WOW – that’s a word which appears countless times in this video!
I decided to ditch the plot todo list and see just what was ready to harvest in the kitchen garden / home allotment.
I was more than a little surprised at the results. Watch me as I take you on a tour around the plot and the polytunnel as I harvest carrots, peas, cucumbers and my very first EVER polytunnel tomato (Black Beauty).
I also decide I to harvest from the greenhouse and some potatoes, both those potatoes grown in buckets and those grass mulched potatoes I planted in early spring. Remember those? Let’s see how they turned out too. Do you think, like I did, that they’d be mostly slugged?
Vegetable Gardening, growing your own food is such a joy. It doesn’t matter how big or how small your growing space is, being able to harvest something you’ve grown yourself from seed is priceless! Absolute joy.
Thanks for following my journey and for keeping me motivated in the garden.
This video is one of my favourites. It brought so many smiles to my face, just editing it.
What are you harvesting from your growing space this July? Let me know in the comments. Share your successes, let’s celebrate them together.
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Wonderful harvest, Clare. The marketmore is ready to pick now. If you wait any longer it would be gone over. Marketmore has to be picket green. Love your carrots. The purple ones look amazing. Your peppers are just 😍😍
I follow a german garden You Tuber and he grows his potatoes under grass cuttings ( he got a huge allotment) and he gets the best results out of it. He got 36 kg out of a 1.5m × 5m bed last year ❤
Congrats Clare, great harvest! Had my first cat faced Tomato on a Rebel Starfighter Prime, I am thrilled with it too😂. Loved your reaction to the spud harvest. 🤭
Now this is what we work for all through pests and weather and sore backs 🎉🎉 it’s the harvests. You have done a simply amazing job Clare you’d think you’d been doing it for years 👍👍. Great idea on keeping seed from things they will be acclimated to your growing conditions then. Your thinning while harvesting too 🥕so it’s all a good thing. See that’s what long time gardeners can lose sometimes is that simply gob smacked awe at their harvests ❤. WOW tomatoes 🍅 look spectacular. I have a plant with tons of leaf curl but 😂😂 it has one flower truss so I’m giving it a chance.
You’re gonna need a bigger basket I said at the same time 🤭. Have a simply awesome day, Sir Duncan of the Shorts will be eating well this week, Ali 🌤️🇨🇦
Well Done🎉 brilliant harvest. 😊😊
Oh Clare, this video was pure joy! The peppers looked amazing. Had to do a happy dance while you harvested the potatoes. Wonderful. ❤
Hi was fun and looking in on your harvest .great job on your garden .love all the flowers .you always have to plant extra for the animals and birds .
So fun to watch you harvest these amazing crops.
Well done Clare. I don’t think I’ve seen a more bountiful harvest as this. You should be so proud of yourself. X
Oh.. cucumber/onion creamy dill salad – or refrigerator pickles.. YUM
Excellent result 🎉 well done
You should be really proud of that harvest after all the dedication you've given to that garden this year. Danny 🌱
Brilliant harvest Clare, Farmyard shop will be the next step 😅
Amazing harvest 😍
Thought there were going to cry tears of joy a few times! Very impressive harvest. Buon appetito 😊
Ground cherries rarely make it passed garden snack stage here.
I bet jam would be good.
LOL you couldn't stop digging potatoes……having so much fun.
I love your excitement. It's so fun to see! ❤. I too would have expected the hay covered potatoes to be eaten. I pulled a lot of my potatoes fairly early, so I had some very small too but the plants were dying and attracting even more slugs. Like you, I think small potatoes are just fine in salad. This is my 3rd year growing potatoes and the first year I've seen slugs eating the leaves! My Belanas from the beds were big like your Charlottes, the ones in the big bag 'pots' were also smaller. Maybe they struggle more for water in the pots? Because they are black and heat up more? (Though this year…. With all this rain…)
Envious of the peppers – none of mine are ready yet. Later start and SLUGS!
I never got much fruit on cape gooseberries in the first year. When I cut them back and overwinter them in the house, then they usually get off to a great start much earlier. I've had them all outdoors (we get it warmer here) but this year hasn't been good for anyone. Next year I'll definitely put one in the greenhouse!
Such a cheerful video to start my day with. Thanks for taking us along, and look forward to many more good harvests yet to come!
Well well well Clare. What a bountiful harvest! And proving me wrong with the potatoes!! 😂 Altho you prob have less slug pressure than me. My woodchip first early potatoes have been ok – like you it was the foliage that got more slugged than the potatoes (it was the other way around last year when i did them in the ground). Haven't lifted the charlotte yet and the foliage on those looks better, so will see… I can't get over those peppers tho!!! Lovely words at the end too – the harvests definitely make it all worthwhile ❤
Still no sweetcorn. But, we have a tomato. The potatoes 🥔 look good. Great harvest. Well done. But, what does Duncan think?😉😂❤️🥂
Amazing harvest Clare, well done. 👍😊
Incredible harvests!!Your joy is so infectious! 😃
With all the cooler weather the carrots and peas have done better here than ever.
