HUGE Cabbage, Beet, & Kale Harvest!

[@awkwardtexasstranger5660]

If anyone had told me 10 years ago I'd be avidly enjoying a video with 2 guys spanking cabbages I'd have never believed it. Yet here I am. Love the banter and the great garden info.

[@epichomesteading]

LOL

[@Gardeningchristine]

Facts!

[@Gkrissy]

So true!

[@barbstcyr304]

So funny 😂

[@DanlowMusic]

Signs of getting old right? Lol

[@AmateurUrbanFarm]

The honest celery reaction was gold

[@TheRobloxianCop]

I was like when i watched that moment. I will buy seeds right now no matter always have to make room have to try it see it for myself

[@IkeOzurumba]

I actually had NO idea that celery is naturally "salty"!

[@NorthToSouthChannel]

Your intros lately have just been SO funny and "sitcom" like... It just makes me happy! You guys are awesome.

[@epichomesteading]

Thank you!

[@OfirTube1]

The sound of kale leafs snapping is something I didn't know I needed until now

[@epichomesteading]

So satisfying

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

Celery is used to cure ham and bacon instead of traditional nitrites and salt. The celery cured products are marked Uncured on the packages...celery seed and celery extracts is what you need to look for on the ingredients list. Celery needs a lot of water, it will make it milder and crunchier, but also blanching stalks by shading the stalks (I use milk cartons) to shade the stalks only while they're growing.

[@JennTN411]

Interesting!! Will keep this in mind when sowing celery seeds to back off on sodium in these dishes! Thank you ❤

[@epichomesteading]

Very interesting!!!

[@tannenbaumgirl3100]

@@JennTN411 Not sure if sodium is actually reduced, but when the stalks are hydrated really well, they don't taste as salty. Plus the water will make the stalks grow larger, so they won't be as fibrous and stringy.

[@JennTN411]

@@tannenbaumgirl3100 Will definitely have to have a taste test once I have some dehydrated. I figure that is about the best way to vary the flavors when I make spice mixes 😉❤

[@YasuTaniina]

I think I need to prioritize celery this year. I have a chronic illness where it's recommended I take 8-10g of salt daily, so any healthy source is very welcome

[@Oktopia]

The beet-pull was so romantic! In honor of Valentine's Day :D

[@epichomesteading]

LOL

[@veronicadoggone5660]

Who needs roses when you can give a whole head of cabbage for Valentines Day

[@SarahsGarden2024]

Jacques was so impressive spinning that cabbage! 😮

[@chezelleconroy2951]

Perhaps he’s secretly a superhero..? 🤔

[@KatesGarden]

The root crops in the green stalk are impressive! 90% root 10% soil 😂

[@epichomesteading]

Right?!

[@KatesGarden]

@@epichomesteading I need to up my beet game this year. Thanks for sharing yours!

[@niecieyukiye6654]

No joke. When Jacque twisted that red cabbage I wasn't quite prepared for the violence involved. I almost choked as I sipped my cocktail. I coughed for a good minute with tears rolling down my cheeks. You guys are awesome!!

[@florabescansaluers]

The vibes on this video: immaculate. Really made my day, thanks garden guys

[@epichomesteading]

That's our goal :)

[@marikapaprika5833]

Kevin, your reaction when Jacques talks to and harvests the cabbage, it had me in stitches. I skipped back to it like 5 times 😂 Ahhhhh thanks for making my late breakfast so enjoyable. Summer is ending here in Australia, and after seeing this I’m super keen to get my cold veggies on!

[@epichomesteading]

LOLLLL he went crazy

[@marikapaprika5833]

@@epichomesteading he’s definitely been holding back the beast!

[@angelaguilar9222]

I grow potatoes in containers and I grow radishes and sometimes spring onions on top while the potatoes come up

[@IjeomaThePlantMama]

Great idea 💡

[@reneequalls5878]

You guys make me want to grow and eat things that I haven’t liked before. Specifically kale and cabbage and beets. I’d love to see what you do with kale soup! I’ve never seen it.

[@Gardeningchristine]

I find most beets taste like dirt, but I do eat them fried like French fries. Kale is great in a lot of things, soup, stir fry, salad, meatloaf, I’ve even powdered it and baked it in muffins. I hope you have fun on your growing adventure!

[@epichomesteading]

I'll have to do the recipe!

[@reneequalls5878]

@@epichomesteading that would be awesome!!

