It’s great! My shed has been completed and it turned out nice looking and sturdy and it is way better than the sheds that many of my neighbors had put up. Of course, I'm pleased with the outcome and this Ryan’s ru-vid.comUgkxGZedDTcDfgD7fG_uU4esfx_EgxzlY2_1 Plans was extremely useful to me as a guide.
Our cats are currently bringing in mice roughly twice a day and rabbits every other day! Considering they were rescue kittens from a pretty awful situation i think they are very happy indeed! (We have also had dragonflys and a duckling brought in as presents, dragonfly flew off once revived with some water , and the duckling totally unharmed, despite its 200 yard journey from the farm lagoon to the house and in through the cat flap which is in a window 3 foot off the floor, was happily returned to its mum!)
Put tomatoes in a box with plenty air holes. Sort every couple of days. They will ripen in boxes. My brother picked all green tomatoes on outside and still 180 plants in green house. You are a great builder and love watching your builds. I live in Colorado in USA
A basket isn't great, he's thinking of a fruitbox. I managed to convince a restaurant owner to give me some collapsible plastic crates, that's what I ripen the rest of them in.
@@artfx9 baskets are traditionally woven with wood or are tightly weaved together; even thought permit air to pass: are fairly restrictive to airflow. The only exception I can think of is a laundry basket. I wouldn't refer to putting them in baskets, or else they'll likely get moldy. I would say a "fruit box with large holes", or a "plastic crates" and not a "basket". No different then telling someone to use a lightbulb to start seeds indoors: you'd mention a specific light bulb, not just "a light bulb"; a light bulb could be a 5W incandescent which won't so anything. Same goes for basket 🧺 ☺️
Fab video ,just shows us what we can do and if the authorities adopted these principles and turned public areas , into growing food ,really inspiring thanks 👍🏻
You can remove the lower leaves on the aubergines to make harvesting easier, all the curling leaves too. Tomatoes need sun to ripen, even on the plants. Thin out a lot of those leaves and remove all of the lower leaves exposing at least the bottom third of the plant. Charles Dowding’s vids of his greenhouse this and last year are good examples. Um, garlic are heavy feeders so if you put compost on anywhere that bed could use at least 1/2”. A few questions… Will you be putting in any broad beans/broccoli/cabbages for overwintering? We’re in 8b and they all do fantastic over the winter. (Autumn planted Brussel sprouts do have to stay the entire summer before they produce but we love them.) Will you be overwintering the peppers? (They are perennials.) Do you feed the apple pulp to the chickens? A real treat for them!
You can make juice with the cucumbers (peeled), it’s amazing! Mix it up with a bit of juice from strawberries and rhubarb and it tastes EXCACTLY like watermelon!
Dot needed a beach for the apples and you needed a jig for the drill. Protect your backs at every opportunity. Another great update vid and as always you two are exceptional. All the best from Oz.
Great to see another video from ewe. The veg looks great, home grown is defiantly best as they come in all sheeps and sizes. Hopefully the peppers come out well but only time wool tell. Kris is becoming quite a sheep wrangler, ewe herd it here first. Some people in the comments really don't listen, ewe have to ram the point home. Kris makes the best videos on EweTube.
Growing your own sure teaches you humility, always at the mercy of the weather. I find that a poor apple year one year will often mean a bumper crop the next.
pickle cucumbers in a large barrel and then have them all through the fall-winter-spring. boiled or fried potatoes go well with dill pickles. also there are spreads you can make with those. my favorite is tuna or sardines in oil minced then add finely diced pickles, finely diced hard-boiled eggs, and fresh diced onions. mayo can be added as well. vary it a bit by adding fresh minced garlic and/or finely grated soft cheese of you favorite variety. salt and pepper to taste. can be very nice on a slice of freshly baked bread or toast in the morning. give it a try.
Sautéed cucumber is a great side/vegetable with fish etc. Peel, half and remove watery core. Slice around 5mm thick. Fry in a little butter. Handy for the next year's glut 😉
Do you preserve your yields ? … I’m fascinated with a couple from Alaska (Simple living Alaska) who are masters at growing and preserving food for over their long winters … they make lots of sauces etc as well … I know you are busy but you should check them out . Excellent produce this year … loving all your vlogs … 🙏☘️😘
With land like that & a pair of his hands,i am a believer in hazel Forrest would do him the world of go0d,just imaging the hurdles this young man could fling up & meaning he could get rid of his wired fencing,this is only a thought of mine,what ever the young man creates well my hat is of to him & go0d luck to him,so to speak!
