Learn the Seedsaving Secret That Makes Gardening Easier

You see not heard about this corn crossing LOL a year or two ago I planted buttersweet corn and some other corn crop I did not space them out I did one row of one one row of the other one row of one one row of the other only did like five or six rows maybe like 45 plants in total for the first couple weeks it looked like corn but lo and behold every single plant somehow became f**** sorghum leaving me no corn none was the first time my life was plagued by this transplantism lmao but then after hearing that 45 plants would have only yielded me a few handfuls of corn I said f*** it and never tried to grow it again

Doug and Stacy sent me here

Great video, David. Does this method only apply to certain plants when it comes to saving seed? I am trying to hold this idea, while also thinking about how it relates to say Brassicas, and needing to allow dozens of plants to go to seed in order to maintain vigor. Thanks

We have potatoes in the ground all year including winter. Having drought kind of let me select more resistant seeds out of my astronomy domine sweet corrn. Mostly white and red some purple and black seeds. We have some cherry tomatoes that come up every year. We like the pueple brassicas too.

I’m brand new at trying to grow food. I’m curious how to combine land race gardening with the idea of guild islands.
I live in zone 8b, on a limestone glade. Very little topsoil. I just mulched around some volunteer mimosas to get started. Now what?

Any tips for saving hot pepper seeds? I've been growing and saving seeds from Tabasco and Hawaiian Chili's the last 3 years. How many plants do you think I would need for a stable and productive seed bank?

Death marches reminded me of the Trail of Tears (Native Americans) and Bataan Death March (my great grandfather)…. Anyway, here’s my engagement. Thanks for the video. Inspirational towards trying again with my garden this autumn.

Cool!

Man wish i seen these landrace videos before i removeed my flowering lettuce. They're ones planted last year, stayed alive though zone 5 winter. -10f for a couple days also. Wish i kept them. Anyways i got the original seeds from the 1st batch will try again.

I heard that seeds of hybrids won't grow the same fruit as the plant the seeds were taken from. Is this true? That fruits and vegetables won't be anything like the first plant.

It will ensure you get the peppers you want if you save seeds. The only true to seed peppers I got this year were from the seeds that Pinball Preparedness saved.
ONLY WAY TO GUARANTEE WHAT YOUR YIELD WILL BE!!

Such a great idea, and yet never really spoken about. 👍👍

This was an eye opening video...THANK YOU David the Good!!

Plus if you're sensitive to glyphosate or some of the US approved "organic" fertilizers and pesticides that are not necessarily natural... growing your own plants for seed is also a good idea to guarantee you aren't contaminating your soil with residues and pollution from unknown growing locations. There's no foreign fungus or bacteria I'm introducing to my garden, either. I don't know if this is a low-risk or even non-concern, but it's a nice added bonus in my mind.

Another good reason to save your own seeds is if you eat micro-greens
...or have animals that eat greens.
... or if you're saving seeds that are used as spices (mustard), or snacks (sunflowers).
It takes a lot more seeds than what comes in one packet to make just one meal from microgreens. And my rabbits eat about a half pound of greens every day, year-round. So sunflowers, mustard greens, kale and herbs like cilantro are great to be able to harvest quickly for the rabbits as I thin out the beds. They also love corn greens; I could fatten up a bunch of rabbits on the greens you showed there :)

Yup. Stress builds immunity & total Distress shd kill, or will it?. That line is worth seeking w/ Seed. Been planting potato bits that look like nothing, but there's life still there. New potted figs had some leaves all winter indoors (not dormant). Put outside & most of big leaves fell off.! ..oh nooo. Got a nice rain & they're going to town w/ new growth. Doing same to some slips too. Tough Love ...lol. 🍒

I love your channel! Its always a pleasure and a learning experience

Im going to show this chaotic madman method of planting and seed saving to my husband. These concepts violate his type A personality. His head may explode! Gonna have an epiphany or a mess on my hands tonight.

Great 👍 information thank you 😊

An eye-opening video! Saving seeds Landrace style is such a crucial concept that is simple but little understood. Thanks for introducing this concept to so many people! I just started my own cucumber, field corn, and tobacco breeding projects. I'm excited to see the results over the coming years.

Thanks!

I love the idea of making your own varieties of plants. I want my seeds to be mutts, just like me. Survival of the fittest

David the Good I went to the Etsy shop though no canna’s there I see the landrace watermelons fun!! I just bought your book, and the landrace book! Yay earlier that watching your videos I planted 72 pumpkin seed with one of my twins for a fundraiser for college !!

Magic! ! am reading the Landrace Garden book!
Growing landrace tomatoes, pole beans, bell pepper and field corn as wee speak. Hard not to go and smother 'em with love and get survivors!

Lofthouse convinced me to never baby my garden. I’ll go sit in it for hours observing it, but no babying. Also, you can name your landrace varieties after yourself. Landraces are what will restart civilization.

