next time you get to use the wood chipper put it on a raised area (pallets ) so that you can run the wheel barrow under the exit hole of the chipper might save you some time
Failing that, put a sheet on the ground to catch the chippings which could then be lifted and tipped onto the wheelbarrow, or directly onto the compost heap.
@@EnglishMadeleine This is what we do too. Heavy duty tarps can move large amounts of chips quite easily provided it's not too wet and heavy and your ground is relatively clear of sharp rocks and debris.
Great few weeks .. it’s always a good feel to tidy up areas on our farms … and lovely selection of trees .. you will love the Nashi they are a cross between an apple and pear very juicy and refreshing 👌
Oh I love that you have planted so many trees! It's so much work but so worth it. Your sustainability just went up 10 fold and I couldn't be happier for you! Congratulations 💕
Top tip: when you place your wheelbarrow before doing a job, always set it to face the way you’re going to move it when full. Saves turning it around when heavy. 😚
Olá, M&H. I' m a retired librarian from Lisbon, Portugal . I love your videos as much I love Spain, where I' moving this year, I think, for the rest of my life. For me, you and all of the expats that, like you, came to my country too, you are a blessing. I'm certain that you have heard of " la españa vazia", that we have in Portugal too and all I can say is thank you so so much, from the botom of my heart. You are an example for the younger generation, who are fighing with the cost of life and the lack of fair work in the cities. Thank you for shar8ng your jorney. PS: If your gloves are not too damage, you can cut them for getiing elastics.
Aww, thank you so much. But really is is us who feel grateful to have a chance to live here. We never could have done something like this in the UK so we feel really lucky.
Hi and thanks for sharing your lifestyle. I'm from South Africa and live 8n the Azores doing self sufficient living. I'm a retired librarian and enjoy DIY. Wanted to congratulate you both for the plunge you've taken. You have foresight indeed.
Nice gift to your finca as they will bless your gardens and help water and provide wind breaks for your beds and animals. The video was one of your finest and pleasing. I can see the development of your soil. The Process Symbiosis between chipping and plant new trees was brilliant. You two are investing in your future.
Wonderful to see young people engaged in the remediation of the soil as well as planting trees. Everything you're doing is improving the quality of the air, soil and your lives (our lives too).
Ohhh it’s looking so good guys, I know you’re pleased with the outcome and the great use of the limbs into mulch for your trees, great job, thanks for sharing your journey and what you’ve learned.❤
A bit of advice I got from a gardener that I like to share when using a chipper. Use a heavy duty tarp to catch all the wood chips, then just drag the tarp away. No shoveling, no wheel barrel, no bending over.
Kaixo Harriet. Te felicito y te agradezco la plantación de arboles que has hecho. Es la mejor inversión que se puede hacer para la humanidad. Eskerrik asko
Wonderful progress and planting! You are so fortunate to be young and seeing a better vision for the World by planting trees, composting, your garden, all is just so lovely💗💚💜💛
The best use for woodchips is mulch to keep down weeds. It'll smother weeds, AND slowly break down into the soil. No need to premulch it. For really effective weed control put down a layer of paper below the mulch (we used the local daily paper that used veggie dye so was garden safe. Almost no weeding needed.) My parents transformed a sandy hilltop into a rich garden just using woodchips to control weeds over 20 years.
Yes it's great for that too. It should keep the weeds down around the trees. It's so dry here though that stuff simply left on the floor doesn't break down easily, so that's why I wanted to compost some of the chips first before adding to the garden beds.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead the bonus is that it will definitely help keep the moisture in the soil underneath it. We liked that it broke down slowly (though faster for us than you) because it meant less having to retop the weed control, I think we were also using bigger chips than your chipper makes. I guess it is priorities. For us with a acre garden weed reduction was the #1 priority!
Chippers are great, had one for 20 years now. If you keep the knives inside real sharp it does a better job much quicker. Great for bedding for chickens. I have found a pitch fork to work good for shoveling the chips.
Hola mujer Trabajadora 👏 buenos días, excelente 🌱🌱los que más me gustan árboles frutales ,felicidades 👏 tienes mucho trabajo por delante, es inmenso el lugar 👉 bonito quedará tu bosque de alimentos, saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷 muchas bendiciones
Keep an eye on the newly planted trees with green clippings to make sure you don't have nitrogen issues. That chipper looks like a brilliant investment! It'll be worth its weight in gold. The trees will make you so happy ❤
Wow. What an accomplishment. Enjoyed the little bird's-eye view of the property. Those trees will amaze you in the future when you look around and ask yourselves how is it possible 15 years passed so quickly.
