It is harvest season! It’s always so amazing to be able to bring in baskets of homegrown nutritious produce from the garden on a daily basis. We have put in so much hard work in growing and caring for our vegetable gardens and our reward is being able to harvest and enjoy our produce. However, there are a few simple ways for you to get more from your harvesting efforts, which are covered in this video.
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leaves from beets and kohl rhabi are surprisingly good. also just tried radish seed pods for the first time this year and they were great.
I love your Welsh accent. And thank you for the tips!
Thank you for this information 🙂
Always enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Great vids Huw – think “respiration” is the entire process – did you mean water loss through “transpiration”? Certainly agree crops more turgid and “plumped-up” earlier in the day. It’s also good to start the day knowing you have dinner sorted! Thank you for all your hard efforts – you really motivate us all!
Thank you Huw, definitely seed saving.
You can also fry your zucchini flowers. They are delicious!
Thank you for the video! I’m saving seeds from a carrot top that I got for free. I planted it solely to let it go to seed, since that’s the natural inclination of carrot family, one year for root, one year for seed. So I’m watching carefully for the seeds to ripen and brown up. I’ll be trying carrots from seeds next year. Then I’m thinking of keeping any good producer, or good tasting careot, or anything really early producing, or heat hardy or cold hardy, go to seed and then growing from that. Trying a selective breeding approach. Could be really fun to try it and see how it works.
I freeze green coriander seeds for stir frying. In my personal experience they keep their quality for at least a year.
Hi Huw, New to gardening can you tell me where i can find out what zone i'm in (denbighshire North Wales
Saving seeds could be really easy depending on the crop. I saved my first seeds this year (bok choy) , I don't know if they will germinate next year but it was still really easy!
Hi Huw,, love all the tips,, did you mean to say ‘transpiration’ at the beginning of your video which is the loss of water through their leaves instead of respiration which creates water ?
Best wishes, Lisa
Leaning a lot from your video. Thank you for your tips
This is an excellent video- love the list of ways to use other parts of the vegetables. Thank you!
Can i use my urine as a natural fertilizer?
you can make a nice pesto from carrot tops with olive oil, garlic and parmesan.
Great video! I did not know you can eat tops of broad beans, great to meet you this afternoon also, cheers 🙂
Bean tops – do you use them as fresh greens or cooked, or both? And then is it only the edible pod type of bean? (not beans you would dry, like pinto or lima)
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Hello Huw, I have been binge watching your videos. they are fantastic! It would be really helpful to know which vegetables can be left in the garden till required….you mentioned beetroot and parsnips, and obviously sunchokes and globe artichokes but what else can be left alone. Is this in either of your books? I have purchased both by the way 🙂
Hi Huw, I have just dug my front garden its only about 13ftx12 on a main road, (black soil welsh valleys) I want to put in raised beds im thinking four 4ftx4ft, the trouble is I want to grow runner beans and rather than the traditional long strip I want to try and do them in one of the 4×4 beds, is this doable? or should i just go with a raised bed strip?
Fried mooli radish like Daikon is good for making a bacon like sandwich seasoned with soy sauce and even salt dried if you want it more crispy