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.
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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