Que valiente hacer todos estos agujeros para los árboles, solo de pensarlo me duelen las manos , estaré esperando los resultados , y también me ha gustado ver lo bien que se pueden usar los restos de podas Muchas gracias 😘 🙂
All those almond prunings could be great for starting new trees, so next year you can get at least one more tree. Winter, the time for planning, pruning, building, clearing up the stuff dropped, sometimes forgotten. Mapping out where you have already done planting will really help figure out what you may need later. Compost, you've certainly created a few good resources for rejuvenation of the soils. 👍👍 Maybe in spring take a long video of what's growing, as and look back at where you started. I would bet you'll be surprised at all the changes, the difference. ❤️🇨🇦 Nicely done ✅. Tea time. ☕☕🫖
Great to have plenty of fruit baring trees. You can sell some produce in your future. Having a working farm is no small undertaking. Harriet your doing just fine. Have fun learning the trade of farming. 👊🏻🫶🏻
I put a bucket under the chute of my chipper, but I have a smaller job and a smaller chipper than you do. I use it when I prune my trees in late winter, and then return the chips around the trees as a top dressing of mulch. So much better to keep it on the land here, than to let it go to a landfill!
You have discovered the art of wood chipping, which is far trickier than it looks ! You are also so lucky to have the space to plant so many trees which will eventually produce a bounty of fruits and nuts for all who live in your homestead. Hope they will all thrive.
Hi guys, love your channel. I recommend putting a tarp under the area the chips come out so it’s easier to pick up after. Thanks for sharing, your farm is really coming along! I love it!
I love my small electric wood chipper (I have power and can't afford a big chipper). It is a lot of work when you have really crooked dense branches, I have so many conifer hedge trimmings to do... I used my woodchips last year as mulch on one patch of my potatoes but not the other. The mulched ones did SO much better in the dry weather and the potatoes actually preferred to grow out under the pathways that I'd laid out of even denser layer of chips. So you might try that! A friend has grown me a walnut tree cutting that I'm excited to add this year when it's big enough. I will try to get a cutting from a neighbour's tree too, as you need at least 2 to get nuts usually. I need to get serious about making use of acorns too, I have one big oak tree and there's more locally that nobody cares about. Sadly my beech hedge doesn't produce nuts and the climate is kinda wrong for hazelnuts. I heard some ash keys can be pickled like capers and we have SO many lining the roads here that I'm sure I can find a tasty one (not all are, I read). Trees rock! I've seen others on RUclips get great crops from those Nashi pears, so best of luck with them. I love your videos, keeping it real, and you are both so sweet. There's plenty of well funded gorgeous homestead channels out there for fantasy-time, but yours is the one that feels to me closest to my own reality. Thanks for your hard work in making them! Now, to hope for a dry, not too cold and not windy day to deal with my branch piles!
Wonderful to have use of the chipper and make your own mulch. I would love to have one, or one to borrow. Instead I have to burn everything, which is sadly wasteful. Hope all your trees thrive and do well. Oona is so adorable. I had to laugh at her theiving your pile of sticks. 😄!!
I like your consideration of what happens to our rubbish after we toss it. We must all try harder to avoid plastic. As more and more items become plastic or are packaged in plastic it makes it difficult.
That was a lot of work, but I'm sure you're so glad you finally got rid of those piles of branches, especially bc you used it for your new trees! There's some special felling and emotion about planting tree. 🤗Well done Harriet and Mauro! 💪✌️🍀💚
WELL DONE!!!.... FARMING IS NOT FOR THE MEEK. IT IS A LOVE FOR THE LAND AND IT REWARDS YOU WITH ITS ABUNDANCE. GETTING A GREAT HEADSTART ON THE SPRING CHORES WILL KEEP IT MOVING SMOOTHLY AS SUMMER APPROACHES... LOOKS GREAT! BE BLESSED
Another lovely video. The music tracks you add for some sections are so well chosen and I love the little text comments. So good to see the trees being planted for the future and although it's a lot of work please keep getting "Carried away" just look at what you both achieve. Well done.
Hola!! I love your videos!! I’m extremely proud of you!! I have learned so much from you!! I hope I do as well as you do in my garden this year!! Much love and admiration 🙌🏻🦋🇺🇸
the algorithm brought me to your channel almost a year ago and i've followed so many homesteading channels ever since, but yours, thus far, is my fave!
Thanks for the wood chipping tips! My brother and I are going to start catching up on some clearing up at my parents property. The land gets hot and dry in the summer so we can't burn. We used to get up there earlier in the spring and it was easier to keep up. I am excited to get started!
Well done, Harriet and Mauro! The trees will add so much to your land. I’m so happy to see when you both have a chance to work together on a project! Many blessings! 🌀
You should look into borrowing a biochar kiln. A good option when you have so much organic material to get rid off and help to get some carbon into your soil!
Oh Harriet, I am going to Sweden next week and we have to cut a lot of big trees and cut the branches ...Having watched your video I think it will take us three weeks minimum. You two are doing a great job!
Look up air layering and get some trees for free. If a neighbor has a tree you really like. Ask if you can get an air layer or two from it. And maybe teach them how as well. It can be done with a freezer bag for food.
Maybe because I am a lazy person by nature, I would have put some tarp underneath the woodchipper. And put all these small pieces of wood in a wheelbarrow or the big pot to make cement in it. Than you can transport it at once. An extra wheelbarrow is really a nice thing to have, it makes life easier and some tasks may take less time.
