Want to entice more bees to your vegetable garden? Plant mustard. Bees absolutely love mustard flowers! The pretty, bright yellow flowers produce an abundance of both pollen and nectar for bees and other pollinators.
Candy Solovjovs |
Aug 2020 |
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Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Agriculture (Cropped from original)
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