END OF APRIL GARDEN TOUR & HARVEST.

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:01]Welcome back to our channel. This is our channel. Me and you, my subscriber. And thank you so much to I think we're now at 9,473.

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[00:00:22]Thank you. And also remember to help us get to 10,000 subscribers. So, if you're new here, my name is Vivian. And today I want us to do an April garden tour. And as we do the tour, we'll also be harvesting whatever is ready in the garden.

[00:00:48]So, we'll start with this bed. This is Somebody told me I should call this the abundance abundance abundance bed because it has so many vegetables planted together. So, we're going to start with this bed. This is the first bed.

[00:01:04]And on this bed we have a cauliflower. I actually thought this was kale, but I noticed we have something forming in the middle. So, this is a cauliflower.

[00:01:16]>> [snorts] >> And we also have some tomatoes.

[00:01:21]Tomatoes.

[00:01:23]Then beetroot. I think we should harvest beetroots, but I don't want to harvest all of them. Maybe we could just harvest one beetroot today, which I can use for a smoothie.

[00:01:35]Well, one thing I'll be taking out is the lettuce because it has been raining a lot and they get damaged. So, let's remove this.

[00:01:51]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:01:59]Yeah.

[00:02:05]Then I don't throw away the remains. I just put them back so that they can decompose and continue to enrich the soil.

[00:02:13]And then where I have removed that basil, although I'll come back later and add uh maybe manure just to make sure I we add some nutrients. I want to plant This is a Thai basil. So, it's like I'm propagating it because I just cut it from uh the main plant. So, I want to plant it here because on this bed I have so many tomatoes.

[00:02:38]So, it's important to plant the basil because they help to they help to to do what? To repel pests because of their scent. And then they also help to boost the flavor of the tomatoes. So, anywhere I remove um whatever vegetable I remove, then I add a basil because I have so many tomatoes on this bed.

[00:03:07]So, apart from the cauliflower I also noticed I have another cauliflower and I don't know if this was a volunteer or a seed just fell. This is the purple cauliflower. And it seems to be doing well.

[00:03:21]Um I got the seeds from can't remember, maybe Amazon or uh it could be Amazon or South Africa.

[00:03:29]One of those two. So, yeah. I'm happy for that. We also have some carrots. Let me see if they're ready for harvest and then we can get a few.

[00:03:42]Nope.

[00:03:43]>> [sighs and gasps] >> They're not ready.

[00:03:46]They're not ready yet. This one uh they're not ready. We need like a whole month.

[00:03:52]We need like a whole month for the carrots, but something I am sure is ready is the French beans. These ones are ready and we need to harvest them.

[00:04:01]My hands are already dirty, but we are in the garden. It's allowed.

[00:04:07]These are French beans.

[00:04:11]Wow. One one plant of a French beans with of a French bean will give you so many French beans.

[00:04:18]So, if you're looking for a plant that is that will sustain you then make sure you plant. This is just from one plant. I just need like five of these and we already have enough to make a meal.

[00:04:34]And then also one thing I'd also like to point out is you can see I have some tiny aphids. Although I'm not We have some tiny aphids here. But I am not bothered to be honest. One thing I will not do is use pesticide on vegetables that I am feeding on or on vegetables that I am feeding my family. So, if it's not a non-issue, honestly.

[00:05:02]It's not a non-issue. It doesn't bother me.

[00:05:04]I can be able to keep it in control.

[00:05:07]Plus, I know we have ladybugs and hoverflies that will feed on the aphids.

[00:05:12]So, you don't need to put on any pesticide. You have no reason to put on or to spray any pesticide because nature always has a way of controlling or taking control. It knows how to take care of things.

[00:05:26]So, yeah. This is organic and we're getting a harvest. 100% organic.

[00:05:33]And I love that.

[00:05:35]>> [snorts] >> Ah, so many French beans. Oh my god.

[00:05:40]Make sure you plant French beans. If you've never if you've never been interested in French beans, I hope now I can plug you to plant French beans because one plant is giving you a lot of French beans. And if you don't have a big family this will all feed you. Even if you have a big family, plant them. They are so prolific, which I love.

