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Hello friend, today we're going to spend some time in the garden picking green beans, cabbage, broccoli and a few tomatoes. We're also going to do some work in the high tunnel to fix an issue I am having with my peppers. I hope you enjoy coming along with me.
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[@nancycowan6109]

What I love most about you, Chelsea, is that you pick your produce with so much reverence. I know you love and appreciate your harvest for, of course, the food it provides but also for the beauty it is. And then you pass your joy on to us. Thank you for all you do. ❤️

[@debihurd9801]

You are my kind of momma! Taking care of your adult children is high on my list of priorities!!!

[@vickihill4777]

Here is my corn story….we planted a small amount of corn once just for the fun of it and it grew well. We checked it and decided that the next day would be our big harvest of about 8 ears. We were super excited. The next day we went out and rounded the corner and a raccoon was eating the last ear. He threw it down and ran away fast. We discovered he had picked every ear and taken a bite out of each one and then threw it on the ground. It’s a good thing he ran or I might have forgotten about the possible rabies and choked him . We just thought it was so rude to do that. Another reason that I don’t care for raccoons. I’ll tell you about the raccoons versus our trash cans sometime when the raccoons went to school.

[@staciegreen9950]

How lovely that you share with your children. The very essence of family ❤

[@bellabailey1183]

Oh my goodness! Not only is your garden efficient, but also so absolutely beautiful!🩵💙

[@dennisbentson823]

Would you maybe show giving your chickens all the fabulous treats they get?

[@sharondore2792]

Team canned! My mom would start beans in the morning after she cooked some bacon in her pot. Add onion and cook til translucent then add beans and some water or broth to the bacon, grease and onion. They would be on low all day til just about supper then she added potatoes. Slice up a ripe tomato and homemade bread is all you need. Sometimes left over ham or a big ham hock would be used instead of bacon. The best meal in the world.

[@lindahansen9395]

I am going to try that. Never thought to add potatoes to the green beans, bacon and onion. Yum!

[@scotserve]

You know you can tell your good parents because when you have the extra food the first people you think of is your family that's certainly going to help them out this winter. I think every country is suffering from high food prices at the moment i know the UK is. Glad to see the bunkie is still in great shape i remember Dan building it i alwas call it Dan's baby. Look after your wrist. Jean.

[@donnag1582]

Becky from Acre Homestead made bread with some zucchini flour she made from her freeze dried zucchini.

[@hollyu48]

I absolutely love canned bean I will pop a jar and eat them cold for lunch!

[@amberlovejoy]

There is this awesome local rancher.. every Christmas he gives each of his kids a whole or half beef (depending on what they can store) and he often plays Santa to local families and blesses them with the same.. I love that. My daddy was always known to show up to folks houses with his pickup full of groceries and his overflowing garden vegetables.. I sure miss him 🥺🥺❤️❤️

[@kelligarza5199]

I'm so jealous. I live in Texas and we've been in an excessive heat warning for at least a week now. At the moment, it's 114 F or 45.56 C. Our dirt is pure red clay. It hasn't rained in over a month. The giant grasshoppers have taken over. I would love to need to wear a hoodie. Can't wait for the tomato video!! It's so hot here that watching other people's yard work and gardening is very relaxing. Thank you!

[@chandraachtenberg3123]

Right there with you. August in Texas is no joke. Hoodie probably won’t get worn until those couple weeks in January or February it’s cool enough not to smother in it.

[@lynnclendenin2988]

I certainly can empathize! I’m in South Carolina, and our July was the hottest on record and then Debby came calling, not once, but twice!

[@inezbranscum529]

I'm in hill country Texas..111 degrees here on my back shaded patio. My garden can't be saved it's totally burned up. No fall garden for me. I give!!!!!!

[@kathrynmauro8673]

I'm in Central Texas. Just north of Austin. It has been so hot.

[@silviamagda]

Oh my goodness. I can't even imagine how hot it must be. I live in the north of spain and basically all summer we had 20 something degrees (celsius). We had some days with over 30 and 1 day with 40.

[@johnensminger7675]

Thanks for sharing your life with us! Wow.... that's so cool..all that harvest! Enjoy your channel so much!

[@iartistdotme]

Your garden with flowers looked especially pretty today - when you got the wagon and went to pull the cabbages. The boquet was really bautiful and those Shasta daisies were giant things of beauty. WOW I kept thinking that if all this color is in your garden, no wonder you love gardening. I began planting flowers in my garden 2 years ago and it changes the 'feeling' that I have while working in it. Have to comment on those hot pads, also. They are just beautiful and adds another thing of beauty into your kitchen, just perfectly. You have a warm and inviting garden, kitchen, and Bunky. So happy for you all.

