Harvesting zucchini pt2: What restaurants want. by @elsalvadorian on 3Speak
▶️ Watch on 3Speak --- Video of my second harvest of the zucchini patch. This is what restaurants want and this is the most lucrative way for me and them. --- ▶️ 3Speak
Tags: #nature #garden #homestead #raised #bed #gardening
What's up guys? I'm here in my garden and today is going to be basically my second time harvesting zucchini. The day before yesterday I harvested for myself and we cooked four of them and I still got two or three of them. I'm out of air because I was planting corn but yeah I'll be harvesting. See this piece right here is very big. I let them grow bigger because You know, a lot of these restaurants, they use these zucchini as a filler, basically, to have more diversity in their plates. They don't care about flavor or texture, really. They just want to add some more to the plates. And so the bigger they are, the more money I make, right? And so I let them grow a little bit bigger. Now, if they are too big, obviously, they're going to be all seedy and stuff, you know? But these restaurants, they really don't care. As long as they're nice and tender. a little bit of seeds don't really matter, you know, so yeah, that one's kind of big. This one right here is huge, but that's okay, you know, they don't care. And some of them, these are smaller. I'm just going to be harvesting every day pretty much from now on, and I've got to do my second planting. But yeah, for today, I'm just going to harvest all of these, and I'll show you at the end, the results, okay? So yeah, let's get it. I'm gonna start doing it. You won't be able to see me harvest this, so you'll just see the end because it's about to rain. Like, literally, it's really about to rain. And so I'm gonna harvest this, and I'll show you at the end, see how many I get. I'm thinking I'll probably have five of them that are ready today. You know, and my goal is to harvest 10 of them, so I'll harvest five of them today and maybe hold on to them until... the next one or two days and then harvest more and with 10 of them I think I can make one case and then sell it to a restaurant because they're just starting to produce you know that some of these plants are very young and so some a lot most of them just have flowers they don't have zucchini what's up baby girl so yeah let's get it So I thought I was going to be able to harvest five because I wanted to harvest this one right here, but this one, I can still let it go one or two more days so that it becomes this size. This is the size I'm looking for. See, that was kind of smaller, smaller, smaller. And if they're smaller, you can charge a better price. But like I said, restaurants don't care about that. It's just sad, but it's true, is the honest truth. They don't care about these nice, tender, tasty zucchini. What they care is about price and volume. Can they fill up your plates so it does look big and chunky, right? That's what they care about. So it needs to be this size, okay? So that's something you need to know. But, yeah, I'm only going to harvest four today, and there's others. I could harvest. right, that are a little bit less than this size. You see, that one right there is almost the size of these two right here. But I need them to be this size right here, so that is worth it for me. And you say only four? Yeah, because these plants are young. They're basically about to start producing. See, up there, they're all small plants. They're just flowering right now. first they flower, and then they produce zucchini. This one right here is the biggest plant I have, and this bunch right here, basically. But, yeah, they're different. I think they're, like, maybe a couple days different. This one right here, no zucchini yet. You see, I got one, two, three, four plants. And in each hole, there's at least two or three plants. And these have not started producing yet. The only ones producing right now are basically this bunch right here and this bunch right here. And that one right there. That's where I got one of these. I forgot which one. But yeah. So, once this whole patch starts producing, then we'll be in business, you know. But this is the start. This is basically my first heart. Yeah, I was talking to some friends just now, and I think I'll just give it to them, you know. It's just for zucchini. I don't want to save them for one or two days because, you know, they might go bad, I don't know. I know zucchini's last a while, they last at least two weeks. But, you know, some friends are going to come over and they're going to take them. So I'd rather do that. You know, they're my neighbors, basically. So, yeah, so I'll do that. But, yeah, maybe in one or two weeks, I think in one week. In one week, I'll be good to go, you know what I mean? In one week, these plants are going to be. bumping bro, and they'll be producing for like a whole month, maybe, and hopefully two months, right? But I have to do succession planting, so I gotta already start my next batch of plant seedlings so that I can transplant. For when one of these plants get sick, right, you just pull them out and you put another one on the ground, that way you extend your harvest. But yeah, man, I love my garden, so I thought I make a video. I'll see you on the next one. Peace out. Don't let me do a thumbnail. There, oops, thumbnail, right there. There, fucking awesome. What you want, girl? What happened?
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