[00:06:10]And this is the third time I am harvesting from the same plant. So, you harvest The more you harvest, the more they continue producing.

[00:06:20]So, these are the French beans that we have gotten from the first bed. And even the other beds, they have French beans, so we're going to get more French beans. Oh, we have okra.

[00:06:34]You know, I passed here yesterday and I saw these and I was like, "Oops, looks like my okras are not pollinating."

[00:06:42]But I didn't know we have these. This is Okay, I can put this in my water today and have okra water.

[00:06:50]Wow.

[00:06:51]Okay, honestly, I didn't I have never seen this.

[00:06:54]In fact, I was even contemplating on uprooting them cuz I was like, "Looks like my okras are dying like they're not pollinating." But there we go. We have an okra.

[00:07:05]Happy to see that.

[00:07:08]The other thing we have here is the purple cabbage. Purple cabbage takes a bit of time. It's lower than the white Is it white cabbage or green cabbage?

[00:07:19]Than the other cabbage. So, this one takes a bit of time even to form the head. It's a bit slow. So, if you see that uh your cabbage your purple cabbage especially is taking a lot of time uh to form the head, don't panic. That's how it is. It takes more time than the other one.

[00:07:38]And then finishing off on this bed, we have scotch bonnet. I pruned it because it was taking up a lot of space in the garden. So, I pruned it a little bit.

[00:07:50]I'm just removing the dry leaves.

[00:07:53]So, I made sure to prune it just so that it doesn't cover the other vegetables in the garden.

[00:08:02]I know there's somebody There's a Jamaican who told me in my comments that they followed because I I'm planting scotch bonnets. Hi.

[00:08:10]And we have some scotch bonnets.

[00:08:13]Just a few. We have these and these.

[00:08:16]And these ones.

[00:08:21]So, I am avoiding planting any other type of pepper on this bed to avoid cross-pollination. So, I just want to maintain my scotch bonnet on this bed.

[00:08:33]Yeah.

[00:08:34]Yeah. Now we can go to this bed.

[00:08:40]This No, this is not a bed. This is a grow bag.

[00:08:48]So, on this grow bag, we have beans. Let me see what type of beans they are. Oh, these are army beans.

[00:08:55]They don't look so pretty when they are not uh not dry. I think they look prettier when they are dry.

[00:09:05]What? Is this how they look when they've not dried up? They're such a weird color.

[00:09:11]>> [laughter] >> But we're still going to cook them. They are army beans.

[00:09:17]So, they usually look like uh jungle green when they like dry up. But I'm not going to go going to wait for them to dry.

[00:09:25]We're just going to eat them like that.

[00:09:27]We'll make a stew or mix it with our rice.

[00:09:33]On this grow bag, I had also planted some army beans and as you can see the pods have turned yellow and the inside looks gray. I didn't expect this color.

[00:09:45]It is so strange, but it is fine.

[00:09:48]So, we harvest that. I think I can uproot this cuz it doesn't look healthy.

[00:09:58]And then on my previous video, if you have watched it, I planted peas.

[00:10:05]You can even see they got exposed.

[00:10:07]Yesterday it rained so so much. You can see even it's like uh the topsoil was somehow, I don't know, carried or pushed to other to the sides of the bed because you can see my my peas are exposed. So, I think once I finish doing this video, I'll just cover them. I'll come and cover them with a bit of soil.

[00:10:30]So, for now we'll just uproot this.

[00:10:33]And then now we let the French No, they're peas, the green peas to continue growing.

[00:10:41]Just leave these ones here. I'll collect them later.

[00:10:48]Now, moving on to this bed.

[00:10:53]Because of the rain, it rained so much yesterday. We even had like They call it hailstones.

[00:11:00]It was so heavy. Like most of my tomatoes, I found [snorts] them uh bending and they were touching the soil and all that. Some even broke like this one. You can see it's [snorts] missing the top part. This happened because of the rain we had yesterday. It was a lot. So, on this bed again, I'm growing tomatoes, cabbage, herbs herbs are a must. Thyme, oregano, lavender at the edges of my garden to control pest.

