garden pollinators

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Posted by David Hare-Scott on July 12, 2010, 8:54 pm
 
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The question of how to improve fruit yields and the role of pollinators
comes up quite regularly.  This includes "vegetables" that are botanically
fruits, eg tomato, chilli etc.

Here are two references which are useful:

A nice simple summary of the role of bees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees

More details including literature references for the very keen
http://www.beeculture.com/content/pollination_handbook/


David