How to Save Cucumber Seeds the Crazy Easy Way & Make Gardening Easier Every Year
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2023
- This landrace cucumber project is really working out well. We're harvesting lots of cucumbers, plus we're saving seeds that will adapt to our own backyard and growing style. Instead of growing cucumbers on trellises, we grow cucumbers on the ground, as a sprawling ground cover.
Today David The Good shares how to save cucumber seeds while breeding your own heirloom variety.
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To breed a landrace pickling cucumber variety, we mixed multiple types of cucumber together in our gardens and let them interbreed, and then we mixed in more varieties the next year. Then, we save from each plant that produces. Later, we'll select for flavor and other characteristics.
These cucumbers are being grown on the ground as a ground cover in the Grocery Row Gardens. We picked over 163lbs of cucumbers so far, and now it's time to save seeds from cucumbers that have matured. If you let your cucumbers ripen on the vine to bright yellow and/or orange, then you can save cucumber seeds that are fully ripe. Picking cucumbers when they are green will not give you viable seeds - you have to wait until cukes are mature, then harvest the big, melon-like yellow cucumbers. Inside, you'll find hundreds of seeds which can then be washed, dried and saved. Saving cucumber seeds is really easy - and if this cucumber landrace works out well, they'll become easier to grow each year as they adapt to our gardens and style of gardening.
Thanks for watching! Check out the work of Joseph Lofthouse, and particularly his book Landrace Gardening for more information on how saving seeds for a landrace can make your gardening easier and add fun and excitement to your harvests. You can also subscribe to Joseph Lofthouse's RUclips channel at @landracegardening5631 
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I've been doing landrace for decades and didn't know it was a thing...lol.
When my pickles go to goo I dehydrate. Powder it and use it as a spice really good on chicken.
Awesome idea!
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.
Yes this is what my granny did! Always crunchy after a lime soak.
Recipe please! How long after the lime soak?
@@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.
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.
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.
Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
Not really true that bees fly 3 miles. Often their pollen and nectar is found much closer to home.
@@Huntnlady7 probably more like 3 miles round trip is maximum.
Also my male squash flower that is 3 inches from the female flower fails to pollenate unless I do it myself.
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!!
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.
A grape leaf or black tea helps keep pickles crisp.
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.
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.
Pick early and use same day. I'm going to try the adding a grape leaf, very old method, next.👍😉
@@teresaamsler5083Yep add 1-2 grape leafs n powered Allium they'll be nice n crispy
I used to ice them down in a cooler, changing the ice a couple of times.
Too many fire ants, copperhead snakes and wasps here to go barefooted. Did I mention chiggers? They've been eating my ankles up lately.
Clear nail polish thick on the chiggers suffocate them.
Be glad it's your ankles, brother.
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.
@Disabled.Megatronunfortunately can’t do it in Georgia 😂😂
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
Hello from temple texas! I have some cucumber seeds on the counter now drying
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 😁
You are going to have seeds to share with the whole town 😊
Hello from Texarkana ,Arkansas
Same!
Mineral springs, neighbor
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.
Thank you - I will go check it out.
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.
@@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.
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.
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how can we purchase seeds from you sir?
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.
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
I've got a whole patch of mixed-up pumpkins in my suburban backyard and I cannot WAIT to see how they turn out!
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
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.
@@thadrobinson8343 Will do! I am in Georgia btw.
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... 🤷🏻♀️
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.
@@davidthegood got it, thank you!
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
If you want good crisp pickles make refrigerator pickles. I have a extra frig that I dedicate to just refrigerator pickles. Last all year.
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?
That's my understanding too. One ripe yellow cuke kills the plant.
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
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.
Haha I love the T-shirt you're wearing! "Compost your enemies", I love the lil dark humor there. 😂😂😂
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!
No pickle worms this year, for some reason.
My brother! If you don't sell that t-shirt as merch.. u should! Awesome video
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! 😂😊
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 🙏 😊🇺🇸
I did add grape leaves
@@davidthegood ok maybe powdered allium n firm cucks next time 🤔
Thanks for the video!
Absolutely love your shirt!
I'm excited about a Landrace cucumber breeding project I'm starting this year. Thanks for sharing this important concept.
😂 David, in Germany a seed packet of cucumbers contains about 10 seeds only, so you are a wealthy man with one ripe cucumber😊 !
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
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!
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.
I love the T-shirt!
I need one!
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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
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. Made my first pickles two weeks ago. Time to taste test.😉👍
How are they?
@@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 🙃🌻🙃
@@teresaamsler5083 Let's gooooo! :)
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.
I've got some of those
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.
Are you going to have any more coffee plants or Jerusalem artichokes for sale. I'd love to get more of both
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 :)
Who knows you may well get the next big thing. Creating a new strain!
Tannins help keep cukes crisp
Bay leaves or grape leaves
I did that
See yall
Yeah, usda says to bring the liquid back to a boil after adding the cukes. So. Wrong.
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😂
Off topic... What if the recipe for Terra pretta is actually composting everything. Have we found graveyards? How about other compost. Bathrooms?
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.
David, you ever grow Armenian cukes? We can those hot garlic dill flavor. Their very dense and crunchy when pickled.
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?
Enjoyed the video. If I let my cucumbers fully mature will that plant produce more or die back?
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 :)).
True of many plants. Once the seeds are fully mature, the plant gives up and will stop producing.
Planted cukes yesterday, (Michigan). Would you include Lemon with Straight 8 types?
The hard part of this would dealing with the great cucumber pest: children.
"Just leave edible cucumbers sitting on the vine," he says.
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.
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.
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
I have that same question.
Hello there how are you doing today
Can I plant seeds rite after they dry completely or do I have to store them for a certain time before I plant? Tyia
Yes, after they dry
How late can you plant cucumbers in central florida?
I would plant them from February to March, then again in September-October.
in the beginning of the video there was a plant with huge leaves. what kind of plant is it?
Taro
Can you guarantee good taste/flavor?
No Thomas you got to breed for that, choose the ones that are tasty to forward on for next year.
My pickles tasted great but were way too soft too.
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.
Yes, we keep our seeds in the fridge.
Is there a link to your daughter's etsy?
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
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
You don't understand the science.
crispy crunchy pickles