Uncovering Strange Secrets of Our French CHATEAU
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2023
- We finally determine what kind of bones are sticking out of the wall in our chateau garden (human or animal?) Plus we get a move on with constructing several more garden beds so we can grow more vegetables and flowers.
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Welcome to Our French Chateau!
We are Amanda and Lincoln. With our two daughters and pets in tow, we moved across the world from our home in San Francisco California to buy and restore a petite chateau on 40 acres in the beautiful French countryside of Brittany.
Our channel documents our triumphs and failures in restoring the 19th-century Chateau de Lingourdy. We plan to return the gardens, cottages and barns to their former glory (on a tight budget) and open them up for events and luxurious stays to the public. So if you're interested in observing daily life through the eyes of an American family whose French language skills are quite lacking and who have amassed a menagerie that includes cats, dogs, and donkeys. Please join us...
You should try the Japanese method of burning the wood. It turns the wood black, and you also get the benefit of it being bug and rot resistant. Rather than using black paint in your organic beds. I think it's called Shou sugi ban.
I wish I could "like" this episode 5 times. Thank you so much. Bones in the wall? You're right. A little creepy. But, interesting.
Thanks!!
I love your chateau above all the others on RUclips. Yours has great land, outbuildings, and the chateau itself isn’t so massive that it is too much to upkeep.
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The château looks beautiful as the warm weather comes in ! You are very blessed
💜🧡💚I love how Enzo was being your audience while you were telling us about your "wall bones"! My pooch stares at me and whines when I'm talking on my cellphone, poor guy! They must feel sorry for us, thinking we are just chatting away, to ourselves...crazy humans! Excited for spring and your garden!💚🧡💜
Glad Lincoln is feeling good enough to do all of this physical work.
Love how the dog is listening to your talk on the bones … I bet he’s the only one on the plane listening to the safety demonstration too ! He’s a good boy.
Yours is my favorite house of all my chateau vlogs. Each is unique and interesting but yours is a "home."
Your weed slayer appears to have a bottle opener on it, which seems completely brilliant! 😆
You may find weeding a good deal easier by spreading large black plastic sheets (held down by bricks or rocks) until you are ready to plant in spring. The black plastic and the heat from the sun will fry the weeds to death so they WON'T grow before you begin spreading your new compost. Take-up the plastic for use the following autumn.
Also, I would recommend cutting the bags of compost at the top so you can re-use the plastic bags for being the linger for a bog garden.
Near a shady spot in the yard, dig a decent sized hole (10 feet by 10 feet - or however large you like), line it will the plastic bags, stab them with holes to allow some drainage, and cover them with grass clippings, chopped leaves, and some dirt (plus a good deal of water) and you'll have a wonderful bog garden. Doing this will allow you to plant some terrific large Gunnera and other such bog loving plants.
I covered half of my beds. The other half I never got around to = weeds.
You must be growing more vegetables and flowers than last year. Your garden is lovely! I love all the pets! What a pretty spot with the white umbrella. Yes, I always enjoy your videos!
Thanks Tura :)
Is it possible to collect leaf mould from your woods to help build up the soil in your beds? I think you're being a bit hard on yourself. It's coming along nicely. When you garden you always have a bench or chair near where you're working. You do a little bit to the garden, and then sit, admire what you've done and plan your next move. Repeat at regular intervals :)
Exactly!
Did you know when a glove is turned inside out it fits the opposite hand? This way when one glove is still okay it can be reused on other hand. Saves having single same sided gloves not being used!!
It’s a stunning area with the ocean on hand , it’s a dream site
Thank you for taking us along your journey…keeps on getting better and better and of course love the donkeys!
Your wall garden is so beautiful, bones and all! 😅.
As always your very dry sense of humour shines through. Fantastic! Great editing and music choices. Cheers from Toronto
... 💩😉..everyone swears😂......the gardens are going to be nice! ...that memorial beach was beautiful....❤
Great drone footage!
