The fruit or NO FRUIT? of our labor!
Garden Week Twenty 8/21/2018 ### The fruit or NO FRUIT? of our labor!  **Just a few of the bees I have seen in my own garden -** check out mo...
Garden Week Twenty 8/21/2018
The fruit or NO FRUIT? of our labor!
Just a few of the bees I have seen in my own garden - check out more awesome bee photos on Flickr - USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
As you can imagine, I enjoy reading and sharing stories of the garden. Recently, I have seen many posts on local FB groups, asking why plants are not producing? Common troubles in the garden include pests and diseases, but why would a healthy plant not be productive? Or simply, pollination.
Without going into a biology lesson, vegetables are pollinated by means of self or cross pollination.
Self-pollination: plants which produce flowers containing both male and female organs. These plants can be pollinated within the same flower or by the same plant.
*includes: lima, pole and bush beans, peas, tomatoes, lettuce and endive, etc.
Cross-pollination: plants which produce...
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