I apologize for the delay in posting videos. I've been busier than usual with work so I've had less time to make regular videos.
Although there seem to already be several tutorials on saving seeds from Brassica plants (Turnips, mustard, cabbage, etc.), I still wanted to share what I usually do to save seeds from these plants. In hindsight, I probably should have spaced the plants farther apart when saving seed and tied up the plants to some tomato cages to reduce the impact of lodging over.

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Straws in the Wind, Album: KG, 2020, KGLW records. Buy the whole album here: https://gizzverse.com/products/k-g

Lamb's quarters (Chenopodium album) is a very common garden weed that often grows in disturbed garden soils. The greens of this plant are very tasty and the plant thrives in the heat of early Summer long after spinach has gone to seed. Nevertheless, this plant too often goes to waste and is treated like any other weed. In this video, I show how to cook this weed like spinach in case a gardener happens to pull up large quantities of this plant while weeding.

Since I have no coldframe or greenhouse, I'm often forced to harden off my plants directly outdoors before planting them. This often leads to damaged plant tissues, stunted growth and plant mortalities. In this video, I present my usual process for hardening off plants, but it is far from foolproof. Plant mortalities are not usually this bad when I harden plants off, but they were especially bad this year due to late frosts and windy weather.

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The Folk that Time Forgot by Forefather, 2010, Seven Kingdoms Records. Link for purchase: https://forefather.bandcamp.com/album/ours-is-the-kingdom-2017-re-issue-with-bonus-track

This was my first year growing fava beans, so I wasn't confident that the plants would be able to flower in time before the weather got too hot for the flowers to be able to pollinate successfully. Thankfully, this Spring has been cooler than usual, so the plants still had plenty of time to set flower. It also seems that my cover crop of vetch (Vicia sativa) started flowering at the exact same time as my fava bean plants, so it might be that I have an early flowering strain of fava beans. Common vetch has naturalized as a weed throughout the eastern United States, so if my fava bean plants are setting flower as early as the vetch plants, then that's a good sign that I can consistently get a harvest from this type of fava bean in future years.

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A wild chamomile species often called pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea) can often be found growing in disturbed locations throughout temperate regions of the eastern United States and Canada. The specimens shown in this video were found growing next to a sidewalk in a suburban area. As with german chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), pineapple weed can also be used to make a fragrant herbal tea. I plan on making a future video where I make tea from this wild plant once the plants get larger. For information on finding this plant in North America, I suggest looking at wildflower search at the following link:
https://www.wildflowersearch.org/
Another resource is the BONAP database for determining if this plant in naturalized in your location:
http://bonap.org/

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Although my plants that survived are healthy, everywhere I'm finding telltale rabbit damage all over my garden. It's about time I set up a rabbit fence.

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In case you think a one minute video will help explain what this channel is about, you may go ahead and watch this video. If you're watching the YouTube version of this introduction, chances are, it will automatically play anyway so you won't be given much of a choice. Much of the information presented in the video can already be found in the channel about section so I suggest also reading the description there. In the unlikely chance that you happen to be illiterate, you would not be reading this description anyway.

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I'm quickly approaching the date to begin hardening off my seedlings and I'm quickly running out of space to place out any more seedlings under grow lights. At this rate I might have to stagger outdoor planting for some of my seedlings.

Over the week I recorded this update, there was a three day period of abnormally cold temperatures and high winds. This set back recording a few days and caused some of my outdoor plants to lodge over and smother neighboring plants. This was especially obvious when I examined my turnip flowers.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Sonata No. 11 (Rondo Alla Turca). Creative Commons. Download link:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No.11_in_A_major,_K.331/300i_(Mozart,_Wolfgang_Amadeus)

I have been digging and preparing new garden beds for over a month and they are still not all ready to plant! I was initially hoping to make a timelapse video of the entire process of garden bed preparation, but then my video was already getting too long less than half way through the process. Using a roto-tiller to break up heavy clay soil and mix in compost seems to be a very labor-intensive process for preparing garden beds for the first time, so there must be a cheaper and less labor-intensive method of preparing garden soil for growing food. I'll be checking the Permies forum at the following link in the meantime:

