We're Growing ANCIENT Vegetable Varieties - Here's Why
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2023
- Growing ancient varieties in the vegetable garden can be not only a great thing from a flavor perspective because they are so unique, but also from a biological perspective. Ancient varieties provide so much biodiversity and genetics that aren't found in today's varieties.
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I have wild Galapagos tomatoes. They have self-seeded and come back year after year even in Illinois, and everything loves them - me, the chickens, the deer, the birds - everything!
It amazes me how after so many years of making gardening videos, you are still so passionate and enthusiastic! Thank you for your dedication!
I'm doing my own land race type thing. I plant gobs of different type tomatoes together and save seeds. The next year I wean out any that don't thrive so they don't mix back in. Any voluteers get a chance to join the club. I've gotten some unique results. I do this with beans, peppers, mustard, collards, winter squash and this year maybe cabbage. I love this stuff!
I’m growing about 60 varities of tomatoes this year. My nephew got me a 45 tomato variety seed pack plus I grew the ones I loved before! It’s been a challenge and a gift! Lol
Luke is nerding out! YAY!
I'm very curious how landrace variety tomatoes (for example) compare in nutritional value to 'modern' varieties. Are they higher in vitamins A and C, lycopenes? Were they more healthful? 🤔
Great history/science lesson , Luke😊
I'm growing rocoto peppers which look pretty wild. They still have lush, dense foliage, and relatively large leaves, but they have longer branches and fewer fruit than the more domesticated peppers.
There's some spindly pepper that wound up in my seed packet too. It was supposed to be a bell pepper, but it looks like some small, elongated fruit, and very small leaves and long stems.
Another thing I've noticed with the bell peppers, is that the stems are often kind of weak. The stems are thick, and capable of supporting the weight of the fruits, although the fruits are often closer to the plant's centre of gravity, which helps, however the bell pepper stems aren't as well lignified and more prone to snapping.
So awesome that y'all can grow vegtables in July!
My okra and sw potatoes love this heat everything else are done in this heat.
Landrace etc Very Exciting. A return to blueprint + gibberellic acid after growth begins does indeed bring another mated strain (=dipole) back to health. *Unbelievable until you see it for yourself. Some stress along the way is recommended to bring forth the dormant weaknesses. Thx Luke for being on top of this development. --xxoo 🍒
Luke and Team - Have you heard of Bevin Cohen from SmallHouseFarm? He's based in Sanford MI and has a book called "The Complete Guide to Seed and Nut Oils: Growing, Foraging, and Pressing" and he has great information on why commercial seed and nut oils are bad versus the kind you would do on your own. I know you don't really do "interviews" so to speak, but I would love to see a conversation between you two!!
This is fascinating! I was trying to find info on landrace varieties when I was seed shopping last winter and found so little on the topic, so thank you for covering it.
Bro, you’re super enthusiastic about the history of plants. It’s cool to see. I really never thought about how amazing and actually smart plants have been through the course of evolution. And how so much of it depended on whether it needed humans to survive or to be completely neglected in nature. I guess home gardens can help in small ways, even the ones who have nothing but ONE plant still alive. That one is going to have some special genetics.
Awesome 👏
I hope this will lead to new seeds in your store❤️ awesome video Luke!
The Tess's tomato, I grow it like a bush and only prune for air flow. They are my favorite garden snack.
I have been into landrace for the last couple years and I love it.
Peppers like shade here in Texas. Have to give lots of water in 100F but not the bird peppers (chiltepequin). I grow them for the birds because they’re too hot for me.
This was an incredible video! Thank you for putting it together, Luke. Its amazing to see how far along we have come in this area. I don't thinks it's all good, mind you, lol. Nonetheless, fascinating to learn more about this. I love your content. You always have such different topics. Kudos to you! 😎😁
GREAT CONTENT!!! Thank you. I grow a lot of heirloom varieties but none like these. I will next year! God Bless and stay safe.
Black nightshade. I bought my house 3 years ago and googled it. Google mistook it for deadly nightshade so I’ve been trying to eradicate it. But I found out it’s edible and kinda tasty. Grows like a weed 😂
They're like tiny black tomatoes but super sweet.
There black nightshade solanum nigrum and are edible very nice .😊
I ate just one black nightshade and ended up with explosive results a few hours later
@@D1115_ oof. They have to be completely black, no green left at all.
Fascinating video! Thanks for sharing with us.
Very intriguing and exciting Luke. I like the mini history lessons you give while making us better gardeners.
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Thank you. ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️
Omg you had 666 likes when I got here. I fixed it ofcourse...always give a thumbs up...long time fan....just wanted to say. I love what your doing..
.like I said long time fan...so I get tired of watching garden channels that repeat videos they have done. I also understand & respect the reason for doing so. However this year (I imagine weather may be some of the reason) you have done some very creative & useful videos. Entertaining as well. Love your direction. Your still #1 garden channel & I dont see that changing.
Btw random question (dont ask me why) but how's your wife's singing? Has she ever sang "Bad Boys".....jw random question..😉
Oooo one request before I digress.
