The Benefits of Batch Harvesting

We don't have any romantic ideas of blissfully strolling through our vegetable garden before every meal to gather a few items that we need (ie. a dozen leaves of lettuce, a cucumber, or a handful of beans). While our children tend to graze from the garden freely, it's often far more practical for us to harvest crops in larger batches. This practice of batch harvesting has 4 main benefits which I will outline in this video.

[oranjmusemeyer]

I enjoy going out and picking daily... I would be overwhelmed with all that stored trying to use it before it goes off.

[matthewnewberry]

How long can that stay fresh in those containers?

[anyarieltorres]

The background music sounds like Sade - Somebody Already Broke My Heart. I love that song.

[monicas]

The lettuce washing machine is so interesting!

[JoelGonzalez-udqo]

Impressive gardens, reminds me of how my Dad used our backyard.

[absoliutenuds]

Depends how far your garden is. My garden is 30 feet from my kitchen door. I just pick whatever I need for that meal . Except the tomatoes and cucumbers, they're very warm when picked on a hot summer day . And nobody likes a luke warm vegetable salad. Those I pick a day ahead and keep in the fridge

[ThatBritishHomestead]

I do this is how I like to to harvest my food! I like to have it when I want it. I like freezing dehydrate ect

[fionajordan]

Great video nice lettuce keep growing 👍

[XroorX]

Harvest right before sunset so you minimize stress to plant

[jellyisjam]

Is that lettuce spinner made from a washing machine? If so it's genius.

[elizabethfindlay]

I'm highly curious how long that tub of lettuce stays good. That's cool n crazy

[sandrabeck]

In South West Florida you would have had a few stems left and piles of bugs, fungus, iguana, who knows what instead of all that beautiful lettuce.

[julietteoscaralphanovember]

How do they stay fresh until you can eat them? It seems there would be a lot of waste through spoilage.

[pinschrunner]

How do you "store" lettuce? It loses a ton of vitamins and minerals with each day it is cut from the source.

[lashall]

Cool how do those containers preserve the lettuce 🥬

[bellataylor]

What kinda of green and purple lettuce do you use, it’s look soo good

[freedomall]

We color let us a lot harder than that.
Of course we also grow it much tighter.
Is it just that when the plant is younger it can handle a harder cut? I'll have to ask the Farmer I work under

[niranjanjuliulambert]

where to find the spinner, I am looking for one

[munchkin]

You harvest, wash and store vegetables in a cooler like a market garden grower. Do you you sell any of your harvest or do you have a large family to feed?

[hardylisette]

What is the first bin that you put them to rotatie? 👂🏽👂🏽👍🏽💪🏽🙏🏽