My Dad passed on in late 2015 and we found some green bean seeds that he had saved in an old fridge. I planted them the next summer and they were viable. Now I plant and save seed every year from those original seeds. They're white corn field beans...but to us they are lovingly known as "Dad's Beans".
I think organza is the material 👍. I save seed from lots of things and tomatoes are so easy to save. Lovely to have mom helping out and she has a great sense of humour. Nik gardening til 99 🙏. Have a marvellous week ahead and have fun, Ali ☔️🇨🇦
Morning, just discovered your channel today and already subscribed. So lovely to come across a person who is similar to my mates and I. As it is my first year in my new home, I plan to save on my tomatoes, but believe I'm too late in saving using your tip. Mainly saving dahlia, zinnias, alliums as they sure cost a few quid. Thank you for sharing the lovely story at the end, it is amazing how folks are able to pass seeds down from each generation.
Well I'm a terrible influence so I say save them anyway! Save any seeds you can! Dahlias are wonderful from seed and I grow all my dahlias from seed! How are you finding this season. This is been the worst weather wise in year so next year will be better I hope
@@ThatBritishHomestead it sure has been a mix bag. My courgettes did not live up to their reputation as across 3 plants at most had about 8. Was so lucky my round courgette variety gave ne 2. My beans, dahlias and mangetout are doing great. Really hope next year goes well for us all.
@@EllensGardenGrows just live this! I am a tomato nut! I love everything tomato! What varieties are you growing! I'm always looking for new ones. Any good determate ones? I always find them rather boring compared to the indetermatr ones
@ThatBritishHomestead Omg same! I'm tomato crazy! My family think I'm bonkers 😂 Oh gosh there is too many to list what I'm growing! I did upload a short video the other day where I mentioned a few varieties! All the varieties I'm growing this year are new to me, so will have more info on good/bad ones at the end of the season. Hoping to do lots of taste tests! 🤞🍅
@@EllensGardenGrows you are in good company there are so many of us crazy tomato ladies! I just don't understand how ever one doesn't love tomatoes! I'll have a watch if you let video I can't resist a tomato
Thanks for the organza bag tip….. what are they called again 😂😂 Just ordered some…. Probably not enough unless blight takes out a few more 😂 70 varieties each year… then you couldn’t grow your favourites…. Unless you grew your favs at home? Have you seen the Galaxy tomato?? 🍅
Not just saving seeds from some plants, but growing a few very specific varieties just to obtain the seeds! And I reckoned I need to play it super safe and not plant any other variety of that food crop. A cucumber developed (I think) by a bishop of the Beachy Amish church, and named for him (Solly Beiler.) Munchner Bier ("beer," not anything funereal) radish, largely because I declared that I would before I found the same variety of radish seeds under a different name ("Bier Garten radish.") And Gelber Englischer Custard Squash because so far I've found only one sure source for it and for the time being my S.O. has declared adamantly and vehemently that we'll be doing no business with that source until about this time next year. I'm thinking, too, I'll plant some Greek Gigantes beans for seed *if* the current batch of seeds sprouts for me and if not then I'll have to buy more, and some Calypso/Yin-Yang/Orca beans, ditto, and red ripper cowpeas, also for seed as well as for eating. Those cowpeas I can get seeds for, but from the same source as the Gelber Englischer Custard squash so the same...(is *boycott* the word I want?) remains ongoing. The man's superlatively stubborn, what else can I tell you? Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A. 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Oh I find the armish fascinating, do you have any living by you. From my understanding they are all over parts of the USA. I bet they have fascinating seed saving methods and varities. I have grown Greek gigantes but no one in my house really eats them I can get them to eat smaller beans so we eat them! I love the yin yang beans so lovely
@@ThatBritishHomestead As it happens, we are about 90 minutes away from one of the largest Amish communities on the planet. That's ninety minutes driving over surface roads as opposed to highways. Easily doable. The Amish aren't found in every U.S. state, but Ohio is one of the 32 states where the Amish have communities or settlements. There are Amish settlements in Canada, too, and according to Wikipedia the Beachy Amish (a somewhat more modern-minded church) are also found in South America. