When my pickles go to goo I dehydrate. Powder it and use it as a spice really good on chicken.

@maggiemaeclune4046

Жыл бұрын

Awesome idea!

I've been doing landrace for decades and didn't know it was a thing...lol.

This video is perfectly timed. I have been stressing over my four varieties of tomatoes and my three of cucumbers! Im grateful to know that I can let them adapt to my microclimate without committing a sin. 💜

I always leave one cucumber or peppers or squash to go to seed. Always have plenty of seeds for the next year. Tomatoes too.

David if you want crispy crunchy pickles you need to soak them in pickling lime and then ice water. Wash them thoroughly after the lime soak and then do the ice water bath for a couple days. I have pickles made in 2012 and they are still crunchy and crisp with great flavor. I'm making new batches this year as we are down to the last jar of 2012. Yeah I know they say throw them out after 5 years but why would I throw away perfectly good food 😮😮. They still have a beautiful color and very tasty. I put them in my famous potato salad for church dinners and everyone seems to like them a lot. I seldom have to bring home much leftovers from those dinners, if I do it's usually something someone else brought and I liked it and they didn't want to take it home.

@kimmyseegmiller985

Жыл бұрын

Yes this is what my granny did! Always crunchy after a lime soak.

@monicanorman9176

Жыл бұрын

Recipe please! How long after the lime soak?

@marysurbanchickengarden

Жыл бұрын

@@monicanorman9176 I soak in the lime for 3 days and the ice water bath for 2 days. I don't weigh the cukes I've been doing it so long I eye ball it. After the ice water bath I drain the cukes for a couple hours. I can't give exact measurements for the vinegar, water and spices because like I said I don't weigh or measure. I'm sure you can find a recipe online for lime pickles.

@heatherk8931

Жыл бұрын

I just finished off 2019 dill pickles. I've decided to put a few eggs into the brine to see if I like pickled eggs. ❤

Step 1. get cucumber plants past the stage where on the second day after they're uncovered to be pollinated they get eaten to the stem, flowers and leaves..4" from the ground.. All 8 vines.. gone.

My long time friend, who has canned food for years, to literally survive? She had a huge canning error, once. She had done 100 quarts of dills. They were soft and I forget what else. She told me after she started dumping it out. I said STOP! Let's save them, by making dill pickle relish! So I went over with my processor and my brain, since she only follows recipies and felt she could not handle this adapting. Turned out great! She had green relish from that, until now! She gave me the last part jar. It has been so long, that I had forgotten! Just a hint of what to do with mistake dill pickles!!

Great video. Keeping varieties "isolated" is next to impossible given that pollinators like honeybees can fly over 3 miles. It makes even less sense in urban or suburban settings. Love the landrace methodology because it is mimicking nature and the selection of what is the best fit for your area.

@SwiftRead

Жыл бұрын

They sell isolation nets for those trying to maintain seed integrity, but what's the point if they grow well and still taste good ~ unless growing to sell a certain type of product etc.

@ashleycampbell8767

Жыл бұрын

Bees don’t usually work like that though. They are usually working much closer to their hive. I mean the chances of a bee hitting your garden, then flying a mile to another garden and hitting that and then coming back... It probably almost never happens. They work as efficiently as possible.

@Huntnlady7

Жыл бұрын

Not really true that bees fly 3 miles. Often their pollen and nectar is found much closer to home.

@ashleycampbell8767

Жыл бұрын

@@Huntnlady7 probably more like 3 miles round trip is maximum.

@agentbarron9768

11 күн бұрын

Also my male squash flower that is 3 inches from the female flower fails to pollenate unless I do it myself.

Too many fire ants, copperhead snakes and wasps here to go barefooted. Did I mention chiggers? They've been eating my ankles up lately.

@robinmarie5180

Жыл бұрын

Clear nail polish thick on the chiggers suffocate them.

@bsdnfraje

Жыл бұрын

Be glad it's your ankles, brother.

@ninemoonplanet

Жыл бұрын

Grow a variety of Tansy. Ants don't like that. Snakes live under various covers, rocks and logs most frequently. Add some plants that are either very fragrant, or the ones that grow very close to the ground, and have spikey tough leaves, branches.

@tracycrider7778

Жыл бұрын

@Disabled.Megatronunfortunately can’t do it in Georgia 😂😂

@patriciaserdahl5577

Жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness which state you in 😮??bummer you can't go barefoot I thought spreading Lime n planting mint would stop Ants,Ticks, Chiggers not sure on the snakes

A tip for keeping cucumbers crisp when you ferment them (may work for canning, too. I've never canned them.) is to chill them in ice water before using.

