It's funny the things you find out growing the same crops in a
different location/garden.

My runners are growing and flowering well, but the flowers are
not setting very much. I noticed a neighbour had his runners
surrounded by netting and it looked like net curtains on some!

Asked him why and he said it was because the sparrows eat the
flowers, particularly the red one! - old wives tale (sorry
gardeners tale) though I, then this morning looking out from
the bedroom I saw sparrows eating the flowers.

Never had this where we lived before, although we did have lots
of sparrows - may be the country sparrows had plenty of wild
flowers to eat!

Anyone else had this?


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales