General Gardening Seed Saving

Self Pollinating or Not for Seed Saving

If you are growing only one variety of a plant species or you give a lot of space between varieties, you don’t have to worry about preventing cross pollination. If you want to save open pollinated seeds and make sure they don’t cross pollinate, you should consider using a cross pollination barrier bag and understand […]

General Gardening Plant Science

Self Pollinating or Not For Produce

First we are going to cover whether a plant needs pollination to produce the intended item such as the veggie, fruit, herb or bloom. Self Pollinating – each flower on these veggies and fruits has male and female parts.  While these plants are self pollinating, it doesn’t mean that pollinators don’t help produce the veggie […]

General Gardening Seed Saving

Cross Pollination Barrier Bags

My goal for 2021 is to save as many open pollinated seeds as possible this year which will help me save money! During the pandemic of 2020, a lot more people started gardening which caused the seed companies to run out of my favorite seeds.  Even if you don’t want to save seeds, you always […]