Plant Pollination - How to Encourage Pollinating Bees into Your Garden

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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. If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers: http://www.GrowVeg.com http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com http://gardenplanner.almanac.com and many more... To receive more gardening videos subscribe to our channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=GrowVeg

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I've found quite a few plants that defiantly do attract bees etc. I have a 'postage stamp' size back garden, I use pots due to mega heavy clay ground in Birmingham UK. Jasmine beesianum is brilliant for bees when its in flower. A general mixture of wild flower annuals/perrenials in pots is really good too. I use a 'mix and match' approach with plants as I want bees, birds and anything else that's garden wildlife friendly. Just the Wood pigeons that are quite a menace as they trample pot plants down and make a mess mostly.

daffodils do not provide pollen for bees ! or am I wrong included in your pictures ?

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.

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.

very helpful video for gardening hobbiests. plz can i get some tips for ROSE PLANTS growing.

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

Excellent video! Thanks. Texas Bumblebees

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.....

Those bee hotels are beautiful!

I dont know about bee hotels but I have been successfully growing a wide variety of veggies since 2010 and last year added fruit canes. I have bushes and wildflowers that we dont fertilze or put pesticides down for so that the bees are welcome. I am highly allergic to bees and wasps so that is a huge exercise in trust for me. I find I must keep my epipen with me at all times once things have sprouted and bloomed. As for what I grow and have available exactly, well here goes. I have roma tomatoes, cucumbers, various lettuces, corn, green peppers, potatoes, beets, four herbs (dill, parsley, oregano, and basil), Last year we added the following fruits, strawberries, dwarf cherry bush, boysenberries, blackberries, red raspberries, black raspberries. As for flowers or flowering bushes or wildflowers; we have evergreen bushes that flower once a year, we have three different colors of azaleas, we have a wild rose bush, a lilac bush, three bushes I cant even tell you what they are but ALL flower. We leave the dandelions, crocus, daffodils, white clover, and purple little wildflowers that are ground cover alone. We cut the grass once every other week but not down to the nub so the flowers live. In fact the ONLY bush that doesnt flower is the boxwood. So I hope they find all that palatable and friendly. I will not put up hotels as we rent and our neighbors and landlord would have a fit. I will consider a wildflower garden on the west wall perhaps next year if we are still here. Thanks for listening.

Great Video! I just purchased my first bee hive and pick up the colony next weekend. I never thought about single flowers versus double flowers in regards to the amount of pollen a bee can collect. Great to know! Thanks!

Never realized single v double flowers were so important, thank you. ~ We stay organic, at all costs and have bee loving echium, passiflora, a variety of jasmines, roses, buddleia, osmanthus, numerous fruit trees and herbs plus so much more... Life is grand here in the Golden State!

Excellent video! I'm going to make more of an effort to attract bees to my garden this year. Thank you!

So true

I allow some of the early flowering weeds to grow. In my garden, that includes the purple deadnettle. It's easy to turn under and quick to break down before planting, but the bees, especially honey bees, really like it. It's flowering during a time when they need a boost out of the winter and there's not so much for them to find. As a compromise, because there are inevitably other weeds, too, I eat the tasty ones like chickweed, plantain, and dandelions! So I actually get a jump on my garden harvest!

Do bee hotels really work? I've heard contradictory statements on these lines. One other thing: would you recommend anise hyssop, and, if so, would you have thoughts of plants that would compliment it on either end of the seasonal cycle? Thanks!

Great video. I'm growing mammoth sunflowers! Along with tomatoes, peppers and cukes.