Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #
Tad,
Bees help pollinate. You may have had pollination problems from heat or to
much moisture on the flowers
MB
on 5/25/04 9:26 AM, Tad Miller at tmiller@gschq.com wrote:
> We are a Cub Scout Pack planting a Pumpkin patch as a Fall fundraiser. Last
> year we had a problem with polination, with the scale of the patch ( > 200
> plants) I do not want to polinate by hand.
>
> What is the best flowers to attract the correct type of Bees to polinate
> pumpkin plants.
> My neighbor is a Bee Keeper, but all he knows are the hunny bees. He did
> tell me that the Pumpkin flowers do not produce nector, so the hunny bees are
> not the best.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this.
>
> As for the Sunflowers, we did not have bird problems, but Ants.
>
> Thanks
> tad
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