I have grown toxic squash! I actually have a funny story about it. Last summer I grew Delicata squash from seeds that I saved from a store bought fruit. Right away I could tell they were hybrids because they looked similar to the squash I saved the seeds from, there were definitely rounder in shape. Fast forward to their harvest; I have always heard toxic squash is so bitter that just barely touching your tongue to it is enough to tell. And I kept meaning to try it, but I never did. So then one day, I’m sitting in the break room at work trying to plan what I’m going to bring home for dinner, and I remember that I still have that squash but I still have tested it. So I call my boyfriend(while still in the break room, in the presence of other people) and proceed to ask him to please slice open one of the squash and lightly touch his tongue to it. He is used to unusual garden requests from me, so he wasn’t nearly as confused as my coworkers. Any way, he did what I asked and apparently it was so not pleasant. He said he couldn’t get the taste out of his mouth for an hour after. But he didn’t suffer any other I’ll effects and we obviously didn’t eat the squash. The moral of the story is yes toxic squash does happen (although this was the first time it has happened to me, and I’ve grown from saved seeds before), and yes it is very obvious. Thank you for reading the story of how I poisoned my boyfriend while my coworkers eavesdropped.
Yes, you’re no hardened criminal, leaving witnesses around ;) Ps Jess does mention, crosses that have happened in your own garden (ifnyou don’t grow toxic decorative squashes) are safer. Store bought.... you’ve experienced it ! :)
I would love to spend time with you. I have been watching you for awhile and I'm mesmerized by all you've learned and now...all you are doing. So beautiful ❤️
Jess, I'm in Canada and we've heated with wood for years. Our wood burning cook stoves always had an oven, cooktop, water resevoir and warming/proofing cabinet up top.
I cross pollinated a Seminole pumpkin with a butternut and got the perfect winter squash and I plant them out every year. I can even name my winter squash because it also crossed with a long island cheese. So I call it Mary's squash.
Thats pretty cool! I once planted a big yellow variety of tomatoes and sweet cherry tomatoes and the the yellow ones grew lookjng like yellow grape tomatoes, it was the cutest thing.
I have a cross between spaghetti squash and either butternut or acorn that has added sweetness to the spaghetti squash but still retained the stringy noodle-like texture that I absolutely love. I have had bitter zucchini come up, but after one taste, you know to pull that plant before it can continue. And after years of saving squash and pumpkin seeds, I’ve only had that one instance of bitter fruit. And there’s no way anyone would eat enough of it to become sick. So I feel very confident myself in saving squash seeds.
Thank you for another informative video. Promiscuous pollination, I love that term! I save my squash seeds every year and have never had an issue. Currently watching a monster squash my compost volunteered for me trying to figure out what it is.
Thank you Jess for being such a balanced gardener. I think some people over complicate things that some might be so intimated, that they’re so afraid of doing it wrong, they don’t try. I don’t think our ancestors had time to be afraid to grow. They just planted things and hoped and prayed the Lord would bless the harvest. They needed to feed their families.❤️✝️
My second year gardening I grew Husky cherry tomatoes and my daughter would pick them. I ended up with some volunteer tomatoes sprinkled throughout the backyard and decided to plant the healthiest ones. Those plants produced the most fruit and were the hardiest out of all the other plants that I started from seed or bought. Husky cherry tomatoes are hybrids and they did grow true to type. I didn't save seeds but I do have some whole cherry tomatoes in my freezer. I might try starting a few from them since they'd be second generation yard tomatoes lol. It's pretty funny the volunteers from the yard looked so much healthy and grew better than the ones I grew in organic potting soil and fussed over.
