I totally did not see that coming. I thought he was going to use the bristles to gently pollinate the flowers like I've heard people doing with qtips. I learned something new!
I bet the fifth dentist has no teeth to floss. Also nice video I stumbled into your videos by accident but they are very educational I'm definitely going to try this next season with some of my heirloom tomatoes next season!
While trying this out my wife accused me of being the only man concerned with the erogenous zones of a plant. Maybe you did this just to laugh at us. ha ha.
I usually tape one of the cheap battery operated toothbrushs on the end of a long stick so I can touch the top of flowers that are out of my reach, it is the only way I have been able to get tomatoes in years! It really helps when you have those 15-20 foot tall tomatoes running up single stem strings, haha
I have been binge watching and I’ve started my own veggie garden. I live in a city in the uk 🇬🇧 so my garden is tiny and only have 1 small raised bed. But I’m so excited to see it grow 🥰
G'day Mark. Yonks ago I watched a video where a bloke actually smacked his tomato plants with a rolled up newspaper. He said they always set well and he had beautifully full plants. I reckon just tickling would work fine. Thanks for sharing.
This is really cool! I recently started a bunch of tomato plants by accident. I tossed some food scraps with tomato seeds into my compost pot on the balcony and forgot about it for a few days. Within weeks I have 2ft tall tomato plants so I have been watering and taking care of them. I'll have to try this out!
Great tip for those who live in a more and more un-natural environment. And if one do live in such an area now is the moment to realise we all ! have to protect this world. Cause we rely on nature and all its creatures. So let's care for nature - let's plant trees, flowers, let the gardens be a bit untidy, use what nature gives us. And be thankful for all of that. Therefore thanks a lot to you Mark and all the others who share their knowledge so we could all do our best for ourselves, children, grandkids, flora and fauna. 🦋
I always love seeing a notification that you have put a video up. You are so informative and knowledgeable, and you do it in a way that is fun and enjoyable. It is obvious that you love what you are doing in your garden. Often people who are providing information about sustainability and self-sufficiency are too serious, and forget that you need to add joy and fun into the mix. You do an amazing job!! Cheers!
@@carlosferegrino290 Do it everyday to any open flowers (it only take 5mins to do a dozen plants you only hold on each branch for a few seconds). A fan would be random and could blow pollen away, you want it to drop straight down, this is treating each bud. As he stated and this has been proven, the buzzing mimics bee's and causes the plant to drop pollen. I've been using this for several years and get 90% fruit from open flowers.
I've been using this trick since the first flowers appeared, it 100% works. Last year the pollinators were late and I missed out on a lot of tomatoes. This year every flower has set on both my chillies and tomatoes. Neighbours must think I'm mad though 🤣 Thank you!
Fellow Aussie here. Long time viewer and short time subscriber, this is one of the most helpful videos on your channel thus far. Makes too much sense and makes me smile at the same time. You keep doing you, Mark :)
This trick worked perfectly for me! I have some heirloom seeds I was given in Bulgaria that I planted this season in the pacific north west. My first few flowers had a very low pollination rate. When I saw this video I started using my electric toothbrush on the new flowers. I am now getting 90% pollination and fruit set. Thank you!!
It's currently December 6th in San Diego California, and my tomato plants had about 100 blossoms and no tomatoes. The bees aren't out much. After seeing this video, I bought a cheap electric toothbrush and started vibrating the blossoms. IT WORKS!!! I now have tomatoes starting. Thank you so much for this video and this information.
One of the best pollinator-attracting plants I use (Newport, UK) is 'Borrage'! Every year I sit out enjoying the constant buzz of bees etc in amongst the self-seeding Borrage with its gorgeous blue flowers that just keep opening (along with my pink foxgloves) while waiting for my giant sunflowers to open (first one did yesterday... yippee). Borrage flowers taste lovely on salads or even alone and the leaves, while spikey, taste and smell like cucumber. Keep up the good work Mark.
