Summer Garden Tour - Our 2nd Year of Growing Food - #24
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2022
- We've done a lot of work in the garden this year - from Hügelkultur raised beds to dig vs. no-dig potatoes and a huge expansion to add space for growing corn, sweet potatoes, asparagus and a whole host of squash and pumpkin.
Join us on a bright and sunny morning in the interior of central Portugal (growing zone 10a) for a look at what's growing well, what's growing less well and what's taking over the garden!
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And thank you to one of our lovely club members, Ana, for providing the following translation of the conversation with our neighbour:
Me: Good morning, how are you?
Neighbour: We're getting there, what about you?
Me: would you like more courgette's?
Neighbour: Enough, there are only Two of us
Me: More? Would you like more?
Neighbour: No thank you, we're only two and we don't eat that much, but thank you anyway...
Neighbour: [talking about the potato harvest] They are very small, last year they were big, this year they are tiny. But my friend, it's all there is round here, and that's the best we can get. That's it. Thank You!
I guess they're not a fan of courgettes! 🤦♂️
The funny neighbor said "Somos só dois a comer / somos poucos" = "we're just two eating" (meaning, that's more than enough for them two) and then a classical pt moment were our elders will go and say how small their agriculture products are this year (no matter how big they are, they will always say they're smaller than the previous year). But let me say, I was super impressed with your pt 🚀
I agree. I was very impressed with your Portuguese and you nailed the accent as well.
Agree. Very impressed with you pt accent 👏👏👏
I obviously have a way to go with my Portuguese. I thought he added jokingly that the two of them are skinny (so two courgettes are quite enough for them),which seemed to insinuate 'unlike you two' , and then said courgettes gave him the sh#ts. But now I know better ...🥴
Yeah, agreed! Your Portuguese accent is on point, great job :)
@@annie1626 you really do have a way to go with Portuguese. He didn't say any of that, not even close. But keep working on it!
That culture of sharing home grown produce between neighbors is very common in the interior of the country. It's like you said - some people have more of one item, others have more of another, so they share it so that as little as possible goes to waste.
Wow your Portuguese pronunciation is bloody amazing. I’m extremely impressed. He replied this year they are weak, much smaller than previous years. Kudos on your Portuguese.
I was also extremely impressed with his pronunciation.
Really enjoyed this video, and your harvests are amazing.
Yes, please a cordial video would be interesting too. Thank you. 👍☀️😎
Who knew you could make cucumber cordial. Very interested to watch that video. Another great walk through your organised garden.
Carrots seedlings ara painful. An old method i learned from my father is to cover with a wood plank and check regularly. The plank will ensure good contact between seeds and soil while maintains moisture well uniform. It's very simple and effective. One you start to see the germination, remove the plank and continue as normal.
Came here to say just this. Takes half as long for germination, too.
I saw a youtube video of a guy sprout them in cornstarch jelly and then he piped them into the rows when they had germinated. I thought that was ingenious.
Dad always said keep wet burlap over the carrot seeds. Check every day. When the shoots appear take the burlap off. 🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏿🤘🏼💋❤️
Yes please, I would love to see a cordial video and how to use it. Thank you.
You have a very good portuguese accent, congrats! The portuguese farmer has a very thick accent, it should be particularly difficult for non-natives. So, here's some translation from 40:13 on: the portuguese farmer said "enough, we're just two eating [it]" (chega, somos só dois a comer). Then he repeated it. And then he said "we are few" (somos poucos). At 40:25 he said "this year they're not good" (este ano estão fracas). Then he said "last year they were large, this year they're small" (o ano passado estavam grandes, este ano estão miúdas). Then he said "but, my friend, that's what we have" (mas meu amigo é o que cá há). Then he said "there's nothing better" (não há melhor).
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So glad I found your channel. Sitting here at my table in Texas watching and just thinking how much fun it would be to hang out with you two in your garden. Drinking Kylie's cordials of course! Great garden tour you two! Can't wait for the next update!
Hey guys great video, a little tip for growing carrots I use a cup or so of sand mixed with the seeds to help separate the seeds .
The weed beside the corn is a variety of Crab grass. Keep pulling it out or it will take over. At least it is easy to pull as it has a central fibrous root system. The easiest way is to lift all the leaves around the roots & pull the entire plant out. You shouldn't have to dig around it unless the ground is as hard as a rock.