Y'all have done some fantastic work on your land. Making it beautiful & inviting. This will be a great place to raise children, (if y'all decide to have any). Well done. I just bought a smaller wood chipper off Facebook Marketplace for next to nothing. I will be using that this afternoon. I get inspired watching the video's y'all do. Awesome video. Thank you
Hi. Ich hatte mit meinem Sohn auch Äste bei einer Bekannten gehäckselt, das war ganz schön zeitaufwändig !! Wenn du den Feigenbaum schneidest kannst du von den Ästen Stecklinge machen und so die Feige kostenlos vermehren !! Zum Pflanzlöcher ausheben probiere doch bitte einen Spaten, damit machst du die deinen Rücken nicht kaputt !!
Maravilloso como siempre❤️ La reflexión sobre la basura que generamos, mucha inconscientemente, totalmente cierta... Me ha gustado mucho la idea de ampliar el gallinero cuando tengas los patos y centrarlo alrededor de los árboles para que la fruta que caiga puedan ser aprovechada por las aves es genial. Besos para todos❤️ Buena herramienta la biotrituradora!!
Two big jobs, planting so many trees and chipping so many piles! Wood mulch also makes excellent paths. You can put down cardboard, use the thicker logs that don’t go through the chipper to make borders, and put down mulch a few inches deep, and you’ll end up with attractive paths that are very comfortable to walk on. And if you find yourselves doing a lot of mulch moving, a good mulch fork with fairly close-set tines makes the job a lot easier!
I’m on catch up as usual. It’s lovely to see what you’ve been up to 🌱🌳 (& it’s a pleasure to watch with your great editing too) Just to add, congratulations on your RUclips growth, very well deserved! 🎉👏👏👏 my best wishes to you both 💖
I love how full circle this video was lol! Feeding the new babies trees with old tree wood chips. I’m sure you have heard of tree bags before but in case you haven’t I thought I’d suggest it. They make watering baby trees so much better. I used to use the Treegator brand when I was doing landscaping, not sure they ship to Spain but I’m sure you could find a different brand if you were interested. 😊
I'd never heard of tree bags actually, no! they look very interesting! My only concern would be how much the water heats up in the summer with the dark plastic colour but it could definitely be worth a try. Maybe I can ask them to send me a sample to review! 😂
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead I would definitely see if they would send you a sample lol! I didn’t think of the heat issue since I’m in Canada and it doesn’t get too hot here. The water usually only stays in the bag for 8-12 hours so maybe if you watered in the evening it wouldn’t be a problem 🤷♀️
Nashies are SO yummy, we’re close to harvest season for them here in Australia so I can show you them when they’re ripe. They’re delicious, they just don’t store well so you just have to glut on them for the short time they’re about. ❤️ a mix of a pear, an apple and very watery almost like a crisp cucumber or melon. Very sweet xx
I am surprised you apparently did not loosen the root balls of the trees you were planting. Doing so really helps them extend their roots broadly. Have had experience planting Cherry, elderberry, pear, hazelnut. It’s a wonderful experience.
Hello , and big hello from Melbourne Australia 🦘🦘 If I could suggest something which will guarantee your very hard work planting all the trees . The mulch you made is awesome and will retain moisture, create habitat for insects and fertilize plants , I can't talk for all but some you placed the mulch up against the trunks , this will more than likely lead to collar rot , especially on fruit trees , that or fungal infections. May I suggest a 2 inch buffer between the mulch and trunks of trees . Love your channel, approach and incredible hard work in you journey , wishing you luck and love from down under..... 🦘🦘
Hi Harriet! It was great to see an aerial view of your land and all those red dots signifying new trees! Hazelnuts are so delicious ground up into flour and baked into cookies with some maple syrup and pecans. I love pistachios, too, one of my big childhood snacks. I think it's great that you share equipment. How are the goats doing, and will they be home soon? I got worried when you chipped all the branches that they used to eat.
I can't wait for the day we can experiment with hazelnuts! Maybe in... 5 years? hehe. The goats are fine, thanks, not pregnant yet though! They're enjoying life with the herd, though, and not causing the shepherd any bother. Hopefully soon!
saw on a gardening program that if you are going to let chickens and ducks forage around under fruit trees to places rocks around the base because they will dig up the surface roots of the trees and make a mess. Love watching your videos all the way from Tassie in Australia.
Yes, and they will spread the mulch out everywhere which I don't really want either. I think I'll put mesh around the outside of the mulch pile to keep them out. at least until the trees are more mature!
Wood chips can be used for heat. All you need to do is put them into paper bags and wrap with ties or paper tape and store in a dry place. The bag is like a small log. Some people mix the cops with small amount of fire starter fluid before filling the bags.
Might turn in the wood chips well in the soil to avoid milldew, brought chips from the mountains, and Sandy clay soil made a difference for some fruit trees.
Hai Harriet and Mauro ,I am looking forward to the map of your land with as much as possible on it ,also the borders.That would be great!!! Greetings from Clarisse...❤ 💚
Next time run the chipper faster, they work better when doing so. Ask your friend when the blades were last changed, strips rather than chips indicate blunt blades.
