Afternoon :) I harvest my jalapenos green so that the plant will carry on producing then towards the end of the season i let them fully ripen to red (there at there hottest when they are red with crackle effect on skin) Great vid as always Trace a girl after my own heart gardening with alcohol lol
Great video. I loved walking round with you especially when Mervyn Mole turned up 🤣 The garden is looking really good even with the weeds which I know you'll soon dispose of. I agree about the bees. I have a huge lavender Bush and it's usually covered in bees but this year I've hardly seen any here in the South East.
Butterflies, moths, and bees are definitely missing. Here in North shropshire, we had bees and butterflies on the wing in march, way too early in the year. It's been a very good year for strawberries. You're veg and fruit is looking good.
The daisy looking plant looks like chamomile or may weed.if you cut the flower down the middle and its hollow, it's chamomile. Chamomile has a distinctive smell as well . Loving your garden, it's looking fabulous .we've had very few pollinators and butterflies this year 😢, but thousands of ants 😬
It looks like being another bummer crop this year Tracy , despite the rotten weather . Yes the insects, was telling my wife earlier, I cannot remember the last time I washed flies and midges of the radiator grill and windscreen on my car , very strange .
Jalapeños look ready. They have the shiny bloom. I’d pick them. They freeze well whole until you have enough to process, or eat fresh, ferment or pickle. I leave the best producing plants to go red to make fermented sriracha. I throw a red thai chilli in the mix too. It’s a favourite in our family. I like it too but prefer sweet chilli sauce.
Thank you for that - I was trying to remember what I did before and they were definitely green for the recipes I made so yes I agree, going to pick the larger ones. Freezing whole - why have I never thought of that! Do you save your own pepper/chilli seeds? I prefer sweet chilli sauce too, as does Grace :)
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Yes, I do save my own seed but I grow them in separate areas. I didn’t realise they didn’t cross pollinate. Never have much success with sweet peppers except Toro Rosso. I’ve finally found a chilli that I dry and whizz up into chilli flakes. It’s called Tescos medium red chillies. Saved seed from one at the beginning of Covid. 😄
It never ceases to amaze the differences in weather zones... down south we've harvested all our currants, summer raspberries and gooseberries and are just starting to bring in the blackberries and the jostaberries... can you remind me what you do with the jostaberries other than jam? The syrup's do they have to be kept in the fridge?
Morning Sean. I’ve bundled these together this time and make a syrup for the winter as that’s something Steven uses daily. Yes, 2 climates or more sometimes!
@OurSmallholdingAdventure Hi Tracy do you keep the syrup in the fridge? I'd like to do the same but have limited fridge space...I wonder if waterbathing would make them shelf stable what do you think ?
The syrup is really high sugar content so should be fine boiled then on the shelf. I don't WB if I recall (my memory is shocking)! but I won't be WB this way anyway, only boil with sugar and pop on shelf then fridge when opened,
I spotted blight on one of my potato patches yesterday 😩 I’ve never had it on my potato’s. I’m gutted. I need to work out what to do. I don’t normally suffer with the mole in my garden in summer but guess what? I have this year! It must be so wet at the bottom of the hill still. So yes up in my garden. Not eating the whoppa slugs though 🤦🏻♀️ why don’t these slugs have any predators?! This last week, we’ve finally had more bees and butterflies but it’s a strange old year for everything. Lovely vlog as usual ❤
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure I’ve never experienced potato blight so from what I’m reading I’ve spotted it early. Annoyingly it’s in the bed I planted last so I doubt the spuds are well developed. But I’ve taken the tops off. And I’ve ordered some fungicide stuff. My other bed that I planted much earlier seems fine, they are starting to look like they may be ready to harvest so I might just get on with it. We will see what happens. Nothing will surprise me this year. It is what it is!
I,m very impressed with your outdoor tomatoes. I think blight has hit us. A couple of plants have the dreaded brown patches. They’re about to flower so I’m happy to cut back and leave the spuds in the ground for now. We’re the same re the insects. Hardly any about and I’ve only found a handful of eggs on my cabbages 😢nice in one way but very sad ink another as we need them. My overwintering Japanese onions are amazing this year. First time I’ve successfully grown them and will definitely be sowing them again this year but not just yet. I’m wondering if there’s a shortage and that’s why the garden centres/online people are already marketing them? What variety are your over winter carrots? I’ve sown Eskimo this year. Have a good week.
