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What a flow actually is
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- The two-kilometre circle
- Why six kilometres costs more than it brings
- Three and a half kilos of nectar
- What a flow actually is
- Maple, willow and the first dandelions
- Fruit blossom and hawthorn
- The main flow: black locust and clover
- Linden in July
- The gap in the middle of the year
- Goldenrod and the winter stores flow
- Ivy, the last flow
- Oilseed rape, the flow that sets in the comb
- What makes a jar monofloral
- Putting a super on at the start of a flow
- Pulling it at the end
- Reading a capping percentage
- Eighteen point six percent
- Honey that ferments
- Crystallisation is physics, not spoilage
- Creaming by the Dyce method
- A year of varieties and what each is worth
A flow is a period, not an event.
- the spring build-up, about mid-March to early May, six to eight weeks of early pollen and light nectar that goes into brood rather than into supers
- the main flow, mid-May to late June or early July, four to six weeks: the primary surplus-honey period of the year
- the summer dearth, mid-July through August, four to eight weeks and the lowest nectar of the active season
- an autumn flow of two to four weeks, late August into September, usually lighter than the main one