Again, trying to bring stuff back from the fragments of my mind. It seems to me that when one puts sugar on top of the frames, with the newspaper below, that it can hold an incredible amount of sugar in there. I am not sure if a shim is necessary, the room between the top bars and the inner cover is quite great.
Does anyone recall a post being made about this amount of room? I wonder where I got this memory from, a little help here would be good.
Kathy, define clearly how you put dry sugar on the colony for wintertime. I have always wondered deeply about this.
I know that I have a hole in my inner cover that I sometimes leave the plug just a little bit open so I can put feed on top of the inner cover (with a shim in place so I can put LOTS in there, like honey stuff). This allows bees to move up onto the inner cover that is warm because of the heat from the colony. I was thinking of putting dry sugar on top of this inner cover as extra insurance, but do wonder if it would work as well as right over the top bars, thinking, thinking, thinking. Have that most beautiful day, health. Cindi