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 ...

I took up vegetable gardening in 2020 during the first few months of the COVID-19 lockdown. The first real success I had was with growing tomatoes, though, having ...

Tomatoes are tropical plants, but they can still be grown in hot, dry West Texas. Permian Basin Master Gardeners share what ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just read this letter to the edtior about hand-pollinating tomatoes and I had to share it with you. If you’re having trouble getting squash, tomatoes, or cukes to set fruit, this method may help.

Tickling your tomato blossoms and brushing your squash flowers probably aren’t regular tasks on your gardening to-do list, but it turns out that hand pollination, in league with natural processes, can ...

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 ...