If you're at a loose end next Saturday we need you on the Apiary! We've got a lot of work to get done before Colin and I leave for Nepal on 28th Sept and we'll be gone a month. We've treated all our colonies for Varroa and almost completed our winter feeding programme but I digress, back to the list of jobs for Saturday. 1/ Tidying up- not just a little light sweeping or litter picking- no, the sheds are in chaos and the various "lay down" areas are very untidy. 2/ A final inspection of the Bees to make sure they've got the stores they need to carry them through the winter and are as free as possible of Varroa. 3/ There are numerous perenials to plant out and Colin is threatening to bring a load of foxgloves to site. 4/ We have to dress a few Kenyan Hive top bars with wax starter strips and fit them to the Top Bar Hive on site. 5/ If there's any time left there's a couple of tons of soil to dig out of the new Pond.
As an incentive there will be free tea and some snacks including my famous honey fruit cake for the workers.
Barry
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