Congratulations on all the berries! Our berries did not fare so well this year. No blueberries or currants and only a few raspberries. We hope they do better next year. You are such a wonderful couple, thank you for sharing your continuing story.
“Farm to Table” dinner at Tommy and Peter’s! Your garden looks magnificent. Here in the desert 🌵we have had a very hot July, every day has been above average temperatures around 44 to 50C this month. 🥵I can take a respite watching your vlogs. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️
Glad you didn't lose any trees from the storm and didn't get heavy hail. It's always so disappointing when that happens. Your garlic looked great, Tommy. A good harvest is always so satisfying.
I never heard of salat soup, but that bread, pastry looks delicious. Congratulations on the garlic harvest, hopefully mine will also look like that this summer. Take care and enjoy your week 😊
We would love that, but it can be challenging due to our country's temperate climate, which is generally cooler than the subtropical and tropical climates where peanuts thrive. Peanuts need a long frost-free period. The Czech Republic has a relatively short growing season, often with the risk of late spring and early autumn frosts. They also prefer sandy soil, but we have clay soil in our garden. Nobody grows peanuts in the Czech Republic. So it seems it wouldn't be the best fit and they would struggle here.
Hi Tommy and Peter! I just found your videos but I love them so far! We're two girls who plan to also buy land and make a little homestead in CZ! We will be watching your videos to learn about farming in this area :)
Hi girls! That is amazing 😁 We have like a milion videos from our garden, but of course every year the activities repeat, but we can see a lot of progress as the plants are growing. We bought our country house 5 years ago and we were quite new to all of this 😊 Good luck with yours, it shall be great 💚😊
If nature becomes a work of art "A love for two" - It seems to us to see the painting of Botticelli "Spring" scholars have counted more than 40 plant species. Your garden well represents the painted scene, therefore, now in addition to learning to sing, dance you must engage with the canvas and colors. Obviously free interpretation. Hello R and D 😎👀
one year my father planted butternut squash and i decided to use them with my gnocchi recipe, i usually make sweet potato gnocchi during the autumn, i was quite pleased with the results i had to add more flour then usual to get the texture of the dough to what i was accustomed, i haven't made focaccia yet but i been wanting to for some time now, seeing what you did might make me try soon congratulations on planting two of "the three sisters of the north america", corn--beans-squash were traditionally planted by indigenous women of this land
Sounds so good with the gnocchi made with butternut squash. Focaccia is not very difficult to make, there are recipes on the internet. You can put almost anything on top of it. So go ahead and try 😊
23:50 Excellent garlic crop. This year I grew several red onion varieties from seed and they all are almost ready to harvest as well. I was thinking of planting kale in that spot next for winter harvest .
Thank you, we are really happy about the garlic harvest. We also harvested a few red onions (we grow just a small amount). And we planted a bit of kale too, but elsewhere, not on the spot where garlics had been. We love summer when there are so many veggies 😊
I'm living vicariously through you two with all the gardening and cooking. I used to plant all kinds of flowers and plants to enjoy all the new ones I had never grown or seen before. It is such an amazing feeling to see things sprout and bloom with their beauty. There is also nothing better than picking fruits and veggies from your own garden to cook for dinner. I also cooked a lot. Finding new recipes to try is not difficult and thankfully so, because all the amazing combinations was fun to work with and tasted amazing. Thank you Tommy and Peter for bringing this enjoyment to me and so many people.
Thank you! It really is a joy in the garden and then using the produce in the kitchen 😊 It's great that you also know how it is with all these garden joys 💚 See you next time 😉
I have golden currants in my garden as well. I love the fragrance of the flowers in spring. I have tried making jam of the berries, but it was still pretty sour.
its lookng great Guys ..its a good year for Blueberries ..i had to move mine back un March so wasn't expecting them to do much but they have loads of fruit ..i think all the rain we have had in the UK helped them :) ..i agree about the patty pan squash ..they taste of nothing ..the " winter Squash " like butternut are much better and if you season them you can keep them and use them in the winter months ..love seeing your videos
Thank you! So nice to hear that blueberries are doing well at your place too 😊 This year we've been using young patty pan squashes similar to zucchinis. You can eat them raw too when the peel is soft. So they are not totally useless 😁
Salad cucumbers (English cucumbers) here in the US grown on the ground and elongate without gravity. The small pickling cucumbers need a trellis to climb. They will not elongate without gravity. You want them 3-5" long. Growing them on the ground, they will stay round and very little elongation. I grow hundreds every year. Hope this helps if someone has not already stated.