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Amish_population en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachy_Amish Every so often we'll make the trip to Lehman's Non-Electric Hardware store down that way. It has, unfortunately for the Amish, become a tourist destination with busloads of folks coming to see "Amish country" and of course to shop at this store which is actually pretty amazing. Lehman's still does, I believe, ship anywhere in the world, but neither their prices nor the shipping is cheap, you know? (When we go, it''s to acquire something specific even if not large.) Have a ramble through their online catalogue: www.lehmans.com/ Just as an FYI, the name is pronounced "Lay-man's," and not "Lee-man's," which is how most people around here tend to say it. The Lehman family says "Lay-man's" and I reckon they know how they want their name pronounced. I will mention that there are items available at Lehman's which the Amish might not be permitted to use, such as snazzy figured cake pans which produce things like "toy trains" or cookie (biscuit, to you) cutters which produce "images" and "images" are forbidden. Some Amish congregations are tolerant enough of the "Englischer" world to permit photographs to be taken if faces are not shown; young Amish girls may have dolls which have no faces; the dolls of course wear Amish style clothing. I was interested to learn, elsewhere, that indigenous American nations/tribes also made dolls for girl children and gave the dolls no faces; the reasoning was a bit different, though: if the child needed the doll to be sad, it could be sad; it could be thoughtful; it could be angry; it could be happy; it could be curious; it could "feel" whatever its owner desired, having no set or fixed expression on its face. But to return to the matter of tourists in Amish country, a number of Amish have felt intruded upon by the "Englische" or non-Amish world and have moved elsewhere, notably the mountains of Kentucky which is the next state south of mine. Please do forgive me if I've been preaching to the choir, here, telling you what you already know. The yin-yang beans are indeed lovely, and they have a lovely texture and flavor. For eating, they have to be my favorite dried bean. Are you familiar with "Annie Jackson," a dried bean which is a lovely maroon and white, like the yin-yang except maroon where the yin-yang is black. I've only ever tried the Greek Gigantes prepared as you'd get them just about everywhere in Greece from what I understand and I found them tasty as long as the beans were not a mixture of fresher and older (which are a bit tougher and require much longer cooking.) Plaki ("plah-KEE") are the gigantes beans baked in a tomato-onion-garlic-celery-carrot sauce, very nice, but if your family won't eat them, they won't eat them. As always, much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
This made me laugh so hard - Math ain't mathing! lol Brain fog is a total thing! I have been saving seeds for 14 years that were my step father in laws, who had been growing them since the 80's i think(?) but not seen this trick. Growing some F1's this year and noticing some differences. Can you use this on F1's as well? I was just going to plant last years seeds next year and buy more F1 seeds if i can't over winter their cuttings. I usually ferment them in water and put them in glasses with cling film. It's weird as i use the same glasses each year for the same varieties. We are trialling two new varieties this year, honeycomb F1 and mountain magic. If it causes a bit change in the Dr Tonys we might not grow them next year. So do you wait until they have starting becoming a tomato and then take it off? Might have to get hubby to do this as the tomato tops are almost 2m high now on the new string trellis. Yes, i have always found Dr Tonys are much stronger and pretty much all germinate and aren't as fussy. They are also the last to give up the ghost, pardon the pun and always over winter at least one, which i always put top left first. I always have 5 of them on the back row of the bed as they take the longest to grow, with 3 rows. Cherries at the front as they are the more wildest and quicker, with more tomatoes per truss. Our Dr Tony's might not be the best tomato out there as we have tried all 3k odd varieties. I like that they are big like a beefsteak but round like a money maker and not wrinkly. Fully ripe, they have a pink skin with little dots but the flesh is red, not too many seeds and juice but enough for us. Do you have any tomato canning videos? I saw someone straining the tomatoes, after baking them to remove the skins before canning them as fresh tomatoes but i have always canned them raw - 454g as i was going to use them fresh with the juices? Early season i do core and blanch them to remove the skins but later on, when we have a back log i tend not to remove the skins as we aren't bothered by them when using them fresh in meals. If i had a dehydrator or air fryer, i would totally make powder. Just been given the go ahead and ordered some new oven baking trays to replace our 20 year old ones and some new silicone mats so we can dehydrate some of the cherry tomatoes in the oven. Also got some other "birthday" bits for canning finally! My birthday was 3 months ago! lol Looking forward to getting them before the proper canning season starts! Take care Nik!
