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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Attracting More Bumblebees in Your Garden

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

You already know bees are vital for your garden...but you're having a hard time getting them to actually COME to your garden! Learn 5 things you might want to try. Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to this buzz in episode of the epic gardening podcast now for a while people

0:07.9

Circulated a gardening myth that bumblebees are physically unable to fly.

0:12.5

Well, that's clearly not true because the laws of physics

0:15.2

show them flying in the real world.

0:17.6

But that's not what today's episode is actually about.

0:20.0

Today's episode is about how to get bumblebees in the garden. So we know they fly, the laws of physics

0:26.2

allow for it, and they fly all over the place, but we want them to fly into our garden.

0:31.5

So how do we get that to happen? Well I'm going to give you five, six,

0:35.3

maybe even seven, who knows, tips on how you can do this. Number one, they need cover.

0:42.2

So bees kind of need a break from the sun and the heat, just like a plant wood.

0:46.0

You might want to give them a little bit of ground cover as a place to hide out between their feedings and their flying.

0:52.0

You can use something like

0:53.5

Koleus or you can grow any sort of ground cover type plant outdoors. Just some

0:59.1

shade. Number two, give them something to drink.

1:04.0

So if you've ever run into like a really big bumblebee in the garden that seems sort of slow,

1:09.0

chances are good that it might actually be dehydrated. So bees just like other creatures can get dehydrated.

1:16.3

One thing you might want to do is have a garden fountain going or have shallow dishes of water

1:21.4

around the pond or around the garden just to make sure that that's not a problem.

1:27.0

Number three, try Bee Baum. Well, it's got the name Bee Baum, so chances are good that it will attract bees.

1:37.0

There are a ton of unique and beautiful looking bee bombs that will both beautifier garden and introduce bees. So buy them, give them a try.

1:47.4

Number four. So bees love certain colors. They don't see color quite like we do, however they do see it, so they

1:56.6

are signaled by certain colors as to what might be a profitable opportunity for them to go pollinate. So they love blue, they love

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