[@lisagrafton2529]

Have you considered lifting up your pumpkins and pulling something under them, like hay, cardboard, or even pumpkin leaves, so they aren't sitting right on the wet dirt, where bugs and bacteria can attack them, and cause them to rot, just before you want to harvest them?

[@KerriHammond-mr2cy]

They appear to have landscape cloth under them.

[@sharonpeta2390]

That won’t make a difference

[@teeshebas2478]

I have put old tiles under my pumpkins to keep them off the dirt.

[@rubyhutchinson9092]

There's a youtuber I watch that grows gigantic pumpkins and he sticks sand under his pumpkins

[@mjackson780]

I love canned green beans. Possibly because I never had frozen beans growing up. My favorite thing to can.

[@patriciawilson6524]

Love love watching you harvest and preserve your vegetables.

[@janicerowberry7966]

Canned, my mother would doat least a 100 qts of beans. they were always the best. We picked and broke beans twice a week with my aunt and uncle and my grandparents and mom and dad and as many kids that were home. My mom worked full time and still found time to can she was amazing.

[@rev.ruthe.gallot9103]

I like to pressure can beans (no salt) and make Dilly Beans (a pickle) with the most straight ones. They look nice in the 12 ounce straight sided canning jars and make a nice gift (I have one friend who loves them)

[@sheilaMagilicudy]

Amazing harvest. Yes things in the lower mainland are crazy expensive. I can't get out of a grocery store under 175.00 now and that is no meat or veggie as I like the butcher and the local market... Costco for the bulk. Having to share with family is what it is all about. You and your family are very blessed being able to grow your produce and raise your animals with such care and kindness. I am canning a batch of rhubarb strawberry pie filling. First time and it looks incredible with the blush color. Cheers Chelsea.

[@wizelbee]

Oh, I see a lot of big green tomatoes that would never make it to red in my garden. We LOVE fried green tomatoes. Canned! When I heat them up I always add applewood smoked bacon to the pot.

[@gardengrowinmawmaw8642]

I love me some canned green beans. We like to add some bacon grease when having for dinner. Cook those beans until the water is almost gone, and you will get a super Southern side dish. In the South, we like them cooked for a long time. Sometimes, I clean my cabbage, wrap the whole head in a paper towel and put it in a zip lock bag, and put them in the refrigerator. They will keep for a long time.

[@buggyfamily47]

I do the same thing- send my canned goods etc home w my adult kids. They love shopping from my storage!

[@deno.520]

Love that bunkie!

[@dennisbentson823]

Freeze dry your yellow squash and put it in everything! I’m sure you have already done this but I was excited ❤️hahah your garden is beautiful

[@lynnhughes]

I want to thank you. I have had gardens mist of my life. But never celery. After you showed some a few weeks ago, i goggled it. And found out you can grow it on your apartment patio. So i went to the store, bought some celery, cut off ghe bottom 2 inches and put it in water. Wow😂😂 its growing. Its to late in the season here in the mountains of Colorado to really grow. But to see those little green leaves to come up. That was awesome. Thank you for showing me how to make some life.🤠

[@Sylvie_M]

I've grown celery inside in winter from store bought cuttings...it's small but the leaves are still nice. Just watch out for spidermite. They seem to be quite susceptible.

[@Sylvie_M]

Under lights of course. 😀

[@rarzoe5466]

This is wonderful and beautiful garden you have Chelsea, your family must be proud of you God blesses, such a energetic mama . I am watching you from South Africa KwaZulu-Natal, next month September Spring is starting ready for planting

[@lisagrafton2529]

When I need ice water to cool down veggies, etc, I use the ice packs that you use for keeping a cooler cold. They last longer, and can be refrozen, and I don't have an ice maker in my refrigerator, so I'd have to plan ahead and make ice in my counter top ice maker, or buy ice, which seems a big waste.

[@annhendrick8681]

Great tip never thought of using one of those!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

That's a great idea!

[@joanhepp922]

Also,freeze empty milk or juice bottles (plastic) and use them for ice water baths.

