Re: A swarmy year or not
PostPosted:14 Apr 2020, 09:23
MickBBKA wrote: ↑14 Apr 2020, 03:14That's good to hear, I certainly did not do it as you describe, I think these days the tightness in my Yorkshire pockets objects to having two of everything when vertical manipulations are cheaperChrisbarlow wrote: ↑12 Apr 2020, 08:30I always found pagden quite demanding to implement, the bees never understood what they were supposed to be doing.
Verical manipulations are far superior![]()
Pagden works very well IMHO, but depends how you do it. I go for a full on approach. Queen, flying bees, foundation, no comb, no brood, small amount of stores, big feeder. Never failed yet.
I do like vertical splits though..