[00:11:33]And we also have spinach growing. I think I can take out this beetroot.

[00:11:38]It's looking at me.

[00:11:41]It's peeping.

[00:11:43]And it kind of looks huge. What? This is big.

[00:11:47]Yeah.

[00:11:52]This looks good.

[00:11:57]I think I won't harvest more beetroots because I prefer when they are in the garden so that when I want to Mostly I use them making a smoothie. But there's a time I made a meal. I glazed them with with honey and I mixed with carrots and it was >> [snorts] >> quite nice. You can see even this one is ready. It's peeping here.

[00:12:19]You can see it.

[00:12:21]But I don't want to harvest it since we already have this.

[00:12:24]We can make a smoothie with this one.

[00:12:26]And also for those who don't know, you can also feed on the leaves. So, when I'm harvesting my kale and spinach, I also harvest the beetroot leaves and mix them up and I cook them. They are rich in iron.

[00:12:41]And beetroot is also good for people with high blood pressure. So, it helps to lower blood pressure.

[00:12:50]Then you can see my zinnias are bending. It's because of the rain.

[00:12:57]So, anything that is like tall in the morning, they were bending like so much.

[00:13:03]They were on the ground. My other cabbage is also starting to form a little head inside. You can see that.

[00:13:11]And I can't wait.

[00:13:13]And then I have a celery.

[00:13:16]I I harvested it the other day. I harvested all the leaves. Now, I'm happy to see that we have uh fresh shoots coming up.

[00:13:28]We have a cat sleeping here.

[00:13:30]I hope I don't disturb it.

[00:13:35]On this grow bag, I had planted some potatoes. And then I realized they were changing into some weird color. I decided to just uproot them because I assumed it's a disease. And I recorded that in my previous video. So, after I removed the sweet potatoes, I planted uh peas. So, this bed also has some peas.

[00:13:57]This grow bag.

[00:14:02]And then you have this other grow bag.

[00:14:03]This In this grow bag, we have beans again. Still the army bean.

[00:14:08]And marigolds. So, we're going to harvest the the beans that are ready. Oh, [snorts] I've ordered the cats decided to disappear.

[00:14:30]So, on our wall, we have put some I think I saw it's called the fish hook net. Fish hook net. I just love how the leaves look like and I love how it drops. So, that's what I'm using to add as beautification uh for our wall. On this bed, I planted maize. Honestly, it's just two plants.

[00:14:53]I have maize. And then I have basil. And then we have some kales which looks which look very healthy and I love how soft they are. And then we also have some tomatoes.

[00:15:08]I can't remember the variety of the tomatoes. And then on this corner, we have some spring onions.

[00:15:22]More army army army beans.

[00:15:28]This is radish, the white radish. Let me see if it's ready.

[00:15:33]No, it's not ready yet.

[00:15:35]Maybe we'll harvest the next time.

[00:15:44]Then this is another grow bag. So, on this grow bag, I had planted this pumpkin. Although it doesn't look healthy. I think I I now prefer to plant pumpkins on ground as opposed to on grow bags. When I plant them in grow bags, they don't seem to do well. Although I saw a tiny pumpkin here.

[00:16:07]Let me try and show you.

[00:16:09]You can see this is the flat white Boer pumpkin.

[00:16:13]So, I don't know if it will be able to mature in here, but I'll just keep it and see.

[00:16:19]So, on this grow bag, I had planted the the flat white Boer pumpkin. And I also planted the army beans. And some of the army beans are ready for harvest. So, we'll remove that.

[00:16:55]Then here on this arbor or trellis, we have a passion on this side. And I can already see a fruit.

[00:17:05]Maybe it's this one because it's kind of hot.

[00:17:09]Yeah.

[00:17:15]So, mostly for passions, I don't pick them on the plant. I usually just let them to drop on their own. And then after they drop, I give them around 2 to 3 days. And then I just collect them from the ground. That way, they're usually very sweet. And the tanginess and the sourness is usually just gone.

