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HopeHoops

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11. Wait a minute. They don't require another plant (like kiwis), but nightshades do require pollinators
Thu Aug 23, 2012, 08:42 AM
Aug 2012

Some plants have to have two different plants (and in the case of kiwis, a male and a female), but a lone tomato plant will produce. In that context it is self-pollinating, but you still have to have insects to distribute the pollen between flowers. Bumbles do the heavy lifting on our nightshades. I've never heard of a plant producing without pollinators. Perhaps I have some research to do.

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