Dakota Gardener: Attract bees to your vegetable garden
Almost all cucumber, melon, pumpkin and squash flowers require pollination by bees to produce fruit. (Flickr photo by Swallowtail Garden Seeds)
We need bees to grow a productive vegetable garden. Almost all cucumber, melon, pumpkin and squash flowers require pollination by bees to produce fruit. Without bees, there would be a worldwide shortage of zucchini.
A very sad thought, indeed.
Tomato, pepper and eggplant flowers do not need to be pollinated by bees, but the vibration of bee wings on their flowers can increase yields.