[00:17:41]On this bed, we have carrots. These are the first carrots I ever planted. So, this will definitely be the first carrots to harvest. And these are the rainbow rainbow the rainbow ones, the ones that have the purple, the pinkish, the white, and the orange. So, [snorts] I can see a few purple and a few white.

[00:18:07]But I also don't think they are ready for harvest yet.

[00:18:12]So, we'll just give them some time. So, I also make made sure to plant uh marigolds in the grow bag.

[00:19:02]Ouch.

[00:19:04]I think I've talked about this small bed so many times.

[00:19:08]>> [snorts] >> And I've been saying this is my strawberry bed. I'm supposed to plant strawberries here. Although I am yet to go collect them and plant them. But I have two plants already and they're starting to have some runners.

[00:19:22]But I still want to add more. So, >> [sighs and gasps] >> when I get time, I think I should do this before the next video. If you didn't know, you can plant beans in grow bags. Now, you know that you can actually plant more beans into a basket.

[00:19:41]Our bag is almost full of vegetables which I love.

[00:19:47]On this bed, we have our jalapeño pepper. I really pruned it. I pruned it a lot. But, I can see a lot of new growth and new shoots and very many buds. So, I'm sure we're going to have a lot of peppers. And still on this bed, I have planted beans. But, on this bed, I didn't plant the army beans. I planted the kidney beans. Although, I planted them like way, way later. So, that's why we don't have pods yet. But, they have flowers. So, these are kidney beans.

[00:20:25]And then still on this bed, I planted two tromboncino plants. So, one was supposed to run uh or crawl on this side. And the other one crawl on the other side.

[00:20:40]So, we've managed to get some very big ones. And I'm sure they'll start changing uh color to brown like a squash like the way a butternut squash looks very, very soon.

[00:20:52]For the tromboncino, I had put I don't know if you can see this is aluminum foil. I had put it here at the base and at the soil.

[00:21:00]This was to prevent the borers. So, the I think they're squash borers. They usually enter the squash from the stem and then they eat it. And this also happens to things like zucchinis and they end up destroying the whole plant.

[00:21:14]So, that's why I had done that. I don't know if it prevented anything. Maybe it did or maybe we didn't even have any squash borers to start with.

[00:21:23]But again, when you're doing organic farming, you have to try any organic method that you know of or that you have heard about.

[00:21:32]Uh but, we do have powdery mildew.

[00:21:34]Although, it's not crazy. It's manageable. So, when I see when I spot it, I just usually remove the leaves.

[00:21:43]Another pest I've been also been dealing with another pest especially on the tromboncino. I think it's called a pickle worm. And it usually enters the fruit from the flower.

[00:21:54]So, it will lay eggs on the flower of the tromboncino. And then when the fruit starts forming, it will go inside the fruit and it will start eating the fruit. So, I've been trying to manage it. Although, um again, you can't do it 100%. So, you can see like this specific one.

[00:22:15]We have this scar here. It kind of shows there is a pest that is or worm that has got turned inside. So, I want to just remove it.

[00:22:28]Oh, and it's so beautiful. I feel so bad removing it. But, I have to.

[00:22:36]So, we've had to remove this because of that pest. But, the best thing with the tromboncino is when it's young, when it has not really hardened, you can eat eat as a courgette. So, you can just use it in your in your stews or in your salads.

[00:22:53]And it's very, very nice. It's actually better than a courgette. Way, way, way better. It's so creamy and so buttery.

[00:23:00]And then if you don't eat it in that stage, you can also wait for it to harden and then you can eat it as a butternut squash. So, even if the pest uh tried to destroy this one, at least I can still have it. Uh but now, I'm going to put it in my stews as a courgette.

[00:23:26]But, we have this very big one. This one looks so nice. And the best thing is that when they harden, it becomes very hard for pests to pierce through them.

[00:23:36]That's why you see I've been trying to cover them with some nets.

[00:23:44]On this bed, the first thing is I have This is a pixie pixie orange.

