Mid December Harvest Tour of our Permaculture Kitchen Garden

[@maitera.7112]

Great video! It's great to see that you can still get so much from the garden this time of year. I live in Montreal, Canada (no too far from you daughter). Our winters are too cold here and we get a lot of snow (not this year, but usually we do), so I'm not able to keep vegetables outside in winter time like you do. But, this summer we built a greenhouse (unheated). So, for the first time I still have carrots, kale, lettuce, leek, cabbage, mâche, miners lettuce, parsnip, in December. It's amazing! :)

[@GrownToCook]

That's wonderful! It really is amazing what a difference even a bit of protection makes!

[@wahtunluscombe5032]

I am living in the mid north coast of NSW Australia. Summer is on the way , started to harvest snake beans, green beans of all kinds, okra is coming along, bitter melons are flowering and chillies are coming back. We are lucky to have lettuces all year round here. Enjoy your video and love you interesting tips and are helpful. Thanks

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you! So lovely to hear my videos are interesting for you even though our climates are quite different!

[@thepumpkingardener243]

I wish I could grow in winter! I'm a very small garden channel, and for Christmas I'm watching/liking/commenting on other small garden channels. Hoping to help the algorithm recommend great new/small garden channels! There are some great new channels out there! Merry Christmas!

[@thepumpkingardener243]

We have very short days here in winter, but we do get long days in summer

[@janking2762]

Re the broccoli that didn’t make heads, all of the brassicas have edible leaves and stems, some more edible than others. So we eat brassica leaves as “mixed greens” instead of/in addition to broccoli heads or cauliflower heads, etc. The leaves are often more frost resistant than the flower heads.

[@GrownToCook]

That's a good point! I have also already picked some gf the leaves and used them as kale but forgot to mention that in the video!

[@robertdean1579]

I live in central Alabama in the USA. I usually just plant clover as a winter cover crop. However, spinach, cabbage, turnips, etc. grow quite well here during the winter.

[@melstill]

The amount of food you manage to harvest even at this time of year is impressive. It encourages me to keep trying to increase my own garden yield. And though the critters consumed my cool season crops again this year, hope springs eternal and I'll be trying again.

[@michaelfoort2592]

try growing some of your carrots in the greenhouse to harvest in spring

[@nickkingston8929]

Go Go growers in UK its january2021 start planting feed your neighbours this year

[@rajishmaharaj7552]

Lovely harvest

[@ClausenWorld]

Your channel came up on my feed. New subscriber here. Hello from Texas in the US. I’m harvesting leafy greens, brassicas, carrots, and snow peas from my winter garden.😊

[@GrownToCook]

Welcome and thanks for subscribing!

[@09echols]

You can eat the broccoli leaves so that less energy is going into leaves and you might get an early spring head.

[@GrownToCook]

Interesting suggestion, thanks!

[@badbambi85]

Yes to the cooking video

[@GrownToCook]

I'm working on it! But the editing is going to take a lot of time

[@hesterfardau1]

Leuk, al die groenten in de winter! Ik heb sinds een paar jaar een polytunnel, en eet nu ook verse bladgroenten in de winter. Maar ook venkel en bietjes, en pastinaak! Laat gezaaid, ergens in augustus, maar het doet het goed. Ook weeuwenteelt kolen, ben benieuwd wat die doen in het voorjaar. Groeten uit Friesland 😊

[@GrownToCook]

Geweldig! Ik moet ook dingen als venkel gaan proberen

[@ricardo4420]

Your Videos are an inspiration, Greetings From Portugal.

[@barah.7140]

Dobrý den Věro, zdravím do Nizozemí a díky za další inspirativní video. Jsem ráda, že nejsem jediný blázen (toť vyjádření mých rodičů :D), který v zimě v 20cm sněhu běhá po zahradě a sklízí zeleninu :D Hodně zdaru, Baruš ze Zahrady inspirované přírodou....

[@royharris1]

Love your videos. I was introduced to them by Huw Richards who also recommended your book 'Edible Paradise' which I have just finished reading and thoroughly enjoyed. I've have just started to renew my interest in gardening after many many years and I'm in the process of setting up (with lots of raised beds using 'no dig') a vegetable/fruit plot and a new greenhouse. I'm envious of all that lovely produce you were picking in this video and I'm aspiring to achieving similar results myself next year. I am totally sold and inspired by your thoughts on polyculture; it makes such good sense. I live in Wales so I think the climate is not dissimilar to yours (maybe just a little behind regarding our first frosts). Please keep these amazing videos coming.

[@cek7940]

That's a beautiful basketful!!

[@Jan-Boer]

Nice that you have such a good video again. Thanks. May be more often as far as I'm concerned. I only make videos about potatoes and I succeed every week.

