This is Weed and this is Wack with WOWDY Gardens. We’re an organic gardening show focusing on doing it yourself in the garden and a lot of times that means Venturing out into your local farmers market or a place where there is produce that is sold Asking asking to find out to make sure it’s grown organically and then trying a bunch of new stuff and I was telling
weed a minute ago here that I we’ve gone to the Tacoma farmers market I went out the other day a couple weeks ago, and I saw a couple new types of squash and I bought one Called honey nut and this is a miniature butternut squash. It’s only about the size shaped like an hourglass It’s only about I’d say six inches long and maybe three or four inches wide Just like an hourglass. So I bought four of them cut them brought them home
Cut them in half took the seeds out to save the seeds and then bake them up and boy They were delicious. They’re just the most tasty little squash. I’ve ever had so I wanted to make sure I Grow I want to I’m basically I’m gonna try and grow these next year So then the next week I went back to the farmers market went back to the same stand or I thought it was the same stand and I said boy I don’t see any more of these Honey Nut squash and the guy said to me what we’ve never had bows
I thought I was in the twilight zone because I was sure I was in the same stand So anyway, I bought two other squash one was a called butterkin Which is like Which like a big crust between a butternut and a pumpkin and the other was a blue winter sweet squash and took them home cut them up saved the seeds baked them tried them both and Found that I didn’t really like them all that
much So I ended up throwing those seeds out. There’s no point in saving seeds of plants that I’m not intending to eat I would that was a rule I made a long time ago only grow only grow what I’m gonna eat and That narrows things down. I end up running out of space anyway, so So I encourage you to go to your local market pick out of interesting looking fruit Because it’s most likely grown locally so you will be able to grow it in your own
Yard and then cut it up save those seeds let them dry really well put them on a paper plate someplace let them dry really well and put them in a paper bag and Next year plant those seeds absolutely and this doesn’t only apply to our our Tacoma Park Farmers Market anytime you’re traveling and hit a hit a farmers market say, you know and yeah anywhere anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, you know It could be an heirloom variety save a seed or two, you know
Or ask if it’s an heirloom when I’m out and about in visiting strange towns I like to walk around and check out everyone’s gardens and And if the gardeners out there, they’re always willing to chat and you know what possibly give you some seeds exactly That has happened to me
And you stop to chat next thing, you know, you have some bulbs that’s been in their family forever, right? And they’re now they’re spreading to my backyard. So So yeah, go to your farmers market try your favorite thing my favorite thing recently was a melon And I don’t remember the name of it, but I planted the seed unfortunately I didn’t nurse it well enough and it got taken over by as we mentioned earlier green beans out maneuvered it for sunlight so
That that was that but I I’m definitely gonna experiment with that melon again if The next sweet tasting it was like an oranges It was sort of a cross between one of those Japanese melons And a cantaloupe and it was it was just it was it was a cool weird cross and I deserves its own space. Yeah, so I’m gonna look for that variety again and and They like you say all kinds of crazy squashes you can get nowadays
I was at a farmer’s market up in Brooklyn and I saw some weird shit Not that I want to grow any but they were like some artists had sculpted some of these squashes. They weren’t you know like charm on scene Yeah, it was just unbelievable and some of the the Christmas like cauliflower’s you know with all you know that the farmers are grounds just some really cool stuff I don’t know how you propagate cauliflower. You couldn’t do that now from that new seeds, but you need something with seeds. Yeah
So folks go and experiment. Oh, hey, hey, yeah experiment. I take that back You don’t need only seeds take a clipping. You know if you buy some delicious a Mentor parsley or something like that at the out of stem and put it in water still green and there’s a stamp put it in water It might root. Okay. I wanted that cut the stem then put it in water might root Okay, folks, I’m dig on rooting things absolutely
For you We’re rooting for you. We’re rooting for you. All right. This is weed and this is whack. Join us next week. We’ll be back