John from http://www.growingyourgreens.com/ goes on a field trip to the Bee Fest: A Celebration of Pollination in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Wasatch Community Gardens’ Green Team Farm.
In this episode, John will share with you practices you can do to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects into your garden.
You will discover the top way to encourage beneficial pollinators and other insects in your garden by not spraying toxic pesticides and even organic ones.
You will learn how honey bees are not the best pollinators in your garden although they are given much of the credit.
You will discover more about native bees that are even more important for pollination than honey bees. You will learn some ways you can attract native bees to your property.
You will learn how to make a simple mason bee hive to attract solitary mason bees to your property that will assist you in pollinating your plants.
You will discover how other insects can be beneficial for pollination. You will learn the male and female anatomy of flowers so you can pollinate them yourself without pollinators.
You will learn about an app called iNaturalist that will help you identify insects and plants in your garden so you can know if they are good or bad.
You will discover about jumping spiders and how they can help you in your garden. You will learn how one man taught a jumping spider to give him a high-five and wants people to have a connection with other species on the planet.
Finally, you will learn about some of the best pollinator plants you can plant to encourage beneficial pollinator insects to your garden so you can get higher levels of pollination and grow more fruiting crops.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
02:50 Help Support me and buy a GYG tee shirt
03:27 Tour of Bee Festival Starts
04:19 Don’t Spray Pesticides to help the pollinators
06:52 Honeybees pollinate 30% of Crops and How much Honey a single bee produces
09:01 Swarm Trap that works great
11:10 Honeybees in Monoculture
11:59 Native Bees that do the majority of the pollination
16:32 How to Make a Mason Bee Hive and Native Bee Homes in the Dirt
18:53 Insects can help your pollination
20:12 Reproduction Parts of Flowers
21:16 iNaturalist – App for Android or iPhone Insect and Plant Identifier
22:28 Jumping Spiders – Learn about these intelligent spiders that eat bad bugs and can see the stars
25:44 Plant-Pollinator Plants – Learn about some pollinator plants you can grow that will attract pollinators and are also edible.
31:34 Summary / How you can help pollinators and other beneficial insects
After watching this episode, you will learn how to attract pollinators to your garden so you can reap higher harvests and help nature at the same time. You will learn to be more connected with nature and all nature’s creatures on the Earth.
Referenced Episodes:
Harvest the Power of Beneficial Insects:
How to control aphids, spider mites, whiteflies and more
Earthlings Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlBSuuy50Y
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Referenced Links:
Learn more about Catalyst Magazine in SLC
Salt Lake City Green (Pesticide-Free Guide)
http://www.slcgreen.com
Watsach Beekeepers
http://www.wasatchbeekeepers.com/
Learn about Native Bees + Native Bee Poster
http://www.beesinyourbackyard.com/
Bees in Your Backyard Book
App to identify Insects and Plants
https://www.inaturalist.org/
Phidippus Project (Jumping Spider)
http://phidippusproject.com/
https://www.facebook.com/phidippusproject/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD5TrO7xDZdE3OWOYcl3tXg
Grand Prismatic Seed Company (All seeds locally grown/wildcrafted in Utah)
http://www.grandprismaticseed.com/
Video Rating: / 5
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
02:50 Help Support me and buy a GYG tee shirt
03:27 Tour of Bee Festival Starts
04:19 Don't Spray Pesticides to help the pollinators
06:52 Honeybees pollinate 30% of Crops and How much Honey a single bee produces
09:01 $15 Swarm Trap that works great
11:10 Honeybees in Monoculture
11:59 Native Bees that do the majority of the pollination
16:32 How to Make a Mason Bee Hive and Native Bee Homes in the Dirt
18:53 Insects can help your pollination
20:12 Reproduction Parts of Flowers
21:16 iNaturalist – App for Android or iPhone Insect and Plant Identifier
22:28 Jumping Spiders – Learn about these intelligent spiders that eat bad bugs and can see the stars
25:44 Plant-Pollinator Plants – Learn about some pollinator plants you can grow that will attract pollinators and are also edible.
31:34 Summary / How you can help pollinators and other beneficial insects
So stoked to see the Earthlings shout out at the end and to hear you bring up speciesism. Loved this video and would love to see more about insects, birds and other garden visitors.
Another great video
how to find the earthling ?
Nature in Nature
Hi great video, check out flow hives. They have a very cool bee hive, it takes a lot of the work out of making honey.
where to buy the makeshift hive with swarm commander?
T-shirts on sale yet?Bzzt i love bees!
Dang I had a spider in my container garden on the patio and I killed it.
Hopefully some of this helps my predicament. For some reason, no bees in my garden this year and it's drivin me mad.
Phiddipus audax are the bomb. Can't believe u didn't mention how cool their iridescent fangs look.
This is really interesting 🙂 We have quite a few large trees, that flower, and we saw 3 kinds of bees this year (not including the wasps lol). I've been trying to get clippings, and start some trees in pots, so we can encourage them to hang out closer to our garden heh heh.
I love this video. Bees are so important. Thank you for sharing.
Again, can you please turn on closed captioned for deaf gardeners? Did you know you can gain up to at least 500 subscribers if you turn on closed captioning on your videos? Look it up!
You are so awesome John!!! I love waking up in the mornings to see you’ve posted a new video!! I get so excited to see what new subject I’m going to learn today.. I’m a new gardener binged all your videos this year and I’ve learned SO MUCH from you.. I love it!! Keep up the amazing work the universe can only continue to bless you!! Your so informative, I don’t get why people complain about the length of your videos when they have an option of a FAST FORWARD Button!! I hope you don’t let those silly comments get under your skin. Continue being the amazing soul you are!!! I love it!!!
Does creeping charlie have any edible uses? I have a good bit of it and wouldn't want to get rid of it if I can use it
Thanks your a man so much knowledge I've learned so much from you.
Haven't gardener veggies since I was a kid and Grandpa had acres of veggies, along with cattle, a poultry farm and egg ranch in Anahiem, Calif. You got me going this year. Just a couple of raised beds and between flowerbeds. Lettuce, spinach, peas and beans on a fence. Corn, Sunflowers, pumpkin and cantalope vines. Thanks… Having fun at 65 and 8 year old grandkid loves helping and seeing how fast they all grow.
John I'm only 30 miles south of you bro great video.