Nice to get everything chipped! We’ve already seen a difference on the few piles we’ve spread around the trees - we have black earth!! You will be our cańa test pilots 😉 I was scared of making a cańa forest from using its chippings 😂
I don't know if you did something like this or not, but make sure you disable the mini chainsaw in some way before tightening the chain or making other adjustments. You need to be sure it's not going to start running while doing something like that. Wouldn't want any accidents to happen.
Well my hands were far away from the switch & safety button which would have been hard to accidentialy both press at once - but yes, good point, that's the correct procedure!
Hi Harriet and Mauro, I love your channel! Thanks so much for sharing your adventures on the finca, very inspiring indeed! I always look forward to your videos with the beautiful images, your thoughts and dry humor :-) In our little allotment garden we chip a part of the branches and another part we use for making walls of branches (like longstreched piles of about 80 cm wide and 80 cm high along the borders). This attracks a lot of life like birds and other small animals and is also a great place for insects to survive during winter. So if you have a lot of branches this might be another idea. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Thank you! I know what you mean, I heard them referred to as "dead hedges", no? I have a couple of patches of "dead hedge" where the stone walls have crumbled, but they're not recommended in excess here due to fire risk.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead omg yes, walls of dry branches in the burning spanish sun maybe wasn't such an excellent idea.. good to keep it limited to just a few spots.
Nice chipping and planting! I like the idea of sharing economy as well. An electric woodchipper (2-2.4kw, good for 4cm thickness) is what I have for my small 300sqm garden. Actually I have two, one came with the garden and I got gifted another one while finding out the first one is broken (probably just needs a new capacitor). So these are cheap and next to maintenance-free in the electric variant - need to get rid of one though to get some free space. You need to make sure the blades are sharp, resharpening goes fairly quickly once you got it figured out (belt aanders are great). For you, one might be worthwhile if you find you hate the piles and want to avoid them. You would probably need to run lots of cables, which would make working on smaller quantities impractical. Keep up the good work and vids, and don't fear to show as thr holedigging for the fruit bushes!
Disculpa si ya lo habies comentado en otro video pero estaria muy bien que explicarais el proceso de comprar la finca para aquellos que queremos dar el paso pero no sabemos muy bien por donde empezar, si mirar en una inmobiliaria, que precios son razonables, que cosas tener en cuenta antes de comprar, etc. Un saludo!
Hablamos sobre nuestra experiencia en los videos de preguntas y respuestas (como este ruclips.net/video/BEu6Xr3I2rE/видео.html ) pero no nos sentimos capaces de aconsejar a nadie porque tuvimos la suerte de poder comprar el primer terreno que fuimos a ver (lo encontramos en Idealista, publicado por una inmobiliaria). El tema precios es muy relativo porque depende de la zona, de lo que busques y de cuanto valores ciertas cosas por encima de otras (casa o no, conexion a la red, proximidad a un pueblo y un largo etc.). No soy un experto y ojala esta sea le primera y ultima vez que tengo que comprar un terreno 🙏
@@MauroGestoso Muchas gracias por la respuesta! Le echare un ojo al video. Imagino que no es el tema más divertido sin embargo es fundamental jaja. Sois inspiración 🙌
Hola querida amiga. Deseo estés bien y seas feliz y muy bendecida
next time you get to use the wood chipper put it on a raised area (pallets ) so that you can run the wheel barrow under the exit hole of the chipper
might save you some time
Failing that, put a sheet on the ground to catch the chippings which could then be lifted and tipped onto the wheelbarrow, or directly onto the compost heap.
Yeah, good ideas!
@@EnglishMadeleine This is what we do too. Heavy duty tarps can move large amounts of chips quite easily provided it's not too wet and heavy and your ground is relatively clear of sharp rocks and debris.
Great few weeks .. it’s always a good feel to tidy up areas on our farms … and lovely selection of trees .. you will love the Nashi they are a cross between an apple and pear very juicy and refreshing 👌
Oh I love that you have planted so many trees! It's so much work but so worth it. Your sustainability just went up 10 fold and I couldn't be happier for you! Congratulations 💕
Thank you for planting trees ❤️❤️❤️
Just finished binge watching from the very beginning and here is the next one!!!! Thank you for sharing 😀
Haha wow, hope you've seen the quality improve 🙈
Top tip: when you place your wheelbarrow before doing a job, always set it to face the way you’re going to move it when full. Saves turning it around when heavy. 😚
Thank you for planting all those trees. You're increasing your food forest. What a glorious thing! We hope to have such an opportunity in the future.
Olá, M&H. I' m a retired librarian from Lisbon, Portugal . I love your videos as much I love Spain, where I' moving this year, I think, for the rest of my life. For me, you and all of the expats that, like you, came to my country too, you are a blessing. I'm certain that you have heard of " la españa vazia", that we have in Portugal too and all I can say is thank you so so much, from the botom of my heart. You are an example for the younger generation, who are fighing with the cost of life and the lack of fair work in the cities. Thank you for shar8ng your jorney. PS: If your gloves are not too damage, you can cut them for getiing elastics.
Aww, thank you so much. But really is is us who feel grateful to have a chance to live here. We never could have done something like this in the UK so we feel really lucky.
