It’s hard to believe this little tray of peat pots comprises most of our tomato plants. I had to throw in some blanket flower seeds as well as poppy seeds. The bees love poppies as can be seen in this fuzzy photo of six bees on a St. John’s Wort which is covered with bees mid June to late July.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 
It’s beautiful, but what do you do to keep them away from your table and your plate when you eat in the garden?
Dear greendotspot,
Perhaps, considering the relative importance of bees to the future of our existence on this planet, you might sublimate your own desire to “eat in the garden” in order to permit the bees to carry on with their critically important, vitally important, business through which the “garden” you love, and the foods you love to eat there,
are maintained.
Just a thought from a relatively humble bumblebee-supporting two-legged creature.
Yeah, that’s a problem. You’ve just got to plant enough to satisfy your taste buds as well as have enough to harvest for winter time. We usually plant about 100 tomato seeds to get 60 good plants. That way we have enough give-aways for family and friends. This year I want to trade some to people that let me hang swarm bait boxes on their property.