Don't be too disheartened about the tomatoes Luisa, it is nothing you are doing wrong. The blight tends to come at around this time of year and warm damp conditions are ideal for it. I also had to harvest mine up quickly as it appeared in my greenhouse. You did the right thing in taking them all up. Green tomato chutney is one option and you can also fry the green tomatoes, they are quite nice. I bet they would be super tasty with your Padron chillies 😋. But if you wait they will also turn red in time, leaving a banana with them can speed up the ripening. I have to mention that your Dahlias looked so lovely. 👍🏼
@@owenp65 Thank you! Yes it is unfortunate with blight but luckily the green tomatoes started maturing quite nicely after all, so the loss what not as big as I first thought. The Dahlias are looking so pretty still. I cant believe I planted them late and did absolutely nothing to them. I now totally understand why you like Dahlias so much! 😁😍
Lol, shhh 🤫 don't tell everyone 😄. If you have some favourites from this year you can store them overwinter somewhere frost-free and then split them or take cuttings in spring to increase your stock. 👍🏼😉
Your dahlias ❤ beautiful! I noticed they must be in that round bed on the deck you built earlier.....i remember seeing the round hole wondering what was going there.
Don't give up with the tomatoes 😊 Mine were a disaster for a few years. I tried some old varietes and some hybrids. I kept trying, used mulch, planted them with neighbourhood of different plants and cut off an excess leaves - you WILL succeed ❤ Thanks for sharing. I keep greens in paper boxes 🌸⚘🌷🌹
Wow, what great flowers to start with! Especially the pink and red tones in combination (0:40)!!!!🌺🥀🌸 It may be that the tomatoes don't like the fact that they don't have a roof over their heads. They always say that tomatoes like wet feet, but not water from above. All my friends in Sweden always grow their tomatoes in greenhouses. I think that's the better choice if you live in Scandinavia. I'm sure you'll have a greenhouse at some point. I wish it for you 🙂 What makes rowan berries so sour is the parasorbic acid. It's also unhealthy. It goes away when you cook them, so it makes sense to prepare (cooking/heating!!) them in two ways: the unhealthy part goes away, and that's also the part that doesn't taste good. You have such a great harvest! 👍By the way: the leaves of the beetroot are just as healthy as the beetroot itself. There are some good recipes for what you can do with them (the leaves) - apart from in salads. For example, steaming with garlic, and so on. I think Nico could be a good gardener 🙂 Have a great time, until the next video. 😘
Yeah the tomatoes definitely would probably do much better in a green house. Interesting fact about the unhealthy acid that the berries have. I know many people but the berries in the freezer also before they are cooked. I still have not tried the beetroot or carrot leaves all though they are eatable. This year the beetroot leaves did not look that apetizing either, since they had an infestation of flea bugs in the beginning of the season but I would love to try them steamed with garlic. Sounds delicious! 😋Atvyhe moment Nico wants to become a pilot. 😄Take care Diane!
@@savingsiskola Pilot is also ok. Just a hobby gardener then. 😉 I can understand the thing with the flea bug leaves. I wouldn't be so keen on that either. 🙂
Hello my sweet friend. I am still impressed with your harvest. Tomatoes are the hardest for us to grow here in Fl. They rot. Every time for us. But your veggies looked really good. Wish I there to taste all the goodness you cook..Great video as always Hugs to all of you.
Thanks so much! The veggies taste delicious, directly from the garden to the plate. I wish I could teleport you some crispy fresh green beans fried in olive oil and salt. My new favorit. 😋Take care!
I lost all my tomatoes this year in Sweden as well. This was a "year without a Summer", since it rained too much, and tomatoes and potatoes can easily get blight if there is too much rain. I think that next year I will plant my tomatoes in a small greenhouse instead.
@@savingsiskola I am hearing that many people in the Netherlands and Germany also lost a large part of their vegetable gardens this year because of the excess rain. BTW, my carrots survived but look just like your carrots: like they are mutant...
@@karex99That is sad. You would think that lots of water is good but this year it was just a crazy amount of rain. It is always a bit sad when something goes wrong in the garden but overall I am quite pleased with the harvest. ☺️
I had made another comment that just disappeared. Maybe it was because I added a link to a recipe... In any case, One of the things you can make with green tomatoes is chutney.
@@karex99 Yes, i would love to make a chutney. The tomatoes are ripening nicely but the taste is a bit bland so perhaps a chutneyn would give them an extra kick. ☺️
Täällä Suomessa laitetaan muutama omena tai sipuli tomaattien kanssa pimeään kaappiin tai paperipussiin. Näin kypsyminen edistyy nopeammin. Vihreissä tomaateissa on glykoalkaloideja. Se on myrkyllistä, joten vihreiden tomaattien syöminen tai valmistaminen ruuaksi ei ole suositeltavaa. Kypsentäminen vaikkapa Siskolan omenoiden kera on järkevämpää.
Don't be too disheartened about the tomatoes Luisa, it is nothing you are doing wrong. The blight tends to come at around this time of year and warm damp conditions are ideal for it. I also had to harvest mine up quickly as it appeared in my greenhouse. You did the right thing in taking them all up. Green tomato chutney is one option and you can also fry the green tomatoes, they are quite nice. I bet they would be super tasty with your Padron chillies 😋. But if you wait they will also turn red in time, leaving a banana with them can speed up the ripening. I have to mention that your Dahlias looked so lovely. 👍🏼
@@owenp65 Thank you! Yes it is unfortunate with blight but luckily the green tomatoes started maturing quite nicely after all, so the loss what not as big as I first thought. The Dahlias are looking so pretty still. I cant believe I planted them late and did absolutely nothing to them. I now totally understand why you like Dahlias so much! 😁😍
Lol, shhh 🤫 don't tell everyone 😄. If you have some favourites from this year you can store them overwinter somewhere frost-free and then split them or take cuttings in spring to increase your stock. 👍🏼😉
@@owenp65 😄 I will definitely try to store them somehow. 👍☺️
I hope you will be able to use everything you were able to harvest!