Hi and thanks for sharing your lifestyle. I'm from South Africa and live 8n the Azores doing self sufficient living. I'm a retired librarian and enjoy DIY. Wanted to congratulate you both for the plunge you've taken. You have foresight indeed.
@@glorinehannah6555 That’s amazing! I’m South African too and I know it can be pretty dangerous if you’re living by the farms; power to you!
Nice gift to your finca as they will bless your gardens and help water and provide wind breaks for your beds and animals. The video was one of your finest and pleasing. I can see the development of your soil. The Process Symbiosis between chipping and plant new trees was brilliant. You two are investing in your future.
van a tener una finca súper abonada, una maravilla!, los árboles frutales crecerán sanos , buen futuro se aproxima !.
Wonderful to see young people engaged in the remediation of the soil as well as planting trees. Everything you're doing is improving the quality of the air, soil and your lives (our lives too).
Ohhh it’s looking so good guys, I know you’re pleased with the outcome and the great use of the limbs into mulch for your trees, great job, thanks for sharing your journey and what you’ve learned.❤
You are so fit & work very hard Harriett, I admire your commitment to the land and environment.
A bit of advice I got from a gardener that I like to share when using a chipper. Use a heavy duty tarp to catch all the wood chips, then just drag the tarp away. No shoveling, no wheel barrel, no bending over.
Yeah.. that's a good idea!
Kaixo Harriet. Te felicito y te agradezco la plantación de arboles que has hecho.
Es la mejor inversión que se puede hacer para la humanidad.
Eskerrik asko
Wonderful progress and planting! You are so fortunate to be young and seeing a better vision for the World by planting trees, composting, your garden, all is just so lovely💗💚💜💛
Great job with all the wood chippings used around the new trees, looking forward to seeing them grow and what fruits you get xxx
The best use for woodchips is mulch to keep down weeds. It'll smother weeds, AND slowly break down into the soil. No need to premulch it. For really effective weed control put down a layer of paper below the mulch (we used the local daily paper that used veggie dye so was garden safe. Almost no weeding needed.) My parents transformed a sandy hilltop into a rich garden just using woodchips to control weeds over 20 years.
Yes it's great for that too. It should keep the weeds down around the trees. It's so dry here though that stuff simply left on the floor doesn't break down easily, so that's why I wanted to compost some of the chips first before adding to the garden beds.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead the bonus is that it will definitely help keep the moisture in the soil underneath it. We liked that it broke down slowly (though faster for us than you) because it meant less having to retop the weed control, I think we were also using bigger chips than your chipper makes. I guess it is priorities. For us with a acre garden weed reduction was the #1 priority!
Chippers are great, had one for 20 years now. If you keep the knives inside real sharp it does a better job much quicker. Great for bedding for chickens. I have found a pitch fork to work good for shoveling the chips.
Hola mujer Trabajadora 👏 buenos días, excelente 🌱🌱los que más me gustan árboles frutales ,felicidades 👏 tienes mucho trabajo por delante, es inmenso el lugar 👉 bonito quedará tu bosque de alimentos, saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷 muchas bendiciones
Keep an eye on the newly planted trees with green clippings to make sure you don't have nitrogen issues. That chipper looks like a brilliant investment! It'll be worth its weight in gold. The trees will make you so happy ❤
Ah it's only borrowed but even so, it's definitely great to have access to it!
Wow. What an accomplishment. Enjoyed the little bird's-eye view of the property. Those trees will amaze you in the future when you look around and ask yourselves how is it possible 15 years passed so quickly.
WELL DONE! your homestead is gaining shape. Always nice to see your progress
Que valiente hacer todos estos agujeros para los árboles, solo de pensarlo me duelen las manos , estaré esperando los resultados , y también me ha gustado ver lo bien que se pueden usar los restos de podas
Muchas gracias 😘 🙂
All those almond prunings could be great for starting new trees, so next year you can get at least one more tree.
Winter, the time for planning, pruning, building, clearing up the stuff dropped, sometimes forgotten.
Mapping out where you have already done planting will really help figure out what you may need later.
Compost, you've certainly created a few good resources for rejuvenation of the soils. 👍👍
Maybe in spring take a long video of what's growing, as and look back at where you started. I would bet you'll be surprised at all the changes, the difference. ❤️🇨🇦
Nicely done ✅. Tea time. ☕☕🫖
Great to have plenty of fruit baring trees. You can sell some produce in your future. Having a working farm is no small undertaking. Harriet your doing just fine. Have fun learning the trade of farming. 👊🏻🫶🏻
I put a bucket under the chute of my chipper, but I have a smaller job and a smaller chipper than you do. I use it when I prune my trees in late winter, and then return the chips around the trees as a top dressing of mulch. So much better to keep it on the land here, than to let it go to a landfill!
I love wood chippers. So satisfying.
Great video, I love seeing these beautiful snippets of your life.
You have discovered the art of wood chipping, which is far trickier than it looks ! You are also so lucky to have the space to plant so many trees which will eventually produce a bounty of fruits and nuts for all who live in your homestead. Hope they will all thrive.
