Hand pollination helps up your yield per plant. Here’s a step-by-step:
https://positivebloom.com/how-to-pollinate-tomatoes-by-hand/
The ‘isolation’ we were talking about is to prevent cross-pollination from a second variety via insects or bees if you want to save the seeds.
We had to go to Lowe’s to return refrigerator filters (I gave Lowe’s guy our fridge model # & he told us the wrong one - grrrr). Once that was taken care of, we were off to the orchard for peaches - yay!
The Orchard Market Hours on the website are Mon - Sat 9-5. They were closed ... booo, hiss. Really irritating. I sent them an email about it.
We stopped at a place that supposedly has local produce, in fact they are sort of ‘famous’ for what they carry during ‘the season’. I could not believe what I was seeing. The tomatoes looked great, but the peaches were half rotten (no joke) for $2.99/lb. The cantaloupes were so bad, mom couldn’t find a single one she would spend money on. We won’t be back - it’s over the mountain to go there. Hopefully, we can find better closer to home.
On to Walmart where peaches are $1.22 .....EACH. I was dreaming of peach chutney, peach cobbler & peach bourbon upside-down Bundt cake. What a let down.
Frog strangler deluge while at Walmart. I got very wet getting to the car & I waited, along with a lot of other people, until it looked like the rain had slowed down - as soon as we were dashing for our cars, it picked up again. At least when I got home, we didn’t have a puddle of water on the floor - not sure why not since we have that pretty serious roof leak. The new roof can’t come soon enough!