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You'd better get the box full of frames before you get a bunch of messy comb.
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If you put a fence or trellis 8 to 10 feet or more in front of the entrances people are less likely to cross paths with the bees as the flight path will be out and up over the fence and over peoples heads versus out into pathways. It does have the downside of obscuring the view on the entrances so getting a read on the hives is harder, depending on the view point.
What does that mean when they swarm??? They want out?
I love your chill reaction to what happens each day.
Can we see fred in the next video
You should never have to apologize for the way you do something.
I love how you give channels credit that have helped you!!
They need more space just add another box
sweet potatoes are forgiving of poor soil, but they grow better in better soil
I want all the bees. LOVE IT
Well, Miah, it looks like you are going to be a pro beekeeper by the end of this year! Lol! Go, Miah! Go!
Hi Jess and Miah. Love your Vlog. Its such fun. My man worked for commercial beekeepers for a number of years and at one stage we had 100 hives ourselves. Have you been in contact with your local Beekeeping association or equivalent. In some countries they have field days where new players like yourselves are able to attend and pick the brains of people that keep bees for a living. You can learn such a lot. It is difficult to talk with authority when you cant actually see hands on what is happening, one of the reasons bees swarm is when they do not have enough room in their hive. In spring its a good idea to check your hives on a regular basis to ensure they do have enough room for the queen to continue laying and for the workers to keep laying down honey. If they don't then you add another box.
Congrats you are now an official bee wrangler 🙂
Hi. New here. Ya are a lot of fun.
You should check into a harvest right freeze dryer
Love your videos! Seems like it would help pollination if you put bees spaced out around your gardens. Just thinking out loud, I have no idea lol.
Looks like it is time for more hives or to sell some nucs.
I want to do beekeeping but I have 2 issues that keep me from doing it, we'll if you count the fact that I don't really love honey, three. but isn't it really bee spit or bee puke? really, why is it OK to eat something that comes out of insects? second isn't it stealing all of the honey after the bees have worked so hard to gather and prepare and store it up? it's like raiding a village and stealing all of the food they have except for a little bit? I am very serious about these feelings.
take a look at Charles Dowding he is a british grower but most of what he teaches you could use, it is a no dig method but very interesting x
Did you design that room? I love your style!
Miah is truly beeing…
You should get one Flow Hive!!! I want some but live to close to neighbors and have a bear that visits our blackberry bush…which is the only area we could put bees.
Tomatoes are my favourite thing to grow. To be honest if I had a greenhouse full of tomatoes I would be happy.
Love Ben popping up in shot Ben being Ben! Grin!!! Keeps in fam real!
I'm excited to see how your sweet potatoes do. I want to grow some too here in Tucson,AZ. Blessings!
I can’t find garden markers in stores
Look at all them bees
If you see bees have a lot of honey and the bees are hanging out a lot outside of the boxes, it is time to split the hive. Harvesting the honey and adding boxes also helps because they will have more room and they need to have a reserve of honey so the swarm will eat half the honey before they leave, and the remaining bees will live off the honey and foraging until the new queen is able to start laying. Swarms are bees that are full of honey. They are usually not aggressive and they are just looking for a home and protecting the queen who has been starved so she can fly and can't fly very far. During swarm season, you can put out swarm boxes about 25 ft away from your hives in a tree works best to capture them. They will usually swarm to the same spot or in line with the same spot every year. Old frames with wax comb and a couple of frames of honey is usually a nice fixer upper home for a swarm. They like it better than a brand new box with only foundation.