You can completely save f1 seeds you will not get the same plant as the parent plant 100% but they still produce seeds of a good quality and will germinate. I did it with my carrots and my sweetcorn this year. th-cam.com/video/ddUTweTbTeQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fK3cyQs2GaO71oac th-cam.com/video/UF7X6xIlnro/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1DeHM_UWvrGBykPJ I'll make a canning 101 soon I'm in the process of getting a new kitchen so I can't film anything atm, not that tomatoes are coming in yet! But I want to do a whole focus on cooking seasonal food and son many poeple struggle with it particularly here in the uk! Have you canned much? I love it
@@ThatBritishHomestead I love canning season but sometimes it can be too much to get through at once for that day. This year so far it has been quite good with the pacing, due to the weather. Just been able to order some stuff that was meant to be a birthday present a few months ago! lol but hopefully, it will help me more instead of having to improvise on certain tools. Definitely doing less chutneys this year as we still have some from last year, also tomato soup and pasta sauce. I think this year i am just focusing on just canning plain tomatoes more so it doesn't tie us down to certain dishes. We've had a fair few tomatoes already, mostly cherries (honeycomb and gardener's delight). We have a bit too many to eat fresh so will do a batch of "sun dried" cherries in the oven. So far this year, in terms of "canning" if it counts, we have had 6.5kg of rhubarb so i have been making rhubarb, orange and ginger jam and i think about 5.5 tubs of rhubarb crumble ice cream. We don't have a pressure cooker so have been freezing kale and various beans. Bit slow on the kale this year to make kale crisps just yet. I did save 3 kale plants from last year that when to seed and slowly been drying, stripping and de podding the seeds. Have a fat money envelope of seeds now. I won't be doing that again for some time! lol I just wish i had more space to store things and have other options to canning. I feel for you building your kitchen now but it will be worth it! I think i was 32 weeks pregnant when we moved into our flip house (i.e. needing a full house refurb). Went on mat leave 36 weeks and i finished tiling the stage 1 of our kitchen 5 days before i gave birth a day before their due date (I was low risk and due to go to a birthing centre up until i went into irregular labour). Was probably 4 years of stripping 5 layers of wallpaper, knocking down walls, re plastering (done by a company) and painting. We basically ran out of funds when i was made redundant and the last thing to be done was our front driveway as we did our rear patio before then and used the crazy paving slabs to build our main bed. Gardening and preserving food is my therapy now after the cervical cancer treatment i had to have straight after. I love teaching our child about nature, growing food, when it comes from and how we preserve it. Might save some of the honeycomb seeds if i can't over winter the suckers. Will be great to see how you preserve your food. I have seen your storage room from Danny's live chat and are envious! I made two shelves in the workshop but have also been storing the jars in the fridge freezer that we don't tend to use atm as every year it builds up! lol
Are you saving seeds this year? If you are what ones will you be saving?
What a great and helpful seedsaving method, I like it, very helpful for gardening
I'm so glad you like it. Will you be saving seeds this year
When you realise how many summers we have ahead of us it puts things in perspective 🌼🌺😀
I know right it's scary stidd
My Dad passed on in late 2015 and we found some green bean seeds that he had saved in an old fridge. I planted them the next summer and they were viable. Now I plant and save seed every year from those original seeds. They're white corn field beans...but to us they are lovingly known as "Dad's Beans".
