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! Vegetable Crop||Will Cross-Pollinate With
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|Asparagus || Wild Asparagus
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|Beans || Self-pollinating; very small chance of different species (runner, yardlong, lima, etc.) cross-pollinating.
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|Beets || Readily crosses with any Beta vulgaris species: Swiss chard, leaf beet, spinach beet, etc.
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|Broccoli || Readily crosses with any Brassica oleracea species: Cauliflower, Cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, romanesco broccoli, kale, collard greens, broccoli
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|Brussels Sprouts || See: Broccoli
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|Carrot || Queen Anne’s Lace, and any subspecies of Daucus carota
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|Cabbage || See: Broccoli
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|Cauliflower || See: Broccoli
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|Corn || Sweet, flour, popcorn, flint, dent, and ornamental corns, teosinte
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|Cucumber || Will cross pollinated with parthenocarpic cucumber varieties. Please note: it is a commonly held belief that cucumbers will cross with squash and melons. This is false.
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|Eggplant || Self-fertilizing
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|Garlic || Self-fertilizing
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|Melons || Cucumis melo species will cross pollinate; honeydew, cantaloupe, canary melon, etc. Please note: they will not cross-pollinate with watermelons and cucumbers.
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|Onion || Note: onions will not cross-pollinate with leeks or chives. Bunching onions and bulb onions can cross-pollinate, although this is extremely rare.
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|Parsnip || Wild parsnip; It is a myth that carrots and parsnips will cross-pollinate
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|Pea || Self-pollinating; will not cross-pollinate with sweet peas.
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|Pepper || Hot peppers and sweet peppers will cross-pollinate
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|Potato || Propagated by tuber; cross-pollination isn’t an issue. (if you are propagating by seed, all varieties will cross with each other)
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|Radish || Wild radish; spring/summer, winter, and seedpod varieties will all cross-pollinate; daikon, wild mustard, wild turnip
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|Spinach || (more info coming)
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|Squash || Cucurbita maxima, C. mixta, C. pepo, and C. moschata will all cross-pollinate
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|Tomato || Self-fertilizing; potato-leaf varieties are slightly more prone to cross-pollination within varieties
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|Tomatillo || Require cross-pollination for fruit, plant one variety at a time to ensure seed purity. Will not cross-pollinate with tomatoes (this is a myth).
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|Turnip || Wild Turnip
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|Watermelon || Citron; will not cross pollinate with other melon varieties.
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