Mid-summer garden observation: Blooming buckwheat covercrop is attracting honey bees & surfid flies. The surfid (hover) fly larvae are beneficial to the garden & eat a lot of destructive insects like aphids.
Granny doesn't need to tell you about honey bees.
Granny doesn't need to tell you about honey bees.
Be sure and note this in your garden journal and if you haven't planted buckwheat before, plant some the beginning of June between your squashes or in unplanted areas to be mowed down for mulch later. It will keep down the weeds & provide food for beneficial insects.
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