THE BEST ORGANIC FLOWERS TO ATTRACT & NURTURE BENEFICIAL INSECTS AND HELP CONTROL DESTRUCTIVE PESTS IN THIS YEAR’S GARDEN! Planting Flowers is EASY and beautiful. If you’re going to the effort of planting Flowers in this year’s garden for beauty, why not increase your BENEFITS by selecting varieties which do double-duty and attract the good bugs which eat the bad ones? Over 90% of the bugs in a garden are the good guys and why not help them?
In a fun but gigantic SUCCESSFUL experiment last year, we planted around the entire perimeter of our entire Potato field – plus additionally in refuges INSIDE the field – 40 varieties of Flowers reputed to attract Beneficial Insects. Our goal was to have both Early and Late Blooming Flowers growing less than the recommended distance of 100-150 feet from every potato plant. This planting design offered easy access, shelter and good nutrition to the Beneficials which succeeded as we’d hoped and performed their jobs of eating the bad bugs.
The best Flowers we identified last year are the ones we’ll be planting in this year’s expanded experiment. They are listed on Page 27 of our print CATALOG (https://www.woodprairie.com/catalog-request/) and are also part of the Flower Offerings in our Webstore (https://www.woodprairie.com/category/the-organic-garden/flowers/).
Here are the Early Bloom Winners: Organic ‘California Orange’ Poppy, Organic ‘Pinwheel’ Marigold (variation of Orange Marigold pictured below), Organic ‘Seashells’ Cosmos, Organic ‘Best Find’ Phacelia and Organic ‘Goldilocks’ Rudbeckia.
Late Bloom Winners: Organic ‘Evening Sun’ Sunflower, Organic ‘Colorful Blend’ Nasturtium, and Organic ‘County Fair Blend’ Zinnea.
We still have available for purchase EXCELLENT supplies of MOST Organic Flower varieties! Caleb, Megan & Jim
