Saving Lettuce Seed - Suburban Homestead EP16
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- Learn how to save your own lettuce seed. It is easy. Organic seeds can be expensive, thus saving own seed is the way to go. In the question and answer section, we explore a bit of terrace gardening.
Created by: Siloé Oliveira
Links mentioned in the video:
Julian's channel Urban Organic For Life:
/ @organizedlikejules
Terrace Vegetable Gardening documentary:
• Organic Terrace Garden...
Great advice on saving lettuce seeds, Siloé!
OneYardRevolution | Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening Thank you Patrick.
AFTER YEARS OF WONDERING YOU GAVE ME ANSWERS ABOUT THESE SEEDS. THANKS ALOT....
your creativity is endless! litterally you can't be boring
Your videos are getting better and better all the time and they were already great to begin with!!! I love the answer viewer's mail you do and the promotion of other good channels! Take care my friend, Elyse.
***** Thanks for the feedback Elyse. I highly value your input. I thought the viewers answers would add a level of community participation.
Beautiful video. Very funny and super informative. Thank you:)
Mumbai Balcony Gardener Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you for the shout out Siloé Oliveira you are awesome
Urban Organic For Life Not a problem Julian. I hope it helps :-) Keep up the good work!
Another excellent clip Sir :) Have been saving a few different kinds of lettuce seeds here over the past few months.. Sprinkled a small handful in the aquaponics & are just starting to see the green shoots now :)
Shall check out the Organic Terrace Garden clip later thanks for the link..
Cheers mate & all the best..
RobBobs Backyard Farming Thanks! Aquaponics and lettuce must go hand in hand. And yes, the Organic Terrace Garden clip is really awesome. Thanks for watching!
Yayyy you made an appearance!
Siloé I think I speak for most of us but I really believe if you started submitting your videos to different garden magazines or cable channels you'd have a good chance of getting your own spot. Both the talent and Info is there. And I already feel like I'm watching a professional production that's been boot-legged onto youtube.
Keep it going man, its only up from here :]
TheNorthwestForager Thanks for the optimism Hank, I need to look into this. I do like youtube because its possible to get immediate feedback, but it would be awesome to expand. I wish I had more time to devote to this. Maybe one day! :-)
I hear ya on the time issue. Maybe one day...
I totally agree. Your videos are a treat for me and my family to watch. Even though I am passed the beginning gardenerer stage there are always nuggets of new information and ideas that I learn from watching your videos. I highly encourage all gardeners of all experience levels to watch and observe all farmers because the common exchange or knowledge is extremely important.
Thanks Doug! I really happy to know that you and your family are enjoying the videos. It can be challenging to produce content that is interesting to both season gardeners and beginners alike. But as you said we can all learn from each other. UA-cam is a great community.
I told him the same thing! We need to push our friend here to submit his work. Its much too great. He really deserves a much larger audience. We don't mind sharing him huh?
Can i just say, im loving your videos and your information packed episodes. The animations are also amazing, please keep up the amazing work !
+Ryan Vines Thanks! It means a lot to hear feedback like this! :-)
Another great video. I left my lettuce to bolt last season, but it seemed to take a little long developing seeds and I needed the space for other veggies. For the viewer with the terrace, maybe try growing more crops vertically? Things like tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and a lot more love climbing and this can free up your raised bed for other crops. Please keep the videos coming.
Bryan Wickizer Thanks! Even though a bolting lettuce does take valuable space, at least you get hundreds of seed from one plant. The vertical growing tip is a great one. Thanks for mentioning that. I'll keep the videos coming!
I love all your videos. Binge watching them today
Amazingly done. You create such fantastic videos. Thank you as always for putting in so much time and effort. I always am fascinated watching. Cant wait to see your next episode
Tim Huffman Thanks Tim. It's great to hear there is appreciation for the effort and time put in a project. New episodes are on their way. :-)
Very informative.
Its 4-AM here, I've just awoken, and was getting some real good thoughts.
I hope to grow indoors.
Just a small 2-types of plant garden.
Excellent video.
Mark SM thanks! I'm glad the video caught in the right time. :-) Hope you success on your indoor garden
Just found your channel, it's amazing!
Nice video on the lettuce. :) I may have a hard time growing it here in Texas unless I get a heat resistant variety like you mentioned.
As for the person who asked the question and your reply that growing potatoes might not be feasible in a small area. Actually potatoes are very easy to grow in a tiny space if you grow up instead of out. I even know some people who stacked several automobile tires and filled them with dirt to grow their potatoes. When they wanted potatoes they just removed a tire, brushed the soil aside and there were the potatoes.
That said I have never put that into practice myself. Not big on potatoes in my family really. If we crave them it is rare and in that case I just buy some. If you didn't want to use tires you could easily build a container with removable sections to grow the potatoes that way.
- Heidi
BlackCat2 That is a very good tip Heidi. Potatoes and roots in general are great crops for getting the most calories out of small spaces. And sweet potatoes are even better yielders in hot climates. As for the feasibility of feeding 7 people with 1200sq feet, I think it would be hard or impossible. If I remember correctly, Jon Jeavons says that 1/8 acre per person would be the minimum. If would be interesting to see experiment on this though. Thank you very much for your comment!