Love your garden. We are planing a move to Portugal from Ontario, Canada for next year. We are looking in the district of Leiria, Cardavale. My husband is Portuguese, from Alentejo, born and raised. I’m Italian but also quite fluent in Portuguese. Can’t wait to move back there. We are currently house hunting. Trying to decide exactly where. Any advice would be appreciated.
Cut the watermelons into slices and freeze - tastes like popsicle! Also works great as a cold treat for chickens on a hot day :)
Yes please to a coridal video!
What a lovely amazing produce garden, and just the right size for two people to manage. Your garden videos always inspire me to :) thank you for sharing!
as a Portuguese myself I am BEYOND impressed at your accent Guy. Holy cow! you sound more Portuguese than I do! Impressive!
When we were actively growing our own food a few years ago we used to give some of our surplus to the local elderly day centre.
Wonderful garden tour Kylie & Guy. There is nothing better than eating your own produce which you know that chemicals were not used,
Would love to see you making any type of cordial or any interesting (bottling/canning) ideas with those BIG courgettes :)
You are both looking happy and relaxed must be the climate. Better than NZ winter for sure.
Your pronunciation of Portuguese is amazingly good!!😀
Your garden is huge and everything looks amazing ,wow ,so rewarding I’m sure!!Love watching you guys are amazing and 😆
Would love a cordial lesson. Strawberry lemonade too!
I am watching this February 2023 and can hardly wait to start on my garden this spring. You have inspired me to try the no dig method on a few things. I have a tiny garden with really poor soil (rocky riverbed) so I think the method will work really well. You two are fun to “hang out with”
Yes please, on a cordial video. This was a really special video. Thank you.
I'd love to see how you make your cordials, especially the cucumber one :) Roots and Refuge Farm channel has some good tutorials on getting carrots to germinate easily if you want to try again next year. She puts a wooden board over the sowed line to keep the moisture in. I love fresh carrot tops so I like to grow at least a few. I added Celeriac to my garden this year (root celery) and am super excited seeing them grow - though not nearly as well as everything you guys are doing this year. We haven't had much rain in Germany either and I used cheap compost. Lesson learned (hopefully). Stay hydrated!!! :)
I vote "YES" for the cordial recipe! Neem oil is a good more natural way to control white flies and such. :D
One cultural note. "Siesta" isn’t really much of thing in Portugal (except maybe in some towns in Alentejo)... People not being outside doesn’t mean their having a regular nap, most of them will probably just be doing chores inside or just sitting for a while, and if they are old maybe rest when they feel tired. In many small rural villages you would probably see older folk just sitting right next outside their door under a shade talking with their neighbours.
Your portuguese is quite good, Guy! Very proud of you! Portuguese is a difficult language to learn.
Your neighbor was saying that 2 was enough because there are not that many people in his house. And that the courgettes from last year here much bigger.
I love following you two and I'm glad you are enjoying our contry.
Amazing garden! Not sure if you thought about it or not, but be careful with planting bell or sweet pepper next to other hot peppers and chillies :) they can interbreed because of the pollinators. I made that mistake once and only found out there was a mistake to be made when I prepared a stuffed bell pepper that removed the roof of my mouth it was so spicy hahahahaha
My grandmother rose before first light, tended her garden every day, harvested every morning, canned and processed straight away and then had an afternoon siesta. Pick squash small -- taste better! And, I think you want to plant the asparagus in a patch
Such an impressive garden! It thrived in part because of the large amount of compost you used to enrich the soil, you provided sufficient water, and the third major component was your hard work! Although you did research as needed, you started with a solid knowledge base and you experimented to learn more. As you refine your preservation/storage techniques you will become just about self-sufficient (though indulging yourselves occasionally for little store-bought extras). The long growing season there allows harvesting of some fresh food year-round.
Anyone who sees your success and thinks they can just buy a plot of land and live off it should watch your videos from the beginning and understand that it's not that easy!
I love the sound of the birds from the background 😊❤
What your neighbour said is that the potatoes last year was larger than this year, I’m Brazilian but the Portuguese accent is stronger then the Brazilian one 😊
Just returned from a 10-day vacation to find some huge courgettes in my garden (eventhough someone was meant to use them in our absence). Made courgette cake with some of it, an absolute family favorite 😊
You guys are doing an awesome job🙌🇳🇿
Just today I saw a couple put a few layers of cardboard over carrot seeds to keep them wet, the same man always carries salt in his pocket for tomato snacking:)))
Sieve the soil finely for the carrots and add something like 50% sand to it...and your carrots will be perfect.
