How much food can I grow in one summer? - Final harvests and cooking with fresh fruit and vegetables
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2023
- I've been growing a vegetable garden and trying to be more self sufficient. In this video I show the total harvest amounts from this summer and cook lots of food from the garden.
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When Alex said he said he wanted some butter with his corn I was 100% sure the next line was going to be "so I bought some cows".
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Honey butter
Alex in 2024: How much milk did I get from my cow ranch?
Might as well.
Your character literally embodies how I would love my children to become when they grow up. The appreciation of the smaller things of life, is just reflecting in pure joy in everything you do.
take them out of the city life and public school system.
Indeed Namen! I agree....Alex is a great example of what we would love our children to embody! I always look forward to his videos.
Well said!
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exactly the first second no but it depends where you live for example us yes do it in the Netherlands (where I live ) don't
Thank you Alex's parents for letting him make this great content and informational stories.
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just a small piece of advice for your potatoes next year: washing them actually severely cuts down on how long they store, so if you want to store them for several months through autumn and winter, lay them out to dry for a couple days, but don't brush or wash off the dirt. and try to harvest them after a few days of no rain so that there isn't any wet soil clumping and clinging to the potatoes.
Also even green tomatoes can still ripen if you keep them with something that accelerates ripening, like bananas for example. I've heard it works well if you wrap them in newspaper with a banana so that whatever the banana releases is trapped in there. if you ever have green tomatoes fall off the vine again it might be worth a try
thanks for the info!
I have also been reading about following any brassicas with potatoes in a rotation, cuts the scab down considerably. I hardly had any scab issues this season and last season I planted my fall brassica crops there. Hopefully it will continue to work out. ☺
@@just_alex @kikikeks2 The banana peel releases ethylene, which is a gaseous plant hormone that induces/regulates the ripening of fruit. So I guess keeping the green unripen tomatoes close to the bananas makes sense. Check out the Wikipedia article "Ethylene (plant hormone)" for more info ;)
@@just_alexAlso you don't need to fully remove the spring onions from the ground when harvesting. Chop them just above ground level and, voila, they grow back indefinitely 💥
We had very wet end of summer and soil here has much clay in it, so it stuck a lot to our potatoes. We also had a lot of rotting of potatoes this year and I was thinking that washing them after harvest would prevent it a t least to some extent. Do you have any other idea how to prevent this in the future? I live in sub-Mediterranean climate and don't have any air conditioned storage space, so the temperatures in storage space are still pretty high (this also impacts potatoes sprouting those long pink/white sprouts while in storage).
I love how you are able to fully communicate the gardening experience. Highs, lows, challenges, failures, successes, and of course, all the various rewards. It was such a pleasure to watch you share some of your journey. Hopefully your transition to the new place will be smooth and that you settle in quickly. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to share with us in the future. Exciting times. ☺
Thank you so much!
Whenever Alex posts a video, I get this sudden rush of joy and happiness.
So so happy to know that you can now afford to move out ! Can't wait for the next videos where you will be able to go full berserk without annoying your lovely, supportive parents :)
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„In my melon growing book“. That cracked me up.
Absolutely love your content. So comforting. Your dishes look so delicious
Just a tip from an Aussie with a garden, in really hot weather water at night, that way the soil doesn’t dry before the plants have time to drink and often in the morning the soil is still wet to get them through the heat 😊
I am a sustainability educator and gardener myself, and I am absolutely obsessed with your content. Your enthusiasm and appreciation for each of these little babies is fascinating!
I felt so sad about the melon that disconnected from the plant 😢 but also really happy about the ripe one you harvested.
I also enjoyed seeing your new skills in cooking and crafting some cool onion decor. This shows how gardening goes beyond the financial profit but rather contributes to your wellbeing, creativity and values around nature. I hope you keep influencing lots of people worldwide. 💚
Alex, you're an true inspiration. So proud of how much you've learnt and achieved since setting up your own channel. Big respect. I've thoroughly enjoyed every upload. Keep them coming mate 👍🏻💪🏻
thanks!
The people comparing homegrown tomatoes to supermarket ones speak about the big ones. Cherry tomatoes usually come with a pretty hard peel already, but homegrown heirloom tomatoes are soft and juicy and won't survive transport, supermarket tomatoes are hardy at the expense of flavor.
