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- ...

Growing your own fruit is both rewarding and challenging. There's an art to getting the growing environment right for your fruit trees so they can produce plenty of juicy fruit. Pomegranate trees ...

So, some might say that understanding pollination is one of the most important things we can understand about our gardens, ...

A self-pollinating nonpareil could mean less need for bees and greater production for the most popular variety of nut.

Some seeds are surrounded by fruit, such as apples, plums and pears which we grow and eat. Plants spread their seeds in lots of different ways. This is called seed dispersal. Some seeds are ...

“These losses are severe, broad, and may impact food security through inadequate pollination services. Survey results are ...

The apple crop was extremely variable this year. Some trees produced beautiful crops of apples while others produced a small crop or, in some cases, a crop of very small apples. There were also ...

Rapid declines in insect populations are leading to concerns that the pollination of important crops could soon ... as well as acrobatic double flips with a greater rotational speed than a fruit fly ...

All sorts of fruit and vegetables are pollinated by honey bees, such as broccoli and squash, apples and almonds. Pollination is not just important for the food we eat directly, it’s vital for ...

Tech companies in Israel have designed fruit-picking drones and tree-pollinating "paddles" to make farms more efficient at a time of worker shortages and climate change. In Chile, flying robots ...