Upgrading Our Off Grid Garden For A Summer Oasis!
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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Summer Garden on Our Off Grid Homestead
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I hope you write a children's book about your animals
I'm not sure but I think, during the Bean War, Cool Hand Luke was picking up the ones Sarah dropped and putting them in his bowl. 🤣!!
Someone really should come and do a documentary on Sir Rupert McPiggery, his Lady Peppa McPiggery, and all the wee little McPiggery's, at the Castle McPiggery, which overlooks Lake McPiggery, on the McPiggery Estate.
🐷🐓🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖...😁😅🤣!!
The wildflowers are indeed so beautiful. I'm glad you get to enjoy them awhile, and the bees and us too, before they have to go. It's a wonder how they can get cut down each year and then come right back the next spring.
Have a lovely week!! 🥰🌿♥️
🤣 Yes he did do that a few times and some of my beans jumped into his bowl too. Have a lovely week too Meg❤️❤️
May I suggest that you consider a solar-powered electric fence system to manage the romantic encounters between sows and boars?? It would work very well in a climate like yours.
Pigs learn wonderfully quickly to respect the fence, the fences are easily moved so your livestock can help you with the strimming and fertilizing of your pastures and there is a remarkable variety of fence systems available. In my experience, goats are very challenging to fences and will show you where improvements are needed, but pigs are much more easily trained.
My property was surrounded by forests with black bears, coyote and mountain lions and I didn't have one of the new systems that are designed for predator control so we saw a lot of wildlife but it seems that is not a problem for you. Except for the boars, I guess.
For decades, New Zealand has led the world in innovation for fencing and pasture rotation and some excellent systems come from there. Many livestock owners in all sorts of climates love their solar-powered systems so you will be able to find lots of useful help on the Net.
I have a modest amount of experience with pigs so I stand to be corrected but I think you will need both a perimeter fence and an interior fence - unless you want more wild babies.
Four-foot lawn mower/manure-spreader combos are a great help at managing your land, especially the ones that come when they're called.
I look forward to what happens next in your piece of paradise.
Thanks for this but we do have an electric fence which we do not use. it is quite dangerous to have it up in summer because of the fire risk so it put us off using it
Love that dog of yours! Thanks for sharing your life with us!
You are so kind, thanks for watching Kathy❤️❤️
You're an amazing couple, ambassador's of the critters and land..Inspirational ..much love to you ALL.. from Australia :)
Wow, thank you!♥️♥️
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Good crop of beans 🫘 ❤
Happy Mothers day Sarah 💕💕💕💕 I love the beautiful life your living ,may you continue to be blessed in your oasis.
Thank you so much! You too ♥️♥️
With the bean stalks they are best broken up. I used to dig them into the soil lightly and then cover in straw or other carbon rich mulch and then keep moist to speed up decomposition. You don't need to dig in the broken up bean stalks if you are going no dig, but you should still use a carbon rich mulch and keep moist. The bed will be ready for use again when all the woody bits of the bean stalks have broken down. If you want to use the bed again immediately, you can compost the bean stalks somewhere else but use the straw/carbon and water method again
Thank you for this . I might just add them to the compost for better compost 😁
garden looks great, lovely bean harvest and all the animals look so well and happy Pepper and rupert are such a great couple as odd as it is. thank you
Thanks so much Tessa ♥️♥️
Aaaah…. Please please please. I hope you find homes for the piglets asap. 🙏🏼💝
I’ve just subscribed, you make such wonderful videos, thank you! 💚🌿🌸
Thanks for joining our RUclips family Janine I am so happy to hear that you enjoy our videos❤️❤️❤️
Wow, that are a lot of beans. And Sarah, so nice of you to let Luke win the bean cleaning competition 😉. And man the pigs are growing fast !!! And so beautiful to see the land in full blossom and the water pond seems to hold water longer! And my compliments to the editor, screenwriter, director, cinematographer, sound director and colorist… your videos are getting top-notch really enjoyed it a lot !!
Wow Thank you Dirk ! This means so much to me ❤️❤️ I do think the water is going down much slower but it is going down nonetheless ,so maybe the pigs really are working their magic
Hannibal the Cannibal!! 🤣🤣 Y'all are silly, and i thought Sarah was going to win since Luke kept dropping his! 😂😂 I Loved the entire video! I guess if I can't work my garden, i can enjoy you working yours. You have so much knowledge, I learn something all the time. I Hope Y'all are having a GREAT WEEKEND!!!! ✝️🙏❤🇵🇹👣🍍🍍🤗
🤣you're so funny. Have a great weekend too❤️❤️
@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Het, FYI, I made a comments on the Channel that filmed Yall. I responded to your 5 %. LOL. I talk to much. But hey, I am stuck in the bed or the.couch .ost of the day with the Scistica. I have a Dr appointment on Monday with the VA since the original injury was when I was in the Navy. VA (Veterans Administration, HURRY UP AND WAIT).🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@melinda5777 we appreciate and enjoy all your messages ♥️♥️♥️
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work 👍😁 funny piggies.
