No.
I’m saying I’m not. I’m not seeing any. They’re not just appearing out of nowhere.
The MIGardener said that he bought the land a few years ago and talked to the previous owner who told him that HE had sowed his fields with GMO soybeans. So the land had a history of having the plants in them.
FWIW, the kind of GMO that people object to is not normal hybridization. It’s the kind of DNA manipulation done in the lab.
I see many seeds labeled as *hybrid* but very few as GMO.
Even when I plant stuff in my garden, I try to not plant two varieties of something at the same time if I plan on saving the seed because I know there’s such a high likelihood of the seeds not being the parent plant and being mostly sterile.
OK. I got it. And you’re doing it exactly right, and from your comments, it sounds as if you have good success saving seed.
If you want to go the whole nine yards, use isolation cages so bees and other pollinators can’t get at your plants and cross pollinate them, changing the seed produced. Even something as simple as row cover or an organza bag tied over top will help. You may have to hand-pollinate in that case.
If I was growing out a test tomato for Seed Savers in my home garden, I had to do that. It was a wooden frame covered with metal screening, like on a window.
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