Monday, June 21, 2010

Bagging the tomatoes

Bagging tomatoes so they do not cross pollinate


Unbagged Rose Quartz Multiflora


Bagged Rose Quartz Multiflora

7 comments:

  1. your tomato plants are looking mighty fine. as is your corn and squash.

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  2. Thanks, I'm learning a lot this year being that it is my first year down here in the "banana belt". I have already been making plans for next year. I want to try something like this on a small scale---> Living Mulch Hope I can find a good electric mower that I can do this with.

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  3. I just wanted to say nice bags! I look forward to seeing your seed list this year :)

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  4. Thanks for following my blog! I'm going to spend some time getting to know your garden. This may be a silly/newbie question, but if you bag your tomatoes, how do the flowers get pollinated?

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  5. Tomatoes produce complete flowers with both male and female reproductive parts. Usually their is enough wind to jostle the bags and pollen around so that the flowers self-pollinate. You can also shake the bags a bit to make sure you have good pollination.

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  6. I'm going to try and save as many seeds as I can and share with everyone. I need more bags though.

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  7. Your plants are really beautiful and it shows that you have very well maintained your garden.


    Kitchen Benchtops

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