Is Pumpkin Good For Your Bees? [Bee Plant Ranking Series]

Ever wanted to know what plants, trees, crops and weeds are good for bees and why? Pumpkin does ok...

------- Bee Plant Stats:
Pumpkin Flowers
It's a fair source of nectar for honeybees. In fact, it rates as a 2/4 which is the fair rating on our bee friendly plants scale!

Honey bee pollination resulted in larger-sized fruit, increasing individual fruit size of all but small-sized pumpkins (less thank 0.5 kg). Individual pumpkin fruit weights of the Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima cultivars evaluated increased by about, 26%, 70%, and 78%, respectively, when honey bee colonies were included. https://independent.academia.edu/Alan...

What's the downside? It has only 2/4 rating for pollen supply for your bees! That means the colony won't solely be able to thrive on access to Pumpkin Flowers.

------- Honey Info:
It makes a great honey that has a bland flavour and is light in colour.


------- Hives per hectare
Place 2 - 4 bee hives per hectare while flowering however timing with Pumpkin Pollination is Critical!

Pumpkin Farming Stats:
However, the addition of honey bees did increase fruit number per hectare of the C. moschata and C. maxima cultivars evaluated. Honey bee pollination resulted in larger-sized fruit, increasing individual
fruit size of all but small-sized pumpkins ( less than 0.5 kg). Individual pumpkin fruit weights of the Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima cultivars evaluated increased by about, 26%, 70%, and 78%, respectively, when honey bee colonies were included.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI.41.2...

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