{"id":2044,"date":"2021-03-26T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-430\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T07:02:58","slug":"garden-tip-430","status":"publish","type":"tool","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-430\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Tip #430"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pollinators need our help. Not just because humanity&#8217;s food supply relies on pollinators, but because invertebrates are the backbone of a healthy ecosystem. Concerned gardeners will find guidance and an action plan in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=18240\">The Pollinator victory garden: win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening: how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators<\/a><\/em> by Kim Eierman (2020). <\/p>\n<h4>Eierman&#8217;s Tips for a Pollinator Victory Garden<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t use pesticides of any kind, including organic; and avoid buying nursery plants treated with <a href=\"https:\/\/xerces.org\/publications\/scientific-reports\/how-neonicotinoids-can-kill-bees\">&#8220;neonics.&#8221;<\/a>  A quality nursery should be able to tell you whether their plants have been treated with this systemic pesticide.<\/li>\n<li>Create over-wintering habitat by leaving some fallen leaf litter on the ground. Soil organisms will also appreciate the leaf litter.<\/li>\n<li>Create growing season habitat for solitary, ground-nesting native bees by leaving a sunny, sandy patch of soil free of mulch. Then watch out for little mounds with a hole in the center, kind of like a tiny volcano, for evidence of a bee making a nest for her larvae.<\/li>\n<li>Native pollinators prefer native plants, and some rely exclusively on native plants. Eierman compiled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecobeneficial.com\/pvg\/pollinator-plants-for-the-pacific-northwest-region\/ \"> list of plants for the Pacific Northwest<\/a> on her website, <a href=https:\/\/www.ecobeneficial.com>Ecobeneficial.com.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Eierman makes the case for pollinators<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GkVaIiwxGeI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;  clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pollinators need our help. Not just because humanity&#8217;s food supply relies on pollinators, but because invertebrates are the backbone of a healthy ecosystem. Concerned gardeners will find guidance and an action plan in The Pollinator victory garden: win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening: how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators by Kim Eierman (2020). Eierman&#8217;s Tips for a Pollinator Victory Garden Don&#8217;t use pesticides of any kind, including organic; and avoid&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/tool\/garden-tip-430\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garden Tip #430<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[157,310,311],"class_list":["post-2044","tool","type-tool","status-publish","hentry","keyword-beneficial-insects","keyword-honeybees-and-pollinators","keyword-native-plant-gardening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tool"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tool"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}