Thanks for the tip 😉 It seems like our pickling cucumbers don't need the trellis because they elongate on the ground too. They grow to a normal shape, just like they should be (only like 10% of them are more round). It's interesting, maybe we just got lucky. But we wouldn't mind other shapes anyway, they should taste the same. We'll show them some other time, we lacto-ferment some of them 😊
That is a very diverse garden😊 I think the British people call anything that looks like a squash a corgette? I have seen videos where a British person called an eggplant a corgette( they can’t t be bothered)😂….I would NEVER go barefoot in a rose garden, ouch! I think it is recommended to not be near trees in a thunderstorm because the trees are grounded and can attract a lightning strike? Maybe Peter knows different? Thanks for sharing…
Ok, when we won't know which kind of pumpkins we have, we will just call them courgettes 😀 Yes, one should definitely not be near trees while there is a thunderstorm. The wind started blowing when the actual storms were still quite far, 10-20 km, so there wasn't lightning yet at that point. It's called an outflow from the storm 😉
I also plant and harvest garlic every year. Yours looked perfect for harvesting. I always wait until the tops start to brown a bit. But for the first time in twenty years, some animal decided in early summer that garlic tops were good food, so the size of the bulbs was vastly reduced this year. Very disappointing.
Our sign for them to be ripe are the flowers pointing upwards. We cut them off and eat them on most of the plants, but we always keep a few so we can observe them 😉 Such a shame that yours aren't the best this year. We know too well when something doesn't work out that great, but that's just how it is in the garden.
I always envy you being able to walk around your garden barefoot. I would love to do that! We have something here called chiggers and if you walk barefoot in the garden they attack and bite you, causing red spots that itch like crazy. So, I always wear long pants and shoes and socks in the garden! You guys are very lucky!!
You should track down some pride roses. I ordered 2 bushes and the first year only had 2 roses. But this year the plants have produced over 30 flowers and showing all the pride colors
Lovely healthy rose bushes with green and glossy leaves. I'm in a constant battle with blackspot, greenfly and sawfly caterpillars. I'm winning though...mostly 💪😂 That's a lot of garlic guys. How do you store them without them going bad? Do you leave them on the stalks?
We'll see what happens with our roses when they get bigger. Don't forget that half of them didn't survive last winter, so there are also problems with them in our garden. We are sure some of your flies will appear here on them in the future 😀 We store the garlic this way: We will cut the stalks much shorter, also we'll shorten the roots. Basically, similar to how they sell garlics in stores. And then we just have them in a cabinet in the kitchen in a paper bag. Ideal would be dry and colder place.
@@tommyandpeter interesting. I've never tried to grow garlic. When I buy it from the store here, it either dries out or goes bad in a few weeks. Watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics. I feel bad for Paris that the weather was so awful. Looking forward to seeing Celine Dion sing after her tragic few years of such ill health. Hope she does ok. Not a particular fan but I thought her documentary was very moving.
I can tell you prefer to grow your vegetables all natural, seemingly without any help outside just your hands. So does that also mean you rule out plant food. Or even any soil treatment that would increase the growth of your garden? Reason I asked is I noticed the soil where the garlic was, or still is planted looks hard, possibly too hard for the rain water to sink further into the soil. That might be a cause of the garlic being as wet as it is when water doesn’t sink fast enough. I know nothing about planting in gardens or or growing vegetables. But I was curious if that might be a thing that happens.
