- Have you wondered how you might harvest
from an area this size, which is seven half square meters,
80 square feet, in the course of one season 110 kilos
that's 240 pounds of vegetables.
So this is second video of two video series
where we're looking at how
one can do this and all the vegetables you can grow
in the course of the season.
Starting here, for example, with carrots,
which in the first video, I showed how lettuce
and the carrots had just been sown.
In fact, that was June, we're now September.
So the carrots here are three months old
and they grow really nicely, very easily.
All these second plantings are grown
in the simplest way possible.
Is only planted into a surface layer of compost
which I put on just once a year,
in late autumn, early winter.
Nothing else added in the course of the year.
So you haven't got a scratch on head and think,
"Oh, the what feed or whatever do I need
to give the next crop."
So these carrots here, three months old, no dig.
I'm pulling out one of the first ones.
Sown three months ago.
That's not bad.
That's a variety called Nairobi.
And that started off it's life between lettuce
that we're still cropping.
So this one nice example there'll be harvesting
September, October, autumn carrots.
And then here we had onions,
and in this space where there's now chervil
and Chinese broccoli, kaibroc.
I harvested 13 kilos of onions, nearly 30 pounds.
And they've been gone and another crop
has actually been in gone.
So we're actually into third crops, which was endive.
So we had endive and now we have the broccoli,
potentially late autumn.
Here was spinach.
And in the first film, you'll see there was
very recent plantings of cucumbers
that went in in early June.
And they cropped incredibly well,
from it's actually one of the best ever I've had.
But from this area of cucumbers,
we've had 19 kilos, nearly 20.
That's over 40 pounds of cucumbers.
We harvested them than just yesterday
but they're a little rich cucumbers.
So they're cropped regularly like every four days,
about twice the size of that.
We went a little bit bigger than that, and then pick them.
And then the next one here is kale.
So this is where there was beetroot and carrots
in the late Spring, early Summer.
And these kale went in on the longest day of the year.
Planted from a sowing in May, beautiful cavolo nero
which we're starting to harvest now
and will carry on through the autumn.
The parsnips is the only vegetable in this whole bed
which is a whole season vegetable.
So we haven't harvested anything
from this row of parsnips yet.
They will start cropping late October
through November finished early December, in this case.
Just because the size of this bed is part of
to explain why it's the same behind me,
a two bed experiment comparing no dig and dig.
I need to finish the harvest here,
so that can be dug and then but comparatively the same.
Now in the last section here we've again already taken
some of the Second Harvest.
This is French beans, dwarf beans
which we're cropping already and we've had again
two kilos or is it one kilo, but quite a few
and there's quite a few still to come.
And they followed peas.
And in the first video I was planning to do
some of these exactly as is like where the kale is.
I've mentioned that I was gonna do celery but hey,
that turned into kale.
One can be flexible in this the whole thing is succeeding
with succession and having plants ready in time,
on time in summer.
That means that sometimes you do things not plan.
Rotation is not a God given rule.
You can you can be flexible with it,
what you actually put in where.
And the last three plantings that are here now.
That's the one that's finished again, was red beetroot.
We had already gone.
Then there's golden beetroot.
These are after potatoes.
So the potatoes were harvested on the first of July,
which is not even two and a half months ago.
And as soon as on the day that they were harvested,
first of July, we popped in these golden beetroot,
celery and radicchio plant.
And that was actually on a course day
that I was running here and we did it as part
of the course, everyone joined in, it's quite fun.
The final harvest of potatoes, planting the golden beetroot,
the celery and the radicchio.
And here we are now 10 weeks later
and you can see how they've grown already.
You know there's another five, six weeks
of good growing weather we've got still to come.
So these golden beetroot for example,
they're gonna swell up quite a bit.
The celery could, I could start harvesting that already.
And I probably shall because the final planting here
has only recently gone in and that's Chinese cabbage
and then, yeah about final.
And that will then have more space to grow
and crop through the autumn because where this is growing,
already has the second harvest just finished
and that's that was radicchio, beautiful chicory hearts
which we harvested only one go, two weeks ago.
And they gave one and a half kilos, three and a half pounds
of these nice chicories.
So there you go.
It's like wow, you can do a lot.
And this area cropping we're gonna beat the harvest,
last year's harvest of 110 kilos, 240 pounds.
We're heading North of that.
It's really looking impressive,
all from really quite a small area.