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Re: Feeding my bees
PostPosted:21 May 2019, 08:34
by Patrick
Jim Norfolk wrote: ↑19 May 2019, 18:39
Stacks of brood boxes are very heavy for us oldies. Any one tried Rose one size boxes?
Actually Jim, that is a very fair point worth reminding and not just for “oldies”. If you were needing to lift off a 3rd National brood chamber full of honey from the top of a stack (already raised on a stand) every time to inspect, it would test many of us and risk injury. Other larger brood chambers would be even worse.
I like the Rose principle but don’t envisage re-equipping. A full national super is quite heavy as it is. When under time pressure I often remove two at a time and then regret it once airborne
Re: Feeding my bees
PostPosted:22 May 2019, 19:38
by NigelP
Chrisbarlow wrote: ↑19 May 2019, 21:56
all concepts that can be applied to any box size as long as you use the same box size.
A lot of Dadant users do the same running supers. Not sure how they compare weight wise with rose hive. Good system but involves a lot of extra work moving frames around every inspection. But it is , I'm told the best honey producing system there is.
Re: Feeding my bees
PostPosted:24 May 2019, 14:14
by WalnutTreeBees
If I may just briefly return to the issue wild flowers on road verges.... The charity Plantlife is running a road verges campaign and has lots of good info on their site, including a petition to sign.
Well worth a look:
https://plantlife.love-wildflowers.org.uk/roadvergecampaign
Re: Feeding my bees
PostPosted:24 May 2019, 17:07
by NigelP
Check out Hratlepool council....all there inner city road verges/etc are seeded with wild flower mixes.