By
eHow Home & Garden Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Things You’ll Need:
- Bees
- Different tree varieties
- Flowers, weeds other flowering trees to attract bees
Step1
Choose trees based on the level of cross pollination they require. Ask experts at your garden store or tree nursery for suggestions on pairing different varieties.
Step2
Place apple trees near each other in your orchard that bloom at about the same time of year. Cross pollination must occur when the trees are in flower.
Step3
Move honey bees into your orchards when the first flowers open.
Step4
Plant a pollinator tree in the middle of large sets of the same variety apple trees. These pollinators are tall and don't take up much space, but will get the job done.
Step5
Plant apple trees in your backyard no more than 100 yards from neighboring flowering trees.
Step6
Allow dandelions to grow at the base of your fruit trees. Bees love dandelions and will be attracted to them throughout the season. Remove the blooms to encourage bees to move to the trees.
Step7
Graft a pollinating variety of apple tree into a scaffold limb of a backyard apple tree. If grafting is not possible, hang buckets of fresh blossoms from one apple tree into another.
