BIGGEST Harvest of the Year! | A Year's Worth of Onions, Best I've Ever Grown

[@tinagillhamevans667]

Tarragon vinegar comes from France

[@leenapande9590]

I live in south of India, where we get close to 300 days of sunshine. We don’t have the tradition of preserving food the way you do..coz we get seasonal vegetables (I am a vegetarian). Having said that my family makes the most amazing mango pickle.. we make pickle right from small tender mangoes to till it begins to ripen.. we make sweet mango jelly and mango jam and sweet and sour mango chutney (to die for).. I am amazed at the amount of work you put in during the short warm period to harvest and preserve for the harsh winters.. more power to you ❤

[@NaBi_1307]

I will never get over the fact that you consider -30°C a warm winter. I live in the Mediterranean region, we don't even get frost most of the years so it's mind-blowing that you guys can survive those temperatures😭

[@heathermiddleton4958]

Live in Atlantic Canada. Minus 30 is very mild here...lol.

[@ashleyashcraft1754]

Our winters are definitely within the -30°C realm (I live in US so we would say -22°F) but we wouldn't call it warm either. We have a few days that get that cold but below zero is typical winter.

[@quercusilex2559]

Same, next to the Mediterranean sea bur from the Netherlands so I appreciate. But I miss the green landscapes.

[@seedyhollow]

You get used to it and learn how to dress for it, the snow looks like diamonds when the sun hits it when it is that cold!!! It is truly beautiful and a welcome rest for if we never got a frost we would be growing all the time. We love hibernating and eating our bountiful harvests.

[@SallyGreimes]

Lots of layers is the survival of ultra cold. It is hard to think of no deep cold temps in winter.😊

[@valscherr5080]

Love your videos . So encouraging.

[@RAM-eb2te]

French cooking uses quite a bit of tarragon and tarragon vinegar. Love it in homemade vinaigrettes.

[@chrisanndunn8814]

I have watched you now for one full season. Very interesting and a pleasure to watch the complete process from planting seeds, to canning, winter, and then starting over in the spring. Thank you so much, now…..film the cows sometime soon. 😊

[@dhansonranch]

Good harvest!!! I am not sure I will get any butternut either - I even tried a bush variety but seeds did not come up well.

[@kellyc4480]

Beautiful strawflowers! ❤ I overwinter my lavender. It’s in a lick tub and I just put it in our garage (has some light from a window) and water it about once a week. In the spring after frost is no longer a concern I put it back out and it picks right back up 😊

[@karendooks6244]

Am very much looking forward to the pantry store tour when all your harvest has been processed . Those onions are gorgeous. I can't wait to see how many potatoes you get. Just watched Becky at Acre Homestead , I always think digging for potatoes is like digging gold, you never know what you will get

[@trainman2860]

You have an amazing garden. Thank you for all your tips.

[@jetryan624]

In watching this video I noticed that you have multiple clusters of gorgeous sunflowers, along the side of your gorgeous garden. How did you plant them in clusters like that are they planted around a pole that you can then secure them too, to give them physical stability? I live in apartment in the state of Ohio but the landlord allows me to plant things on the side yard and I've noticed that the sunflowers do tend to lean over. So that is why I am asking. Also do you give them a particular nutrient mix?

[@LittleMountainRanch]

It’s just one sunflower, a volunteer hybrid from last year, and they’re not staked. Truly beautiful!

[@robertchristensen6663]

Try deep frying sage leaves, vary tasty 😊

[@teaspiceshoppe]

When you harvest your celery, you leave the roots in the ground. Do you just leave them there over winter to compost?

[@karencroft1322]

Have you ever made apple 🍎🍏 chips I do that there so good

[@cynthiafisher9907]

By dehydrating?

[@melaniedennis9540]

Have you thought about putting a dehumidifier in your basement?

[@michellerose6721]

I heard that, for cooking, you want french tarragon, not russian? Also, that french tarragon grows from propogated plants not seeds like russian tarragon. Anybody know if this is true?

[@harmonyhomeandgarden]

When the straw flowers dry, do they retain their vibrant colors?

