Harvesting Groceries From My Suburban Garden 🌿 1/5 Acre | 720sqm Block

Welcome back to the garden and happy spring here in Perth in Australia. The garden has absolutely been taking off so much growth but in today's video I'm going to be taking you through my first harvest of the spring season. So the garden is looking a little bit different than it was in some of these shots because I haven't been able to post a lot of videos in September because I actually had family visiting from New Zealand and wildly enough after 13 years together both our families finally got to meet which I know seems really crazy but we're both from New Zealand but different ends of the country and we live here in Perth which is over 5000 kilometers away so there just hasn't been a time where both of our families could meet until now so that's been really fun we've been doing lots of tourist things around Perth and just spending some time offline in the garden and preparing lots of delicious meals with things that I've been able to harvest. But if you're new here hi I'm Holly and I've slowly been taking over my front yard and also the back to turn it into an urban food forest. I started with just one plant and some raised garden beds and mini wildlife pond and slowly began to turn an unproductive patch of sandy soil into a garden that now provides fresh food throughout the whole year but let's go harvest some food. Starting off let's harvest some of these purple potted peas. I want to make sure that I harvest all of these so that it keeps producing more and doesn't just go straight to seed. These purple potted peas have by far been my most successful peas that I've ever grown and although you do have to shell them you can't eat the outsides they are definitely something that I would grow again. They're really sweet and delicious just fresh added to salads and any meals really. Plus most of you know I love a purple veg and adding color to the garden so that gets it bonus points. I just have these tied from the trellis here up to the arbor up there and some of them have fallen down in the wind so I'm just gonna just retrain them up. One of them is snapped you can see this is starting to go a little bit yellow because it's actually snapped there but we'll just try and re-secure them. Hopefully we get another round of peas out of these. Not a lot of these snow peas and I've just been eating them fresh so none of them have made it inside yet but let's pick this one. Down under here we've got some tomatoes. I've been picking these but let's keep going. One, two and I can see one in here. Some big beetroots. These Asian greens are getting enough shade under the tomato that they haven't gone to flower yet which is good compared to the ones out here in full sun have gone to flower and seed. Look at all this lettuce. The grapes are really starting to wake up now. Got a few lucky last lemonades to pick. And one that's rolled down over here. They smell so good. A few more radishes before they all go to flower. This one in here for sure. Oh this one is massive. This is like a beetroot. Look at the size of this radish. Wow. Let's get this beetroot. The rosemary is going nuts so I need to pick some of this. The big radish that I've been waiting to go to seed is still not quite there yet. Look at this massive beetroot. I've been mainly using this as a spinach so I've just been harvesting all the side leaves and using that just like a chard because the beetroot is actually part of the chard family and I love using the stalks and the leaves in lots of my dishes. All right let's go see what we can find out the back. Got two passion fruits. Hey you didn't need these ones. So I've just been giving this a light shake. Some of them get stuck. Oh I heard something. I found another giant one. I think that might be all the passion fruits. There's still a couple that aren't quite ripe under here. A few green ones left. We've got four passion fruit. This poor kumquat tree has been very neglected and it needs to be, all the fruit needs to be harvested so that I can give it a prune. It is very much in need of a prune. I'm going to clean up all the bottom and some of the branches have literally snapped from the weight of the fruit and then we have these water shoots here that I'm going to remove. You'll also notice the papaya has had a bit of a tragic winter so I'm also going to prune that back, see if we can get that regrowing. But let's harvest all these kumquats so this tree can put some more leaves on. And here we have my first harvest of spring. So we've got the purple potted peas, a couple snow peas and sugar snap peas. We've got another bowl of kumquats, some passion fruit, giant radish, lemonades, some tomatoes, rosemary, spinach and beetroot. Plus all the other things that I've got growing in the garden that I just like to harvest fresh. So lettuces, Asian greens, rainbow chard, all the herbs like I've got garlic chives, thyme, sage, all of those I'll just harvest when I need them. Let's cut one of these open. These ones have been left to ripen because they stuck behind the vine so they're all wrinkly and they're going to be super sweet. So juicy. Oh my gosh that smells so good. I have not been wanting the passion fruit season to end. This is the first year growing my sunshine special and I haven't got a huge harvest of these but it is less than a year old so I'm happy with what I've got and I can't wait for next season because it's going to be so much more to enjoy. I did a batch of dehydrated kumquats because I'm obviously getting a lot of harvests and I'm trying to come up with other ways that I can what I can make out of them. I've been making jam but I thought I'd try this. I haven't done it before because they're so small and it's kind of hard to cut them because they've got seeds inside but I thought I'd just give it a try anyway and I'm actually really happy with how they've turned out. They are pretty small but I feel like they've got a little bit sweeter because obviously the skin is the sweet part on these kumquats and the inside is a little bit sour and with all of that moisture taken out yeah it just concentrates the flavour and they're really good. So I would use these in teas and also in baking to decorate cakes and cupcakes but also just I feel like these will be really delicious on top of a yogurt bowl or your cereal. Really like zingy and citrusy flavour or just kind of like a sour lolly, all natural.