Its a lot of work to can your harvest. I kid you not I can quite a bit. Each batch of tomatoes takes 90 mins in a water bath. Depending on your set up and how much you intend to can it can take the whole day to can 40 to 80 quarts then the next day you have to do it all over again except that its 10 quarts and then 10 the next day and so on. You will have very high yield days and the more you grow the more you have to do. I do not know that channel and I doubt I would ever watch it as most of them make it look easy and fast when its not even close to being that. I processed over 1200 lbs of tomatoes this year. Of which took me the better part of the summer along with a lot of other stuff.
@@villain1409 He sure is an amazing young man … he took a leap of faith , got out of the big city and really made such a good life for himself with added bonus of his lovely partner too … I agree get rid of wire fencing in favour of Hawthorne or Hazel ! … 🙏☘️😘
Yes we really do need a good place to store it all, for now it just lives in my man cave but I want that back soon. I just have to much to do at the moment to be starting any new projects.
@@KrisHarbour Awesome harvest...just a side note... a good dehydrator would be worth getting... the bulk foods are shrunk down, so more can be put up with less space taken and easier to store.. every thing you harvested this year would dehydrate down nicely and only take three or four shelves each 3' x 10' .. thats feet btw. lol.... PS, also, you can store in either glass jars or in mylar bags.. you would also need to get a vacuum sealer... they make a jar vacuum sealer attachment for those as well.. if in mylar, with an ox absorber pack, they would store for years in a dark dry place that is critter free.. you have good healthy soil is why your garden produced so much for you.. if your interested in dehydrating, there is a lady here on yt 'OurHalfAcerHomestead' who has very good instructions on how to dehydrate and store foods... =) good luck ..
@@jensage58 I simply have a cardboard box with 2 pieces of mesh, sitting on a wooden frame, over our wood burner, as my dryer. Works fine with harder fruit, leaving a 3 gallon bucket of apples reduced to a quart sized plastic bag.
lol, I once planted a lot of flower bulbs in a large bed and my cat came and helped me. She thought I was digging after stuff so she dug everything out afterwards.
With garlic, I grow the biggest bulbs, and the small ones I peel and puree with a little oil and sea salt. I freeze the puree in silicon bottomed ice cube trays, and then store the lot in a tub. It makes for easy use, and not having to deal with sprouting garlic/no garlic later in the year. I sell any excess (generally the best examples) at £10 a kg, a couple of months after harvest, when dry. I freeze sweetcorn dehusked, chillis as is, and tomatoes go for jarring as passatta. I'd love to process and freeze my spuds, but lack freezer space. All storage is solar powered.
You could also try putting green tomatoes in a brown paper bag, roll the top closed, and put in dark place that doesn't get too warm. Check every few days.
Really enjoyed it Chris and Dot, fantastic yield from your veg garden. The squash will keep months and the cucumbers you may juice or as you say pickle or brine them. Leeks with stay like that through to spring so you will have green food for soups, stir fry and the onion part for onions, they will take you through the hungry gap early next year till spring/summer plants come on. Its more important you use the time for your life together and the work you have to do than producing videos no matter how much us out here enjoy them when it is possible! Well done mateys! I cant what to show my son the cat training in horticulture!
Good to see your getting plenty from the garden. Hope you’re able to preserve plenty to get through till next growing season. Looking good there. You have come a long way from your first start. Have enjoyed you bringing me along on your dreams
Looking good Kris. It's amazing how productive gardens can be. Harnessing the power of nature that most overlook every day. It's literally right under our feet.
Congratulations on your efforts! Squash and corn... just missing beans for your American Three Sisters crop. Also didn't know that Marrow is an over-ripe Zucchini.
Yo Kris, Dot and pus lovely to see the efforts of your labour, your market garden is a win. I know I won’t be the first to suggest this but pickling bro A cucumber is only a cucumber until it becomes a gherkin. Cider vinegar is a win for most things, there are better uses for alcohol than drinking much of what you’ve got you could turn into alcohol with a little still. Keep up the good work, and let me know when the wedding is 👍🏿
Hi Kris, you can pickle the cucumbers and peppers that you cannot use- place unripe tomatoes in with red apples to help turn them red if not make green chutney with them.
