Early Harvest Garden Tour - How I did it…
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- It's only early summer and already there is an abundance of tasty pickings in Ben's garden. Follow Ben as he leads us around his garden showing us everything he has growing and sharing his knowledge. He'll even show us the bits we don't usually get to see, including his food forest, his ornamental border and his wildlife areas.
Get a notepad ready! Here come some handy hints for reaping earlier harvests to help feed your family.
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And here's that tasty zucchini/courgette and parmesan recipe for you to try! Do let us know if you try it. Yum!
1 Sweat down one large, chopped onion and a couple of garlic cloves in a tablespoon of oil until softened (about five minutes).
2 Add 25oz/700g diced zucchinis/courgettes (two to three medium fruits) to the pot, together with 1.25 pints/700ml of vegetable stock. Simmer for 20 minutes.
3 Blend the soup till smooth before adding 3-4oz/100g grated parmesan. Whizz again to combine then serve with a warm, crusty bread.
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Here's that tasty zucchini/courgette and parmesan recipe for you to try! Do let us know if you try it. Yum!
1 Sweat down one large, chopped onion and a couple of garlic cloves in a tablespoon of oil until softened (about five minutes).
2 Add 25oz/700g diced zucchinis/courgettes (two to three medium fruits) to the pot, together with 1.25 pints/700ml of vegetable stock. Simmer for 20 minutes.
3 Blend the soup till smooth before adding 3-4oz/100g grated parmesan. Whizz again to combine then serve with a warm, crusty bread.
sounds great! I tried the BBC good foods recipe with potatoes, spring onions, and cheddar. It was fantastic and everything i used was from the garden so even better! I'd recommend adding a clove of garlic aswell for an extra level of flavour :) great video, cheers for sharing!
This recipe I'll be definitely try can almost taste it thank you so much for sharing.
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Sounds amazing! We’ll definitely be trying this next summer!
My family’s favorite way to have the zucchini is this:
Brown 1 lb of lean ground beef with some diced onions and crushed garlic.
Add 32 oz. (More or less depending on how many were feeding) of tomato pasta sauce.
Add Italian seasoning & salt and pepper to taste.
Then throw in a a bunch of course chopped zucchini and simmer until almost tender (it will keep softening even off the heat, so don’t cook it too long- you don’t want mush!)
Serve with grated Parmesan and some garlic breadsticks.
Always a hit around here, even with the littlest people. :)
This sounds so wonderful!!! Can't wait to try it very soon
According to Australian Lettuce prices right now, I estimate you have $50,000 worth of lettuces in your beds!!!
Very true! He is sitting on a gold mine 😂 they are like $18 in Melbs. I have a garden too, enjoying my lettuce and actually sowed more last week 😊
How much is $50,000 in pounds?
@@davidthescottishvegan roughly £25, 000 ( rate is 1.8 ish)
yup, as an Aussie in uk with a fledgling garden I was flexing on my friend at home in Canberra on with all my lettuce😂💪🦾. only $16 for an iceberg lettuce in Canberra at least!
For lettuce!!!
Ben, your pleasantness is so refreshing. You have shown us that we can make a mountain out of a mole-hill. That has always been a bad thing, but not in gardening. We have gotten so used to seeing these gardening folks, with their tillers and tractors, and one can become quickly discouraged by the amount they "get to do". Their massive harvests; and then seeing how much canning they "get to do". But the truth is, even a little is beneficial and probably a while lot more enjoyable. As always, thanks Ben!
Absolutely - you can create beautiful sights and grow beautiful things in the smallest of spaces! Thanks so much for watching. :-)
@Black Bamboo it's a blessing for sure.
My day always gets better when one of my favourite UA-cam gardeners puts out a garden tour
I always love your videos. Question about companion planting. I’ve been doing it for years but rarely let my herbs go to flower. Do they need to flower to be effective in repelling or attracting….?
