Gardening in the Mountains Presents:
Creating and Managing Pollinator Habitat
This presentation by Bryan Tompkins, Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service covers specific details about prepping, planting, and maintaining pollinator gardens as complete habitats. It will also discuss different opportunities and methods for implementing other pollinator-habitat components into your area—from assessing and developing a habitat suitable to your site to working with others in your neighborhood to create connected and contiguous habitat components. Bryan takes a deeper look into the elements and factors that are needed to go beyond just creating a nice flower garden. Armed with the information in this talk, you can create a habitat!
Table of Contents
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0:00 Introduction
3:16 Pollinators and Habitat
6:05 Site Requirements
16:35 Establishing Habitat
17:38 Site Assessment
19:42 Site Prep
20:22 –Solarization
22:08 –Sod cutting
23:28 –Rototilling
23:44 –Herbicides
25:03 Planting
34:31 –Seeding
36:51 –Plant Lists
37:51 –Management
40:28 –Grass:Forb Ratio
41:47 Mowing/Cutting
42:49 Pollinator Shelter
43:53 Hedgerows
48:01 Water
49:00 Community
50:47 Conclusion