@@carlosferegrino290 I'll add my 2-cents here if you don't mind... all I do to help pollinate my tomatoes is repeatedly tap the stems with my first and second fingers while wiggling them quickly (pretend they're little legs and you're jiggling those fingers like they were running!... sorry for the analogy but I'd rather risk being patronising than being unclear... words are hard to get get exact meaning across sometimes)... the vibrations make the flowers jiggle very rapidly and this shakes pollen loose. Takes a couple of seconds. I do this most times I'm near to them while either watering or inspecting or just walking past (maybe once every one or two days?). Works like a charm.
HA, so. Cool. I have used this same method for years. This is what I found imitates the vibrations of a bee. I grow Brandywine tomatoes and this method of a battery operated toothbrush shakes down the pollen: postal & stamen. I have showed this method to only a few neighbors, telling them I am making love to my veggies. Glad it is now published by a well known gardener!
Thanks so much!! Very helpful demo. I'm thinking of planting a cutting from our prolific basil plant into a large pot, then put it on a platform with wheels. That way I can wheel it around the garden beds to where we want to draw our bees!
I like your suggestion about using a family members toothbrush. It’s the way to go. I tried it and I could actually see pollen puffs coming from the plant. Several days later I checked plants and yeh boyyyyyyy, it worked! Thanks a bunch..Bob
Thank you! I am a dental hygienist so I found this really amusing....and of course I have several electric toothbrushes so I am prepared to use this method!
I love it!!! My dad used the paint brush method, this is the 1st video I have ever seen using a paint brush, my dad in heaven, I am sure is very proud of you! I am going to go charge up our spare tooth brush!
I just tap the tomato cage. Shakes the whole plant. Usually happens just by working in the garden. We have bees and birds that work ours. The birds eat caterpillars, bees work flowers. Plants get jostled by birds, too. We always get loads of tomatoes.
I can’t tell you how much we enjoy your vids! You’ve become a household name for us here in Vermont! Thanks for the daily dose of entertainment and brilliant suggestions! We’ve been “getting into it!”👍
and you can cover multiple tomato plants is a very short amount of time, just a slight touch on the top of the flower and you are done, if you can get the sun behind the flower you can see the pollen quickly drop down to the stamen, very quick and easy
So u r vibrating your tomato plants, after sweet talking to them. And the tomato responds with a, "Love is a beautiful song, tr-la la-la-la la lala" and gives u what u want. U have given me some good ideas.
Ah well, as a resourceful self sufficient type you obviously will know that if one trick doesn't work on one, you can try it on another and it might work very well. But, as a female, I suggest you stick to using the tooth brush on the tomatoes, not certain highly sensitive parts of the female anatomy... Got to use implements correctly to get results. Vibrators for teeth might not be such a brilliant idea, either. Too much rattling noise I bed at night, when your partner is trying to sleep...But tomatoes won't mind. Just get up at about 3am if feeling sexually frustrated and unable to sleep and just give the tomato plants a go with the vibrator and watch them bloom next morning, bright and early, in the sunrise...Tell your sleepy head sexually boring partner where you went and what you did, how etc last night. Make them so jealous...
I am going to buy an electric toothbrush pollinator. I was just about to give up on tomatoes until I watched the video. None of my tomatoes had fruit this year. Last year the possums and other animals ate my great tomato crop. My husband built a great enclosure to protect the plants this year. Nor I realise I must have locked our the pollinators or the bushfires effected them. I have just bought some tomato plants and will really give it another go. Thanks for the advice. Love the videos.
Where I live in Franklin, Pennsylvania I very rarely see any bees anymore. Some black and white bumble bees. I used to see those little bees, but I haven't seen any of those. People keep using chemicals. My brother in law lives next to us, not real close but uses all that stuff and round up. Sad we are killing all our bugs and useful insects.