[@aprild714]

Such a good mom... Family I'm hoping one day i can send my child off with homegrown protein. I'm at the point with produce and canned goods at a limit but want to get to the point of complete abundance to share 🎉

[@elissapoh7782]

Lower mainland bc - I take the tomatoes off when they start to blush because of birds and squirrels 😂😂😂

[@michellelitaker1962]

I make a cabbage stew. I cut up Teruips like you would for a roast. Put carrots in I put baby carrots in mine but garden carrots is better you put as many as you want. Let them cook tell almost tender then put your chop cabbage in I like to leave it in bigger pieces cook that for a bit then when it starts to change I put 2 packs of Smoked sausages in a 1/2 inch rounds. Then I put young Squash and zucchini rounds and you can also poop what other vegetable you want in it are use water but you could also use chicken stock to start out the cookie with

[@paulaelves5160]

i love i,m not the only one that sends my child home with bags of food,even when she say,s i,m ok,..yes but do you need this, just incase you might need this, this has less sugar than shop bought lol xx

[@LadyCinnamon312]

Pressure canned green beans are my favorite! I did 73 quarts this summer

[@codya8684]

❤❤❤❤love watching

[@melodiewager7909]

The beginning of the end of the summer garden is so bittersweet! The tomatoes and green beans are staying productive, but the summer squash and peppers are reaching their end. Part of me rejoices in continued beans and tomatoes, and part of me is ready to quit them and move on to apples and winter squash.

[@TLadret]

I was tying up my work boots the other day and tweaked something in my hand! Can barely lift my coffee cup for the last few days for goodness sakes! Figured out why it happed though I think, it was over use from peeling 12 pounds of pickling onions (those tiny white ones). Aging gracefully my ……😉! Haha! Looking good doing it though ….. right?

[@nanapaula1031]

My Friday nite just got better

[@SallyGreimes]

Consider adding Japanese Black Trifele tomatoes to your garden. They are a paste shape and heaviest producer I have grown. They are an 80 day grower. Their flavor is so dense and rich of heirloom variety. A few years back my dad and I were making Indian relish which requires 2 qt of ground green tomatoes per batch. I had 6 JBT tomato plants that year, out of those 6 plants we had enough green tomatoes to make 3 batches of drained green tomatoes! There is so much meat to them, and little seeds. I have found them on Amazon as the easiest vendor.

[@dennisbentson823]

Hang some of your fabulous photos on metal in the bunkie ! It would be amazing

[@rhondaworsham6780]

I can my green beans in chicken broth. I have used chicken bouillon also. My family loves them that way.

[@CityGirlGoneCountry]

Team canned. I'm from the south and we warm them with bacon grease. Yummy!

[@SauerPatchGardening]

I think all mamas send their adult kids home with food! I know I do! My son came over for just a few minutes today and left with a bag of some things I'd canned. 😂

[@silviamagda]

❤

[@susanburd4553]

And the one raiding the garden will be dinner, but fried green tomatoes are so good.youtuber that 1870's homestead used zinc in her green beans when she canned them and they came out just as green as they went in and as our bodies need it why not

[@tammielewis2438]

Green beans! YES! Any way except for the way my grandma would cook them. Boiled with bacon grease for a half hour.

[@laurielyon1892]

I just recently started freezing cabbage sometimes, but I've never blanched mine and it works great for me.

[@MagdaRantanplan]

i like my Beans all the ways. I love the crispness of fresh ones, the frozen ones also stay quite crisp and i love that for just simple stir fry beans. But i also like them canned, the beanwater i drink and i also like how quick the canned beans are just heated up (essentially i fry some bacon and onions and just throw the canned beans on top, let it heat through, done) edit: oh, and DillyBeans, or ready made beansalad, that i also like canned.

[@user-te3ff8np1s]

Bent over to pick up a half bucket of water, got compression fractures all down my back.I know how you feel.

[@emileewelch9058]

I use cattle panels or hog fencing for my tomatoes and peppers and then I just read bailing twine to tie up my peppers and tomatoes so they don’t fall over

[@greenrockgarden2851]

I love harvesting and preserving with you. ❤ I can enjoy gardening with you after I’ve already pulled my garden. I could do succession sowing, but I’ve been taking it easy the last couple of years. We went to the orchard to get apples to preserve today.

[@vickiwood9192]

I was raised on canned green beans and thought they were delicious. We did nor always have electricity, so freezing was not always an option.

[@Tiffythompson17]

My husband travels the US for work and he loves staying in farm bnb's.

[@karincope3019]

I too send meat home with our kids . I am fortunate game meat my husband gets . Moose is my favourite. We sausage our deer mostly.