Thank you Jess, Love seeing you two in the garden, reminds me of me and my Jamie, one of 10 grand kids , Only 2 show interest in the garden. Love the wonder and excitement of children as they see things grow. Great clarification on the squash. God bless and Keep You all close to HIS heart and walking in all HIS ways. 🌺
I'm growing tromboncino and honey nut squash right next to each other, I also have about 10 different tomato varieties all on two rows in a close area. 🤷♀️
Ben is so cute. At work today, I caught the Produce Manager grabbing a Basil plant to take to the back to throw away. I said, "Can't you mark it down. He says well if I do, will you buy it. I said all it needs is watering. He marked it to 96 cents. I got it home and watered it, and it already perked up.
Hi Jess, so true what you just said about cross pollination! I recommend the booklet Landrace Gardening from Joseph Lofthouse. It is a complete guide to seed collection.
Great Job identifying Ben 👍. GOSH do i know how Ben felt. When I was a Journeymen I spent 2 yrs in VA. I had never ever had a Hot Pepper! The Guys at the local Restaurant hid the Jalapeños under my cheese on my Nachos😝. Oh how they laughed at the Yankee. Me not so much😡. I hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day surrounded by your Boys❤. JO JO IN VT 💞
I love lemon basil, but it is coming up EVERYWHERE. I always get tons of volunteer Texas Wild tomatoes. They are a currant style tomato that are sweet as candy and produce even in 90 degF temps. This year, I had to take that step and pull most of them out. Saved a few for my plant swaps. I still have too many for the bed, but I'm balking at pulling the extras out. Convincing myself that I need to do it to allow the new grape variety the room to grow over the cattle panel arch. Had one volunteer tomato come up right next to the old tomato bed. If it is that determined to live, I'll leave it and see what I can get. It looks to be similar to the Early Girl that was over there last year. I'm further south and harvest has started. Just picked a tub of green beans off my other arch. Yellow squash is coming off and need to finish digging my red potatoes. The remaining sweet peas are going to seed, and then the cucumbers will have more room. Red onions are drying, and sweet potato slips are in water. Giving them a week before they go in the ground, now that beets and carrots are harvested.
I am not going to lie but I was wondering about how far I planted stuff to close but I got over it because I want to use as much space as possible in my yard and it would be pretty cool to make my own variety of something.
Nasturnium 😂😂😂❤❤❤ We just got geese and I'm so in love with them. They're so full of personality. I was intimidated seeing yours HISS at you like a bunch of turkeys. But I love ours. I'm sure ours will hiss at us too but I'm not intimidated anymore. ❤
Several years ago I purchased a cantaloupe from a farm stand. Once we left the farm the entire vehicle smelt horrible. I eventually realized it was the melon. It was not overripe and I could not understand how a beautiful melon smelled bad and was worse when I cut it. It tasted terrible. I threw it away and have always wondered what was wrong with the melon. I think you gave me the answer on your video today.
Hi! I just want to clarify something about the gluten free Orange Juice; if they can print it on the bottle its because thejr facility is certified Gluten free. That means there will not be any cross contamination. Even if there is no peanut, gluten, soy, etc in a product doesnt mean they can't have particules of it in them, because they can be made in the same factory as other products that do contains those allergens. Also, for someone with allergies, it is sooo much easier to just look at the main label rather than looking throught the ingredients to see if there is an allergen or not. So thats it :) I hope it helps!
I think another reason the "you can't save seeds from hybrids " myth is out there is for commercial production. To sell seeds as a certain "variety" one must be able to guarantee the plant features. To do that, isolation of heirloom varieties is a must. Hybrid varieties require hand pollination to insure the blend of two known heirlooms. But that's only for commercial quality assurance of plant genetics
Those "toxic" squash are usually a cross with the gourd that grows on the side of the road in AZ, CO and ?? But it's not an issue with normal eating varieties. Thank you for sharing!
I started out with 6 kinds of winter squash 2 years ago. Last year I ended up with a spaghetti squash volunteer. It was hyper productive, grew without being watered, and was the sweetest bright orange spaghetti squash ever
Let the smaller boys pot up your walkway Basil, they can grow it on. Then they can sell it one day lemonaide stand style on the side of the road downtown when you adults are all down there working nearby on the coffeeshop/store project.