The soil in our garden is more on the clay side of the spectrum, that's why it can be quite heavy and compact. It retains water for longer (that is a good thing because here we have dry periods more often than wet ones), but it can get very hard too when dry. We sometimes add compost. Some plants also like ashes so sometimes we add that on certain garden beds. We also sometimes mulch in between the veggies with grass clipping or this year we tried also wood chips for the first time. All this adds organic matter and makes the soil better. We also water with our natural fertilizer made of nettles - we showed how we prepare and use it in previous videos. It's quite a normal and common soil here, nothing too special about it. As you can see, the veggies grow nicely. Also on the garden beds where the garlic was, the previous year there had been potatoes - they are known for the fact that they make the soil better. As you could see, garlic was a big success this year. So, in general, it is ok with the soil.
We are not in the Mediterranean, haha 😁 Our garden is in a moderate climate, we have winters with snow and frost. They would not grow well here, if at all 😉
In what way? The thunderstorm was strong, with wind gusts up to 100 km/h, and it damaged various things in surrounding gardens. Before it arrived, we'd had calm garden days as always, but then it disturbed them. We got lucky our trees survived. Sorry you didn't get to see the garden destroyed, hoping to see some people on the internet suffer.
Hello guys, I was late for the date, but here I am. Very detailed update of everything related to your beatiful place. Mmm...the muldberries bring back wonderful memories of my childhood when I ate them, with my cousins, at nap time, in my granny's backyard And there was no way to hide that fact because we all appeared dyed purple. Here in my country there is a vegetable called "zapallito redondo", it is not "round zuchinni" ( google it in Spanish if you want to see the picture, I didn't find its name in English) and you have never mentioned them in your videos. Do they exist in your country? A pleasure guys, as always. Till next time.
Hi Liliana, we just googled it and it looks like a zucchini that is a round shape. We have probably seen it before but it is not common here at all. Muleberries are so yummy. We are a bit disappointed that this year we have basically none but that's life. You are right that they stain a lot with the purple color 😁💜
I was very impressed with all you did in the kitchen too from all the produce. Looks very good. You are a great couple.
Thank you very much, Ron 😊 It's fun using the produce in the kitchen 😁
You two have achieved much. It's a wonderful garden!
Many thanks 😉
My, Peter, your courgette is so….you keep doing this to me and it works every time. The garlic are lovely ❤❤
It's not my fault that the courgette grew so much 😜
Fantastic video guys. Your garden is an inspiration. Your garlic is to die for. Thanks so much Tommy and Peter. I love your videos and your garden. ❤❤
Thank you very much, Andrew 😉💚
Your videos are simply wonderful. Thank you for sharing them with us. DA (Vancouver, WA - USA)
Thank you very much. Greetings to Vancouver, WA 😉
Congratulations on all the berries! Our berries did not fare so well this year. No blueberries or currants and only a few raspberries. We hope they do better next year. You are such a wonderful couple, thank you for sharing your continuing story.
Thank you 😊 Such a shame your berries didn't do well this year, sorry to hear that 🫤
I love that you are nurturing wildflowers. I use garlic a lot and those from your garden look great.
Yes, and it is so nice seeing new wildflowers appearing 😊 Garlic is amazing to use in the kitchen 😉
We love the roses and dahlias. Peter & Roy
Thank you 😉 Flowers can make any garden look beautiful 😊
So beautiful. A lot of work. Well done, guys !
Thank you. It's a lot of work, but luckily the garden rewards us 😊
“Farm to Table” dinner at Tommy and Peter’s! Your garden looks magnificent. Here in the desert 🌵we have had a very hot July, every day has been above average temperatures around 44 to 50C this month. 🥵I can take a respite watching your vlogs. Thanks for sharing 👍❤️
Thank you 😊 Wow, not sure what we would do in such temperatures. That would be too much for us 🥵
Glad you didn't lose any trees from the storm and didn't get heavy hail. It's always so disappointing when that happens. Your garlic looked great, Tommy. A good harvest is always so satisfying.