[@reneequalls5878]

@@Gardeningchristine I just bought a piece of property after many yrs in an apartment without even a balcony! I’m so so so excited to grow and have chickens again!

[@ryan_cowan]

There are a lot of Portuguese soups with kale in them. Especially large flat leaf kales almost like collards

[@Izybean]

You guys found each other. Congrats! Chemistry is unreal. So good to watch.

[@gardeningunraveled]

I'm curious whose idea it was to start the episodes with laughter? 😄 It's really funny and that cabbage is EPIC! Good job!

[@epichomesteading]

I'm not sure how it happened, but I'm glad it did

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I've got my first cabbage heads this year: little Tiara green cabbages the size of a baseball. Great for a smaller garden! But they aren't as pretty as yours. That is a stunning cabbage.

[@grandmothergoose]

When the spikey dragonfruits are really fully ripe, you should be able to simply brush the spikes off of them. That's one more way to tell if they're fully ripe.

[@yeevita]

I saw somebody just use basically a paint brush and brush all the spikes off. It was pretty amazing.

[@dirkjanrulez23]

Brassicas are my vegetable nemesis 70-80% failure rate for me 😂 still keep on trying hoping for a different result

[@epichomesteading]

Was for us too - check our video out on EG!

[@kathyv3909]

This is JUST for the cabbage scene! OMG still laughing...Super Thank You Both!

[@grisespino5342]

Love you guys! That was one beautiful cabbage. Juicing is a great way to get those healthy greens into your diet. Carrot and beet juice with a twist of lime, yumm. Use tongs to harvest dragon fruit.

[@Gkrissy]

My goal is to grow pink celery. I love the leaves in soups and dishes. Only us gardeners get excited to see a cilantro blooming. I am the same way.

[@epichomesteading]

It's gorgeous

[@marikapaprika5833]

Ive found that it’s not as tasty as the green…

[@ziggybender9125]

My favorite trick to prevent lettuce bolting is Bamboo leafs as mulch. Part of the reason is that I get to harvest them for free from a bamboo patch on my property but the main reason is that the leaves are so small but slow to break down that they are perfect to carefully place between lettuce heads, their not prone to matting if let whole so it's less work not having to shred them and still get nice airflow.

[@nicolerosenbaum5731]

Lol you two crack me up. I wish I had a gardening friend like you two.

[@drthomason7043]

If you cut across the main stem of a cabbage, brocollli, cauli and kale you can cut a cross ➕ or star into it with your knife and it comes sprouting back

[@waterbitten]

"Is that our story" 😂😂😂😂😂 I think it is, I just found both your channels and I think you're both great.

[@bcolleti9448]

A tip for the dragon fruits… just use a little broom around the fruit before you cut it off. The spikes comes right off and if it doesn’t, it means that’s not ripe yet.

[@gammayin3245]

Best Gardening Edutainment Ever!

[@matthysloedolff]

You guys handle getting stung by a dragon fruit much better than I do 🤣 Loved the educational aspect of this video with the usual banter mixed in.

[@nildaotero2933]

You guys are great together, too funny. The cabbage is beautiful, so perfect.

[@haventli]

Wow. You are really maximizing your growing right now. Your garden is bursting. Looks so great, Kevin and team!

[@epichomesteading]

Feeling good about the season!

[@tylerdenning9396]

These harvesting videos are always my favorites. So cool to see the variety of vaggies. (and a fruit)

[@simplysimple7628]

I noticed that when I mulched my cabbages, worms were plentiful. So much so that they ended all up in the heads of the cabbages. The ones I didn’t mulch were amazing and clean. Also, not sure about the spines on the paloras but I grow alot of colombiana and when the fruit is getting ripe, the spines come off easily so I use an old bottle brush and brush them off prior to harvesting. Works great. No pricked fingers 👍🏼🙏🏼🤙🏼 That purple cabbage was absolutely amazingly beautiful by the way.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@hogo21]

for the yellow dragon fruit, my dad uses a wide paint brush to just brush the thorns away, they should fall off on their own when they are ripe, so don't force anything

[@SophyaAgain]

10:55 Let's go bowling.

