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Well folks, it's that time of year again, time for the bees to pay their rent. That's right, it honey harvest time. Our major nectar flow, Chinese Tallow, is over, and I'm just itching to see just how well our girls did while the flow was in full swing. I will admit, I did go out a few times to take a peek, and it looked promising, but as the saying goes, the proof is in the pulling.
On this adventure I had the invaluable assistance from Good Time Charlie, another member from our River Region Bee Club. For almost 3 days, Charlie and I fought the heat and humidity of Louisiana's sweltering summer, but still managed to bring in over 60 boxes full of the liquid gold from our 7 bee yards, including the ones at the abbey.
Besides the help of a little smoke, and the hive lifter, we broke out the big guns of the fume boards to help in the task of taking in our honey supers. Because I do not use excluders in our hives, an added step was necessary, checking for brood in the honey supers. Out of the 60 plus hives we checked, there were only 6 or 7 that the queen had stated laying in our honey super. The frames that did have brood on them were swapped out with honey frames from the second box, a very simple method that works with my style of bee keeping. There were also 2 or 3 of them that the queen had laid in, but they were back filled with honey and capped.
I can imagine that you are as anxious as me to find out how we did, so without further delay, let's get this thing started. God's peace to all. Mr. Ed
5 июл 2019
