[net.garden] Tomatoes, Bees, and Honey - Followup

ijk@hou5e.UUCP (06/30/83)

A few answers to my query on pollinating tomatoes made note of the
following:
	1). Tomatoes can be self-pollinating; apparently some
flowers are male, and some female.  Bees may not play a role
in fertilization.
	2). A tiny paint brush dipped in several flowers (to make
sure that the male pollen gets to the female flowers) may do the
trick.
	3). One person said that honey can contain bacteria that
can harm bees, so I should not set it out!!

Thanks for the replies, I'll try the paint brush trick.

Ihor Kinal
hou5e!ijk
American Bell
Holmdel, NJ 
(site of the imitation swans in our cooling ponds, GOOD GRIEF!).