Epic Fail - House and Garden Renovation Portugal
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Why do I think this week was an Epic fail in the House and Garden Renovation? Well, this week I didn't feel like I had done much work in the garden area. However, I ended up having far too much content to publish all of it. Why do we focus so much on what we haven't achieved rather than congratulating ourselves on everything that we have achieved. It was a full week for me, but I promise next week I will do a little more work.
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Susie, LOVE your vlog but two things about gardening: you need a spade to dig out plants and dig deep holes not a shovel, which is for shovelling things, like dirt, gravel etc. Secondly, hot summer isn't great for moving plants. It often kills then because the hot weather is stressful enough at times. Winter and early spring are much better. Teresa
Hi, thank you for your information. I actually wasn’t really that bothered if the Lanterna lived and it was in the way where it was which is why I moved it. But amazingly it has survived the transplant and is growing again. It seems to be a very hard plant to kill.
I discovered your vlog recently and fell in love with it. It's so natural and interesting. Thank you for showing us the renovations and the caves and beaches. There are three more expat vloggers making a home in Portugal: Mr & Mrs Adventure (Brittany and Drew), The Newbys (Tara & John with two adorable little boys, Crusoe and Sawyer, and The Portugal Project posted from a ghost town by a tall, skinny Dutchman whose presentation is quite funny. He seems to be buying up the ghost town and is even planning to open a bar though there is nobody there.
All of them showed fires this summer but only the Dutchman explained them truthfully. He hasn't revealed his name though. He shows mostly how he renovates his home which was more ruined than yours.
Thank you so much, it’s lovely to have you here. I know of two of the three channels you have mentioned. I will have to take a look at the Dutchman’s. The fire risk here is very real and very scary when you are in close proximity but Portugal is very equipped at putting them out very quickly. I have driven through a lot of areas this year with fire damage and it really devastates the woodland here. One of the main problems is because Portugal has many Eucalyptus trees growing, which are not native to Portugal and the fallen bark helps to spread the fire rapidly. We’ve had no rain since Spring so everything is very dry. When the first rains come everyone will breathe a sigh of relief. Thank you for your support, I am so grateful for every comment I receive 🙏💕
Keep painting the walls! It looks so bright and beautiful! I bet your neighbours appreciate it too. Cheers, Kindle 🇨🇦
Thank you for your support. I will keep painting 😀
The Marigolds are looking beautiful and will be attracting beneficial bees to pollinate the veggies that require it. I think the ferny looking plants might be Cosmos or Cosmea as they are also known. If they are they get very pretty flowers. Instant transformation of an ugly wall - What a difference a coat of paint makes. I'm happy the Lantana was saved.
Yes!! You gave the lovely lantana a nice life, and the honeycomb wall got painted! 🤗 And that couve smoothie looked sooo full of goodness! Enjoy!!
Ooh I like that name for the wall ‘the honeycomb’ 🙏💕
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Wall looks so good painted , instant transformation and looks so much nicer . The garden is really looking great x
Thank you. I’m looking forward to seeing everything I’ve planted this year maturing.
Marigolds and the ferny flowers are COSMOS. SOME VARIETIES OF COSMOS GET 3 FT TALL AND SOME ARE SHORTER I TEND TO LIKE THE SHORTER ONES. I just cannot believe how Sandy the soil is there I live in South Carolina and my soil is the same way and I have to add peat moss cow manure and good soil into each hole when I plant it because the ground cannot hold any water around here. Compost can only help your plants do better.
Yes I like Cosmos too. I'm looking forward to getting a good compost going at the new house.
I have a lantana Bush, they're very Hardy flowery like tree branches but they stink I think the flowers, have you smelled them? But I think they're very pretty. They take a lot of water. Love your videos much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie 🇺🇸💖 PS I just wanted to say they do not have a stinky aroma it's just when you've been down to smell them they are not a nice smell.
By the way to cooking and the accent, I know that your husband is Brazilian hehehehe.
Yes he is 😀
HELLO SUZIE...THE NEIGHBOUR PUT A SPEAKER ON A POLE IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE?...I HOPE THAT IS NOT AN ONGOING ISSUE...I COULD NOT ENDURE THAT...I LIKE MY QUIET...THE PLACE IS TAKING SHAPE, AS WELL YOUR GARDEN...KEEP COOL AS A CUCUMBER...ALL THE BEST...🙏
The speaker was put there by the local council for the three days of festivities. All is quiet again now, thank goodness 💕
Have you ever viewed Martign Doolaard, who is rebuilding two stone houses in the Italian Mts. He has 4 chickens
No I haven’t. I follow a few channels but haven’t come across his. I’ll take a look 🙏
That is not cabbage, it is collard greens.😊
Thanks Mike. I didn’t actually know it’s proper name. The direct translation from Portuguese is cabbage but it doesn’t look anything like an English cabbage 😂 Thank you for your knowledge and for watching
Collards are part of the cabbage family.
Fail? Things look good.
Thank you, they do. Sometimes I feel like I’m not achieving much but it is all the small jobs that make the whole. Thank you for your support 🙏💕