Yes unfortunately chemicals don't discriminate between good and bad bugs so bees are often a big casualty. We can all do our little bit though. Cheers :)
I live in Corry, PA. This year we noticed a bit more than we have in previous years. Which is a good thing. Be sure to plant plants that attract pollinators and leave some clove for the bees in your yard as it grows. We have a couple of neighbors doing the same with the chemicals,but found that we can still attract them from elsewhere. We also heard that there isn't enough plants attracting the bees either while they fly around to land on and rest in.
@@TracyR4 I did plant lots of flowers and we do have clover in the grass. I did see a few more bees this summer than ever. My Bil had nose cancer from smoking and never quit smoking. He is a bullhead. He is 76 or so now.
Just watched the Australian Broadcasting Commission Gardening show that had a segment about moths explaining their usefulness. They are night pollinators!! and account for a large percentage of pollination. Unfortunately many people use those electric bug zappers that kill everything.
hi Mark Love the Videos, We live just up the road from you on the sunny coast. i have been looking at homesteading videos from the US, and am soooooo happy to find yours!!!!!!! I am planing on starting raised garden beds/ growing our own vegs & chickens. do I start a composting pile first or just place the raised beds as I get them? I need to clear some garden beds for the raised beds to go in to. thanks heaps NGM
Those are great ideas. Specially planting tomatoes in the fall. I may try that this year. Right here in central Florida, US I am getting to many diseases this summer in my plants. Thank you.
Unless it's a cold hardy or heat resistant tomato variety, typically tomatoes have an ideal temperature for fruit setting, around 55 to 80*F (12 to 26*C) night time temperature, when it's out of this range there will be blossom drops and immature fruits. I don't bother with manual pollination except for indoor, although you can skip this too if you run a standing fan at the plants.
Walgreens has their own brand for about $9.00 I'm sure Amazon can get you a sim ilar price one. It works briliantly, you can see the pollen fly out of the plant. PS Use it on pepper plants as well, same flower structure.
I came across your channel by chance and love it - you are such a high energy garden enthusiast! Love your tips even though in our climate we can't grow half the things you can in Australia. Thank you!
I was thinking maybe my neighbours drum and bass music she likes to share with us neighbour's might just come in handy after all then, if the bees don't mind.
this gent is just so earnest in what he does, you watch his videos one after the other :) much praise to you good sir, all the way from Mozambique, one farmer to another :D
Enjoy hearing your explanations and instruction, but also love the visual ... Clips here and there that illustrate your points. Nicely put together. Thanks for all the instruction and encouragement!
I just bought a new electric toothbrush , $120 , going to have to wait until the first replaceable head wears out before it gets used in the garden :-D
I grow superhot peppers and some varieties are hard to get fruit set so I have been using the electric toothbrush pollination method for a few years and it works great. I also do it with the tomatoes in my greenhouse. Great tip!
When I had an apple orchard (my first farm, so very limited knowledge), my apple trees stopped producing. I went and spoke to an old apple grower man and he told me to go out in the spring when the sap was coming up and beat the tree with a baseball bat. He said the shockwaves go down to the root and make the tree think it's dying and thereby sends all kinds of energy into blooming. BEST BUMPER CROP EVER! So I suppose the vibration does a lot of different things! Love your tip!!
Pls never stop uploading
Best Gardener on YT.
You're the man Mark. First time gardener and you've quickly become my go-to for tips and instruction. Cheers.
Thank you Sean! Cheers mate :)
Same here Mark
Hey mark
Same
Frustrated tomatoes meet vibrators. I am sure that they are very happy now.
Great tip 😊
Just the tip
I totally did not see that coming. I thought he was going to use the bristles to gently pollinate the flowers like I've heard people doing with qtips. I learned something new!
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂 Me Too haaaa
Oral "bee" substitute is my favorite . Love your channel!!!
vibee
Like some old gardener once said, "Spank your tomatoes good!"
Oral "Bee" Substitute.