Thanks guys. :-)
In answer to your question Elizabeth, I think lots of the benefits from herbs as companion plants comes from their strong smell (confuses/repels pests). However, by letting them flower you are also attracting pest-eating insects such as hoverflies and lacewings, which will then predate on pests. So it doubles their effectiveness.
Ben, your videos have become a weekly tonic. Thank you so much for posting them for us to watch. DA
So pleased you enjoy them. :-)
Hi Ben, greetings from Toronto!
I thought I’d managed to watch all of your videos by now but this one just popped up a year after it was made. I really love the full garden tour format.
You’re honestly my favourite gardening youtuber; concise and to the point and such a great teacher. Your passion and enthusiasm are infectious, and I have learned so much from you. Thank you, and give Rosie a hug from me. ☺️
Thank you so much for your very kind words. I'm so pleased you enjoy the videos. Rosie says 'woof!' (hello) back. :-)
Awww Rosie. 😍
Just havested the first new potatoes, and they were gorgeous. My grandchildren and all the neighbours kids sitting in the sunshine eating them with butter. It was a picture 🌞
Thanks for all your advice
I think they were called Arran, but not 100% sure. This was my first year growing anything, and it's only now I realize how important it is to take note of the variety. I think it was beginners luck this time. 🙂
So pleased Linda. This is the sort of thing that makes growing your own so worthwhile.
Melt in Ur mouth new spuds, absolutely delicious.
The rewards are worth the efforts.
Wow! That's wonderful! I'm sure those children will always remember that beautiful day eating your garden fresh potatoes with butter! That's a wonderful childhood memory!Thanks for sharing! 😃
Thank you for not forgetting our little critters that are helping us doing what they do best..👍👍🇺🇸
So important to look out for those guys too! :-)
Your enthusiasm when you pick your vegetables is so inspiring😊 I love your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Jo - and I will do. :-)
Your garden is simply stunning!! Well done 👏👏👏
Thank you. :-)
I think I found my favorite garden master to watch. Great information. And your gardens are so pleasing to the eye. The variety of vegetables you have there is impressive.
You truly have a beautiful garden. I learned a lot from you and it is always exciting finding a notification from you. Thank you very much. You convinced me regarding the flowers in the garden. It is mid winter in South Africa now, but we have lovely weather. Between 02C and 17C. No frost yet. Taking the wife abd kids to the most beautiful nursery today. Enjoy your Sunday. God bless you and your followers.
Thanks so much for following Gert. So pleased you're managing to include more flowers in your garden. :-)
Great time of year to reap the harvest there’s nothing better. Nice one Ben
I'm a fairly new subscriber and every video of yours is better than the last. You seem like such a lovely person. Your family, friends, and subscribers are lucky to have you. Thank you so much for sharing all you do. Your good advice and attitude towards supporting Nature has helped countless people, I'm certain. I know you've helped me and I've been gardening longer than you've been alive. I follow a lot of people and watch a lot of videos but I save yours for last. You're my UA-cam dessert.
Oh wow Diane - that's so kind of your to say, you'll make me blush! I'm so pleased you're gardening and loving it. As a gardener - myself very much included - you never stop learning. That's half the joy of it.
Remember to use the leaves of the beets the its basically chards with a root crop.
Deeeeelicious in stir fries or salads
Thank you Ben for your garden tour....I really enjoyed seeing all the vegetables and fruits....it shows how you have put your heart and soul into your beautiful space......ideal for your daughter to experience too.....XX
Thanks Angela, that's kind of you to say. Always trying to persuade my daughter to try different veggies from the garden - with mixed success!
@@GrowVeg keep at it with your daughter..... 😉✨☓
So lovely to see the whole garden Ben, thank you for sharing 😊
This is Ben's best video yet. Thank you ever so much for your efforts, and demonstrating your enthusiasm, positivity, and knowledge. Now, if only I could even fractionally emulate his garden!
Thanks so much Sandra, it's appreciated.