I have the same carrots and another one which escapes me now! The Japanese onions are going in again here too. We had a few insects at the weekend but nothing at all like normal, very strange. I hope there isn’t a shortage, it’s hard enough for folk anyway to grow this year. Hope you’re well :)
Garden looks fantastic. Was this filmed a week ago? We’ve had a week of sunshine further south of you. Hope you managed to process all those lovely currants. Your onions look amazing! I think we sowed onion seeds around the same time as you. Ours were finished over three weeks ago. We only had red baron, Sturon, Walla Walla and Beds Champion (and banana shallots) properly (eventually) germinate and complete to harvest. Bedfordshire Champion and shallots did the best in size and cured well. Others are fine but took longer to cure well enough to store. Very few small ones this year which was a first. No idea why. Didn’t do anything different. But, yep. They were definitely ready to pull by late June. Leaves browning and necks bent or softened. I’d definitely pull any that are ready, better they’re out of the ground to use or cure, really. People have discovered onion fly grubs in the roots this year. We don’t get onion fly but it can happen at any time. That said, we cover anyway against allium leaf miner so maybe the covers prevent the onion fly too. Dead envious of your gigantes. Hopefully all those flowers produce a fantastic harvest for you. We only have about 40 left (after sowing 20 for this year) for our summer Greek gigante marinade we look forward to eating every year for Al fresco nibbles. Pretentiously pretending we’re island hopping in Greece! 😂 Our pods only produce two seeds and the vines are never prolific like yours. Have you ever tried canning them? We’ve never had enough to fill the PC and daren’t try until we get a bumper harvest. I do like them in stews but never remember to soak them overnight! 🥴
Morning Amanda! Yes, last weekend - I'm a week behind since the plot tor but it worked out well. I think I'll start putting the dates on for reference actually. The currants have been amazing - I have about 3/4 of them harvested so far, my new berry picker did not work well. Re the onions, these are the biggest I have grown - I am thrilled with them. Despite the sun this week, we still have showers which is a pain as I obviously want them dry. Interesting on the different curing times. Onion fly is a new one on me - thank you for the learning. Tell me more, Greek gigante marinade? I haven't canned the greeks as I freeze but I think they would hold up very well. Hoping to give them a go if the flowers turn to beans! Lots and lots of flowers right now but still no pods. I'll have a good look this week. Take care.
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Hi again. I’d definitely pull your onions that have flopped over. Will you be curing them under the outdoor kitchen area roof or in your barn store? Or on trestled pallets? Just seen your more recent vlog, didn’t look like white rot, just rot from a hole. I couldn’t see too clearly but couldn’t see the white fungus stuff. White rot also smells horrid. Could be caused by a slug hole or mouse bite. Hope it’s not white rot though. That WOULD be a bummer to have that in your garden! Have you had a chance to look closely? Were they the sets or your own seeds in that bed? With a slight breeze and not too clumped together, the onion heads and roots will dry quickly. Or perhaps pull them on a sunny windy morning and leave them a few hours for the roots to dry a bit in situ then bring them under cover to cure. Much better out the bed than in waiting for the rain to stop, IMO. I’ve never rinsed onions of soil but have seen others do it to easily check no onion fly grubs are in the onions. And they dry fine. I’ve only ever shaken the worst of the soil off and laid them to dry. It’s always such a rush to do it and lay them out. They soon dry enough to cure with enough airflow. Favourite Olive oil, lemon juice (and a squeeze of lime juice if you have some), salt a little pepper and chopped fresh green herbs of your choice. We’ve used oregano before but prefer parsley, dill (plenty) and mint. Mix well then add to slightly warm cooked but firm beans, stir then chill or eat immediately. Add anything you fancy. Chilli flakes, extra squeeze of lime/lemon. Yummy.
Blooming youtube - I am not seeing these replies unless I manually go and find them, so I've added it to my daily list to start doing as I don't want to miss valuable info like this! Thank you, just catching up. What fabulous information you have. The first lot of onions I had in the shed initially as there wasn't too many. I had a "good idea" that wasn't! So the next lot will go in the barn initially (very crude on spare, long pallet) and then the driest will go in the outdoor kitchen once cured enough. That is SO good to hear on your white rot thoughts as I have been wondering the same! These lot were sets and only 3 in the end. I've never had the onion fly grubs, so hopefully won't be an issue. Would you pull the onions that haven't flopped yet? My last bed look amazing (on the smallholding tour video). Either way when I pull them, we have plenty of nice days ahead to leave them on the bed for the day to dry out a bit. Thank you so much for the dressing idea! Copying that now!