Hi guys, love your channel.
I recommend putting a tarp under the area the chips come out so it’s easier to pick up after. Thanks for sharing, your farm is really coming along!
I love it!
That's a good idea! Thank you!
Those trees will serve you well. And even 15 yrs goes by very quickly.
I love my small electric wood chipper (I have power and can't afford a big chipper). It is a lot of work when you have really crooked dense branches, I have so many conifer hedge trimmings to do... I used my woodchips last year as mulch on one patch of my potatoes but not the other. The mulched ones did SO much better in the dry weather and the potatoes actually preferred to grow out under the pathways that I'd laid out of even denser layer of chips. So you might try that! A friend has grown me a walnut tree cutting that I'm excited to add this year when it's big enough. I will try to get a cutting from a neighbour's tree too, as you need at least 2 to get nuts usually. I need to get serious about making use of acorns too, I have one big oak tree and there's more locally that nobody cares about. Sadly my beech hedge doesn't produce nuts and the climate is kinda wrong for hazelnuts. I heard some ash keys can be pickled like capers and we have SO many lining the roads here that I'm sure I can find a tasty one (not all are, I read). Trees rock! I've seen others on RUclips get great crops from those Nashi pears, so best of luck with them. I love your videos, keeping it real, and you are both so sweet. There's plenty of well funded gorgeous homestead channels out there for fantasy-time, but yours is the one that feels to me closest to my own reality. Thanks for your hard work in making them! Now, to hope for a dry, not too cold and not windy day to deal with my branch piles!
I love the map! Harriet you are always thinking so far ahead!!😀
Wonderful to have use of the chipper and make your own mulch. I would love to have one, or one to borrow. Instead I have to burn everything, which is sadly wasteful.
Hope all your trees thrive and do well.
Oona is so adorable. I had to laugh at her theiving your pile of sticks. 😄!!
I like your consideration of what happens to our rubbish after we toss it. We must all try harder to avoid plastic. As more and more items become plastic or are packaged in plastic it makes it difficult.
Glad to see that you can improve your land with some beautiful trees. Thanks for sharing ✌️🍃👋
I think the Dutch set long branches into their levies, I saw when I was in merchant Marines.
That was a lot of work, but I'm sure you're so glad you finally got rid of those piles of branches, especially bc you used it for your new trees! There's some special felling and emotion about planting tree. 🤗Well done Harriet and Mauro! 💪✌️🍀💚
Love that you planted so many trees. Cant wait to see them all growing and producing blossom and fruit. A wonderful video! Thankyou Harriet and Mauro.
WELL DONE!!!.... FARMING IS NOT FOR THE MEEK. IT IS A LOVE FOR THE LAND AND IT REWARDS YOU WITH ITS ABUNDANCE. GETTING A GREAT HEADSTART ON THE SPRING CHORES WILL KEEP IT MOVING SMOOTHLY AS SUMMER APPROACHES... LOOKS GREAT! BE BLESSED
Another lovely video. The music tracks you add for some sections are so well chosen and I love the little text comments. So good to see the trees being planted for the future and although it's a lot of work please keep getting "Carried away" just look at what you both achieve. Well done.
Thank you! I appreciate that!
Great job! Congratulations
I love my woodchipper. It's the most important tool for me, after the lawnmower. Both machines help me to free mulch for my whole garden.
Hola!! I love your videos!! I’m extremely proud of you!! I have learned so much from you!! I hope I do as well as you do in my garden this year!! Much love and admiration 🙌🏻🦋🇺🇸
I just discovered your channel and I’m loving it!! Wonderful to see that you planted so many trees. I can’t wait to see them all grow 🤩
the algorithm brought me to your channel almost a year ago and i've followed so many homesteading channels ever since, but yours, thus far, is my fave!
Aww thanks!!
Thanks for the wood chipping tips! My brother and I are going to start catching up on some clearing up at my parents property. The land gets hot and dry in the summer so we can't burn. We used to get up there earlier in the spring and it was easier to keep up. I am excited to get started!
the younger generation,Thank you
Well done, Harriet and Mauro! The trees will add so much to your land. I’m so happy to see when you both have a chance to work together on a project! Many blessings! 🌀
You should look into borrowing a biochar kiln. A good option when you have so much organic material to get rid off and help to get some carbon into your soil!
Oh Harriet, I am going to Sweden next week and we have to cut a lot of big trees and cut the branches ...Having watched your video I think it will take us three weeks minimum. You two are doing a great job!
Look up air layering and get some trees for free. If a neighbor has a tree you really like. Ask if you can get an air layer or two from it. And maybe teach them how as well. It can be done with a freezer bag for food.
Good job done with the chipper 😊 at least you know now to prepare the branches first. Thanks for the video 😊
How did I miss this? Great job on the trees Harriet!!!
Maybe because I am a lazy person by nature, I would have put some tarp underneath the woodchipper. And put all these small pieces of wood in a wheelbarrow or the big pot to make cement in it. Than you can transport it at once. An extra wheelbarrow is really a nice thing to have, it makes life easier and some tasks may take less time.
