Go with the flow

Weather: Cloudy, threatening rain
Temperature: 18C
Stings: None

Rain stopped me visiting on Wednesday so I dropped in on Saturday to do the quick tasks I'd set myself for this week.

I think I'm going to have to take a more scorched earth policy to tidying up the plot. I've only left it for a week or so and already lots of the grass and undergrowth is growing back. If the weather is good this week, and maybe even if it is not, then I'll have a good go at it and try to clear a lot of it up. I think I need to lay down sheets that stunt the weeds so they don't come up again.

The main flow is now well and truly on. The bees have filled one super and that's all I want to take from them so now I'm going to concentrate on them building up stores. To that end I swapped out one of the brood frames and put it with some others in an upper brood box. The one downstairs is undrawn so hopefully they'll get that made up and start filling it with honey ready for the winter. I'm going to get some more brood frames so I can get them started on those and really build up the frames. I'm conscious that I regularly don't have enough so need to get a few in the bank. Of course, it could go horribly wrong and I might end up with just a few half drawn frames if I've misjudged the timings.

If it goes well, and I'm right about my estimate that the flow has been delayed a bit they could be very well set for the winter. I also put the extra frames in because I wanted to give them a bit more room. That approach has its dangers as with too much room they tend to do the jobs that are in front of them rather than the ones I want them to do.