[@user-de6em7rg5f]

Love your channel so much and love to see your garden and hear the chickens crowing reminds me of my grandmother's house God Bless

[@LittleMountainRanch]

Thanks so much!

[@maryh8230]

I had to chuckle when you said you feed your adult kids when they're there and send them home with food. I do the same thing!!

[@TheNoTillGardener]

Glad you are keeping an open mind with the canned green beans! I wonder, though, if your using a large amount of salt in the jars might be changing the taste profile of the beans you can? The frozen beans are not salted, where as when putting salt in your jars, it seems a lot, even for kosher salt or flaky canning salt. Try measuring no more than a scant teaspoon of canning salt into your jars. I’ve been canning green beans for 50 years and typically only use 1/2 teaspoon of salt per jar. I am wondering if the seemingly large quantity of salt may be overpowering the bean flavor, which can be subtle. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing your life on your ranch with us. We do enjoy it so.❤

[@kikomartin-pr]

I’m team canned. I miss the ones I use to get from my mother in law.

[@1944chevytruck]

WOW! BIG JOB!

[@belieftransformation]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful knowledge & experience with us! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦

[@theresaegbuniwe5808]

Remember last year you said you wished you had gotten tomatoes in varying stages of ripeness to make canning less fast and furious.

[@cindy-ki8ex]

I love my beans canned. To MD frozen ones are rubberie. I guess to each their own. You always have so.much from the garxen. Of course I live alone so the amount I need to preserve is much different and I can in mostly pints and half pints.

[@jaymchari]

I loved how your garden has thrived and looked so much that I went back and wanted to see it from the beginning. I watched from your videos of you in your grow room up, I think in February this year, until now. It's so cool to be able to see this awesome journey, thank you!

[@susanwitte350]

You have the most beautiful garden! The views, the plants and the veggies are all so beautiful!

[@09echols]

Love the amount of production in your garden

[@deidrecruickshank7975]

I too have an older child who comes to visit, and eats and goes home with food....I can't even think of not providing him and his wife with goodness out of my garden. Could you not have your older ones out to give you a hand with say pickles, seeing as you have an overabundance....😅❤

[@lucindasutt7365]

Your harvest is fantastic. Lots and lots of work.😊

[@fionamacdonald347]

Hi Chelsea, I love the way do you videos, it's like you are talking to each one of your fans like they are there with you, so cool, so natural. I live in New Zealand so a lot of the varieties of vegies you can;t get here, I only recently found a supermarket that sold spaghetti squash, but I look forward to the tomato list. Re the bees could you not move them into the high tunnel for the winter after you have harvested all the vege, it could also maybe protect them from wasp attack, keep up the great videos and I look forward to tomato canning.

[@junewrogg6137]

WOW!!! You amaze me. Beautiful garden! Love all the processing.

[@mjgullickson5168]

I sure enjoy watching your videos. You share so much of yourself, and are so genuine. Green beans: frozen whole beans and canned cut beans, that is how we like them. And the way we eat them as a favorite, is blistered in a skillet with a bit of butter.

[@lorita3488]

CHOCOLATE ORANGE ZUCCHINI CAKE Favorite Recipes of the Sutton Families & Friends Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups flour (unsifted) 1 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 cup cocoa 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. cinnamon 3/4 cup soft butter 2 cups sugar 3 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. grated orange rind 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini 1/2 cup milk 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts Recipe instructions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine flour, cocoa, baking, powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. With mixer beat together the butter and sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs; one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini. Alternately stir dry ingredients and the milk into zucchini mixture, including the nuts as a last addition. Pour into a greased & floured 10 inch tube pan or Bundt pan. Bake in oven at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly. Drizzle glaze over top. Cut into thin slices to serve. GLAZE: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tbsp. milk and 1 tsp. vanilla; beat until smooth. I like to replace a tablespoon of the milk with 1 Tbsp. orange juice.

[@brianandtamiolson2330]

You are an amazing women, human, person. I love you and your channel. Omg I sound like a stalker, hahahahaha. Just wanted you to know that I’m learning so much from you and your channel. Thank you so much for all you do. Love from California

[@sgrvtl7183]

Your garden is beautiful! I love the ground cover between the rows of veggies and flowers. Just SO BEAUTIFUL💚

[@charlacarson473]

You brought me to my happy place 😊

[@heathernotzdaniels6350]

Beautiful Elise!! That is my favorite style of hot pad, and when I get a basket of remnant yarn, I always make as many as I can, Chelsea will be getting a lot of use out of them I am sure. How wonderful that you did that for her!! :)

[@cindyparker9920]

We would love to trade our weather you for a few weeks. All this week it has been around 106* everyday. We are in south central Texas. Your cabbage 🥬 looked delicious.