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This is a reupload of an earlier video that was edited improperly. This version should fix the problems with the screen orientation.
Here is the description for the original video:
I planted two varieties of squash plants only a few yards from each other while watering each variety identically and caring for them identically. The only difference is the type of soil they are grown in. Since one variety looks healthy while the other looks variety looks sickly, I'm assuming the bed with the sickly plants is deficient in a key nutrient since I got the seeds for these squash plants from a gardener who already had good experience for this squash landrace. As a precautionary measure, I side-dressed the squash plants with garden fertilizer this evening to give the plants an extra nutrient boost over the next few weeks. I'm hoping the plants perk up before they get detroyed by powdery mildew.

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Note: This is a reupload from an earlier post. Apparently I accidentally attached the wrong video to my original post. I hope this doesn't happen again in the future.

By this week, I had begun transplanting some of my pepper plants to larger pots underneath my grow light indoors. Although not shown in this video, I switched out the LED lamps for fluorescent tubes to provide more light for a larger number of plants. The hydroponic tower garden setup shown in the previous video was now ready for me to put in some spinach and watercress seedlings this week so they are shown briefly. Not much else was sprouting outdoors this week, but my spinach and turnip greens from last year were breaking free from their dormancy period and begining to produce new plant growth.

If you are interested in looking further into this hydroponic gardening system, here is the link to the company's website:
https://www.towergarden.com/

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I should finally be up to date with this video. By last week, as of me posting this video, I have filled out my entire hydroponic tower garden with spinach and watercress seedlings; my turnip plants are in full bloom; and my Siberian kale has been producing flower buds that I have been eating like broccoli. I have quickly been running out of space indoors to start more plants so I might have to buy more grow lights before the end of the month.

For the week of me posting this video (April 11 to April 17), I have not had the chance to post a garden update due to several indoor rennovations from tornado damage two years ago. I might post a video at the beginning of next week though.

If you are interested in looking further into this hydroponic gardening system, here is the link to the company's website:
https://www.towergarden.com/

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At the beginning of this video, I notice a rare, lethal mutation in some of my cayenne pepper seedlings causing albinism in the plants. This mutation is lethal to the plants since the seedlings cannot produce the chorophil necessary for them to photosynthesize. I ended up culling out these albino plants since they wouldn't survive anyway.

I also transplant a few more of my plant seeds that were sprouting in paper towels. I was surprised to find that my eggplant seedling had finally sprouted more than three weeks after putting them in the towels. I think I most likely overplanted my tomatoes this year. Fortunately, I have several neighbors who like to grow tomatoes if I have too many plants for my own needs.

Outside, I notice the first signs of sprouting from my seed pots that had been cold strafiying outdoors all winter. The most obvious seedlings were the apple seedlings. I found at least three seedling when I checked on the pots during this week of recording.

Throughout the outside recordings, the winds were heady during the recording process this week so much of the sound got cut out when I was talking.

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Due to technichal issues with Bitchute, the videos for the past few weeks have been behind schedule. In this video, I introduce the Tower Garden hydroponic garden from Juice Plus. This hydroponic gardening system is far from perfect and it requires heavy maintenance to control the buildup of lime and the nutrient solution on the walls of the PVC plastic frame. If you are interested in looking further into this hydroponic gardening system, here is the link to the company's website:
https://www.towergarden.com/

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As more of my seedlings began sprouting, I had to switch out my LED grow lights for some fluorescent tubes. Over the week I got the chance to eat some of the spinach that I had planted over the Fall as well as some of the turnip greens. Among the plant seeds that I left in the ground to stratify over Winter, only the apple and mint seeds showed any signs of sprouting this week.

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On March 8, I finally began starting my early seeds indoors. This includes mainly peppers (Capsicum sp.), thyme, oregano, sage, and eggplant. This time, I attempted to experiment with a seed staring technique for peppers that I had seen in another gardening video. I didn't replicate the procedure exactly, so there were some problems a few weeks later.

