One of my first harvests of broccoli many years ago that I was so excited about, I steamed a big bunch for dinner. To my shock when I raised the lid... the broccoli was covered with uncountable worms!!!! I now give a quick soak with vinegar to make sure that does not happen again!
so thankful for your joy at the garden. it gives me a lot more hope for me trying to start my garden here in Australia to help my small family unit but also my extended family. many thanks and blessings
Discovering that something is way better than you initially thought is a wonderful testament to the joy of unexpected surprises and the delight of exceeding expectations. Your experience highlights an openness to new possibilities and a willingness to embrace the unknown, leading to a more fulfilling and rewarding outcome than anticipated. This positive attitude and willingness to explore beyond initial assumptions reflect a genuine appreciation for the little joys and surprises that life has to offer. It’s truly uplifting to see how such moments can bring about newfound appreciation and satisfaction. And I am Floating Village Life.
The way you can multi task is amazing. You're so excited about the garden and all the delicious food you are putting away for your family. Thank you for sharing
Your demeanor, your use of words like exciting and awesome, and your willingness to share your craft is a welcome break from this world we inhabit-physically and digitally. Some day I will get my family further from the urban landscape, so I can garden a bit more than a plant here and there. Excellent harvest!!
so nice to watch a video that do not have annoying background music!! Thank YOU for not doing that to us...love how u explain things...easy to understand
Oooh when you were unsure of your broccoli harvest, I immediately wanted you to be pleasantly surprised that it would be a good harvest and it is, yaaa!
Amazing broccoli haul. So happy your garden is producing so much! Love watching you process all your food. I’m glad that you have the kids help you cut up all the broccoli and cucumbers. When we were small and living at home the 5 kids always sat at the kitchen table cutting up whatever needed to be processed that day. It always brings back memories when I process my own food. Happy canning this week. I kinda cheat when I make pickles and use Mrs. Wages pickle mix. It just makes it easier for me. It also makes me so happy to be able to process food even tho I’m going thru chemo. Makes my heart happy ❤
Thank you for the broccoli tip. I once grew broccoli and seen the bugs and I never grew it again. But thank you I will try again next year to grow broccoli.
The day before you harvest broccoli or cauliflower make in a spray bottle a solution of 1 part really strong coffee to one to two parts water. If you have seen bugs or bug activity due one part water otherwise two parts water. Shake well. Now spray the entire plant even the underside of the leaves. Bugs can't stand the coffee smell and flee. The effect I found lasts about a day to a day and a half. The coffee will washoff during harvesting process. I still inspect to be safe but it is nice to know the risk is diminished. I hope this helps.
I have had one of the best gardens i have ever had this year. My broccoli has been great. We planted about 20 cabbages and i am working on getting them processed. First time i have had such beautiful cabbage. I am trying your pickled cole slaw recipe. I have harvested 4 nice cauliflower and have more coming on. Not as big as your harvest, but it is just my husband and i left at home. Love your garden and your enthusiasm.
I make macaroni salad with Bread and Butter pickles, celery, canned red peppers and scallions. A Family requested item every summer picnic. Try Bread and Butter pickles in Macaroni Salad! You'll love it.
I just started another round of basil and I thought my cat had munched a couple of the tops off but I looked closer and a little caterpillar had made it inside onto my starter trays.
Thank you Chelsea for showing frozen dill heads. I never thought of that. I was just getting rid of it in my compost. Darn! Thankfully garden season isn’t over. ❤
What a great harvest after the crazy weather early on. The netting to protect from cabbage moths is a dandy tool. Have seen very few butterflies this year out on the coast. Those garlic cloves are huge!
I have never worked with bees so how can you find a Queen Bee in all those bees? I love seeing all the things you harvest from your garden. It just amazes me how you can take a seed, plant it and it produces a huge vegetable. God is good!
looks like you had very little insect damage. lovely harvest. I am hoping for a great harvest of my tomatoes and potatoes this year in Calgary. Last year my garden was attacked by flea beetles.
