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No bees, no beans.

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J52 Tue 23-Jun-20 09:29:42

I plant flowers; marigolds and Cosmos between the vegetables, with sweet peas around the edge. This encourages the bees and insects. Alternatively you could always Go round them with a paintbrush, pollinating.

Some years ago I visited Barnsdale, the home of the late Geoff Hamilton. There was a cottage garden with veg and flowers grown together, so now I do it.

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tanith Tue 23-Jun-20 08:47:24

I’m so disappointed my beans have plenty of flowers but there are no bees to pollinate them, I’ve tried misting them with water a couple of times a day but that’s not worked either. Now the flowers are dropping off the lower bracts and there isn’t one bean pod.
Any ideas fellow bean growers?

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