Why You Should Grow Landraces

[@shamk2627]

David The Good sent me here 😊

[@sarahkirbach5040]

So glad that David the good sent me here!! I’m excited as heck for this season!

[@missiechako5917]

David the Good sent us here!😊

[@zachyates8440]

I ordered your book, "Landrace Gardening." 😀

[@johntheherbalistg8756]

I once had a watermelon patch. It was amazing. It grew itself for six straight years with little to no input from me. The history of that patch was a "bed" of watermelons that was six (I think) different varieties growing really close and all blooming at the same time. One melon that we got from that bed was eaten in the yard, and at least ten seeds escaped. After that, we had watermelons of every conceivable shape and size, all rind and flesh colors and a wide array of falvor. What made them extinct was a cool, dreary spring that made the melons sprout too late to get any fruit ripe. I miss my mystery watermelons. I'm going to try to start a similar, if more intentional, process this year. I didn't get seeds for as many varieties as I wanted, but I have the beginning. I'll add varieties to the mix as I get my hands on them

[@andrewsackville-west1609]

Yes! This discussion of developing the local specialty is where it's at.

[@Car-jy8pw]

Thank you. I’m trying to learn as much as possible. I have saved my own seeds for years (but only certain crops), so I’m not completely starting at the beginning but it feels like I am. I’ve been trying to keep varieties separated to maintain consistency without ever considering an alternative. My problems are at the other end of the spectrum. We have a very wet and warm spring where everything gets blight and disease. This is followed by a dry summer where we sometimes maintain triple digit temperatures for weeks at a time. This along with a bad root knot nematode infestation. Whatever makes it past that is bulletproof… or a hot pepper. You can’t stop hot peppers here.

[@sunmoonrise]

Im lucky stumbled on your channel and give me a new perspective in gardening

[@landracegardening5631]

Welcome aboard! You can get access to a lot more at goingtoseed.org (courses and seeds)

[@KawakebAstra]

Brilliant .. but plz boost volume .. barely audible on iPhone maxed volume .. love Ur work .. prefer to work w Mother Nature not fight herb

[@DG-iw3yw]

Ur iphone must be shyte man

[@sassafrasred6657]

I am stunned i never looked for you on KZbin. You have opened my mind to the world of plant genetic diversity. I found you seeds from experimental farm network. I buy them every chance i get. I am planting all of the seeds this season and working towards our own landraces here in central Illinois. Thank you for all the work you are doing and being an inspiration.

[@Erika-gm2tf]

Love this! The simplicity of winging it with pollination promiscuity. It's so doable. I like this guy's style. Summer '23 is when I start saving seeds. I will let most everyone in the garden have at it. But . . . I may not let my tomatoes do that. I'm really partial to various varieties and choosing from them for different purposes. And maybe not the peppers because hot and mild and so on, but the squash, carrots, beans and onions can definitely have at it and maybe the corn, but pop and sweet corn should prolly be grown different years in my miniscule urban garden. I need to take a Landrace course. Does someone know where it is?

[@almostoily7541]

Tomatoes and beans rarely cross. They self pollinate so you can grow close and probably won't have any crosses. The varieties of tomatoes that cross by themselves are from other countries that have larger flowers.

[@David-kd5mf]

Great video

[@a4000t]

Take a look at Carl Barnes glass corn.

[@JosephLofthouseauthor]

That's a lovely corn, that I grew before it went viral.

[@C3Voyage]

Unless you keep adding diversity every year, (new or past material), your breeding efforts will tighten genetically and eventually become highly inbred meaning looking, tasting, and behaving the same or OP. It has to be a purposeful addition of the diversity to maintain diversity. Selecting winners surely has a place requiring a diverse beginning as you explain for most of your selecting, but when you start excluding other variety by selecting for taste, color, or habit, you are reducing the gene pool towards inbreeding. It's desired for consistency. If you let old or new diversity back into the mix, and you've endangered the characteristics you find ideal and lost the years of work you'd put in. That wonderful taste, color, and habits are likely lost at least to what you had selected and perfected. Lastly, if you use promiscuous tomatoes, it just means the stigma is exserted and can more easily cross pollinate. As I understand, filial generations are from two original parents...hybrid or not. At F4, that's the 4th generation of those two parents. If you outcross that line at any point (saving seed from promiscuous crossing), it becomes an F1 hybrid again. At F4, the genetics are 94% inbred and most offspring look the same--94% the same. Where am I going wrong here Joseph?

[@DG-iw3yw]

"If your neighbours pollen gets into your crops...whatever!" Unless your neighbour is monsanto, then they will sue you for growing genetics they OWN and take your farm as the settlement...

[@DG-iw3yw]

Not throwing shade, just talking about one genuine threat to humanity and nature I LOVE YOU JOSEPH!!

[@SellamAbraham]

Is dude wearing a mumu?

[@JosephLofthouseauthor]

Monk robes.