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Monastrell wine, growing food and building walls - It's Finca life!
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Love it when the on screen text says ‘Welcome to The Thinker’ S&A go all philosophical on us.
Perhaps a shade house might be an option? 🍻
Very interesting finding what will grow for you! Thanks Sharon!
Great show guys. Love the content. Happy days.
Having previously lived in dry dusty, drought prone areas, the best way is to keep the roots as cool in summer as possible. This means heavily mulch around plants for a good distance. Those artichokes, for example, I’d mulch the whole area with about 30cm deep hay. Then give them and the hay a thorough soaking and that should hold them for a good while. I used to use eco friendly dish and clothes detergent and save the water for my fruit trees, which also should have a deep and about a metre wide mulch. Thick layers of mulch and manure if you can get it, is the secret to dry area gardening. I’d also use raised beds about 50cm deep, about 1metre wide, mulched thickly
too, as they tend to hold the moisture ok. They look pleasing too if made from stone. If you can get your hands on unglazed pots, no holes in the base or plug them with aquarium silicone, sink them in your garden beds, fill with water, lid on (a pot saucer) and they slowly ooze water to your plants. There’s a name for them but it escapes me at the moment. A bit long winded comment but hope you find it helpful. Also I was going to mention the pipe for trees idea as the previous comment has suggested. Raised beds for fruit trees is best also.
May I also suggest you mulch around the trees - it helps with evaporation - straw does a good job, lots of manure or compost. The grape vines in the courtyard could also do with feeding and mulching. Hope you dont mind me making suggestions.
That garden area needs wood chips a good thick layer, it will reflect heat , save water evaporation , build humas , protect from cold also shade cloth over the beds for July and August
I love the renovations, but I also like when you take us shopping (whether that be for stones, wine, or food 😁), and the catchup with the gardening is also very interesting too.
Sharon, I think red geraniums would look lovely against those stone walls! It would be such a pop of color. I loved today’s trip through your gardens!!😎
Interesting to see your garden experiences. I’ve seen in other degraded, desertified areas that people construct half moons of rocks (Demi lunes or bunds) to catch water as it moves down the slope. Plant in the half circle and put every scrap of organic material you have in these shallow depressions.
You both do great work!
Sharon…you are so correct with your planting scheme. If it grows - let it go, if it dies - oh dear, how sad, never mind!
Feed that man his melons! He deserves ‘em!
Well done Andy your a real trooper ! That wall has been a real project and a half, but you have conquered it ! Well done Sharon for your perseverance with all your planting. Just a thought, would it be better to have raised beds to do all your planting in ? Your both doing so well, many thanks for sharing your progress with us we truly appreciate and enjoy every moment you document. Long may it continue. 👍🏽😎
Lovely plants. You might try putting a mound of planting soil dead center of your soak away for a few of the melon plants. Here in central Texas, the caliche soil & temps are very similar to your area but melons well once they have enough leaf canopy to shade the underlying ground. In the soak away , the shading by the plants might help conserve the moisture for your little orchard. Just a thought.
That rebuilt wall is a wonder. You both are doing an amazing job with the homestead. ROCK ON 😎
Great to see the greater variety in this vlog. There's more to your lives than pointing. Thank you for that.
Seeing you both so excited with your jobs and motivation 😊 great that you achieve so much keep it up
Great video.
Ty great video
Only solution to your veggie problems is a green house - you are both so skilled that it should be a piece of cake💪💪
When you plant a tree, try to sink in a tube (like a scaffold pole) into the ground and when watering pour it down the tube and it gets to the roots.
Great to see some of the very strenuous work on the wall completed. Your plants that have adapted to the Spain climate are really doing well. Congratulations to both of you for the success you are having with your projects.
Hello, regarding the climate of Spain, we could not say that there is only one climate in Spain, depending on the region, in particular it is semi-arid but it is not the same throughout Spain.
Keep cracking on!!
Lovely video Tilly is a real star 🌟
You sharing gives me some confidence to tackle things that I would have run a mile from. - not that I'm actually doing anything. It's just in case I get brave enough to take the plunge. 😁
Fab video ❤
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Look into zuni boles for water harvesting. Great way of using all those stones you have
Have you thought of building some raised beds (with the stones on your property? Put cardboard on the bottom of the beds may keep some of the water in. And perhaps shade for the melons so that they don’t dry out so much. Or maybe having the beds on the soak away land……..
The noise from the machine you recently installed must be driving you up the wall. Can you muffle it somehow?
You need wicking beds for your veg. Tutorials online. I relied on them when I lived in Aus 🇦🇺
Well, i have no advice for your garden, since
You have to truck it in AKA. Buy it.
But i wish i could go out and just pick up building materials from my field 😊.
Looking good 👍
Do you buy bottle's at your bodega? When I lived in Italy local's would take a carboy (large glass jug) and the winery would just refill it. For watering plant's consider maybe using Olla's, or clay pots buried in the ground and covered - there are a few yt video's on DIY olla. Is Tilly full grown now, or is she still growing?