[@nickeishajohnson2004]

Beautiful & well organized garden

[@billbobaggons]

I really appreciate these harvest and eat videos. It helps me find and try new things. I'm growing calamansi seeds from your citrus harvest vid you both convinced me

[@bethhubbs9937]

Don't forget to eat the GREENS on those beets! SO GOOD! Chop up, lightly sautee, they're already salty flavored. I like to use them like spinach and fold them into an egg omelet as one idea. - Ooops! In my enthusiasm about beet greens, I paused the video to comment before you finished talking about them. Ha! ;)

[@Sturgeonsurgeon740]

Come for the gardening tips, stay for Kevin being hilarious

[@epichomesteading]

:P

[@RoyHolder]

Guys you can use a brush to get the spikes off dragon fruit before you harvest it, if it's ripe they fall out easily! You're welcome! 👍

[@RJack1915]

hey there we grow Harrier beets, harvest the big ones. Then the littles get big. Also when they get big they look like wooden pool balls but still tender. Thieves took others but not ours.

[@oloraaiye4029]

I think I enjoyed Kevin's reaction yo the celery as much as Jaques lol!🤣🤣🤣

[@reneequalls5878]

Just out here spanking cabbage on a nice spring day lol

[@epichomesteading]

Nothing better in this life

[@reneequalls5878]

@@epichomesteading 😂😂

[@gammayin3245]

Wow - your purple cabbage head is so pretty! Well done men!

[@katherinecornette5315]

You 2 are so fun to watch and learn from! I have to translate into our zone 7b here in NC but y’all share your tragedies & triumphs! Thank you!

[@OurJoyfulJourneyCanada]

Always so glad to see whenever there is a new video of you too. 😊 Watching while Packing some seed order 💚

[@bluebirdhomestead]

Nice! It is always fun to harvest things 😊-Cara

[@tristinchristenson6349]

Stiff bristle brush either for animals or sweeping will brush the tines off.

[@T-Mo_]

6:20 😂 grew celery salt. Was there Coco coir in that raised bed? Wondering why so salty.

[@82Julian]

The right way to harvest Cavolo Nero is Jacques saying....grab with hand!! Jokes apart....👍✌️ thanks guys you're awesome!

[@ElderandOakFarm]

@6:24 I snorted along with Jacque! 🤣👌 I've been laughing the entire video actually... "Whats IN this!?!" I'm growing red cabbage for the first time this year, SUPER excited, but the one thing I'm worried about are cabbage worms! They FREAK. ME. OUT!

[@epichomesteading]

LOL

[@StSdijle]

Great job as always. As for the celery: its not salt its natural MSG. Not a joke; plants contain glutamate, most need to be dried to get freed up (like tomatoes contain a ton) but in celery and celeriac have it free in the fresh plant.

[@stephaniehanuman-dale6279]

I like to dehydrate celery leaves to use for seasoning. It is salty but great for flavoring chicken and soup 🌱💚

[@j.d.8075]

With the salty celery; dry it and then grind it down and use it as a seasoning instead of bought celery salt etc.

[@ltvanburen8555]

Save those beet greens for stir-fries! Absolutely Fabulous! And red beet greens will make your stir fry gently pink - so their really nutritious.

[@jenniferrichardson2702]

Could you use tongs to hold it for the cut?

[@arnoldmmbb]

So I guess if you have a soil with built up salts because your water or fertilizers you can use celery to soak the excess salt

[@mumstheword8]

Love your guys' videos! Harvested that cabbage just in time. Better harvest the other one before the worms get it.

[@mathpm100]

This was delightful

[@murfy6189]

Kevin really be king of slapping things here’s ur crown 👑

[@michellebarnes4187]

You guys are adorable and so entertaining! Love the red cabbage!

[@markoliver4194]

They aren't homos.

[@flippingpickers]

Thank you for all of the awesome videos! Educational and so entertaining. Love your banter!!

[@NyssaMysteria]

I started some red acre cabbage a few weeks ago, and it's so cool seeing the final product for them when my seedlings are so small! I don't think I'll quite decapitate it like Jacques did though 🤣

[@dex6166]

Best duo, thanks guys, stay awesome

[@betterlivingonabudget]

Love your channel!! You have such a wonderful and informative vibe, while seeming really down to Earth (pun intended). Every time a watch a vid I want to run out and dig around in my garden. Cabbage and kale, yayyy, beets, no so much, lol.

[@maulondoce]

What are the white vegetables that you guys harvested from the green stalks?

