IN THE GARDEN
Go for heirlooms ~ they taste better
T
hey may look funny, be
smaller, and in some
cases they are less
convenient to prepare, but
there's no doubt that heir-
loom fruits and vegetables
have a far superior taste, with
more intense flavours and
often better textures, than
modern hybrid varieties.
For, modern hybrids are bred
with factors other than flavour
in mind. Factors that are bred
into modern hybrids which
set them apart from their
BEEKEEPING
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excluder should there be one
During this operation he may as the queens need to fight to
come across a weak swarm
kill the weaker one, place a
with obviously an old and
sheet of newspaper over the
failing queen. It is futile to
receiving super and invert the
spring clean such a swarm. It weak brood chamber over
is a waste of time and two
the receiving hive. After a
costly frames of foundation
week return and remove the
wax. The only answer is to
inverted brood chamber and
unite this swarm to another
shake any bees into the
hive ~ quite a simple
receiving hive's super.
procedure. Select a receiving Return to the honey house to
hive, perhaps the one
deal with all the brood frames
immediately next to this weak collected from the hives.
hive, smoke first, then remove Select the lighter combs and
the lid and super off the weak cut out the honey from the
hive, smoke the receiving
frames and dump into a drum
hive, remove the queen
to be heated in a double
o
boiler not exceeding 70 C.
Do not mix dark frames with
light frames as all the honey
will be dark and undesirable.
The mixture will melt and
after cooling the wax and
muck will form a solid pack
above the honey.
The wax can be lifted off and
melted and cast into moulds
for trading for future foundation sheets.
The honey is then tapped off
and collected.
The black combs can be
returned to another apiary
and p