Nacent yellow squash
Originally uploaded by McBeth
If you’ve ever grown a vegetable garden, then you know that some plants depend on insects for pollination. For example, female squash blossoms are often open for pollination for only a day or so, and if they’re not pollinated, they’re wasted. You can always get to work with a tiny paintbrush and make sure the flowers get the pollen they need, but a better way to avoid losing potential fruit is to borrow or rent a hive of bees from a beekeeper. You’ll end up with an amazing amount of most vegetables, and while it won’t be as sweet as tupelo honey, the beekeeper will get plenty of liquid gold from his hive of busy little employees.
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Bees are wonderful & work so hard to increase our supply of fruit and veg. Such a pity so many of them are disappearing with this new disease.