I've meaning to sort this out for months but used "i'll do it in winter" as an excuse to save me a lot of un-necessary hacking and slashing. My out apiary is on a nature reserve, nicely tucked away behind some brambles. We originally cleared the area and put down a lot of mulch/wood chippings about this time two years ago. By last summer you pretty much needed a machete to get to the hive and as quick as I could clear the space around the hive weeds were ...
Updated 15-01-2012 at 05:34 PM by Neils