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Bees are essential to life in the vegetable garden so we’ve pulled together some simple tips to help get your garden buzzing.
Whether you grow vegetables, fruit, herbs or a combination of them all, you can easily add plants which will attract beneficial pollinating insects.
In this video we explain why current bee population numbers are in decline and demonstrate how to help improve the situation through planting and planning special bee-friendly areas within your garden.
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Those bee hotels are beautiful!
I just found your channel today-I have never had a garden but your videos are interesting. I am considering planting a small collection of herbs for cooking, along with some veggies and fruits. How do you avoid being stung by all of these bees and/or wasps you are attracting to your garden? Here in Florida we have a lot of them and I am terrified of being stung…..
Excellent video! Thanks. Texas Bumblebees
This week is National Pollinator Week, so to celebrate here is a link to our video… Plant Pollination – How to Encourage Pollinating Bees into Your Garden..In our recent survey which asked what was the single biggest challenge that our customers were facing in their garden 3 answered having to hand pollinate as there were no pollinators left in their area! To me that is more of a worry than any other response so far…plant a few more flowers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuAE4riYuR0
very helpful video for gardening hobbiests. plz can i get some tips for ROSE PLANTS growing.
cheers for video, last year on our allotment we had a vast amount of borage, it proved very successful, the strawberry crop yield was noticeably larger than other years. Just looking for additional options.
I wish more people would allow "weeds" like clover in their yards. A typical neighborhood might as well be a desert when its solid green.
daffodils do not provide pollen for bees ! or am I wrong included in your pictures ?
I attract bees by plant natives to my region that are good nectar producers.
one year I had a broccoli plant get away form me and went to flower . I noticed right away it attracted a hoard of bees, so every year I let one flower.
Great to see that Woodprix has new instructions to save my money and energy to build it.
I have a few plants flowering such as feverfew, Biden, and Basil, and friend next door has enough rosemary for hundreds of bees. In zone 9-10. On the Bay.
Are all flowers attract beneficial insects? Or are there flowers that attract insects that are harmful to your gardens?
4:53. Not a bee. That was a fly that mimics bees.
How do we attract bees to our garden? The same ways you showed in this guide. We also had a massive hive in our attic (live and let bee!) which likely kept our entire village well pollinated…. then it was wiped out by whatever is killing most of the bees here 🙁 One estimate put our hive at nearly a million bees, putting out between 8 – 10 swarms a year… now… they are all gone. Our farm's orchard and gardens suffered badly for it. OUr neighbors all reported great reductions in yields as well.
In preparation for our new outdoor garden we plan to hang up a mason bee or solitary bed hive near our flower bed.
Beehive at Kew
https://youtu.be/3Q5G776oYV8
today i saw 2 blue banded bees buzz pollinating my white melastoma, and it is my first experience of seeing this event. and im so grateful, finally i have a pollinator visitors. also im trying to grow more flowers in my garden right now to attract more pollinator.
Great! Looking for ideas in my apiary this season. This is helpful 🙂
I haven't had much luck (maybe none) attracting pollinators. We live in wild of Central Florida where there is not much wild flowering plants (near the St John's River near Geneva northeast if Orlando). I fear that all the bees are too far away. Any ideas? I'm ready to put up smoke signals to tell them where I am. Or maybe I get my own hive and keep them well fed?
5:11 Don't use netting. Birds get tangled in it.
its all well and good that gardeners do their bit and refuse to buy grotesque and unnatural double flowers,
but unless farmers and large scale landowners change their ways…we humans are f*cked as a species.
we need all of our farmers to put back the hedges they ripped up, all the ponds they filled in and restore the
flower rich meadows they vandalised in the pursuit of profit. i can forgive the wartime generation, who were
incentivised to wreck the countryside, but farmers of the 21st century should be custodians and stewards of
the land and put right what was done out of ignorance by their predecessors.
I love that! I have really started to get more into agroforestry and temperate climate permaculture. I love the idea that with these systems it is almost like harvesting food from wildlife habitat. I find that the bees in my food forest love Comfrey, Cardoon flowers, anything legumous, and really love the early February blossom of almonds and peaches. Thanks for the amazing content!
Great video. With some education, we could see cities and urban areas become more bee/pollinator friendly than monoculture arable.
Lovely, relaxing video. I am limited in mobility so I cannot dig but nevertheless I want to see the bees and butterflies so I have planted seeds and herbs in plastic, supermarket style, containers, and hope that at least some of them survive.
Thank you.
I attract bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to my garden with Cosmos, Tobacco plant, Zinnias and many other pollinator friendly plants. It's awesome to see the show they do flying around the garden.