This moved me almost to tears how magical. I hope you can pass them down to your kids too. Such a epic story thanks so much for sharing
I think organza is the material 👍. I save seed from lots of things and tomatoes are so easy to save. Lovely to have mom helping out and she has a great sense of humour. Nik gardening til 99 🙏. Have a marvellous week ahead and have fun, Ali ☔️🇨🇦
Perhaps even longer who knows! Yes she is a really lovely person helps me down the allotment all them time. Won't de-lice the chickens tho lol
Morning, just discovered your channel today and already subscribed. So lovely to come across a person who is similar to my mates and I.
As it is my first year in my new home, I plan to save on my tomatoes, but believe I'm too late in saving using your tip. Mainly saving dahlia, zinnias, alliums as they sure cost a few quid.
Thank you for sharing the lovely story at the end, it is amazing how folks are able to pass seeds down from each generation.
Well I'm a terrible influence so I say save them anyway! Save any seeds you can! Dahlias are wonderful from seed and I grow all my dahlias from seed! How are you finding this season. This is been the worst weather wise in year so next year will be better I hope
@@ThatBritishHomestead it sure has been a mix bag. My courgettes did not live up to their reputation as across 3 plants at most had about 8. Was so lucky my round courgette variety gave ne 2. My beans, dahlias and mangetout are doing great. Really hope next year goes well for us all.
Seed saving is bitter sweet for me. I only ever save seeds from the healthiest, best looking plant, which is naturally the one you want to eat first.
I'm the same... so I will
Save seeds from the best and eat the worst lol
So nice to see more people saving seeds too! Think i read somewhere that theres over 20k varieties of tomatoes 🙈🍅
Oh my goodness! It now says 10k ok need a recalculation 😜😜😜
@ThatBritishHomestead I want them ALL! 😂 Only growing 100 varieties this year and hopefully save lots of seeds! 🍅🤞
@@EllensGardenGrows just live this! I am a tomato nut! I love everything tomato! What varieties are you growing! I'm always looking for new ones. Any good determate ones? I always find them rather boring compared to the indetermatr ones
@ThatBritishHomestead Omg same! I'm tomato crazy! My family think I'm bonkers 😂 Oh gosh there is too many to list what I'm growing! I did upload a short video the other day where I mentioned a few varieties! All the varieties I'm growing this year are new to me, so will have more info on good/bad ones at the end of the season. Hoping to do lots of taste tests! 🤞🍅
@@EllensGardenGrows you are in good company there are so many of us crazy tomato ladies! I just don't understand how ever one doesn't love tomatoes! I'll have a watch if you let video I can't resist a tomato
Just found your You Tube channel ,look good
Welcome! Hope you enjoy!!! If you have tips and tricks please let us know we love learning form others
Thanks for the organza bag tip….. what are they called again 😂😂
Just ordered some…. Probably not enough unless blight takes out a few more 😂
70 varieties each year… then you couldn’t grow your favourites…. Unless you grew your favs at home?
Have you seen the Galaxy tomato?? 🍅
I need that one too! All determates next year remember! And fast ripening cherries... I may do some cherry pots too for the window sill
@@ThatBritishHomestead the micro ones are pretty tasteless tbf
@@TheRightPearPlot don't save them then
Not just saving seeds from some plants, but growing a few very specific varieties just to obtain the seeds! And I reckoned I need to play it super safe and not plant any other variety of that food crop.
A cucumber developed (I think) by a bishop of the Beachy Amish church, and named for him (Solly Beiler.) Munchner Bier ("beer," not anything funereal) radish, largely because I declared that I would before I found the same variety of radish seeds under a different name ("Bier Garten radish.") And Gelber Englischer Custard Squash because so far I've found only one sure source for it and for the time being my S.O. has declared adamantly and vehemently that we'll be doing no business with that source until about this time next year.
I'm thinking, too, I'll plant some Greek Gigantes beans for seed *if* the current batch of seeds sprouts for me and if not then I'll have to buy more, and some Calypso/Yin-Yang/Orca beans, ditto, and red ripper cowpeas, also for seed as well as for eating. Those cowpeas I can get seeds for, but from the same source as the Gelber Englischer Custard squash so the same...(is *boycott* the word I want?) remains ongoing. The man's superlatively stubborn, what else can I tell you?
