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Category: Busy Work
Honey Supers For All
We added an extra another honey super to every hive today. That makes a total of 14 supers total (3 x 10 frames plus 11 x 8 frames = 118 total frames). We should have a nice honey crop this year. I will now leave the hives untouched for 3-4 weeks and see what happens. When we inspect in mid-July we will hopefully have lots of capped honey, built out foundation, copious amounts of healthy brood, and no mites or hive beetles.
Additional actions of note today included …
Continue reading “Honey Supers For All”Frame Assembly
We finally bought some new medium frames today so we can add more honey supers. Once I got the routine down it only took about an hour to assemble them. I could have purchased them already assembled for $1 more per frame, but since I bought 40 I decided to save the $40 and do it myself.
