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If your vegetables are flowering but not producing fruit, the issue often isn’t growth—it’s pollination. After 30+ years growing vegetables in Sonoma Valley, I’ve learned this clearly: 👉 Healthy plants can still fail at fruiting if pollination conditions are weak. Pollination isn’t just about bees. It’s about plant movement, timing, airflow, and environmental stability. The…
Having grown corn in my home garden for many seasons, I’ve learned that successful pollination is the key to producing ears filled with plump, sweet kernels. Corn is a wind-pollinated plant, and understanding how that process works can make all the difference in your harvest. The Role of Tassels and Silks Each corn plant produces…
Pollination is one of the most important factors in growing a productive squash harvest. Without proper pollination, squash plants may produce small, misshapen fruits or fail to set fruit at all. Over the years, I’ve worked through pollination challenges in my own garden, learning firsthand which techniques lead to higher yields and healthier plants. Whether…
Vegetables are pollinated in two ways: self-pollination and cross-pollination. Self-pollinators are plants that produce flowers that are usually fertilized by their own pollen, commonly when the male and female flower parts are contained within the same flower. Cross pollinators are plants with flowers that require pollen from another flower (a male flower on the same…
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