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Episode-2669- 12 Really Cool Plants Inspired by Joseph Simcox

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Joseph Simcox was awesome on yesterday’s show and after talking to him I looked up more of his stuff.  I found this amazing 3 part garden tour on YouTube and listened to all of it and selected 12 plants inspired by it for today’s show.

This stuff is right up my alley and I know it is for many of you.  While you have heard me talk about some of these before many of them are brand new to TSP for sure.  Finding a new plant that provides food, fiber, medicine, etc. is like finding a new gem.  In many ways is it better.  If I buy a gem, I have a gem, if I buy a pack of seeds I can create hundreds or even thousands more seeds.

I now have some new food or other resource in my life and I can always create more of it.  Ron Finely of CA who is an original gansta guerrilla gardener, is famous for saying “growing your own food is like printing your own money”. I agree and will add, finding a new plant that is easy to grow, pest resistant, tastes amazing and produces like crazy is like trading in your 5 dollar engraved plates for 20s.

Each plant on the list has a link, some are for seed sources and others just a starting point to learn more based on what I could find. Oh and one of today’s plants is growing in my garden right now and is featured in this video I did today.

Join Me Today to Discuss…

  • Quote of the Day – “Growing your own food is like printing your own money”.  ~ Ron Finley
  • The incredible value you get from finding just a few new plants every year
  • The 12 Plants for Today’s Show
      1. Papalo – A Heat Loving Cilantro Alternative (link for info) (seed)
      2. Red Bangladesh Amaranth  – (seed and info)
      3. Lettuce Leaf Basil – (seeds)
      4. Achocha – (seed) (information) (more info)
      5. Tomato Leaves – yea really, no they are not toxic (link for info)
      6. Woodland Sunflower (cousin to Jerusalem artichoke) (info) (seed) note not sure this is seed for the right plant
      7. Egusi – (info)
      8. Desi Summer Squash – (seeds) (info-video)
      9. Dwarf Papaya – I don’t have a seed source I trust yet.
      10. Iban Eggplant – (info) Can’t find a seed source, might also be called Terung Eggplant, not sure.
      11. Luo Han Guo – Also called monk fruit (info) no trusted seed source yet
      12. Tooth Ache Plant (live plant) (seeds) (info)
  • The reason I love stuff like this, I am 50 and can likely learn about a new plant every day for the rest of my life

 

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Episode-2669- 12 Really Cool Plants Inspired by Joseph Simcox — 3 Comments

  1. Egusi seems to be a seed crop. I mean the fruit is raised for a “seed food”. Acording to the book Egusi tastes terrible but it’s the seeds everyone eats. https://www.nap.edu/read/11763/chapter/10 

    Small exerpt:
    WHAT IS EGUSI?

    In this chapter egusi is presented primarily as the seed of one species, Citrullus lanatus, a type of watermelon. That species is indeed very popular, thanks to its productivity and food quality. But in reality, the situation is confused because the name egusi is applied generally to any of several similar looking seeds. All these seeds come from cucurbit species (family Cucurbitaceae) and all have high oil and protein contents. In some West African countries the main egusi crop may be Cucumeropsis mannii (Cucumeropsis edulis). Seed of the gourds Lagenaria sicceraria and Telfairia occidentalis are also consumed as egusi. All are…

  2. Fascinating episode! Please have Joseph on again! I’d love to have some featured episodes that focus on growing on homesteads in various parts of the country/climates.

  3. Great episode.

    I really enjoyed Steve Winwood back in the ’80’s and know the song Freedom Overspill, but it never sounded like the song at the end of this episode.  Sounds like a remix by a DJ.

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