Did your tomatoes fruit this season?

Further to my post near the top of this thread, best I elaborate on the role of bees in pollination.

First, regular honey bees don’t work tomato blossoms as they have no nectar or useful pollen (they’re not stupid, you know).  This is the reason greenhouse tomato growers tend to use vibrators to force the pollen from the male part of the flower to pollinate the female part.

It’s a different story in the garden, as there are a number of other bee species that will work tomato blossom, such as mason bees, sweat bees, teddy bees, carpenter bees, bumble bees etc, and here Down Under we have thousands of species of native Australian bees.  Therefore, when growing open-pollinated (OP) tomatoes with the view to saving ‘pure’ seed it is best to exclude insects that work the blossoms.  This is best done thru bagging the blossoms and saving seeds from the resultant fruit.  This ensures purity.  However, most tomato experts say the rate of insect crossing is generally around the 5% mark, so most folks growing tomatoes on a grand scale tend not to bag blossoms, not only because of the amount of time that would be involved, but in regions with hot and humid growing seasons yields can be markedly reduced.

This aside, honey bees are a useful addition in greenhouses where cucurbits are being grown.  To get fruits on cukes, courgettes, squash, pumpkin, watermelon and cantaloupes it is necessary for pollen from male flowers to be transferred to female flowers.  Bees make this process easy for us but if they are lacking in the garden or greenhouse we must resort to hand pollination, which is quite tedious!

As Skip nicely explains, no fruit set has not much to do with pollinating insects in tomatoes, as most suggest, wait for a change of weather.

I was given a tomato plant this weekend as we have just got a greenhouse. Only a plastic walk in one, nothing too exciting...hubby wants to see how keen I am before he lays out for a glass one.
The plant I was given had been placed beside a greenhouse as there wasn't room inside.
I brought it home and I have put it inside my greenhouse at night but brought it out during the day. It is about 2.5 feet tall I think and very bushy, there are a few yellow flowers on it and some green fruit. I think it is a cherry tomato plant.
Am I treating it right? As it has grown outside until now am I better just leaving it outside? My garden can get quite windy at times so I was really just putting it inside to protect it.
We only have this and a few p[ots of seeds planted so I really want it to do well.

I was given a tomato plant this weekend as we have just got a greenhouse. Only a plastic walk in one.

A plastic walk in tomato is better than no tomato at all!

Seriously, if it's been used to being outside, leave it there, it's plenty warm enough now.

My tomatoes haven't got a single flower on them yet this year!  It's been good weather and they're nice and tall and leafy, but nothing doing, I guess.  I'm in a new place and I still haven't figured out what curse was put on my garden before I moved in, and what to do about it.  I did grow them from seed, so perhaps the seed is the problem.