Yes, that's a good idea! Lazy is good haha.
Y'all have done some fantastic work on your land. Making it beautiful & inviting. This will be a great place to raise children, (if y'all decide to have any). Well done. I just bought a smaller wood chipper off Facebook Marketplace for next to nothing. I will be using that this afternoon. I get inspired watching the video's y'all do. Awesome video. Thank you
Good luck with the chipping! Apparently even the smaller ones can get through a surprising amount of material!
Hi. Ich hatte mit meinem Sohn auch Äste bei einer Bekannten gehäckselt, das war ganz schön zeitaufwändig !!
Wenn du den Feigenbaum schneidest kannst du von den Ästen Stecklinge machen und so die Feige kostenlos vermehren !!
Zum Pflanzlöcher ausheben probiere doch bitte einen Spaten, damit machst du die deinen Rücken nicht kaputt !!
Maravilloso como siempre❤️ La reflexión sobre la basura que generamos, mucha inconscientemente, totalmente cierta... Me ha gustado mucho la idea de ampliar el gallinero cuando tengas los patos y centrarlo alrededor de los árboles para que la fruta que caiga puedan ser aprovechada por las aves es genial. Besos para todos❤️ Buena herramienta la biotrituradora!!
Two big jobs, planting so many trees and chipping so many piles! Wood mulch also makes excellent paths. You can put down cardboard, use the thicker logs that don’t go through the chipper to make borders, and put down mulch a few inches deep, and you’ll end up with attractive paths that are very comfortable to walk on. And if you find yourselves doing a lot of mulch moving, a good mulch fork with fairly close-set tines makes the job a lot easier!
A mulch fork! I never heard of that!
It might be just a US thing. Sneeboer has a compost fork that’s similar.
Good job you two. Blessings from Canada 🇨🇦
I’m on catch up as usual. It’s lovely to see what you’ve been up to 🌱🌳 (& it’s a pleasure to watch with your great editing too)
Just to add, congratulations on your RUclips growth, very well deserved! 🎉👏👏👏 my best wishes to you both 💖
Aw, thank you! 💚
I love how full circle this video was lol! Feeding the new babies trees with old tree wood chips. I’m sure you have heard of tree bags before but in case you haven’t I thought I’d suggest it. They make watering baby trees so much better. I used to use the Treegator brand when I was doing landscaping, not sure they ship to Spain but I’m sure you could find a different brand if you were interested. 😊
I'd never heard of tree bags actually, no! they look very interesting! My only concern would be how much the water heats up in the summer with the dark plastic colour but it could definitely be worth a try. Maybe I can ask them to send me a sample to review! 😂
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead I would definitely see if they would send you a sample lol! I didn’t think of the heat issue since I’m in Canada and it doesn’t get too hot here. The water usually only stays in the bag for 8-12 hours so maybe if you watered in the evening it wouldn’t be a problem 🤷♀️
Muy buen trabajo chicos
I bet it felt good to get all that mulching done. Good for you both!
Nashies are SO yummy, we’re close to harvest season for them here in Australia so I can show you them when they’re ripe. They’re delicious, they just don’t store well so you just have to glut on them for the short time they’re about. ❤️ a mix of a pear, an apple and very watery almost like a crisp cucumber or melon. Very sweet xx
Ohhh that is good to hear. Lots of people saying they love nashis, can't believe I've never tried one!
I am surprised you apparently did not loosen the root balls of the trees you were planting. Doing so really helps them extend their roots broadly. Have had experience planting Cherry, elderberry, pear, hazelnut. It’s a wonderful experience.
Hello , and big hello from Melbourne Australia 🦘🦘
If I could suggest something which will guarantee your very hard work planting all the trees .
The mulch you made is awesome and will retain moisture, create habitat for insects and fertilize plants , I can't talk for all but some you placed the mulch up against the trunks , this will more than likely lead to collar rot , especially on fruit trees , that or fungal infections.
May I suggest a 2 inch buffer between the mulch and trunks of trees .
Love your channel, approach and incredible hard work in you journey , wishing you luck and love from down under..... 🦘🦘
Use the ashes from your burn pile as well.
Hola Harriet, me gustaría saber el nombre de las plantas nuevas... Saludos ✌️
Están en la descripción del video 😊
Great job!!!! Great people!!😘😘😘
Hi Harriet! It was great to see an aerial view of your land and all those red dots signifying new trees! Hazelnuts are so delicious ground up into flour and baked into cookies with some maple syrup and pecans. I love pistachios, too, one of my big childhood snacks. I think it's great that you share equipment. How are the goats doing, and will they be home soon? I got worried when you chipped all the branches that they used to eat.
I can't wait for the day we can experiment with hazelnuts! Maybe in... 5 years? hehe. The goats are fine, thanks, not pregnant yet though! They're enjoying life with the herd, though, and not causing the shepherd any bother. Hopefully soon!
saw on a gardening program that if you are going to let chickens and ducks forage around under fruit trees to places rocks around the base because they will dig up the surface roots of the trees and make a mess. Love watching your videos all the way from Tassie in Australia.
