New Beekeeper in New Jersey

[littlelake]

Hi there everyone!  I am a new beekeeper, having received two packages of bees just one month ago.  Had a week of warm, sunny weather and the hives were going gangbusters - now all my little bee buddies are clustered and cold in all this rain.  But I shall press on and keep planting more flowers and boiling up that sugar syrup. 

[AllenF]

Welcome to the forum.

[Shanevrr]

Welcome to the forum.  FYI flowers are pretty but unless your planting 100 acers of them, not much use to the bees.  Also I dont heat my water for syrup.  I just use a gallon milk jug put 5 lbs of sugar in it and fill to about 3 inchs from top of hot tap water and shake the hell out of it with some honeyb healthy.