Comments on: Why Did I Get So Few Melons? (Pollination of Melon Plants, by Hand or By Bees) http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/bees/why-did-i-get-so-few-melons-pollination-of-melon-plants-by-hand-or-by-bees/ Just another Patwelsh.com weblog Mon, 14 May 2012 20:31:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: ALICE LAINER http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/blog/bees/why-did-i-get-so-few-melons-pollination-of-melon-plants-by-hand-or-by-bees/comment-page-1/#comment-961 ALICE LAINER Tue, 31 May 2011 21:23:55 +0000 http://patwelsh.com/wpmu/?p=704#comment-961 Dear Pat, Admired your books for many good yr. of gardening. Last yr. in L.A., I built a cage to keep out the rats that disseminated my tomatoes and even ate an entire fava bean plant. Last year was a cool summer, and I got tomatoes, but should have had more and several plants didn't make it. I see lots of bees on my flowering thyme outside the cage, but no bees inside. I heard about pollinator bees and thought I'd buy them and put a "hive" inside the cage. Can you help me? I can't find a source in so Cal. Or do you have any other ideas, besides my pollinating them myself? Dear Pat,

Admired your books for many good yr. of gardening. Last yr. in L.A., I built a cage to keep out the rats that disseminated my tomatoes and even ate an entire fava bean plant. Last year was a cool summer, and I got tomatoes, but should have had more and several plants didn’t make it. I see lots of bees on my flowering thyme outside the cage, but no bees inside. I heard about pollinator bees and thought I’d buy them and put a “hive” inside the cage. Can you help me? I can’t find a source in so Cal. Or do you have any other ideas, besides my pollinating them myself?

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