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  • From: Richard Robinson <rrobinson AT nasw.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Bean pollination under row cover?
  • Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:56:57 -0400

On 10/11/2012 at 9:54:24 AM, Richard Moyer wrote:
> If I keep a light layer of row cover on during days in the 60s, perhaps more
> will ripen before a hard freeze. But what about pollination? Do beans need
> a pollinating insect to help transfer pollen in each flower?


I have about 100' of Provider bush beans that have been under essentially
continuous cover since before flowering. They are bearing very heavily, and
continue to develop new beans. I don't know that the yield might not be a
little higher with bees, but I can't quite imagine it, given the load of
beans on them.

Richard Robinson
www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/
Hopestill Farm
www.hopestill.com






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