Paradna uroda 👍, ja mam v skleniku aj rukolu 😃, zvysne struciky cesnaku - len tak na zeleno a redkev bielu. Mali sme zopar minusov, ale mangoldu sa zatial dari aj vonku bez ochrany. Nech sa dari ♥

[@GrownToCook]

Dekuju! Rukolu jsem zapomněla zabit, zkusím to někdy v lednu az se dny zas začnou prodlužovat :)

[@shirleybags3737]

I'm so glad to see you! I am subscribed and have your book, and it really gives me a boost (and a kick on the derriere 😏 seeing your crisp produce filling your basket) to pop out and get some food in👩🏼‍🌾... thanks to watching your videos all last year, and Charles D., Hugh and Liz) I now have crops growing in my front and back gardens, and things like potatoes in bags to use at leisure... and I'm hoping next year will be even better!... I'd love a more polyculture garden, but it's good to see you still grow some things en masse in raided beds as I do, as I really do love the site of veggies growing in rows😏. I live in Middle England, in Oxfordshire, so luckily I still have land lettuce, flat parsley, chard and beets growing outside, as I don't have a greenhouse... but it's on my wish-list for when a friend can help me with it, once we can all help each other once again☺... I have a few physical and mental health issues, and I'm not as young as I once was!, and this last year of watching you all, and getting ontop of the awful garden I inherited when I moved in, has made SO MUCH DIFFERENCE, and of course eating fresh produce😋🥦🥕🥒... so "Thank You!" and I hope that you and yours have a wonderful, healthy and happy Christmastime 🤶🏻🥦🍎🎄🥣😏😋👩🏼‍🌾💚

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you for your lovely message, Shirley! I'm so happy my book and videos have helped you a bit to make your productive garden! Happy holidays!

[@MXiong-et5qn]

Yesss!! I’m subscribed and look forward to see the cooking video soon. =)

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you! I'm working on it every day this week! And finding out how hard it is to film in our tiny kitchen :)

[@rondalynnchapman7717]

Thank you for a great video

[@kaarekolstad2193]

I subscribed! Looking forward to learn from you. I never learned gardening and cooking, and I like to learn from you, because you show what you grow and how to cook very healthy delicious meals. :-)

[@GrownToCook]

Tusen takk, Kaare!

[@oishd6077]

Wat een overvloedige oogst. I am learning Dutch recently because i plan on studying in NE and it's such a fun language. 💚

[@GrownToCook]

Wow! Good luck with the learning! I've only started learning Dutch after I met my husband when I was 22, but I spoke Norwegian and that helped a lot since the languages are quite similar

[@galiahoupt4753]

Hi, yes you can definitely use carrot either shredded raw or slightly steamed, another very good recipe to use the parsley raw is the Moroccan carrot salad. Taziki is great too and I make it with a lot of parsley and you can add raw kale to it

[@GrownToCook]

Thanks for the recommendations! I used a bunch of parsley in a lentil salad yesterday (cooking video coming next week I hope) but there's still some left.

[@shadowharlequin77]

Love your videos!

[@thomasdixon4857]

Thanks for your great tour of the winter garden. I live way further south and I believe you have a more varied variety of produce. Thanks, Thomas

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you, Thomas! I hope you found some inspiration for your garden :)

[@debbiestip]

Heerlijke video weer! Je ziet er opgewekt uit, goed om te zien. Ik hoop dat het goed gaat met je herstel. Loved seeing all the produce you scramble together even in winter. My plot has tuscan kale, kale(boerenkool), some tiny leeks, chard and a coldframe with some asian greens and lettuce. cabbages or brussel sprouts not anymore because of apparently clubroot :-( Oh and carrots were all consumed by the little one before they got to a harvestable size hahaha. But all in all very glad to be able to harvest still, other plots look depressively bare and empty. gr. Debbie

[@simon250505]

Ahh always a joy to see a new video of yours 🙂

[@GrownToCook]

Thanks so much!

[@mariusluca7936]

Good to see you back. Keep up the good and inspiring work. Thank you for sharing from your garden :)

[@GrownToCook]

Thanks so much, Marius!

[@amandacrown7307]

First time tuning in to your videos thanks for sharing ,

[@JasonSmith-tv2zw]

You said Chioggia perfectly, I love the produce at this time of year

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you! I speak a little Italian - love the language!

