Old Shaw Farm
South Peacham, Vermont

April 24, 2006

Tomato flowers

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Posted by maryellen at April 24, 2006 06:49 PM
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Just curious. How do the flowers get polinated in the seemingly bee/bug free greenhouse. Do you hand polinate them??

Posted by: G'MA at April 26, 2006 06:52 AM

Actually, the sides on our greenhouses are open enough during the day these days to let some bees and other critters in. Plus, tomatoes and peppers self pollinate to a large extent. It is helpful to have pollinators with them, but not absolutely necessary. Some greenhouse growers whose plants flower before the sides can be raised at all (like, in Feb.) will actually buy in little hives of these bees that don't sting, but that manage to pollinate. We haven't done that yet because we haven't really had any pollination rate problems.

Posted by: peter at April 26, 2006 09:03 AM
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