Thanks for doing these videos. I hope you do more propagating/seed saving videos. My goal is to raise as much food from seed saving as I can. Much appreciated.
+susan gardens Seed saving is real self-sufficiency
Wonderful video. They could put the lettuce and other things in grow bags or self watering containers to expand the garden. There are many options to grow.
TheEmptynester Very true! Thanks for the additional tip.
My friend I believe the latest research indicates it's not the heat rather the sun exposure that causes bolting. Shading does cool it however the reduction in solar energy is the cause of delay.
Fantastic episode ! I have failed years in a row to get leafy greens to successfully grow.
***** The more I learn :-) Thanks for the correction. I hope you get better luck with the greens.
suburban homestead Its not so much a correction rather a clarification. the statement is valid however with heat usually comes higher solar exposure. You know I am stubborn ;) ill try again!
This gives me the idea for an experiment, where I plant lettuce during summer and shade it out with a dark cloth for a few hours in the morning to see it bolting slower compared to a control.
As for being stubborn, every good gardener has to be a bit. :-)
I would love to see that trial my friend ! How about we make this fun and I'll bet you a pack of seeds the hypothesis t
Holds true :)
You win I give you a pack of seeds. I win I give you a pack of seeds :)
Excellent video as always! I really do enjoy your channel! I never knew its in the same family as sunflowers, guess I should pay more attention lol. keep up the good work!
Southwest Urban Homestead Thanks for following the channel on a regular basis. it is great to get feedback. Yes, when I first learned of sunflowers and lettuces I was surprised also
Wonderful!!! Thanks for the detail!
Also for the terrace question maybe vertical growing could help create more space!!! If that’s available.
Great video my friend I loved it thank you so much for sharing, Can't wait for more and have a great day. Huw.
HuwsNursery - Grow Organic Produce Inexpensively Thank you. I'm glad you liked it! More videos are on their way!
Adoro assistir seus vídeos e assisto várias vezes. Kkkk. Parabéns!
How did I miss this one. Lol Excellent!
Thank you very much for your generosity for showing my pictures in your video and all the information.Thank you once again let me know if i can be any of your help thank you once again for your support and enthusiasm.
Baunty Rahman Thanks for the question!
You should be on public television
Thank you.
I love it, i work with you, but always you surprise me. It's why i'm proud of you.
Mirian Oliveira :-) Thank you very much for helping!
BRO more videos like these for all types of vegetables,berries, herbs, everything. watch the views and popularity fly. Trust.
mhauck99 Thanks man! If only views and popularity gave me more time to make these :-) I have many more videos in the production pipeline. Currently there is a brief hiatus because of lack of available time to finish them. But they are coming!
Parabéns pelo canal. Muito instrutivo e divertido. E ainda por cima vc é de origem boa. Hehehe. Grande abraço. E sucesso pra ti
Amurabe Veron Hehehe Muito Obrigado! :-) Valeu!
Learned a lot from the video. Obrigado
Will Bennett De nada! :-)
love your vids.
+Wayne Irvine Thanks!
very good video...obrigada ,
Horta em Baldes De nada. Obrigado a você. A sua horta em baldes está muito bacana
great vid
LCJ farms Thanks!
Great information for seed saving! I love that you pointed out to be careful of other plants in the same family which my be flowering when you plan to collect and save the seed. This is often skimmed over or not mentioned at all in most seed saving videos. Also, I have excellent results with a heat tolerant variety of lettuce called Green Star. It has a wonderful texture and flavor with a bright green, solid color. I highly recommend it. :) My other varieties will bolt when it is still producing beautifully. Here is a link to where you can purchase the seeds: www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-seeds-Green-Star-Lettuce.html
Rainbow Gardens Very true. I find that while accidental crossings may be fun, they are not always practical, since getting a stable and good new variety takes some patience. Thanks for the lettuce variety link. I will be adding it to my list.
pretty good piece. thx
Thank you.
love your videos. I'm a newbie to seeding/lettuce so far. would love to know how you built your cages? have a pattern? thanks
+Bllie hunt. I plan on having that detailed in a future video. (If only I had time to make them more often :-)
LOL!
love the graphics! fuck youre talented.
Rxist Prepps Thanks
Mrs.Oliveira I want to change my thumbnails and make it nice like yours but without using Photoshop. What should I do
Urban Organic For Life Julian, There is a free version of photoshop called Gimp, but I think it is a bit more challenging to work with. You could also go completely old school and make them by hand with brightly colored paper and paint, or markers, and then photograph them from a straight an angle as you can with good lighting and use the photo. The important thing is to make them simple, brightly colored, with the most contrast you can. But do not use all colors at once. Pick a predominant color and a secondary contrasting color. Don't put too many items in it, otherwise things get crowded. One nice large item with good high contrast is preferred. But above all be creative and have fun. I hope that helps.
Heres good advice cow manure ..lots of it ......and compost ...compost ....compost ...lots of it.
can you do the same with pak choy?
+Kaiotic Weirdo It would work in the same way, but it creates little long pods.
Julian's channel Urban Organic For Life, doesn't have any content at all...
Aha, bolting is when you collect the seeds for next year.
Patrick Meehan That's right. It takes a month or two for them to fully mature an dry out
I should have said bolting
😂excellent