Also cover the sown rows with a board/ fence paling to keep moisture constant. Around the 2 week mark, check regularly for germination then remove.
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well done
I love your videos
what ever you do is so fantastic all the best
A good way to stay ahead of your courgettes: pick them when the courgette is about 2 inches long and still flowering. Then dip the whole lot ( courgette with flower attached) in to egg then flour, then pan fry in butter…. Lovely!
That is an amazing garden! Or "horta", in portuguese. :-) Interestingly, in portuguese we have two words for what seems like only one word in english, "garden". In portuguese we have the words "jardim" and "horta". "Jardim" is more a kind of flower and grass garden, for leisure purposes, and "horta" is a vegetable garden, like yours.
Try Chinese stir frying the lettuce leaves with a bit of oii, garlic, cooking wine, pepper etc...so glad you installed the drip system which appears to be the superior watering system in your outstanding gardens. Your gardening may be the standard for ex-pats pretty soon!!!
Every year there is one crop that is overwhelmingly productive this year it was lettuce so we send people away with bags of it and a kohlrabi. You folks are loaded with your hard work production.
With all your renovation video's, I tend to forget that you have a huge garden as well.. It's doing great! Congratulations.
Have you tried frozen water melon vodka slush? Its good.
I think it’s fantastic how you all share your produce, makes good neighbours. Best wishes from Australia
In the U. S. Our orange orchards are suffering a blight, unfortunately that is what happens with a mono culture. Your lucky to have older varieties. You may be able to sell the seeds. I especially love the tree with many varieties.
Crabgrass is the name of that plant in the corn. Digitaria sanguinalis (in portuguese is called "Milhã").
As for your chickens, I've learned all chickens seem to have an odd trait. If you just put the food in with them, they will ignore it, but if you hang on the fence, the trees, their coop, as well as stake other veggies up so the little buggers can feel like they are really having to rummage for their treats in a tiny forest of goodies, they will eat all the stuff. Placing some just out of reach will make them jump for it. Chickens all seem to appreciate the work it takes to get the goodies in life. I hope that works for you because they are missing out on so many good things. Chickens, huh? 😁
That irrigation system is tempting me! I need something to keep my plants moistured. Amazing garden, congratulations 👍
Awesome video as usual. I vote for a cordial making video. 👍
"Red Hot padrão peppers" sounds like a Portuguese tribute band...
😂🤣😂🤣
If you have green chilies , garlic and onion I thoroughly recommend Nam prik num, a green chili dip from the North of Thailand. Here in Melbourne I make it about every 2 months and the family (who are Thai) love it; you can 'water down' the heat by adding green capsicum but be careful it is addictive!
Im going to try this!
Hi Kylie and Guy. Talking about lettuce for your Ckooks!! To get brilliant orange yolks feed them silverbeet. I used to grow silverbeet in between my flowers as we had no room for a veg garden. Our local Coles super market used to keep all the lettuce leaves that customers striped off the lettuce as rubbish but every Thursday my chooks would be at their gate for the silverbeet!!! All the best from Brisbane Australia ❤️❤️
Also guys with your pumpkins and squash pick when ripe or leave in the vine but put some hay or straw underneath them. We had a huge grey pumpkin that we left at our back door for about 5 years and when I made pumpkin and bacon soup it had the most beautiful flavor and very dry inside. You could grow all your pumpkins, marrow water melon on your rubble pile. Free space and then you can use your garden for other veg. My dad used to grow pumpkin and melons on an old compost pile. ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Kylie and Guy. We’ve watched you right from the start (on the other Channel too) and started our own garden journey at the same time. It’s interesting how we have improved over the past 2 years like you have, learning from experiment and making mistakes. Our climate in Nova Scotia, Canada does not give us as long a season as you get, but fun all the same. We’re really enjoying your Q&A vlogs mid-week too. Take care and keep em coming! Thanks 🇨🇦
Yess! Would like a cordial video! Great haul of produce! 😍
Man! You just speak like a native. Very good pronunciation. Great work u 2. Everything wonderful and juici ❤️ keep it up. 🔨🍀💪
Great harvest Guy and Kylie. So happy you are enjoying the fruits of your labor and sharing with others. Your Portuguese sounds really, really good. Keep up the good work. 🙏 👍🤗
Hot peppers can be pickled. They are great in tuna sandwich, salmon paddies.
