Beekeeping for Gardeners

Name: Beekeeping for Gardeners
Brand: Gurneys
SKU: 10968
Price: 25.99 USD
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By Richard Rickitt

Support your garden—and the planet—by inviting bees into your backyard! Beekeeping for Gardeners is a beautifully illustrated, step-by-step guide designed for gardeners who want to nurture pollinators and harvest honey responsibly. Richard Rickitt, an award-winning beekeeper and co-editor of BeeCraft, offers practical advice on setting up hives, managing colonies and caring for bees through the seasons—all with a focus on ecological balance.

This guide covers:

Choosing hive types, tools, and locations
Seasonal hive maintenance and swarm control
Sustainable practices that benefit honey bees, wild bees like bumblebees and solitary bees, and overall garden health
Selecting plants that provide year-round nectar and pollen—from window boxes to orchards

Richly detailed with over 400 color photos, this book brings together beekeeping and gardening into one seamless, engaging hobby. Whether you're a beekeeper curious about gardening or a gardener ready to keep bees, this guide helps you create a vibrant, buzzing ecosystem at home.

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Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.
The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.
Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.
In all cases, we choose the fastest, most efficient way to send your orders via the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. Large orders or large items may be shipped to you in multiple packages.
Sorry, we cannot ship products to Hawaii, Alaska, APO/FPO or outside the contiguous United States. Please provide a street address as some products are unable to be delivered to Post Offce boxes.

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Plants will be shipped at the proper planting time for your area of the country using the shipping time frames outlined in the table. We continually monitor weather conditions for extreme hot or cold and adjust shipping schedules as needed. Due to hot weather conditions, we are unable to ship most plant items in July and August. Items that are overweight will require an additional shipping charge depending on
weight.

The type of product you order or the weather in our area to yours may affect the anticipated shipping schedule, shifting earlier or later, depending.

Trees and shrubs are kept in the nursery row until full dormant for optimum stress protection.