by Freya Rogers | Nov 5, 2015 |
The weather remained reasonable this year and hive populations stayed high late into the season. So, with plenty of late forage, the bees needed feeding in late September and early October.Although there are many schools of thought regarding feeding, we use sugar...
by Philada Rogers | Oct 16, 2015 |
Dorset Apple CakeCooking apples have been falling for a few weeks now. The sheep help them down by rubbing against the trees, others fall during little bouts of windy, rainy weather. I usually turn to mum’s Dorset WI cookbook from the 70s at some point in the...
by Mark Rogers | Aug 14, 2015 |
Nearly all the colonies have been split now. Some of the new queens from this exercise will create more colonies for increase and some will replace the old queen and make larger stronger colonies for foraging once re-united. Splitting involves opening a hive,...
by Mark Rogers | Jun 10, 2015 |
I’m sat within while it rains outside. My swede aches from too much sun yesterday and a sixteen hour day trying to cram in a fungicide spray around pollination so as not to disturb the bees while they work in the sunshine. Our new accommodation is taking shape...
by Philada Rogers | May 18, 2015 |
Dandelions tend to be labelled as bad guys in the gardening world and we sometimes take a pot of dandelion flowers along to shows to get talking about how dandelion honey tastes so good. Our pics were taken some years ago by Freya in the wilds of Dorset, in a remote...
by Freya Rogers | May 14, 2015 |
Dorset is looking rather lovely at the moment. The bluebells are putting on a spectacular show and our local orchards are now coming into bloom. This means, having removed feeders and split strong hives earlier in the Spring, we’ve been busy moving our bee hives...
