Gardening All Year Round | Homestead Tour of Cold Weather Harvests

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[@LizZorab]

Do you still have food to harvest during the colder months? If so, what do you have left to harvest?

[@thetinygarden_]

Autumn harvests are so rewarding! Like you I have no parsnips 😅 I have lots of kale and just harvested the last of my potatoes! Hopefully some bug sprout for Christmas! Lovely video Liz 💚

[@ninemoonplanet]

I just got some Jerusalem artichoke tubers, going to put those in pots as the people I got them from allowed the "chokes" to overtake their gardens. This is the first year I will eat some, so going to research how to avoid the gassy outcome and enjoy them. I put out seedling parsley, going to coddle them for a bit. I don't have voles, but squirrels that dig around everywhere. I lost quite a few seedling but the remaining one might actually grow. 🙄

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

I’m sprouting seeds on my windowsill

[@estherhanko1457]

Garden is looking great! I always seem to miss the best moment to grow things like mustards or rocket so I never get any. They either bolt or just don't grow. I do still have a small patch of salsify, and it surprises me that I don't see that veg in more winter growing videos! I agree it's a mess in the kitchen but it tastes so wonderful.. Just as good as sunchokes but without the gas :)

[@karenlindaknight]

Hello from the Venezuelan Andes. Try fermenting Yakon. Grate it and salt it. Very tasty. To reproduce Yakon you use the reddish coloured crown, not the tubers.

[@utubemouse]

Thank you for the tips on growing yacon!

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

I have not grown veg this year. Other than some tomatoes and runner beans left of the plant to dry. Personally a problem with my mental health but am trying to refocus even over winter. Hard as that'll be. Lovely to see you're growing so well. Wishing us all less rain for a little while at least.

[@BumblebeeAdventure]

So much food still to harvest. Garden looks amazing!!

[@LizZorab]

Yes, thank you

[@user-md2kw5gf8b]

I’m growing Jerusalem artichoke for the first time,really looking forward to finding out how much they make me fart 💨,the wife not so much 😂

[@stevendowden2579]

for late in the year you are doing well with your crops well done liz

[@LizZorab]

Thanks Steven, tomorrow I'm going to pick the last few tomatoes before I take the plants from the polytunnel.

[@jpennturner]

Your garden looks great, I lost most of my winter stuff as we had a huge flood in the garden and raised beds and everything washed into the hedge!

[@sallygiles132]

Great to hear from you. I love your videos Liz 🤗🤗. You and Huw are great together and I especially like watching what your sowing now videos x

[@LizZorab]

Thank you so much!

[@AnyKeyLady]

Liz bless you for the tour, you looked absolutely bloody freezing! I love that pink jumper on you but made my shiver you didn't have a proper coat on! I always used to get confused as i thought both types of artichokes were from the same plant. They are great if you have the space for them but i for what you get, it doesn't seem to be high yielding. Have you tried dwarf green curled kale? It isn't as cow food tasting as i thought it would be. Finally managed to pull out the beetroot, radishes and turnips and reset the left side bed for the garlic, after removing the tomatoes in piece meal. I have been out for the past month or so with the rona. It's going rife around the schools atm according to the school office. I had to go on antibiotics so i haven't been much fun lately, so have been playing catch up. I was so far behind that when we went to friends for the fireworks, i wondered why the petrol was going so fast and then i had realised that we forget to remove the really big bags of compost from the boot! Anyway, its on the bed now and the garlic has been planted. I used half of our A4 crate of worm casting as to be honest it really doesn't need anything else and probably nothing next spring too, with the high levels of nitrogen i noticed in the soil. I would rather add any next year if i feel it needs it but i think with a bit of leaf mulch from my Dads we will be good to go. So disappointed with my late potatoes! I have 3 large fabric pots, each with 2 chitted potatoes and only one plant survived from the rainy horrible weather! So not quite the festive season haul i was hoping for but should have some for christmas day and maybe leftovers for boxing day if they are still ok! We also harvested some sprouts that have come early, so i roasted those with the turnips, beets, a potato, carrot, rosemary and garlic all from the garden. I also boiled up some beetroot leaves and baby turnip leaves/ stalks. Tesco had an offer on salmon tails, so we had that with some more garlic and carrot leaves as a garnish. I find the leaves taste like celery/parsley. I pickled the rest of the beets and white radishes with some shop bought onion and left over veg for Christmas. I am hoping to bring in the herb window box into our utiliy area that connects the house to the garden so i can transplant some parsley, dill, coriander etc. It gets quite a bit of sun there. Anyway, hope it isn't too wet there!? Just waiting for this last runner bean to get really big for seeds and hope it doesn't get nibbled on or mushy before i cut it back, like you said. I have been growing sugar snap peas but they haven't done much yet. Last year was too early and too hot and this year might be too late but will see. Protecting the spinach and pak choi from the pigeons with some old net curtains and small bamboo canes, until i can think of something i can resource/ reuse to stop them eating them. We have a very thicc collar dove pigeon in our garden atm! Also watched our local squirrel bury his nuts in some containers and then wash his face on our wet lawn. He has no shame.... Best wishes from London x