My little gardening buddy is off to college and living their best life right now. I miss him. Cherish this time because the memories are absolutely priceless. 💚🙏
I sprinkled a bunch of chamomile from my GreenStalk last year and it is coming up EVERYWHERE! My husband said we cannot use it because the lot had been sprayed for noxious weeds a couple of years ago by the city and that they wouldn’t be safe for us to use. 😢😢😢.
One time my dad threw a squash from his garden out in his yard. The seeds provided a volunteer. He watched it all summer. Then the moment came to try it. It was so bad. We called it a skunkin. Bad squash but good memory.
Haha I laughed at the Nasturtium part with your son...its my first year growing and I planted Nasturtiums as companions and I probably couldn't remember how to say the name for a whole month...he basically got it there.
Many people in south Louisiana bought regular green jalapeño plants this spring, only to find the peppers are white-yellow- light green. They might be Hor Wax peppers. I am so disappointed. The lady at the store got hers right off the truck, and same white peppers, so it wasn't a customer moving up the tags.
I planted store bought grocery yellow potatoes last year that had started growing eyes.... Harvested what was more like a russet. Still great! But not the yellow we were hoping for. Oh well!
Where did you get your mushroom compost? Also, where can I find all the videos on your “soil recovery” process due to the imported contaminated soil? I’m facing the same task- sad face. Thanks so much in advance!
CONGRATS ON 600,000 SUBS! U ROCK!
Thank you so much. This was super educational!
Thankyou for your information.
We bless you back❤❤❤
Gotta love gardener Ben! 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
That boy warms my ❤️
💚💚💚 beautiful
Your channel brings me so much joy. Thank you.
This is so awesome. Thank you
@14:22, 😂I was thinking hybrid vigor
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Wet and bless yall❤
Ben is getting so BIG! All that good, REAL FOOD ❤️❤️❤️
Happy Mother's Day!
I love this. Stress free growing :)
Lovin' your cut and dry mindset.
He is the sweetest
❤Benjamin is a gem! I just love him!!!
Thanks Jess! Love seeing Ben👍🏻😊❤️
I have grown toxic squash! I actually have a funny story about it. Last summer I grew Delicata squash from seeds that I saved from a store bought fruit. Right away I could tell they were hybrids because they looked similar to the squash I saved the seeds from, there were definitely rounder in shape. Fast forward to their harvest; I have always heard toxic squash is so bitter that just barely touching your tongue to it is enough to tell. And I kept meaning to try it, but I never did. So then one day, I’m sitting in the break room at work trying to plan what I’m going to bring home for dinner, and I remember that I still have that squash but I still have tested it. So I call my boyfriend(while still in the break room, in the presence of other people) and proceed to ask him to please slice open one of the squash and lightly touch his tongue to it. He is used to unusual garden requests from me, so he wasn’t nearly as confused as my coworkers. Any way, he did what I asked and apparently it was so not pleasant. He said he couldn’t get the taste out of his mouth for an hour after. But he didn’t suffer any other I’ll effects and we obviously didn’t eat the squash.
The moral of the story is yes toxic squash does happen (although this was the first time it has happened to me, and I’ve grown from saved seeds before), and yes it is very obvious.
Thank you for reading the story of how I poisoned my boyfriend while my coworkers eavesdropped.
Yes, you’re no hardened criminal, leaving witnesses around ;)
Ps Jess does mention, crosses that have happened in your own garden (ifnyou don’t grow toxic decorative squashes) are safer. Store bought.... you’ve experienced it ! :)
Is this “Garden of Eden” joke?
"Brussel Sprouts are armpit hairs!!!" LMAO 😂🤣😂 Funniest thing ever. So cute 💚
I would love to spend time with you. I have been watching you for awhile and I'm mesmerized by all you've learned and now...all you are doing. So beautiful ❤️
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I loved what you said about GMO seeds and survival situation too. You're quickly becoming one of my favorite garden channels.
