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Linden in July
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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
Linden, also called lime and, in North America, basswood, comes in early July, just as the main flow is fading. Its honey is very light with a greenish cast and tastes unlike anything else in the year: minty, woody, faintly medicinal.
It crystallises at a medium to fast pace, and it carries a moderate premium over clover, which is worth remembering on the day the box comes off. The window is short.
A super put on for the linden and taken off when the linden ends holds linden honey.