YOU WIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gold.....
HAHAHAHA!!!!
That's a beauty! Cheers :)
I see what you did there
Four out of five dentists recommend flossing in between harvestings. ;)
LOL very good advice! :)
@@Selfsufficientme 😜
I bet the fifth dentist has no teeth to floss. Also nice video I stumbled into your videos by accident but they are very educational I'm definitely going to try this next season with some of my heirloom tomatoes next season!
John is a dentist so we cant show his cat face on TV.
@@Selfsufficientme if I plant tomato in NSW now can I grow a strong stem to be ready for the season?
While trying this out my wife accused me of being the only man concerned with the erogenous zones of a plant. Maybe you did this just to laugh at us. ha ha.
A simple flick will do. I tease my tomatoes grown indoors by flicking each flower, not too hard, but hard enough for them to feel it. .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good one
Reminds me of the tomato patch down by by the old ROOT canal.Right next to the CAVITY of blackberrys,in miss flosse's backyard!
I usually tape one of the cheap battery operated toothbrushs on the end of a long stick so I can touch the top of flowers that are out of my reach, it is the only way I have been able to get tomatoes in years! It really helps when you have those 15-20 foot tall tomatoes running up single stem strings, haha
Found your channel in the last week and half.. Absolutely hooked on your content and knowledge. Very likable guy! Keep the content flowing!!!!
This channel is AWESOME !!!!!!!!!
Mark's the greatest, huh?
I have been binge watching and I’ve started my own veggie garden. I live in a city in the uk 🇬🇧 so my garden is tiny and only have 1 small raised bed. But I’m so excited to see it grow 🥰
You know how Basil grows well with tomatoes? This brings a whole new meaning to the name 'Basil Brush'. Boom boom.
Hahaha
@@coolwater55 lol..
G'day Mark. Yonks ago I watched a video where a bloke actually smacked his tomato plants with a rolled up newspaper. He said they always set well and he had beautifully full plants. I reckon just tickling would work fine. Thanks for sharing.
LOL Helen, smacking tomato plants - never heard that one but if it works why not! Cheers :)
Guess it depends on the personal inclinations of the plant lol
😂😂😂 funny. I like it when you pretend to get someones toothbrush. 🤣
Who's Pretending.?
The evidence is good
This is really cool! I recently started a bunch of tomato plants by accident. I tossed some food scraps with tomato seeds into my compost pot on the balcony and forgot about it for a few days. Within weeks I have 2ft tall tomato plants so I have been watering and taking care of them. I'll have to try this out!
Oh wow that's a nice little surprise 😄 I struggle to keep anything growing
I did the same and ended up with a tomato plant which has just opened the flowers today after a few weeks! I hope it will fruit.
Well I had a few but kept the 2 biggest plants. How long before it fruits once the flower has blossomed?
😂😂 I flick mine, can't think of any cavity jokes, vibrations though...best left alone.
yeah i give my tomatoes and peppers a little finger drum solo haha
For best results gently put the center of bristle ends directly up into the flower. I only do the opened and wanting flowers.
Great tip for those who live in a more and more un-natural environment. And if one do live in such an area now is the moment to realise we all ! have to protect this world. Cause we rely on nature and all its creatures.
So let's care for nature - let's plant trees, flowers, let the gardens be a bit untidy, use what nature gives us. And be thankful for all of that.
Therefore thanks a lot to you Mark and all the others who share their knowledge so we could all do our best for ourselves, children, grandkids, flora and fauna. 🦋
I always love seeing a notification that you have put a video up. You are so informative and knowledgeable, and you do it in a way that is fun and enjoyable. It is obvious that you love what you are doing in your garden. Often people who are providing information about sustainability and self-sufficiency are too serious, and forget that you need to add joy and fun into the mix. You do an amazing job!! Cheers!
I've been doing this for my tomatoes and my peppers this year. The set rate for both has been great!