[@Mars21681]

Beautiful

[@lenalidberg2041]

New to your channel, and i like what i see. ! I am from the middle of Sweden and i agree that the darkness is the most difficult issue👀

[@GrownToCook]

I'm sure it's even worse where you live! BTW - I studied Norwegian and lived in Oslo for a year :)

[@HelenRullesteg]

Great to see a video from your garden again. I live quite a bit further south so it's not quite as cold, but the lack of light is making a big difference and we hardly get any sun. We still harvest different cabbages and kale, the ones that the field mice don't eat! lamb's ear lettuce and other winter lettuces, leeks and parsley. Cavolo Nero is also one of my favourites although I do like red Russian kale even more. Shall have a look a your blog and see what you're cooking. :-)

[@emmanuelV37]

Loved the video! Such a great update and its so amazing how much food you can harvest mid December despite the cold.

[@GrownToCook]

Thank you so much!

[@9172Nee]

Beautyful carrots😊

[@devon932001]

Loved the update!💚♥️💙

[@GrownToCook]

Than you!!

[@milkweed7678]

Lettuces and spinach still doing well here in zone 6a, IN, US.

[@galiahoupt4753]

Amazing, very inspiring, try making tabbouleh salad with the parsley 🌈👍

[@GrownToCook]

Good idea!Though I would have to use other veg than tomatoes which I usually use for tabbouleh - maybe carrots? How do you make it?

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

You can grow food year round due to your mild winters. You get plenty of light, it's the lower temperature that slows the crop growth. In most of north America, there's a period in winter when nothing will grow.

[@airemay]

Your growing timeline for the leeks gives me hope for my garden! I have some overwintering now and I'm hopeful for a harvest in the spring.

[@cozyhomemakingvibes]

Happy gardening! We’re growing lettuce for leaves under cover. Also giant purple mustard, spinach, kales, and Swiss chard too. We have chickens so loving the Swiss chard frittatas!❤️ happy to see this video. Very inspiring☀️

[@marie-pierberrouard7725]

It’s good to see you! :) We still have parsnips, kale and spinach overwintering here in Canada. ❄️🌨

[@GrownToCook]

Nice to hear that even in Canada some veg will overwinter outside! I totally forgot to sow parsnips this year and am regretting it now. Like with leeks, I think the problem is that there's so much time between the sowing and harvesting that it doesn't seem urgent in spring :)

[@ValerieHarristhefoodiemedic]

I brought in a basket quite similar to yours yesterday.

[@GrownToCook]

That's lovely! I hope you'll get a lot of use out of it :)

[@emilymorelli2820]

More👍🌿🌾✌

[@GrownToCook]

I'll try :) But filming and editing takes a lot of time!

[@kathycook1815]

Beautiful harvest - leeks look wonderful! Will collard greens do well in your area? They are very hardy in the cold in USA and very hearty green vegetable greens. Thanks for the garden update.

[@GrownToCook]

Collard greens are not well known here but I think there's no reason why they should not grow well here too - I'll look into it, Thanks!

[@chrissimsmc]

great garden! i wish my winter crops were as good as yours, i think i have been giving up too early haha

[@GrownToCook]

There's always next year ;)

[@JasonSmith-tv2zw]

You have some lovely produce there. I'm looking forward to your recipes, perhaps you could show us how you do your saur kraut. Those pak choi would be great for making Kimchee if you like spicy cabbage

[@theallotmentkitchengarden3694]

Great video and a gorgeous harvest! I’ve been growing both leeks and carrots together under insect mesh (with some kohlrabi and mooli radishes thrown in), because the allium leaf miner is such a massive problem now in our part of the UK. All my onions that were not covered up got completely destroyed by it this year 👎

[@marjanhelder7988]

Fijn je weer te zien en van je te leren. Ik hoop dat je je weer (wat) beter voelt!?

[@vulk86]

Oh wat wil ik die tuin eens bezoeken. :O

[@GrownToCook]

Normaal gesproken hebben we een open dag in juni of Julie maar dit jaar kon het helaas niet doorgaan. Hopelijk in 2021!

[@vulk86]

@@GrownToCook kan ik me ergens inschrijven op een nieuwsbrief of iets dergelijks? Ik kom wel van heel ver, maar zou het niet willen missen.

[@frankschulte-ladbeck6434]

Being much further south, my winter's are mild. I am still harvesting some beans and squash, but that should be ending soon. I am trying to focus on preparing the garden for next year though.

[@alp8409]

Daughter at University; you're kidding me!

[@GrownToCook]

haha - thank you, I guess?

[@Stevenantel]

@@GrownToCook Ands she goes to Queens, only a couple of hours from where I live (Ottawa). Great school!

[@enidgullo955]

My romanesco have not hearted up either. I haven,t grown them before, and presumed it was because I didn,t leave the 24inches spacing recommended on the packet. But per it,s just not a good year for romanesco? Anne Gullo, Scotland

[@GrownToCook]

Hi Anne, Im not sure what the problem is - I thought I might have sown a little too late? But I'm at least harvesting some of the leaves and using them as kale :)

[@gerdaho1]

Good video, lots of info. On a different subject, how is the pond doing? I saw the blog about the installation, but is there any follow-up on how the plants are doing, how the algae have (hopefully) failed to prosper etc. Can you do a video about that? And about the little pond in your backyard? Thanks.