@teresaamsler5083

Жыл бұрын

Pick early and use same day. I'm going to try the adding a grape leaf, very old method, next.👍😉

@patriciaserdahl5577

Жыл бұрын

​@@teresaamsler5083Yep add 1-2 grape leafs n powered Allium they'll be nice n crispy

@KittyMama61

Жыл бұрын

I used to ice them down in a cooler, changing the ice a couple of times.

I'm not crossing, plants. But, I have decided to stop fighting these plants natural born ways to grow. Watching gardeners in Italy, they don't stake tomatoes. They are all over the place, running through the grass, and they just go out pick, and preserve. I actually think I can plant less and get more! 😊 Thanks, David.

In stockton California. I seen the people that were native to Cambodia grow their cucumbers, 3 feet off the ground with sticks, scrap, wood, and concrete wire. Then they would just kneel down and pick all their cucumbers from the bottom side it would also shade the base of the plants to conserve on water normally about a 10‘ x 20‘ area.

Love your videos. I like the ideas of throwing the genetics together for one's own climate and to make gardening easier by simply growing what grows best in your own climate/area. Enjoyed your pest control video. Keep writing music and singing.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

A grape leaf or black tea helps keep pickles crisp.

You are going to have seeds to share with the whole town 😊

Hello from temple texas! I have some cucumber seeds on the counter now drying

Question: Do you let some of the first fruit go to full ripe or wait till the end of the harvest to let the last few grow out? My thinking is the first have the better stronger genetics. But... 🤷🏻‍♀️

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

No - I harvest fast at the beginning so we have plenty to eat, then when the vines start to look a little tired, I let the rest mature for seed.

@jennifersinclair6044

Жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood got it, thank you!

I love this approach! I have ordered 4 of your books, and the landrace gardening book, I can't wait for them to arrive in the Mail ❤ I always learn something new watching your videos, so I'm sure your books are going to be real page turners for me 😁

I thought that if a cucumber ripens on the vine, the plant dies. Do you do this only when you are done with the plant or it's done with you?

@jeannamcgregor9967

Жыл бұрын

That's my understanding too. One ripe yellow cuke kills the plant.

@jenbear8652

Жыл бұрын

He replied to someone else that he waits till the plant is showing signs of getting old before letting them fully mature. So he harvests as usual until the plant is not as lush and youthful

Love your style of gardening. I have not found many that do it like I do either. Been on nothing but our own fertilizers for 7 years now (3 at this location). We cultivate soil biology and work on nutrient density. Must have mycelium! Thanks for the video brother! I watched your tobacco growing videos last year and grew more tobacco than I know what to do with, thanks again.

Have been very interested in landrace gardening since you recommended a video a while back. I’ve done several videos on my channel about my excitement in undertaking saving seeds for this purpose, and I mentioned you on my last one. Thank you for helping to expand my knowledge of gardening and in hopefully making our food supply more sustainable.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Thank you - I will go check it out.

@smas3256

Жыл бұрын

I've read comments from industrial farmers. They love what we are doing and wish more of us would grow more. They don't feel it is a competition between large agro and homesteader and backyard gardens. Good luck with your new interest.

@hilltophomeplace6802

Жыл бұрын

@@smas3256 Thank you very much. There is still such a vast need for commercial farming, and I’m sure it will always be that way. Seed companies may want to worry a little, though, lol.

I support and use the seeds of North Carolina's Ultracross Okra (starts with 100 varieties) and Ultracross Collards (21 varieties). Both projects' aims are for the gardener or farmer to be able to build their own landrace adapted to their particular micro-environment. David the Good is doing the same here.

I've got a whole patch of mixed-up pumpkins in my suburban backyard and I cannot WAIT to see how they turn out!

Hello from Texarkana ,Arkansas

@anitamurphy2454

Жыл бұрын

Same!

@CFransen08

Жыл бұрын

Mineral springs, neighbor

If you want good crisp pickles make refrigerator pickles. I have a extra frig that I dedicate to just refrigerator pickles. Last all year.

Never knew there was a name for my style of lazy gardening...nice! I have something coming in that looks like a zucchini pumpkin and seems to be squash borer resistant so far 🤞🤞🤞 I am pretty excited to see how big it gets and wth it tastes like, not gonna lie

@thadrobinson8343

Жыл бұрын

If it beats the borers and tastes good, save me some seeds? I'm working up a localized moschata strain with Seminole pumpkins and some postapocalyptic zombie butternuts that reanimated from restaurant waste. The first ones of the season are about ripe.

@melammutumultus4654

Жыл бұрын

@@thadrobinson8343 Will do! I am in Georgia btw.