How many times in a week - month do you pollinate tomatoes with a toothbrush? Why you don't just use a fan to create wind and make pollination?
@@carlosferegrino290 Do it everyday to any open flowers (it only take 5mins to do a dozen plants you only hold on each branch for a few seconds). A fan would be random and could blow pollen away, you want it to drop straight down, this is treating each bud. As he stated and this has been proven, the buzzing mimics bee's and causes the plant to drop pollen. I've been using this for several years and get 90% fruit from open flowers.
If my family caught me doing this it would be off to the funny farm...😂😂
I've been using this trick since the first flowers appeared, it 100% works. Last year the pollinators were late and I missed out on a lot of tomatoes. This year every flower has set on both my chillies and tomatoes. Neighbours must think I'm mad though 🤣 Thank you!
It looks a bit weird ha ha. Don't know what my neighbors would think if they see me brushing my tomatoes.
Yes ..there are special institutions for people like that 🤪 lol
I speak to mine...😜
I can’t WAIT for my neighbours to see me electric tooth brushing my tomato plants! They already think I’m a nutter anyways
@@derekcox6531 Wave a packet of floss in the air. They'll really freak out!😜
Hahaha 😆 😂 🤣 FUNNY! 😁
You are always so cheery! You had me laughing so hard when you stole the toothbrush!
This video came at the perfect time for me. Think I'll use my beard trimmer for lack of electric toothbrush. Thanks.
You have a great understanding of nature
I thought I was the only one who thought of using my electric toothbrush to vibrate the pollen from male to female parts in the “perfect” flower!
Fellow Aussie here. Long time viewer and short time subscriber, this is one of the most helpful videos on your channel thus far. Makes too much sense and makes me smile at the same time. You keep doing you, Mark :)
This trick worked perfectly for me! I have some heirloom seeds I was given in Bulgaria that I planted this season in the pacific north west. My first few flowers had a very low pollination rate. When I saw this video I started using my electric toothbrush on the new flowers. I am now getting 90% pollination and fruit set. Thank you!!
Bulgarian tomatoes best tomatoes 🤛
Nevhr can’t wait for my Bulgarian Pinks! Best 🍅 in the world.
@@Vepoch I know! I hope you have a great harvest, ours are starting to ripen! Enjoy!
How often to you do the toothbrush hand pollination during the flower phase? Thanks!
Karen Page just once per flower. Every time I see a new flower I hit it with the tooth brush then don’t need to do it again.
It's currently December 6th in San Diego California, and my tomato plants had about 100 blossoms and no tomatoes. The bees aren't out much. After seeing this video, I bought a cheap electric toothbrush and started vibrating the blossoms. IT WORKS!!! I now have tomatoes starting. Thank you so much for this video and this information.
One of the best pollinator-attracting plants I use (Newport, UK) is 'Borrage'! Every year I sit out enjoying the constant buzz of bees etc in amongst the self-seeding Borrage with its gorgeous blue flowers that just keep opening (along with my pink foxgloves) while waiting for my giant sunflowers to open (first one did yesterday... yippee).
Borrage flowers taste lovely on salads or even alone and the leaves, while spikey, taste and smell like cucumber.
Keep up the good work Mark.
I have grown borrage before and I agree it's a great plant - I should grow more of it! Cheers :)
How many times in a week - month do you pollinate tomatoes with a toothbrush? Why you don't just use a fan to create wind and make pollination?
@@carlosferegrino290 I'll add my 2-cents here if you don't mind... all I do to help pollinate my tomatoes is repeatedly tap the stems with my first and second fingers while wiggling them quickly (pretend they're little legs and you're jiggling those fingers like they were running!... sorry for the analogy but I'd rather risk being patronising than being unclear... words are hard to get get exact meaning across sometimes)... the vibrations make the flowers jiggle very rapidly and this shakes pollen loose. Takes a couple of seconds.
