Even the most devoted tomato growers can face pollination problems. One surprisingly playful method may be the secret to turning flowers into fruit.
Q: My tomato plants are large and healthy. They bloom well, but no fruit sets. The flowers just eventually fall off. What can I do? A: They may not be getting pollinated. Tomatoes are pollinated by ...
It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...
Dear Neil: My tomato plants are large and healthy. They bloom well, but no fruit sets. The flowers just eventually fall off. What can I do? A. They may not be getting pollinated. Tomatoes are ...
For many home gardeners, the tomato is the centrepiece of their garden and rightly so. When growing tomatoes, gardeners want to make sure they are getting all the tomatoes possible from the plants ...
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 ...