I loved the ecological features incorporated in your garden. What a beautiful garden you achieved! Really inspiring.
Thanks so much. :-)
Love Rosie!!!!
Absolutely brilliant. Love your videos Ben!
Thanks so much! :-)
It is such a joy for me to watch you in your videos. I always learn something useful. You project emotional sunshine that radiates upon all who watch! Thank you !
Thanks so much for watching. :-)
This channel keeps getting better and better. Love it, Ben!
Cheers Lynn, that means a lot. :-)
I like eating sweetcorn raw as picked, no need to cook all the time, also I warm with butter too.
There are many gardening channels on UA-cam, but yours is my favorite! I literally watch (or rewatch) at least one video a day! Thanks for making the world a better place!
Oh wow, that's so kind of you to say! Thank you for your support. :-)
Howdy Ben! It certainly was a lovely walk around y'all's garden! My goodness! It is beautiful and bursting with food! Six pounds of gooseberries!😃
All the different areas of your garden are looking great!👍
Really beautiful produce! 😃 Thank you for sharing your garden and your knowledge!😀
Miss Rosie is looking cute and y'all's little lady is adorable. I remember sitting on the back porch shelling peas for my mom.🙂
Looking forward to the strawberry tutorial. I need the knowledge!🙂
Thanks so much Valorie - glad you were able to join me on the tour. :-)
Absolutely wonderful to follow you around your little paradise, I'm always inspired by your videos and I especially like the ecosystem perspective that you manage to weave in when you plan the garden. I envy the peaceful life you seem to get to enjoy and I wish I had a garden myself!
Thanks for your kind words. I hope you get to tend a garden one day.
Really beautiful garden - I love how much space you dedicate to helping out wild critters especially!
It's not wasted space either - they help out in the garden, so it's a win-win really. :-)
Gorgeous & Delish for ALL...uv definitely got it all going on!!!
Thank you! :-)
Your videos are a constant helping tool me a new gardener. As well as wonderfully enjoyable.
Thanks for showing us your beautiful garden, it is very healthy, well looked after.
Appreciate that, thank you. :-)
What good vibes you have! Thanks! Good video! Great garden!!
Thanks! :-)
There is so much happening in your garden. Very lovely. Thank you for the tour
Thank you for the tour, I just love your channel!
beautiful food forest!
I can see your joy for gardening. Inspiring!
Excited to see how those apples turn out too!!
We go thru a lot of zucchini too, I usually have about 6 plants. Slice them in salads, make zucchini bread/muffins, egg them and fry them like my mom used to for sandwiches or zucchini parmesean, cut them lengthwise & scoop out the seeds then fill it with meat/sauce/cheese mixtures, saute zucchini & other squash with a squirt of lemon and some herbs for a nice side dish... I love them.
Me too! Great ideas for serving them up there. :-)
I also have two beautiful daughters who I try to get to help me garden. I say the exact same thing: “It’ll be a fun project-I hope.”
Got to fill them with optimism and hope! One of the girls in the video I borrowed to help me - my daughter's friend. I think they got into it eventually, but it took a lot of persuasion!
Hello ,a west African newcomer here from NY.I'm just smiling as I'm following your joy,which remind the joy of Prigioni in NJ.WAW CONGRAT,JUST BEAUTIFUL. NOW I have a 2nd fav GARDENER after CASTER HILL GARDEN. I WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK.LOVE IT.
Thanks so much for your kind words, appreciate it. Prigioni is awesome too!
Hi Ben, this video was the best. Loved seeing you walk through your garden and share what's going on. It was so relaxing and delightful. Thank you for all your wonderful and informative videos!
Thank you so much Grace. I love doing these tours as it's a chance to show off a bit! But I'm very humbled by how lucky I am to harvest so many delicious things - the pure joy of growing your own. :-)
Recovering from knee surgery this year so haven't managed to grow as much as I hoped, but STILL have a millions courgettes!
