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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

While it certainly is possible to apply pollen to flowers by hand, doing so throughout an entire orchard would be quite time- and labor-intensive. With that in mind, researchers from the Japan ...

I have read at least two articles in The Seattle Times about the lack of bees; each one seemed to focus on how to attract other insects to do the pollinating. Neither one mentioned hand-pollinating.

June is National Pollinator Month, with June 17-23 being National Pollinator Week. It’s a campaign created by the nonprofit Pollinator Partnership, and recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...