AMES, Iowa – A new study indicates that insects like honey bees in many cases can do a better job of pollinating soybeans than the plants can do on their own. The findings suggest growing soybeans ...

Tickling your tomato blossoms and brushing your squash flowers probably aren’t regular tasks on your gardening to-do list, but it turns out that hand pollination, in league with natural processes, can ...

Tens of millions of chocolate bunnies get sold in the U.S. every Easter. Here are six articles about chocolate from The Conversation’s archive – great reading while you’re nibbling the ears off your ...

I planted an unnamed variety of yellow wax bean in late July -- about two dozen seeds -- and by late summer the vines were so vigorous and fruitful that I couldn't keep up with them in the kitchen.

The black-seeded pole bean is still available from heirloom nurseries such as Baker Creek. Because they are self-pollinating, beans will come true from seed. And the dried bean is eminently portable, ...