Glad you enjoyed it
My favorite looking piglet is the one with black spots at all 4 “armpits”…legpits?
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Very nice, indeed
That rooster is a riot.
Loved the bean war its great that you recycle the main plants .pepper and the babies are looking great will you keep any of peppers babies .
No we will hopefully find homes for all the babies and probably eventually even for Baby Pie.. Maggies little one
Hello Luke & Sarah, enjoyed watching how you and the animals are doing. The gardening is looking fantastic. The way you make things work is amazing. Hope you have loads of veg's this summer the beans are in abundance this year. Molly is always eager to help in anyway you ask of her. But her first loves are you and Luke.
I am really hoping for a lot of delicious veggies all around us ♥️♥️♥️
hose piglets are growing fast and Luke and your little competition with the beans was funny and you are a champ Sarah (as I am sure some of your beans were somehow under the radar got into Luke's ha ha). Your vegetable garden is beautiful I just love it. Those wild flowers are magnificent. Have a lovely week Sarah, Luke and animals.
Thank you and same to you ❤️❤️
Such a fun video guys. Sending much love from Texas, USA……
Glad you enjoyed it!
I used to grow broad beans for a few years, I stopped due to ill health. I love them, but the resulting beans after you skin them is a bit of a let down, but there is nothing like a broad bean when it's home grown, podded and skinned.
A beautiful, gentle catch up .. a joy to watch 😂❤
So happy to that you enjoyed it ❤️❤️
great video guys, lotts of work but so rewarding in the end
It really is!
Such a beautiful, peaceful video. Thank you for bringing us along. 🐱🐕🐖🐓🐸🌱🌼
Glad you enjoyed it
It’s definitely time to re home the little piggies .. they are getting far too boisterous with mummy piggy lll
Too true
It's awesome to see you looking and sounding better Sarah. 🤗 We're going into winter here in South Africa, but I've been concerned for a long time that there aren't any bees and butterflies, so have been planting all sorts of attracting plants and flowers and hoping for the best in spring 🙏🏻 It's definitely time to find homes for the baby Piggies. It's not a good idea to keep them passed 3 months apparently... Luke made that drip irrigation installation look so easy. I love how Pepper Pig reacts to him, she really is a dear soul. Please give beautiful Molly a hug from me, she is such a special 💖
girl 💜 💗 and your absolute constant.
Thank Louise i hope you have many bees and butterflies this year❤️❤️Peppa's babies are not 2 months old yet but since they are eating regular food they are old enough to leave Peppa. I am so happy you enjoy our videos and i will give Molly a huge hug from you
Rupert’s a real showman!😍🇨🇦
Molly is a sweet dog!
Rupert seems to have find his way in the pig pen 😍 DAMN that were a lot of beans 😮 and the garden got an amazing update 👌👌👌
Looks so peaceful and lush this spring..
It really is ♥️♥️ and there are so many new wild flowers this year
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife They are breathtaking 😍
Wow beans!
Good afternoon!
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Bountiful bean harvest ! Its lovely to see you beautiful garden all planted up and irrigation set up👏 Those piglets are still cute but so large now. Good idea to rehome them soon for Peppa's sake. Luke is a turbo charged strimming machine😂
❤️❤️ I cant wait till everything starts shooting up i just love our summer garden 😁Yes Luke has not stopped and we can now see all our beautiful terraced walls again
Hi Luke and Sarah,
What a lovely video, really lifted my spirits. Laughed so much at bean competition 😂
You 2 are absolute machines they way you manage the land and the garden, should be so proud of yourselves!
It's so lovely you're keeping one of Maggie's babies and Peppa looks really well though I hope you find homes for the babies soon for the sake of her nipples🙏
Thank you for another great video, take care guys ♥️♥️
Thank you so much Mark!! We are really happy with the garden this year but some mouse keeps stealing my seeds
so he or she is making it more challenging 🤣
Well done I love your garden set up, it's amazing. Thank you for sharing your life on RUclips 😊.
Thank you for being here ❤️❤️
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It's nuts what a difference there is in the climate your side of the mountains! I found your channel last winter while stuck in my kitchen watching the rain. It was kind of nice watching people getting on with the sort of stuff I should have been doing but couldn't (at least not without getting drenched ... and having lived in Scotland most of my life, I refuse to do that here 😂) It's been such a wet and cold winter and spring this side. We seem to get them on average every 5 years but everything is so late. And green. And still growing like crazy. My broad beans are only just beginning to come ripe here. I have most of my strimming still to do since everything I did is already back to knee height. Will be interested to see how your drip system works. I use drip lines but combined with a hosepipe as I find once it gets really hot the wet spots on the drip lines don't spread out far enough.
