Nothing beats a nice summer harvest so let's see the summer harvest of beans, corn,
peppers, tomatoes and zucchini
So sit back and enjoy the harvest
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Bush beans are very easy to grow in containers
And to produce a lot of beans for the space they take up in your garden
And bush beans will produce almost every day
So you need to make sure you harvest your bush beans
Before they become tool big
They are nice and crispy when there's just about the right size to harvest
And you can get a really big harvest from just a small
container like this
This is just a 16-inch container which has a about five or six plants growing
And beans also fix the nitrogen in the soil
So it's a good thing for your future crops in the container
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No summer harvest is complete without corn
Corn is one of the best vegetables to grow from Spring thru Summer
And from a single corn plant you can get a lot of produce
Now it's important to remember what time you need to harvest your corn
What o you need to look for is the area around the the husk
The soft silky structures that grow out of the
corn
And once the slightly brown as you can see in this video
You can start harvesting your corn
Now let's see how these corn kernels look like
That should give us an indicator of how good the quality of the corn is
So those kernels look pretty good
They are all well formed. there are no diseases
There are no insects hiding inside
Let's see how that tastes
Hmm..that tastes pretty sweet
So this is how your corn harvest should look like
Its a nice well formed corn
And harvested right in time to get the sweet flavor
So after the removing all the covering this is how your corn looks like
Now if you wait for about about seven 7 to 10 days more from the harvest time
What you're gonna get is corn that is slightly less sweet
Now it could be personal preference but I sometimes
like corn that's slightly less sweet than the regular sweet corn
So one way to get the slightly less sweet flavor
is to wait for about seven to ten days before harvesting
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Now if you have watched my growing peppers video
This is actually the same plant that we planted in that video
It was a small plant that we planted very carefully
Adding the stakes and adding the mulch
And making sure that the plant is all set to produce some good papers
And now in this video you can see how many peppers it has produced
This is the Ancho poblano pepper variety
And this Whisky barrel has two plants growing in it
And you can see all those lovely very well sized peppers
That we're gonna be harvesting today
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So our container tomatoes have been doing very well
And we already posted a video of how to grow tomatoes in containers
And get a lot of tomatoes out of it
So I hope you like that guide
And if you follow that guide well you're gonna get a lot of tomatoes in your container
So we're gonna be harvesting some of these tomatoes
Now it's generally a good idea to wait for the tomatoes to ripen
Before you harvest
Let them ripen on the line
But sometimes you just need some tomatoes
So you can pick ok all the red ones
Or even the the golden or the orange ones
And they can ripen completely on the shelf
So that's what we did here today
We got some tomatoes that were red
Let's see if we have any more here
You can harvest these tomatoes and they will ripen very well on the shelf
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So for the zucchini harvest, let's start with this one on the ground
It looks like a monster zucchini
It's grown very big
And it was hiding here all the time
So let's get this one out
It's a pretty big zucchini it weighs a lot
And hopefully you can get a lot of zucchini out of this one
Now in the video that I had posted earlier I had advised not to wait for too long to
harvest zucchini
So let's see if this zucchini is good or not
And there's only one way to find out!
Let's cut it open
And it feels really soft to cut
And that looks like a really good zucchini
It's not fibrous
It's not overgrown
So it's a hit or miss you know
With zucchinis you need to make sure you harvest it just before they get too big
But this is pretty good it's not really fibrous
And when you chop it you can see that it's really good quality zucchini
And when we cooked this zucchini it was not hard or fibrous at all
It was really good
So this is about the size you can wait till you harvest your zucchini
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We still have zucchinis growing in our containers
So let's go ahead and harvest a couple of these
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