{"id":6877,"date":"2010-04-07T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6877"},"modified":"2010-03-28T02:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T08:59:50","slug":"pollination-makes-the-world-go-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/pollination-makes-the-world-go-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollination Makes The World Go Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Reflective Pollination \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4444663891\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4444663891_f6f69bc80f.jpg\" alt=\"Reflective Pollination\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without pollination there would be no new seed, no new crops for animals and no food in our supermarkets. (No supermarkets may be good news for several reasons but I will put up with them to keep being fed).<\/p>\n<p>Wind pollination may work for some plants particularly those with catkins that shed pollen in copious quantities. The main pollinators in a garden are insects and they deserve our respect. There have been scare stories about the declining population of Bees so I was pleased to capture (in   photos ) these bees hard at work on my Crocus crop last week.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pollination crocus \" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4444663809\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4020\/4444663809_ef8737fcc8.jpg\" alt=\"Pollination crocus\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips to Aid Pollination <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Avoid using pesticides.<\/li>\n<li> Grow plants that attract and feed butterflies, birds and insects.<\/li>\n<li> Make insects safe and at home in your garden.<\/li>\n<li> Do not expect F1 plants to pollinate.<\/li>\n<li> Hand pollinate your curcurbits (courgettes, marrows and cucumbers).<\/li>\n<li> Tap flowering greenhouse tomato plants to get the pollen into the air and thus other flowers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without pollination there would be no new seed, no new crops for animals and no food in our supermarkets. (No supermarkets may be good news for several reasons but I will put up with them to keep being fed). Wind pollination may work for some plants particularly those with catkins that shed pollen in copious quantities. The main pollinators in a garden are insects and they deserve our respect. There have been scare stories about the declining population of Bees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/environmental-gardening\/pollination-makes-the-world-go-around\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}