Always when I see your beach …I remind myself that moving to France would be a beautiful idea….keep it up… lots of Org, yet it takes years off your life
Very funny - and so true. We have to add 10 steps of pushing away the neighbor cat, tossing the neighbor cat, yelling at the neighbor cat, etc. She gets between our feet - and thinks being tossed out of the way is a game.
Don’t ever lose the sense of humor. 😂❤😂. And with those views of the coast I would take breaks often.
The heat has been insufferable this summer. Too hot to work in the yard. My beds have never been so overrun with weeds. Mostly a kind of grass. So i am calling them wildlife meadows. BTW when the classical violin music starts it rips out my heart. Gorgeous but wrenching.
Ahhh, the music, the scenery, your sense of humor-so fun! Thank you!
I carry a bucket everywhere I go in the garden. I always have the gloves, bug spray, clippers, etc . Your garden is beautiful and accentuates your beautiful chateau. I love your taste. It’s edgy, but classic.💗🌸💗
Your garden will look great, good job! Beautifully views of the coastline and the last view of your home is just lovely. Thank you for sharing 😊❤
Thanks Celina :)
How cute is it when the donkey follows the other one into their house! 😍
Love that you painted the border boards black, but if you only paint one side, the boards will warp and age unevenly. Next time do all sides even if you won't see it after planting. This goes for fences, doors, shutters, etc.
Spring is the best season in the countryside and your place is lovely. Regarding the bones in the wall, a famous example is the 18th century "chaumiere aux coquillages" in the park of Rambouillet. This rustic little folly is decorated with ox bones sticking out the walls. As you told us those bones were used to drain moisture out of the wall. (and in that case to underline the rustic style outside the chaumière in contrast with the very precious decoration inside)
What an incredible beach!! Thanks for your sharing them.
Espaliering of fruit trees should appeal to your orderly mind, Amanda! They definitely make harvesting easier. Have you considered a cutting garden?
Beautiful video ❤
You look exhausted...take a rest and enjoy the day....Living vicariously through you all....
Very interesting about the bones! I bet there are thousands of stories you could uncover in time : )
Appreciate seeing the beach you go to of an evening. Gorgeous coastal path. Surrounded by history. Great progress on your garden.
Your humourous "eye" is Sunny and full of Light! It will surely keep the laughter going for the colder and not so Sunny days! May the Blessings and Love of GOD fill your cup with HIS Abundance in your vegetable garden and with every tread!🏰⛱️☀️💐🦅🙌🦁🙋🏼♀️
Thank you so much for the visit to the beach and drone shots - I love the rugged coastline of Brittany. Happy memories.
We just returned back home from visiting our son and family in Brittany, a region of France that we have visited and loved for more than 20 years. Thank you for sharing your beach and coastline. Brittany is so beautiful and I’m missing it already. Five weeks was not long enough, it never is. ❤ 🇫🇷
There's something special about Brittany. Thanks for watching :)
Suggestion to help with weeds in your veggie gardens……try growing a winter cover crop like rye, clover or buckwheat.
It really helps keep the weeds down and as a bonus adds nutrients.
So interesting about the bones, kind of creepy but makes total sense!
Watching from Vancouver Island 🌸🇨🇦
Yes, I've been meaning to do that. Bought the seeds and everything
@@OurFrenchChateau lol…..we all have such good intentions when it comes to our gardens !! 😀
I forgot to sow my seeds last fall, didn’t remember till February 🤪
Absolutely love your videos, look forward to them each week.
@@OurFrenchChateau Have you every been to a cardboard manufacturing plant? or smelled one? I have, living in a town nearby a cardboard manufacturing plant is horrible and I feel terrible for the workers and there families. I drove Trucks to the plants with loads of cardboard to be recycled and there is nothing organic about the chemical's being used to produce cardboard. Large amounts of water and chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide, and sodium silicate, are added to the shreds to further break down the paper into separate paper fibers. As well they often contain bleach, ink, and other chemicals from their original usage. Absolutely nothing about your garden is organic if you are using cardboard.
