In Anglo-Saxon- the place where the people grow plants
This is my blog where I'll post gardening ideas, recipes for things you can (mostly) grow in your own garden, and the results of my experiments. There will probably be a few posts on medieval herbalism as well.
Friday, 26 April 2019
The bees are dead, long live the bees
I had a 100% deadout this year. I know a couple of the things that I did wrong, but I don't know all the factors that contributed to it. This is really sad. Now, I have to try to figure out what the reasons were, and if there was anything I could have done differently.
The learning curve on beekeeping is pretty much a vertical wall.
Thankfully, my happy bee guys in Hamilton have a few extra 3-frame nucs still available. I'll buy one and start again.
The good leftover honey will become mead, and the wax will be made into candles. I'll borrow my father-in-laws microscope and maybe send some to University of Guelph as a back-up analysis.
And on we go.
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