I do this most times I'm near to them while either watering or inspecting or just walking past (maybe once every one or two days?). Works like a charm.
I appreciate the details, how you explain the procedure. For those of us without green thumbs ..... need it.
absolutely loving the vids. Keep it up mate big aspirations to have a crop like yours someday
HA, so. Cool. I have used this same method for years. This is what I found imitates the vibrations of a bee. I grow Brandywine tomatoes and this method of a battery operated toothbrush shakes down the pollen: postal & stamen. I have showed this method to only a few neighbors, telling them I am making love to my veggies. Glad it is now published by a well known gardener!
Thanks so much!! Very helpful demo. I'm thinking of planting a cutting from our prolific basil plant into a large pot, then put it on a platform with wheels. That way I can wheel it around the garden beds to where we want to draw our bees!
I like your suggestion about using a family members toothbrush. It’s the way to go. I tried it and I could actually see pollen puffs coming from the plant. Several days later I checked plants and yeh boyyyyyyy, it worked! Thanks a bunch..Bob
Thank you! I am a dental hygienist so I found this really amusing....and of course I have several electric toothbrushes so I am prepared to use this method!
I love it!!! My dad used the paint brush method, this is the 1st video I have ever seen using a paint brush, my dad in heaven, I am sure is very proud of you! I am going to go charge up our spare tooth brush!
My dad used to use a small feather or a child's paintbrush to pollenate the flowers of tomatoes and cucumbers
Did it work well?
I use a small paintbrush as well. When he got the toothbrush, I thought he was going to shake the plant from the base or something.
Buddy YOU Truly are genius You love your plants like your own babies I admire your devotion keep it up .....
I just tap the tomato cage. Shakes the whole plant. Usually happens just by working in the garden. We have bees and birds that work ours. The birds eat caterpillars, bees work flowers. Plants get jostled by birds, too. We always get loads of tomatoes.
i watch various gardening vids, but Mark's are absolutely the best. Thanks!
I know you had a humoristic side in you. Loved the clip when you sniked in the bathroom and took the toothbrusch 😂 Great tip BTW 🙂
Flicking and vibrating the little bud to stimulate the fruit, oh beehave!
You failed to mention the best brand of tooth paste for healthy tomatoes 🤷🏽♂️🤣
I can’t tell you how much we enjoy your vids! You’ve become a household name for us here in Vermont!
Thanks for the daily dose of entertainment and brilliant suggestions!
We’ve been “getting into it!”👍
So, if you do something wrong here then it's acci-dental?
I enjoy the delivery, content and your wit best bit is I learn something every time. Get me buzzing about the garden xx
and you can cover multiple tomato plants is a very short amount of time, just a slight touch on the top of the flower and you are done, if you can get the sun behind the flower you can see the pollen quickly drop down to the stamen, very quick and easy
Bloody brilliant, Mark. You’re my favorite gardentuber so keep up the awesome videos 🙌🏽
I'm going to try it. Thank you for the different tips. 🌸🌸🌸
So u r vibrating your tomato plants, after sweet talking to them. And the tomato responds with a, "Love is a beautiful song, tr-la la-la-la la lala" and gives u what u want.
U have given me some good ideas.
LOL! I cracked up at, “How are you doing?”, and sneaking a family member’s toothbrush out to the garden.
I’ve put my family onto your videos, thank you for the knowledge you share.
This is brilliant. I am definitely doing this. I flick to hard with my fingers. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you for your videos. I'm a first-time gardener. I love your content and sense of humor.
I used another type of vibrating device I found in the bedroom to do this... now I'm divorced.
You were supposed to use it on the tomato's Frank...!
