Tomato blooms, that is. Each day there are more and more of these beautiful little yellow flowers on the tomatoes. I know that after the fertilization of the flower, fruit starts to grow!! However, a problem is becoming apparent. I have not seen any bees in the last few weeks. I know that my growing garden needs these little kings of the garden in order for the beautiful flowers to turn into something edible.
When we had 2 days of spring in March, I marveled at the buzzing all over the garden. They were everywhere. However, as we are now actually in summer, not a buzz to be heard. Although we have a yard full of lavender, rosemary and flowering thyme, not a bee to be seen. This weekend I added a large yellow yarrow near some of the new raised beds hoping to draw bees to that area of the yard. I need to do more research on what will be a draw to the bees.
Off to bed...then in the morning, off to the dirt!
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