Well I managed to get another 13 jars and there maybe another one to come in a few days once all the honey has drained out of the wax cappings. So all in all at total of 45 1/2lb jars. Which if I sold would be about £130, so not bad for a supposedly bad year for honey.
But I did notice that the frames I left outside the hive that were only partially capped the bees left the capped cells until last to clear, so in morning will pop out and see if they have left any capped and cleared the uncapped, so may be able to squeeze a little bit more out of them.
Once they have cleaned those frames will need to start the pre winter feeding to stock them up for the months ahead.
PS next time I harvest must avoid getting a blister on inside of my thumb spinning out the honey, really painful!!!
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