When you select seeds for your garden, you have many varieties to choose from. Some are F1 hybrids; others are open-pollinated or heirloom. Though it might seem that a seed is just a seed, there are ...

Q: I am going to start tomato plants indoors under lights this spring and then transplant them to my garden. I’m just looking at seed catalogs, and I see that some tomatoes are “open pollinated” and ...

In a study of both wild and managed bees with tomato crops, only wild bees provide the pollination services needed for ...

It’s easy to see why the sunflower is one of the world’s favorite flowers. They’re easy to grow, have easy-to-save seeds, and are undeniably cheerful in the garden. Open-pollinated types are magnets ...

Each spring gardeners are planning for the best garden ever. Unfortunately, it’s hard to get started with a good plan when the long list of terms on seed packets is so confusing, making it impossible ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding ...