Those of you who follow our beekeeping exploits here on the edge of where beekeeping is a sensible pursuit will know that things are never easy. Conditions aren’t ideal for bees in our back garden simply due to the strong winds and the lack of available forage so we have decided to move most of our bees to an out apiary a little further inland where conditions should be better. We are however still keeping one colony in our garden just because we like having them here.<\/p>\n
Typically though this year, the colony at the bottom of the garden seems to be doing really well whereas those in the out apiary are struggling. The bees at the bottom of the garden haven;t swarmed yet this year, the queen is laying well, there’s plenty of brood, absolutely loads of bees and better still, the first super is pretty much completely full and they are beginning to cap the homey, the second super is more than half full and\u00a0I’ve even put an optimistic third super on which they have started to store honey in as well. Amazing, we’ve never had that many supers on a hive here before and it’s great to see them so busy and doing so well.<\/p>\n\n\t\t