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 ...

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 ...

Insect-pollination of flowering plants is responsible for the majority of the world’s flowering diversity and is an essential part of plant reproduction. Flowers have bright colours, smells and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

A state-of-the-art in-field sensing solution, BeeHero's PIP empowers growers to address the unique challenges of apple pollination, where timing and precision are critical to fruit size ...