I like making ratatouille with them, or a courgette, tomato and pepper soup.
Love the garden tour Ben 😍
Glad you're tucking into plenty of courgettes - totally delicious! I hope your knee is recovering nicely. :-)
Cornucopia - Great word!
Cheers Jason - hope you're all good and enjoying the garden.
Beautiful Garden , Cheers .
Thank you for your lovely walk along your garden. It is a beautiful time of the year!
Looks so good!!! And your Rosie looks so sweet!!!! 😍 I love our fur friends! ❤️ oh I love harvest videos!!!!
Thanks so much :-)
I LOVE YOUR GARDEN BEN. WATCHING YOU HARVEST FRESH FOOD STRAIGHT FROM YOUR GARDEN WARMS MY HEART. SUCH PLEASURE. CANG THANK YOU ENOUGH. 🏆
Thanks so much Priscilla. :-)
Watching this in winter 2023 and making me long for the spring.
What a wonderful garden. Your really blessed to have the space and the want to yse it wisely.
I am very lucky! Dreaming of spring now also. :-)
Great. When there’s anything spiked or thorny send in the kids. 😂😂 love it.
Haha - indeed!
My first summer eating squash leaves and they were delicious! I believe the same is true for your zucchini plants.
Oh wow, will have to try this out.
Wow, thanks, Ben for the awesome tour! Your infectious and positive energy is very motivating for those eager to have success in the garden. Thanks so much for sharing your passion with us.
It's a pleasure Brian, thank you for watching.
I cooked zucchini in my spaghetti sauce one time and it was to die for.
Also my favorite steamed medley is: in a saucepan, put a splash of water and a few T of butter, add zuchini and onions, sprinkle with garlic salt, then top off the pan with swiss chard. Cover and simmer for 20-30 min till the zuch and onions are tender. And I've been cooking long enough that I can tell what something will probably taste like so even though parmesan is out of my budget range, the soup sounds to die for!! With a side of garlic bread? Oh, yeah.
That sounds like an awesome recipe there Leslie. If you can't afford the parmesan, try pecorino (which is in fact what I used) or grana pardano. Any hard cheese with that good, natural unami taste would work a treat.
Ben, I always enjoy watching your videos. I wish I can grow veggies like you do. It is not easy, our weather in the PNW does not help. That climbing rose is spectacular.
Our climate is fairly similar - just a bit cooler in the summer I think. That rose is spectacular - it's such a showstopper every year!
Good morning Ben, Clearly you have been warmer there than the PNW. We have had a perniciously wet and cold spring. I'm afraid my harvests have been less impressive so far. Now we are being thrust in to weather whiplash and we are having a few days of a heatwave. Always a different challenge. The up side is, hopefully now, my plants will giddy up and go. Happy summer!
Lol yes, the next three days for us & our plants will be pivotal ☺️👌
I heard about your late start to spring. Hopefully you'll have a 'normal' summer which will bring everything on without getting intolerably hot.
Ben add some gooseberries to strawberries and make jam, you can store and use as you need
Great tip, thank you Gabby.
Wow! The kid eats broccoli? Cheddar and broccoli soup? I'm impressed! That and shelling peas! That makes the garden worth while!
Totally!
Great informative video. You can harvest potatoes without pulling the plants right out. Gently feel around the base of the plants, removing just a tuber or two from each - just what you need for your dinner. Then the plants can keep growing and will give you more tubers. I’m Australia, we call this ‘bandicootjng’. Happy growing. 😊🙏🏻
Sounds like a very sensible approach Melissa. :-)
Love this video
Your garden is absolutely incredible and very inspiring.
Everything was grown in a very well thought out way and your joy and positive feedback on every individual plant shows how much you care. Your family is very lucky, especially your children/child.
Happy Harvesting and thanks for sharing 🌿 🍅 🐝 🌺
Thank you so much for your lovely words. Happy gardening! :-)
Excellent strategy to mow a path thru the long grass! The perfect win-win! 👍
hello Ben,
I came across your channel a few days ago and since then I enjoy your high quality videos with a lot of clear information.
