birdsfoot trefoil for bees?

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Has anyone planted birdsfoot trefoil for their honeybees? Is so do they work it and does it produce good honey?

[Adrian Quiney WI]

It's a fantastic plant, and a consistent honey plant. It blooms most of the summer. I read somewhere, I think on Kirk Webster's site that it was planted deliberately long ago as a cattle feed. It grows in the ditches around here. If you have the resources to plant a lot of it go for it!

[Michael Bush]

>Has anyone planted birdsfoot trefoil for their honeybees?

Yes.

> Is so do they work it

Yes.

>and does it produce good honey?

I think so, but a lot of other things are blooming at the same time, so I can't say I know exactly what it tastes like... but I love it. It even does well when mowed like in your yard as does white dutch clover.