Always on the watch in our garden (It's harvest time) | Life on a small farm in Central Europe
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The harvest season is in full swing! More and more veggies and fruits are ready to be picked, so we have our hands (and bellies) full. We're not complaining, this is a very exciting part of gardening, and we're ready for the fruits of our labour. But we have to be always on the watch for pests to make sure we have something left to harvest.
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Tommy lounging in the rain is my spirit animal
He enjoyed it perfectly 😊😁
@@SkyGravity137 logging naked in the rain is rejuvenating also
Wow Peter 👌 your harvest looks great. Nothing beats the feeling of rain when it's 30 degrees, and it suddenly rains. Perfect idea Tommy looking fresh 👌 😊.
Many thanks 😊 So much fun with all the produce and also with summer downpours 😁
You can be so proud of your lily pond. It is such a nice addition to your garden. So glad you were blessed with a bloom! The whole pond is beautiful and adds a sense of tranquility.
The water lily flowering made us really happy, such a pretty scene in the pond 😊
The garden of Eden....
💚 😊
I love the rain it is good for everything.
We love it too 🌧️😁
This was truly a glimpse of Nature’s bounty…..how fun that you share this with us. At the end of the video when Tommy was riding the tractor, It seems another rain squall was nearing! Cheers from Palm Springs 🌴🌵👋🏻
Thank you, glad you enjoyed 😊 You noticed that right at the end of the video, another thunderstorm was coming 😉
The garden of EATEN and the naked chef were divine! A most pleasant few minutes spent with Tommy and Peter.
Thank you. Yes, everything will be eaten in the garden 😁😊
The bees and butterfly love your country garden. It looks like some things were very productive, especially your peas! With all you planted, it looks to be quite successful. Loved Tommy reclining in the downpour....good way to cool off. You guys are so fun.
Thank you! The bees and other insects really like it here, it's so fun to watch 😊 And the downpour was definitely fun too, haha 😃
Great episode and loved, loved, loved the background music you chose!
Thank you! We are happy to hear you loved the music 😊 It can take a long time to choose the right one while editing.
You sure have a lot of produce. You are doing really well.
Thank you, Ron 😉
So enjoyable and cute.
Thank you 😊
I think you are both adorable! Thank you for showing so much of your garden. I've never heard of Sea Buckthorn before. I might have to check that out. Take care boys, DA
Thank you 😉 Sea-buckthorn is really healthy and not very hard to grow. But not easy to pick because there are sharp thorns. We recommend 😊😁
The seaback make great sour candies. Just freeze dry them or dry in oven and turn them into brittle
Such a beautiful harvest with tons of fresh fruits and veggies to eat, dry and turn into jams, jellies. Don't forget to use all the green tomatoes after freeze. Green tomato jelly is great on pork, chicken and you can even spicy it up some jalapeños
Wow the garden is stunning good job lovely couple
Thank you very much 😊
@@tommyandpeter no worries
I always think currents look like the most beautiful jewels. They would certainly have appreciated the rain shower...like Tommy 😂
Whatever the name of that lilac flower, it is really pretty....and raspberries are delicious and make wonderful jam too...and what about your potatoes?!! They look brilliantly healthy. Hopefully you'll keep on top of those pesky beetles.
Guys your property is looking amazing. I wish you could come here and work your magic on some of my fruit trees and shrubs 🫤
Yes, they totally look like jewels. Not the best taste (sour) but definitely very pretty 😊 It takes time with the shrubs and trees, you just have to be patient, and also have a bit of luck 😁
Next time you bake the pastry add some of the currants or raspberry
This was a savory (salty) pastry, but sometimes I also bake coffee cakes with currants or other berries 😊
The harvest has started successfully.
When I see the currants (grosellas) and raspberries ( frambuesas) I imagine them turned into jams, ice creams, juices. I have a sweet tooth, you already know. But there is no way in hell you would convince me to eat peas and their pods, raw. No sir.
