Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Pets without Feathers => Topic started by: moonrakermagpie on March 27, 2010, 21:46
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Hi,
Do you need a licence to keep Bees on a council allotment?
Is there much day to day work involved?
Cheers
Steve
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Are you thinking of keeping bees on an allotment?
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Are you thinking of keeping bees on an allotment?
Yes!!!
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You need to check with your particular allotment as all have different rules. Some people keep them but in order to help the bees go upwards rather than upsetting their neighbours they put a 6 feet high fence around the hive.
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Does it say you are allowed bees in your tenancy agreement. They are not allowed as a right like hens and rabbits.
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Is there much day to day work involved?
Cheers
Steve
This is a question I would like answering because I am considering keeping bees once I have my allotment organised (a few years yet).
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Plenty of time to mug up or the regs. and go on a bee course then Digger Tom :)
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your best joining www.beekeepingforum.co.uk to ask about the day to day work needed , all depens on what hive you have , they say a new beekeeping (like myself ) its best to look/check in more offen so you learn more quickly about bees and what they get up to , hope that helps :)
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There are lots of different hive types and styles of beekeeping.
You can learn a lot without having to open the hives by having a glass panel as one of the walls.
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There are lots of different hive types and styles of beekeeping.
You can learn a lot without having to open the hives by having a glass panel as one of the walls.
True but im just going on what books ive read and been told, plus alot of peopel say having glass panels can be fiddley to fit and can sometimes cause condensation , but as you said theres so many different styles and so many ways to do things , today i found an old beekeeping book from 1943 in an old book shop , tells you more about skeps than anything else ,