Honey grass for bees. The most melliferous plants

Increasingly, owners of suburban areas and cottages devote their free time to the cultivation of their own apiaries. The reason for the upsurge in the development of beekeeping is a wide range of valuable qualities produced by bees, as well as an increased interest in the production of ecologically pure honey.

Honey grass for bees is the main place for collecting nectar. In the areas sown by them, insects collect record harvests.

The products of beekeeping have very useful properties, and this applies not only to honey. For the treatment of various diseases apply:

• propolis;
• wax;
• Royal jelly;
• Pollen and other products of beekeeping.

The name of honey is closely related to the plant on which industrious insects collect nectar (buckwheat, acacia, mint and others). If the bees collected it from several honeycombs, the resulting product is called floral or mixed.

Arrangement of suburban areas: planting flowering plants near apiaries, their characteristics

Some species of plants are of particular interest to beekeepers. They are most productive at the time of flowering, and the pollen is endowed with the most valuable properties that affect the quality of the finished product. Picking honey grass for bees, you need to consider important factors:

• Flowering start time;
• Period of flowering;
• Valuable plant qualities;
• The amount of honey collected from one hectare of sowing;
• Peculiarities of growing crops (perennial plant or not).

Land plots near apiaries can be sown with honey plants, which at the time of flowering have the most valuable qualities. The list of the most popular herbs includes:

• buckwheat;
• Yarrow;
• peppermint;
• Common lichen;
• clover;
• Melissa;
• Sunflower and many others.

Let us consider in more detail the features of some plant cultures.

Buckwheat

Buckwheat sowing is included in the list of the most valuable herbaceous plants, which are used by beekeepers to collect the highest quality honey. The flowering period begins one month after sowing. Its duration is 28-35 days. Culture has taken root in almost all regions of the country, including those located in cold climates. Buckwheat is the most valuable plant for beekeepers.

Honey-bearing herbs for bees are especially attractive, because they have a powerful smell that spreads far beyond the crops, thus serving as a kind of reference point. Depending on the weather conditions, the collection of nectar can be disturbed. Under normal circumstances, the yield varies from 60 to 100 kg of first-class honey from a hectare.

The height of buckwheat varies from 15 cm to half a meter (depending on the variety). The plant is not capricious to weather conditions, so it is well established in different climatic zones. Buckwheat flowers have white-pink, medium-sized inflorescences that exude a pleasant smell. The aroma attracts the bees, forcing them to rush to these cereal fields.

At the time when flowering begins, many beekeepers prepare mobile apiaries for the export of beehives to places where there are crops of culture. After the beehive houses are installed, it is necessary to observe the behavior of insects. This will take several days. Despite the fact that buckwheat is an excellent honey, there are cases when bees ignore its flowering crops, and this can be costly for beekeepers. In such situations it is necessary to collect and transport the hives as quickly as possible to other sites.

Clover

The plant belongs to perennial herbs, has several varieties: red, pink and white. All three species are considered first-class honey plants and are used as animal feed. Clover has complex inflorescences, it attracts bees with its odor. The plant tolerates aridity and heat. Under good weather conditions, the yield of honey at the moment of flowering is more than 100 kg per hectare.

Red clover (photo above) is more demanding for the soil and conditions in which it grows. He does not tolerate rainy weather, high humidity and shaded areas. White is not so capricious, feels normal in cold, frosty periods. Meadow is well adapted on almost any soil, but does not like wet and shaded places. Like the red clover species, it is found in wild form almost throughout the country.

Clover, along with other herbs, is sown to increase the amount of honey during the collection from the plots, after which it is used as animal feed. The inflorescence has the form of a head, which has from 30 to 100 flowers. Plant branchedness improves in the second year. At the time of flowering, the head turns to the ground. Clover, the photo of which is presented above, is one of the most used honeycombs.

Lungwort

Refers to perennial plants of the family of borage plants. Medunitsa is one of the herbs, the flowering period of which falls on the first months of spring. This early honey grows on the territory of Eurasia, is found in Yakutia and Siberia.

When the blossom blossoms, the corolla and petals of it first have a red tint, but at the end the inflorescence acquires a blue color. This honey one of the first is processed by bees after hibernation. The plant has great value in medicine. Honey, obtained as a result of the collection of nectar, is unusually useful in its characteristics.

The plant has only 15 species, most of which grow in Europe. Because of the unusually attractive look and useful qualities that the lungwort possesses, she is pleased to sow on personal plots and flowerbeds. Regardless of the subspecies of the plant, on average, the honey is about 100 kg of product per hectare.

Kiprej narrow-leaved

The plant of the angustifoliae is more commonly known as Ivan the tea. Very often it can be found on wastelands and forest fires. It is a perennial plant of the Cyprinidae family. The stem is abundantly covered with lanceolate leaves and ends with inflorescences of purple or purple hue. The beginning of flowering and honey collection is in mid-June and lasts until the end of July. Ivan tea is considered extremely useful for the human body, as it has healing properties. Honey, collected from the colors of narrow-leaved canopy, is extremely fragrant and tasty, but its main features are still its healing features.

The plant can be found almost throughout the country. Ivan tea is popular among the people and is used in folk medicine. Honey grass for bees of the Cyprian type do not need special seeding. The plant is well established on the territory of all regions of the country, and it can be found almost everywhere: it has chosen meadows, fields, forest edges, roadside zones.