My goodness, Ben is the sweetest!! ❤❤
True
EnJOY...❤
Armpit hair.. Ben is smart and inquisitive! ❤ this kid!! I agree.. let the basil grow!
You’re such a delight.
Oh wow I never heard about toxic squash seeds thank you for sharing and setting the record straight!!
Oh man, I fair dinkum love that boy! Ben just makes us all smile ❤
What a cool mom
Jess, I'm in Canada and we've heated with wood for years. Our wood burning cook stoves always had an oven, cooktop, water resevoir and warming/proofing cabinet up top.
I cross pollinated a Seminole pumpkin with a butternut and got the perfect winter squash and I plant them out every year. I can even name my winter squash because it also crossed with a long island cheese. So I call it Mary's squash.
Thats pretty cool! I once planted a big yellow variety of tomatoes and sweet cherry tomatoes and the the yellow ones grew lookjng like yellow grape tomatoes, it was the cutest thing.
That's fantastic!
Mushroom mulch is all I plant in…it’s plant crack👍👍👍
He’s so cute looks more and more like his Dad ❤ Blessed quiver
Your garden videos with Ben are my favorite. He’s so smart and sweet and you can see how patient and intentional you are with him. 🥰
Watching that special sunflower Steve sunflower you pointed out will be very interesting!
Amazing information
Just commit to the Basil fields, my soul needs to see a ridiculous amount of Basil growing this spring 🌱
Same!
🌱🌱🌱🌱YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! 🌱🌱🌱 Cause there is no such thing as "too much basil" it's a myth 😂 , that's what I tell my hubs !
Can you imagine the SMELL 😍😍
LOL! I have volunteers popping up everywhere, too, especially Tulsi Basil and Anise!
I secretly want her to do this, too. A FIELD of Basil!!! Glorious
Benjamin's growing up to be quite the gardener. So cute! "We wet you until next time." 😂 Ty Jess. I always learn something from you.
Agree Ben is adorbs! ❤
Curious which way is south on your property? 🤔
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Also called ‘land race’ gardening 😊👌
I received my tee shirt order yesterday, and I happen to be wearing the same print and color! They are very soft and cooling 👍🏼😊
I have a cross between spaghetti squash and either butternut or acorn that has added sweetness to the spaghetti squash but still retained the stringy noodle-like texture that I absolutely love. I have had bitter zucchini come up, but after one taste, you know to pull that plant before it can continue. And after years of saving squash and pumpkin seeds, I’ve only had that one instance of bitter fruit. And there’s no way anyone would eat enough of it to become sick. So I feel very confident myself in saving squash seeds.
😆 ...arm pit hair !!! I adore that child 💙 My vote ...let the basil grow 🌱🌱🌱
I can’t pull out volunteers either ❤️❤️❤️I’m a hospice nurse. My brain must see the plants live always.
Brussels sprouts are grown in armpits! 😂 That explains so much!
Make Will pull the basil!😂 Ben is hilarious. He reminds me so much of my silly blond boy who is the same age.
“We wet you until next time.” 😂🤣😂🤣 That was so cute!
Thank you for another informative video. Promiscuous pollination, I love that term! I save my squash seeds every year and have never had an issue. Currently watching a monster squash my compost volunteered for me trying to figure out what it is.
I love your star wars shirt!
😂” Brussel sprouts are armpit hair” 😂 love that kid !
The wit on that boy!! Oh man I love me some Ben ❤
Excellent!
Benhas really grown 😊
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I once planted a butternut squash and watermelons close together. My butternut was rounder and fruitier, we loved them.
