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The scientific procedure that you are talking about is called 'transgenic'. And by definition it implies that a gene from one species is added to the sequence of another species. If it is a frog and tomato or bacteria and corn is wholly irrelevant because what is occurring would never occur in...

So the sales pitch is that all of the plants grown there are direct lines from the original varieties that were grown by Wormley Hughes and Thomas Jefferson. Researchers 'rediscovered' seed and plants that Jefferson had given to others. In the case of the perennials from what I gather they are...

I posted a video on my YouTube channel on the topic of Seakale for those of you interested. I'll be adding videos on this topic throughout the season so if you are interested in this plant species please subscribe to the YouTube page so you get notified when new videos come out. Feel free to...

That is awesome.

Right. So you need to take a little time and get the design right first if you aren't going back to those spots to tend that plants. Typically the design for that bed would be a Huglekultur bed. And really you could build a small mounded bed to meet the needs of your squash without having to do...

If it were surrounded by other squash in the same family it wouldn't work. But this plant isn't surrounded by competition, it is surrounded by cooperation and therefore it succeeds. Many gardeners don't understand that competition doesn't exist in the way they believe to be true. An example...

So back to this. Here is an example of a productive food crop surrounded by weeds, that wasn't watered, and wasn't fertilized during the season.

You are right, I clearly shouldn't have done that. I am also not willing to cover it up by editing it out.

Wow that's a pretty closed minded thing to say.

No one actually has to come into the topic.

And yet the picture above still shows productive, healthy plants regardless of your years of experience and the suggestions of your people. So where does that leave us? Clearly something is working for those plants in the picture. It is hard to deny that isn't it? I haven't said that the...

Understanding has led me to Laziness

Knowledge has led me to laziness.

I am clearly not talking about being farmer, I am talking about being a home gardener - why is this so difficult to understand? If we were talking about about farming I would be having a different discussion, be are not. That isn't the point of this topic.

I fail to see what any of your questions have to do with my picture or comments. But I'l indulge you - That is a picture of three plants. Those three plants produced about 50 nice sized Delacata Squash with no material cost other than three seeds. As for the rest of the questions I'm not talking...

No static ecosystems in nature. I define a static ecosystem as a single use system kept at specific point of succession by herbicide, fungcide, and so forth. So only growing tomatoes over a large area for a period of time. It is kept static through the use of chemicals that kill off everything...

I found a picture! Here are three Delicata squash I grew with no sprays, fertilizer, water, or anything else in the middle of a field that was never mowed during the season. These plants produced 50 or so Delicata squash while I forgot they existed. I built a huglekulter bed out of whatever I...

And I suppose to answer this question we need to look at a couple things; A plants shape, both above the ground and below which nutrients and chemicals are created by a plants leaf fall and roots respectively. Understanding a plants niche and specifically requirements for continued growth...

A couple questions worth asking are... Given climate change are the current ecosystems worth saving if we can expect them to be unable to regulate themselves in the decades to come? (I have no opinion on this currently but it is a valid question.) Native to when? Stable ecosystems should...