What's up everyone? Welcome back to our final episode with Kevin 40 of Giant Veg. So we've talked

a lot this whole week about the history of giant vegetables, how to prepare your soil, maintain your garden, and then how to grow a couple specific plants, you know, cabbages, peppers, carrots, and cucumbers.

Now we're going to talk about saving seeds from really any plant but also how Kevin saves his giant

vegetable seeds.

But before we get into that Kevin, I think one thing that we may not have mentioned is if you're really trying to grow an absolutely massive version of a particular plant, how important it is to start off with the right genetic potential, the right seed.

So one question that we definitely got was, can you just grow any plant to a giant veg status,

any old seed.

I think what you need to do is start off with the right seed.

And for us, you need to have seed with genetic potential not

generally modified but they have the genetics within the seed structure to grow

giant and some of these seeds have been developed

over 20, 30 years. So without like a cabbage for example you couldn't really grow an ordinary cabbage giant you need specific seeds

to enable them to go giant and I know on your Instagram page there was some guys there in Alaska

talking about cabbages and in Alaska they have

daylight you know constantly for 24 hours over a couple of months so they do grow they

do go giant cabbages there and I know Scott Rob in Alaska holds the world's largest cabbage record.

I don't know how heavy, I can't remember heavy is it over 130 odd pounds, but it's quite impressive.

In terms of seed saving my dad developed some

techniques which could potentially be transferable from giant vegetables to

ordinary vegetables so some of their listeners could learn some tips from these.

So what my dad taught us is how to save clones from plants.

So you would for a beetroot for example a giant beetroot we would take a clone from the plant so basically just like a slice of the beetroot from where the leaf was coming up.

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