To make them crunchy, presoak the sliced round hot peppers in sugar solution sweet to your taste, just cover to the top (I used stevia/swerve powder solution) for 3-4 days in refrigerator. Put in a jar and fill it up with sourkraut left over liquid. Love them. Typical Asian condiment.
Awesome garden 😀. An exchanged community.....Love it.
Wow!! A lot of work, but you get wonderful food. I'm not sure how you manage it all!! The building, renovations, digging, planting, weeding, pruning, harvesting cooking, preserving!!
YES I'd like to see you make cordial and how you use it. I think it is a sweet flavouring for water or spirits but not sure!!
Hugs from 🇨🇦
Also, your Portuguese pronunciation is VERY good! 👍🏼
Beans and grains is why you have Thrashing Floor previously built. Now where your Yurt lives. Next year you can build a new one. A Flailing Rod and grain block is what you might consider. It’s loads of fun.
Fab tour guys!! Carrots ~ grow in plain soil with only addition being some sand. No fertilizer, manure or compost. They will grow long and straight and prolifically!! Along with the rock melons, we’re the others the Honeydew variety perhaps?? And don’t forget to mound your asparagus up to get lovely long spears. Great work 👍 👋 🇦🇺
+1 vote for the cordial recipe!
It shows you your way doing the raised beds works and keeps water in.
I love your videos!!!!
Great video and colors!
Thank You.
Wonderful Video Absolutely beautiful and prolific garden, How amazing is it that the 2 of you have done all of this in 20 months!!! BRAVO for you. The squash flowers are amazing sautéed in a pan with little olive oil. I also stuff mine with some nice soft goat cheese. You can also cook the squashes that are very small with the flower still attached a nice sautéed dish as well. I keep thinking you need a small milking goat to eat your extra food and provide you with some nice milk. Thank you both so much I really enjoy your channel.
The flowers of the pumpkins or squash and zucchini are also edible.
Are you going to do mushrooms? Different types of corn, lettuce, herbs etc. ?
Fennel, celeriac and eggplant would possibly grow lovely there.
In OZ there is a citrus bush that would grow nicely there I think it’s called citrus caviar? Or something?
Loving the garden. Love the humour and laughter even more.
they are growing eggplant, in Europe we usually refer to it as Aubergine
Amazing garden! One word though…relocate your Lemon Balm to an area by itself; it is highly invasive and will grow large, bush-like plants and it spreads by the roots. I’m in Canada, and this has been my sorry experience, as it now appears all over the back garden (and it is certainly much cooler where we are). It’s a very valuable herb in cooking, makes a wonderful tea, and the birds love it, but my advice: grow it in large pots.
I used paper used coffee filters spread over sewn carrot seeds. They worked out quite well, finally have carrots growing.
Cucumber varieties should be harvested asap, as the plants will quit producing if any possible viable seeds form. Same for peppers, although not quite as urgent. I have Paprik peppers growing, they're slow, but hopefully I get a few peppers to dry and powder for paprika.
placing a board over the top of the carrots until they germinate is also apparently a good way to go. :)
To make a simple hot sauce; in a jar with lid poke toothpick holes into some of your hot peppers and add to white vinegar. Place in fridge for a couple of weeks and then use the liquid to add to dishes.
Love, love, love your garden and all that you are growing. Just in case you are interested in trying to grow some carrots in quantity, you might want to check out the Quebec Homesteads channel of their germinating carrots in a cornstarch slurry. An addition to their technique would be to put a strip of plastic the length of the row to keep more of the moisture in. We actually used this technique on our family farm. Happy planting!
I watch your videos 3 and 4 times. Really enjoy them. Thanks.
Hard to watch... I'm getting jealous :-) Wonderful!
In the dig garden it’s best to dig down and loosen the dirt at least a foot. Roots will do better.
actually I have just comprehended why your channel is giving so much confidence) difference with you is you guys talk to each other, share the talking, it feels so so great safe seeing you both participate in all the moments and like juicing all the seconds of the journey. taking videos together doing and discussing is so involving and does not give me a feeling of being left alone for any of the task like on many other channels I see. Secondly, the feeling from your approaching of doing things is doable and bold, like you can get anything and do slowly but surely and enjoying every bit. feels like a good treatment ))) thanks guys
Fascinating! Kylie, please show your cordial making.