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Yes

[@karenjoy7557]

I am glad big time I have found your Vlog channel as they are always so interesting big time... How do you grow your Onions that big could U show us next year or is there a clip I can watch as we are in Spring is Australia now or the start of it and I have never grown them before... I also thought to tell you I have been told Sage Tea is good for Woman's change of life when you get hot and cold...as in body temperature... Why can't you make Sage Vinegar with it aswell as I have never seen it on store shelves but it must be used for other things... I see other people making that garlic and honey mixture for winter times...I will have to try it for myself next winter... You mentioned about you are reprinting your cookbook how do out of Australian get it...please...would to buy it...❤❤❤...😊😊😊

[@cynthiafisher9907]

One reason her vegetables grow so large is that she is far north, so the summer days are longer. Maybe the same is true in the south of Australia in the summer?

[@tammymurphy2707]

Chelsea, I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your channel. It’s entertaining, educational and just a pleasure to watch!💖

[@barbaralewis3281]

My Mom used to make 'special' dishes for Thanksgiving. One of them was Tarragon Peaches. As I recall, it was a can or two of canned peaches with a bit butter, brown sugar bit of cinnamon and a teaspoon or tablespoon of tarragon vinegar from the grocery. It was very good and such a good addition to our usual Thanksgiving feast

[@helenan7368]

Hi Chelsea, tarragon vinegar, made with white wine vinegar and fresh tarragon, is quite common in France.

[@gregoryl9791]

For bearnaise sauce 😉 Delicious 😊

[@ElinWinblad]

Where can be buy French tarragon seeds? They only seem to sell Russian tarragon and it doesn’t taste as good

[@yolanditrollip557]

We're emmigrating from South Africa, where I garden year round and preserve the minimum because most veggies are always in season to Canada....I'm learning alot from your videos. Thank you

[@tammyjones8102]

South

[@judyjudys2082]

Chelsea , I can’t figure out where you get all your energy , you are just like the energizer bunny . You are absolutely amazing . I’m new to your vlog but I have quickly become a fan of yours . Just by listening I feel I have learned so much from you with the bits of information you share . Enjoy watching you preserve all your food you have grown and even the meat and fruit you purchased . Everyday I look for a vlog of yours and am always lucky to find one . 🌸🌷🌸

[@cynthiafisher9907]

She says it’s the afternoon nap she takes.every day.

[@debbiee6535]

I would like to see how you make horseradish sauce

[@kekiplus1andonly]

This us the onion harvest I've ever seen🎉🎉🎉congratulations 🎊 👏 to ya'll

[@carriesummers6949]

Those onions look AMAZING!! It would be wonderful if we could get a total weight of the harvest!!!

[@lindajewell9533]

Hi Chelsea.... your harvest is beautiful...you need help gathering..do your children help with gathering? Take care of yourself..I really enjoy your videos..

[@FareDaze62]

I use tarragon white wine vinegar to make pickled beets, yummy

[@gouthambm4369]

I from India (southern part) here in peak winter months temperature roaming around +18 and 20c max. i couldn't imagine in - 30 c how things gonna work's

[@strawberryncreamful]

OMG! you don't get earwigs?!! I might have to move wayyyyyy up north! I have such an irrational response to them and they are everywhere in Australia.

[@bkodra]

I find earwigs all over the garden. My understanding is that they eat garden beasties but really have to clean and inspect everything that comes out of the garden. I pulled some cockscomb flowers and the flower itself was full of earwigs. Definitely not my favorite thing to do... This is central Michigan.

[@michelinebercier-lariviere3095]

If you want to keep a nice colour on the cut straw flowers, you should have them dry in the dark. Sunlight will bleaches the colours away.

[@susanmueller1411]

Its in France for tarragon vinegar

[@beverlyhart6144]

I've been wanting to plant horseradish for years I'm in va an can't find any seed packets for it any suggesting ❤

[@christinenewell2679]

Happy memories for me …… I used to grow straw flowers in abundance and always loved them. I’ve had to stop gardening because of a stroke I had 4 years ago. But I love my KZbin videos….. up popped some straw flowers😍. I used to buy florists wire to help me with my arrangements. We just cut the heads off and pushed the wires in. Maybe you do that too. Love from Belfast Northern Ireland. (PS…. I love all your gardening, cooking, canning videos…. very interesting).