I have plans to turn our entire garden into a vegetable garden at the end of this year to be able to eat even more delicious vegetables.
Thank you very much for your enthusiastic way of "teaching".
Greetings from Holland,
Peter.
That's wonderful to hear Peter. I bet you will cultivate a stunning vegetable garden. Best of luck with it. :-)
Watching on the telly, that rambling rose is amazing 👏!
It's a beauty - I'm so lucky!
Stunning! This is quite inspiring! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to trying that recipe too!
It's delicious Julie - you'll love that recipe I'm sure. :-)
I love courgettes too! Nice video
Hello once again! I always learn something from watching your videos and I really enjoy very much when you tour your garden area. You have so much to say and are a wealth of knowledge, even when you’re just casually talking about what you have done in your various garden areas. I love to see how you companion plant, your successions, and how you harmonize all of these things with various wildlife and insects. My garden is rather modest compared to yours and I really am just a fledgling gardener. You truly are an inspiration and I so appreciate your sense of humor and enthusiasm as well as “quiet spots“ contained in your garden where one may just sit in repose and enjoy God’s gloriousness as he provides such abundant fruits of our labor’s! Thank you! With much appreciation from a fellow gardener, Tom from across the pond.
Thanks so much for your kind words Tom, you're a gent. Having those quiet places to rest and ponder is so important.
I’ve been looking for a garden master for years on you tube. I’ve found some from all over the world and many zones. Finally I found you. Very good information and you don’t dally about with it. Straightforward, I have no questions afterwards. Cover all areas of growing and the best part? Your funny quips. I laugh a lot wondering if anyone else hears them 🤗. Being winter here in Oregon US, I am learning a lot after years of working. I have a very very small garden but I make do. I wish I had a garden partner like you around for personal visits and tea. Carry on 😎
Those are very kind words, thank you so much! It's really lovely to have you on board on the channel. A very warm welcome to you! :-)
Lovely
Love your station with just gardening. So tired of garden shows turning into homesteading and business. Thanks for sharing and being you.
Thanks Barb, that's appreciated.
Grass is really amazind Ben. I've been using it for mulch for some years on my garden. Thanks for reminding me of other uses. I'm looking forward to the comfrey & other garden flowers episode.
Thanks Joy. Hope you enjoy the next video. :-)
Thank you for the tour! It's so interesting to see where others in the world are with their gardens this time of year. Yours looks gorgeous!
Thanks so much. :-)
so beautiful.🌱🟢
I start to like weeding after watching your video, I am going to gain victory over them.
Brilliant! :-)
You are such a nice inspirational guy. You deserve all that wonderful produce
Cheers so much, really appreciate that. :-)
Always Good And Congratulations For Good Work 🎉
Thanks so much. :-)
The gooseberry thorn is also a great cure for a sty in your eye!! (Old Irish cure)
Interesting! 👁️
Lovely. Thank you for showing me round your garden.
I loved following you around for this! Thank you for sharing.
I love your vedios it is for my agriculture project
So pleased you've found them useful. :-)
Love your garden am from Trinidad and Tobago
Thanks so much - really appreciate you watching. :-)
Oh I love those Alyssum, I came across them in our garden centre and I got this waft of a honey-like smell. I loved that, so I've put them in my two hanging baskets which I'm trying out growing cherry falls tomatoes in this year. I'll definitely be getting or sowing some again next year to pop all over the place.
We like to leave some of the self-seeded plants that grow here and there around our garden. We've got some areas where Red Valerian has seeded itself and is growing, well I cannot believe the amount of insects that are attracted to it, it's amazing! The other day we even sat and watched this fascinating Hummingbird Hawk moth hovvering around it. I'd never even seen one before.
Red valerian is fantastic for the pollinators and a superb self-seeder. How lovely to spot a hummingbird hawk moth - what a treat!