Your garden is great but one thing from Missouri you call them grods we call them patty pans and they come in yellow also but we pick them at about 6 inches across then we slice them across the top in 1/4 inch pieces and fry them they are very good that way hope you try this next yr when they are smaller
Kris when are you going to put a door on your greenhouse ? Remove a heap of leave from your greenhouse plants to let the light and any sun get to them. And I hope your heap of squash are the winter storable kind.
Chris keep in mind actually tomato's and cucumbers do well together in holland we call them wet fruits. What we call dry fruits, aubergine, paprika, pepers not go well together in the same space as tomatos and cucumbers. And as you see you pepers now start to grow well now your tomatos and cucumbers came to an end. When you make a seperation in the greengous, with a glass wall of some plastic, and dry fruits and wet fruits are not in clice contact you will see both types do much better and you can harvest dry fruits much earlier.
@@sroberts605 Why, ask mother nature :-) I have three 5x3 meter greenhouses in my garden and most people at our complex have two greenhouses specific for that reason. It is most probably as the bees land on the flowers of the wet fruits and than on the flowers of the dry fruits and back and forward mixing pollen around which the dry fruits not like. Seperating them, or preferably split them into two greenhouses, is stronly reducing the mixing of pollen. And especially cucumber pollen seem to do the harm as when the cucumbers come to an end the paprika will start growing. Regareds, Guus
WOW, great harvest this year. I haven't seen your videos for awhile and I'm SO impressed with your gorgeous greenhouse! Now I have to go back and watch that build series. A greenhouse like that would cost $30k + here in the US...maybe as much as $50k, unless of course you built it yourself. Can't wait to watch that and find out where you got all your glass as well. Beautiful!
If you have a glut of fully ripened cucumber, then put it through a smoothie maker or a juicer, add water, sugar and yeast. Cucumber actually makes for a really tasty, sweet, chilled summer wine. And if you start it now, you will have it in time for next summer.
I love these videos of you and Dot working your property. It just blows my mind that everything has been made with your hard work and dreams. There must be so much satisfaction in reaping your rewards. Congratulations!! Just love it
The garlic can be cooked up in the whole, just with two fingers deep of water in a pot, cut the top off of them and let them get soft as butter..great! Thx for showing us around! :-D
You still have time to plant a row or two of broad beans for a nice early crop if they survive, a little bit of damage will soon be forgotten once the spring growth spurt comes round next year. Super crops this year congratulations, it's hardet than it looks.
You can make ratatouille with marrow, tomatoes and aubergine and peppers, freeze it in margarine containers.mIf you do not like ratatouille , chutney is a good one, I froze whole tomatoes this year and made passatta with peppers onions garlic tomatoes and herbs,in bottled and froze some. Apples you can stew them and freeze or bottle. I love this time of year. My green tomatoes are in a washing up bowl ripening… I cook them up as they go red.
19:30 you should add some separators to that, just some sheet metal or thin plywood to split it up into 3-4 sections to help stuff go in vertically. Love the idea, but maybe also see if you can't rig it up to an old dryer motor or something that isn't as prone to stalling or ripping your arm off!
Absolutely amazing haul from that garden, and you're right to be proud of it. I remember shelves of preserved goods in the cool, damp basement growing up, and it's surprising how much I miss all of that. You're living the dream (well, my dream at least!).
Door on green house or even just throw a Tarp over entry door to keep Day times Heat trapped inside longer, may help continue fruits to rippen - tomato really do not like cold temp at all.. i live in Aus, so we literally don't get green tomato's XD 90% always over 20'celcius 8 month of the year
Cooked cucumber makes a different sort of veg to accompany a meal....worth looking up a recipe online...I'm sure you will find some. Good stuff as always.
You can also make green tomatoes chutney, it's a good way to use up your tomatoes, with it being an old English 🏴 vinegar based recipe. Hope you do make it I haven't eaten it since my Gran last made it when she was about 70 almost 50 years go. That top workshop is really coming on, Kris, you're one heck of a wood work builder, keep it up. 👍
rather than it go to any bin, because you have plenty of compost, you can give any extras or those you think that is too many to a local food bank, old peoples homes, hospitals, sell them at the local sunday market or something and use the money for a good cause. It would bring your names in to the local home grown organic community slowly.
Dot's basket is really beautiful. It looks like a bird's nest; so natural. Week, two weekly video, I don't care. If the quality is the same, I'm happy. Quite astonishing to see how much food you are harvesting from such a small plot. Puts the rest of us to shame, really. I've an acre of poor land. Harvest: nil. I'm 70, but even so...
