Q. My cucumber and squash are not setting fruit even though the plants appear healthy. I’m not seeing many bees. Can this be part of my problem? A. More than likely this is the result of incomplete ...

Tickling your tomato blossoms and brushing your squash flowers probably aren’t regular tasks on your gardening to-do list, but it turns out that hand pollination, in league with natural processes, can ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

If you’ve nursed your cucumber plant into a large, leafy vine, it can be disappointing and confusing when it hardly produces any fruit. Learning about the difference between male vs female cucumber ...

Every year when the new cucumber crop starts, I get asked about funny-looking cucumbers. Why are some cucumbers normal while others have a distinct curve to them even though they are from the same ...

Each year I grow a lot of different types of squash and cucumbers. Sometimes I get oddly shaped cucumbers and I am wondering if that is because they are cross-pollinating with the squash? Should I ...

Put down the paintbrush and step away from the cotton swab, because everything you thought you knew about hand-pollinating tomatoes is about to change. If you need to pollinate dozens and dozens of ...