Another HUGE Tomato Harvest From My Small 15m² Kitchen Garden 🍅

Hello, welcome back to my channel. Today I am going to be picking my tomatoes from the garden, but before I start with that I just wanted to show you I received a parcel today from Cool Jobs. They make gloves, garden gloves. They reached out to me a few weeks ago and asked me via my Instagram account if I would be interested in them sending me gloves to try on and I said okay, go ahead, do that and they sent me quite a few pairs which I'm very surprised by because I thought that maybe they'll send me a pair or maybe a two max, but they sent me two pairs what seems to be like a very standard two colors gloves that I go through very quickly. If you've seen my videos you know that I use gloves quite a lot. I'll explain in a minute. One pair of waterproof for winter type of gloves. They have this kind of a meshy warm inside which I also use in the winter. I've gone through a few pairs during the winter seasons on my own and one pair of thorn proof gloves which is also very handy. And why do I use gloves? Because you know there is this thing that some people say that a real gardener do not really use gloves because you need to push your bare hands into the soil and that is a proof that you're a real gardener. Let me put the camera down here. I don't have any tripod here. For me that wouldn't work. Not that I'm scared to put my hands in the soil but I have a very sensitive and paper thin type of skin. I get cuts really easily and I don't want that on my hands all the time. So that's one reason but also the other reason is okay so these are the very exact type that I use during the lovely seismol during kind of warmer seasons like now and through the summer as well. Soft to touch but they have a really nice rubbery inner part so that helps with the grip which I always go for gloves like this. So that's very nice, very good choice. The other reason why I always use gloves in garden is because if you have known from my any previous videos when I mentioned my daughter. We have a daughter who has a disability but she also has gastrostomy in her tummy. If you don't know what that is it's a little button that connects the outside to the inside of your stomach when you have troubles with feeding orally through the mouth which in her case is the case. So that's why she has gastrostomy and this is something that is used daily several times a day and I basically cannot allow myself to have dirty fingernails on like regular basis and having cuts and infections on my hands and fingers because I kind of serve as a semi-nurse for my daughter as well. So I have to maintain the hygiene of my hands. These are the thorn proof gloves. Nice. Also size small. Very nice. I think I'm going to leave the winter ones for the winter. I'm not going to unpack them or should I just unpack them? I'll just unpack them. Why not? So yes, thank you Cool Jobs for sending those to me. That's so kind. I honestly did not think that you will send me so many different pairs. And again this is size small. Yes. Lovely. And it has this kind of fleece inside that will keep me warm in the winter. As you know from my last year's vlogs that I've been doing quite a lot of heavy digging works during the winter and this will save me. So thank you so much Cool Jobs. I appreciate that. Okay. So today I am going to be picking the tomatoes that have ripened because I have quite a lot. Both in the little greenhouse here and most of them are falling under its own weight. But yes, I'll pick those and I'll probably make passata from most of it. And then I have quite a lot still of the cherry tomatoes that are ripening but we are getting quite a lot of rain pretty much every day if not every day than any other day. It rains a lot. It just stopped raining about half an hour ago and I thought I'll just come out and pick the tomatoes. And by the way, can you see that monstrosity that is just growing on top of this trellis? This is not a zucchini obviously or any type of squash. This is a cucumber. This is the femspot cucumber but it's the size of a marrow at the moment. Jesus, there are so many tomatoes and they are splitting from the volume of rain that we've been having. Also, have a look on this bean trellis here. This arch. Funny thing and you can also see this on my pumpkin. In the last video this part of the stem was still quite alive. It's not anymore so I'm going to take this down and I think I will take the pumpkins down because I'm afraid that once the whole stem will wilt to the point that it will not be able to hold the weight of those pumpkins. I am afraid that they will just drop to the ground without me noticing on time and maybe a sneaky rodent will get its teeth into it which I wouldn't want to happen either. I'm just checking. Do you remember when I had that hole behind my potato patch which is currently sitting empty but now for long because I have some seedlings. I have, what is that? I think this is a purple sprouting broccoli and I have some salads and I believe this is cabbage. Yes, winter cabbage. I've picked those from my local garden center. I was quite happy that they had lettuce because, again, if you've been on my channel before and seen any of my previous videos, I just cannot get lettuce to germinate and stay alive until it becomes big enough to be transplanted into the garden. It doesn't work with me. I was quite happy that I found the seedlings. I am planning to plant them somewhere. I don't know where just yet but somewhere. And yes, these beans. I'm quite surprised with those because they all kind of went very funny. They're just dying, drying, dying. It's not very viable anymore so I will be removing the beans as well and I'm very surprised by that because previously, even last year when I just started my channel, one of my first videos was a garden tour of like the