Coming Soon!!!

I hate it when I pass a construction site in town, and there's no sign that tells what is being built. I'm nosy and want to know what may be coming soon to our little town.  It is awesome when the construction company puts up a sign that tells all us curious residents what's being built.

Right now in our gardens, it is time to let the pollinators know that spring gardens are coming soon. An easy way to do this is to let your fall and winter vegetables go to seed. Their flowers give early pollinators something to buzz about when there aren't many other flowers blooming.

Arugula gone to seed.

Side shoots of broccoli that have also gone to seed.

The Pollinator Partnership asks and answers this question on their website:

 Why does pollination matter to us?

• Worldwide, roughly 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices, and medicines need to be pollinated by animals in order to produce the goods on which we depend.
• Foods and beverages produced with the help of pollinators include: apples, blueberries, chocolate, coffee, melons, peaches, potatoes, pumpkins, vanilla, almonds, and tequila.
• In the United States, pollination by honey bees, native bees, and other insects produces $40 billion worth of products annually.

Pollinators are important and worthy of our protection. We're going to talk about them more in the coming days.

                                                                        

Love ya'll,

Shelli

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. 

~George Washington Carver

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. 

~Galileo Galilei

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

~William Shakespeare