Let's Harvest Onion From Kitchen To Table In Small Backyard

Hello everyone. Welcome back to Manila, London. As you can see, we have onion here. The other day, we harvest garlic and today our onion because the weather forecast says it's going to rain tomorrow or on a weekend. So, this is the best time to harvest our onion. Look at this. Huge. They are huge. I'm coming. Come in. Come in. So, I'm going to harvest it. So, this is the the board, the cardboard that I'm going to dry on to lay on. Yeah. And look at that. Yeah. Oh god. So a little bit wet. So that's mean we need to dye it. Okay. God. We've got to go from here all the way all the way. All the way down there. Yeah. We're going to be here for a while. I think I'm going to time lapse. Okay. Okay. Okay. Guys, look at this. This is massive onion. This is I'm aiming for. That's why I didn't harvest um couple of weeks ago and it's been raining a bit wet. And take a look at this. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So, we are going to harvest from I think from there to over there. Ayan harvest mala. Onion. Big onion. [Music] Look at that. So from here to there harvest. Some of them are small but it's okay. We have few medunes and large organic yanertilizer chemicals and also organic fertilizer. Oh my goodness. Sila guys. Start [Music] wet roots. It's July. [Music] I'm harvesting because I'm going to plant um corn in here. Oh my goodness. Look at this. This big [Music] I planted the onion po around October last year and this time now is July. So it takes 10 months to grow in the UK. So in the Philippines maybe 6 months to seven months maximum because of our weather is really wet and also cold in winter time. So it's slow growing. So in summer harvest I didn't plant this from seed. I plant them in a little small bulb per it works. So I tried before from seeds but it worked then po the small bulbs at mala yan. So I made sure I have space for my onion because I miss our country. I miss my dad planting onion. I miss our farm. So we do um plant onion or grow onion in the Philippines. And also I remember when I was younger, my mom and dad will ask me and my siblings to go to the farm and to pull out millions of weeds because they said instead of the nutrients going to the weeds, they taught us the weeds should be removed because the nutrients should be going to the onion itself. So it benefits and we will have a bountiful harvest for that year. As you notice, there's no weeds in my garden. and I always remove them. I learned it from my childhood. I've learned a lot from my parents, gardening, planting, and everything in my life. So, thank you, Mom and Dad, for teaching me. And without you, I'm not in this position to grow vegetables and flowers. Oh, believe me, when I was younger, I get told off often and it's entered to my right ear and goes out to my left ear. But I learned a lot of good lessons from my mom and dad. And I am living with all of those lessons from my childhood. I hope they're watching right now. I hope they are proud. Thank you, mom and dad. I love you. Let's do harvesting. I know it takes 10 months to grow onion here in the UK, but my fruit of flavor is paid off. This onion will last us for 6 months or so. I have noticed and this is based from my experience. Onion can grow in the UK all year round. any kinds of onion especially the spring one. After harvesting this I will grow again from seeds. I will plant them in seed tray at the moment and I am going to transfer them in October time as much as we can. We would like to grow our own vegetable organically vegetables that we can stock for longer consumption at this way we can eat healthy and especially save a little bit of penny from your package. It's really handy that you have available stocks in your cupboard. In the Philippines, we grow onion in December time. Same here in the UK, the last month that you can grow onion is October to December. And then you will harvest around June or July. But in the Philippines, it will harvest very quick. Oh my word, it's finished. As you can see, a little bit big, some are small, some are medium. is not all of it is perfect. You know, nothing in this world is perfect. But look at that. I'm so happy what we harvest for today. Some of these will be given or a gift to my friends or to my neighbor. I'm happy and I'm blessed for all the harvest for today. Oh my goodness me. I feel like I'm just in the Philippines. This is what we do in the Philippines. You're going to lay them out to dry and then you are going to cut all the leaves later on. And when all the onions is in the big bags and everyone is finished, the truck is coming and all men including my dad will load the big truck. And I'm so happy and I'm happy today as well. Even we only feel this will last us for long. Maybe 6 months or so. and we're going to dried it into the garage. I hope I'm inspiring you to grow your own. It's not that hard to grow onion. It's very easy. Just plant it around October until December and then that's it. Just leave it. Just fertilize sometimes when it's dry. Just water them. It's not going to be dry anyway because it's cold weather in the UK. You don't need to water them all the time and you will have harvest just like this. Oh my god, the smells in here. The smell here is so nice. I got this um garlic chives as well. And this basil. Wow, the basil. It's delicious. Look at that. I got the herbs in the world in here. And then also I got some mint. Ah, delicious. I want to make mint. Yeah. And this one as well. This is a garlic chibives. And then you know what? Here I got coriander, too. Oh, this smells so good. Coriander, bay leaves, mint. Very nice. I'm I'm smelling now. Very strong. I'm smell I can say scram cheese. The onion smells gorgeous. Divine. Look at this onion. Mulan, I have a story to tell you. When I was younger and we often go to our farm when during vacation or holiday season and of course during harvest time of onion, we go to our farm. We're so excited and we ask money from my mom and dad because I know they're going to harvest a lot. But instead giving us money, they would say, "Okay, harvest onion as much as you like and also take it with you and you sell them." But only the onion that you can carry. Of course, we were young and we're so little. We can carry only a few or maybe two to three or 5 kilos. Oh my god. Me and my sisters, oh my siblings, we drag this onion in a sock. Cuz my dad said, "Anything that you can take, don't put them in our truck. Don't put them in our car. Just carry them to the selling person, to the buyer." Oh my goodness, it was so heavy. Well worth it. carrying few kilos of onion and we sold them into the buyer and very easy and we have money for a couple of days or a couple of weeks and we were happy. Wow. So some of this onion is going to be given and as a gift for my friend. That's for my friend. Anyway guys, I'm going to end this video. 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