Saturday, 27 August 2016

It's that time again, gimme the honey

It's that time of the year again, my ladies have been working their little socks off and now the honey is ready to harvest.
On Thursday night I lowered the crown boards on my three colonies, put in the one way valves so the bees can't return to the supers and the honey.
Then last night, (a day later), I decided it was time to relieve the bees of their honey. A local beekeeper in training wanted to watch so she could do hers. I'm glad she did, one day wasn't really long enough, there were a lot of bees still in the supers. That said got the frames out and into some plastic crates.
Colony no 2 I decided to leave another day to clear as they are angry ladies.
My best guess is that hive one = 110-120 jars, hive three = 40 jars and hive two = 15-20jars.
Honey extraction today, jarring up next couple of days, exciting.

PS last years honey was sold for charity "Dig Deep", my daughter leaves for Kilimanjaro on Monday with a little help from my ladies.

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