Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Attracting bees to your garden for pollination


This summer, I noticed that lack of bees for pollination in my garden.  I had vegetables growing an inch, drying up and falling off the plant repeatedly.  I learned that my problem was that the plants were not being pollinated.  One day, I dropped a few spoons of jelly around the garden.  Within hours, I had bees all over the place.  I would not recommend going near the bees since they seemed very excited by the jelly.

After a week, the jelly and bees were gone and I checked on my garden.  I had several cucumbers and zucchinis that had grown to a few inches long!  After another week, I had full-size vegetables!  The jelly trick worked!  It would probably work with anything sweet that you put in the garden, so you can come up with your own sweet treat to attract bees to your garden!


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