Hello Chelsea! I used to can alot just like you do, my kids are grown and have families of their own now. So I don't can much anymore. When I did, like you, with dill pickles, only dill, garlic and brine. With my sweet pickles, I used pickling spice and a sweet brine. Never had enough broccoli or cauliflower to freeze. I did freeze up lots of crookneck squash and corn. I also canned a ton of green beans. I made dilly beans and carrot pickles as well. You are a VERY busy lady right now. I am surprised you can take the time to make videos for us!
I made 12 quarts of giardinera and used my jalapenos that i grew to spice it up a little. I just canned 24 quarts of dill pickles and Im doing sweet pickles soon! I love this time of the year!
Thanks for this, I enjoyed it! I am a fellow enthusiast for great harvests and preserving food. My wife loves fermented dill pickles best, so that is my main pickle focus. I just did some in a vinegar brine too as both my crocks are fermenting away right now. I’m quite astonished and impressed at how much you multitask, I would be terribly flustered 😅!
I have just noticed that you are barefoot in your garden. I'm a firm believer that it grounds you to the earth and so very good for you! Awesome broccoli harvest.
I made spicy pickles for my daughter and her friend last year and they said they were so good they'd never like eating pickles anywhere else. So, at the beginning of this season her friend asked if I'd be making them again. Well, every single one of my plants died! I think it was bacterial wilt from cucumber beetles. I replanted and will hopefully at least be able make a little bit of pickles. I'm so glad I saw in your previous video that dill can be frozen!
So beautiful! That broccoli is incredible! And the cabbages along with cauliflower that’s coming soon you will be stocked nicely for your family this year. Awesome ❤🎉
I've also only seen a single cabbage moth this summer. We live many hundreds of miles north of you, but whatever has held them back for you seems to have worked it's magic here as well. Normally, by this time of year, there would be swarms of them in my garden, and their second generation of larva would have hatched
I love watching you harvest and preserve all the fruits of your labours. It must be so satisfying knowing that you've achieved all this through your own hard work. My mum always pickled her own onions and red cabbage and they tasted so much better than so bought. In the warm weather, she also always had a bowl of what she called summer salad, in the fridge ready to eat. Not sure if it was a wartime recipe, but it was simply sliced onion and cucumber steeped in malt vinegar. Nothing fancy, but very tasty.
Just want to say Chelsea I enjoy your channel I get excited when u post coz I learn so much from u do an excellent telling us in simple steps for every one to understand
Now that was fun, really fun watching all your preserving! The broccoli was amazing. I always made dill pickles like you did - only several cloves of garlic, brine and plenty of dill flowers and stems. One difference is after cutting the blossom ends off I usually sliced the cukes into 4 pieces so I could get more into the jars and also remove a little of the seeds, too.. I really stuffed the jars and we all loved them that way so much. I do need to try your mixed pickle recipe. YUM
I soak my pickling cukes for a few hours, or even overnight, in cold water before processing them. It seems to crisp them right up, even if they were a little bit wilted
It's lovely to see how happy you are with your harvest. But no wonder you were a bit worried. We call them gurkens were I live I love them but I'm the only one. So as usual I get to eat a jar to myself then drink the vinegar. Don't like sweat pickles. When you talk about bread and butter pickles I haven't got a clue what you your talking about. I hope you're bee's are okay. Jean Scotland.
Nice broccoli harvest!! Nice harvest of all. I don't use pickling spice for dills either. Oh my, those fermented dills are gonna be garlicy...lol. Good job!
I'm pretty sure I missed the variety of broccoli you planted this year, but HOLY WOW! Those have to be the biggest heads of broccoli I've ever seen! Can you share the variety again and which seed company has them? I'd appreciate it. I just love all of your videos & when you're in your gatden this time of year, it's like watching a kid on Christmas morning!! Thanks in advance for the broccoli info. Gid bless yoy & yours 🙏🙏🙏
You are the Bob Ross of homesteading. I find myself re-watching your videos just for the relaxation your voice and content bring.
Wow. I completely agree.
Same! 😂
I agree. I absolutely love Chelsea!
I love her voice and yes, it is very relaxing.
Her videos also remind me of This Old House and the same comfort nostalgia feelings.
Wish I could grow a garden this big
Your ability to multitask is impressive!
One of my first harvests of broccoli many years ago that I was so excited about, I steamed a big bunch for dinner. To my shock when I raised the lid... the broccoli was covered with uncountable worms!!!! I now give a quick soak with vinegar to make sure that does not happen again!
