Using an electric toothbrush on the plants, he claimed, “tripled” his tommie harvest. Jeff admitted that he’s allergic to pollen, but uses the electric toothbrush’s head to “hand-pollinate” his tomato ...

In greenhouse tomato cultivation, three primary methods of flower pollination exist: insect pollination, physical pollination by vibrating flowers, and artificial pollination using hormone-based ...

Many of us think of rice as a plant that grows in flooded fields. And that's because the kind of rice we're most familiar ...

This is where you step in with the ‘tickle trick’. By taking the place of nature, you can pollinate the flowers and get your tomato plants back on track to produce a healthy harvest.

Four-week-old seedlings should be transplanted outdoors at the same time it’s considered safe to plant tomatoes ... Space plants 1 foot apart to ensure adequate circulation between them, as they will ...

As a gardener, you're likely aware that tomatoes are self-pollinating, meaning their flowers contain both male and female parts. However, for the small yellow blooms to develop fruits, the pollen ...

Find out what caused your tomato trouble and learn how to fix it. The tomato plants in the WBTW garden are looking great, with flowers and some nice sized, green tomatoes.

It's tomato-harvest time, but there's a lot that can go wrong. Dan Gill explains tomato TLC. What you can do for blossom end rot, fruit worms and more.

Advent of Hand Pollination The breakthrough came in 1841 when Edmond Albius, a 12-year-old enslaved boy on the island of Réunion, discovered a method to manually pollinate the vanilla orchid. Using a ...

Closed pollination, or when growers choose two specific parent plants, creates hybrid varieties, which are typically more disease-resistant. A tomato’s color reflects its flavor.