Comments on: Fancy having your own honey? How to start your own beehive https://silvermagazine.co.uk/start-your-own-beehive?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=start-your-own-beehive Generation revolution - your Coming of Age Fri, 20 Aug 2021 15:20:11 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gareth Lewis https://silvermagazine.co.uk/start-your-own-beehive#comment-3964 Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:01:53 +0000 https://silvermagazine.co.uk/?p=3461#comment-3964 Reasonably inaccurate article.
My hive cost less than £5 each to make from reclaimed pallet timber, they are no 7 years old.

Long hives can be extended upward with standard national beehive supers. It’s not rocket science to make an adapter board. I have 8 x 2 colony long hives with std supers on them. 2 of those long hives have been built and painted in a tudor manner and each have supers on them. 2 of my long hives have double supers on them but ainted with soot and beswax to look like a mediaeval church with tower, the top super having inverted jars in it for the bees to draw down comb from.

Each and every hive will require a minimum of 30-45 minutes maintenance each and every week including through the winter.

]]> By: Peter Currie https://silvermagazine.co.uk/start-your-own-beehive#comment-3933 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 14:19:31 +0000 https://silvermagazine.co.uk/?p=3461#comment-3933 Great article, very well written.

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