UMN Extension Fall Cleanup for Pollinators
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Is your garden and yard pollinator friendly ALL year 'round? Extension Educator Julie Weisenhorn shows you how to adjust your fall cleanup routine to help pollinators through the fall and winter. Make your landscape home to native pollinators--it's Smart Gardening!
So glad that I was referred to this channel. Thank you for the great info. I just retired and decided to try gardening. My husband has the "Green Thumb" in our family, but his health has prevented him from gardening. Going to take your suggestions. Thanks for educating me.
thanks, Julie I will be sharing your ideas tonight during a presentation for a community group.
I know 0 about bees and gardens--can't tell a weed from a flower--when I found a nest of bees in my yard, I loved it, and wanted to feed them. Learned so much by calling around, and found this video, such a great help to me---and I don't have to be so tidy! Thank you.
Question; if we don't cut back the stems to 18" but leave the spent flower heads on them throughout the winter can the bees still get into the hollow stems??
Yes! Bees will tunnel in or enter through cracks.
I live in Colorado and my native yard comes under attack from neighbors each year because I don't cut back plants or clean up leaf litter to much. Yet I have pollinators, yard snakes, and birds. A healthy habitat! Too many don't know that these native habitats are home space to beneficial insects, and critters. At least one household in my neighborhood knows. Why don't more people understand especially with what is going on with climate change!
Will those eggs survive the harsh winter?
Insects have evolved to survive the difficult conditions we have in Minnesota. But there are always exceptions. The best way we can help is to manage landscapes that are good for pollinators.
We cant be entirely sure, but hope they do! They have a better chance of surviving if the bees have the right habitat and food sources.