Ah well, as a resourceful self sufficient type you obviously will know that if one trick doesn't work on one, you can try it on another and it might work very well. But, as a female, I suggest you stick to using the tooth brush on the tomatoes, not certain highly sensitive parts of the female anatomy... Got to use implements correctly to get results. Vibrators for teeth might not be such a brilliant idea, either. Too much rattling noise I bed at night, when your partner is trying to sleep...But tomatoes won't mind. Just get up at about 3am if feeling sexually frustrated and unable to sleep and just give the tomato plants a go with the vibrator and watch them bloom next morning, bright and early, in the sunrise...Tell your sleepy head sexually boring partner where you went and what you did, how etc last night. Make them so jealous...
😂😂😂😂😂
Ha ha ha!!!
OMG I laughed out loud ...Hard belly laugh
I love it! That's the best idea, I have heard to help Pollinate your tomatoes. Thank you🌱🌱🌱🍅🍅🍅
“How you doin’..?” 😏
hahah 🤣🤣
Lol
Lucy S vibrating!
Thanks, I used this tip this weekend and have already seen a huge difference.
Great trick. Thanks for sharing! 💚
I am going to buy an electric toothbrush pollinator. I was just about to give up on tomatoes until I watched the video. None of my tomatoes had fruit this year. Last year the possums and other animals ate my great tomato crop. My husband built a great enclosure to protect the plants this year. Nor I realise I must have locked our the pollinators or the bushfires effected them. I have just bought some tomato plants and will really give it another go. Thanks for the advice. Love the videos.
Where I live in Franklin, Pennsylvania I very rarely see any bees anymore. Some black and white bumble bees. I used to see those little bees, but I haven't seen any of those. People keep using chemicals. My brother in law lives next to us, not real close but uses all that stuff and round up. Sad we are killing all our bugs and useful insects.
Yes unfortunately chemicals don't discriminate between good and bad bugs so bees are often a big casualty. We can all do our little bit though. Cheers :)
I live in Corry, PA. This year we noticed a bit more than we have in previous years. Which is a good thing. Be sure to plant plants that attract pollinators and leave some clove for the bees in your yard as it grows. We have a couple of neighbors doing the same with the chemicals,but found that we can still attract them from elsewhere. We also heard that there isn't enough plants attracting the bees either while they fly around to land on and rest in.
@@TracyR4 I did plant lots of flowers and we do have clover in the grass. I did see a few more bees this summer than ever. My Bil had nose cancer from smoking and never quit smoking. He is a bullhead. He is 76 or so now.
Using chemical should be against the law.....mother's nature's law. Your brother in-law isn't the brightest light bulb.
Just watched the Australian Broadcasting Commission Gardening show that had a segment about moths explaining their usefulness. They are night pollinators!! and account for a large percentage of pollination. Unfortunately many people use those electric bug zappers that kill everything.
You make gardening tips,so fun.
Ahaha :D I was feeling a bit down this morning but your toothbrush skit there has brightened my day. Thank you, sir! :D
Thanks Mark for your great video. I'm Is roll tightly new to growing gardens. All your videos have been very helpful thanks.
hi Mark Love the Videos, We live just up the road from you on the sunny coast. i have been looking at homesteading videos from the US, and am soooooo happy to find yours!!!!!!!
I am planing on starting raised garden beds/ growing our own vegs & chickens. do I start a composting pile first or just place the raised beds as I get them? I need to clear some garden beds for the raised beds to go in to. thanks heaps NGM
Those are great ideas. Specially planting tomatoes in the fall. I may try that this year. Right here in central Florida, US I am getting to many diseases this summer in my plants. Thank you.
Unless it's a cold hardy or heat resistant tomato variety, typically tomatoes have an ideal temperature for fruit setting, around 55 to 80*F (12 to 26*C) night time temperature, when it's out of this range there will be blossom drops and immature fruits.
I don't bother with manual pollination except for indoor, although you can skip this too if you run a standing fan at the plants.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! Cheers :)
I loved this demonstration lol. I am a first time gardener and trying to get all the help I can get. Love your humor. Thanks
I'm going to do this today! I've been flicking, but I think this will be better! Thanks, as always! :D
I love
I would have never thought of this. Wow what a great idea
Great way to recycle old electric toothbrushes. I have been trying to find a use for them for years.