Funny about Tommy in the rain.
Peter you owe us the recipe for that Slovak delight.
Cheers guys for this beautiful and "flowery" video. Hugs from a winter part of the world .
You don't eat peas raw, Liliana? That's so common here. They are green, soft and juicy, of course only when they are young 😊 As someone said they are also parts of Chinese food, with the pods too 😁 Yeah, I always forget to film the recipe when I make something, because I usually make it for the first time and I don't know by that time if it won't be a disaster. Then it looks nice and I have to show at least the final product 😊 Thank you, and hopefully it's not too cold in Argentina 😉
@@tommyandpeter
No guys, it is not something incorporated into our culinary culture to eat raw peas, perhaps those who practice raw veganism.
Hugs from a frozen, gray and rainy day. Enjoy the summer.
Maybe you'll find courage one day to try them (it's like any other yummy vegetable), but of course only when you would find them fresh in somebody's garden 😊
The raspberries made me think of my favorite jam, raspberry jam. You could learn how to make this at home and spread the jam in toast. Very delicious. You could have raspberry jam although the winter.
We sometimes make jams, but we don't eat them very often, because we don't like too much added sugar. Of course they are very yummy, but we prefer fresh/frozen fuits 😊
What a berry bonanza!!! Love the way the pool is coming along.
Thank you 😊 Yeah, we love to stop and observe the pool every day 💚
Also I don't know if you can have crickets or frogs in your area but we use those to control smaller insects without chemicles. Plus they are very musical if you get the right ones.
We do have them here, but not in huge amounts. Nature always finds its way, and when there are small insects that are prey, the predators will naturally come. But with pests it is not so easy. The Colorado potato beetle is invasive and doesn't have natural predators here in Central Europe. Also they often come in huge amounts and can multiply exponentially in a few weeks. Same with the brown spanish slugs. That's why it is kinda cute when people advise us about using eggshells or ashes and stuff like that. It wouldn't stop the disaster. If only it were so easy. It can work for small numbers but not on these invasive things that specialize in one plant and all of a sudden there are billions of them, and they destroy everything in a couple of days.
@@tommyandpeter You are exactly right. If the beetle is not local you do NOT have any preditors. One year my roses had aphids really bad. I ordered a large bag of ladybugs online. By the end of summer there were no aphids to be found. People think of ladybugs a slow and passive. But when introduced to an area full of lavea they get ravenous. Also the sparrows that I have seen in your videos love ladybugs. If you get a large quantity you will attract more sparrows and they will also eat the leaf worms. You just have the wrong frogs or not enough of them. Tree Frogs will also eat snails. And forget that egg shell nonsense. It doesn't work for anything.
Time to make some raspberry preserves!
It is time to begin harvesting wild blackberries here in Northern CA. Sampled a few of the 'cap' berries at the top of the stem last week and they were oh so good! Time to make a dozen or two jars of preserves for Christmas Gifts! (and as you well know that take one hell of a lot of blackberry picking and a few scratches from the thorns! LOL)
16:40 the pond looks really beautiful now !
Thanks. We love walking by the pond and observing it 😊
Great harvest.... Love the wild side to your garden..
Thank you 💚 We love it too 😁
Are you in Hungary ? Gardening is never finished. Mallow. That was quite a lot of currants though for a young bush. The pond plants were a bonus !
We are in the Czech Republic 😉 Yes, gardening is a journey. We are glad that we can develop the garden forever 💚
I just looked up the place on Ebay and they have 3000 ladybugs for 35dollars. Cut a side out of a cardboard box next to the potatoes then turn the box upside down on top of the ladybugs after dumping them out of the packaging. That is all that is required. You may need to remove the adult potato bugs yourself but the ladybugs will strip the eggs. Plus there is nothing more beautiful than laying in the sun and having ladybugs flying around you.