Much gardening love from Northeast Ohio, U.S.A. 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
Oh I find the armish fascinating, do you have any living by you. From my understanding they are all over parts of the USA. I bet they have fascinating seed saving methods and varities.
I have grown Greek gigantes but no one in my house really eats them I can get them to eat smaller beans so we eat them! I love the yin yang beans so lovely
@@ThatBritishHomestead As it happens, we are about 90 minutes away from one of the largest Amish communities on the planet. That's ninety minutes driving over surface roads as opposed to highways. Easily doable.
The Amish aren't found in every U.S. state, but Ohio is one of the 32 states where the Amish have communities or settlements. There are Amish settlements in Canada, too, and according to Wikipedia the Beachy Amish (a somewhat more modern-minded church) are also found in South America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Amish_population
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beachy_Amish
Every so often we'll make the trip to Lehman's Non-Electric Hardware store down that way. It has, unfortunately for the Amish, become a tourist destination with busloads of folks coming to see "Amish country" and of course to shop at this store which is actually pretty amazing. Lehman's still does, I believe, ship anywhere in the world, but neither their prices nor the shipping is cheap, you know? (When we go, it''s to acquire something specific even if not large.)
Have a ramble through their online catalogue: www.lehmans.com/
Just as an FYI, the name is pronounced "Lay-man's," and not "Lee-man's," which is how most people around here tend to say it. The Lehman family says "Lay-man's" and I reckon they know how they want their name pronounced.
I will mention that there are items available at Lehman's which the Amish might not be permitted to use, such as snazzy figured cake pans which produce things like "toy trains" or cookie (biscuit, to you) cutters which produce "images" and "images" are forbidden. Some Amish congregations are tolerant enough of the "Englischer" world to permit photographs to be taken if faces are not shown; young Amish girls may have dolls which have no faces; the dolls of course wear Amish style clothing. I was interested to learn, elsewhere, that indigenous American nations/tribes also made dolls for girl children and gave the dolls no faces; the reasoning was a bit different, though: if the child needed the doll to be sad, it could be sad; it could be thoughtful; it could be angry; it could be happy; it could be curious; it could "feel" whatever its owner desired, having no set or fixed expression on its face.
But to return to the matter of tourists in Amish country, a number of Amish have felt intruded upon by the "Englische" or non-Amish world and have moved elsewhere, notably the mountains of Kentucky which is the next state south of mine.
Please do forgive me if I've been preaching to the choir, here, telling you what you already know.
The yin-yang beans are indeed lovely, and they have a lovely texture and flavor. For eating, they have to be my favorite dried bean. Are you familiar with "Annie Jackson," a dried bean which is a lovely maroon and white, like the yin-yang except maroon where the yin-yang is black.
I've only ever tried the Greek Gigantes prepared as you'd get them just about everywhere in Greece from what I understand and I found them tasty as long as the beans were not a mixture of fresher and older (which are a bit tougher and require much longer cooking.) Plaki ("plah-KEE") are the gigantes beans baked in a tomato-onion-garlic-celery-carrot sauce, very nice, but if your family won't eat them, they won't eat them.
As always, much gardening love from Northeast Ohio! 😊💚💚💚💚💚😊
This made me laugh so hard - Math ain't mathing! lol Brain fog is a total thing!
I have been saving seeds for 14 years that were my step father in laws, who had been growing them since the 80's i think(?) but not seen this trick. Growing some F1's this year and noticing some differences. Can you use this on F1's as well? I was just going to plant last years seeds next year and buy more F1 seeds if i can't over winter their cuttings.
I usually ferment them in water and put them in glasses with cling film. It's weird as i use the same glasses each year for the same varieties.
We are trialling two new varieties this year, honeycomb F1 and mountain magic. If it causes a bit change in the Dr Tonys we might not grow them next year.
So do you wait until they have starting becoming a tomato and then take it off? Might have to get hubby to do this as the tomato tops are almost 2m high now on the new string trellis.
