by Matt Gibson If you would like to attract a continuous visitation from various butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden (who wouldn’t?), consider adding butterfly weed to your flower garden beds this season. The one and a half to two and a half foot-tall perennial … [Read more...]
How to Build a Bee Habitat
by Matt Gibson It is no secret that bees and plants have a symbiotic relationship: Bees feed on plants’ nectar, and in turn, the bees carry pollen from flower to flower, helping create new generations of plants. For a robust garden that entertains all sorts of visitors, create … [Read more...]
Raising Honeybees for Beginners
The first step in beekeeping is to understand what the activity will entail. Beekeeping is fun, rewarding, and produces one of the most sought after commodities in the world: honey. On the down side, it requires a time commitment and some knowledge. The tradeoffs are good, … [Read more...]
Tips For Better Pollination
For many garden plants, pollination is the key to successful fruiting (the food product) and is essential for seed production if you plan to save seeds for the next year. For perennials, pollination is usually key to keeping the plant going year after year. Interference of … [Read more...]
How to Grow a Honey Bee Garden
Bees pollinate over 100 agricultural crops in the United States, including almonds, citrus, apples, melons, plums, avocadoes, cranberries, strawberries, and sunflowers. Without bees, many of our food crops would fail. About one-third of our food crops rely on … [Read more...]