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure If the weather is ok, the upright onions look green and healthy, no sign of damage/disease etc, no need for the bed for follow on transplants, Yes, definitely keep the good onions in. Most of our main bed were bent over and we had poor weather which is why we pulled the lot out. The ones still really perky took muuuuch longer to cure despite manually bending them over. 👍🏻
I am so sorry you have bindweed in it’s a B to get rid of. I have been trying and the key word is trying to keep my tomatoes pruned but the heat limits my outdoor work. Don’t grow jalapeños but lots of great advice here already 👍👍. You should be proud those onions look fantastic. If you don’t pinch out the beans they will attach to each other and probably move over to the beans next to them, beans find a way 😂. 16:17 mole 🤬🤬🤬. I have one bee on my borage and I had one on my tomato plant. Your right world wide there is a lack of bees 🐝 its way too hot for them, what is worrying is we live in an area full of huge garden centres and blueberry farms and are inundated with bees normally. Cabbage whites some but not as many may be a good thing 😂. Can you clip the chickens wings? 😂😂 well it is whine 🍷 Friday so all good. Have a simply awesome week guys thanks as always for the walk about, Ali 🌞🇨🇦 Ps yes leave the seed pods on sweet peas they will dry out but don’t leave too long they will get mildew 👍👍
I don't know how you do work outside in the heat, even early or late on in the day. Be it humans or animals, it's been a weird year for us all weather wise. We had a few at the weekend when it warmed up but only a few. 2 butterlfies! That's all I saw. Haha the wings have been clipped! I know! Whine LOL. Thanks re sweet peas - going to check them, the humidity is starting now it is warming up a touch.
I might be wrong but I think jb told Tony on potty mouth that the jalapeños will turn red if you leave them. Can't remember if it was the most recent or the one before.
I can’t believe how fantastic the vegetable garden is looking, all that hard work we watched you put in is really rewarding you x
Thank you so much Carly x
Afternoon :) I harvest my jalapenos green so that the plant will carry on producing then towards the end of the season i let them fully ripen to red (there at there hottest when they are red with crackle effect on skin) Great vid as always Trace a girl after my own heart gardening with alcohol lol
Afternoon! Hope you had a lovely weekend and 🍻 cheers! Thank you 🤩
Great video. I loved walking round with you especially when Mervyn Mole turned up 🤣 The garden is looking really good even with the weeds which I know you'll soon dispose of. I agree about the bees. I have a huge lavender Bush and it's usually covered in bees but this year I've hardly seen any here in the South East.
Haha thank you, pesky mole. Weeds will be gone soon hopefully! At least it means things are growing. I do hope the bees are just running late 😢
Butterflies, moths, and bees are definitely missing. Here in North shropshire, we had bees and butterflies on the wing in march, way too early in the year. It's been a very good year for strawberries. You're veg and fruit is looking good.
Thank you, we had a bit of a false start to the year didn’t we? I think it’s knocked everything when the cold and wet followed again so soon 😢
The daisy looking plant looks like chamomile or may weed.if you cut the flower down the middle and its hollow, it's chamomile. Chamomile has a distinctive smell as well . Loving your garden, it's looking fabulous .we've had very few pollinators and butterflies this year 😢, but thousands of ants 😬
I think the first bush you looked at was blackcurrant, choke berry has an oval leaf the second one is the jostaberry,larger berries
I’ve had the same with ants! Thank you for the tips too!
Thank you!
It looks like being another bummer crop this year Tracy , despite the rotten weather . Yes the insects, was telling my wife earlier, I cannot remember the last time I washed flies and midges of the radiator grill and windscreen on my car , very strange .
It’s very unnerving isn’t it.
Jalapeños look ready. They have the shiny bloom. I’d pick them. They freeze well whole until you have enough to process, or eat fresh, ferment or pickle. I leave the best producing plants to go red to make fermented sriracha. I throw a red thai chilli in the mix too. It’s a favourite in our family. I like it too but prefer sweet chilli sauce.
Thank you for that - I was trying to remember what I did before and they were definitely green for the recipes I made so yes I agree, going to pick the larger ones. Freezing whole - why have I never thought of that! Do you save your own pepper/chilli seeds? I prefer sweet chilli sauce too, as does Grace :)
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Yes, I do save my own seed but I grow them in separate areas. I didn’t realise they didn’t cross pollinate. Never have much success with sweet peppers except Toro Rosso. I’ve finally found a chilli that I dry and whizz up into chilli flakes. It’s called Tescos medium red chillies. Saved seed from one at the beginning of Covid. 😄
@@amandar7719 love that on the Covid seed 😂 so I’ve read about cross pollination. Next year will see!
