When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images If your tomato plants are flowering but not producing fruit, you might be ...
Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...
Is AI taking over the jobs of bumblebees? Well, not exactly. Bumblebees are typically used to pollinate plants in glasshouses all over the world. However, they are prohibited in Australia, so ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tomato plant with flowers I took up vegetable gardening in 2020 during the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown. The first ...
Put down the paintbrush and step away from the cotton swab, because everything you thought you knew about hand-pollinating tomatoes is about to change. If you need to pollinate dozens and dozens of ...
Q. I saw your suggestion of thumping tomato flower clusters to help them get pollinated. That was why my grandmother used to hit her tomato plants with her broom. How do I know the right time to do ...
Question for Dan Gill: Some of my tomato blossoms are being cut off by some insect. What can I do to stop this? --Emma. Answer: Fortunately, there aren't any insects - or any other critters - that cut ...
There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...
QUESTION: I have a question regarding flowers falling off my tomato plants without setting fruit. Am I doing something wrong, and is there anything to correct this? The tomato variety is Brandy Boy, ...
Q: I am going to start tomato plants indoors under lights this spring and then transplant them to my garden. I’m just looking at seed catalogs, and I see that some tomatoes are “open pollinated” and ...