Featured music: Summer's Flame by Forefather, 2009, Seven Kingdoms Records. Link for purchase: https://forefather.bandcamp.com/track/summers-flame

Link to video by MyBackyardGarden: https://www.bitchute.com/video/9RHN0cg6rZF3/

Link to video by Heartland of America Garnener:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DfueQdCEpEFj/

I have not been able to grow much over Winter this year, but a few plants survived over the winter of 2020-2021. These were mainly cold-hardy siberian Kale, Vetch, Spinach, and turnips. All other cool weather plants died in the ground once a hard frost hit. I apologize for the delay in posting, but I've been spending a lot of time trying to expand my garden this year. I will be catching up with my garden videos from this past month during this week. Please also check the links at the bottom of this video description.

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Since a killing frost was forecasted for the week of Christmas, I rushed in and harvested what was left of the lettuce before the frost killed the remaining plants. I did not make the same harvest with the mustard plants since I was expecting that they would be able to withstand the cold better than lettuce. Nevertheless, the mustard plants were all mostly killed back by the frost as well. I was most surprised by the top kill of the seven top turnip greens since this plant species (Brassica rapa) is a biennial that is naturalized throughout eastern North America.

Given that most of the plants remaining in my garden have finally died back, there will be no more weekly garden updates on this channel until March 2021. In the meantime, I will try to include a few videos on seed saving and food preparation, but they will not be always on a weekly basis.

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The week of December 18, I pulled up most of the remaining carrots and stored them in my fridge. I covered the seed carrots left in the ground with a thick layer of soil to protect them until spring. There is not much else to show in this video since I was in the process of finishing putting my garden to bed until the coming Spring. There should be at least one or two more garden updates, but videos on this channel should slow down until March of next year.

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Since December 23 was my birthday, I attempted to bake a cake using the honey locust powder I ground earlier in the year. Unfortunately, the resulting cake was astringent and tasted like a bittersharp cider apple while still being intensely sweet. I'm hoping I can figure out what was wrong with the pods I was using since this plant is supposed to be edible when prepared properly. If I make anything with honey locust in the future I will post again in a future video.

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Towards the end of this video, I introduce experimental crops from the Eastern Agricultural Complex that I planted to overwinter. Although I have had experience growing the lamb's quarters shown (Chenopodium berlandieri), most of the plant species are completely new crops for me. I will find out how well they sprout by the middle of Spring 2021.

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When I buy carrots at the supermarket, they are usually uniform, straight, and orange. When I grow carrots at home, they very often are twisted, uneven, and forked. The forking and twisting varies depending on which variety of carrot I grow, but it seems to be most common in the few deep purple varieties of carrots I've grown. Such gnarly carrots rarely make it to supermarkets in North America intact. They are usually cut into baby carrot fingers, made into juice, used as animal feed, or discarded altogether.

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Although the first snowfall of the season had fallen on November 30, it didn't seem to have gotten cold enough to kill the cold weather crops yet. My lettuce, mustard, arugula, and carrots are all still alive. Only the radishes showed any signs of frost damage. By the time I got the chance to check on the garden this week, the plants were still covered in a layer of half-melted snow.

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As the growing season winds down, I will begin finishing putting my garden to bed for the year. I took the time to begin preparing a new garden bed for next year and I plan to use whatever warm spells remain over Winter to finish burrying leaves until the soil becomes to waterlogged to work anymore.

Since I'm unable to store carrot roots in my garage over Winter, I ended up marking a few of the largest carrot roots for seed saving next year. I will cover these remaining roots with a heavy layer of mulch to protect the roots from freezing until Spring.

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Depending on how the weather changes into December, I may go on hiatus for garden updates until March. I might have a few seed saving videos during that time, but video output should slow down during that time.
Meanwhile, I'm glad the weather has stayed just mild enough for my green vegetables to stay alive entering into early Winter. Last year, there was an E. coli outbreak for romaine lettuce around this exact same time of year so it helps that I have a clean supply of vegetables in case of another outbreak this year.

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