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sugar spray to help pollination

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 8:48 am
by helen2
have just read this tip in a book... half a cup of sugar boiled, then added to a galleon of water and sprayed over your strawberries attracts loads of bees and results in a bumper crop! Any comments anyone!?

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:28 am
by Johnboy
Hi Helen,
Yes I have a comment. Do not use this method unless you want to attract Ants to your crop. Bees will find Strawberry flower easily enough without the spray.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:19 am
by oldherbaceous
Great minds think alike Jonhboy, but you are quicker on the key board than me, i'm still a one finger man.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fools like them old fools.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:40 am
by Johnboy
Hi Herby!!
I'm on two fingers so I suppose I'm 100% faster then you. I feel we should be called the Snail and the Tortoise collectively!!

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:47 pm
by oldherbaceous
A very fair comment old bean.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

When i'm not fishing i'm mending my nets.

Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:30 pm
by peter
Moulds also I reckon.