These plants bear similar fruit and set seeds that produce plants more like the parents. Open-pollinated varieties may be "heirlooms" passed down through generations, but they can include more recent ...

Because these are open-pollinated seeds, not hybrids ... For the Abe Lincoln tomato, for example — a century-old, disease-resistant red slicer with rich, slightly acid flavor — there is ...

If you’ve been in garden supply stores or perusing various seed catalogs lately, you may have noticed the different types of ...

Not all tomatoes are ideal for seed saving, so it's important to start with the best fruit possible. Heirloom or ...

The exchange, on Seed Savers’ website, pairs the people who save heirlooms with those who want them, all for the price of postage.

Hybrid tomato plants are the result of cross-pollination of two parent plants chosen for a specific desirable quality, such ...

Yes, that means saving the seeds from your tomato plant and sowing them again next year. It's not something that's commonly done, but it is possible when you have heirloom and open-pollinated ...

If you consistently have problems with a disease in your garden, such as tomato spotted ... If you want to save seed from this year’s garden to plant next year, open-pollinated varieties would ...

After the holidays, I find it easy to slide into the winter doldrums, as I anticipate the long nippy weeks before the spring.

Imagine your garden filled with nutritious vegetables, vibrant flowers, and fragrant herbs all made possible by the seeds ...