>This will be my first year getting honey. I went in today to look for
>problems and to do some frame shuffling. It was suggested that I could
>remove the outer frames if full of honey and replace with empties. They
>were and I did. Some of the frames in the suppers
>are capped also. Why can't I extract them now. People say they don't
>until the end of the season..
 
Extract sealed frames whenever you like. When I had two hives I was
extracting everytime I had 8 frames sealed.  Storing frames until the end of
the season to make it a once only job risks having completely candied and
unextractable frames.
 
Betty McAdam
HOG BAY APIARY
Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
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