Having started to cultivate a corner of the garden for veg etc, I seem to be having trouble with my runners not setting their flowers., so, having looked back in the archives I find that I am not the only one to have this problem. I seem to recall reading some years ago that spraying the plants with a suger water solution helps to attract the bees which seem to be sparse at the moment. Any thoughts on this would be welcome
Hi silverfox, some folk spray in the evening with ordinary water to encourage pollination (I never have, but have an open site with lots of flowers). See also:
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,7142.0 http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,21171.0/topicseen,topicseen
Hope the pollination picks up for you :)
:)Many thanks for your reply Supersprout, I found the links most informative.
Silverfox