Yes to cordial video please,one hell of a garden 🇦🇺👍
I'm with you Kylie, Rockmelon it is 😃 I'm envious of your lovely sunshine, it's been such a cold WET winter here in Sydney.
Awesome! Your hard work has produced a healthy bounty.
Cordials yes please just been looking up receipies
I sympathize with Guy on the insect bites/stings, I too have been afflicted for many years with swollen limbs from this problem. I’m sorry to say-as I get older the swelling gets worse 🐝. Great veggie garden ,well done. I’m re thinking mine for future years. More patio pots and raised planters for, toms,peppers,cucumber, nearer to the water and sunnier. And vine crops into the raised beds with drip irrigation so fewer trips into the foliage and bugs 🙄😍😎🇫🇷
I have garden envy ! Your garden is gorgeous, I love it. Ya'll did an awesome job this year. Keep up the good work.
Those "missed that one" oversized zucchinis are great to slice lengthwise and use as "pizza dough" - hollow out a bit, fill them with sauce, meat/veg, top with cheese and bake. Delish!
Ohh, that’s our kinda thinking. We don’t have an oven but I’m sure it will still work in a baking dish in the bbq 😃
I love your videos and would love to see a video on making cordials. Thanks and keep them coming! 😊
3 sisters would be lovely in the corn patch😊
Please make a cordial video!
I feel so gratified watching your hard work, I can only imagine how you feel. Thank you!
I was told by a very experienced Gardener that the carrots do not like Rocky soil at all. So if they’re deformed they’re hitting pebbles or rocks and growing around them I was told the plant them and Sandy soil. if you poke a hole with say an obelisk shape stick , making a hole for the sandy soil that shape it’ll grow to the shape. Like the channel thanks very much bye
My goodness, what a huge and diversified garden you have created. There must be a ton of off camera work that is going on to expand and maintain it! Awesome job as usual. Really professional quality videos too.
THANK YOU!! Always entertaining and enlightening.
I have seen gardeners place a board or even chunks of bark over where they planted carrots to hold in moisture while they germinate. I also saw a neat trick where you mix carrot seeds, water and cornstarch in a ziplock-type bag, cut the corner and spread it like icing down the rows. It helps separate the seeds to reduce the need to thin them (Quebec Homestead, I believe). I intend to try both for this autumn's carrot sowing. I love my hugelculture raised beds. So happy you are having great success with your garden! :D
Great tour. Good harvest. Very kind of you to give away your excess.
Great video, beautiful garden, healthy fruits. The idea with getting up really early in the morning - like six-ish- and having siesta during the high temperatures in the day is excellent!!!
I just finished watching your Summer Garden.
In South Africa we call the orange Melon with rough skin (Sweet Melon), the green melon with creamy skin(Winter melon). And obviously the much loved Watermelon
Try the three Sisters method growing corn, with peas and squash, the squash suppresses weeds, peas provide nitrogen.
Edit: another vote for a cordial vid☺️
Always enjoy your videos.
Cougettes grow crazy fast. You have to check them every day...
I love your videos so much that I wish I could watch u everyday. Thank u for the videos 💯❤️🇿🇦
One thing I've learned from others here on CZcams about asparagus, is that they tend to take over your beds. A couple places that I researched said that you need to put them in a designated bed, so that they don't take over everything else you have. One person put them in a designated raised bed, and once you plant them, you don't ever have to do it again. They come back yearly without much fuss. :) Love your garden! thanks for sharing it with us! :)
Not sure what kind of experience you have in gardening, but this is truly amazing. I grew up in the country and a vegetable garden is a lot of work as well as the canning or freezing. As you go along you’ll come to know you can plant less of some things and a lot more of others. I know for my family we could not plant too much of any kind of potato. Seriously enjoying all content of this channel. Keep it up. 😘
Thanks for the tour of your vegetable garden. Your hard work has certainly paid off. I would love you to do a video on making cordial. Also, maybe in the future a video about herbs and making herb tea with fresh herbs. I love a cup of herb tea each day but only ever have that which i purchase from the supermarket. Just a suggestion you could try growing your pumpkins etc on a piece of ground that you have not yet developed, then you can just let them go wild,
Yes on the cordial-making video question. 🙂