Last year was my first year to harvest and being a little excited, I took the honey probably a little earlier than I needed to. After placing the supers back on the hives, the bees filled the supers about half full. I didn't take the honey but left it for them over the winter. They didn't touch it. This year, because of the rain, the bees didn't increase the honey in those supers at all and I'm planning on taking it pretty soon and just leaving them with a couple of deeps. Now, we have a plant around here called "snow on the prairie". I had never heard of it until this year and they say that it will taint the honey. Since those supers were on all year, I'm wondering if they put some of the snow nectar in the supers. If you were going to take that honey, would you just do a little tasting of the frame before you extract it? I'm thinking if I run my finger through a couple of cells and it tastes good, I'm good to go on that frame. Make sense?