late September garden tour or something like that or maybe even October and my beans were still alive. They were still giving me edible beans. Right now I really don't see anything that would be without any disease and my theory is that because we had this really hot summer, which is very unusual for our climate because the English climate here is typically very mild, so the summers would be around 20 cent degrees, 20 something cent degrees and lots of rain. This year we've had almost three months of very hot weather, around 30, even above 30 with no rain and I don't know but there is no other explanation that I can find for everything wilting so quickly. And the same, like I mentioned, the pumpkin. It should still be alive. It's the first part of September right now so it's very early in the season for a pumpkin to just look like this. Over here I have some pansies, seedlings as well, that I've picked up from a garden center and I am planning to replace my petunias in the hanging baskets on the side of the garage with those because those petunias are no longer, they do not look pretty. Let me show you. Not looking pretty is an overstatement or understatement I should say. And that's the other one. However what is looking quite all right is the dahlias. They've come back to life. This is burlesca and again one of the stems is very long. As you can see I have chopped the middle top stem off already but still it's falling to the side. Wizard of Oz looking lovely. This is definitely my favorite of the season. This is the totli tangerine. It's a beautiful dahlia. And the other favorite one is the rhubarb and custard which currently this is the only remaining open flower but I can see there is quite a lot of flower heads coming. It needs that heading as well. Yeah these two are definitely my favorites of the season. If you remember I did have way more. I had so many dahlias which some of them I have also planted in pots like I always do every year. And they were at my decking but all of them just went quite quickly. They didn't even had a chance to flower. They started drying out and dying. So I was just trimming them so that the tubers do not go to waste. I have just trimmed all of the stems and hid them in the shed so that they just sit there and I can save the tubers and use them next year. This season was just very difficult for most of the plants. Okay so let's do some work. I will start with just collecting all of the tomatoes so that they don't go to waste as well. And look at those cucumbers. These are the melons. I've left them for a little bit too long. I need to pick them as well. One question before I get started with tomatoes. I wanted to ask you about this chili pepper. This is the variety. It's called Atomic. I'm growing it for the first time and this is basically the very first time that I have successfully managed to actually have chili peppers fruit to harvest. When do I harvest these? Because they seem to be ready and I don't know because according to the label they can have two colors. Are they both red and kind of dark almost black meaning that they are ripened? Should I just pick those already? If you could let me know because for example this one here at the back is still green and I can see that it's still green. So it might either turn red or black. But this little one and this is a singular on this whole plant is red. So what does this mean? How do I read this plant? I don't know. I didn't sow this from seed. I bought it in a garden center because my early chili plant seedlings died very early on. I think they did not survive the fall of, if you also remember, the doomsday of my small mobile greenhouse with my seedlings falling off the decking and all of the trays dropping and all of the seedlings dropping. I think that chili seedling that I had there did not survive it. So I ended up buying a plant, a chili plant, from a garden center. But again I don't have much experience with growing chili peppers so if you or am I waiting for them all to turn red? Let me know because I don't know. And also I have a plan because there is some of the bell peppers that started to shape. I might move them to the greenhouse once I pick my tomatoes from there because some of them are finished already and I might just lift those pots from here and move them to the greenhouse to give them a little bit more warmth and prolong the season. But do let me know if this is a good idea because I am quite sure that those pots with peppers that I have placed on the bed, they most likely released roots and the roots are reaching into the soil there. So I do not want to mess up the harmony of them feeding from the bed directly through those roots. So is that a good idea if I just lift them and move them to the greenhouse? I was planning to just trim the stems of the tomatoes from those big pots and then lift the peppers that are in those small pots, lift the whole pot and put them on top of the big pots there so that they can still have some moisture from underneath of those little pots. But I don't know if that makes sense and if that is a sensible thing to do. Do let me know if this is a good idea. The sun is coming out and the sky is now clearing which is nice because 10 minutes ago it was still quite grey. Okay, I am going to put the camera on the tripod and start picking tomatoes. Just looking at this stem of this tomato, I believe this is one of the Rubelicious which is, I think it might be the middle one. I have to say that this variety, Rubelicious, it's a cherry tomato as you can see, so productive, it's so productive. Compared to, for example, the ones that I have in the middle that's sweet aperitif, I'm growing those for the first time this season, this year, and as much as they have quite big trusses, like in terms of volume, the fruit on its own, it's not really, it doesn't tickle my fancy to