[@Jaynes-Path]

I'm not sure if they can ship to your area but I'll bet you can plant in a Greenstalk planter. A aunt of mine had a stroke and is using a wheelchair or a wheeled walker with a seat to get around. She always had a kitchen garden and really missed not being able to get out in the yard. We got her a large pocket (10 inch deep) Greenstalk with a extra wheeled base and a extra tray to make 2 towers, 3 levels high. She has them on her back porch and because they spin and move she can move them around from her seated position. She loves them so much that her family bought her the smaller pocket tower (7 tiers and 7 inch deep pockets) for herbs, salad greens and plants or flowers that have shallow roots. They also ordered a extra base to split it into two She grows everything from cherry tomatoes, bush beans, all her herbs and flowers right on her small patio outside the door.

[@ourhomesteadclassroom]

Just a heads up on the Strawflowers... The ones with open centers may go to seed while drying in the greenhouse. From my experience, if I want to dry them for crafts or decorations, it's been best to harvest them when some of the petals are still closed around the center yellow portion. But congrats on your growing skills, because I've never been able to get mine so tall and florifrerous as yours!

[@samstevens7888]

If you pull the horseradish from the rock garden, I pretty much guarantee you will still have it in the Rock garden forever. Do not ask me how I know this lol

[@carolwhisenhunt7504]

Praying you feel better quickly Chelsea. Great harvest.

[@annakauffman2992]

I'm guessing Tarragon vinegar in France. 🤔

[@zoec3527]

Here in Ottawa we’ve had a bad year for earwigs. 😕

[@peggymontague6619]

Love your videos. You need to get a cup of tea and rest.

[@trumpgirl1193]

Hi Chelsea, the origin of tarragon vinegar is in Italy. ❤regards from Germany

[@rebeccamccarthy4419]

Tarragon with thyme and lemon in fried mushrooms, is absolutely heavenly highly recommend!

[@lehnhardtdevonek.8479]

Fried onions and corn bread is delicious!

[@Driftinbarbob]

Tarragon is great with trout n salmon

[@lillypatience]

Chelsea: They’d have to be pretty sneaky and pretty quiet to get by my dogs. Black Bear: Challenge accepted.

[@sandypayne463]

Tarragon vinegar is from France

[@10CentZocker]

*A like for your video from me. Warm greetings from Germany* 🇩🇪☘️☺️👍🐿️....

[@helenkitley9670]

Tarragon vinegar …. France. ❤

[@susanmurten6178]

France uses a lot of tarragon. You can also use tarragon in place of dill in pickles (tiny ones) which are called cornichons.

[@twistedfrannie9311]

I'm an onion top pesto person ❤

[@thenodiggardener]

They are some lovely onions. I had one of my Northern Candy Squash shriven on the vine like your pumpkin. No idea why, although there was a slug having a chew under it, but I don't know if that was the cause, or after effect.

[@joycemariepopp1311]

I can barely grow a weed so I am always impressed by your beautiful and prolific garden. I watch about 6-8 KZbin homesteading channels❤ Your cabbage, cauliflowers, pumpkins and celery are the largest I have seen all year. Many Blessings

[@lindaedwards9756]

You can grow things! Just don’t give up , watch learn and grow. That’s how you learn and soon you will be addicted as well.

[@ElderandOakFarm]

What zone are you again? I'm 6a & lemon balm overwinters no problem for me. No need to try to bring in. It will look dead, but then i's the first thing that turns green in the late Winter/early spring!

[@christineeckhold6341]

Your onions are wonderful! I've yet to have a good onion year...have learned so much from you and others. Going to try again next gardening season applying what I've learned. Excited to see what the results are. Greetings from Lacomb, Oregon.😊

[@brendamiller8140]

I just love love your videos and you do most things just like my Family have done down through the years. That being Canada I guess. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️💚🥰🤗

[@jeezumcrow8655]

Earwigs are such a nuisance in my garden here in Vermont. They live in many of my veggies and do a lot of damage to my flowers like zinnias and dahlias.

