2017

2017 · December 24, 2017

Today with 10°C and drizzle the lids were lifted off and looked through the cover foils from above. Not all colonies have as many bees as in the picture, but all of them are apparently well. Now it should be really cold, so that the bees can come to rest. Merry Christmas to all followers.

2017 · November 17, 2017

To eat bee honey directly from the comb is probably the most original and natural way to enjoy this genuine organic product. Comb honey is honey from pure natural construction, stored in the comb completely built by the bees. In this natural storage place, the honey is sealed in every single cell by the busy bees with thin wax lids. It can be eaten together with the very fine wax of the combs. Among connoisseurs of beekeeping and purists, comb honey is considered a delicacy. The garden...

2017 · October 30, 2017

Autumn has arrived. While it is cool and rainy outside, the taste of summer with its flowers, warmth, bright colours and rich aromas is captured in the glass.

2017 · October 23, 2017

"Anyone who starts keeping bees and still has colonies after three years, when all the novice dramas have been lived through, no longer has bees, but vice versa: the bees have him." The garden beekeeper can confirm this from his own experience :-) Book at Amazon.uk.com

2017 · October 04, 2017

As a substitute for the extracted honey, the bee colonies receive sugar syrup as winter feed. The garden beekeeper offers the ladies syrup in a 6kg bucket in an empty frame. This empty space is separated with a foil from the brood chamber underneath. The foil is folded over at one corner so that the bees can reach the food through this passage. They consider the empty space as "outside their home" and therefore completely transfer the syrup into the honeycombs in the brood chamber. This happens...

2017 · September 02, 2017

The bees use every opportunity during the shorter days to ingest yellow pollen as protein feed. They need protein from pollen in addition to the carbohydrates from honey to feed the larvae. At present, the offsprings still have to build up bee mass so that they will be strong enough for the winter. In September, the colonies also start raising particularly long-lived winter bees. The flight holes of the offspring colonies are now smaller, so that there is sometimes a traffic jam when flying in...

2017 · August 04, 2017

Of the 4 offshoots transferred to the satellite site, 3 have successfully developed into young colonies, in one of them the mating of the princess did not work out and the colony became drone broody. This colony was swept away, the 3 others were brought back to their home base in the Heilbronn city centre. The garden beekeeper is now going into winter with 3 economic colonies and 5 young colonies, including 2 queens from 2016 and 6 queens from this year's own replenishment. After a tour de...

2017 · July 23, 2017

The finest wax particles, which settle on the surface of the honey jar in the form of a foam during the clarification of the honey within one day, are skimmed off so that the honey in the jar is absolutely clear. The photos show the foam of a harvest of about 40kg honey. One calls this absolute rarity also beekeeper's gold. :-)

2017 · July 15, 2017

Today the garden beekeeper harvested a small but fine quantity of golden brown summer honey, the last harvest for this year.

2017 · July 01, 2017

It takes a little patience and practice to find the queen among many thousands of bees. However, a coloured dot on the royal shoulder makes finding the royal mother much easier. By the way, the colour gives information about the year of birth and thus about the age of the queen. The annual colour for 2017 is yellow. In order to fix the queen for gluing on the colour plate, you can use a special tool in which she is gently pressed into the tapered roof of the cylinder by a soft foam stamp....