Maybe paint all sides of the boards to protect from rot & being eaten by bugs. Also after the growing season, cover the beds with heavy tarps or thick gage trash bags for the winter, to stop the early weeds.
This is a gem of a vlog. A super mixture of content and shots. You sure have the skill of entertaining the viewer and being yourselves whilst you do it.
We call those secateurs(the clippers)which seems a French word anyway. You have an armoury for gardening. Are you feeding an army by the way,with all those beds? Neat job!
Maybe a local store will give you cardboard. Or the dump. Stop stressing if the garden is your joy , make it so. Also the greenhouse wall could be made out of old windows . Maybe found from bro antes ,dumps, or junk shops. Build a frame ,add windows, attach to tall wall on your storage garden shed. Just a thought. Use until can afford fancy one.
Maybe sweet grapes? Also prior house when cold, wet, really hot, but garden when really nice so no guilt. You also lo e the garden to go to your joy.
The garden gloves!!! You crack me up. 😂
Watching this one again, and in my minds eye I can see the chateau and estate finished!!!
There will always be work to do and gardens to tend. But you will have created a magical place to just be.
Of all the estates on the RUclips channels, this one is my favorite. It feels like home. Enjoy the fruits of your labor and don’t be too hard on yourself. You can’t renovate AND keep a perfect garden!! 😊
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Love the idea of doing espaliers along the 'bone wall'...
Wonder if that micro climate in that part of the walled garden
will allow you to do a fig tree?
Know fig trees are more a southern France thing, but... There's nothing like a sun warmed ripe fig, plucked from a tree, and split open with fingernails, and eaten immediately.
If you guys like figs....
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I too have pale vampire-like complexion! It is very hard living in such a sunburnt country as Australia, I practically have to wear full hazmat gear to venture into the outdoors for any length of time greater than a few minutes or pay the price! To add to my woes, I am also allergic to most of the pollen and dust that swirls around in the air!!! It's little wonder I prefer to stay indoors and just longingly at the outdoors, like looking at a masterpiece at the museum.
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Lincoln, you look not your usual self. Take it easy. Thanks for the video
Love the drone shots
Wow not only is your chateau beautiful but eh coastline is gorgeous! How lucky your family are to have such beauty in your home and your surrounding areas! Stunning!! Cheers! Oh and vampire like skin is ageless!!!
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Another amazing video, thanks for taking the time to share with us!
The view is beautiful you are so lucky love you two
Just place cardboard down on top of the grass in the garden beds, inside your wood boxes. Then place soil, compost on top of the cardboard. The weeds and grass under the cardboard will die and turn into compost as it will not have anything sunlight to continue to grow. Just make sure the cardboard covers the whole area and have no tape or shiny stickers on them. It makes gardening easier.
Beautiful by the sea~ the countryside is gorgeous ❤🙏🏻✝️
Love your vlogs. Thank you from TX.
Lol well that’s a little macabre, shudder, but then our ancestors did use what was at hand. 👍😉🤷♀️❣️
Interesting.
Absolutely beautiful listening to the different birds.
Thanks for a Friday update. Strange about those bones. Never knew that. Garden is looking really nice. Veggies will be bursting out. Donkeys so adorable and gentle. Had no idea the ocean was so close. Enjoy your weekend. ❤
Thanks :)
Love your video's...Thank you for sharing your journey with your much loved animals.
Love watching you two progress. And I absolutely love your dry sense of humour! Thank you for letting us peek into your lives.😊
That is so interesting you do lead an interesting life as I always say I love your videos
Glad to know the story behind the bones. Thanks for the update. 👍
Love watching your vlogs. Always entertaining & educational. How funny I have a very similar garden toolbox, along with hundreds of holey gloves!