Yes, i have always found Dr Tonys are much stronger and pretty much all germinate and aren't as fussy. They are also the last to give up the ghost, pardon the pun and always over winter at least one, which i always put top left first. I always have 5 of them on the back row of the bed as they take the longest to grow, with 3 rows. Cherries at the front as they are the more wildest and quicker, with more tomatoes per truss.
Our Dr Tony's might not be the best tomato out there as we have tried all 3k odd varieties. I like that they are big like a beefsteak but round like a money maker and not wrinkly. Fully ripe, they have a pink skin with little dots but the flesh is red, not too many seeds and juice but enough for us.
Do you have any tomato canning videos? I saw someone straining the tomatoes, after baking them to remove the skins before canning them as fresh tomatoes but i have always canned them raw - 454g as i was going to use them fresh with the juices? Early season i do core and blanch them to remove the skins but later on, when we have a back log i tend not to remove the skins as we aren't bothered by them when using them fresh in meals. If i had a dehydrator or air fryer, i would totally make powder. Just been given the go ahead and ordered some new oven baking trays to replace our 20 year old ones and some new silicone mats so we can dehydrate some of the cherry tomatoes in the oven. Also got some other "birthday" bits for canning finally! My birthday was 3 months ago! lol Looking forward to getting them before the proper canning season starts!
Take care Nik!
You can completely save f1 seeds you will not get the same plant as the parent plant 100% but they still produce seeds of a good quality and will germinate. I did it with my carrots and my sweetcorn this year.
th-cam.com/video/ddUTweTbTeQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=fK3cyQs2GaO71oac
th-cam.com/video/UF7X6xIlnro/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1DeHM_UWvrGBykPJ
I'll make a canning 101 soon I'm in the process of getting a new kitchen so I can't film anything atm, not that tomatoes are coming in yet! But I want to do a whole focus on cooking seasonal food and son many poeple struggle with it particularly here in the uk!
Have you canned much? I love it
@@ThatBritishHomestead I love canning season but sometimes it can be too much to get through at once for that day. This year so far it has been quite good with the pacing, due to the weather.
Just been able to order some stuff that was meant to be a birthday present a few months ago! lol but hopefully, it will help me more instead of having to improvise on certain tools.
Definitely doing less chutneys this year as we still have some from last year, also tomato soup and pasta sauce. I think this year i am just focusing on just canning plain tomatoes more so it doesn't tie us down to certain dishes.
We've had a fair few tomatoes already, mostly cherries (honeycomb and gardener's delight). We have a bit too many to eat fresh so will do a batch of "sun dried" cherries in the oven.
So far this year, in terms of "canning" if it counts, we have had 6.5kg of rhubarb so i have been making rhubarb, orange and ginger jam and i think about 5.5 tubs of rhubarb crumble ice cream.
We don't have a pressure cooker so have been freezing kale and various beans. Bit slow on the kale this year to make kale crisps just yet. I did save 3 kale plants from last year that when to seed and slowly been drying, stripping and de podding the seeds. Have a fat money envelope of seeds now. I won't be doing that again for some time! lol
I just wish i had more space to store things and have other options to canning.
I feel for you building your kitchen now but it will be worth it!
I think i was 32 weeks pregnant when we moved into our flip house (i.e. needing a full house refurb). Went on mat leave 36 weeks and i finished tiling the stage 1 of our kitchen 5 days before i gave birth a day before their due date (I was low risk and due to go to a birthing centre up until i went into irregular labour). Was probably 4 years of stripping 5 layers of wallpaper, knocking down walls, re plastering (done by a company) and painting. We basically ran out of funds when i was made redundant and the last thing to be done was our front driveway as we did our rear patio before then and used the crazy paving slabs to build our main bed.
Gardening and preserving food is my therapy now after the cervical cancer treatment i had to have straight after.
I love teaching our child about nature, growing food, when it comes from and how we preserve it.
Might save some of the honeycomb seeds if i can't over winter the suckers.
Will be great to see how you preserve your food. I have seen your storage room from Danny's live chat and are envious! I made two shelves in the workshop but have also been storing the jars in the fridge freezer that we don't tend to use atm as every year it builds up! lol