Oregano vulgaris

The period when the oregano blooms , lasts from July to mid-September. The plant has a lot of other names: forest mint, motherboard, origan, clawed grass. It has an unrivaled aroma and is an excellent honey. Oregano can be found in the whole of Russia, as well as in the Crimea, Ukraine and Moldova. The plant loves a lot of light, so it often occurs in meadows, near forests and in vast glades. Inflorescences are located at the very tip of the stem. Color, color and smell reminds another plant - thyme, with the only difference that the oregano is upright, it is easy to notice among other herbs.

Honey from this plant is added to tinctures, beer, kvass and other products, since this herb is unusually useful. The time of honey gathering is on the first of September, when the inflorescence is gaining strength. The plant is used for pharmaceutical purposes and in folk medicine.

Goldenrod

Grass of the goldenrod is a representative of meadow honey plants, which belong to perennial Compositae plants. Inflorescences solitary, not branched, collected in the panicle baskets. The flower of a yellow shade has a complex shape.

Goldenrod blossoms almost all summer and even in the middle of September, the grass is easily detected by its peculiar inflorescences. This is a good honey with a high percentage of sugar, which is the main factor in the collection. Goldenrod grows throughout the country, except for regions bordering Central Asia. This representative of Compositae well tolerates hot weather, without stopping the flowering process.

Heather

Grass heather is a strongly perennial perennial plant, which is more like a bush. The height of the stems is from 30 cm, but sometimes it can reach a meter mark. The bush is densely covered with short, soft, wedge-shaped leaves. At the top of the heather there are bell-shaped inflorescences of both sexes. The time of blooming of the honey-comb captures most of the summer and the beginning of autumn. This factor allows you to control the time of honey harvesting using mobile apiaries.

Heather refers to medicinal herbs, has healing properties. This quality is taken into account when selling the collected honey, increasing the price of the product. The season for collecting nectar begins in mid-June. The product is different in color and taste. As a rule, heather honey is dark red , with a pleasant smell and a bit tart and bitter taste. The peculiarity of pumping is a strong viscidity, which complicates the process of distillation. Heather honey does not crystallize well.

Yarrow - autumn honey grass

Yarrow belongs to the category of ordinary mead-bearing plants, which can be found almost everywhere: in the steppe, forest, meadows, near roads, dumps. The stem has a single standing structure ranging in height from 20 cm to a meter. The honey harvest begins in the middle of summer and ends at the end of September. Having small, in the form of baskets of inflorescence, yarrow is especially well perceived by all breeds of bees. The special value of the honey is the later flowering. When the collection of nectar from other herbs ends, and the bees are becoming less and less, this plant blooms. Beekeepers refer to the autumn honey grass is the yarrow.

Peppermint

This species of plant belongs to late-age honey-plants. Peppermint is a perennial herb. From its leaves receive useful essential oils. The height of the plant can reach 90 cm. Peppermint has small florets of lilac color, which are collected in distinctive spikelet-bunches. The plant exudes a pleasant smell attracting bees. Flowering begins in July and can last until August-month. From peppermint it turns out fragrant and very tasty honey of an amber hue.

Donnik

A leafy plant reaches one and a half meters in height. It is located in ravines, at the edge of roads, on meadows. The thickets of sweet clover have a spicy stifling smell. The plant is included in the list of the most melliferous grasses with a high percentage of valuable product collection. Donnik has the ability to produce nectar in all weather conditions. The plant differs in color: most often there is a species with white inflorescences, but you can find grass with yellow flowers.

Honey from clover often has white color. The fragrance is reminiscent of vanilla. Collected products for a long time does not crystallize, preserving the smell of flowers.

There is no sense in planting loose land in the clover. This plant is considered one of the most sworn enemies of vegetable growers and gardeners, as, in fact, is a weed grass. At the same time, the clover has the most important microelements necessary to strengthen honeycombs and build up the strength of the bee family.

The morgue

The amount of nectar in the blossoming period of the mordant covers all the previously listed figures. From 1 hectare 1000 kg is collected (sometimes this figure grows to one and a half tons) of the most valuable product. The plant is known by many names, but more often it is called a Tartar or a shooting.

You can see it anywhere. Two-meter thickets with blue inflorescences grow in all kinds of places: wastelands, garbage dumps, slopes of gullies, forest edges, steppes. Concentration of sugar more than 60% is the main factor that attracts insects. In an hour, one plant can "serve" up to 180 furry toilers.

The shrewhead mongrel is the only one of its species with high characteristics. Before buying seeds, it is important not to confuse it with other types of subgroup: the Russian and high-profile Russian mordant.

The bruise is ordinary

Despite its modest appearance, the plant was included in the top ten of the most powerful herbs. Like a linden, a bruise during the flowering season highlights a large amount of nectar. High productivity during the collection of products is the main factor. Many beekeepers sow the land with this plant, since the taste and characteristics of honey are excellent.

At the time of collecting nectar from 1 hectare of crops, at least 800 kg of first-class products are recruited. Since the bruise is a perennial grass, it is advantageous for them to plant plots near suburban and dacha zones. Most often the plant is found in open areas. Extraordinary beauty of carpets can only be compared with the blue of the sky.

These plants are only part of the list of honey plants, in which you can add a very large number of shrubs, trees and grasses. During the flowering period they are of interest to beekeepers. In the list of trees you can include acacia, linden, apple tree and other representatives of fruit. To bushes, we can safely include hawthorn, elder, amorph and Labrador tea.