Top job Andy get that bar sorted!! Sharon I hope that wrist is ok They do ache for the first year or so I had a bit of a twinge at the elbow and wrist joints for ages I think my bone mended slightly twisted but it all sort of grew back into the sockets over time as both ends where slightly off centre if you see what I mean, but the body sorts itself out eventually....
Thank you, that's good to know x
Try mint ,cue, and yogurt, raita with your curry great accompaniment, along with raw onion and tomato’s sprinkle salt, pepper and garam masala powder
HELLO SHARON & ANDY...JESSIE IS SUCH A SWEETIE...DADDY, I CAN'T SEE, WHERE ARE YOU? I HEAR YOU TALKING?...AND THEN, ALFIE, CHECKS IN FOR HIS LATEST POP-UP APPEARANCE...THE PLANTS ARE THRIVING & COMING ALONG WELL, SHARON & THE BACK-BREAKING WORK ON THE LADDER IS DEFINITELY PRODUCING GREAT RESULTS...HELLO TILLY, LOL!...ALL THE BEST...🙏
I am hearing that awful humming from your new system, are you going to lessen it somewhat???
Why are you asking this ? It is their home, and they are living off grid, who gives a shit !
@@jimbond1430wow calm down
Very nice video! Thank you.
Why are your lights in the courtyard flashing?
I always thought you had a well?
There are two wells here, both bone dry. We also have large deposits that collect water off the roof and land. They are also dry lol
Hydroponics best bet for growing, you need fish tank water pump led lights pump water through 40-50 mm tube making a frame like a large bathroom towel rack.Put holes in tube wrap with insulation wool the roots will search out the water and take the minerals for the plants the now clean water will return to the tank.Lots to view on utube.trees and bushes when planting put 60cm length of 50mm tube in the ground in-between the roots pouring liquid water/fertilizer down the pipes to get to the roots.always look forward to your channel as far rain it's wetter than an otters pocket never stopped all year yours David North Yorkshire
Sounds like you e had a tough time with the plants! Have you heard of wicking beds? People make them out of half cubo’s, seem to do well in desert areas. Geoff Lawton does some in Jordan, as well as others 👍
Why don't you guys do permaculture. Save all your cardboard cartons and wood chips and do berms to hold back water when it rains. That will improve the Permeability of the soil when it rains which will help you with your soil improvement and water retention. There's plenty of channels on RUclips. Look at Jeff Lawson, "greening the desert", or "farming on the edge of nowhere" from Phoenix, Arizona, to help you get sorted out with planting and caring for trees. There is also a German guy in Spain, Andalusia I think, trying to cope with rocky soil, a touch better than yours but still a challenge. - Project Ganja Caimito - it shows you his progress from having ideas as a rank outsider to farming, to getting sort of established. Good luck and good management.
Thanks - the trouble is it never rains - we haven't has anything worth noting or collecting for two years! When it does rain properly here (sure it will eventually) the soil is very good at holding the moisture. The small amounts we have been getting for over two years, just evaporate faster than they can be absorbed or collected - you got to experience it to believe it! We're talking 1mm (3/64") at a time at most
Yes, those vegetables are cool growing crops. Would raised beds help you to have success? Greetings from Southampton UK.
You could try growing your brassicas in a hügelkultur raised bed in permanent shade with a cold frame lid but that's easy for me to say here in the UK!. Lol
Most brassicas like cooler weather and lots of water. Perhaps that very tall Portuguese kale would tolerate the heat better?
Have you considered hydroponics?
It's not as expensive as you might think.
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Hola chicos cómo están
Del tema de los cultivos prueben con tomates .pimientos que soportan más el calor por el tipo de clima que tienen en ese territorio de España y árboles como melocotoneros almendros ....
Have you though of building high raised beds with stone you have plenty
Fill the bottom with a lot of cardboard and then compost preferably trick fill from a farmer
Most of the plants you are having a problem with are water plants. They take constant watering. I live in an area in California that can get up to 120 degrees and I have a problem with water plants also. Today, the 12th of May will be 93 degrees and summer has not even started. Water plants should have been planted here in February and are reaching their season end about now.
Question .. if a fruit tree is being watered from septic water wouldn't it be contaminated .. ? (Can you test the fruit ?) May you have many blessings 🎉
Thank you. Water from a septic soakaway is clean, on a par with rain water.
Sharon l fractured my Radius bone falling on my wrist this morning sporting a wrist cast 🙄
Oh nooo! I feel your pain. Take care and don't try to do too much too soon!❤
@@sharonwhyler9942 Thanks luckily it's my left wrist, l am right handed, so small mercies.
@@mariadange06 yes, same here.
Have had luck pound a pipe in the ground next to trees and poor water into the pipe.
Melons need a lot of water.