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DawnMK

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 895
Location: Buckinghamshire

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 12 4:59 pm Post subject: How Much Honey..............

How much honey have you managed to take off this year ? from our 2 nationals we have only taken 8 frames between them, to leave plenty to see them through the winter, very poor harvest this year.

We have just extracted this afternoon and now letting it settle before putting it in jars.

We still have about 6/8 combs to extract from the 2 top bars, they are sitting in a big closed bucket waiting to be squeezed, perhaps on my day off this week

there she flows

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 12 8:58 pm Post subject:
None at all this year. Also the first year I'm feeding my bees for at least ten years.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 12 9:02 pm Post subject:
None here - though there does seem to be lots of 'em.

Finsky

Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 12:03 pm Post subject:
Its not been disaster but nothing to brag about neither. I've got about 1 1/2 to 2 full supers per hive. On a positive note they've managed to store quite nice amount into brood box so that helps..though I'm preparing to feed them too...soon..

Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 1:14 pm Post subject:
None here..... and feeding.

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 2:39 pm Post subject:
From 3 hives - 12 lbs in June, none later OH is leaving all the honey for the winter, tho will prob divvy up the full frames between the hives as 2 of them have virtually none at the moment. Pretty miz really.

Colin & Jan

Joined: 03 Mar 2006
Posts: 203
Location: Dover, Kent

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 12 4:20 pm Post subject:
Think we had about 4 or 5 supers after the rape had finished. No late honey to take off although they should have enough to see them through the winter (fingers crossed).

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Wed Sep 19, 12 4:14 pm Post subject:
Not a lot.

mochasidamo

Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Posts: 615
Location: Montgomery

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 12 7:13 am Post subject:

Enough to be doing a small food fair Saturday with a bit yet to bottle. All the remainder is Spring crop, mostly from a one week window and is part OSR). Summer crop almost a complete washout.

However, we do have a few hives and overall the crop was terrible.

Talking to a bee farmer on the phone yesterday (we're too small and will stay that way) - overall UK crop down 50%, some talking of being cleared out by the end of the year. Some places have been lucky but others have had very little.

tai haku

Joined: 17 Apr 2011
Posts: 472

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 2:14 pm Post subject:
nowt here. probably could get a little off but not really feeling like it's worth the upset and then feeding them again.

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 12 4:25 pm Post subject:
Nothing off here this summer. Good stocks for the winter. One strong hive and one fairly weak. Fingers crossed.

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