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My first greenhouse was made of cedar 2x2 lumber covered in plastic sheeting. Not greenhouse grade, just maybe 4 or so, possibly 6 mil thickness of the type of plastic house painters use for a drop cloth. We used an electric space heater on an extension cord. It had to have been on a 15 amp fuse because that's all the old house had except for 220 circuits that had been added later for window air conditioners. (Gas oven and water heater.) The fuse would blow every time the overnight low went below freezing. So... we added a second layer of the same type of plastic sheeting, this time stapling the plastic to the inside of the 2x2 (actual measurement 1 and 1/2 by 1 and 1/2). No problems with the fuse anymore! In fact, we had a freak weather event for this part of the country . Several inches of snow with a low of 4 degrees F - coldest I've EVER been in my life! and the temps did not rise above freezing for several days. Inside the double layered greenhouse the temperature was 80F and the snow laid on the top of the outer layer of plastic like a blanket. Amazed me.

My maple mead was good at 6 months...at 12 months it was not good...I don't know why... pc

Awe man, bummer it did not turn out well.

How did you get it installed on the thin metal part of the window? We keep running into an issue with the ones we’ve tried that the metal bracket that attaches to the window hits that bar it’s supposed to close down on. Been rather frustrating 😩 did you have to modify it in some way?? Thanks!

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🤨What was it, that was an acorn.🤭😂

Listen bro. Don't let her buy thise cheap stupid stuff. Go with what your want, not her. He ideas will continue to make you lose time and money.

Hoping to explore more content of yours. Those beeswax window openers are slick. Thank you. Hopefully you are able to get as ready as you need to be for the winter. Salud

your thumbnail looks like somebody wearing a frog suit

Hi, that new wax looks very clean. Is it synthetic? Bees are very reluctant to build on synthetic wax. Use foundation made from genuine beeswax - they will be much happier.

Why would u pull and wait to extract ? Pull extract and give back to the bees to clean or leave to fill up again. I aæways do it in the same day. Honey extract better when hot 🤗

Being a previous black widow breeder and venom collection tech, that big mama jamba would’ve been key breeding stock. The bigger the body means the egg case would’ve been huge. Interestingly, I had two primary sources for my ladies… I’d pay water meter readers 2 dollars a piece for healthy females which they would find in the meters without fail. The other main sources were on the bottoms of honeydew and cantaloupes. Crazy right?

Dead hornets and wasps are great, don't like em don't want em😅 Im sure someone loves them but not me, im a hater😂 when it comes to wasps anyway 😅👍👋

3:12 got pupper peeing

The bees are looking great

Hi😃👋 trade you for weather, we have yet another southerly storm but I got too move some bee's into the thyme migration apairy today so the cooler temperature is helpful for that. Spring in southern New Zealand is definitely being springy😂 not a criticism, just a observation, you might find it easier to pull the sidewall frame out when you're in the bees and give yourselves some working room, personally I pull two frames from the sidewall so I don't roll the queen by accident and I'm not rolling bee's when I put the frames back in. Most beekeepers just pull one out, I just noticed you seem to be having a little trouble manipulating your frame grabber but I've never used one I'm old school 😂 good moves checking the entrances first as part of your inspection, looking at what's going on in the front can tell you a lot about what is going on inside, it's a good habit to cultivate and you identified a problem 👍 we have a related spider to black widows in New Zealand called the katipo, actually it's the only poisonous insect we have but ours love the underneath of floors to set up shop😂😅 hope your mite count goes well in a couple of weeks 😃👍

Ya. If you leave the frames around you will get wax moth. Don’t wait more than a week.

Do you pasteurize? I usually pasteurize my backsweetened meads and let them sit in the carboy and all the honey solids settle after a couple of weeks.

Just filter it and rinse the jug like with a cheese cloth i think it's called

Liked the vid ! How about a raspberry mead ?...I've got a bumper crop of them this year and I'm thinking it just might be interesting.... pc

YES!, Award winning mead makers.

Sounds like you had a good honey harvest this year, congrats! Our chickens sometimes lay eggs in random spots if the other nest boxes are full.