Thanks for the beautiful scenery today, I really needed it. My small garden is coming along but no garden is ever without issues so breathe Amanda lol! Your flowers are lovely this year!
LOVE this series! Are your daughters happy in France? I hope so, it’s such a wonderful experience and beautiful setting.
I just love you guys.
Just love this episode! What amazing beach! ❤
This was a perfect episode from you, merci! I totally love your mysterious and slightly sarcastic vibe. The cliffs, shown without comment - chef's kiss. Enjoyed your discussion and demonstration of garden creation. And even the day with no work was delightful and brought to mind French films from the 1970's. The last shot of the donkeys going into their secretive donkey lair, ahhh.
Thanks Elizabeth :)
Garden tiller might help but you both have done so much. Amazing and it’s always a pleasure to watch! From Powder Springs, Georgia. Thank you!
Just love this Channel !
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The beach is amazing and so much history! The beds look great...a lot of work but great! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks :)
Beautiful beach
To funny with rhe gardenoves I always end up with left ones rofl now I know where my right ones go 😂😂😂
I love your videos. Your humor makes me laugh, they’re always beautiful, your chateau and out buildings, property and views are stunning! The bones are creepy but definitely a good example of nothing going to waste in past centuries. I love how you switched over to a gorgeous beach, sharing its terribly sad history, countered by its mesmerizing beauty shows that you live in an area of France that is very special. xx
Awsome 😊
I love those small little pruners too!!
The best!
Amanda, I loved you going through your garden tools. The description of the tools is exactly how I would describe them. 😊 Along with all with the holes in the gloves. I know I would be creeped out with the bones, sticking out of a buildings wall. 😬 As we all know, in life projects, never go according to plan even in the gardens, don’t lose heart! ❤ I think in life were we are our worst critics. I don’t know what the garden looked like before, but I thought it looked pretty good. The garden you’re putting in is a work in progress. Thank you Amanda and Lincoln.
Holy gloves?? Pray while you work?
Thx for the chuckles. I find it interesting that the donkeys have worn trails in the grass. Hmmm.
Oh my gosh is that a lilac tree behind you I love lilacs the smell is heavenly
I am inspired by your garden beds. I’d like to create two or three to grow vegetables and flowers in a cutting garden. Love your content. ❤️
Love the garden and the history lesson on the sheep bones. I have vampire pale skin as well so an umbrella and sunscreen are necessary protection. Cracked up at the break from the glove situation but really loved the beach drone shots. Thanks for sharing 😍😘
The mystery of the bones solved! Thanks for letting us know.
Aren’t you concerned about all the Ivy and bramble on top of your garden wall? It looks lovely but so many chateau owners remove them. My husband and I enjoy your vlogs and look forward to each new one! ❤️🇨🇦
More of those thingamabob tools. Love it 😂
Your gardening tool demonstration made me laugh! Clippers, clippers, clippers, weed-a-nator, gloves, gloves, gloves! Similarly, I own a… “thing-a-magig, pointy thing, hole-maker, and tiny rake!” 😂😂😂
Wow. Gardens can be beautiful, but they are a lot of hard work. Don’t know how you both manage to do it all-both inside and outside. So interesting, but a little disturbing about the bones. Glad Lincoln has healed. Have a good weekend
xo from Whakatane, New Zealand. Looks like the Donkeys have got too much grass
Bones! Pretty interesting history!
I have only just found you guess I should watch from the start and catch up ! ❤
Hope you do :)
Maybe you show the bone wall to all that stop and ask to stay at the chateau thinking it's a B&B. 😂
Great job on the garden beds, they do take an enormous amount of time but look fabulous!
Great idea!
Have you thought of Shou sugi ban for preserving the wood from rot and insects?