Any chance you could have your daughter sing bad bugs? I just think it would be awesome.
Grow Big & Grow at Home!
It makes so much sense to utilize the ancient varieties. I mean, what's endurance worth?
I've grown ground cherries which are native to South and Central America also in the tomatillo family. Yum! 😋
Trying growing them this year. Interesting flavor but they grow easily enough. I’ll probably grow them again next year.
I have cold hardy perenial ground cherries native to my area called clammy gooseberry and I have wild Chinese cape goosebrries called Chinese lanterns which considered invansive in my area but had edible orange cape gooseberries. When I went to Nevada I saw tons of wild desert cape goosebrries with weird looking fruits growing near wild desert tobacco, wild rosemary and edible wild cactus.
I like growing Everglades Tomato. The wife doesnt like them so much, but they go great in most dishes.
I grow wild arugula, wild tepary beans, and a mix of landrace beans. I hope to grow some landrace tomatoes at some point to breed with my favorite tomato varieties for better disease and heat resistance.
Be prepared to have very tall supports for the tomatoes. I grew them this year for the first time. I just had to prune them. They were over 6 feet tall. I was using normal tomato cages. They twisted together and became a huge mass. Very tasty, though! And they’re continuing to bloom in over 100 F heat.
I have wild arugula perenial kind called slyvettia arugula, I have wild perenial kidney beans but they died and I have one annual perenial sand bean. There is members of lathyrus genus which are moderately toxic they make wild peas and beans some species are edible cooked like the beach pea that grows around here and the everlasting perenial sweet pea has edible shoots but both species can be toxic if eaten wrong cooked etc.
I am in Florida and always grow Seminole Pumpkins, Everglades Tomatoes, wild radishes, and creeping cucumbers (Melothria Pendula). No matter what domesticated varieties I am growing in my garden, I always have those four.
Each of those produces delightful fruit, for sure. But the main reason I grow them is because they drive the local bees wild.
I trust you, as long as it's not bioengineered or GMO I will buy it from you!!
Great information! I always learn something new! Thanks!🎉❤😊
I have giant Crimson growing in mine 😏, but also Kajari melons, I think 5 or more types of basil....lots of things!
Absolutely love how you geek out on SCIENCE. 😎
Very interesting. I have grown Good King Henry for many years, also a wild arugula.
Very interesting. I learned domething new! Thanks!
Actually a pretty good illustration of the Baramin model. You can breed out traits and select for useful ones based on what is desired, but if you breed out things you want, you need to reacquire them. You might get a lucky mutation but in practice it doesn't really happen- you need to find the genes in a relative who still has them. And without GMOing it you need to get the trait from the related plants- pepper to pepper or tomato to tomato but not plum to tomato nor from carrot to pepper.
The evolutionary prediction would by contrast use more mutations for novel traits, whereas the Baramin model asserts that the potential traits of a family are already set and can only be removed over time.
Exactly. We don't want to be stuck growing only varieties of food that ship well. 🤨
I grow "Everglades" tomatoes. They're marble sized & produce the most by weight than any of my other tomatoes. Disease nor pest bother them at all.
They grow wild in Florida, but I don't know, if thier lineage is all wild, or if they descended from domesticated varieties?
I grow them in central Alabama, & I get a lot of volunteer plants along with the seedlings, I plant. They're sweet & are a good general use tomato. 25 of them, mayonnaise, salt, & bread make a great sandwich!
There is other wild tomatoes called galagos tomatoes heirloom reviews grows and breed wild tomatoes for fun.
Love the info. Thank you.
Great and very interesting, Luke. I was wondering how many aliens you've run into. I think I've seen a few, but they seemed a lot like us until they boarded their vessel and took off. HA! I have lots of tomato plants that come back every year. I only see them mid to the end of June. The ones that are where I don't want them, I try to move to the tomato bed. This year, I had a tomato and potato come up 6 inches apart in bed I haven't used for a few years. I am leaving them there just to see what happens. May the Lord keep blessing you and yours, Luke. By the way I checked on my close out order which hasn't arrived yet for more than 2 weeks and found out there were thousands of other orders which is why it is taking awhile. Guess you really didn't need my help closing out last year's seed stick. It's worth the wait, though.
I have several volunteer potatoes as well, and just transplanted a volunteer tomato. I typically have several volunteer tomatoes in the rabbit yard as well. What I like about volunteers is that they are hardy!
Do you sell landrace seeds?
2 questions:
1) was that your giant crimson you showed?
2) what is the closest available tomato seed we can find to a wild tomato?
Everglades tomatoes are fairly wild; love these little guys in my garden
Fascinating. It is crazy to see the seeds of the ancient/wild bananas. I cannot imagine eating around those massive seeds!
I have cold hardy bannana that is hardy to zone 5/6 outside it’s hardy Michigan to Canada to southern Maine. There is also pink bananas that are also hardy and musa inegens the worlds largest tropical banna is also really cool. There is blue bananas to.
