on Wednesday 29 April 2009 - 18:06:18 |
| Another dusting |
| Well David made time to get over to our Apiary on the Hill and to the Rectory so all of our bees had received their first dusting of icing sugar by early last week and we decided to repeat the treatme...[more]
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| Posted on Sunday 22 March 2009 - 17:46:45 |