How To Attract Honey Bees To Your Organic Garden

The humming of honey bees is something that evokes the sense and feel of an organic garden in an amazing way. They bring a sense of freshness and busyness as they toil among the flowers of your plants. Honey bees play a very crucial role in an organic garden, particularly when it comes to pollination. They facilitate pollination of berries and fruits of all kinds and even a large plethora of different kinds of vegetable crops. The truth of the matter is that bees don’t really need us as such, but we greatly need them.

Considering that the numbers of honey bees have been declining sharply in the recent past, it is something that you do something unique to ensure that they notice your organic garden. This is because if you just wait for them to naturally find their way into your farm, you might have to wait for ages to no avail. Fortunately, it is really not so hard to honey attract bees to your organic garden and some few tricks will really do. You just need to make your garden bee friendly and you will see a large swam of them flocking at your garden. This will go a long way in helping restore the hard hit populations of honeybee and will also ensure that your garden has hefty, healthy bee pollinated crops now and then.

Attracting bees is something that every gardener should consider doing as there are more advantages that come with it. This will considerably help prevent complete disappearance of honey bees. Your organic garden should have a conducive environment, which encourages the bees to visit your organic garden and make them feel at home always. To do so, there are a number of few things that you will need to provide in your garden so that you can attract the bees.

Provide reliable water

One of the things that bees need in reliable and abundant supply is water, particularly during the honey season. Honey bees make use of water for cooling their hives as well as diluting the honey which they use for feeding to their larvae. In fact, scientists have realized that during those extremely hot days, bees tend to spend most of their time ferrying water to their hives instead of foraging nectar and foreign. As such, honey bees will naturally be attracted to an organic garden that has a reliable and abundant water supply throughout.

In this regard, make sure that your garden has a shallow water pond and the bees will be landing there to collect water. Grow lilies or place rocks in the deeper waters so that your bees can have a safe water drinking platform. By so doing, honey bees will easily flock into your land and carry along the sweet honey along with them.

Plant ornamental plants

Perhaps the most important things you can do in your efforts of attracting honey bees to your garden is by planting ornamental plants. Such plants can easily direct honey bees into your garden. However, you will need to keep in mind the fact that not every flower will do and you will need to plant the right kinds of ornamental plants. As far as attracting honey bee to your garden is concerned, you will certainly need plant lures, which are capable of producing a large amount of nectar and pollen. Honey bees are known to identify desirable flowers in the garden by shape, smell and color. So, you will need to do your homework very well to identify the best plants to grow in your garden.

One of the most interesting things you should know is that bees are only capable of clearly perceiving just four colors, i.e. yellow, blue, ultra- violet and blue green. Yellow is arguably the color you will find in most pollen and it is a top favorite for honey bees. You will thus need to ensure that you have numerous ornamental plants in your farm with yellow pollen and this will act as a green light for the bees. You also need to remember that no matter the color of the pollen, if a blossom isn’t capable of providing nectar or pollen in large amounts, bees are going to ignore it totally. Interestingly, most of the modern plant ornamentals like hybrid roses are no longer capable of producing sufficient amount of nectar and pollen. In this regard, consider planting the heirloom or old- fashioned varieties and you will see bees streaming into your garden.

Once you have succeeded in attracting bees to your organic garden, you will need to do your level best to ensure that you provide your bees with adequate protection by eliminating any kind of danger or threat from them. The main danger that honey bees can be exposed to be use of chemicals like pesticides in the garden. You will thus need to remain totally organic and completely spray free in your garden. Use of simple home remedies when controlling pests in your organic garden can really go a long way in saving the bees. 

You will need to know which plants are capable of attracting bees in the best way and plant plenty of them in your garden. Remember that honey bees usually emerge just at the right time so that they can gather nectar and pollen from certain crops. The bees will only forage for just a couple of few weeks and it is thus very important that you ensure your garden has different types of flowers blooming all summer long.

Many herbs and vegetables are capable of attracting honeybees and it is essential that you plant them in plenty in your farm. This is also the same case with most of the easy to grow perennial and annual flowers, trees and flowering shrubs. Once you have found natural bee magnets, make sure that you grow them in plenty. This will help ensure that bees come to your organic garden to stay and bless you with honey.

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