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 ...

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 ...

AS OUR SUMMER vegetable and flower gardens wind down, it’s a good time to think about which annuals you’d like to grow again next year. These days, a lot of varieties sell out each spring. One way to ...

If 2020 taught us anything when it comes to gardening, it’s that you should buy your seeds early. Last spring saw seed companies inundated with unprecedented demand, as gardening grew in popularity as ...

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 ...