It never ceases to amaze the differences in weather zones... down south we've harvested all our currants, summer raspberries and gooseberries and are just starting to bring in the blackberries and the jostaberries... can you remind me what you do with the jostaberries other than jam?
The syrup's do they have to be kept in the fridge?
Morning Sean. I’ve bundled these together this time and make a syrup for the winter as that’s something Steven uses daily. Yes, 2 climates or more sometimes!
@OurSmallholdingAdventure Hi Tracy do you keep the syrup in the fridge? I'd like to do the same but have limited fridge space...I wonder if waterbathing would make them shelf stable what do you think ?
The syrup is really high sugar content so should be fine boiled then on the shelf. I don't WB if I recall (my memory is shocking)! but I won't be WB this way anyway, only boil with sugar and pop on shelf then fridge when opened,
I spotted blight on one of my potato patches yesterday 😩 I’ve never had it on my potato’s. I’m gutted. I need to work out what to do. I don’t normally suffer with the mole in my garden in summer but guess what? I have this year! It must be so wet at the bottom of the hill still. So yes up in my garden. Not eating the whoppa slugs though 🤦🏻♀️ why don’t these slugs have any predators?! This last week, we’ve finally had more bees and butterflies but it’s a strange old year for everything. Lovely vlog as usual ❤
Not just me with the mole then! Are you going to trim the spuds? Even my chickens didn’t want the slugs 😂 I hope all going well for you Mrs 😘
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure I’ve never experienced potato blight so from what I’m reading I’ve spotted it early. Annoyingly it’s in the bed I planted last so I doubt the spuds are well developed. But I’ve taken the tops off. And I’ve ordered some fungicide stuff. My other bed that I planted much earlier seems fine, they are starting to look like they may be ready to harvest so I might just get on with it. We will see what happens. Nothing will surprise me this year. It is what it is!
I,m very impressed with your outdoor tomatoes. I think blight has hit us. A couple of plants have the dreaded brown patches. They’re about to flower so I’m happy to cut back and leave the spuds in the ground for now. We’re the same re the insects. Hardly any about and I’ve only found a handful of eggs on my cabbages 😢nice in one way but very sad ink another as we need them. My overwintering Japanese onions are amazing this year. First time I’ve successfully grown them and will definitely be sowing them again this year but not just yet. I’m wondering if there’s a shortage and that’s why the garden centres/online people are already marketing them? What variety are your over winter carrots? I’ve sown Eskimo this year. Have a good week.
I have the same carrots and another one which escapes me now! The Japanese onions are going in again here too. We had a few insects at the weekend but nothing at all like normal, very strange. I hope there isn’t a shortage, it’s hard enough for folk anyway to grow this year. Hope you’re well :)
Oh and sorry about the blight 😢
Garden looks fantastic. Was this filmed a week ago? We’ve had a week of sunshine further south of you. Hope you managed to process all those lovely currants.
Your onions look amazing! I think we sowed onion seeds around the same time as you. Ours were finished over three weeks ago. We only had red baron, Sturon, Walla Walla and Beds Champion (and banana shallots) properly (eventually) germinate and complete to harvest. Bedfordshire Champion and shallots did the best in size and cured well. Others are fine but took longer to cure well enough to store. Very few small ones this year which was a first. No idea why. Didn’t do anything different. But, yep. They were definitely ready to pull by late June. Leaves browning and necks bent or softened.
I’d definitely pull any that are ready, better they’re out of the ground to use or cure, really. People have discovered onion fly grubs in the roots this year. We don’t get onion fly but it can happen at any time. That said, we cover anyway against allium leaf miner so maybe the covers prevent the onion fly too.
Dead envious of your gigantes. Hopefully all those flowers produce a fantastic harvest for you. We only have about 40 left (after sowing 20 for this year) for our summer Greek gigante marinade we look forward to eating every year for Al fresco nibbles. Pretentiously pretending we’re island hopping in Greece! 😂
Our pods only produce two seeds and the vines are never prolific like yours. Have you ever tried canning them? We’ve never had enough to fill the PC and daren’t try until we get a bumper harvest. I do like them in stews but never remember to soak them overnight! 🥴
Morning Amanda! Yes, last weekend - I'm a week behind since the plot tor but it worked out well. I think I'll start putting the dates on for reference actually.
The currants have been amazing - I have about 3/4 of them harvested so far, my new berry picker did not work well.
Re the onions, these are the biggest I have grown - I am thrilled with them. Despite the sun this week, we still have showers which is a pain as I obviously want them dry. Interesting on the different curing times.
Onion fly is a new one on me - thank you for the learning.
