Saving seed is a selective process — you don’t need to save seed from every plant in your garden. Monitoring blossom times, ...

When blooms appear on our fruit trees or vegetable gardens, we happily anticipate a bountiful harvest. If the bees help by doing their pollinating job, the fruits and vegetables should begin to ...

Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet peppers, the sweet pepper plants will cross with the hot peppers and become hot? — William I get variations on this question all the ...

This is the time of year when people ask about saving seed from vegetable gardens to plant next spring. This is recommended only with open-pollinated vegetables as their seed genetics are more stable.

Olive reproductive biology is marked by a complex interplay between morphological adaptations and genetic self-incompatibility systems, which collectively mediate the process of wind pollination. The ...