This popped up in my feed but it may be close to harvest time again! I try my best to harvest the same weekend I pull the honey. I started with the bucket and uncapper. You may consider getting a 5 gallon paint strainer bag and putting it in the bucket so you can drain your cappings. Hopefully your knife is sharp, but use a sawing motion if you can. I just use one of our kitchen aid knives and be sure it is very sharp before I start.

Thems killer bees?

How do you go about getting the Bees to start a small give? If they are so low in wild population how are there bee farms, couldnt the state/fed breed billions constantly and up the Numbers? If notbim curious to how you came about your first

When you finish extraction, take anything you need to clean and set it outside at least 20 ft from your hives and let bees rob/clean your stuff !

Those are some scary looking mofos

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Freezer first

Glad to see you back! The temps have been crazy hot this summer, my seedling tress have all burnt up, mostly due to my neglect.

We are in the process of putting one of these up. Not sure about it 😂 I wanted a Planta greenhouse and my husband voted the “ cheaper” one 🤦‍♀️ hopefully it will work for a couple years. Thanks for the video

How is it holding up?

Heat your honey knife in hot water, it works fantastic

AGH - heartbreaking tale. I felt sure the disaster was going to be a full honey bucket collapsing that shaky table and spilling on the carpet. I thin that would be worse, but not by much. Better luck next year. Oh - don't forget to freeze the moth-infested frames before giving them back to the bees. Who knows what eggs and larvae are still viable in there.

A couple of suggestions. One whole wall of work bench. Great for storage underneath and small seed trays and propagation area. Self opening vents. No power required as done with wax and cools in summer and shuts themselves at night. Bout $50. Not sure if it had spouting built in but barrel storage for water is great at one end. You can get solar light and air vent cheap also. Keeping warm in winter is trickier. Without power mass is required. I’d put a row of hay bails around edge that doesn’t have shelf and put pots and trays on this. It will definitely help a few degrees as they absorb heat and release slower at night. Anyway looks like you are on your way!👍 nice

The larvae on your frames were most likely Small Hive Beetle larvae.

Dang, so sorry that happened to you!

I've extracted honey from frames that had some wax moth infestation and I can tell you get the wax moth all strains out!

Great job, assembling ours today.

I always pull extract same day

Pretty hives. Thanks for sharing your time, Blessed Days... I run Russian style vented flat lids, but I built houses for about 15 years. You could drill one or more small holes near the underside of the roof. They don't need to be real large and if you tilt the drill so the hole tilts up, it'll help keep any rain water from running into it. Then add a screen on the inside or outside to keep bugs out. That is what I did on my mating nuc long hive. It'll make it similar to the attic in your house, you can always stuff some fluff in the holes if your worried about Wintering vented.

See you in September , thats a great song title ! Ha ha... bye bye,so long, fairwell .(Frankie Valli ) pc

Hi from southern new Zealand 👋 you're doing great, comb is king, its the second most important thing in a hive apart from a good queen, you absolutely need as much of it as you can get. There is a technique called " checkerboarding" alternating foundation with drawn comb in a super. If you're interested i recommend Peter cowin the bee whisperer, bob binnie and kamin Reynolds who have great videos which will help you draw foundation faster, and theyre north American beekeepers. i use double brood chambers and i also use wooden frames with wax sheeted foundation so much more bee's to work with and the swarming method i use is really time consuming but allows me to draw foundation into comb very quickly, its labour intensive and there's a massive swarming risk association so i wont recommend it for your situation and i suspect bee time management is a bit of an issue for you guys with multiple things on the go. You shouldn't need to attach old comb to new foundation to get it drawn, that foundation looked a little dry to me. A good coating of wax should resolve that issue for you. The noise your little queen is making is called "tooting" its rare to see a mature queen do it but not unheard of, usually virgin queens make the sound especially before they hatch from a queen cell. She's a little small but as long as her pattern is good and the colony is pheromone stable i wouldn't worry about it. Glad you got a little honey 👍🐝😃 great video 👍👋

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Great video, I’m in Victoria Australia and harvested some really dark honey at the end of our last season, any idea what flowers they got that nectar from. Thanks.

Hi, new beekeeper here. I always harvest the same day frames are taken off