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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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Hi, after planting the bushes along the public road, did you water them? In a dry climate such as in the Mediterranean region, it is recommended not to touch the roots of the plant too much and certainly not to tighten the soil around them and most importantly, to water immediately with a lot of water.
Escarole, swiss chard good to grow and easy too. we used to when we had a garden and it goes into November in NJ, USA
Will you still be on RUclips? Sorry if I missed something. I'm an ole lady and watch your family all the time, some shows 3 or 4 times if it's no zsunday. ❤❤❤❤ Love
Amen
Thank you. Good job. Bravo John
Just a suggestion for next time you're planting in such dry soil. Before you heal in the plants, soak the hole with water first. It just helps the plant to anchor itself and gives it a better start. Also, make sure the plants are well watered before planting. The dry earth just sucks out any moisture from the soil surrounding the plant and it finds it harder to thrive ❤
Agree!!!
That’s exactly what I was going to write also the potted plants shouldn’t be deeper than they were in the pot
Yes my property has so much clay i dig holes 3 times in width and double deep fill it with water give it 12-48 hours to drain away take that soil to other areas for fill. I fill the holes with garden soil sand and fresh soil to fill minus the size of the root ball drop in the plant and water in nicely along with fertilizer.
Thanks for that suggestion Carol! Will remember that for next time 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The avenue of plants are going to look beautiful once they start to grow. Look forward to your new house when you have seen the architect.❤️❤️❤️
I felt led to pray for you today. Lord I pray over this family. Let their plans for their new home take fruition without any problems. Keep them healthy. Keep them happy and keep them safe and bless them and all the generations in Jesus name amen.
Thank you so much Janine. This was so sweet of you. Your support means so much to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Amen
Great to see other friends joining and praying for this family to grow healthy, and being fruitful in their lives. Lord protect them and let them be at peace and bring your Sonshine upon them. In Jesus Christ precious name. AMEN.🙏🙏🙏💖🌺
Amen Janine
I also pray for this little family- they give me cause to smile!!
Are you putting a rain barrel under the new gutter on the magnificent deck you’ve built. I am looking forward to more of the Newbys. Can’t get enough. I am 75 and have had a few adventures my self. I love following you as you get on with things. Watching the boys grow in such a nurturing environment gives me hope for our future.❤️🇨🇦💋
Great idea Dawn! Thanks for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I highly recommend getting a thick layer of woodchips (2-3 inches) on the garden and around your new plants. Unlike fine mulches, woodchips will allow water to drain through to the roots of your plants where it is needed, whilst minimising evaporation and insulating the ground and the plant roots from the hot sun. Over time the woodchips will breakdown into beautiful organic material. Where I live in coastal Western Australia, we have very hot dry summers and bottomless sand which is hydrophobic so any rainfall tends to pool on the surface or drain away rather than soaking in. Many summer days the ground is too hot to walk on barefoot. Anyway, a very accomplished gardener I met told me to concentrate on "growing" the soil in order to grow the garden. Mulch, compost, woodchips etc, then in turn worms and other microbes would come and work their magic helping to turn all this into rich organic matter, aerate the soil whilst their castings feed the plants. She was right - 4 years on my garden is thriving, full of worms and wonderful rich topsoil layer that will continue to get thicker over time. Under the woodchips, my new soil stays cool and moist longer so it requires less water.
Thanks so much for all the support and advice friend, we love learning new things from you and the rest of the community here 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Have been watching you guys almost since day 1 and i think I have mentioned it before but mother earth does not like to be naked so I would suggest that you use some sort of mulch after planting to conserve moisture whenever possible. Just my experience at 71 years of age being an organic gardener across many states and now back to my home state of Maine. Your family is the greatest and ty for sharing your dreams with us all. Haffy
Thank you so much for sharing your advice about mulch Haffy. We love learning from you and the rest of the community here. Your support means so much to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
@@TheNewbys the UK "no dig" gardeners use compost as a mulch. The nutrients get washed into the soil by watering or rain
It's a real pleasure to follow you both,Tara and John,whatever you 're up to on the farm. And that's because of the nice athmosfere you create around you. And every time Crusoe and Sawyer are beside you still more grace added around ❤❤❤
Thank you for this lovely comment Luisa 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Don’t disturb the soil. All you need to do is put a little compost in the planting hole. Mix it in with the soil then backfill. On top of that put a 3”-4” layer of compost. Water in quite well. The worms will mix it in for you. This fall collect as many leaves as possible. By Spring you will have the best leaf mold that will really feed your plants. It’s that easy. BTW I am a certified Master Gardener.
