I'm really enjoying watching Joseph in these videos. I have the book but Joseph's passion and pragmatism is just so good to watch. Thank you for recording these.
I planted something that came out looking like none of the seed packages I planted… thinking some of the seeds I bought have turned out to be cross pollinated varieties. It has actually resulted in a huge squash/pumpkin thing.. cant wait to see the taste
These videos are outstanding. They make a great companion to all of the books I enjoy reading! There's just something about seeing Mr. Lofthouse with a bunch of squash that makes me smile.
in the UK our seasons are shorter and nobody has any land so im gonna be trying to develop a really small pumpkin swarm. issue is there are only so many small pumpkins so the gene pool is small already. If i can get a plant that quickly makes 4 or so 500g pumps that are mostly flesh that would be ideal. wish me luck.
i planted your maxima seeds this year, thank you very much. the plants are very impressive. im in the south. do your maxima seeds have any experience with squash vine borer? i found one laying eggs yesterday. do the vines send out new roots readily?
If given the opportunity the plants will root at every leaf node. I don't have vine borers here, so the plants may not remember how to cope with them... I made a maxima/moschata inter-species hybrid, and then re-selected for the hard moschata vine and stem, and the maxima flavor. That one is immune to the vine borers.
@@JosephLofthouseauthor thanks for the reply, and the wonderful landrace gardening idea/seeds. im less worried now, this my first time growing squash like this. It will likely end happily with many squashes, and i get seeds to save even if only 1 fruit makes it. if the borers become an issue (they are said to kill the plants) there are plenty of parasitic wasps and other creatures who feed on stem boring larvae around, they will help me out. the biodiversity in my garden is something im proud of, pests are rarely an issue, and some of the plants are so strong i cant see them losing to a few internal caterpillars. i am only going to baby the few i planted biointensive to grow an impressive garden and eat this winter, the rest are mostly left to their own devices to start a landrace with some moschata seeds that i had around. i think selecting plants for multimodal growing conditions is a good idea.
I don't understand why bother to cut off the stem and talk about storage when you're cutting the squash in half to taste. You cannot store it after it is cut open can you?
I do think what is being shown here. Is how joseph selects squash. I don't think he does this all at once like it is shown in the video. What I have been doing is cutting open a squash, cooking it, than tasting the squash once its been cooked. If I like the taste I will keep some of the seed. I had a buttercup squash that was completely tasteless. It went straight to the chickens. Flesh was light yellow compared to the deep orange.
@@fredjackson6305 Thank you! I had the impression that he harvested them all, cut them all open, and then tasted each to decide if he wanted the seed. OF COURSE he harvested them all, stored them until he was ready to eat them, then decided whether to save seed based on that tasting as it was used! I was really blind not to realize that. But... he did show cutting into at least ten squash at once in a photograph, when he cooked them to taste. I guess that's why I got the impression he was somehow trying to store after they were cut and tasted. I wouldn't imagine many families can go through ten squash at once.
I'm really enjoying watching Joseph in these videos. I have the book but Joseph's passion and pragmatism is just so good to watch. Thank you for recording these.
I planted something that came out looking like none of the seed packages I planted… thinking some of the seeds I bought have turned out to be cross pollinated varieties. It has actually resulted in a huge squash/pumpkin thing.. cant wait to see the taste
These videos are outstanding. They make a great companion to all of the books I enjoy reading! There's just something about seeing Mr. Lofthouse with a bunch of squash that makes me smile.
I appreciate your knowledge! Thank you!!!
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So happy to get to see Joseph!
Thanks for your sharing Joseph! You changing the world! 🙏
If not changing the world, changing many opinions of what "food" could be. :) And gardening. :)
Thanks Joseph. I’m going to be creating some land races starting this year. I got 73 varieties to start off with. Shall be fun. 😜
So happy to see a new video! I'm excited to start my own squash project this coming season!
cheers and shalom from Sacramento
in the UK our seasons are shorter and nobody has any land so im gonna be trying to develop a really small pumpkin swarm. issue is there are only so many small pumpkins so the gene pool is small already. If i can get a plant that quickly makes 4 or so 500g pumps that are mostly flesh that would be ideal. wish me luck.
I'll tell her to pre-game this afternoon before we get there
What is the "button end"? That effects squash storage?
i planted your maxima seeds this year, thank you very much. the plants are very impressive. im in the south. do your maxima seeds have any experience with squash vine borer? i found one laying eggs yesterday. do the vines send out new roots readily?
If given the opportunity the plants will root at every leaf node. I don't have vine borers here, so the plants may not remember how to cope with them... I made a maxima/moschata inter-species hybrid, and then re-selected for the hard moschata vine and stem, and the maxima flavor. That one is immune to the vine borers.
@@JosephLofthouseauthor thanks for the reply, and the wonderful landrace gardening idea/seeds. im less worried now, this my first time growing squash like this. It will likely end happily with many squashes, and i get seeds to save even if only 1 fruit makes it. if the borers become an issue (they are said to kill the plants) there are plenty of parasitic wasps and other creatures who feed on stem boring larvae around, they will help me out. the biodiversity in my garden is something im proud of, pests are rarely an issue, and some of the plants are so strong i cant see them losing to a few internal caterpillars.
i am only going to baby the few i planted biointensive to grow an impressive garden and eat this winter, the rest are mostly left to their own devices to start a landrace with some moschata seeds that i had around. i think selecting plants for multimodal growing conditions is a good idea.
I don't understand why bother to cut off the stem and talk about storage when you're cutting the squash in half to taste. You cannot store it after it is cut open can you?
True, no need to worry about the stem if you're about to eat it. That was for demonstration purposes only.
I do think what is being shown here. Is how joseph selects squash. I don't think he does this all at once like it is shown in the video.
What I have been doing is cutting open a squash, cooking it, than tasting the squash once its been cooked. If I like the taste I will keep some of the seed.
I had a buttercup squash that was completely tasteless. It went straight to the chickens. Flesh was light yellow compared to the deep orange.
@@fredjackson6305 Thank you! I had the impression that he harvested them all, cut them all open, and then tasted each to decide if he wanted the seed.
OF COURSE he harvested them all, stored them until he was ready to eat them, then decided whether to save seed based on that tasting as it was used!
I was really blind not to realize that.
But... he did show cutting into at least ten squash at once in a photograph, when he cooked them to taste. I guess that's why I got the impression he was somehow trying to store after they were cut and tasted. I wouldn't imagine many families can go through ten squash at once.