This honey plant seed kit is a great choice for creating your own honey garden that will delight you with its aroma and attract beneficial pollinators such as bees and bumblebees. The kit includes three wonderful honey plants: sainfoin, phacelia and buckwheat.
- Sainfoin Seeds: Sainfoin is a perennial leguminous plant known for its beautiful pink flowers and high honey production. Its nectar has a pleasant aroma and taste, attracting bees and helping to increase the productivity of fruit and berry crops. Sainfoin honey is considered one of the best varieties of honey. Sainfoin loosens the soil, enriches it with nitrogen, inhibits the growth of weeds and strengthens slopes.
- Sowing period: early spring (March-April) or late summer (August).
- Flowering period: May-July (depending on sowing date)
- Seeding rate: 150-200 kg/ha.
- Phacelia seeds: Phacelia is an annual plant with delicate blue flowers, which is an excellent honey plant and green manure, enriches the soil with organic matter, improves its structure, normalizes pH and suppresses the growth of weeds. Phacelia grows quickly, attracting many bees and other pollinating insects. Phacelia honey is light, aromatic and delicate
- Phacelia honey is suitable for wintering bees.
- Sowing period: early spring (March-April), summer (June-July) or autumn (September).
- Flowering period: June-September.
- Seed rate: 8-10 kg/ha.
- Buckwheat seeds: Buckwheat is an annual plant known for its beneficial properties, unpretentiousness, short ripening period (70-85 days) and dark, aromatic honey. Buckwheat blooms in July-August, and its flowers are an excellent source of nectar for bees. Buckwheat honey has a rich taste and color, and also contains many useful substances. The honey productivity of buckwheat can reach 100 kg of honey per 1 ha.
- Seeding recommendations
- Sainfoin: Sow in spring or late summer. Best for strengthening slopes, enriching soil and attracting bees.
- Phacelia: Can be sown throughout the warm season. Ideal for improving soil structure and long-lasting flowering.
- Buckwheat: sow in summer. Perfect for green manure and attracting bees during the flowering period.
- Benefits of the set:
- Improving the soil - each plant enriches the soil with useful substances.
- Support for bees - long and intense flowering provides them with nectar and pollen.
- Environmental impact – prevention of soil erosion, suppression of weeds.
- Decorative – bright flowers create a beautiful view of the site.
- Versatility - suitable for gardens, vegetable gardens, fields and landscape design.
- Create your own honey garden and enjoy its beauty, aroma and beneficial properties! Each plant in the set has its own benefits, and together they create a harmonious symbiosis that will benefit both the soil and the bees.
- Order your honey plant seed kit today!
- Delivery throughout Ukraine!