Thank you 😊 We were also relieved when the garden survived the thunderstorm. They can be quite strong here.
I never heard of salat soup, but that bread, pastry looks delicious. Congratulations on the garlic harvest, hopefully mine will also look like that this summer. Take care and enjoy your week 😊
Thank you 😊 Your garlic will be amazing, good luck with it 😉
And I envy cooks. You make it look like fun.
It can be quite fun, but it is not for everyone. Tommy doesn't enjoy cooking and baking at all 😀
The place looks amazing!!!!
Thank you 😉😊
Wow love evrything about the garden. Hope the garden will be okay
Thank you, glad you like it. The garden is ok after the thunderstorm 😉
I love butternut squash. A weak spot for me. I’m going to get some today to go with dinner. Thanks for that reminder. ❤❤
They are really amazing and yummy 😊
Another Easy crop (same care as garlic) would be Peanuts. Growing you own & roasting or boiling on a Cold Winters night is so cozy.
We would love that, but it can be challenging due to our country's temperate climate, which is generally cooler than the subtropical and tropical climates where peanuts thrive. Peanuts need a long frost-free period. The Czech Republic has a relatively short growing season, often with the risk of late spring and early autumn frosts. They also prefer sandy soil, but we have clay soil in our garden. Nobody grows peanuts in the Czech Republic. So it seems it wouldn't be the best fit and they would struggle here.
Hi Tommy and Peter! I just found your videos but I love them so far! We're two girls who plan to also buy land and make a little homestead in CZ! We will be watching your videos to learn about farming in this area :)
Hi girls! That is amazing 😁 We have like a milion videos from our garden, but of course every year the activities repeat, but we can see a lot of progress as the plants are growing. We bought our country house 5 years ago and we were quite new to all of this 😊 Good luck with yours, it shall be great 💚😊
If nature becomes a work of art "A love for two" - It seems to us to see the painting of Botticelli "Spring" scholars have counted more than 40 plant species. Your garden well represents the painted scene, therefore, now in addition to learning to sing, dance you must engage with the canvas and colors. Obviously free interpretation. Hello R and D 😎👀
Haha, very nice, we are going to prepare the canvas and paint 😁 We are very happy that our garden is so diverse 💚😊 Thanks.
one year my father planted butternut squash and i decided to use them with my gnocchi recipe, i usually make sweet potato gnocchi during the autumn, i was quite pleased with the results i had to add more flour then usual to get the texture of the dough to what i was accustomed, i haven't made focaccia yet but i been wanting to for some time now, seeing what you did might make me try soon
congratulations on planting two of "the three sisters of the north america", corn--beans-squash were traditionally planted by indigenous women of this land
Sounds so good with the gnocchi made with butternut squash. Focaccia is not very difficult to make, there are recipes on the internet. You can put almost anything on top of it. So go ahead and try 😊
23:50 Excellent garlic crop. This year I grew several red onion varieties from seed and they all are almost ready to harvest as well. I was thinking of planting kale in that spot next for winter harvest .
Thank you, we are really happy about the garlic harvest. We also harvested a few red onions (we grow just a small amount). And we planted a bit of kale too, but elsewhere, not on the spot where garlics had been. We love summer when there are so many veggies 😊
Almost looks like the Garden of Eden.
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Amazing how the pond has grown and changed!
Yes, it's great. We are happy about that 😊
Great job on the garlic fellas... Lochness scottish Highlands..
Thank you, Neil 😉
Peter, you are good coming up with recipes to use your vegies in, even though they sound strange sometimes, they look good on camera.
I love using our produce in the kitchen, so it's always fun trying new things 😊
I'm living vicariously through you two with all the gardening and cooking. I used to plant all kinds of flowers and plants to enjoy all the new ones I had never grown or seen before. It is such an amazing feeling to see things sprout and bloom with their beauty. There is also nothing better than picking fruits and veggies from your own garden to cook for dinner. I also cooked a lot. Finding new recipes to try is not difficult and thankfully so, because all the amazing combinations was fun to work with and tasted amazing. Thank you Tommy and Peter for bringing this enjoyment to me and so many people.
