Turn your garden into a tomato-producing powerhouse with these essential tips for growing a healthy, bountiful crop.

Question: My wife planted sweet bell peppers next to very hot habañeros. My neighbor says they will cross pollinate and the bells will be hot. They are still small – should I move them? Answer ...

Tomatoes usually won't cross-pollinate, but you can decrease that probability even more by taking a few simple precautions.

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Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers; pumpkins, zucchinis, blueberries and cranberries: these food plants are examples of crops that require buzz pollination. Original Video by Karl Ford, UMN.

Carpenter bees, native bees and bumblebees, not honeybees, are the heavy hitters for tomato pollination. Normal tomato flowers hang down from a stem.

As to your concern about pollination, tomato flowers are self-pollinating. Pollination occurs naturally, without assistance from insects, as the flowers open and are moved by breezes.

These robotic pollinators act like bumblebees to help plants and crops grow. Is AI taking over the jobs of bumblebees? Well, not exactly. Bumblebees are typically used to pollinate plants in ...

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 ...

In the garden or field, tomato flowers mostly self-pollinate. Outcrossing, or cross pollination with another plant or variety, occurs only rarely, from insects carrying pollen from plant to plant.