Wonderful video! Interesting about the bones. Yes, farmers could find a use for everything. Your vegetables and flowers are going to do great. We have our garden planted and it's already doing well. The donkeys are adorable, as all the animals. You both work so hard. It's well worth it because everything taste heavenly. Janice from Arkansas USA
Bonjour Amanda and Lincoln. I am really excited to what the garden looks like and produces this year. Amanda, I know you love the garden, but it hasn't been your favorite thing to do. I have to tell you, we share the same vocabulary on your garden tools, (as I watch, I am thinking, who do I call to plant) hence the fact I have no garden, and grape vines I leave to the animals. Anyway, I really am excited to see the end results, "Produce". Love from N.Y.
Thanks Joni :)
Love your channel. Just curious, are your children involved with your projects? I love the donkeys! I would stay outside all the time with your lovely garden and the care of your animals.
You are both very talented and courageous people. Really your achivement is admirable. Without your devotion this historical place would have gone to rumbles over a decade or so.👍👍👍👍
Thank you
Ha ha...."how to build a garden in 85 easy steps!" Oh yeh! I was wondering why you didn't paint each entire board as well, being that it's untreated wood? I have those pairs of gloves too....I wonder why they make them like that? lol. You garden tools look a lot like mine, especially the many pairs of gloves with holes in them! I just laugh when I see you rooting around knowing that you'll spring something hilarious on us at a moment's notice! Thanks for making my day, yet again!!
Glad that there is a nice practical explanation for all those bones. 😅 I have been gardening in raised beds for many years in Maine. I use 2" x10" boards that I just plunk on the ground and fill with a soil/compost mix (sometimes I have to do a little digging to level). The grass and weeds are too deeply buried to do anything but die. Over the years I have made various refinements. I sit each board on a 12" strip of weed barrier to prevent weeds from outside coming up the inside of the board (4" outside, the rest inside). I use angle irons for the corners since I found the wooden corner posts rot quickly because their end grain is exposed. I put them together with hex head bolts so they are easy to remove when the boards need replacing; by that time the soil is so formed in place that I can remove a board and pop on a new one without the dirt moving. Every fall I turn in some compost. In the spring I lay soaker hose in each bed to make watering efficient in terms of both time and water use. In the past I have covered each bed with black plastic and made a hole for each plant; tedious but no weeding all summer. This year I am trying a self-composting paper (made for the purpose) instead. I lay cardboard in the pathways and cover it with grass clippings to prevent weeds from getting too close and dumping their seeds wholesale into my beds. If you don't use some sort to weed barrier on the whole bed, for widely spaced plants like tomatoes, you can lay a few layers of newspaper between the plants and anchor with compost to prevent weeds. This spring it took me at most 10 minutes to yank a few random weeds out of almost 400 sf of raised beds. Your beds are shallower, so I would suggest laying your cardboard and soil in the fall so the cardboard kills all the weed roots over the winter. I love my gardening time in spring but in summer I want to be doing other things so I like to have my gardens on autopilot. Plus, I also have large perennial gardens that require attention. Maybe a few of these ideas will be helpful to you. Gardens are fun, healthy and useful but also can become a burden. Thanks for my donkey fix at the end of the video!
thankyou
Hah, your garden gloves look like mine. I toss the broken one, keep the one that is intact and somehow you always end up having a pair, even if mismatched in style and color. Who cares.
You garden layout is lovely.
Happy digging and growing.
No wonder the garden is taking so much work….the beds are huge!!! Are you going to have a farm stand with all the produce? Love the drone scenes at the beach. Our earth - isn’t she exquisitely lovely?❤
I am beginning to think we maybe twins-your gardening glove situationis just like me and I too this year seem to be behind on the garden bloody dreaded ground elder is everywhere.Your place is looking great. I have pasty skin too but with a large smattering of freckles oh to be olive skinned
Great video. I also use the cardboard method. I loved the coastline tour. I wonder why someone would build that little house on the cliff. Oh, weird about the bones in the walls and it makes sense in a weird sort of way.🇨🇦