Yeah the bought ones are rubbish I try not to refrigerate the store bought tomatoes and they have a little flavour😊
Try buying from a fresh fruit and veg stores they don't store any fresh foods with ice or refrigerated boxes etc.. they wont last as long but the taste is noticeable
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I love Alex because his videos are so nice and relaxing to watch. You have been doing a great job lately, Alex!
I couldn’t think of anything better to watch for 45 minutes than your vlog Alex
It’s a wet Friday afternoon in Shropshire, but as we slip into winter, this reminded me of the long summer days, we have had this year !
Good luck with the move Alex
Thanks :)
Just a small "top tip" if you decide to prepare corn in the future ( that helped me). Chop the tops and bottom ends of the corn off but leave the husk on, you can then microwave the corn ( depending on the size and how many) for about 8-10min and the corn steams itself in its own skin making the flavor a bit better and less time and water wasted. I didn't learn this until I was in my 20's, and of course you don't have to do it...I just thought it may be a good experiment to try in the future. Love watching your videos, so educational and so motivating to watch. ❤
They've done a beautiful job raising this handsome, smart, motivated young Gentleman.
i kind of love the chill vibe you give and have been enjoying your channel for 6 months now :)
sometimes youtube suggests me with some hidden gems :)
thanks for the support! :)
I love your content and I wish this can be one day with my little garden. It's so unfair how I want to simply binge your videos everyday but there's always such a long wait between videos (understandably as crops take a long time to grow and prosper!) . Great job Alex!
There is no price you can place on the satisfaction of puttering in the garden and being able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. It was such a leap of faith your parents had in you to first let you have your bees and then the garden. I think they enjoyed how special it all was. I hope you will continue to keep bees and grow food. There is always something to enjoy and learn.
I loved everything but especially you wanting to learn how to plait so you can braid your onions and you absolutely nailed it!! You can do hair now and everything!! You'd be amazed at all the things you could do once you mastered the braid!!❤❤❤❤
I just wanna say that your videos have been helping me in my sad/introspective moments, such as today
You're just so calm and delicate with your words and with the way you treat your plants, mushrooms & bees that it becomes a healing thing to watch
Thank you very much for these videos
These videos have massively inspired my gardening journey. Sadly the weather here in Yorkshire hasn't been the best so I didn't much to harvest. However the failures this year have taught me so much for next year.
When you're set up at your new place, you may want to look into doing no-dig gardening (less work, and also less watering, as it mimics what nature does), and also to giving your plants a deep water, and then not watering for a few days. A deep water means the roots will dig further down, which makes them more drought-resistant, and more hearty. The less we pamper the plants, the more hale and hearty they are, which also translates into less diseases and even less pest damage. :)
I'm always so happy when Alex uploads, just brings joy to my entire day.
I always watch videos with a finger on the fast forward button, but I have never even thought about skipping any parts of your videos. Amazing work that makes the things you do seem accessible to the common folk. Keep it up!
Same!
Currently in third year college and I can't wait to be successful and buy myself a farm. This motivates me so much
Love how you put this video together by showing harvests then meals made from them. However, those fried corn things looked very creepy, like giant bugs! Congrats on getting your own place. Our love for gardening is beyond cost or the work invested. For me it is a total joy. Your new garden will be joyful for you as well!
You have so much talent Alex. The BBC should be beating your door down. Loved your appreciation of all things including the humble bucket! Your dads face when eating said it all! You paced this video beautifully. Good luck with the move and hope the bees travel well.
Been patiently waiting for your post. So happy! ❤🇦🇺
You're probably doing this, but it wasn't showed on the video so I wanted to make sure: Do you know to dig in the soil under and around the potato plants, to look for more potatoes? Not just what comes up when you pull the plant. It's like a treasure hunt. :)
Alex I am in deeeeeeeeeeeep Awe ❤ the gardening that you're doing and the deeeeeeep connection that you've nade with the things that you grew,as they say "you reap what you sow" This was another great journey after the honey and the microgreens!