Thank you Jess for being such a balanced gardener. I think some people over complicate things that some might be so intimated, that they’re so afraid of doing it wrong, they don’t try. I don’t think our ancestors had time to be afraid to grow. They just planted things and hoped and prayed the Lord would bless the harvest. They needed to feed their families.❤️✝️
My second year gardening I grew Husky cherry tomatoes and my daughter would pick them. I ended up with some volunteer tomatoes sprinkled throughout the backyard and decided to plant the healthiest ones. Those plants produced the most fruit and were the hardiest out of all the other plants that I started from seed or bought. Husky cherry tomatoes are hybrids and they did grow true to type. I didn't save seeds but I do have some whole cherry tomatoes in my freezer. I might try starting a few from them since they'd be second generation yard tomatoes lol. It's pretty funny the volunteers from the yard looked so much healthy and grew better than the ones I grew in organic potting soil and fussed over.
Thank you Jess, Love seeing you two in the garden, reminds me of me and my Jamie, one of 10 grand kids , Only 2 show interest in the garden. Love the wonder and excitement of children as they see things grow. Great clarification on the squash. God bless and Keep You all close to HIS heart and walking in all HIS ways. 🌺
You're big time Jess! I got 2 unskippables, 1 target, the other Walmart 😂
So glad Ben was there to ask for me what varigation is 😂
I have been using mushroom compost instead of black cow & I have been LOVING IT!
That Benjamin is so stinkin' cute! ☺
I'm growing tromboncino and honey nut squash right next to each other, I also have about 10 different tomato varieties all on two rows in a close area. 🤷♀️
Thanks Jess.💖 Beautiful gardens.
I love watching when Ben and you do a garden tour. Can you tell me what are the names of the strawberries you are growing in your Green Stalks?
I love your shirt
Ben is so cute. At work today, I caught the Produce Manager grabbing a Basil plant to take to the back to throw away. I said, "Can't you mark it down. He says well if I do, will you buy it. I said all it needs is watering. He marked it to 96 cents. I got it home and watered it, and it already perked up.
I love your big helper in this.
Hi Jess, so true what you just said about cross pollination! I recommend the booklet Landrace Gardening from Joseph Lofthouse. It is a complete guide to seed collection.
Great Job identifying Ben 👍.
GOSH do i know how Ben felt.
When I was a Journeymen I spent 2 yrs in VA.
I had never ever had a Hot Pepper!
The Guys at the local Restaurant hid the Jalapeños under my cheese on my Nachos😝.
Oh how they laughed at the Yankee. Me not so much😡.
I hope you had a wonderful Mothers Day surrounded by your Boys❤.
JO JO IN VT 💞
Oh Jess you are so blessed. Arm pit hairs LMAO
We Wet You Til Next Time 😂oh sweet Ben we so dearly love you💚
I love lemon basil, but it is coming up EVERYWHERE. I always get tons of volunteer Texas Wild tomatoes. They are a currant style tomato that are sweet as candy and produce even in 90 degF temps. This year, I had to take that step and pull most of them out. Saved a few for my plant swaps. I still have too many for the bed, but I'm balking at pulling the extras out. Convincing myself that I need to do it to allow the new grape variety the room to grow over the cattle panel arch. Had one volunteer tomato come up right next to the old tomato bed. If it is that determined to live, I'll leave it and see what I can get. It looks to be similar to the Early Girl that was over there last year. I'm further south and harvest has started. Just picked a tub of green beans off my other arch. Yellow squash is coming off and need to finish digging my red potatoes. The remaining sweet peas are going to seed, and then the cucumbers will have more room. Red onions are drying, and sweet potato slips are in water. Giving them a week before they go in the ground, now that beets and carrots are harvested.
I am not going to lie but I was wondering about how far I planted stuff to close but I got over it because I want to use as much space as possible in my yard and it would be pretty cool to make my own variety of something.
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"Brussels sprouts are armpit hair"... lol! That's always gonna stick in mind...