Yes it is so crazy that the weather can be so different😁wish you all the best with your strimming
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife haha! I don’t have anywhere near as much of it as you guys have so it’s a walk in the park by comparison. A walk in a wildlife park at the moment, but still a walk in the park …
My place is only around 2-2.5ha and the really steep slopes I leave the bracken and broom because that vegetation really helps the small trees survive the summer, adding fertility to the soil and capturing airborne moisture on misty early summer and autumn mornings. Sure it’s also a potential fire risk, but there’s a balance to be struck. Unfortunately the fire cleaning regulations are based on the principle that nothing can burn in a desert. But I don’t want to turn this land into a desert - I’m working on restoring the native forest here which, as we saw in 2017, is more resistant to catastrophic fires.
@@quintadovalepermaculture i couldnt agree more and the vegetation keeps the slope from becoming a landslide in the rainy season too
Wonderful❣
The bean shelling contest 😂. Excellent work with improvements in your bean storage methods.
Hee, maybe Peppa won't miss the babies 😄 and baby pie even if she's of Maggie smartiest girl girl. Worth it to earn cash for project materials you need.
I look forward to watching your garden grow and see what you get to harvest for all the veg lovers at your place 🍓🥬🥒🍅🥕🌻🍆🌶🥦🙆🏻♀️
I think Peppa will be fine , and as soon as Cindy's new little is old enough to leave his mum, we will be getting her a male kune kune so she won't have to go through this again ♥️
I'm curious about all the strimming that takes place in Portugal, as I keep on seeing it on various channels. I know grasses get dry and catch fire because their roots are shallow. But aren't wildflowers deep-rooted and therefore drought tolerant? How do they behave in the summer months when there is no rain? I'm asking because I was having a discussion with a local (UK) farmer about it.
They still die and dry out in summer. But we strim them because there will be brambles and broom growing inbetween them.
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife thank you, appreciate the information. It's so hard to think about what might be climate resilient. Those broad beans looked delicious btw!
Beautiful beans so much fun
thats's a Lott beans
I can taste those beans from here! Luke, I think someone ‘beaned’ you on the head (groan)!🤪🇨🇦
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Hello Luke & Sarah 🤗 Lovely video again! I am a bit late to watch it this time, I'm getting my first own two cats on Thursday and I'm preparing all the things! 😍🤩 I always love and enjoy so much to see you with your animals. Molly is such a good girl, and I also love Timmy a lot, although he's not around as much. Was good to see him rolling around today! Do you have any advice on cats, Mrs pet-whisperer? (dear Sarah 😋) Great work in the garden also! BTW, I think Baby Pie is a beautiful name and will always remind us of Maggie Pie 💝 Have a great new week all of you!
This is so exciting x x I wish i could advise you on cats but Timmy is the only cat I ever had so i dont have much experience with any others and sometimes he acts more like a dog than a cat 🤣. I had no problems with him like a few friends had, as he doesnt not scratch furniture and spends most of the day outside hunting .. i have trained him as i did molly , of course Molly knows way more than he does but he knows the words treat, sit, walkies, turn, high five and paw down. I never give him a treat unless he sits down or does a trick and when i go to give him his treat he always automatically tries to take the treat from my hand with his paw and claws so i just hold my hand closed with the treat inside and say paw down and until both front paws are on the ground he wont get his treat .
@@lukeandsarahsoffgridlife Ohh, thank you so much for your reply, Sarah 🤗 yes, Timmy seems quite doggish and really well trained for a cat 😆 thank you for the advice you gave me, despite not having too much experience with cats! I appreciate it. I am now on my way to get them and really excited! I'll let you know how my training will go sometime in the future 🐱💓
@@NoonyNewborn so exciting can't wait to hear about your training experiences❤❤❤❤
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I lovè life live it well❤
Thanks
Oh my goodness thank you so much Jane ❤️❤️
Holy Moses, some farting must go on in that caravan m😅
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Here are Maggie's babys
Those piglets are fantastically crazy. I haven’t seen a garden wate.ring system like you are doing before. Is it a tried and tested method ?
Yes drip irrigation is quite popular amongst gardeners😁
I was referring to the watering of the paths, instead of the beds. Is there a name for that method?
@tamardevane6635 we are Watering closest to the roots .. we will keep you updated on how it goes😀
How do you afford to feed the animals,is it cheap? Only asking as your living the life that's similar to what I want
It is a bit more expensive now that we have all the babies and pigs that just gave birth and are feeding their babies eat a crazy amount more but normally, a bag of mixed grain is between 10 and 15 Euros so a 20 kg bag would last us nearly 2 weeks per adult pig and we try growing a lot of veggies in summer to compliment their meals
Wondering what you intend doing with the boar piglets?
Hoping to find them homes as we did with Maggies
Do you dry your beans for later use?
Yes and there is a delicious bean dip Luke likes to make with them
Will you ever have a real home on this property
🤣 this is a very funny question. This is a real home and has been since the day we moved here ,whether it was in our caravan , bell tent, and now our beautiful gypsy caravan , but if you mean will, we rebuild our ruin . When we have the funds to start rebuilding it , we will😉
Isso não é feijão , são Favas
Sim favas em portugues.." broad beans "ou "fava beans " em ingles
Where are Maggie's babies?
We found homes for all except one
tedi bear*
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