❤❤❤thank you farmer Alex for a great farming experience shared with me and the World . I loved your planting , looking after , the shared challenges and harvesting and financial accountability. We thank your loving Parents too for being generous to you 💕 long live to them. I got inspired to plant Garlic cloves from supermarket cloves and they are growing. We are growing greens called amaranth, pumpkins and peas. Hope I keep planting more and harvest more
Alex I have learned such a great deal of amazing stuff from you, from gardening to beekeeping. I am slowly following in your footsteps, and this has been the most fun year of my adult life because of it. Thank you so much for the inspiration! Keep posting❣️❣️
Education you can use for the lifetime and pass on, priceless!!
I moved into my dorm recently and have been missing what it is like to have a garden like I did back home. This video reminds me how much I miss having living things to look after. I now will vicariously garden through this channel Alex, thank you!
This is going to be fun and relaxing to watch! good afternoon from Stockholm!
Been waiting for you upload for days now haha thanks bro 🙏
Looking forward to the growing at the new place and the bees . Chickens might be a good thing to add if you have the room
Mate, you are out of this planet. So humble, smart, ambitious, and caring. I would love to be you in my next life, however strange it sounds :)
Such a hamble person asking just for a bucket for his birthday 😃 Nice to see you back Alex! Enjoy your new place!
It's always a great day when you have a new video out Alex - this was so wonderful to watch! You truly capture the joy - and struggles - of gardening.
Nice to see your parents enjoying their meals. Nothing like cooking for family, it always makes it feel so much more enjoyable.
I'm so happy I found your channel Alex! Your pure joy for the things you do makes me so happy and excited for my own gardening projects. Thank you for making such lovely and cosy videos!
This is so good in every way! Keep on doing what you are doing, Alex!
Honestly didn't think i'd become a fan of watching someone garden or beekeep but your videos are just that enjoyable and relaxing to watch
I've got to say, I was very excited to see you succeed at plaiting the onions. It looked great!
I love your gardening and countryside type videos, makes me inspired to work on my countryside
I loved this video so much. Your gardening journey keeps me motivated for setting up my own kitchen garden next year.
Your appreciative behavior towards the plants and especially the food you are growing is so inspiring. I could really listen to you talking about this for hours.
Sunny greetings from Germany!
These are the most wholesome videos. I just love them, so comforting for some reasons
An amazing inspirational video, thanks Alex for helping me see the beauty and joy in growing vegetables. Keep on gardening and producing these amazing videos.
Your videos are my therapy.
This was a great video. Love that you had "profit". Can't wait to see your new home and garden.
Its always a good day when i see Alex has posted a new video.
Love watching your journey. Youve inspired me to try and plan out a mini garden for my apartment balcony next year.
Another wonderful video, thanks for sharing this journey with us!
There's nothing like home grown tomatoes. It's one of my absolute favorites. That corn looked so good. Well everything looked amazing. Thanks for sharing your garden with us.
These videos are so well produced, I’m so happy to have found your channel! Im making my way through your videos and everything is just so candid and perfect. Im learning a lot and enjoy dropping wisdom from Alex to my friends and family! I enjoyed the POV city tour video! Would love to see Bristol Cheers Alex!
I love that he was already happy with a tiny bucket as a birthday gift ❤
An absolute joy whenever you upload. I appreciate the well thought out effort you put into each of your projects, big and small. Looking forward to your future projects, and you've certainly inspired me to want to start growing my own food (whenever I manage to settle down that is)
cheers :)
Your videos bring me so much comfort and I can describe why or how they just do. It’s like peaceful ya know
Maybe the only CZcamsr I can watch for 40+ minutes. Love what you do, keep rolling!
You're such a chill guy, this is so far from most of the content I watch but I always watch your videos when I catch them. Enjoy the move! :)
Thank you alex for sharing your journey with us. I've really enjoyed it! I hope you do something even better in your new home ❤ cant wait to see! Onwards and upwards 🙌 🥰
Watching your journey has been fantastic Alex. As an avid gardener it's wonderful to see.
These videos have inspired me so much! I can't wait to start my first garden next summer! Alot of really great advice and tips. Always looking forward to all of your videos.
I really have enjoyed watching you grow food, you have done your research but you have also have a lovely "bung it in and see what happens" attitude, which is what people starting out in growing fruit and veg need to see more of, and as a regular grower of fruit and veg myself, I often forget and get caught up in more complicated things. Congrats on the amazing harvest. Perhaps your Dad might continue to grow food in that space next season. He certainly looked like he was enjoying the fruits of your labour. You have such a lovely watchable style. Congrats on the new place and can't wait to see how you get on there.
