{"id":442,"date":"2014-06-23T15:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/?p=442"},"modified":"2014-06-23T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T15:50:54","slug":"how-to-pollinate-an-indoor-tomato-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/how-to-pollinate-an-indoor-tomato-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pollinate an Indoor Tomato Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your tomato plant is indoors, in a greenhouse or polytunnel &#8211; do not expect to still get tomatoes even if bees have access to the plant. Tomatoes are actually self-pollinators so without an outdoor environment they will need a helping hand.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main methods for pollinating your tomatoes but never fear they are very easy! When your tomato plant is in flower:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shake Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hold the tomato plant and shake it rigorously but being gentle to the plant. That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flick method<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hold the stem by the flowers and gently flick the flower heads a few times. Viola!<\/p>\n<p>Then just wait it out until you see the flowers turning into tomatoes. You may also need to do this to give your tomatoes a helping hand if they don&#8217;t seem to be pollinating themselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368299_10152509986016774_4440642860864041142_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-443\" alt=\"how to pollinate tomatoes\" src=\"http:\/\/sustainablelife.spiderstudio.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10368299_10152509986016774_4440642860864041142_o-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"860\" height=\"645\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your tomato plant is indoors, in a greenhouse or polytunnel &#8211; do not expect to still get tomatoes even if bees have access to the plant. Tomatoes are actually self-pollinators so without an outdoor environment they will need a helping hand. There are two main methods for pollinating your tomatoes but never fear they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/freefood\/how-to-pollinate-an-indoor-tomato-plant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Pollinate an Indoor Tomato Plant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,79],"tags":[107,108],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freefood","category-groyourown-allotment","tag-pollination","tag-tomatoes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainablelifebirmingham.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}