I had loads of green tomatoes from blighted plants but followed some advice and washed them with a very mild organic washing up liquid solution before leaving them on the windowsill to ripen. Before I washed them, I was throwing ten a day away cos they were brown but after I washed the rest, I must have had at least 90% absolutely fine, about a couple of hundred tomatoes!
I've had to ripen all my tomatoes in the house this year, my potatoes were actually better than last year, harvested enough mirch masala chillies to pickle two jars, same with the beetroot, just finished eating all my pea's (they're too good). Next season I plan to plant 3x the pea's, and more beetroot, I have seedlings just popped up in the house for next year's tomatoes, the seeds came from the harvest. Things are getting better every year. I also enjoyed your video too 😊
I love your channel dude! What you show us and what you do and ACTUALLY achieve is far beyond what some of us could aspire to do. I personally really enjoy your presentation style and your content is really well edited too. Keep up the good work! ✌🏻
Kris Harbour Natural Building: Have you ever thought about, how old people, babushkas alike, live out in the middle of nowhere and pretty much do by. We used to strap a grass sheet cutter to the 4x4 and drag it along to cut a couple of strips for planting potatoes. Potato, NPK, potato, NPK and so on. Then we turned the grass sheet over the potatoes and NPK. Not a lot of effort for huge returns.
Kris, keep those pumpkins in a cool place and they will last up to a year. I still have some butternut from last year, they make great curries or in a Thai stirfry (pad fak tong). With all this food preserving you will have to build an underground fruit/preserve store! Keep up the great videos.
We had a bad garlic season this year. Japan gets pretty wet, so you do have to lay down plastic sheet to keep the garlic from rotting, or just not growing to capacity.
I have neighbors who have changed their entire cattle herding strategy off of drones. They use very inexpensive off the shelf drones and simply use alligator clips to hang a bright colored handkerchief from the legs. They herd at an average of about 25 ft elevation. The cattle were pretty spooked the first couple of times, but they have settled down and respond the same as they did to dogs in the past. They also have an automatic gate on a remote. They are able to move all the cattle from one pasture to the other without leaving their porch. Kind of cyberpunk farming. In fairness, I have no idea how this would work with sheep. I have never interacted with them.
This year I pulled well over 1200 lbs of tomatoes from my garden and another 500 to 750 lbs of cucumbers, squash, butternut, green peppers and yellow peppers. I also grew a bunch of herbs and just pulled the last of the herbs a couple of weeks ago and have have 16 large bunches hanging in one of my rooms from hooks from the ceiling. In the end I canned damn near all of the tomatoes with a loss of around 10% or less that were tossed due to grasshoppers or other bad looking stuff or just overall waste from either peeling them or turning them in to sauce. My yield was around 400 quarts of which weigh about 2lbs each. ( 800 lbs total give or take ) Lots of it was cooked down in to sauce, rotel ( its a mix of tomatoes, spices and green chilies for tacos ) Of the rest of the stuff we canned the yellow and green peppers or froze them for later use in other things we canned. We tried to give away as much squash as we could and ended up just tossing a bunch of it in one of our ditches for the animals. We did can all of the butternut squash as we use that a lot when we have them. Overall I am quite happy with this years yield. Though I am not happy about the back breaking work that goes in to picking them. This coming planting season I will be redoing the entire garden and adjusting the drip line system to be on more than a single zone. I will also be changing the fertilizer to a water base one. The high end weed barrier did its job so well that it can be used for years and years to come. Except for the fact that the 2 rows that I have right now will be moved so that the new garden design can be put in. We are going to build hoops for all of the vine plants and then box in for the random other stuff. Boxing in is just adding a frame so that what weed barrier is cut open does not spill out on to the rest of the garden area. Less work and more food. We did not have to do a darn thing this year on tending to the plants. The less we have to do the better. We are only after the food. Overall I am very impressed for this season. Next season will be geared towards more odds and ends stuff.
Very impressive gardening just as all your work is Kris and Dot. As you probably discovered, leeks can just be left in the ground over winter and pulled when you need them. In fact they're better after a bit of frost on them. Someone else mentioned removing leaves from tomatoes to help them ripen. Near the end of the season my wife's plants are almost leaf free. Potatoes need plenty of space and need to be planted in a ditch and then earthed up for main crop. The holes you had in the crop earlier were from wireworm which is always worst in land that was formerly pasture but will get better. Did you confirm that the broad bean curl was caused by a chemical in the manure ? Has it affected anything else. Good luck....