[@CrystalSchoenle]

A few days late in watching this video but found it really interesting how shocked you were to see EARWIGS! .. We have soo many in Hrsfly. I found 12.. Yes 12 of them in 1 head of my cauliflour this year! Some have said they are good for the garden??🤷 Persoanlly I hate them, they are the one bug that creeps me out! 😅

[@ijahdagang6121]

Beautiful garden and nice video, love it..wish you success and be healthy always

[@horticultureandhomes]

We have plenty of black bear and the large honey producers use a heavy duty 3 wire electric fence around their bee yards. It does keep the bears out. Every now and then they may damage the fence attempting to get in but are not sucessful.

[@dianewebb738]

Hi...im new to your channel ...Love your gardening ...I so dream of having a garden like you...Why do you not want to grow your straw flowers in a raised bed? Also...the Allysum growing in front of your raised bed..is it actually growing out of the raised bed or in front of it? I tried growing lavender from seed twice and wouldn't grow for me,...Im in South Carolina..not Canada.

[@donscott6431]

I love tarragon. I use it for everything from sauces, reductions, to seasoning yellow crookneck squash and brussels sprouts. And, yes, vinegar

[@susanminshall8224]

Great video!

[@Sylvie_M]

There is a short lived perennial sage that I have overwintered (2-3 years) in the ground in Zone 3b. I have been told there is a difference between Russian and French tarragon. Can anyone describe the difference?

[@beverleysimmons7885]

Loved this video and your harvesting. Hopefully you feel better quickly. Dang you can’t afford to be sick your so busy! Will definitely look at the onion video. Do you have one for your celery? Take care and feel better soon💝🇨🇦

[@lotteisern9712]

I had friends from Azerbajan who ate fresh Tarragon leaves with their sandwiches. I like Tarragon vinegar but didn't like eating it raw.

[@MelanieSims-u5i]

I get terragon vinegar from Amazon by the case. I think Heinz makes it. We make salad dressing using it. It’s my favorite vinegar.

[@vernedadavis367]

One day I'm going to catch up on your videos.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂

[@maryglidden2943]

Hope your sniffles are all gone and that you are feeling better. My onions are maybe 2 1/2 inches in diameter! I'm about to give up on growing them! Loved seeing your tarragon also- gosh again, my plant is so small! I must not be loving on them as much as you do!

[@CottageGardensonForest]

Tarragon vinegar is used widely in France. Love your enthusiasm and energy. Your a wealth of information. I used dried flowers and sweet annie and other herbs to decorate my Christmas tree last year. It was really pretty and a big hit with friends and family. Thanks

[@marymiller-zb8my]

Chelsea, I love how how you preserve so much. I used to can a lot more than I do now but I still want my own so I know what’s in it. Could you give more information on your garlic honey you put together the other day? I’ve been telling friends about it and they also have questions so we do it right. Do you keep it on the countertop all the time and is it taken every day and how much? Sorry, 😌 so many questions. This is the first I’ve heard of this so I don’t want to guess at it. 😁

[@ingoseltmann9702]

Sage is good in teas, to fight a cold.

[@seedyhollow]

We got our first frost here in zone 3 in Northwestern Ontario near Thunder Bay. I didn't get out to cover some got it and some didn't like my ground cherries, peppers and tomatoes but spared the pole beans. Corn is touched and so were the cantaloupe and sugar baby.

[@catracampolieto8989]

AMAZING HARVEST. ❤

[@rebeccareimer9915]

Earwigs were a major issue for us in NS this year! Way more than we usually get, found them in my cabbages, my flower heads, the corn everywhere!

[@tinabow3812]

I know this is off the video chart. But hopefully that you can help me out with this. I have a simmon tree 🌲 how do I process them and make jelly or jam. I look up some videos but it's not telling me how to process the Simmons. So I hope you can help me on this thank you and God bless

[@carrieosborn3080]

My favorite thing to use fresh sage with is making sage brown butter for pasta! It’s delicious!