[@lizdietrich6801]

I’m bingeing on your videos to put me in a good mood, I have a rough day ahead! 🙏🏼

[@maxjanovsky4421]

For anyone who is growing cabbage- Are the outer, separate leaves of the cabbage good to eat or not?

[@epichomesteading]

Yes, but I personally tend not to

[@Gardeningchristine]

Last year mine got very tough and basically inedible. But the inside was fine.

[@starfarms664]

I'm just getting ready to start my celery for this coming season. One of my favorites. I think about growing celery and I start craving fresh Bloody Mary's in the garden

[@waterisgold]

That cabbage is absolutely beautiful😍💜

[@k9spot1]

you guys do everything to the max so I would LOVE to see how you tackle preservation stuff and specifically how you would store jars. So many homesteaders seem to do it so poorly in such an ugly way. I wanna see like the Epic root cellar!

[@epichomesteading]

We might have to do it...!

[@carissalizotte8977]

You guys should do cabbage prints!

[@susannahsaurus]

The joint forced laughter as you walk in gives major Demetri Martin “….ladies” energy 😂😂😂

[@princessdi6021]

That celery had Kevin shook😳😂

[@epichomesteading]

Sooooooo bad

[@JessMakingArt]

The laughing as you walk on always gets me. 10/10

[@declanjohnson2823]

I just got a pack of beet seeds and don’t know how to grow them and was wondering if you could do a beginners guide to beet growing

[@alicem3349]

The squishy sounds are killing me 😂 14:30 14:47

[@rossanablackburn4111]

Love it, I hope to be like you guys when I grow up :)

[@vickieboudwin7781]

Beautiful garden

[@tigerlilly03152012]

I recently watched a video where Jacques mentioned adding boric acid to the soil if there is a lack of growth in root vegetables. Can we please get more information about that?

[@shamancarmichael5305]

Stir fry for dinner! Lots of food from the front yard this week, nice!

[@lemonyskunkketts7781]

If you watch Mark @ Self Sufficient Me, he shows the yellow dragon fruit are ready when you can brush the spikes away with a dust pan brush.

[@Gardeningchristine]

Good job guys. I was excited yesterday I harvested my first salad from my window garden. That’s what I call my recycled carnation tubs I planted lettuce and micro greens in. They fit perfectly on my window sill. 🪟🪴👩🏼‍🌾

[@epichomesteading]

Congrats on the 1st salad!

[@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478]

One summer, I got a beet the size of a baby's head. It took forever to cook that one, but I pickled it and it was fine to eat.

[@jd1no]

Next video, with the laughing intro you should play the laughing audio backwards...just cause. Everything else would be normal, just a small backwards laugh track

[@Xerxis1988h]

Maybe freezdry the celery and make salty celery powder with it

[@MareSimone1]

I have some dinosaur Kale that's getting very tall. It's been growing since last year. And now they're starting to flower. Is its life cycle over now? Or if I just snip off the flowers will it continue to grow and prosper for another season? How long can kale continue to grow?

[@trishdavi7049]

This was the perfect opportunity to demonstrate the thickest leather gloves your sponsors could maybe supply in future. Watching Jaques be jabbed was painful. A chef taught me to soak brassics in salt water a couple or few hours then rinse to flush out any bugs from hard to reach places. Your cabbage worms reminded me of that. I have never grown salty celery.

[@epichomesteading]

We'll need to do that!

[@EnbyAxolotlOfficial]

The beets roots getting suck together Kevin: Jacques that's SOOOO us!

[@epichomesteading]

Perpetuating the fanfic

[@picklepirate]

I could watch you guys for days lmaoo

[@heavymetalbassist5]

Great harvest dude. I think my red acres need just a wee bit longer. I think you have more hours of sunlight in winter.

[@monicablassingill]

You guys literally make me laugh out loud. Keep up the great work!

[@terrihansen1581]

Use those carrot tops to make pesto. Delicious on eggs!!!

[@dan_kron]

The subtle sound effects got me dying 🤣

[@lorimanis825]

I absolutely feel like I’m standing there with you guys in the garden. You are both so personable and ridiculous 😂

[@mayhmmaydn]

Use bbq tongs to harvest dragonfruit.

[@rhianabrooke]

The squeaky noise... for the love!

[@RJack1915]

Carrot leave pesto is the best!

[@Tf03]

Cabbage is beautiful🤙

[@Davidmaxwell07]

Great tip on celery being salty. I just started juicing a month ago