Claire I’m loving following your vlogs you started with your veg patch the same time as me my space is a lot smaller, never the less I love it
It’s great I can relate to your crops and mine the same time keep up the good work!
When are you sowing seeds again for winter crops 😊
Fabulous potato experiment Claire…you needed an alone moment there ❤😂
👏👏 delighted and you’ve done it all 😊 doesn’t it make you smile
carrot joy!! haha isn't it fantastic 😄 i'll be looking for the purple king seeds – they look amazing!
The peas look so tall! Mine didn't get knee high 😢
Well done on that harvest Clare! 😍🫶🏽
I need to trim the leaves on mine this week, just been soooo hot in there 😅
Many many congrats on your veg growing success…a bountiful harvest after all your hard work😀😀😀Jinxy
Wow! Your Alderman peas are prolific and far larger than mine, I think I needed better support looking at yours. What an absolutely beautiful harvest and so lovely to see the joy it brought to you, well done Clare! 🥕🌿🍅🥒🍈🧄 🫑🥔
What a stunning harvest! Absolutely thrilled for you. Your joy warms the heart!
Had our best harvests of garden potatoes under our own hay years ago. And would do it again now if I could be assured the hay was early first cut (seedless) and not sprayed with herbicide. Unfortunately, where we can get hay is from a commercial hay farmer who sprays and sells to merchants. Everywhere else can’t give us a guarantee because they buy off hay merchants and aren’t given details. I wish we could use hay again; it also greatly improves soil quality.
On your peas…. We pick slightly less mature when the pods are still looking fresh. We blanch and freeze the peas as we pick because we don’t have the time to pod huge harvests at a time. Anyway, we also cut off the stems off the empty pods and cut handfuls into, approximately, quarters with a large chopping knife and boil them in stock (water and a chicken stock cube) and a thinly sliced potato and a handful of frozen or fresh peas, a small squeeze of lemon and S&P. Meanwhile, slice a shallot and soften in butter gently. Tip that into the pods and simmer for another 15-20 minutes. Liquidise the lot with a handful of fresh mint. Then mouli or press the liquidised mixture through a sieve (best done when still hot/warm). This leaves behind the pod strings. Chill in a glass jar and serve cold (delicious on a hot day) or hot. Chilled Pea pod soup, vichyssoise and gazpacho (the latter with extra fresh cucumber if you have it 😉) are our most favourite homemade chilled summer soups. I could down a pint every morning!
We had a small harvest from our tubs , but the ones planted in the garden were magnificent like yours 🤗🤗🤗
It’s my first time growing garlic, and ended up digging down to the bulb with my hands, then getting under them and lifting the whole thing up. Very fun to see the size of them (bigger than expected), and planning to plant them earlier this year. Planted after two nights of freezing last year, so wasn’t sure they would do anything at all. But boy, did they!
Hoping to become selfsufficient in garlic next year!
Just found your channel, love it. Great advice and easy to follow how to grow. Thank you ..
Beautiful garden, amazing harvest and the last sets of potatoes wow. New friend here.
Absolutely amazing results, Clare 🎉🎉🎉 Well done! As you said, those peppers 🌶 were perfect 👌 and all of the rest of them, too
So many cucumbers and potatoes 🥔 😋
You should be so proud of your achievements 💚🌿
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Very nice garden. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey
Well done Claire 👏!!!
I know the joy of harvesting our own producers and being impressed by what we are able to grow once we decide to try to do it.
I just pray and hope that more people are willing to have a go at it.
Beautiful! Gooseberry jam is very yummy on toast. Very impressed with your harvest and garden 🙂
Thats what its all about Claire, enjoying the rewards from all of your hard work 😊 evrrything looks great 👍 ps love your intro ❤️
The excitement 😂 you’ve done amazing ❤
Beautiful garden, nice to meet and connect with you. Wishing you good health and success ❤
The trick to get a decent potato harvest from containers is appropriate and consistent watering.
Even in a wet spring I regularly water my bucket grown spuds.
As someone who all year round could fill a basket with produce, the secret is good succession planting, winter here have from store onions, pumpkins, 3 types of garlic, can dig potatoes, yams, carrots, parsnips and leeks, can cut chard, spinach 3 different types, 3 different lettuces, cabbage, broccoli 2 varieties. We have had very few frosts and haven't dug the potatoes. From freezer corn and tomatoes.
Loving your positive energy.