Q. My cucumber and squash are not setting fruit even though the plants appear healthy. I’m not seeing many bees. Can this be part of my problem? A. More than likely this is the result of incomplete ...

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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 ...

Sometimes squash blossoms need to be hand-pollinated to produce viable fruit. Cut a male flower (in right hand) and daub its pollen onto the female flower’s pollen (in left hand). A female squash ...

Q: This spring, I planted squash, which are growing well with many blossoms and more beginning to open. However, there is no fruit on the vines and dried blossoms have fallen off. There are no bees in ...

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 ...