Hand pollination is a great way to get your fruit trees to produce better, more abundant harvests. It partly substitutes for natural pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and birds—which is ...

Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area or you're growing fruit-bearing plants indoors, hand-pollinating is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your garden and ...

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

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

This story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. A drone-blown soap bubble that carries pollen—that’s one technique being tested to pollinate plants if there aren’t ...

Having a lush, green vegetable garden is great – but only if the plants are supplying you with a crop. Low productivity is typically a case of simply waiting, as plants adjust to temperatures or grow ...

Stressed and flushed, Cathy Pollack arrived at the designated location at the appointed time with the precious cargo in a blue Coleman cooler. The federal fish and wildlife biologist was on a mission.