Thank you! It really is a joy in the garden and then using the produce in the kitchen 😊 It's great that you also know how it is with all these garden joys 💚 See you next time 😉
Looking good, guys!!! Your hard work and dedication are paying off!!! 😊😊😊
Thank you very much 💚😊
Nice garlic haul. We just finished harvested ours as well. Yours look great.
Thank you very much, Brandon 😉 So great that you also harvested yours. You must have a lot more than us 💚😁
I have golden currants in my garden as well. I love the fragrance of the flowers in spring. I have tried making jam of the berries, but it was still pretty sour.
Yes, they can be quite sour. So cool that you also have them 😊
Yes. It’s called a courgette here in the UK 🇬🇧
Yay, glad I remembered it right 😁
its lookng great Guys ..its a good year for Blueberries ..i had to move mine back un March so wasn't expecting them to do much but they have loads of fruit ..i think all the rain we have had in the UK helped them :) ..i agree about the patty pan squash ..they taste of nothing ..the " winter Squash " like butternut are much better and if you season them you can keep them and use them in the winter months ..love seeing your videos
Thank you! So nice to hear that blueberries are doing well at your place too 😊 This year we've been using young patty pan squashes similar to zucchinis. You can eat them raw too when the peel is soft. So they are not totally useless 😁
Salad cucumbers (English cucumbers) here in the US grown on the ground and elongate without gravity. The small pickling cucumbers need a trellis to climb. They will not elongate without gravity. You want them 3-5" long. Growing them on the ground, they will stay round and very little elongation. I grow hundreds every year. Hope this helps if someone has not already stated.
Thanks for the tip 😉 It seems like our pickling cucumbers don't need the trellis because they elongate on the ground too. They grow to a normal shape, just like they should be (only like 10% of them are more round). It's interesting, maybe we just got lucky. But we wouldn't mind other shapes anyway, they should taste the same. We'll show them some other time, we lacto-ferment some of them 😊
Love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ your garden. What is your weather 🤔 like. I will send you rain. Bless you Guys
Thank you 😊 Yes, send us some rain, in the meantime it's been quite dry lately 😉
The daisies reseed the surrounding area and as you mow them the seeds will spread naturally
Yes, that is exactly what's been happening the past two years 😊
That is a very diverse garden😊 I think the British people call anything that looks like a squash a corgette? I have seen videos where a British person called an eggplant a corgette( they can’t t be bothered)😂….I would NEVER go barefoot in a rose garden, ouch! I think it is recommended to not be near trees in a thunderstorm because the trees are grounded and can attract a lightning strike? Maybe Peter knows different? Thanks for sharing…
Ok, when we won't know which kind of pumpkins we have, we will just call them courgettes 😀 Yes, one should definitely not be near trees while there is a thunderstorm. The wind started blowing when the actual storms were still quite far, 10-20 km, so there wasn't lightning yet at that point. It's called an outflow from the storm 😉
I also plant and harvest garlic every year. Yours looked perfect for harvesting. I always wait until the tops start to brown a bit. But for the first time in twenty years, some animal decided in early summer that garlic tops were good food, so the size of the bulbs was vastly reduced this year. Very disappointing.
Our sign for them to be ripe are the flowers pointing upwards. We cut them off and eat them on most of the plants, but we always keep a few so we can observe them 😉 Such a shame that yours aren't the best this year. We know too well when something doesn't work out that great, but that's just how it is in the garden.
I always envy you being able to walk around your garden barefoot. I would love to do that! We have something here called chiggers and if you walk barefoot in the garden they attack and bite you, causing red spots that itch like crazy. So, I always wear long pants and shoes and socks in the garden! You guys are very lucky!!
