Winter is coming, and with it come gardeners fretting over frostbitten plants and damaged crops. Fear not, ladies and gentlemen – let’s introduce you to our extensive guide on how to protect plants in winter.
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Tickle Your Tomato Plant Like This for Bumper Harvest? This may sound absurd, but it is actually true. Keep on reading to find out!
Tomatoes are self-pollinating vegetables that have the perfect flowers for the task. Each flower contains both the male and female reproductive organs (i.e. the stamen and stigma). This makes pollination easy because each blossom releases pollen from the stamen to land on its own stigma.
Typically, tomato formation is achieved through buzz or wind pollination. Still, numerous studies have determined that buzz pollination is the most effective in terms of fruit size, yield quantities, and increased seed count.
Buzz pollination occurs when certain insects, ones with the right vibes, such as bumble bees (Bombus spp.) and carpenter bees (Xylocopa spp.), vibrate their bodies to shake pollen from the anthers, or the parts of the stamens that hold the pollen.
Self-fertilizing plants, including many edible fruits and vegetables, have self-pollinating flowers. These plants can produce a crop from a single variety, as they have both male and female reproductive organs in their flowers.
Tomatoes, for instance, are self-pollinating, and one tomato plant can yield a fruit crop without the need for another plant.
However, natural conditions may not always be optimal for pollination, as factors such as high temperatures and excessive moisture or humidity can affect pollen movement. In the absence of wind, poor pollination may occur, affecting the plant’s ability to produce fruit.
Tickling tomato plants can increase the chances of a bountiful harvest of juicy and flavorful red tomatoes. Tickling means manually transferring pollen so that each blossom can receive the best opportunity for fruit production.
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