be honest. If you can see it here, let me check the angle, these are the sweet aperitif. The fruit, as you can see, if you compare, this is Rubelicious, the size of it, and this is a normal size cherry tomato, the Rubelicious. These are tiny, super tiny, and also a little bit of a blah in flavor, to put it honestly. So I don't think I'm going to be wasting my time on growing them next year, I think I'll pass. Definitely Rubelicious is my all-time favorite, and the same goes for the Sungold. Most of the Sungold, where is the the right angle, those are those three plants. Everything that's below the top of the trellis is now picked, but they are all still growing. This truss here, this is all Sungold. It's humongous, it's growing there in the, into the beans as well. So these are the, those three are Sungold, and the stems of them are growing into the beans there, and also all the way here, all of those are Sungold. Up there, up there, everywhere, and it's also growing into the verbena on the other side. So there is, there is a lot, really a lot of cherry tomato. I think 10, did I have 10? I have 10 tomato plants in this bed, but I think eight of, eight was cherry tomatoes plants, and two stems that are here are the Favorit, which is the beefsteak, which is my favorite. I will definitely grow more of the Favorit next year. I think I did have more seedlings, but I've given them away. I shared them to someone who needed them as well, so I was only left with two, which is still okay, but I will definitely grow more of it, because it's really, as the name says, Favorit, which is a, it's a Polish variety, but it's available in the UK. I firstly bought it in the UK, not knowing which varieties I'm buying, and you know, when I was just starting gardening four years ago, and it turns out it's like the best variety of beefsteak tomato. I'll definitely have more seedlings and plants of those, because that's like the best. Probably a little less of the cherry tomato plants in the garden in general, because I do use them to make passata sauce as well, if I have excess, because we do eat them raw as well in the household, but there's still too many, and I share them with my neighbors and with my family, but there is still too many, and to be using them for passata, it's a little bit of a, it's, you know, it's unnecessary, a pickle, let's put it that way, because you know, too much skin compared to the flesh. So yeah, I'll definitely grow more of the Favorit, and I'm not too sure about any of those varieties here, because in my view, I don't know, maybe that's the matter of the season, how it went, and the growing conditions, but they have not done as well as I expected, I think. I don't know, I just thought that they will be bigger, and that there will be more of them, but maybe it's just me and my high expectations towards the tomatoes, I don't, I don't know. Okay, I have been catching up on my other YouTubers, favorite YouTubers videos lately, because I, oopsie daisy, I got to the point where I had quite a lot of backlog, and I was also catching up with, oh there was something getting into this one, either a slug or a spider, there's a hole on the My favorite at the moment is Ali from My Rusty Garden, I will link her up, have a look on her channel, but she is doing quite a lot of content recently on tomato harvesting, tomato varieties, and saving seeds, which I find very inspiring, and I have to say that I have been highly motivated by her to start saving seeds. Come on, stand up. Actually, I might just cut this one down, this is also broken, there's no point to keep that. Anything else? I think this one. Okay, there is one small green tomato in this plant, so I'll just chop it down as well, because there is no point to keep that any longer. So back to the topic, Ali is very good with saving her seeds, tomato seeds, probably not only tomato, but this is like the current topic, and she motivated me, she inspired me, unwillingly, more maybe willingly, but that's her influence, to start saving my own seeds, and I started the process already, I'm not going to be showing you any of that, because I'm doing it for the first time, I don't know what I'm doing, so I'll just do it privately, but I started saving my seeds, and I'm quite happy that I've decided to do it, because at the beginning of this season, I have run out of some of the favourite seeds, tomato seeds, that I like to grow, and I needed to buy new packets, and currently the prices of seeds in the UK are ridiculously high, just to give you an example, when I purchased new packets of the Rubalicious and SunGold cherry tomatoes, each packet had 10 seeds in it, 10 seeds, and it cost £4.50, £4.50 a packet for 10 seeds, that's ridiculous, it's a ridiculous price for seeds, so that's it, I'm not buying any more seeds, I'm going to be saving my own seeds, I said it, yes, that's what I want to do, we'll see how that ends up, but yeah, have a look on Ali's channel, because she's very inspiring, what else should I chop in here, this is not giving anything anymore, oh there was something there, but I don't think that would produce anything sensible, I'm not even going to keep those, this one is still growing something, is it worth keeping, oh this is broken anyway, I'll keep those, and I'll keep this one, that's the big minus of this small greenhouse that I have here, when it comes to any maintenance, when I have stuff growing in there, it's so difficult to reach inside, if I ever get to have a bigger garden, I'm definitely, I don't know how I will do it, but I will make myself, or buy it and make someone build it, a bigger greenhouse, definitely, that will be my priority number one, if that ever happens, I think that's probably any gardener's dream, to have a bigger garden, if they don't have a bigger garden, and then to have a normal size greenhouse, I'll keep