[@GrownToCook]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll try to do a video on this topic in spring! Just a short answer: the pond is doing well, with minimal care and there are still lots of frogs and newts which we're very happy about :)

[@littlegreenliza]

I'm really enjoying your video series. I live in the Southern Interior of Canada's West Coast not far north of the U.S. border in Sylix Territory of the Okanagan Valley. Last winter I harvested carrots, beets, turnips, kale, cabbage, chard & many herbs all winter long. Some had some damage but I just cut it away & they taste fine. Do you grow rutabaga, turnips, parsnips & other roots for winter harvest?

[@GrownToCook]

HI Allisa and thanks for sharing! I do grow parsnips usually, but my family is not keen on them (I do love the taste myself) so not always :)

[@stefanpop4957]

I love your garden but put taller plants in greenhouse to use all of the volume there.

[@GrownToCook]

That's a good point and I do that in the summer, growing tomatoes, melons and cucumbers vertically (check out this video for instance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2TWaXR-Zb2XfqM). But none of the hardy vegetables we can grow during the winter are very tall :)

[@Liz-lr1ch]

Following yours and Charles Dowding's advice, I have a polytunnel full of winter salads that I am not eating because I want hot food in the winter. Should have planted brassicas in there instead.

[@1tuinman]

Liz look up lettuce soup and roasted radishes....

[@PanJasnovidec]

Maybe try a warm potato or pasta salad, add salad leaves (and anything else) of your choice, drizzle with olive oil + lemon juice and seasoning (and don't forget the garlic!). Bon appétit!

[@GrownToCook]

I can see where you're coming from! Unlike in summer when a salad can be my main meal, in winter I eat salads on the side next to warming dishes like stew and curry or (yesterday) a leek tart. Then I do enjoy them. I also grow some of the Asian greens (pakchoi and yaysoi this year) which I use for stir fries - recipe will be in the cooking video!

[@ancaberbece4899]

are the outer leaves on the cabbage edible? I see you left them in the bed (minute 7:00) thanks for answering!

[@lunadepana]

What is your preferred way to prepare cavolo nero?

[@GrownToCook]

I use it in different ways and I have a few recipes on the vlog, but this one might be my favorite:www.growntocook.com/?p=5144. This week I used this in a curry together with winter squash - video coming soon!

[@dgymdgym3571]

un peu de français, l'objectif de 2021: plus de légumes pour l'hiver!

[@GrownToCook]

OUr cliamte is unfortunatelly too cold for legumes in winter

[@christinerietveld1315]

Wat voor soort materiaal gebruik je voor de wortels af te dekken? Fleece of wat anders. En hoe dit is het.

[@jessemiller2858]

How often do you clean your box

[@GrownToCook]

Do you mean whether I remove the soil from the bed? I do not do that, it is connected to the soil (no bottom) and I just add a layer of compost every spring

[@magnat66de]

Hello... I collect rare ladies rubber boots and want to buy your boots. Are you interested? I pay very well.

[@ppss.6302]

This slapping "permaculture" bs on every surface and activity is almost like a mental condition.

[@GrownToCook]

Sorry, this video doesn't indeed explain what makes our garden a permaculture garden. For me permaculture is primarily a design method (inspired by natural ecosystems) and it is therefore best reflected in the design of our 1/4 acre plot of which the kitchen garden with raised beds is but a small part. Some other elements are a pond, edible forest garden, mixed edible hedge etc. It is the way those interact and create as many mutually beneficial relationships as possible that makes it a permaculture garden. I have written an article about the design for Permaculture Magazine and its also described in my book if you'd like to know more.

[@ppss.6302]

@@GrownToCook higher consciousness/education individuals who fell under a spell of two Australian crooks who came up with this nonsensical perma lingo do not want to be viewed as peasants doing manual labor and other home Ec things our grandparent could do without wrapping it all in the layers of philosophizing and outright bs. In their mind they do rocket science level design. Common. Get real. There is no design of any kind fitting common sense definition of that word. Other than old fashioned gardening rebranded as "permaculture", there are loose mostly unscientific, unproven, unquantifiable, anecdotal, never measured or experimented with "ideas" and outright bs from perma design pyramid gurus. You do not do any design, you just have this vague things you want to try, and you try those things in the most unscientific way imaginable 100% guarantee, and so do I. The only input you do control is amount of labor you are willing/capable of investing. Remove labor from perma "design" and all the elaborate design schemes and masterfully concocted on paper companion plantings and herb spirals (for example)assume natural appearance of marginal or nonexistent utility.