hi mark, how about a brief video explaining you're now using jellysmack to manage your FB account as many still dont believe it and continue to rant about your page being hacked

I love this lean-to trellis!

My experience here in the hot, humid southern US has been that vertical and diagonal trellises both work very well for cucumbers, even for so called bush types. They seem to keep climbing all season long and don’t suffer as much sunburn and wilt as vines on the ground. Have used welded wire and kennel panels that were handy, but am about to get some cattle panels that are flexible but still self supporting and have larger gaps so fruit doesn’t get bound up in the wire.

​@Obliv69 until i see a video of himself mentioning it the page is hacked. He makes videos. Makes sense that he would make an explainer video. I have no doubt if it wasn't hacked, prior to the change he would have made a video announcing the change. All we've had so far are some written posts that could have been written by anyone. Written posts on Facebook... he's never posted a written post on Facebook ever

Great idea. Hey and I ordered some of the old style birdie beds when they had that promo a few months back and used your discount code. Good savings!

Ulam = salad

No, I didn't know that recipe! Thank you :)

I've never heard of that but it sounds refreshing on a hot summer day.

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I am also in N Florida, and was just thinking I would look them up on IFAS to see if they would grow here! Do you recall where you bought your seed?

@@TW-gb6mhBaker Creek seeds out of Missouri.

@@georgetuider654 Thank you! I will order them for this summer!

Thank you for your kind words and feedback 👍🙂

2.4 MILLION subs, and "Growing" can't be wrong eh!..... Keep well you and yours. :)@@Selfsufficientme

What happened to your FB channel? Have you been hacked or did you really hire a company to manage your page? I hope you can fix it. We all enjoy your videos.. not the random spam that is currently being posted on it.@@Selfsufficientme

Will do! Thanks for the suggestion :)

I did that with tomatoes few years back and they are my best cropping tomatoes ever. I just keep saving the seeds each year and they are getting better and better.

They resort back to original genetics after a round or 2

I enjoy buying multiple varieties of one vegetable, and then I save the seeds of the produce I liked the most. Not all the crosses make viable seeds, but if you're saving seeds from the best of each variety, you'll be getting a mix of crosses and some of them will definitely be viable! Rinse and repeat over the years, occasionally toss in a new variety for fresh genetics, and you'll end up with produce you've hand selected for the traits you want, but they'll also be better adapted to your specific environment and gardening habits!

​@@joemamma8633 ​ depends on the history of how a particular produce was created and the genetic complexity (thus stability) of a plant. Heirloom/open pollenation vegetables and some fruits, can occasionally cross pollenate successfully and produce viable seeds with attributes of both parent plants. The easiest vegetable to do this with is tomatoes, but my Mum cross bred Capsicums and chilli's one year by accident, and for fun we kept the seeds and replanted. To my surprise the seeds were not only viable, but the 'fruit' was true to the hybrid we'd harvested them from. We repeated this for a few years, just resowing seeds from last season and they stayed true to type... Well, until mum planted a new batch of capsicum and they cross pollinated again. 😂 You couldn't repeat this process with an apple, since modern apples are the process of varying propergation techniques that focus on the fruit, not the seeds viability or genetic stability. Apples also (buy n large) cannot self pollenate which makes them incredibly genetically varied and thus considered genetically unstable. You plant 100 apples seeds, and you will end up with 100 trees all with different genetics, different fruits and different growing habits due to that genetic variability. In comparisons, tomatoes are genetically very simple. Especially Heirlooms, that have been maintained as true to type through self pollination for many generations. The simplicity of their genetics means we can selectively or randomly hybridise them with mostly predictable results. Hell, a botonist in a lab could probably make a close to 100% prediction on the outcome of crossing 2 specific tomato varieties. This ability to easily cross plants with predictable results is one of the reasons there's over 10 thousand recognized varieties of edible tomato, with some sources citing a up to 19 thousand varieties. This of course doesn't include any backyard cultivars that have been created by accident or by someone like myself just having fun seeing what happens. Meanwhile with apples, they've identified over 30 thousand varieties! However only 7500 are considered useful and worth growing. I cannot find a break down, or but I believe that 7500 includes not only table apples (fruit you'd eat raw), but Cider apples for alcohol making and root stock too. Root stock varieties of course, are used purely to host table and cider apples, the fruit of the root stock often considered not edible or worth noting. So despite there being vastly more apple varieties, only a small number are actually farmed intentionally, and of those farmed, some aren't even used for food but as root stock. No one is accidentally creating a new variety of edible apple in their backyard as most seeds are going to produce the small often bitter or overly tart "crab apple", which is just the umbrella term for apples considered unfarmable. There are some people crazy enough to intentionally try make new edible apple varieties... But success is something that usually comes with corporate funding and access to lab equipment. Tl/Dr? Complex genetics from inability to self pollinate = too hard to hybridise and make something edible. Most seedlings won't be "true to type" Simple genetics from lots of self pollination = backyard hybridization is possible, and you can even create new strains with viable seeds.

9 out of 10 dads approve this joke...

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@@snowstrobe when does a dad joke become a dad joke When it becomes apparent

@@zachooton6036 omg

Hello, my farm also grows this fruit

Thats why I am breeding a landrace squash I live in zone 6b so it gets cold here but I love long season japanese squash like tetsukabuto kabocha black futsu and others can wait to see the crosses

Cucamelon like it hot? Melons? Sweetcorn for sure? Some summer squash? Rosemary? Any other suggestions for heat loving plants ?…!

What a top way to repurpose/upcycle! Maybe asparagus pea to follow the sweet pea? Cheers :)

G'day Randy, I appreciate the feedback, and I'm glad you have accepted the challenge of growing in your harsh climate. I imagine the satisfaction you get from working out how and what to grow and then being successful would be great. Cheers :)

I grew those in central Texas and they loved the heat and humidity. They were also hard as wood, so I didn’t eat them. Maybe like okra, I should’ve picked them small?

G'day Rina, thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, I love that quote, "Life finds a way." Lol, it's one of my fav movies, and it's so true... 👍🙂

@@Selfsufficientme It still holds the record for the movie I saw most on the big screen-- 11 times lol. Ah, I miss dollar theaters.

After looking up asparagus peas I found that they should be eaten when only about an inch long and that they aren't particularly tasty. Cardboard-like was mentioned. How do you eat them Mark?