Wow, we are happy we don't have such chiggers here. We enjoy being barefoot in the garden 😊
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You should track down some pride roses. I ordered 2 bushes and the first year only had 2 roses. But this year the plants have produced over 30 flowers and showing all the pride colors
Sounds so interesting, we will check it out 😉
Lovely healthy rose bushes with green and glossy leaves. I'm in a constant battle with blackspot, greenfly and sawfly caterpillars. I'm winning though...mostly 💪😂
That's a lot of garlic guys. How do you store them without them going bad? Do you leave them on the stalks?
We'll see what happens with our roses when they get bigger. Don't forget that half of them didn't survive last winter, so there are also problems with them in our garden. We are sure some of your flies will appear here on them in the future 😀
We store the garlic this way: We will cut the stalks much shorter, also we'll shorten the roots. Basically, similar to how they sell garlics in stores. And then we just have them in a cabinet in the kitchen in a paper bag. Ideal would be dry and colder place.
@@tommyandpeter interesting. I've never tried to grow garlic. When I buy it from the store here, it either dries out or goes bad in a few weeks.
Watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics. I feel bad for Paris that the weather was so awful. Looking forward to seeing Celine Dion sing after her tragic few years of such ill health. Hope she does ok. Not a particular fan but I thought her documentary was very moving.
6:27 This flower is called Centaurium Erythraea
11:34 This one looks like an Inula Salicina
Thanks 😊 We know the big yellow one since we planted it, but we often don't remember the English names 😁
make some zucchini bread - it is the BEST!!!
We just made it, thanks for the tip 😉 Yummy 😊
@@tommyandpeter awesome! make extra.....it freezes very well for a winter treat!
I can tell you prefer to grow your vegetables all natural, seemingly without any help outside just your hands. So does that also mean you rule out plant food. Or even any soil treatment that would increase the growth of your garden?
Reason I asked is I noticed the soil where the garlic was, or still is planted looks hard, possibly too hard for the rain water to sink further into the soil. That might be a cause of the garlic being as wet as it is when water doesn’t sink fast enough.
I know nothing about planting in gardens or or growing vegetables. But I was curious if that might be a thing that happens.
The soil in our garden is more on the clay side of the spectrum, that's why it can be quite heavy and compact. It retains water for longer (that is a good thing because here we have dry periods more often than wet ones), but it can get very hard too when dry. We sometimes add compost. Some plants also like ashes so sometimes we add that on certain garden beds. We also sometimes mulch in between the veggies with grass clipping or this year we tried also wood chips for the first time. All this adds organic matter and makes the soil better. We also water with our natural fertilizer made of nettles - we showed how we prepare and use it in previous videos. It's quite a normal and common soil here, nothing too special about it. As you can see, the veggies grow nicely. Also on the garden beds where the garlic was, the previous year there had been potatoes - they are known for the fact that they make the soil better. As you could see, garlic was a big success this year. So, in general, it is ok with the soil.
Time to plant the olive trees?
We are not in the Mediterranean, haha 😁 Our garden is in a moderate climate, we have winters with snow and frost. They would not grow well here, if at all 😉
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In what way? The thunderstorm was strong, with wind gusts up to 100 km/h, and it damaged various things in surrounding gardens. Before it arrived, we'd had calm garden days as always, but then it disturbed them. We got lucky our trees survived. Sorry you didn't get to see the garden destroyed, hoping to see some people on the internet suffer.
Hello guys, I was late for the date, but here I am.
Very detailed update of everything related to your beatiful place.
Mmm...the muldberries bring back wonderful memories of my childhood when I ate them, with my cousins, at nap time, in my granny's backyard And there was no way to hide that fact because we all appeared dyed purple.
Here in my country there is a vegetable called "zapallito redondo", it is not "round zuchinni" ( google it in Spanish if you want to see the picture, I didn't find its name in English) and you have never mentioned them in your videos. Do they exist in your country?
A pleasure guys, as always. Till next time.
Hi Liliana, we just googled it and it looks like a zucchini that is a round shape. We have probably seen it before but it is not common here at all.
Muleberries are so yummy. We are a bit disappointed that this year we have basically none but that's life. You are right that they stain a lot with the purple color 😁💜