Great information thanks
Thanks for the advice Hilary 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Thank You Tara & John for sharing your amazing videos. Each episode has something new and positive that keeps my attention jumping from projects or each Newby just doing their thing. Beautiful scenes, dig the tunes and tempo. Thanks again, Go Newby’s!
You are so welcome friend, thanks for all your support 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I never miss an episode of your courageous adventure! I love watching the boys learn and explore nature as well as Mom and Dad do all the work to create a God given environment flourish and grow with all your hard work. Glad you are all going traveling to see more of this wonderful world.
Thank you so much for your constant support Pat! It means the world 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Love how you incorporated the ceramic tiles into the wood. Caruso is so gentle, even with the worm! The deck is looking good. Hope the rain doesn't spoil the effect of the tiles on the roof. It is all coming together nicely. Well done.
Yep, my hubby started planting trees and shrubs as soon as we moved in. I was unpacking boxes and getting our new home organized, and he was planting our garden. I’m so grateful he did……. We now have over 20 gorgeous, mature trees, some that produce fruit, others give us much welcomed shade (we live in Albuquerque, New Mexico).
Well done to your hubby Annelies, what a great decision! Sounds like you have a great garden! 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The roof is coming along so well! I love the planter in the greenhouse. What a great idea! Crusoe is so independent on the farm now. What a clever, curious, eager, energetic, loving … and so much more, boy ❤
Thanks Frances! Crusoe is becoming quite independent indeed, Sawyer is trying his very best to keep up 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Oh Tara, our greenhouses are our sanctuary, full of hope and a place to still ourselves and be at peace with those plants that have worked so hard for us and the thrill of new plants to come. With regard to the new driveway shrubs, mulch them thickly, keeping the mulch from the main stem, this will keep in moisture, protect them from the suns rays and help the micro organisms.....you will have hundreds of wigglies before you know it. If we aid the planet and be tender to its needs, it will provide us with such bounty. Lots of love to you all xx
Hi friends, an effective method for planting in dry soil is to directly water the roots in the hole, cover and water again. Repeat daily watering while the plants are taking root. Good plantations and constructions! Hugs ❤🪻🌿🍀
Amazing Gi, thanks so much for sharing! Will remember that next time 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Hi guys I meant to say this before. I use pine needles to mulch and to suppress weeds. I am sure you have loads and that would solve your weed problem around the greenhouse. I normally mulch quite a lot and it works all summer. Happy gardening 👩🌾
Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing Sara 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The greenhouse plantings look great!
The outdoor kitchen is almost finished 🎉
Crusoe learns to handle an earth worm 🐛 gently !!
Sawyer plays happily on the trampoline ❤
What a perfect day on the farm !! 🌈.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment Holly, it was a great day on the farm indeed! Sending you lots of love 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I'm sure you know how large artichoke plants get. Also, my lemon verbena is a tree. Granted, it is more than 30 years old.
Amazing friend, I can't wait for my very own lemon verbena! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I am absolutely amazed at your son running around without shoes . He doesn’t seem to hurt himself or complain. Amazing!
He’s a real trooper, we love both our boys very deeply. Great to hear from you, thanks for watching friend. ❤️❤️
Great to see the winter seedlings getting a good start Tara, I think you might find your mate the grasshopper will think they are delicious. And I loved the way you saved the earthworm, very important little animals for our gardens and totally worth the effort of relocating. And John, the shingled roof with valley guttering looks great.
Right, the grasshopper should be relocated. Those nasty buggers will eat up all your lettuce in an afternoon. I like to feed them to my chickens... Lol!
Oil is a waterproofing of sorts.
Yep...check with your finnish friends.
And flashing in the gullies😊
Did you know that if you don’t wash the fresh eggs, you don’t have to refrigerate them? It’s only when you wash off the protective coating that you need to put them in the fridge.
I did not know that Annelies, thank you for sharing! ❤️🙏🏼😃🏡🇵🇹
Quinoa requires a lot of processing before you can eat it. I bought some local farm grown quinoa and soaked it multiple times and it was still very bitter. I've gone back to packaged organic quinoa. Much less stress! 😊 If you do plant it, I'm looking forward to hearing what you think.
