Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
MEMBER BULLETIN BOARD => GREETINGS/TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF => Topic started by: Lonestarpearl on June 02, 2012, 08:25:30 pm
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Hello to all! I have been an organic gardener for many years and recently been attending the local bee keeper club meetings (and joined the club.) My father-in-law is building a top bar hive for my family while I have been doing research (educating myself about bees) - there is much to learn! I am interested in talking to anyone who has a top bar hive and some advice for a newbie.
A little about where we live: our neighborhood has large lots (2.5 acres or more) where we are allowed to have livestock and poultry (we have chickens and guineas). We have a large vegetable garden and serveral flower beds. We also have many mesquite trees in the neighborhood which I have been told the bees work in spring (bloom time) and we have a few fruit trees in our yard. We also have been planting blooming bushes and shrubs in preparation for getting a hive. I have tried to get clover established in parts of our yard but last year we had a drought so it didn't do so well (I will keep working on that.)
I look forward to getting to know other people who love gardening and bees!
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Welcome to the forum. I do have a tbh but it has frames. I had built the tbh and a guy in the club I'm in gave me some bees in a tbh nuc. I hadn't opened them until I got them home and they had built their comb on the sides none on the bars. I built frames on my topbars where I could tie the comb in. Since I need a few done that way when ahead a did the entire hive. Works pretty good. On you planting flowering plants, I have also, but they range huge areas. Good luck with your bees.
Joe
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Welcome to the forum.
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Welcome to the site!
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Thank you for the welcome and the info about your tbh.
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Welcome to the forum Pearl.