How to Tell When Vegetables Are Ready to Harvest
When vegetables approach maturity, choose the best moment for picking them. For flavour, sweetness, and quantity too, because regular picking can help your vegetables keep producing. Melons and tomatoes take what feels an age to mature, then ripen very quickly, according to variety. Cherry tomatoes take longer than beef tomatoes. Watermelons need more time to mature than Charentais melons, and need warmth. In fact, we have enjoyed a warmer spring and early summer than normal, so harvests have come ready before I was expecting them. There are many options for sweetcorn harvests. This is Goldcrest F1, a supersweet variety. Sown 10th April and planted 25th, with fleece over. Onions are more abundant than normal because of high sunshine levels, and a lack of rain. Outside I am watering cucumbers, celery and sweetcorn much more than usual. Especially the celery. Filmed at Homeacres no dig garden by Nicola Smith, on 21st July 2026. Red spider mite biological control https://gardening-naturally.com/produ... You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members: / @charlesdowding1nodig #harvestvegetables #vegetablegardening #nodig #growyourown #homegrownfood 00:00 Introduction 00:21 Melons in the greenhouse - ripe and unripe, signs of readiness 01:30 Cutting one open, Alvaro F1 02:27 Red spider mite predator, see link above 02:47 Different varieties - Emir F1 and Ogen 03:48 Beef tomatoes - removing at breaking stage, to finish ripening off the plant 04:42 Cherry tomatoes, Sungold F1 - signs of ripeness 05:25 Polytunnel - tomatoes and watermelon, indications of readiness 06:36 More melons Alvaro, Emir and Ogen 06:56 Long cucumbers - when to pick 07:36 Outdoor ridge cucumbers La Diva - signs of readiness 09:11 Sweetcorn - clues to ripeness, and growing in a block 11:43 Potatoes Désirée, maincrop - difference between potato categories 12:17 Harvesting no dig potatoes, proximity to sunflowers 13:24 Green leaves on potato plants, and spacing 13:45 Multisown beetroot - spacing, and removing one from a clump, two varieties 15:30 Celery Tango - when and how to harvest 16:33 Red onions Red Baron - multisown and grown from seed, how to harvest 18:03 Onion Long Red Florence / Tropea long,, also multisown