those, ripen them at home or in the shed, I'll just take everything down I guess, I will attempt to pick the pumpkins now, because this stem is obviously dead, this is all rotten, and I suppose maybe this happened because we are having very cold nights now, so even though like right now it's probably about 20 degrees, but in the evenings you can really feel the autumn, now I do have them tied into the fence, but should I just leave them connected to the stem, I'll pick this one, because this one is almost done anyway, although if I cut it, I might have to cut the main stem, so if I chop this one, I would have to cut it somewhere here, so that I don't cut the main stem, and let this pumpkin still be connected to the mother, also this one, the first one in line, this part of the stem is so thin, and this is barely secured, what did I do here, I don't know, I'll have to tie it up a little bit, but look, this looks, maybe that's the problem, maybe this is why the plant died, because of that, seems broken, oh bugger it, I'll cut them all, I'm going to cut them all, done, that's done, it's half ripened, but it will ripen in the shed, in the little one, which is actually not that little, because it's bigger than the first one, so there we have it, three more pumpkins from one singular pumpkin plant, and again, the variety is small sugar, I have already cooked one of those, and I've saved seeds, because this batch that I have grown, they were the last seeds that I had from four years ago, probably when I started gardening, that was my first pumpkin variety that I bought, and this season I have finished the packet, so I have saved the seeds from the pumpkin, so I don't have to buy them for next year, and I can highly recommend this variety, because as you can see, this is pretty much the size that you get, I got five pumpkins from one plant, and this is a very good size for like one dish kind of meal, these are the last ones of my favorite variety, my favorite variety, I think I'm going to chop this one down now, because this is finished, my hair is falling apart, and I can hear that the kids are being let out to the playground behind this fence, there is a school, primary school, so I do apologize for the noise, but there's not much I can do about it, I will try to harvest some of the cherry tomatoes from the top there, let's see how that goes, good, not good, good, so the good thing about this trellis is that it definitely holds the volume of the tomatoes, humongous volume, however you have to prepare yourself to do some gymnastics to harvest, it would be obviously so much easier if I had access to them on the other side, where the verbena is, but this is where my verbena is, oh there is a whole trust up there, and there's some here, I'm going to trim some of those leaves, I think I've taken most of the ripened tomatoes off, I think I will try to take that humongous overgrown cucumber out of the, like from the top of the trellis, I'm not sure if it's going to be edible, but let's try and take it out first, look at the size of this, and again this variety is Femspot, if you have a fancy to try and grow humongous cucumbers, maybe you know to take part in some kind of competition, so I think that today's harvest is a success, again I have way too many cucumbers, the melons over here, slightly overgrown but still perfectly edible, this ginormous, extremely ginormous Femspot cucumber, we'll see if it's edible, we'll test it, and then I have a full basket of tomatoes, some of them are ripen, some of them are green, but the green ones will still, they'll come, they'll come, and I have a bowl full of cherry tomatoes, very few of them are green, most of them are ripen, because the yellow variety, that's the sun gold, the yellow orangey, but majority of them is ripen and ready for consumption, and yeah, it's looking a little bit better now, I'm glad I've taken off pretty much all of the ripen ones from the top of the at least from what I can see, there are still so many left, I am shocked to be honest, I've never had such bushy tomatoes before, because I, like I said in the previous video, when I was harvesting I always needed to trim the tops, because all of those varieties are indeterminate, so they will grow for as long as the weather allows them, and they have a proper support, and this is the first time that I just let them grow and go crazy, and they do, they just do, so I think I'm going to finish on that, I might just tidy up that corner, I think I will remove the cucumber, the other femspot cucumber that is growing up the fence, I don't see any fruit on it anymore, we have taken the remaining cucumbers off of it a few days ago, there is a remaining of my zucchini plant in there, in the corner, I'll take that down, and probably not today, but I will remove the beans, because the beans look awful, and there is nothing that is suitable for consumption growing on it at this point, so I'll get rid of that, so that the rotten leaves do not block the sun to this section of of the garden, because now as we are already in the early autumn, the sun is kind of setting closer and closer to the front of the garden, now that I am ready to plant new crops in this bed here, where I used to have my potatoes, and potentially there will be a corner there behind me, where I can plant some cabbages, maybe that will be a good spot for the cabbages, and this corner will be free as well, because the pumpkin is now, so I have to remove that stem from this fence, so yeah, that will be it, the next step will be just planting new stuff into the beds, I hope you enjoyed this video, leave me thumbs up, leave me a comment, hype the video if you can, and subscribe to my channel, I will appreciate that very much, and thank you again to Cool Jobs for the lovely and very handy gloves, thank you so much, I'll see you in the next video, bye!