Garden writer Susan Mulvihill shares lots of helpful tips about when and how to harvest vegetables from your garden. She focuses on broccoli, potatoes, onions, Swiss chard, beets and kale. From Susan’s in the Garden, SusansintheGarden.com.
Susan gardens in Spokane, Wash. While most of this region is in hardiness zone 6, her garden is in a microclimate, making it zone 5b.
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I wish I had a few beautiful broccoli heads growing like the one you cut on video today! I didn't have luck with mine last year. I did manage ONE nice cauliflower head! I also grew some Swiss Chard & cut it often for a few side dishes of it sautéed in EVOO & minced garlic. I want to say that's my favorite veg but just as you can't choose a favorite child, I can't with any homegrown veggies.🤷♀️
Wishing you comfortably warmer weather!🙋♀️
I don’t know why, but harvesting is my least favorite chore, especially veggies like lettuce. Part of it is that it looks so pretty that I hate to ruin it. I don’t mind things are only harvested once like potatoes and winter squash.
Hello! I thought you would be covering everything with frost covers. I seen it is really 🥶! In WI Z5a we are Sizzling 🥵 And Severe drought! It’s been an awful year so far. We had a late frost in May and it killed many plants and no warning. It has been so warm all year and it was almost end of May I didn’t think it would happen. In the 90s we had a frost almost every month.
Everything seems to be growing so slow and with all the watering I feel I’m forgetting something to plant after replanting. I lost track of varieties as I just didn’t have time to write it all down again so I hope I can tell the varieties apart. Things are taking awhile to grow here. Where I water we have had every pest pressure imaginable! We are the oasis in the desert. Weather says 87–We have 97! They never cover areas with microclimates. I’m wondering how hot Saturday will be if that is to be 90s!😮
We’ve had voles for first time in my life, mole that tilled up along beds/in the beds and through the rows, a deer topped a beautiful sunflower, CO Potato Beetles and recently a coon rutted up lettuce, beets, radishes and cucumbers!! Everything wants our stuff! I went to harvest last of strawberries and they were gone even with netting. There was a cabbage moth inside insect netting with brassicas 😳. The frost though I almost through in the towel.
We may have a chance of rain Sunday, but we’ve been hearing that for over a month. Farmers are cutting, ditches, using marshes and now cutting corn to feed livestock as the corn looks like pineapples. It’s Dust!
I have shade fabric up and probably should put more up. There is Very low humidity of about 40% and wind. I need to order an irrigation kit today and start with that to figure it out how it will work as the hose and me are not buddies.😤. We have 2 large gardens and only few raised beds and those dry out really fast—metal and wood. The in ground wide rows do much better under shade cloth. I water so much I had to refertilize everything. Accuweather future cast shows rain may show up around July 12th. It will be too late for many if no rain Sunday and the trees are stressing now.
There are very few areas that had any rain. It’s so dry here I watched the radar and there was a cloud over us, said it was raining, but it’s so dry it dries up before it hits the soil. We have the complete opposite weather from west. And let’s not forget all the smoke and ozone air quality warnings. A gal up north is Very dry also and her sheep liked her garden—everything wants something green!
El Niño should be called El Nono has started months earlier and they say next year could be record breaking Heat! OMG!🙄
Have to run now to beat the heat, but I’m glad to catch your video!
I love to harvest all my veggies. This week was snap peas, broccoli, lettuce, radishes,. My broccoli is half your size but need to harvest before the heat hits today and it flowers. Oregon weather has been cool, then a swing to hot,. My lettuce has been amazing this year, no bolting due to being planted under the broccoli and out of the sun. Really like you giving cooking ideas, will need to try growing chard and kale later this season so I have it to try in the fall.
Really Cold here in Lake Chelan Too! Not our normal mid June weather. Your broccoli is beautiful! I am trying #GreenStalk for 1st time and planed potatoes in some of my pockets, they are thriving! I do not have any blooms yet. I can feel potatoes under the dirt! Yahoo! I am so excited! Oh I so love beet greens simmered in butter then a splash if vinegar! I planted loads of beets seeds but they are so tiny! I love to make borscht!
Oh Susan I will gladly trade you two 94 degrees days this weekend for a 60 degrees. Garden is looking great. We have a bumper crop of tomatoes. Had to replant squash and beans because of heavy late spring rains. It is 80 degrees now with thunder and lightening. Rain any minute. 11:40am.
How long did it take for broccoli from seeding to harvest? That was a great harvest!
Our weather in KY as been crazy as well. Today a chilly overcast 70, hoping the rain makes it to us tonight. My tomatoes aren’t liking this cool weather.
Thanks for this video! I ALWAYS learn something!
Thank you for the tipps! 😊Tipps on Broccoli harvesting were just perfect timing. Great to see how much your garden is producing after long winter when we were dreaming about this 😍. Greetings, Judit 🤗
So glad that I found you. One can't have enough tips. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing these tips!