Tomatoes

[Charles Hesselein]

In <4cqu1j$80b at news.worldlinx.com> tjohnson at feldspar.com (Legalize!) writes:

>I've got tomatoes growing and they have many yellow flowers on them.
>Why is it that I'm not getting any tomotoes!?  The flowers just drop
>off or shrivel and die!



Tomatoes flowers need a little help with pollenation.  Some people use 
vibrators which shake the flower and pollen from the anthers onto the 
stigma.  Some people just shake the whole plant.  Some commercial growers 
but bumble bees to work for this purpose.

Hope this helps!

Chazz


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