Embrace organic growing methods by designing a natural garden! These gardens promote soil health, conserve water, and offer a safe environment for pollinators (like our kind bees) to help your plants grow.
Not sure where to begin? Here are five tips for growing a garden that mimics a wild environment, including the benefits of using the natural garden pollinator kit from Kind Bee Farms.
Understand Your Local Environment
Your environment’s climate, soil type, and moisture levels all impact whether certain plants will thrive, so do extensive research to find plants that are suited to your region.
Reputable guides, books, and online sites can provide plenty of information about flowers, herbs, perennials, and other plants that do well in your climate.
You can also get a lot of useful information by talking with experienced local growers!
Incorporate Native Plants
Adding plants that already grow in your area will take your natural garden to another level! Native plants enhance biodiversity, support ecosystem health, and are much easier to maintain than introduced varieties.
For example, gardeners in the Northeastern US States can succeed with plants like American Coralbells, Eastern Blue Stars, and Wild Ginger.
These low-growing plants are already acclimatized to the weather and soil and are easily accessible to our low-flying leafcutter bees!
Avoid Harmful Chemicals
Chemical pesticides and fertilizers, while effective for some things, cause more harm than good. Even organic pesticides can negatively affect the soil, cause overgrowth of weeds and invasive plants, and hurt pollinators!
Combat the power of pests with methods like crop rotation and companion planting. You can also try barriers like mulch and row covers to prevent critters from infiltrating your plants.
Create a Pollinator-Friendly Habitat
If you want your garden to flourish, it needs more than native plant varieties—it needs pollination, too! Flowering plants are the best way to attract pollinators.
Try planting a clover or wildflower lawn. This offers a steady food source and a habitat for pollinators to forage and spread pollen all summer long!
Introduce Leafcutter Bees
You can get your very own natural pollination source by adding a leafcutter bee house to your property!
Leafcutter bees are a lesser-known but very important bee species that can pollinate at twenty times the rate of honey bees—that’s right, twenty times!
While leafcutter bees are not native to North America, they are not invasive and are highly beneficial to the ecosystem.
Leafcutter bees rarely sting and are safe for you to work around (that’s why we call them kind bees)! They are docile, symbiotic insects that won’t compete for space or kill off other essential pollinators.
Get a Natural Garden Pollinator Kit from Kind Bee Farms
At Kind Bee Farms, we provide a natural garden pollinator kit that includes a box of bees, bee tubes, and a wooden house for the bees to nest and lay eggs. Within weeks of introducing leafcutter bees in your garden, you will see an overflow of healthy and abundant growth!
Visit our Shop to order your kit, and check out our blog for more facts about leafcutter bees.