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I once had to build a vegetable on very shallow stony ground that had been used only for pasture. So I used sods to make raised beds. I just marked out where the bed was to go, and then cut all the ground inside the markers into sods. I used the sods like bricks to make walls all around the bed, tur...

Horray. It is good to find so many people discussing top bar hives. :lol: They really are the best way to keep bees. Someone mentioned 'dissappearing bees'. One reason this can happen is that the hive swarms, leaving behind a virgin queen. The fertile queen was the one that left with the swarm. Then...