[@dennisbentson823]

How absolutely beautiful ❤️

[@evelyndole4618]

Deep South Homestead KZbin show you a simple way to dry corn 🌽 on the cob really interesting you should watch!

[@nicolettedorfling9788]

I love love your energy when you are in your garden. ❤❤❤❤

[@annhendrick8681]

What about dill pickle relish or sweet pickle relish for fixing potato salad or relish for hot dogs or what ever you would need a pickle relish for. I don’t remember you saying you had done any of that!

[@judyhorn6931]

Can beans are the best for me!

[@kskorner74]

You can lay your corn out to dry on its own. I have also learned that once a tomato blushes, it will taste exactly the same whether if finishes on the vine or on a table 😊

[@melindawargowsky8176]

Last year I made circles of 2’ chicken wire to go around my peppers. (Inexpensive lightweight zip ties to make circles.). Worked great😊

[@79PoisonBreaker]

Did you know every test of flavor/sweetness on tomatoes shows if they blush on the vine they will ripen with same flavor as if stayed on vine entire time. the only tomatoes that have less is when picked before they blush completely green. that's what university tests show anyhow. leaving on vine after they blush has no flavor /sweetness impact. I pull mine when they blush so squirls can not take them and they can not split if rains, they taste just as good .

[@lytieuanh1993]

Enjoy your channel so much!

[@jillcaponi8995]

I find frozen gr beans tough and chewy. I can mine. I heat them gently in the microwave with lots of butter and season salt. 🤷‍♀️

[@judygalbreath2935]

Love cann beans, or fresh 😊

[@kaybusby7507]

Pumpkin pie filling yummy 😋. Thank you for sharing.

[@kathleensturm4116]

Love your videos.

[@HuberRhonda]

Greetings.. at the end of harvest and you have green tomatoes left.. try storing them in a black tote lined with layers of straw and newspaper.. the climate of your root cellar should have you getting your own ripe tomatoes for Thanksgiving..😎

[@lynsmith2698]

Hey Chelsea, great news getting a new queen, Winston is a great guy who gives great customer service. I have been growing Manitoba bush for the past four years and have finally given up on them, so I will look forward to seeing what other tomatoes you grow. I found the Manitoba’s split or had split lines all over them. So time to change, great video as usual. Take care 🌷🇨🇦

[@CrazyCrafter-le9ge]

I have always loved home canned green beans. I have never canned yellow beans since they have a different flavor to my palate. I remember my grandmother canning them just by water bathing her green beans for hours. Yes I know that is not an accepted way to can green beans and I follow accepted procedures. All I know is that we never got sick, and they tasted great. Things were different 50 years ago. Our climate and pollution levels have changed immensely. I just raw pack green beans with salt. Nothing else.

[@katrienvh4289]

One of the best soups ever you can make is cucumber or pickles and tomatoes... Melt butter, add unions, then sliced cucumbers and tomatoes. Broth and peper and salt. When soft, mix it. So good! You can add some cream if to make it even better

[@granniehomestead]

Have you fried pumpkin blossoms , so good!!!!

[@ramonasmithson439]

Love canned green beans. We chop up bacon and onions and cook until bacon is crisp and onions are transparent. Then add your green beans and slowly cook they are delicious.

[@anncurran4704]

Team canned, never frozen.

[@SPshaun]

I prefer canned green beans. My mother grew up with them and I did too. I love them cooked/warmed with onions and bacon.

[@kimsmith3451]

Don't you love the squeakiness of brassicas???

[@karincope3019]

Putting up another run of potatoes this am as I watch . Love the Hot Pads .

[@karenfromnj3104]

Your garden looks beautiful!! I like frozen green beans but also keep canned on the shelves. Your Bunkie is really nice Thanks for the video!😊

[@SandyRogers-vv3hy]

YEAR OF THE PICKLING CUCUMBER!!! I live in the high desert of New Mexico - very opposite weather and terrain from you. I have pickling cucumbers like I have never seen before!

[@LittleMountainRanch]

You're not the only one I've heard that from.

[@kimberleejensen4990]

You might want to try stinging nettle tincture and wrap your wrist with a tincture wet towel or cloth at night when you sleep for a few days, cover the wet cloth with a wrap used for sprains, heals up pretty quickly