Uuuuugggghhhh😮
You had a protein with your broccoli
Green vegetables are very good for health, I like them very much.
I'm excited for you! You're a real inspiration!
so thankful for your joy at the garden. it gives me a lot more hope for me trying to start my garden here in Australia to help my small family unit but also my extended family. many thanks and blessings
Discovering that something is way better than you initially thought is a wonderful testament to the joy of unexpected surprises and the delight of exceeding expectations. Your experience highlights an openness to new possibilities and a willingness to embrace the unknown, leading to a more fulfilling and rewarding outcome than anticipated. This positive attitude and willingness to explore beyond initial assumptions reflect a genuine appreciation for the little joys and surprises that life has to offer. It’s truly uplifting to see how such moments can bring about newfound appreciation and satisfaction. And I am Floating Village Life.
The way you can multi task is amazing. You're so excited about the garden and all the delicious food you are putting away for your family. Thank you for sharing
OMG 😮😮 those broccoli 🥦 heads are huge!!!
AMAZING BROCCOLI! ANDCAULIFLOWER!
Your demeanor, your use of words like exciting and awesome, and your willingness to share your craft is a welcome break from this world we inhabit-physically and digitally. Some day I will get my family further from the urban landscape, so I can garden a bit more than a plant here and there. Excellent harvest!!
Hello. I am also a gardener in Vietnam❤
so nice to watch a video that do not have annoying background music!! Thank YOU for not doing that to us...love how u explain things...easy to understand
Looks great!😊
The sheer happiness your videos bring me each time is priceless, thank you so much for opening your home to us ❤
Oooh when you were unsure of your broccoli harvest, I immediately wanted you to be pleasantly surprised that it would be a good harvest and it is, yaaa!
Harvesting days are my favorite days in your garden! Thank you
Ich schau aus Deutschland ,toll ,super ,ein so schöner Garten, ich beneide dich um ihn ,du machst das sehr gut 😊toll
Amazing broccoli haul. So happy your garden is producing so much! Love watching you process all your food. I’m glad that you have the kids help you cut up all the broccoli and cucumbers. When we were small and living at home the 5 kids always sat at the kitchen table cutting up whatever needed to be processed that day. It always brings back memories when I process my own food. Happy canning this week. I kinda cheat when I make pickles and use Mrs. Wages pickle mix. It just makes it easier for me. It also makes me so happy to be able to process food even tho I’m going thru chemo. Makes my heart happy ❤
I agree, gardening and canning is exciting! Especially all the beautiful jars😊
Thank you for the broccoli tip. I once grew broccoli and seen the bugs and I never grew it again. But thank you I will try again next year to grow broccoli.
I just love your energy. Always so positive! Makes watching your vlogs so easy.❤
Thanks Chelsea I finally understand what bolting means.
The day before you harvest broccoli or cauliflower make in a spray bottle a solution of 1 part really strong coffee to one to two parts water. If you have seen bugs or bug activity due one part water otherwise two parts water. Shake well. Now spray the entire plant even the underside of the leaves. Bugs can't stand the coffee smell and flee. The effect I found lasts about a day to a day and a half. The coffee will washoff during harvesting process. I still inspect to be safe but it is nice to know the risk is diminished. I hope this helps.
I'm surprised to see you harvesting w/o your Joey Apron!! That was the BEST recommendation you've ever given!
It started hurting my back this year for some reason. Not the aprons fault, but my back not liking weight in the front.
I have had one of the best gardens i have ever had this year. My broccoli has been great. We planted about 20 cabbages and i am working on getting them processed. First time i have had such beautiful cabbage. I am trying your pickled cole slaw recipe. I have harvested 4 nice cauliflower and have more coming on. Not as big as your harvest, but it is just my husband and i left at home. Love your garden and your enthusiasm.
You need a garden apron with big pockets. Works great.
She has a really great one. She must have forgot to put it on.
Beautiful ginormous 🥦, wow!
Beautiful broccoli! You Rock. Your garden is gorgeous. Hugs Chelsea ❤
I make macaroni salad with Bread and Butter pickles, celery, canned red peppers and scallions. A Family requested item every summer picnic. Try Bread and Butter pickles in Macaroni Salad! You'll love it.
