The big broccoli heads have long been harvested. About every other day, I walk down the broccoli row and snip off the florets. We've had broccoli in our fridge non-stop for at least a couple of months because of this. All good things must come to an end. But it's not really the end, is it? When the florets aren't harvested, they flower. Beautiful yellow flowers fill the garden. Broccoli seed pods are forming and when these ripen and turn brown, I'll save a multitude of seeds since these are non-hybrid. It'll soon be time to remove the broccoli plants and plant another crop, I'm thinking peppers, to fill that spot. The broccoli flowers, apart from being pretty, attract our honeybees which are located just west of the garden. During the day, bees dart this way and that around the broccoli flowers.
I like to watch the bees hard at work pollinating, flying greedily from one flower to the next. You can hear the buzz as they work. What an industrious creature is the bee!
Busy as a bee! You can see why that phrase is repeated.
Stay tuned for more reports on the bees. We've got lots to tell you. Bees moved back into our hollow column on the side porch. We also have a couple of swarm traps set in the yard. Finally, we'll be attempting on our second try to make splits. More to come on all this later.
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