[@paulaworton7410]

Hope you're feeling better. I have a son in Vancouver. Would love to come out there soon. He was a bit sniffly when I spoke to him earlier too. Take care x

[@kathyh.8563]

My potted lemon balm comes back every spring here in WI. I just move the pot up against the house for winter.

[@lehnhardtdevonek.8479]

Subbing!

[@kaymack5304]

I usually watch KZbin videos at double speed, but I decided to watch this at normal speed. The thing that astounds me is that you seem to move at a leisurely pace, yet you get more done in a day than I do in a week.

[@nancyhaywood6486]

i always enjoy your channel. very interesting, you are alwaya busy doing things. i wish we had planted fruit trees when we built our house. your large kale you have in your garden, how do you prepare that for eating and preserving. thanks for sharing your garden and preserving knowledge. bless you and your lovely family

[@lunachic03dh]

HOLY ONIONS!!!!! WoW what a GREAT harvest!!! In fact, what a GREAT garden!!! All of it looks fantastic!!! Wonderful work Chelsea!!! I’m super jealous!!!!

[@GayLeeKilpatrick]

You can insulate a raised bed by surrounding the bed with bales of hay. It could help your herbs overwinter.

[@loridaup2169]

Do the bees like your strawflowers Chelsea? I'd love to grow them if they are good for the pollinators. They are really beautiful!

[@samanthaferreira6928]

Ugh it was a horrible earwig year here in Thunder Bay (also zone 3). It’s never been this bad.

[@cindy-ki8ex]

I have had a terigon p,a t gor 3 years and couldn't figure out what it was and now i know after seeing the picture of yours. It has overwintered i. A fabric pot.

[@susanwilliams1881]

Tarragon vinegar sounds interesting

[@cindyparker9920]

Hope you feel better soon. I have a cold now as well. Cherokee purple are my favorite tomatoes to grow here in Texas.

[@carolynstewart68]

Absolutely beautiful onions!! Nicely done!

[@smallgardendiaries]

the last timei saw you harvest celery the snipping sound was soooo satisfying!

[@brendajenkins3519]

You’re in for it now! Saw my first earwig when my 49 year old daughter was in high school. We now have lots of those ugly creatures.

[@jocelynfuell2269]

Hi. I really appreciate and enjoy watching your videos. Thanks so much for your educational tips from cooking and food preservation on your beautiful fruits and vegetables. You are an amazing woman and I absolutely love watching your channel. I’m from Prince George’s County, Maryland near Washington, DC and I’m 59 yrs old. I’m just appreciating the benefits of how wonderful it would be to have yourself a Homestead like yours. You are so encouraging to me that it I will try to grow something in my backyard soon and I look forward to purchasing you new book as well. Again, thanks for your awesome videos and keep up the great work. Finally, don’t forget to take your time and get your rest. Take care.

[@mia.m1111]

So cool that you're growing native Australian flowers over in Canada! We call them paper daisies here 🏵

[@jolandafrijlink6103]

I have so much trouble growing onions they never seem to grow, i'm going to watch that video.

[@VictoriaPL]

I love fresh Tarragon for Chicken Kiev. Drooling over that plant!

[@jennifer6833]

You must sleep so good at night Chelsea with all of the hard work you do throughout your day non stop. I admire homesteaders, all of you are so underrated. Have you ever been to Rory Feek’s Homesteading events that he holds in early June? He’s also added a homeschooling event. Thank you for sharing all of this information with us, you’re a great educator. Will we be able to watch the canning process this year? Last year I saw the vlog on your canned storage room which was amazing. First video I ever watched of your channel because it came up in my feed.

[@cameoellis1363]

What kind of celery do you grow? It's gorgeous!

[@marietjiestegmann742]

You must check whether you have the French or Russian taragon. The French one is the one with the stronger taste.

[@lisaburns235]

Sage and onion stuffing goes great with pork and chicken.