Alum in the brine will keep pickles crispy
I like vegetables and like the way you talk, thank you
Beautiful
I love that you find so many things exciting. Living with so much enthusiasm is a blessing.
I just started another round of basil and I thought my cat had munched a couple of the tops off but I looked closer and a little caterpillar had made it inside onto my starter trays.
Wow your garden is so beautiful 😊😊😊 love it❤
Your garden is beautiful. I can not how big your vegetables are. So, nice.
Enjoy your well deserved swim!❤️
Can't imagine seeing such big cucumbers and gathering all kinds of veggies great job. I support. Am new in your channel ❤
Our weather in Utah has been so crazy. I only got tiny heads of cabbage this year. Most of my broccoli bolted. Yours are beautiful! Congrats!
❤❤❤❤ I am so Happy for you ! So exciting !! ❤❤❤😊
Thank you Chelsea for showing frozen dill heads. I never thought of that. I was just getting rid of it in my compost. Darn! Thankfully garden season isn’t over. ❤
What a great harvest after the crazy weather early on. The netting to protect from cabbage moths is a dandy tool. Have seen very few butterflies this year out on the coast. Those garlic cloves are huge!
❤all your excitement with gardening and life 😊😊😊😊😊
I am so happy to see your bountiful harvest. Great begining. So glad to hear about the new queen bee.
You have so much knowledge it's amazing! Thank you so much for sharing I am new to this all and learn so much from all your videos
Looking like a good harvest, love watching you
We use the big cucumbers for making dill spears. We didn't do a garden this year but will next year. I miss the fresh veggies.
What a beautiful harvest! Love watching you in the garden and kitchen, you look so happy, and we can't forget the farm animals too!!
When we get cukes that are too big, we halve them and scoop out the seeds and use them for tuna boats. Very refreshing for lunch on hot summer day!
That’s a fabulous idea!
I will be doing my pickles this week.
I'm cheering for your broccoli and cauliflower. They can be such a finicky crop but you are getting a great harvest!!
She’s the Brassica QUEEN!
I always put a grape leaf on the bottom of the jar and then another one on top. Crisp dill pickles as a result.
I’m amazed at your garden each year, I can’t grow anything to save my life 😂
I have never worked with bees so how can you find a Queen Bee in all those bees? I love seeing all the things you harvest from your garden. It just amazes me how you can take a seed, plant it and it produces a huge vegetable. God is good!
😲that broccoli harvest! Congrats!
Amazing harvest! Yum!
So happy for you 😊
and the placement of your camera to give us that view... fabulous!
Can't wait for the gardiniera making video!! I love that stuff so much!! Your harvest is insane!! I love it!
Nice, very interesting♥♥👍👍
looks like you had very little insect damage. lovely harvest. I am hoping for a great harvest of my tomatoes and potatoes this year in Calgary. Last year my garden was attacked by flea beetles.
Thank you for the update on the bees
Hello Chelsea! I used to can alot just like you do, my kids are grown and have families of their own now. So I don't can much anymore. When I did, like you, with dill pickles, only dill, garlic and brine. With my sweet pickles, I used pickling spice and a sweet brine. Never had enough broccoli or cauliflower to freeze. I did freeze up lots of crookneck squash and corn. I also canned a ton of green beans. I made dilly beans and carrot pickles as well. You are a VERY busy lady right now. I am surprised you can take the time to make videos for us!
Use a bay leaf or a tea bag for crispness. Tannin is in either one.
I made 12 quarts of giardinera and used my jalapenos that i grew to spice it up a little. I just canned 24 quarts of dill pickles and Im doing sweet pickles soon! I love this time of the year!
Thanks for this, I enjoyed it! I am a fellow enthusiast for great harvests and preserving food. My wife loves fermented dill pickles best, so that is my main pickle focus. I just did some in a vinegar brine too as both my crocks are fermenting away right now. I’m quite astonished and impressed at how much you multitask, I would be terribly flustered 😅!
I have just noticed that you are barefoot in your garden. I'm a firm believer that it grounds you to the earth and so very good for you! Awesome broccoli harvest.