Love you're way boss, your garden is from the God's clearly they guide you 🙏 ❤️ and your teaching is from experience thank you my friend for all that teaching 😊
Thank you so much for your kind words. It's lovely to have you watching. :-)
Rosie is so adorable!!
Great video thanks for sharing and the recipe!!!! I’ll have to give that a try
Can’t wait for zucchini season here, shivering in a very cool winter, down under.
A friend gave me a zucchini and pea soup recipe. Sounds similar to yours and was yummy. Must try yours in summer.
Here is hers: Pea & Zucchini Soup
Ingredients
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
3 zucchinis, sliced
1 medium potato, peeled and chopped
3 cups stock
1⁄4 teaspoon salt
2 cups peas
1 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1 tablespoon chopped mint leaves
1 Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic and sauté for 3-4 minutes or until soft.
2 Add zucchini, potatoes, stock and salt and simmer, covered, for 15-20 minutes or until potato is very soft.
3 Add peas, lemon and mint and simmer for a further 2-3 minutes until peas float to the surface.
4 Blend using a stick blender and serve topped with extra mint leaves and cracked black pepper.
I didn’t use lemon rind.
Love your garden. I have a 3 metre by 1 metre raised bed in our retirement village, but I still get plenty of zucchini’s 😄 Will enjoy watching your harvest to get my gardening fix, until it’s spring planting time here.
Thanks for the inspiration!
What a wonderful recipe - sounds like it would taste yum. Thanks for sharing. :-)
You are an absolute gem of a human! I thank you for sharing your beautiful garden & knowledge with the world. I hope to have a garden like yours one day. ✌️💖✨
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it. Hope you get to garden this growing season. :-)
I've already got mine going indoors so far! Tomato plants that are already producing, and seedlings, sprouts, and micro greens. Having wonderful luck indoors, but outdoors I still have a lot of work to do. I am geared up for Spring 🌱🌱🌱🌱 Stay Blessed my friend! ✨
I always love a good garden tour and your garden is beautiful.
Thank you! 😊
Aww Rosie
Ben, Thank-you for sharing your wonderful garden with us! I always look forward to your videos, so inspiring.
Winter. Cold and wet here in the South Island of New Zealand. It's wonderful to see your lush summer garden with all the produce!
You must have worked hard to get all that planted. Thanks for the inspiration
Thanks for watching Linda. Your winter cold and wet sounds lovely right now - record temperatures here in the UK today, expected to reach 41C tomorrow - unheard of. :-(
You are an amazing gardener,I get so much inspiration and motivation from you thank you 😀
Thanks so much! :-)
I love your garden so nice 👍
Thank you. :-)
Just love love love the recipe ideas you tuck into these videos!
Beautiful paradise
The beefy tomatoes plant last year did give me about 15 lbsof tomatoes each plant, very tasty and beautiful color 😋
A fantastic harvest Ben and this is the best part of gardening that I and probably most growing your own plant foods gardener's enjoy. Rosie is cute and a good pest to put up with. A excellent garden tour video. Keep safe, well and happy gardening.
Cheers matey. Definitely the best bit about growing your own!
your garden is looking beautiful!!Yummm.brocoli & cheddar soup..😋I never knew kale could be grown by cutting...
Thanks Melanie. It's the perennial kale I've grown from a cutting (delivered by post!).
Your garden is absolutely stunning! Loved this video! 😍🙌🏻🌿
Thanks Jackie. :-)
Ben, your garden has grown amazingly! It's so lovely! I'll have to remember that pulling weeds is like a computer game - haha!
It certainly is - all good fun!
Love watching these. We just bought our place and started garden beds this year. We had several unfortunate heat waves this spring. Most of my plants bolted. Lol. Been working on saving those seeds and getting new babies in the ground. Thanks for fun videos to watch. And love the garden app.
Thanks Jama. I hope your new babies do well and don't bolt quite so soon.