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Unlike animals, plants can’t move around to find a mate, so they have to rely on pollination, mainly from insects. It’s how they reproduce. The question is, are your plants getting enough? Our job as gardeners is to help our plants to achieve pollination, so that we can increase our chances of a bumper crop…
HOW TO MAKE SEEDS AND HOW TO GROW THEM Pollination is usually the unintended consequence of an animal’s activity on a flower. The pollinator is often eating or collecting pollen for its protein and other nutritional characteristics or it is sipping nectar from the flower when pollen grains attach themselves to the animal’s body. When…
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Corn pollination is a weird process unlike many other annual crops you’ll grow in your garden. It’s a wind pollinated plant, meaning our beneficial pollinators don’t really play a part in the process. So if you’re growing a small amount of sweet corn, this is a foolproof method for corn pollination that takes under three…
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If you are having tomato fruit set problems try this simple toothbrush trick to get more tomatoes! The electric toothbrush acts like the buzz of a bee to help free the pollen and fertilise the flower- how cool is that! Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our…
How to pollinate indoor plants….but first WHY? Its pretty obvious, the birds and bees don’t get indoors (usually not) so someone has to do their work! Some plants need more help than others, some are self-pollinating. I hope you enjoy this video on the different techniques of hand pollination. If you have any comments or…
With the honey bee crisis continuing it’s even more important to encourage native bees to ensure good pollination in the backyard vegetable garden and orchard. Just one hive is plenty for the average property and in return for a safe home and some pollen, bees will enhance your garden 10 fold! My Uncle sells Native…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Are you seeing plenty of flowers forming on your squash plants but not many fruit growing? Do you grow your plants under plastic to stop common pests? In this short video we explain how to distinguish between male and female plants and demonstrate how you can manually…
We have had a very good year for honeybees, the bees are thriving and loving it, and the honeybees are just making so much honey! We decided to pull a frame of honey, and show you how we harvest honey. It is cheap, easy, and very quick! Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI…
💛 📖 See the GrowVeg book here: https://www.growveg.com/growveg-the-beginners-guide-to-easy-gardening.aspx. Bees are essential to life in the vegetable garden so we’ve pulled together some simple tips to help get your garden buzzing. Whether you grow vegetables, fruit, herbs or a combination of them all, you can easily add plants which will attract beneficial pollinating insects. In this…
This tutorial will show how to hand pollinate cucumbers for indoors growers, greenhouse growers, or people who do not have a lot of pollinating insects around. This will guarantee more fruit, and better yields. Enjoy! Send mail to: PO box 131 Marysville, MI 48040 450+ varieties of Heirloom & Non-GMO Vegetable seeds .99/pack, fertilizer, garden…
The big move is over, the honey bees are in their final home. Now we look at the flowers that make a bee plot very productive. We Also take a look at home honey bees help the garden. FOLLOW ME! WEBSITE: http://www.MIgardener.com FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/MIgardener INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/MIgardener TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MI_gardener TUMBLR: http://MIgardener.tumblr.com G+: https://plus.google.com/+MIgardener Send mail to:…
Are cucumbers self pollinating? A short video on how to identify the male and female flowers on a cucumber plant and how to manually transfer the pollen to assure pollination to fully grown cucumbers if lack of pollinators. https://youplanttube.blogspot.com/
Personally saw results of wood chip gardening and wanted to share.
Just my thoughts on GMO’s. Obviously incomplete but a good start I think. It is longer than I intended. MUST work on condensing.
The YouTube video explains how to make a super bell pepper plant by cross-pollinating a certified organic mild jalapeno with a certified organic and heirloom sweet bell pepper. The resulting plant will have the yield of a mild jalapeno and the sweetness of a bell pepper. The plant will also be sturdier and have more branches, and the peppers will be larger.
This YouTube video provides a quick tip on how to pollinate indoor vegetables, such as pepper plants and tomatoes, using a Q-tip.