Thanks for sharing your joy of growing! No fair having tropical rainfall. When I moved to this forest clearing in Michigan I found ground water at 3 1/2 feet. I dug a whole yesterday for a new post, bone dry all the way to 4 feet, now in a drought ... water catchment coming ... have you heard of the corn that fixes nitrogen from the air ?

dont seeds that come out of the plants youve grown in that soil incorporate the ability to survive there ?
oh ... I need to be more patient

Thanks for sharing!!!

Thanks for sharing!!!

I finally found out where my radishes were going. A sneaky bunny rabbit from across the road.😊 I put a water source over there and haven't seen any bunnies at all.

Were landracing our chickens.

I have black jack soil down south. Help me. It’s hotter than you know what and this soul is hard. It doesn’t drain well.

I was watching a video from Answerers in Genesis the other day about origins and used a dog as an example of what dave is talking about now.

I really like this idea but I have a plant sale ever year and people don't necessarily want something they aren't familiar with some would be ok with it but most wouldn't I'm liking the idea but probably won't be able to make it happen don't have enough room for this

Hello my friend I live in northwest Georgia and I'm growing container tomato plants. My biggest pest is spiders and their webs. Even on my container broccoli plants. What can I do

Subbed, bro. Respect from the UK....

So you mix hybrid and heirlooms? I’ve heard about seeds saved in your area will do better because adaptation.

Tks for sharing this great information & it makes sense! Im gonna plant an xtra bush with each plant just for seeds!😊

"Regulations going across borders" 🙄
They're so hypocritical. They'll import chemical infused produce, but limit the naturally local-grown. Meanwhile grocery stores sell what we are not allowed to bring from our on gardens. Grrrrr!

Anywho - thanks for the seed saving, land racing, encouragement! ❣️

That’s an amazing garden! 🎉
Would love to tour your farm.
Love the idea of lazy gardening but I like the term stewardship it inspires us to strive for better results. The rewards and surprises are so amazing! Happy gardening! 🎉 😊

Convinced. Dumping all seeds into a pile now...planting in lawn dirt. This should be "fun"...

I bought the Lofthouse book and am really enjoying watching my first landraces happen. Thank you so much for sharing these ideas with us!

I needed to hear all of that thank you !

When I learned the term 'landrace', I went, "Oh! That's the term for how Dad saves seeds every year!" We save seeds from our favorite squashes and plant 'em out (or let them do their thing in the compost heap), and every so often bring in a new variety in the hopes of improving our line further. He also lets the lettuce and radishes go to seed and sow themselves every year. It's nice to have the vocabulary for what we had termed 'UFO squash'.
As for me, I've been growing out corn and several types of beans the last few years, and put them all together in a 3 sisters garden this year, so we'll see how that goes! I am a lazy gardener, so if plants can survive my lack of will to water and weed, they definitely get replanted the next year. I'm working on a landrace yard-long bean, continuing Lofthouse's tepary bean landrace, and growing out a (hopefully) drought-resistant variety of flint corn. For sure, whatever corn survived last year's mega-drought is worth planting again! Next year I may try working on a landrace melon.

TIP- A Gardening Fertilizer success. We first made our own bio char. Filled several large plastic bins 1/2 full of the Bio-Char. Then we put Choir/soil mix with Red Wigglers on top.. These Tubs were maintained feeding and watering the Red Wigglers (worms) on top of the Bio-Char for approx. 1 yr. We dumped three large tubs in the Planned garden area this year and our Tomato Blooms look like Dandelions-(Super Blooms). The other plants thriving include Squash, Cucumbers, Peas, Corn, Swiss Chard, Beats. This is a first year garden (1250 SF). Heavy Clay Dirt, the kind that is cement in the summer. Good Gardening from The Hipps

Cytoplasmic male sterility is a tool of the hybrid seed industry, yes they were doing this before GMO. CMS is a total or partial male sterility in hermaphrodite organisms. Male sterility is the failure to produce functional anthers, pollen, or male gametes. This is why if you don’t know or have searched if your plant you want to landrace has CMS introduced into the hybrid seed on purpose for protecting their $$$ 😮. It is safer to use non hybrids in establishing a landrace. You save a lot of work up front if you keep CMS hybrids out of your mix for making your initial grexes. Some plants are so damaged from the deliberate inbreeding of each generation that their DNA is too damaged to work with, such as with tomatoes so Joseph had to go back and find some wild tomatoe ancestors to breed back in to get tomatoes with proper full sized flowers and exposed reproductive members to allow cross pollination to once again occur and let the mixing of DNA genetics begin once more. Heirlooms are not magic, they are severely inbred plants from a long ago far away place that someone thought was worth keeping around. But they are fixed in time and kept inbred unless you free them and promiscuously cross pollinate all the varieties back into an unstable DNA pool to select from. Nature does most of the selection for you. You wait until nature delft selects to eliminate the weak DNA plants for your land then you can select from their for what you want in your plant.

Makes more sense than what most folks propagate.

Great information! I will definitely be saving this video for future reference. Thank you so much.😊

Excellent, thank you!!