Come Produce Shopping with us in our Backyard Garden

Harvesting Homegrown Goodness | Backyard Garden Vlog 🍆🍅🌿

Come along as we harvest from our small backyard garden — eggplants, long beans, green beans, apples, squash, tomatoes, and figs! All of these were grown with love, patience, and a little bit of trial and error.

What You’ll See in This Video:
How I assess ripeness (for grapes, squashes, figs, etc.)
My harvesting techniques and tools
A peek at what I’ll do with today’s haul (linked to cooking videos)

Bonus Tip:
Always pick in the early morning or later in the evening when it’s cooler — it helps produce stay crisp and stores better. These were picked in the morning in August 2025

If you’re growing your own veggies or fruits (or thinking of starting), I hope this inspires you 🌱
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Hey everyone. I know a lot of people work from home, but we do our grocery shopping from home. So, let’s go grocery shopping in our backyard. Okay. Our supermarket only has a produce section. What do we What are we grabbing here? Chilies. Chilies. Oh, there’s a long, huh? Yeah. And then some uh eggplant. Oo, look at that. Purples. I’m going to make Thai curry. Chicken curry. They look skinny. Yeah, that’s just a variety. What type of eggplant is this? I think it’s uh Thai or Japanese eggplant, right? It’s not the uh It’s Japanese eggplant. Not the traditional the big ones, right? Look at that. Look at that beautiful color. That’s good. Purple. Yeah, it is a yard long. It’s as long as you your body at least. Wow, look at that. There’s more. Oh, he grew this. You can eat the leaf also. The leaf is very uh smooth and soft unlike other beans. My goodness. Look at this. In fact, if I come along this side, look at this, man. This is so long. That is long. Well, you have to help me hunt for them because they tend to it’s kind of hidden in the foliage. Look at this. Oh, yeah. These are ready. Okay, let’s see your your haul of the long beans. Already eating them. It’s good. I like them raw. They’re good, right? You can make it. Put in salad, stir salad, stir fry, soup. No tools needed. No tools needed. Grocery shopping. Produce shopping basically. Yeah. Farmers market. Blue light specials right here. Everything’s on sale. Everything’s on sale. But I will complain that the workers, they’re not fair paid here. They’re not paid at all. Exactly. It’s very tasty. Very yellow inside. The skin is very hard, but it’s quite tasty. So, I’m going to harvest these and probably start cutting these so we can throw them in a com. Kabuja squash is not that big, but it’s time to harvest them. Let’s see. Oh, you got I got another one there. Oh, look at all the cobwebs. That’s why I’m wearing long sleeve. I’m going to harvest this. This is kabucha squash. I love them. It’s so good. Quite tasty. So, three of them. We harvest three squash. We have lots of apples. Yeah. I want to cut this branch. So, in fact, look at this branch. It’s almost down to the ground. So we should harvest this so we can cut this. Yeah, we got to cut this bread. We should wait till fall, right? Yeah. A few minutes of plucking apples. And now Oh my god, it’s heavy. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Holy. Look at this. How much do you think it is? This is probably 5 lb. Yeah. We’re going to make I would say kadu with ground beef. Yep. This you can make probably two kadu dishes. Yeah. Right. It’s a lot. Good job, honey. This is the bitter eggplant. Right. Very popular in Southeast Asian cuisine. I love them. We just actually made some right when I when we cook the pork and herbs. We steamed them. We steamed these. Or you can eat them raw with a dipping sauce. They are with a hot with a hot uh dipping sauce or you can stir fry them like uh Indian style subji with curry. I’m going to harvest some of these. I’m going to show one close up. Yep. Let’s try one of the smaller ones on the bottom and see how they’re doing. This one? Yeah. If there if those I think they’re very I don’t think those are quite soft. Try it. Yeah, they’re soft. I think the bottom ones are ready. M. That’s good. Should we harvest it? Let’s cut this one. Yeah, let’s harvest it. It just looks so nice. So pretty. It’s like when you see a picture of grapes. Look at that. My first grape. That’s When you think of grapes, like that’s exactly what you think of. Let me eat. You’re like a Roman. Ancient Roman. It’s good. All right. Okay. Tomato harvest time. Cherry tomatoes. These are You just pluck them when they’re good in orange, right? Yeah. And they’re very sweet and soft, right? I just love eating them. Yep. With basil and mozzarella. You and the girls definitely love me and Izzy. And Izzy. Yeah. Izzy loves them. And these I didn’t plant them. Volunteer. They keep coming every year. Well, that’s that’s the thing, right? We learned gardening is a lot of them if you just kind of leave them alone. Yeah. Even if you forget them, as long as they’re alive, the next season they tend to come back, right? Look at this. You can do your weightlifting here. This is why my wife needs the laborer. This thing is heavy. Full of apples and squash. Even this one. We’ve run out of baskets. We haven’t even plucked any figs yet. Yep. We have more plucking to do. Okay. Vong is going to harvest some of our purple figs. That’s how you know they’re soft. These are ready. Yep. Nice and purple. Purple fig. Mission fig. They should pull right off. Yep. Right. They pull off. That’s definitely ready. Sweet. Yummy. Just have to wear long sleeve because the the sap the sap will you get allergy. They’re very itchy, right? I feel very itchy if I don’t wear long sleeve. Long sleeve, long pants, even gloves potentially. Probably. Yeah. Sometime I try to climb the tree. We will probably need a taller ladder. We’re going to have to cut this tree a lot so we can access it. And apparently the fruit grows on new growth. Oh, I see one. Where? Right in there. See it? Me zoom in. Oh, yeah. This one? Yeah, I think that one’s ready. Yeah. Yeah, they come off easily. See, they have milk milky sap. Yep. That people get allergic reaction to it. Wow. Look at this. Was about a half hour’s worth of shopping. Yep. I’ll let my lovely wife explain and show you what everything is. This is the squash. The trombini. Troachini squash. Yeah. Very big. Yep. And Oh, it’s heavy. I have to use two hand. And the grapes. Our first. That was This is our first real harvest of these grapes. Yeah. First time we harvested grapes. The green beans. Look at this. I have to harvest this every few days. Yeah. That’s a lot. Same thing with the long beans. The tomatoes also every few days. Fake. We This are first harvest, but we have a lot in the tree. Yeah. There’s a lot of green ones that are going to take a week. Yeah. And I harvest these every few days also. I just freeze them in the freezer. That’s the bitter bitter eggplant. Bitter eggplant. Very popular with Southeast Asian cuisine. This one I harvested not too often because I only have three plants. Yeah. Yeah. That’s a papino melon which we already ate like five because it’s so good. Yeah. Uh but this is very good right for half an hour of harvest. Don’t forget to like and subscribe. Grow your own fruit and veggies. Only thing easier than growing your own fruit and veggies is liking and subscribing our videos. Good.