Tell me more, Greek gigante marinade? I haven't canned the greeks as I freeze but I think they would hold up very well. Hoping to give them a go if the flowers turn to beans! Lots and lots of flowers right now but still no pods. I'll have a good look this week. Take care.
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure Hi again. I’d definitely pull your onions that have flopped over. Will you be curing them under the outdoor kitchen area roof or in your barn store? Or on trestled pallets? Just seen your more recent vlog, didn’t look like white rot, just rot from a hole. I couldn’t see too clearly but couldn’t see the white fungus stuff. White rot also smells horrid. Could be caused by a slug hole or mouse bite. Hope it’s not white rot though. That WOULD be a bummer to have that in your garden! Have you had a chance to look closely? Were they the sets or your own seeds in that bed?
With a slight breeze and not too clumped together, the onion heads and roots will dry quickly. Or perhaps pull them on a sunny windy morning and leave them a few hours for the roots to dry a bit in situ then bring them under cover to cure. Much better out the bed than in waiting for the rain to stop, IMO. I’ve never rinsed onions of soil but have seen others do it to easily check no onion fly grubs are in the onions. And they dry fine. I’ve only ever shaken the worst of the soil off and laid them to dry. It’s always such a rush to do it and lay them out. They soon dry enough to cure with enough airflow.
Favourite Olive oil, lemon juice (and a squeeze of lime juice if you have some), salt a little pepper and chopped fresh green herbs of your choice. We’ve used oregano before but prefer parsley, dill (plenty) and mint. Mix well then add to slightly warm cooked but firm beans, stir then chill or eat immediately. Add anything you fancy. Chilli flakes, extra squeeze of lime/lemon. Yummy.
Blooming youtube - I am not seeing these replies unless I manually go and find them, so I've added it to my daily list to start doing as I don't want to miss valuable info like this! Thank you, just catching up. What fabulous information you have. The first lot of onions I had in the shed initially as there wasn't too many. I had a "good idea" that wasn't! So the next lot will go in the barn initially (very crude on spare, long pallet) and then the driest will go in the outdoor kitchen once cured enough.
That is SO good to hear on your white rot thoughts as I have been wondering the same! These lot were sets and only 3 in the end. I've never had the onion fly grubs, so hopefully won't be an issue. Would you pull the onions that haven't flopped yet? My last bed look amazing (on the smallholding tour video). Either way when I pull them, we have plenty of nice days ahead to leave them on the bed for the day to dry out a bit.
Thank you so much for the dressing idea! Copying that now!
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure If the weather is ok, the upright onions look green and healthy, no sign of damage/disease etc, no need for the bed for follow on transplants, Yes, definitely keep the good onions in. Most of our main bed were bent over and we had poor weather which is why we pulled the lot out. The ones still really perky took muuuuch longer to cure despite manually bending them over.
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When did you plant your onions, they're huge
Ah thank you. I did autumn sets and also this year seeds, both have done well so I will do that again this year I think. As a back up 👌
I am so sorry you have bindweed in it’s a B to get rid of. I have been trying and the key word is trying to keep my tomatoes pruned but the heat limits my outdoor work. Don’t grow jalapeños but lots of great advice here already 👍👍. You should be proud those onions look fantastic. If you don’t pinch out the beans they will attach to each other and probably move over to the beans next to them, beans find a way 😂. 16:17 mole 🤬🤬🤬. I have one bee on my borage and I had one on my tomato plant. Your right world wide there is a lack of bees 🐝 its way too hot for them, what is worrying is we live in an area full of huge garden centres and blueberry farms and are inundated with bees normally. Cabbage whites some but not as many may be a good thing 😂. Can you clip the chickens wings? 😂😂 well it is whine 🍷 Friday so all good. Have a simply awesome week guys thanks as always for the walk about, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
Ps yes leave the seed pods on sweet peas they will dry out but don’t leave too long they will get mildew 👍👍
I don't know how you do work outside in the heat, even early or late on in the day. Be it humans or animals, it's been a weird year for us all weather wise. We had a few at the weekend when it warmed up but only a few. 2 butterlfies! That's all I saw. Haha the wings have been clipped! I know! Whine LOL.
Thanks re sweet peas - going to check them, the humidity is starting now it is warming up a touch.
Hey Treacy. How do you know when your squash is ready.. I have 1. It's big, but I'm not sure what to check? Eekk tks
If you mean the winter ones then I leave them until the first frost is due :)
I might be wrong but I think jb told Tony on potty mouth that the jalapeños will turn red if you leave them. Can't remember if it was the most recent or the one before.
Thank you! Sounds like you can do both so I’ll get some soon 👏