How To Attract Pollinators To Your Veggie Garden

Some people believe that flowers should simply grow in a flower garden and veggies ought to simply grow in a veggie garden! I have actually always either surrounded my veggie gardens with flowers or I have actually interplanted flowers in the vegetable garden. I know a great deal of you remain in the process of. planning your vegetable gardens. If it’s something you don’t currently do, and I just desire to motivate you to prepare on including flowers this year. It’s a great way to attract pollinators to your garden!

How To Draw in Pollinators To Your Garden.

There are several great factors to include flowers to your vegetable garden.The beauty they add. Although . buddy planting. is an arguable gardening approach (one which I discover interesting), it has been shown that flowers draw in pollinators to a vegetable garden.

A flower’s blooms and scent draws in pollinators that are crucial to the success of your veggie garden. There are some plants that are wind or self-pollinated, many plants require a pollinator.

Who Are Pollinators?

Bees, butterflies, moths, bats, humming birds, beetles,.
flies and wasps.

What do pollinators do?

Generally, your garden requires pollinators like butterflies and bees to transfer the pollen from the male part of your vegetable to the female part in order for fruit to develop. Veggies like peppers are self-pollinating however set more fruit if pollinated by bees.

It is said that bees are more drawn in to flowers that are white, yellow, orange, scarlet, blue, violet and purple such as coneflowers, cosmos, bachelor buttons, zinnias, sunflowers and daisies. Butterflies like yellow, purple and red flowers like asters, calendula, and sunflowers. Hoverflies and wasps like candytuft and daisies.

Borage which in fact is a herb is supposedly one of the very best bee attractors. I’ve never grown it prior to but I ordered some seeds this year so I’ll be attempting it out.

*** A word about my experience with growing sunflowers in my vegetable garden. ***.

One year I utilized massive sunflowers in a 3 sis approach which usually is growing corn, pole and squash beans together and I found that squash beetles liked laying their eggs on the underside of the big leaves of those sunflowers– waaaay on top! I had to climb up on a ladder to get at those squash beetle eggs and had a very difficult time controlling them up until I ripped out those big sunflowers.

I don’t grow the actually high sunflowers in my veggie garden anymore simply the shorter ones!

Pollinators like lots of flowers which is why I frequently plant a container of flowers and place it that the end of a bed. I also devoted one raised bed simply for flowers in 2015.

Some other suggestions for attracting pollinators to your garden

– plant native flowers due to the fact that your native bees are more attracted to flowers that are familiar to them.

– do not utilize chemicals in your vegetable garden. Herbicides and pesticides kill bees and honey bee populations are decreasing as it is! If you should use a pesticide try to do so in the late afternoon or night considering that bees are most active early in the day.

You can find a list of plant names that will draw in pollinators at. Pollinator.Org. All you need to do is enter your zipcode to discover your ecoregion and get a list of plants that specify to where you garden (the list is at completion of the document).

I believe flowers should have to be in all vegetable gardens! Will you be adding flowers this year?