I think David the Good may be a little bit excited about landrace gardening. 
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This is awesome! 
I revised the timestamp to roughly where David starts talking about landrace gardening - - it seems to have been previously stamped midway through the video where he was talking about planting in flats.
If this was a mistake please change it back 
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Youtube gave me his video where he started a corn landrace and said something like āJoseph Lofthouse said it was okā-- did he ever do a follow-up video on how that turned out?
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Hereās the original one, if anyone wants to watch his evolution:
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That is a clickbait title if I ever saw one. This guy understands how YouTube works.
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Heās all clickbait, but it was the pull quote that got me.
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I havenāt had a chance to watch it, but this video is generating a lot of youtube views and comments on our channel, and course sign up I assume from this. In case anybody wants to respond to youtube comments on our behalf, let me know! I canāt get to them all.
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Oh, thank you for revising the timestamp! I didnāt notice I had copied it with a timestamp. I intended to just post the video. (Wry grin.)
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I know! I find this clickbait approach hilarious. At first I thought he was playing it straight, and I was kind of annoyed at his titles. Then I realized heās parodying clickbait titles, which makes it hilarious.
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Him saying, āDonāt worry. Joseph Lofthouse said it was okay.ā cracked me up.
And that impish grin on his face at 6:21! I laughed so hard.
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It took me a bit to come around to David the hood, but once I understood his humor better he got the āold subscribe. Seems like he moved again, so continuity takes a hit, but such is life.
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It took me a bit of time to get used to his humor, too. From the start, I found him funny, but kind of shocking ā some of the jokes he makes made me uncomfortable. (Saying āCompost your enemies,ā for instance ā the shock value is what makes it funny, yet itās horrifying if you take it seriously. Or his song about burying the tax man in his yard!)
But the more I watched, the more I could see that the shock value was purely because thatās his sense of humor, and thereās no malice. In fact, itās clear once youāve watched him a bit that heās a nice person. Once I understood his personality better (which really didnāt take that long), there was no problem, and now I find him a hoot.
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I found a couple more videos from Dave the Good on the subject. Folks on this forum probably already have enough of a background that these will be more inspirational than informational, but you never knowā¦
His son is landracing watermelons. (Landrace gardening isnāt just for grown ups!)
Hereās another one where he talks about it. The landrace portion starts at around the 8:30 mark (the link should be cued up) and most of it is over the next thirty minutes, but some of the back and forth with the online chatters at the end is relevant too. He tends to meander a bit more than in his other videos, though, since itās a stream.
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Funny guy! But whereās the result vidĆ©o?
I crinched for another reason.
If a variety works, plant at least half of that one.
For me newcomer seed varieties making it into seed bearers, one in three. Max. And i live in a gentle climate.
If that is the same for him, his harvest will have been very mƩdiocre. Which is not a very good look in this prestige driven society. So not good for landracing as a whole.
Joseph clearly speaks of differing approaches. Go crazy wild like David or go gently.
Iād go one in three maxā¦ One winner, one newcomer, one winner, repeat till field is full. Probably space a bit closer than normally to make up for inĆ©vitable losses.
Thatās probably an excellent approach for someone who likes to move slowly and carefully.
For me, I have a tendency to like being messy and just seeing what happens, so . . . (laugh). I totally related to his approach.
Honestly, David the Good has been gardening for so long that he probably already knows which varieties work best for him. Heās also been saving seeds for an awfully long time. So I wouldnāt be in the least bit surprised if half of what he threw into those mixes was seeds heād saved himself and/or varieties he knew from experience would work.
In any case, I wouldnāt worry about the results in year one not looking amazing. The results in year one rarely do, right? Year three is the magical year. Patience applies, and so does humility. It may take three years for the results to speak for themselves, but I imagine they will as soon as theyāre ready to.
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HĆØre it is, eight minutes in! Great result i would say! I was wrong.
They moved house as well. Iād hate to move that whole garden.
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