Thank you! ❤️ So far I have been able to use almost everything. 😊
Rowan berries make great jelly (jam). It sets and stores very well and is lovely with savoury food as well as toast etc.
Funny you should say that, because this it what we made of it. 😄
Hope things go good for you
@@DaveCollierCamping Thank you, how kind of you. 😊
Your dahlias ❤ beautiful! I noticed they must be in that round bed on the deck you built earlier.....i remember seeing the round hole wondering what was going there.
Yes thank you! They are there! ☺️
You got a pretty good harvest, sis! So jelly that you got to eat peas! 😁Hugs! ❤
@@Laura_Dovalo I was thinking of you when I ate the peas and remembered last year when we picked them. Miss you! ❤️
Don't give up with the tomatoes 😊 Mine were a disaster for a few years. I tried some old varietes and some hybrids. I kept trying, used mulch, planted them with neighbourhood of different plants and cut off an excess leaves - you WILL succeed ❤
Thanks for sharing.
I keep greens in paper boxes 🌸⚘🌷🌹
Thank you so much for your encouragement. ❤️ Perhaps next year I will be eager again to plant tomatoes but just a few. ☺️
There are blight resistant tomatoes and potatoes. I know lots of growers swear by them in the UK. Good luck!
Perhaps that would be something to look into. Thanks! 😊👍
Wow, what great flowers to start with! Especially the pink and red tones in combination (0:40)!!!!🌺🥀🌸
It may be that the tomatoes don't like the fact that they don't have a roof over their heads. They always say that tomatoes like wet feet, but not water from above. All my friends in Sweden always grow their tomatoes in greenhouses. I think that's the better choice if you live in Scandinavia. I'm sure you'll have a greenhouse at some point. I wish it for you 🙂
What makes rowan berries so sour is the parasorbic acid. It's also unhealthy. It goes away when you cook them, so it makes sense to prepare (cooking/heating!!) them in two ways: the unhealthy part goes away, and that's also the part that doesn't taste good.
You have such a great harvest! 👍By the way: the leaves of the beetroot are just as healthy as the beetroot itself. There are some good recipes for what you can do with them (the leaves) - apart from in salads. For example, steaming with garlic, and so on.
I think Nico could be a good gardener 🙂
Have a great time, until the next video. 😘
Yeah the tomatoes definitely would probably do much better in a green house. Interesting fact about the unhealthy acid that the berries have. I know many people but the berries in the freezer also before they are cooked. I still have not tried the beetroot or carrot leaves all though they are eatable. This year the beetroot leaves did not look that apetizing either, since they had an infestation of flea bugs in the beginning of the season but I would love to try them steamed with garlic. Sounds delicious! 😋Atvyhe moment Nico wants to become a pilot. 😄Take care Diane!
@@savingsiskola Pilot is also ok. Just a hobby gardener then. 😉
I can understand the thing with the flea bug leaves. I wouldn't be so keen on that either. 🙂
@@nane5159 He is really into planes at the moment. 😊 There were many flea bugs in the beginning of the season this year.
Hello my sweet friend. I am still impressed with your harvest. Tomatoes are the hardest for us to grow here in Fl. They rot. Every time for us. But your veggies looked really good. Wish I there to taste all the goodness you cook..Great video as always Hugs to all of you.
Thanks so much! The veggies taste delicious, directly from the garden to the plate. I wish I could teleport you some crispy fresh green beans fried in olive oil and salt. My new favorit. 😋Take care!
My harvest is like yours some good some not so good
I guess it is like life, a balance of good and bad but hopefully more good. 😊
I lost all my tomatoes this year in Sweden as well. This was a "year without a Summer", since it rained too much, and tomatoes and potatoes can easily get blight if there is too much rain. I think that next year I will plant my tomatoes in a small greenhouse instead.
Oh no! You as well! It really was a very rainy summer for tomatoes. A greenhouse is definitely a better choice. 😊
@@savingsiskola I am hearing that many people in the Netherlands and Germany also lost a large part of their vegetable gardens this year because of the excess rain. BTW, my carrots survived but look just like your carrots: like they are mutant...
@@karex99That is sad. You would think that lots of water is good but this year it was just a crazy amount of rain. It is always a bit sad when something goes wrong in the garden but overall I am quite pleased with the harvest. ☺️
I had made another comment that just disappeared. Maybe it was because I added a link to a recipe... In any case, One of the things you can make with green tomatoes is chutney.
@@karex99 Yes, i would love to make a chutney. The tomatoes are ripening nicely but the taste is a bit bland so perhaps a chutneyn would give them an extra kick. ☺️
If you put your green tomatoes in a box with ripe banana they will ripen.
Yeah! Turns out that they ripen quite nicely, but I avtually do have bananas quite close 😊
Täällä Suomessa laitetaan muutama omena tai sipuli tomaattien kanssa pimeään kaappiin tai paperipussiin. Näin kypsyminen edistyy nopeammin. Vihreissä tomaateissa on glykoalkaloideja. Se on myrkyllistä, joten vihreiden tomaattien syöminen tai valmistaminen ruuaksi ei ole suositeltavaa. Kypsentäminen vaikkapa Siskolan omenoiden kera on järkevämpää.
@@Rita-pp2jo suurin osa tomaateista kypsyivät melko nopeasti, joten ei tarvinnut käyttää vihreitä.😊👍