Absolutely love that bucket was the list. Gardening can be so poetic
well done Alex! thanks for sharing your journey through life. your growing into a heck of a good young man! you should be proud! we all are!
Alex when I see a video of yours pop up I haven't seen, i just sit back in my chair and relax. Love it.
I've been waiting for your update for ages😭
Hi Alex nice seeing you again, you did good with the garden, things may not have turned out how you wanted ,but you still got to enjoy your labor ,your dinners looked delicious ,it's so good when you can grow your own food ,good luck on your move hope you will still be able to have your garden, stay safe stay blessed
You are my inspiration, alex! My mum used to have a mini garden too but she had only small time of interest in it and the negligence left all plants she bought to dry out and expire. But a week ago, I tried planting and removing unnecessary weeds and overgrown plants. Let's say it felt quite boring and exhausting at first, even my mum was annoyed by what I was doing and told me choose different hobby but after I discovered your channel and watched a couple of your videos like bee keeping and this one gardening, I've decided to clean up the whole mess and make a brand new fresh garden again! Thanks for your inspiring video, I have learnt a lot from you.
This video series has definitely been an inspiration to start my own garden. I'm from Australia so we are coming into the warmer months now, I've already started some seedlings and preparing the ground.
All the best for your new home and allotment search! Thanks Alex and fam ❤
Honestly yout videos are so comfy, I love to watch. Great stress relief! I rlly hope you can keep making them, I'll watch them all.
Alex, you are an inspiration! Best wishes on your new adventures. I'll be watching.
I almost cried when you said the best present you ever had was a bucket . That`s so sad . No wonder your leaving home !
Your garden is absolutely stunning and so abundant! Well done on a successful growing season! 🙌🏻🍅
I've been enjoying your channel for a few weeks now. Your Dad should be proud. And noticing you are pretty humorous. 🌻🌿
I cant express how much i look forward to alex's videos, thye are so relaxing yet entertaining, when i grow up i want to live like Alex does :)
Honestly your one of my fav youtubers and the most wholesome person i know.
Love your videos they akways bring a smile on my face and thanks to you i decided to grow my own garden!
Been waiting for this video nervously! Love it!
As a Floridian, you wearing sweaters all summer blows my mind!
Hi Alex, thanks that’s amazing what you have been able to grow in your patch well done. Good luck with your move 😊
Awesome job Alex! You've really inspired me!
Thank you Alex ❤
Oh man! This is awesome! The amount of knowledge you have and effort you put into it. We've just started our own adventure in Portugal and are complete noobs regarding gardening, so this is really really informative for us😊
Thanks so much for making such entertaining and informative videos at the same time.
Keep up the great work.
The plaited onions look great, along with all the other fruit and Veg. From the garden. Definitely worth it! Great cooked meals as well, looked very delicious.
I LOVE your content. I could litterally sit here for hours and learn about stuff that once seemed so outlandish to me until now. Im finding hobbies I never thought in a million years would intrest me that now motivate me to learn more about everything in my day to day life and even more! Keep up the outstanding work!!
P.S. Please post more i beg lmao
Just find you yesterday now I am addicted to your videos. ❤❤❤
Nice to see all the hardwork pay off.
🎉🎉🎉 Yay! A new video Alex!!! 😅 Can't wait to watch later on.
Great recap Alex, I hope you can continue to grow wherever you move to next. Cheers.
The meal you made looks amazing!
i watched all your videos this summer, keep em coming brother your content is amazing
have been waiting for your next video..and cound not have been a more perfect time..a friday night and one of my family's birthdays...thanks for such amazing content Alex!
Your videos are absolute pleasure to watch and also inspiring! After I saw one of your videos I planted cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, chili, basil... Looking for adding more next year even if space is really tiny. Thank you and good luck with your harvests. I hope you will keep your gardening in new place you are moving to. Greetings from Mexico.
You are so amazing man! Please keep it up. It is so awesome to see everything you do!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this vid,the beautiful garden& surroundings,& your observations & results.& The meals looked absolutely delicious.Thanks for sharing your journey 🌿🌞💚🥕🧄🌽🍅🧅🥬🫐🌶️🌻
Inspiring me to do much more with my garden and greenhouse - thank you