Flowers pollinated by honeybees make fewer and lower-quality seeds than flowers visited by other pollinators. That could be because honeybees spend more time buzzing between flowers of the same plant ...

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 ...

Although we’re in the middle of winter, soon we’ll witness the unveiling of springtime and all of its joyous colors: brilliant orange poppies, deep purple iris and vivid yellow tidy tips. And after ...

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.

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 ...

Question: I’d like to buy local vegetable seeds this year. Can you recommend to us some Oregon seed companies that offer locally adapted seeds? I’d like to save my own seed from these vegetables, so I ...

The USDA might OK new herbicide-resistant corn and soybeans. This is one of the issues upon which conventional & organic growers disagree.The genetically-engineered seeds - developed by Dow ...

Ames, Iowa and Byron, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - January 6, 2026) - PowerPollen® and Oxbo announced the first mechanized pollination solution for corn seed production, enabling seed companies to ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...