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| + | |style="background:LightYellow" | 2 ||style="background:LightYellow" |Bees in the garden||style="background:LightYellow" |"Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee."<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bees#Pollination Bees, section Pollination - Wikipedia]</ref>||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Swarm of our bees 120602.JPG|120px|]] ||style="background:LightYellow" | A swarm of bees||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Pollination]] | ||
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|style="background:LightYellow" | 1 ||style="background:LightYellow" |Sowing||style="background:LightYellow" |"Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Radish sowing holes.JPG|120px|]] ||style="background:LightYellow" | The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Sowing]] | |style="background:LightYellow" | 1 ||style="background:LightYellow" |Sowing||style="background:LightYellow" |"Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[File:Radish sowing holes.JPG|120px|]] ||style="background:LightYellow" | The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil.||style="background:LightYellow" | [[Sowing]] | ||
Revision as of 15:54, 2 June 2012
- All these tips and more first appeared on this Facebook page.
- List of Daily Gardening Tips gives an alphabetical list of all tips.
June 2012
Day Topic Tip Photo Photo caption More 2 Bees in the garden "Bees play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are the major type of pollinator in ecosystems that contain flowering plants. Bees either focus on gathering nectar or on gathering pollen depending on demand, especially in social species. Bees gathering nectar may accomplish pollination, but bees that are deliberately gathering pollen are more efficient pollinators. It is estimated that one third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination, most of which is accomplished by bees, especially the domesticated European honey bee."[1] 
A swarm of bees Pollination 1 Sowing "Prepare the surface earth well, to make a good seed-bed. Plant when the ground is moist, if possible, and preferably just before a rain... For shallow-planted seeds, firm the earth above them by walking over the row or by patting it down with a hoe [I usually do it with the back side of a rake, or with my hand]. Special care should be exercised not to sow very small and slow-germinating seeds, as celery, carrot, onion, in poorly prepared soil or in ground that bakes. 
The photo shows little holes made with a board with bumps for sowing radish seeds. I cover them with lava gravel or fine soil. Sowing
