peaches look ok

Well it looks like the cold weather over the weekend did not hurt the peach trees. I checked them out tonight. I am so glad. The temperature got down to 30 degree here and the wind helped as well. Lets hope that was it for the cold and bad weather.

peach tree blooms

I took this picture on Friday March27, 2009 with all the blooms on our peach trees. Well after tonight all the blooms will probably be gone. Lets hope it don't get that cold.

Bee tree

This is a tree that had bees in it. We cut the tree in half to expose the bees and the honey comb. We put a white sheet down to work on as it makes it easier to see the bees. You have to watch where you step so you don't step on the bees.

We put the comb from the tree into our empty hive bodies.

We put another hive body with frames in it on top of the other hive body and let the bees go to their new home. Now you hope that you got the queen in the box. Go back in a few days and check to make sure they are doing good.

We will be doing this a couple more times in the next few weeks as we have 2 more trees to get the bees out of plus we have 4 packages of bees coming the first week of April. Right now we have Italian bees and I wanted to try the Buck fast bees.