Summer last year I managed to find a beekeeping mentor in London to show me the ropes. It is a difficult subject to get on top of as every question has 30 answers. You merely manage by the hive by manipulating it but each action has a set of permutations and then you have the random factor of the bees just doing whatever they want to do.
After much studying through into this year he called me up at the end of March and told me I can collect my bees.
This was the first day, the bees were in the styrofoam boxes and I placed them above their hives so they could learn their new location
The bees grew rapidly in population and both hives wanted to split into two so I ended up with 4 colonies.
And to bring this back to lawns, in preparation for the bees the grass hasn’t been treated for almost 2 years. And the lawn hasn’t bee cut since last year, so it’s turned into a meadow.
To think how much time I wasted scarifying it