Thanks. We have a lot of ladybugs in the garden and we love them. They eat mainly aphids. But even so, aphids or the potatoe beetles (their eggs and larvae) come all at once in big numbers and ladybugs are not able to eat them all at the beginning. Of course later they can manage and they also reproduce more when they have a lot to eat. But the pests can destroy everything in a few days, so it isn't enough. So when there are no pests and no catastrophe, the ladybugs won't just wait hungry in the garden and they will spread to the surroundings. Once the pests come, it takes longer for the ladybugs to come back and multiply, and by then everything could be already destroyed. Hope it's understandable. It's the same with other animals in the natural cycle - for example field mice (voles) and birds of prey. When there are too many of mice, the numbers of birds of prey will also rise, but it always takes time...
Wow I'm so amzed❤❤❤
Thank you 😊😉
A perfect set for a musical "Singing in the Rain" or "Dancing in the Rain" next time we want to see you singing and dancing, do you agree? - See you soon R and D 😇
Absolutely! Next time we will perfect our singing and dancing in the rain, haha 😀
Send us those rains.... we dying from heath exhaustion... 😢
Sending right now 😁 We also have a hot weekend right now ☀
Love the video thanks for sharing. Will you do a video about your small little pond?And the fountain were you using a solar Pond pump. Have a great day...
Thank you 😉 We have posted 2 videos already here on our channel about the pond. If you'd like you can take a look 😉
How we installed the pond and planted waterplants: ruclips.net/video/wAK5wqZJ8u4/видео.html
How we keep the water clean: ruclips.net/video/pE1Sqltc2ms/видео.html
Have you tried growing Youngberries. A vine. It grows well in cold climates. Similar to boysenberry!
We have probably something similar. Tayberries - hybrids between raspberries and blackberries. We will show some other time.
Free shower 🚿 😂
Absolutely 😁🌧️
Do you make some of your fruit into jam?
We sometimes make jams (rosehip, red currant), but we don't eat them very often, because we don't like too much added sugar. Of course they are very yummy, but we prefer fresh/frozen fuits 😊
I guess you guys do not eat Chinese food very often? Snow peas are common in Chinese dishes that use the entire pod…I love ❤️ the taste 👅
We don't. But now that you mention it, we remember that they are part of these frozen mixed Chinese vegetables which they sell in supermarkets 😁
White currants are supposed to be sweeter than their red cousin. I had a white currant bush some years ago, but couldn't taste any major difference, so not sure how true that is.
This year I had a Jostaberrybush for the first time, but can't say I like the berries - the initial taste is like black currants, but then they just taste bitter. Ironically my black currants are less "harsh" this year (I find black currants to have a too strong flavour for my taste, but this year they seem better to me)
That is so interesting about josta berries. They are not supposed to be bitter at all, just sour. A bit less sour than black currants (because they are hybrids between black currants which are sour and gooseberries which are sweet). Maybe you had some weird variety 🤷
From our experience white currants are very similar to red currants, maybe even a bit more sour. We've read that there is a variety called pink currants which are sweeter 😁
From this 'family' of berries, gooseberries are the best because they are sweet, but in our garden they don't grow that well. But there are so many subvarieties of everything, like red currants could be bigger, smaller, sweeter, bearing fruits earlier or later, and so on. It's endless 😁
@@tommyandpeter There's different varieties of goose berries as well :) I believe the red ones are the sweetest of them (although goose berries has to be super ripe or they will just be sour, at least in my experience)
Yes, exactly. We have green ones and red ones. You have to keep them on the shrub for as long as possible and hope that some birds don't eat them in the meantime 😀 Or little green caterpillars feasting on their leaves, like in our garden this year. But we still had a few berries 😊
@@tommyandpeter You must have unusual delicious gooseberries (or unusually hungry birds), because I don't think the birds in my country steal gooseberries :)
They like to steal everything here, haha 😀
This was difficult to watch. First, a pinup model is lounging in the rain and then a shirtless chef pops up. That’s not all that’s poppin’ 😈 ❤❤
Sorry for making your life so hard, Greg 😀