Do heirloom tomatoes (or other heirloom vegetables, for that matter) have benefits or advantages when compared to hybrid tomatoes. The answer is a bit more than “simple.” The natural selection of vegetables: Most of the crops we eat today, including tomatoes, have evolved from less desirable wild plants. Over generations and generations humans have selectively…
Hybrid Vegetables
How Vegetables Are Pollinated: Open Pollination and Hybrids
Vegetables are pollinated in two basic ways: self pollination and cross pollination. • Self pollinators are plants that produce flowers that are usually fertilized by their own pollen, commlonly when the male and female flower parts are contained within the same flower. • Cross pollinators are plants with flowers that require pollen from another flower…