So happy for you! Massive broccoli haul!❤❤❤
That was so much to get done and still have time to go swimming at the lake. Great job!
I made spicy pickles for my daughter and her friend last year and they said they were so good they'd never like eating pickles anywhere else. So, at the beginning of this season her friend asked if I'd be making them again. Well, every single one of my plants died! I think it was bacterial wilt from cucumber beetles. I replanted and will hopefully at least be able make a little bit of pickles. I'm so glad I saw in your previous video that dill can be frozen!
So beautiful! That broccoli is incredible! And the cabbages along with cauliflower that’s coming soon you will be stocked nicely for your family this year. Awesome ❤🎉
Hi Chelsea! I truly enjoy all your videos!!!!
The pickles are beautiful! so happy you are getting a good broccoli harvest too!
Exciting harvest 😊
I’ve only just started seeing cabbage moths as well (Abbotsford) - it’s been so nice!
Love, love, love watching your harvests!
I love you and your excitement! God bless!
Good job sisters ❤❤❤
I've also only seen a single cabbage moth this summer. We live many hundreds of miles north of you, but whatever has held them back for you seems to have worked it's magic here as well. Normally, by this time of year, there would be swarms of them in my garden, and their second generation of larva would have hatched
Love your show.
Man, this year's cucumbers, though! That's wild. And the gorgeous heaps and heaps of broccoli...I'd be in heaven!
I love watching you harvest and preserve all the fruits of your labours. It must be so satisfying knowing that you've achieved all this through your own hard work. My mum always pickled her own onions and red cabbage and they tasted so much better than so bought. In the warm weather, she also always had a bowl of what she called summer salad, in the fridge ready to eat. Not sure if it was a wartime recipe, but it was simply sliced onion and cucumber steeped in malt vinegar. Nothing fancy, but very tasty.
You’re a natural at this
Just want to say Chelsea I enjoy your channel I get excited when u post coz I learn so much from u do an excellent telling us in simple steps for every one to understand
All these green veggies, love it! 💚
hi nice vidio we are planting more broc for the fall
I have a zillion cabbage moths but no cabbage! That broccoli crop is amazing. Cheddar broccoli soup….yummm enjoy your swim!
What a nice video. Just came upon your site by chance and I love it.
Now that was fun, really fun watching all your preserving! The broccoli was amazing. I always made dill pickles like you did - only several cloves of garlic, brine and plenty of dill flowers and stems. One difference is after cutting the blossom ends off I usually sliced the cukes into 4 pieces so I could get more into the jars and also remove a little of the seeds, too.. I really stuffed the jars and we all loved them that way so much. I do need to try your mixed pickle recipe. YUM
Chelsea, I’ve been making cucumber water all summer. Strange to be addicted to water!😍🇨🇦
Nhưng cây súp lơ nhìn rất đẹp và ngon.anh ấy chăm sóc rất tốt ❤
I soak my pickling cukes for a few hours, or even overnight, in cold water before processing them. It seems to crisp them right up, even if they were a little bit wilted
It's lovely to see how happy you are with your harvest. But no wonder you were a bit worried. We call them gurkens were I live I love them but I'm the only one. So as usual I get to eat a jar to myself then drink the vinegar. Don't like sweat pickles. When you talk about bread and butter pickles I haven't got a clue what you your talking about. I hope you're bee's are okay. Jean Scotland.
Bread and butter are sweet also
Chelsea, I made your zucchini relish this week and it was amazing! Thank you for sharing that recipe 😎
Biggest cloves of garlic I've ever seen! Thanks for sharing!!
Wow👍🌺👍🌺👍🌺
After you pick broccoli it still grows my hubby used to pick them
Nice broccoli harvest!! Nice harvest of all. I don't use pickling spice for dills either. Oh my, those fermented dills are gonna be garlicy...lol. Good job!
I'm pretty sure I missed the variety of broccoli you planted this year, but HOLY WOW! Those have to be the biggest heads of broccoli I've ever seen! Can you share the variety again and which seed company has them? I'd appreciate it.
I just love all of your videos & when you're in your gatden this time of year, it's like watching a kid on Christmas morning!!
Thanks in advance for the broccoli info. Gid bless yoy & yours 🙏🙏🙏