Comments on: Increase pollination by planting sweet peas with your runner beans http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/increase-pollination-by-planting-sweet-peas-with-your-runner-beans-706 Stumbling self sufficiency in a small space Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/increase-pollination-by-planting-sweet-peas-with-your-runner-beans-706/comment-page-1#comment-68354 Roy Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:58:32 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=706#comment-68354 I have not seen a single Bee in my Garden this year I was told Magpies are eating bees and we are plagued by lots of Magpies I have lots of flowers in my garden and I chose Marigolds inbetween the Beans as they also help keep greenfly away the flowers are in abundance on my beans but no beans appear to be forming I have not seen a single Bee in my Garden this year
I was told Magpies are eating bees and we are plagued by lots of Magpies I have lots of flowers in my garden and I chose Marigolds inbetween the Beans as they also help keep greenfly away
the flowers are in abundance on my beans but no beans appear to be forming

]]> By: fn http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/increase-pollination-by-planting-sweet-peas-with-your-runner-beans-706/comment-page-1#comment-28610 fn Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:26:54 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=706#comment-28610 Hi Kay Thank you so much. Danny always wonders why I keep cables. I didn't know myself until I read this! Hi Kay

Thank you so much. Danny always wonders why I keep cables. I didn’t know myself until I read this!

]]> By: Kay http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/increase-pollination-by-planting-sweet-peas-with-your-runner-beans-706/comment-page-1#comment-28547 Kay Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:57:43 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=706#comment-28547 Hi Jane - Fiona's idea is a good one, but my dogs drink the milk, given half a chance! For cane crops you can try winding old copper wire round the lowest six inches of the cane, making sure it starts right at ground level and the spiral is about half an inch (so that a slug of average size would find it's head and tail both touching copper) - they hate copper and usually give up after the first touch of it. If they are really horrible, try wrapping the bottom of your canes in tinfoil and binding it on with copper wire, that gives them two nasties to contend with! You can get copper wire at hardware stores our if you see old electrical equipment in skips, just snip off the flex, take it home, slit the rubber and find the copper inside! Hi Jane – Fiona’s idea is a good one, but my dogs drink the milk, given half a chance!

For cane crops you can try winding old copper wire round the lowest six inches of the cane, making sure it starts right at ground level and the spiral is about half an inch (so that a slug of average size would find it’s head and tail both touching copper) – they hate copper and usually give up after the first touch of it. If they are really horrible, try wrapping the bottom of your canes in tinfoil and binding it on with copper wire, that gives them two nasties to contend with! You can get copper wire at hardware stores our if you see old electrical equipment in skips, just snip off the flex, take it home, slit the rubber and find the copper inside!

]]>