Nasturnium 😂😂😂❤❤❤
We just got geese and I'm so in love with them. They're so full of personality. I was intimidated seeing yours HISS at you like a bunch of turkeys. But I love ours. I'm sure ours will hiss at us too but I'm not intimidated anymore. ❤
Several years ago I purchased a cantaloupe from a farm stand. Once we left the farm the entire vehicle smelt horrible. I eventually realized it was the melon. It was not overripe and I could not understand how a beautiful melon smelled bad and was worse when I cut it. It tasted terrible. I threw it away and have always wondered what was wrong with the melon. I think you gave me the answer on your video today.
next t-shirt design...brussel sprouts are armpit hair! I would totally buy that!!!
Love the shirt & followed the link to pre-orders but the page is empty….
😢
I ordered a bunch of stuff to be planting my stuff this coming weekend
Hi! I just want to clarify something about the gluten free Orange Juice; if they can print it on the bottle its because thejr facility is certified Gluten free. That means there will not be any cross contamination. Even if there is no peanut, gluten, soy, etc in a product doesnt mean they can't have particules of it in them, because they can be made in the same factory as other products that do contains those allergens.
Also, for someone with allergies, it is sooo much easier to just look at the main label rather than looking throught the ingredients to see if there is an allergen or not. So thats it :) I hope it helps!
Almost got worried wondering where my best UA-camr was. Glad to hear from you.
I think another reason the "you can't save seeds from hybrids " myth is out there is for commercial production.
To sell seeds as a certain "variety" one must be able to guarantee the plant features. To do that, isolation of heirloom varieties is a must. Hybrid varieties require hand pollination to insure the blend of two known heirlooms.
But that's only for commercial quality assurance of plant genetics
It probably also secures seed sales if people are afraid to save their own seeds and have to buy them as a result.
Those "toxic" squash are usually a cross with the gourd that grows on the side of the road in AZ, CO and ?? But it's not an issue with normal eating varieties. Thank you for sharing!
Little Ben is so sweet! How fun of a life is he having?!? I raised 3 boys and now 4 grandsons and 4 granddaughters 🌺
Brussel sprouts are armpit hair! New shirt design??? Maybe a sticker?
I started out with 6 kinds of winter squash 2 years ago. Last year I ended up with a spaghetti squash volunteer. It was hyper productive, grew without being watered, and was the sweetest bright orange spaghetti squash ever
Let the smaller boys pot up your walkway Basil, they can grow it on. Then they can sell it one day lemonaide stand style on the side of the road downtown when you adults are all down there working nearby on the coffeeshop/store project.
I still find my 15yo out playing in the water in the garden. I’m not sure he’ll ever change.
My little gardening buddy is off to college and living their best life right now. I miss him. Cherish this time because the memories are absolutely priceless. 💚🙏
What else did you plant with the onions??
Take the Basil to be microgreen and toss it in your next salad. Not wasted!!😊
I sprinkled a bunch of chamomile from my GreenStalk last year and it is coming up EVERYWHERE! My husband said we cannot use it because the lot had been sprayed for noxious weeds a couple of years ago by the city and that they wouldn’t be safe for us to use. 😢😢😢.
One time my dad threw a squash from his garden out in his yard. The seeds provided a volunteer. He watched it all summer. Then the moment came to try it. It was so bad. We called it a skunkin. Bad squash but good memory.
What variety of strawberries are those? They're huge!
Haha I laughed at the Nasturtium part with your son...its my first year growing and I planted Nasturtiums as companions and I probably couldn't remember how to say the name for a whole month...he basically got it there.
Many people in south Louisiana bought regular green jalapeño plants this spring, only to find the peppers are white-yellow- light green. They might be Hor Wax peppers. I am so disappointed. The lady at the store got hers right off the truck, and same white peppers, so it wasn't a customer moving up the tags.
I planted store bought grocery yellow potatoes last year that had started growing eyes.... Harvested what was more like a russet. Still great! But not the yellow we were hoping for. Oh well!
Where did you get your mushroom compost? Also, where can I find all the videos on your “soil recovery” process due to the imported contaminated soil? I’m facing the same task- sad face. Thanks so much in advance!