True about heirloom.. I have a bean..called hit Because it 2as a hit..in my province So very kool saving seed bush this year xxxx

I love the T-Shirt!!!!

Homesteading Family has a great video about making crisp pickles. I tried it out the way they said and it turned out great.

I am seeing the light. Thank you for showing me the way.

My brother! If you don't sell that t-shirt as merch.. u should! Awesome video

Or get seeds from DTG when he releases them so you get half the experiment done for you? How are your cukes doing against the pickle worms? And do the vines keep producing even if you miss picking the young ones hidden under all those leaves? Your variety seems so un-fussy, I may have to have another go at cucumbers when the Good Cuke is released to the waiting world!

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

No pickle worms this year, for some reason.

Today we share how to save cucumber seeds while breeding your own heirloom variety. ONE FURTHER NOTE on this video: sometimes cucumbers can still be somewhat unripe inside, despite a bright yellow exterior. You're safest allowing them to start to shrivel up, and even start ROTTING before you harvest seed. That will ensure the most filled-out seeds possible. Compost Your Enemies T-Shirts: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener Grocery Row Gardening by David The Good: amzn.to/3JibOdq Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse: amzn.to/3Ndtqs1 Thanks for watching!

@RjGold5.12

Жыл бұрын

Compost.Leftists.enemies.

@chadwick8107

Жыл бұрын

how can we purchase seeds from you sir?

@HoneyMarketingBoard

Жыл бұрын

Het David, hope the kids are all good, Do you have any Idea what has happened to Christian (Ice age Farmer). Please reply if you know anything. Thanks and God Bless.

@t3dwards13

Жыл бұрын

My first time growing cucumber, I didn't know they should be picked small and green. I thought it was cool how big they got, then yellow and bitter. Lol

Thanks for the video!

David here's a tip for picking cucumber pickles Add a Grape leaf or 2 n allium powdered they'll be crunchy Thanks for sharing how to save Cuke seeds your garden been doing awesome our Lord be blessing you 🙏 😊🇺🇸

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

I did add grape leaves

@patriciaserdahl5577

Жыл бұрын

@@davidthegood ok maybe powdered allium n firm cucks next time 🤔

Absolutely love your shirt!

Haha I love the T-shirt you're wearing! "Compost your enemies", I love the lil dark humor there. 😂😂😂

Missed the Goodstream David,but here thinking this landrace cucumber project isquite the project! Sorry about your mush-making endeavor, maybe giving it to your chickens to turn into fresh, organic eggs? Thanks for sharing, no Miss Rachel cameo here, I remember you saying she's usually your camera-lady! 😂😊

I have been saving mine .. I totally love that shirt

great idea.. i'm also trying this now

Can’t wait to try the Goodman cuke

I'm excited about a Landrace cucumber breeding project I'm starting this year. Thanks for sharing this important concept.

David the good, please, please please look up Donna schwenk at cultured food for life! For true pickling, culturing and excellent probiotics! The way, probably your grandparents or your great grandparents made pickles would just be good water a good amount of salt, your seasonings and your cucumber slices. The salt keeps them crunchy. Keep them on your counter for four days and they’re done put them in the refrigerator and they’ll just culture a little by little.

Been there done that and got the t-shirt more then once.

I always raw pack my pickles for canning that way theybdont turn into mush... good luck with your pickles for next year! Love your videos, very helpful for us living in zone 9b in deep South Texas!

I love the T-shirt! I need one!

@davidthegood

15 күн бұрын

Thank you - they are here: www.aardvarktees.com/collections/the-survival-gardener

I've got some of those

😂 David, in Germany a seed packet of cucumbers contains about 10 seeds only, so you are a wealthy man with one ripe cucumber😊 !

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. Made my first pickles two weeks ago. Time to taste test.😉👍

@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim

Жыл бұрын

How are they?

@teresaamsler5083

Жыл бұрын

@@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim Hi there! I finally tried the pickles! They are a great first effort. I will check the bread and butter pickles next week. Never tried pickling before, but I've canned many years of jellies. I have 10 more pounds of cucumbers and more to come... Jalapenos are coming soon... What did I get myself into 🙃🌻🙃

@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim

Жыл бұрын

@@teresaamsler5083 Let's gooooo! :)

I had great success growing cucumbers in my first garden in 87 i made bread And butter Pickles like you would not believe they were absolutely delicious and I haven't been able to grow cucumbers since I keep trying with no success

Lower Alabama here also. I'm Alabama born and bred, and now a transplant from Arkansas. I'm going to try and raise some plants here, and try to keep the bugs and the relentless heat and moisture from killing them straightaway. Definitely challenging, but doable, as long I never again in my life see an Eastern Lubber. Also fire ants.