[@LizZorab]

No so much freezing as absolutely full of the latest cold that is doing the rounds! I'm mostly over it now and am looking forward to a couple of days with gardening friends in London, while Mr J stays here to care for the animals.

[@kristinfry3656]

After a growing season in which I did rather poorly at keeping up with my garden and making use of what I had, I’ve turned the chickens and ducks into the garden area and am looking forward to a better season next year! At least I can feel as though I’m nourishing the birds, they are enjoying themselves, and they are doing some pest patrol and fertilization. Thanks for the informative video!

[@JBNat]

You're an absolute master Liz!

[@LizZorab]

Thank you! 😃

[@BarndoVilla]

Really looking forward to growing year-round here in the Ozarks. Thank you for this information.

[@tonyr7393]

Thanks for recommending Asturian a few years ago - i've been growing it ever since, and along with Taunton Dean Kale they've become the 'workhorses' in my garden, pretty much all year round. Couldn't be without either of them! Also very much hoping for a bumper Yacon harvest in the next few weeks.

[@NickSBailey]

great I like a garden that's productive all year round who says you have to put it to bed, didn't know there were shorter varieties of Jerusalem artichoke this makes sense because I grew them years ago and they were about 5' to 6' but lost them, bought some new ones last year and these have reached 8' to 10', I like the screen they make

[@meehan302]

I'ts wonderful to have all that veg for the winter. -A most interesting video Liz.

[@LizZorab]

Many thanks!

[@terenceshearer3276]

Good vid and story. I hope the young employee works out. He seems motivated. And keen to learn

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

Hello Liz, my parsnips grew, but not well this time so I will be sowing two different varieties to ensure a good crop. I will have potatoes, Jerusalem Artichokes, carrots, claret sprouting broccoli, cauliflowers and opria. Lovely update my friend's. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

[@LizZorab]

It's been an odd growing year, hasn't it?

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

@LizZorab something that we all will have to adapt to in the coming seasons to ensure we have something to eat throughout the year.

[@Bearcub599]

👍👍👍

[@ErnieCG]

G o o d video

[@TheFarmyardGarden]

Wow… now I have to add voles to the list of potential critters wanting to eat crops before I do! 😳😩 Shame about the parsnips. Interesting to see your purple sprouting broccoli. I featured mine in my last video. I’ve been stunned at how large it’s grown. Interesting to see the dwarf Jerusalem artichokes. I’d been put off trying them for fear of their height. You have so much lovely food growing still. What do you grow under cover over winter?

[@1phloxy]

❤

[@denisenewman1578]

Thanks for the fab video. How do you cook your beetroot for then freezing? We ❤beetroot 😊

[@LizZorab]

I wash the roots, boil in unsalted water until soft-ish, flash cool under running water and rub off skins. Drain last of water and leave roots to finish cooling in a colander or bowl. When cold I cut into pieces and freeze.

[@denisenewman1578]

Great thank you 😊

[@andecrew4]

I’m curious how cold you get through the winter.

[@LizZorab]

We live in the equivalent of US zone 8, although we don't get the summer high temps that more US zone 8 gets. It is however, very damp here. The humidity levels are always high, so it makes the cold feel colder (if that makes sense).