How To Grow Pollinator Pasture Mix
Pollinator Pasture Mix is a diverse blend of clovers, trefoil, and phacelia designed to create a long-lasting forage area for honey bees and other pollinators. By combining perennial species with self-seeding annuals, this mix produces a natural pasture that blooms from early spring through late fall. As the different plants flower at different times, pollinators benefit from a continuous supply of nectar and pollen throughout the growing season.Attracts common species including bumble bees, honey bees, mason bees, butterflies, and many other beneficial insects. The activity across a flowering pollinator pasture can be remarkable, often drawing large numbers of pollinators to the diverse blooms.
Instructions
- Exposure: Full sun | Zone: 3–9 Pollinator Pasture Mix can be broadcast on prepared soil or over-seeded into existing grass or open areas. Suggested seeding density is 10 lbs per acre.Seed can be spread using a grass seed planter, broadcast spreader, or fertilizer spreader. Lightly rake or press seed into the soil to ensure good seed-to-soil contact. Germination time will vary by species, but many plants will establish quickly and begin producing blooms throughout the first growing season.Because this mixture contains both perennial plants and self-seeding annuals, the pasture will naturally fill in and become more productive over time.
Notes
Pollinator Pasture Mix Contents:
• 15% Birdsfoot Trefoil
• 15% White Clover
• 10% Alsike Clover
• 20% Crimson Clover
• 20% Red Clover
• 20% Phacelia This combination of plants provides overlapping bloom periods that help support pollinators across the entire season while also improving soil health. Many of the legumes in this mix fix nitrogen, helping enrich the soil naturally. Pollinator pastures are valuable plantings for farms, gardens, orchards, and homesteads. They provide essential habitat for bees and beneficial insects while also creating a beautiful and productive flowering landscape. Uses: pollinator habitat, bee forage, pasture improvement, meadow plantings, soil improvement.
• 15% White Clover
• 10% Alsike Clover
• 20% Crimson Clover
• 20% Red Clover
• 20% Phacelia This combination of plants provides overlapping bloom periods that help support pollinators across the entire season while also improving soil health. Many of the legumes in this mix fix nitrogen, helping enrich the soil naturally. Pollinator pastures are valuable plantings for farms, gardens, orchards, and homesteads. They provide essential habitat for bees and beneficial insects while also creating a beautiful and productive flowering landscape. Uses: pollinator habitat, bee forage, pasture improvement, meadow plantings, soil improvement.