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We grow cucumbers every year, but it still amazes me how much they can grow in a week!!!

Our greenhouse is full of cucumbers and tomatoes already, and the chillies and peppers are also looking good.

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Not June yet, and the forage is still holding. Spring flow plus early bramble gives us a chance of avoiding the June gap this year.

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The recent rain and now sun have made the gardens burst into colour.
One of my favourites is this clematis — Bernadine — climbing up one of our old trees at the bottom of the front garden. It’s putting on a brilliant show right now.

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Yesterday’s sunshine (what little we had) was enough to get the solar wax melter going.
Cracking bit of kit made by Simon Emms — clean wax out, scrap comb left behind.

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Just a queen having a chat with her subjects

You can pick her out easily — longer abdomen and she moves with a bit more purpose than the workers

She’s been slow getting going this year but today she’d finally got her bum into gear. Nice to see a good few frames of brood at last

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We’re lucky that our apiaries are in stunning locations.

This one turns into a carpet of bluebells every spring, and it never gets old.

Inspections shortly but for a few mins I’m just going to enjoy the view.

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Lovely day at the RHS Malvern Spring Show today, and the bees in this display hive were really putting the hours in.

Beautiful to watch… but I’m very glad our Tyla Glas Bees aren’t that size. One sting from one of these would be enough to ruin my whole week.

#RHSMalvern

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The swarm is being kept well away from our other hives until it’s treated and confirmed disease‑free. Both colonies are settling in nicely.

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Picked up two new nucs earlier in the week — an overwintered 14×12 colony and a swarm from a friend. The overwintered one was huge, thousands of bees pouring out when we opened it, but unbelievably calm after the journey.

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@ElmTreeBees @TheBeeFarmer I hate it when people do that, or hang them on trees 😤

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Any beekeepers out there know of anywhere that has queens available this week?

Need to do some more splits an left it late to order more queens?

Thanks

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@Irmenberga They can do if conditions are right, we buy new queens to speed the process up. But we leave the old queen in the original box with half the bees

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The bees settling into their new location doing orientation flights. We’ll go back down later in the week, once they’ve settled in properly, to have a good look in the nuc.

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@Irmenberga Because we’re looking at splitting these we put a brood extension on rather than moving them to a hive as it makes the splitting process easier

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@Irmenberga No this one isn’t (you can get mini mating nucs). This is just a small hive that holds 6 frames instead if the normal 11/12. We use them for our smaller colonies as it’s less space for the bees to heat, the move them into a normal hive when the colony is strong enough.

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@Irmenberga No, that’s just another hive.

We’ll split the nuc in the next week and leave them in the nuc and then probably split again later on

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The tiny swarm that we collected late last year and looked after all winter has expanded beautifully and is on the move to our Treforest Apiary

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Plenty of bee traffic today, but at only 9°C we didn’t feel it was safe to open the hives and risk chilling the brood. First inspection postponed for a warmer day

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The garden bees were full of spring energy earlier. This colony was only at home for winter after arriving as a late swarm — once we split them in a few weeks, they’ll move to our out‑apiary. 🐝💛 #Beekeeping