Let's Hear it for the Bees

Well guess who pollinates the hybrid carrots growing in the fields of Central Oregon. Honey bees. They fly back and forth between the male and female plants in their search for nectar and - voila! The carrots are fertilized and then it's only a matter of time and new baby seeds are born (or something like that).

Also, Bruce from Central Oregon Seed checked and said, "The easy answer to being able to tell the difference between male and female seed is, you can't. When the seeds are planted and grow into plants and produce a flower then you can tell the difference. They are already separated when we get them. Once the seed is set and harvested off the plant, nobody can tell if it's male or female."

And Buttons (that sounds to me like a name for a rabbit), from Green Belt, Maryland, emailed to say you can find out just about everything you ever wanted to know about carrots by visiting www.worldcarrotmuseum.co.uk (that even sounds like something a rabbit would come up with).

If anyone has any more questions, just email me at countrytraveleronline@gmail.com

Luv,

Sissy