Very interesting. I wonder if Cimmaron Lettuce is one of these varieties. I have heard it described as an old variety of Romaine.
This was such a great video. I love looking how different everything looks. This years was tomatoes I added 8 types and every plant looks different. I love it because now I look at the plant and I am like this is this type and this type. And I have one tomatoe that is making smaller then grapes. So now I am thinking it Must be closely related to that current tomato. ❤
Great video as always. Was wondering where to purchase these landrace varieties?
My Serrano pepper is very tough and I overwinter it California outside without production. I can’t keep up with production but it is hotter than the Jalapeño
Acapulco Gold is my favourite landrace
Hi. I put 40% shade cloth on my garden last week in the hopes it would save my tomatoes. Do you think that is too much or will it be ok? Please help! Thank you. It was 101 here today.
Amazing video
Does anybody ever heard of capsicum flexosum the cold hardy wild pepper for southern South America. I personally think of it has a superior species in every way it can survive freezing and is very hardy.
Very interesting Luke! I wondered how plants have come to current state. I didn’t have a clue or about dogs either. Cool!
I see you don’t have fruits yet. Does that mean there’s hope for me in zone 6b? I got jalapeños early b/c they were overwintered, and finally I am picking the longer light green ones. Im hoping for the 2-3 bell varieties. The peppers struggled early on for some reasons.
Btw...how can someone get a hold of these wild varieties? Would it be something you would carry, at some point? I dont think I remember seeing them in your seed shop.
I have perenial kale called sea kale it’s a close relative to a kale not a true kale it grows on the coast of England and makes big roots that are edible and seeds are hard to sprout there extremely hard to get and to sprout but it they can grow for 25 years plus.
Is there an online store that you would recommend for buying landrace vegetables. I looked at your store but I don't believe I saw were you sell any landrace varieties? If you do sell, could you clue me in on how to identify which ones are landrace. Thank you
Very interesting!
What you said on the video makes sense to me because all the people on the earth today came from only 8 people, and all kinds of animals came from only 2 of each kind.
So why would plants be different.
Enjoyed the history mixed with the garden lesson.
Thank you ❤ I love this
I'll have to try this.
You should try the hardy pepper capsicum flexosum to they much more hardy
Will you have seeds for these varieties? It would be nice to taste them.
I loved your video thank you
Could I suggest an episode on germinating wild seeds? Or do you have one out there already? This is something I really struggle with!
Some seeds need freezing and they shells Brocken off scarification
I am in search of Red Long of Tropea onion seeds-Italian. Could you get these? Thanks!
It would be amazing if you could team up with JOSEPH LOFTHOUSE of Utah. to bring this high quality seed to the forefront He's been fine tuning landrace seeds for over 10 years. Just throws the seeds together and grows out the best. He even tastes his soil before starting a new field. Great guy and amazing varieties..
I have kalaa pathari landrace its very sensitive to amendments
Wow so we’re can we get an Landrys variety at. ??
Where does one get landrace seeds?
Always informative. 🌿 🌶️ 🫑
Everglades and galagos tomatoes are cool and Perenial rare and exotic
Your seeds were the best
Very cool video! Kudos to you and your inquisitive mind.
Landrace you get what grows in your area
Panam Red is a landrace.
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Are theses new super genetics seeds called [in uk] F1?
Maybe
Isnt landrace different from wild? I thought landraces were kind of a middle ground, not wild or fully "domesticated", a descendant of cultivation by humans
how to find ancient varieties?
They sell them experimental farm network, Etsy, Amazon maybe, rare seeds, logees greenhouse maybe.
Comeon people grow big or home!😊
Ancient corn is this tiny little grain. You wouldn't recognize it as corn.
I grew chiltipin. Not great. Lots of teeny tiny hot pods. Interesting grow though.
I grow them - they do great in Texas, as they are native here. They are good to add to salsas for a bright and spicy flavor. They are also very commonly used to make pepper vinegar. Its super common for restaurants to have a bottle of vinegar with tabasco peppers or chiltepin peppers in it for adding that acidic kick to dishes.
@@elliottwallace makes sense. I'm in northern Indiana and not all varieties do great here. Luke is way north of me, so I assumed they would grow well.
There is other wild peppers to grow like Rocoto peppers and capsicum flexosum peppers for example there tons of other capsicum spcies you can experiment with.
@@Youdontknowmeson1324 I looked into the Rocoto and I'm interested in trying it next season. I tried 11 new varieties this year, and most won't make it next year, so I'll have to fill some gaps. Thanks for the suggestion!
@@jtsloth gapeys grub and heirloom reviews made wild peppers videos to. Nigel carter got the rarest pepper videos.
I think you are way off about pit bulls being 60% chihuahua, it's more like both pit bulls and chihuahua share 60% of the same genetics. That's a very different concept. We share 98% of genes with chimps but we are not 98% chimp.
What happened to grow big or go home?
At the moment I own more Maples than ASE's. Besides my collection book of eagles. The premiums are just too high on the ASE's. It is cheaper to purchase foreign bullion.
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