tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post2170384657866087815..comments2024-03-20T11:36:53.907+00:00Comments on Restoring Mayberry: Honey harvestBrian Kallerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-35230391976273552752016-09-07T22:33:55.408+01:002016-09-07T22:33:55.408+01:00Brian
Same as for gwiz - inspirational - we are ge...Brian<br />Same as for gwiz - inspirational - we are getting there.<br />Bro'-inlaw does African design horizontal top-bar hive - he saw it when working in Malawi / Uganda.<br />Espalier (other post) goes with bees.<br />We have 19thC orchard with succession of flowering times - and it could be a way of preserving the old successive varieties. (They also ripen successively and have different 'keeping' times.)<br />We want to do 'espalier' blackberries.<br />We freeze fruit over winter to extend nutritional benefits.<br /><br />Sorry I have merged both subjects together.<br />best<br />Phil philsharrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16992266289232459952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-87339915875918218322016-09-03T01:55:37.152+01:002016-09-03T01:55:37.152+01:00Brian, I have no advice or suggestions to offer, b...Brian, I have no advice or suggestions to offer, but did want you to know this inspired me to - finally! - take steps toward establishing a hive here. Thanks for that!<br /><br />- Ozgwizard43https://www.blogger.com/profile/07593620523101022936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-72925206407599859662016-09-02T15:36:30.219+01:002016-09-02T15:36:30.219+01:00Great to hear your experience is successful so far...Great to hear your experience is successful so far! In New England there are no flowers blooming from the time the asters close up (in October) to those crocuses blooming (in March) so there's no "ivy honey" to be had. Around here people usually put the extracted super back on top of the hive - above the inner cover and beneath the outer cover - for a few days to allow the bees to clean it out. They'll usually move the leftover honey down into their lower stores. Then you put the cleaned comb in your shed for the winter. Which, by the way is important because you need several days of deep freeze to kill off the wax moth, which otherwise will destroy any comb the bees aren't occupying. You don't get any deep freeze in Ireland, so I'm curious whether the beekeepers there have trouble with wax moth - or whether they put stored frames in the freezer ever. <br /><br />And also beware that any box of frames sitting around is irresistible to mice who consider it the perfect place to lodge in! After learning this cruel lesson a few times, I set mine on a sheet of metal and keep an extra outer cover over them.Anubis Bardhttp://anubisbard.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-8207470928838606212016-08-30T22:47:29.037+01:002016-08-30T22:47:29.037+01:00Toomas,
Thank you! I didn't know that bees h...Toomas, <br /><br />Thank you! I didn't know that bees have dialects. I'm told that some (apparently very bored) scientists gave bees cocaine once, and found that they began to exaggerate -- "There are HUGE flowers over there!"Brian Kallerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082602126850605083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5811749743523633503.post-49273318214036312522016-08-30T15:28:26.296+01:002016-08-30T15:28:26.296+01:00Coordinated Universal Time (= UTC = EST+5 = EDT+4)...Coordinated Universal Time (= UTC = EST+5 = EDT+4): 20160830T142612Z<br /><br /><br />Dear Brian, <br /><br />Thanks for this! <br /><br />Possible inspirational material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kehrle (the celebrated Buckfast bee breeder), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Frisch (the analyst of bee language; from this one gathers that, incredibly, bee dances VARY from strain to strain, as human languages vary from nation to nation). <br /><br />The Abbe Emile Warre has a Wikipedia bio only in French. I have found one of his principal books in English translation, as a free download, at http://www.users.callnetuk.com/~heaf/beekeeping_for_all.pdf (but I have not read it; this link I have obtained from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive#Warr.C3.A9_hives, at which I have only glanced). <br /><br /><br />Cheerfully, but in haste, <br /><br />Tom <br /><br /><a href="http://toomaskarmo.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://toomaskarmo.blogspot.com</a>Toomas (Tom) Karmohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17890931543874235369noreply@blogger.com