[00:23:50]So, I'm covering it because I noticed anytime it starts to flower, then I don't know if it's a cutworm that eats the flowers or what happens because I usually see a lot of flowers and then when I come, I see we don't have any flowers and also the leaves have been nibbled on and I think it's a cutworm.

[00:24:07]So, I've covered that. That is a pixie.

[00:24:10]And then we have this is a purple papaya plant. And we have two purple plants.

[00:24:16]One is here. The other one is here. And then in the middle, although it's covered, we have the what is called the strawberry guava. And then I've planted some zinnias. I love flowers. And we also have the sulfur cosmos.

[00:24:35]And we also have some beans down here.

[00:24:38]Maybe we can get a few of those.

[00:24:48]Wow.

[00:24:49]Great harvest. And then this is um This is my potato bed. So, we have quite a number of potatoes and they've started flowering, which is great. The other thing that is growing in this bed is uh pineapples. But, most of the pineapples are covered by the uh sweet potatoes. But, at least once we harvest Not sweet potatoes. The Irish potatoes. But, at least once we harvest the potatoes, we will give room for the pineapples to continue growing. The other thing that is growing is the horned melon. Let me see [snorts] if we have any that is ready for harvest. We have horned melons. I saw them.

[00:25:36]Ew. [gasps] They prick you so bad.

[00:25:40]You have to be careful.

[00:25:43]You can see we have some fruits. Oh, we have a bigger one inside there.

[00:25:47]I don't know if how to show you.

[00:25:51]We have a big one here.

[00:25:56]Yeah, we have a number of them.

[00:25:58]But, none is ready for harvest. So, we'll just leave it to um continue growing.

[00:26:06]So, this is another hack that you can use uh when you have limited space.

[00:26:11]Plant crawling plants like the tromboncinos like the way you've seen me do with the tromboncino. You plant them at the edge or at the corners of your bed and then allow them to sprawl or to crawl outside the bed. So, that leaves you with the bed that you can plant other things on the bed. And then this particular plant like the pumpkins or the horned melon, you just allow them to crawl outside the bed. And I'm talking this to people who are growing their food in raised garden beds.

[00:26:43]So, this will give you a lot of food in a small space.

[00:26:50]Coming on to this bed, um we have some We'll start here. We have tangerines.

[00:26:59]Our tangerines have ripened. You can see they are orange in color. We can harvest those ones. Apart from the tangerines, we also have some bell peppers.

[00:27:11]So, at least I know the next time I want a bell pepper to cook, I'm not going to the shop. I'll just pick one from there.

[00:27:17]And then [snorts] the other thing that we have is the the kales.

[00:27:23]And they've been loving the rain.

[00:27:25]And in between the kales, I have put uh thyme and oregano.

[00:27:33]We also have this purple which has fruited.

[00:27:37]Although sometimes the fruits usually drop, but at least we have some that got fertilized. I don't know I think they I think this uh the flowers are rich in in nectar because I always see birds in the morning coming on that specific plant. Then this grow bag has this This is a Chinese cabbage. This is a Chinese cabbage. And then this pepper, this is the rocoto pepper. And then here on this grow bag, we have bulb onions.

[00:28:15]And then I don't know if I showed you these tromboncinos.

[00:28:21]This is the other tromboncino plant.

[00:28:38]The [snorts] tromboncinos are huge.

[00:28:40][sighs and gasps] They look great.

[00:28:46]So, this is what you we managed to get.

[00:28:50]So, you can evidently see even if you have a small space, you cannot sleep hungry. So, you've managed to get a few vegetables here which we'll be uh using tonight. And if I wanted, I could have also harvested the kales and the spinach. But, we were we're not going to cook them. So, there's no need of me harvesting them. I'll harvest them when we need them. And that brings us to the end of this video. I want to say thank you. Thank you so much for staying with me till the end of the video. Please Please remember to subscribe if you haven't. Leave me a comment even if it's just a love. If you have nothing to say, just leave me a love there and I'll be able to respond to you. Help us get to 10K, please. The next time I'm doing a video, please. Let us cut a 10K cake.

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