Anyone can help bees by planting herbs, flowers, fruit trees and vegetables that will provide nectar and pollen from their blossoms. The key to any bee friendly garden is to keep it pesticide and herbicide free. There are many natural things you can do to keep your garden plants from being chomped by the bad guys which we will cover in future posts.

If you don’t have a garden, growing on a balcony works well, or, find your nearest local community garden and participate. Helpful for you, others and the environment and a wonderful way to introduce your kids to where their food comes from, something everyone should know, but less and less people are getting access to.

I find that starting off with quick growing useful herbs, flowers and vegetables, is a great way to help the bees, adding fruit trees and native flowers later as you become more experienced and if you have the room.

What you can grow will depend on the time of year seeds and seedlings can be planted. A great start to finding out when to plant in Australia is to visit www.gardenate.com and choose your zone (area) where you live, or check out Annette PSW Seedsaver Facebook page to find out what and when to plant.

A good idea is to choose plants you often use in cooking. Win-win for you AND the bees.

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Send in pictures of your garden herbs in blossom.

Bee seeing you, Seedsaver Annette.