You learn something new every day. This is the first time I've heard about tomatoes requiring vibrating devices in order to bear fruit.
I flick mine. The tomato plants can’t have my $80 toothbrush 😄
just change the end o the toothbrush for a used one. Or dont use the end at all. Still going to vibrate.
Walgreens has their own brand for about $9.00 I'm sure Amazon can get you a sim ilar price one. It works briliantly, you can see the pollen fly out of the plant. PS Use it on pepper plants as well, same flower structure.
80 DOLLARS SCUSE ME FOR A DAMN TOOTH BRUSH THATS LIKE A LUXURY MEAL OR LIKE THE BEST KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
I came across your channel by chance and love it - you are such a high energy garden enthusiast! Love your tips even though in our climate we can't grow half the things you can in Australia. Thank you!
I was thinking maybe my neighbours drum and bass music she likes to share with us neighbour's might just come in handy after all then, if the bees don't mind.
Brilliant! I tried it and I was floored how easy and effective. Bumper crop. Fruit is setting bountifully... thank you so much!
I set my phone to vibrate and strapped it to my plant now I just call it every morning......
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Genius.. 👍🏻
LMAOOO
Late comment but Big brain
USL Services Excellent, yours is the best comment so far.
this gent is just so earnest in what he does, you watch his videos one after the other :) much praise to you good sir, all the way from Mozambique, one farmer to another :D
The scene stealing the tooth brush just gained you another sub. That made me laugh, and after a day like today it was much needed. Thank you.
Enjoy hearing your explanations and instruction, but also love the visual ... Clips here and there that illustrate your points. Nicely put together. Thanks for all the instruction and encouragement!
Make sure that you hit your tomatoes "T Spot"!! lol
This honestly needs more likes. xdxdxdd
Very valuable information
I will use this method in my terrace garden
So technically any personal vibrating device would work?😋
Hahahahaha
Natasha Nagy oh my gosh I think I know what you're thinking
"You gotta try these tomatoes, they're ORGASMICALLY delicious" 😄 😄 😄
Not yourvPersonel Massager By God What were you Thinking Natasha?
Redtail, I like to keep the neighbours on their toes...so to speak
I used this method on chillies when I grew them indoors in a Romanian winter. -20 outside. Works great.
Thanks for the info.. your the Steve Irwin of the plant kingdom.. 😀
I love learning. This was a great video. Thanks for sharing your wisdom
I’m so glad you didn’t call this a “hack”!
Love watching your videos from here in California. You are the best Aussie ambassador since Steve Irwin. Love ya, m8
I just bought a new electric toothbrush , $120 , going to have to wait until the first replaceable head wears out before it gets used in the garden :-D
Typical kids spinbrush costs about 6 bux at the local pharmacy
Pop it inside a plastic bag or wrap in cling film?
The whole video was instructional. Thanks!
I wonder if you could use a "neck massager" to get the same effect. :) Or maybe that would be a great way to stimulate the zucchini lol...
I grow superhot peppers and some varieties are hard to get fruit set so I have been using the electric toothbrush pollination method for a few years and it works great. I also do it with the tomatoes in my greenhouse. Great tip!
As usual your video was A W E S O M E
God bless you and yours
When I had an apple orchard (my first farm, so very limited knowledge), my apple trees stopped producing. I went and spoke to an old apple grower man and he told me to go out in the spring when the sap was coming up and beat the tree with a baseball bat. He said the shockwaves go down to the root and make the tree think it's dying and thereby sends all kinds of energy into blooming. BEST BUMPER CROP EVER! So I suppose the vibration does a lot of different things! Love your tip!!
"How"re you doin" you should check the plant out to see if it responded with more fruit! 😊
Thanks Mark for your great brilliant options wow..and for your followers my i, their comments are healing, hilarious and open minded