Planting for Bees

The gap in the year is more valuable than the peak. Mid-summer, when the spring flow is over and the autumn one has not started, is when colonies eat their own stores and start robbing each other. A strip of phacelia or borage flowering into that gap is worth more to your bees than another acre of clover in June.

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1. A quarter hectare in a circle of 1,260
2. Reading a bloom window
3. Where the year sags
4. The gap is worth more than the peak
5. Nectar plants and pollen plants
6. Willow, the first pollen
7. Phacelia, six weeks from seed
8. Borage
9. Sowing for a date
10. A strip sown too late
11. White clover in the grass
12. A meadow takes two years
13. Lavender is for the bees, not the jar
14. Heather, the gap's own honey
15. Fruit trees and the years before blossom
16. A lime tree for the next keeper
17. Black locust
18. Ivy on the fence
19. Nothing to water, nothing dies
20. What a planting can name on the jar
21. Siting the hive matters more