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Index of Subjects We have been saving our own seed for years. We really had no problems; but I thought (ha ha) that we might get improved yield with store-bought, for a change. We do have a wonderful profusion of flowers. The bush beans yielded very well. I have seen a hummingbird about once each day and a few bumble bees, but nowhere near as many as last year. Jane Schlosberg -----Original Message----- From: David Patriquin Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 1:11 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca ; Dave&Jane Schlosberg Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Seed Treatments was "comment re Empty Forests" I save my own seed for pole beans, and likewise see very poor pod set. Quoting Dave&Jane Schlosberg <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca>: > Hello Mary > This year we bought OSC brand pole bean seed. In previous years, we have > been saving our own seeds from the beans. > So that does complicate matters. However we have a neighbor who bought > Halifax Seed brand; and she has the same problem. > We will have to contact the company to see what treatment they might give > the seed. > But it would seem foolish for a seed company to treat the seed > (knowingly) with something which causes reduced yield. > Yours > Dave Schlosberg > > From: Mary Macaulay > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 11:12 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] comment re Empty Forests > > Was your bean seed pretreated? If so the seed treatment may have been a > systemic pesticide which persists into the plant tissue, nectar and > pollen. > > Mary Macaulay, P.Eng. > Executive Director > Atlantic Concrete Association > www.atlanticconcrete.ca > Office: 902-443-4456 > Cell: 902-489-2000 > Fax: 902-404-8074 > > On 2013-08-15, at 11:02 PM, "Dave&Jane Schlosberg" > <dschlosb-g@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > > Here in my downtown Dartmouth pole bean patch there is at most only one > bumble bee working at any one time. Whereas, in the past, many bees and > wasps would have been present. The pole bean pollination is the worst I > can remember in almost 30 years of gardening. Maybe only one in five bean > flowers have been pollinated so far. > > Yet my blueberry crop (earlier in the season) was reasonably well > pollinated. > > Yours > Dave Schlosberg > > From: James W. Wolford > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 5:06 PM > To: NatureNS > Subject: [NatureNS] comment re Empty Forests > > Here is a relevant note I wrote myself on Aug. 7: > > AUG. 7, 2013 - I walked along the Wolfville Rail Trail this afternoon, > as I often do, and noted just a few butterflies (mostly whites) flitting > among the huge array of plants in flower, especially Queen Anne's lace, > common tansy, knapweed, etc., from Wolfville Harbour but especially from > Elm Street out to the Acadia Arena. BUT what really struck me was how > very few other insects I am noticing on the flowers as I walk. Thinking > back a couple of decades (or more?), I used to see a wide variety of > insects and spiders on the flowers, and now I am seeing few to none, plus > the few butterflies. Has anyone noticed the same thing? And does > anyone know of a database somewhere out there in our world of information > that has decades of data like we have for breeding birds? > David Patriquin http://versicolor.ca
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