I took another super off of Justine. It was 7 very full frames of honey and it gave me about 25 pounds more honey. There is one more super full of honey on Justine, but I may leave that there for the winter. She has two hive bodies full of honey and combining that with the super she should be more than fine. I’ll rob the last super in the Spring after she wakes up again.
I ran out of bears. I ordered a case of 12 ounce bears – that’s 285. It is hard to imagine that I will pack up this much honey.
I have 4 hives with three supers on each. Justine and Ethel had 4 supers, but the top super had drawn comb but no capped honey.
If I take two supers off of Ethel, Connie and Martha, that is 150 pounds of honey that would well over 200 bears, depending on how much honey I get from each super. I have about 20 pounds in a bucket waiting for bears. I am not sure how to sell all of this honey.
I will take off a day maybe this week or next to do some more harvesting. I am getting better at it so I will try doing 2 supers at a time and maybe I can do all 6 in a day.
The honey was very dark as apposed to the spring honey which was practically clear it was so light. The honey was from summer and fall flowers, although I never see the bees on out garden flowers. They come in with baskets of dark red or orange pollen, but I can’t guess where they get it.
My honey spinner worked, but it tends to buck when I have it loaded with full frames. When I do the second side, there is less of a problem with it. I am working out the bugs and taking pictures. I’ll try to post a few here when I get time.