Are you going to have any more coffee plants or Jerusalem artichokes for sale. I'd love to get more of both

I confess to making pickle mush once too. I was a newb to canning. Ah lessons learned. Sadly I didn't have the option to turn them into bacon.

Thanks so much for this video! I was just starting to worry about seed saving different varieties, and had watched videos where they were faffing around with little bags over flowers and all that, but this just makes SO much more sense. Do you just try to hone in on one type of each species which suit your needs then? Like tomatoes... what if you have huge beefsteaks and tiny cherry ones? I will definitely get searching for the Lofthouse book, thanks :)

@kimmyseegmiller985

Жыл бұрын

Who knows you may well get the next big thing. Creating a new strain!

See yall

Tannins help keep cukes crisp Bay leaves or grape leaves

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

I did that

Off topic... What if the recipe for Terra pretta is actually composting everything. Have we found graveyards? How about other compost. Bathrooms?

A day late, a cucumber short. We got home from 26 days on the rd and I had only 2 amazingly big yellow cucumbers that grew and grew and grew so the plant thought it was done. I fed them to the chickens. 😢 oh well next time I know😂

You cooked the pickle to make a dill? We toured the Mt Olive factory here in NC ~ they just use half water, half (pickling) vinegar (i use normal white/apple cider) & pickling salt w/ added dill & garlic to taste. I add peppers, cauliflower, carrots, cheese strips & lean ham to mine to make a antipasto-mix. Works well but takes some time before seasoned just right.

Enjoyed the video. If I let my cucumbers fully mature will that plant produce more or die back?

David, you ever grow Armenian cukes? We can those hot garlic dill flavor. Their very dense and crunchy when pickled.

Great video. I heard that if you let just one cucumber go ripe on the vine, the plant will die. It that a myth? Your T-shirt made my day :)).

@daigledj

Жыл бұрын

True of many plants. Once the seeds are fully mature, the plant gives up and will stop producing.

I have a question, so I’m building a new garden next to my pond so I could water it with pond water. I have ordered 22yrds of topsoil and I am waiting on soil tests. I have un sprayed barley straw 50bales and I have bark mulch 18yrds ,left over from the sawmill. The garden will be two 30’x 30’ 2’deep at the top side, 3’ deep at the bottom side . I was thinking 1 foot of straw , dirt then 6” of straw then 9” of bark mulch . How would you layer of those three things?

Hello there how are you doing today

Planted cukes yesterday, (Michigan). Would you include Lemon with Straight 8 types?

How DO you keep from crossing with undesireables? I had a horrid canta-cuke last year Quid pro quo... Grape leaves in the jar will keep pickles crisp

@bridgetkelley5512

Жыл бұрын

I have that same question.

Yeah, usda says to bring the liquid back to a boil after adding the cukes. So. Wrong.

I tried that last year with yellow squash. I let a single squash grow until it got hard and looked like a decorative gourd. When I opened it up it was totally empty. I don't know if squash are different or if I was unlucky. I hope to try again this year, but I am having trouble with my squash getting killed off by grubs and the armadillos who want to snack on them. I may start some more seeds hoping to get a little something before the season ends.

@smas3256

Жыл бұрын

We got fed up too. Put up a low volt wire around the garden. We already had, on it's own circuit from the house, outdoor electrical plugs out back.

The hard part of this would dealing with the great cucumber pest: children. "Just leave edible cucumbers sitting on the vine," he says.

How late can you plant cucumbers in central florida?

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

I would plant them from February to March, then again in September-October.

Can I plant seeds rite after they dry completely or do I have to store them for a certain time before I plant? Tyia

@davidthegood

3 ай бұрын

Yes, after they dry

in the beginning of the video there was a plant with huge leaves. what kind of plant is it?

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Taro

Can you guarantee good taste/flavor?

@maggiemaeclune4046

Жыл бұрын

No Thomas you got to breed for that, choose the ones that are tasty to forward on for next year.

David, I composted one of my enemies and everything thrived in that bed... Do you save all of your seeds in a refrigerator? Thanks from Suwanee GA.

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we keep our seeds in the fridge.

My pickles tasted great but were way too soft too.

Is there a link to your daughter's etsy?

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens

I hear the electric fence . . .

Fermentation will go a long way toward making seeds viable.

Name of your daughter’s Etsy shop, please and thanks

@davidthegood

11 ай бұрын

www.etsy.com/shop/GoodGardens - thank you

Noooo! Don't go!!!!

I had to reSubscribe somehow alot of my subscriptions are being deleted.

This is totally backwards to how genetics work

@davidthegood

Жыл бұрын

You don't understand the science.

crispy crunchy pickles