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Tuesday, May 16, 2017 Little Ketchup Grittyville, WA

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1415 Haist's patch. 3 bales of hay added. Sharing space with a beehive. In the race to the flowers the bees have a 100 ft head start. (Their house is 100 ft closer than mine).

A story of pollination failure from last year: I year I had my two plants and the first had four male flowers set to open and the other had none. Since no one near me grows AGs or squash I figured I could go out of town and still get a mostly controlled cross. I thought why not let the bees do their job and set the female on the first plant? They did not! I had to wait two more weeks...until July 21st. Some bees sit on their bee-hinds and don't do any work while the boss is away. The truth is they were actually very busy working other kinds of flowers. Bees like pumpkins somewhat but pumpkins are rarely the first item on their shopping list.
 



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