Yes, and they will spread the mulch out everywhere which I don't really want either. I think I'll put mesh around the outside of the mulch pile to keep them out. at least until the trees are more mature!
I prefer the Sawzall for cutting branches, battery life is better and blades are cheap interchangeable and can get metal blades as well.
Amazing work!👏👏👏👏👏
Wood chips can be used for heat. All you need to do is put them into paper bags and wrap with ties or paper tape and store in a dry place. The bag is like a small log.
Some people mix the cops with small amount of fire starter fluid before filling the bags.
Have tried propagating new trees from cuttings? Something I am still learning.
Might turn in the wood chips well in the soil to avoid milldew, brought chips from the mountains, and Sandy clay soil made a difference for some fruit trees.
Oh my word that chipper was a godsend
It really was!
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, you can also make pad way's from the wood thipings in between of your garden beds.
All looking lovely 👍
muy buen trabajo. he visto que algunas personas hacen paelleros con bidones viejos. me encanta la idea del plano.
Please remove battery when adjusting chain saw 👍❤️
Hai Harriet and Mauro ,I am looking forward to the map of your land with as much as possible on it ,also the borders.That would be great!!! Greetings from Clarisse...❤ 💚
Another nice video :) Great idea with the map - it really makes it much easier to understand how and why you do things :)
Next time run the chipper faster, they work better when doing so. Ask your friend when the blades were last changed, strips rather than chips indicate blunt blades.
I Iove nashi,very crispy with high water content.
Nice to get everything chipped! We’ve already seen a difference on the few piles we’ve spread around the trees - we have black earth!! You will be our cańa test pilots 😉 I was scared of making a cańa forest from using its chippings 😂
Ahahaha I didn't think of that. It shreds into basically powder though so hopefully it's too small to regrow. I will keep you updated!
I don't know if you did something like this or not, but make sure you disable the mini chainsaw in some way before tightening the chain or making other adjustments. You need to be sure it's not going to start running while doing something like that. Wouldn't want any accidents to happen.
Well my hands were far away from the switch & safety button which would have been hard to accidentialy both press at once - but yes, good point, that's the correct procedure!
and Mario of course!!
Enjoyed this but am anticipating returning to your groovy kitchen build.
me too!
Nashi's are lovely, juicy and crunchy. 🇦🇺
Hi Harriet and Mauro, I love your channel! Thanks so much for sharing your adventures on the finca, very inspiring indeed! I always look forward to your videos with the beautiful images, your thoughts and dry humor :-)
In our little allotment garden we chip a part of the branches and another part we use for making walls of branches (like longstreched piles of about 80 cm wide and 80 cm high along the borders). This attracks a lot of life like birds and other small animals and is also a great place for insects to survive during winter. So if you have a lot of branches this might be another idea.
Greetings from the Netherlands!
Thank you! I know what you mean, I heard them referred to as "dead hedges", no? I have a couple of patches of "dead hedge" where the stone walls have crumbled, but they're not recommended in excess here due to fire risk.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead omg yes, walls of dry branches in the burning spanish sun maybe wasn't such an excellent idea.. good to keep it limited to just a few spots.
Me alegro que pongas abajo en espñol
Nice chipping and planting! I like the idea of sharing economy as well. An electric woodchipper (2-2.4kw, good for 4cm thickness) is what I have for my small 300sqm garden. Actually I have two, one came with the garden and I got gifted another one while finding out the first one is broken (probably just needs a new capacitor). So these are cheap and next to maintenance-free in the electric variant - need to get rid of one though to get some free space. You need to make sure the blades are sharp, resharpening goes fairly quickly once you got it figured out (belt aanders are great). For you, one might be worthwhile if you find you hate the piles and want to avoid them. You would probably need to run lots of cables, which would make working on smaller quantities impractical. Keep up the good work and vids, and don't fear to show as thr holedigging for the fruit bushes!
I love planting trees😁
Disculpa si ya lo habies comentado en otro video pero estaria muy bien que explicarais el proceso de comprar la finca para aquellos que queremos dar el paso pero no sabemos muy bien por donde empezar, si mirar en una inmobiliaria, que precios son razonables, que cosas tener en cuenta antes de comprar, etc. Un saludo!
Hablamos sobre nuestra experiencia en los videos de preguntas y respuestas (como este ruclips.net/video/BEu6Xr3I2rE/видео.html ) pero no nos sentimos capaces de aconsejar a nadie porque tuvimos la suerte de poder comprar el primer terreno que fuimos a ver (lo encontramos en Idealista, publicado por una inmobiliaria). El tema precios es muy relativo porque depende de la zona, de lo que busques y de cuanto valores ciertas cosas por encima de otras (casa o no, conexion a la red, proximidad a un pueblo y un largo etc.). No soy un experto y ojala esta sea le primera y ultima vez que tengo que comprar un terreno 🙏
@@MauroGestoso Muchas gracias por la respuesta! Le echare un ojo al video. Imagino que no es el tema más divertido sin embargo es fundamental jaja. Sois inspiración 🙌
You should really try to make olive and almond oil this year.
so nice
Another great video. 😊