Awesome. Thanks so much for watching Susan 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Hi Tara, Love watching you guys! About your seeds that may have gotten too hot stored in the greenhouse. You probably already know this, but just in case I would try this. Take a few seeds of each variety of the supposedly spoiled seeds and place them on a wet paper towel. Place another wet paper towel on top of those then carefully place them in a plastic bag. Seal it then check it daily to make sure the paper towels are still damp. If they need more moisture, then spritz them with a spray bottle then reseal the plastic bag. The seeds should begin to sprout within a few days if they are still viable. This way, you don't have to spend all that labor and space for nothing if in fact they have lost their germ. Usually the most damaging to seeds is exposure combination to heat and moisture because they begin the germination process in the package. Please check it out. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Hi Donna, thank you for sharing your tips on the spoiled seeds. I absolutely love learning new things from you and the rest of the community here 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Since you didn’t extend the roof beyond ur seating much, you should consider gutters to shed the water away so roof line edge won’t drip on ur seating areas.
This Old House has a great video on laying wooden shingles and in it they suggest a plastic mesh under the shingle layers and also leaving a small gap between from side to side for expansion of the shingles when they get wet. Also the starter row is two shingles thick, to allow the first row to cover the spaces on the first horizontal row across the bottom over the drip edge ect.
Thanks so much David 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Can hardly wait for the adventures ahead! The outdoor kitchen is really taking shape and the greenhouse will soon be bursting with living green things ❤️💛💚 Cheers🙌🙌🙌🌈
We can't wait either Mary! Thanks so much for watching and for always supporting us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I am by no means an expert, but I use a wetting agent on my lawn in the summer months here in South Africa. It’s like a soapy substance that you mix in water and then treat the soil with. It basically breaks the surface tension of the water and allows it to penetrate into hydrophobic soil, then the water that you do get does not just run off the top but gets down deeper into the soil profile. It might be worth your while to look into it.
Thanks for sharing this advice Grant, love learning new things from you 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Hi gang!! Good job wiv the road,putting plants on its edge..You mentioned something about the plans for the new house,so I had hoped to see,but it might coming in a later video. And you have started a new travel video,how interesting !!
Alldabestest from mikke in greece..👍😀👣🇬🇷
Last week there were 2.8K and today 4.08 K subscribers WOW!
We are so thankful for everyones support so far, can't wait to share adventures on there soon! ❤️❤️❤️
Love love your music clips which compliments your time-lapse! So beautiful and very well done to you both. 👏👌👍
Missed Sawyer this episode! Love your sweet family! 💗
I couple of tips for watering in green house. 1. Use an old can with holes in it 2. Put a drip system up but connected to an upside down bottle with the bottom cut off - then just top up the bottle as required. Easy Peasy 😊
YES, I CONTINUOUSLY KEEP JOHN❤, TARA❤, CRUSOE❤ AND SAWYER❤ IN MY PRAYERS 🙏 SINCE THEY HAVE GONE OUT AND ACHIEVED SO, SO MUCH IN SUCH A SHORT SPACE OF TIME INCLUDING ..... COPING WITH THEIR TWO PRECIOUS LITTLE DARLING HANDSOME BABY BOYS 🎉🎉
INCREDIBLE ENERGY THEY HAVE ALL HAD IN ACHIEVING WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO DATE.
ALSO, I AM GRATEFUL FOR THEM HAVING SUCH LOVELY NEIGHBOURS TOO WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THEM THROUGH SO MUCH AT TIMES 🎉 ❤🎉
Thank you for all your love and support Candace! 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
@@TheNewbys XXXXXXX 💕😘
I could hear your video loud and clear today. Thank you for whatever you've done with your audio.
John, your beautiful outdoor kitchen and decking area look very Scandinavian - like something in a Bavarian village! Love it! I want to try growing more seeds here in San Diego county. Last year the squirrels, rabbits, and snails ate everything, about 30 plants. Only two plants survived, one a vegetable and one a flower and I'm babying them.🌿🌿
I can see John's gait walking down the grass in Crusoe's too 😊
Great idea about a mixed hedge. Sounds lovely, even saw a Jakaranda tree and a wisteria vine which will love the old grape vines below.
Love the drone perspective soooo much. Great filmography and presence. You guys are very professional you tubers.
I’d make the holes bigger and the fill it with water first, and a lot of compost. At least double the size of the pot that the plant came in.
That soil looks not just compacted, but depleted. Another tip is, esp for trees, is dig square holes so that the roots don’t grow round and round and get root bound.
Love you guys! Rock on.
Thank you for your lovely comment and compliment Gail, it means a lot to us! Filling the hole with water sounds like a great idea, thanks for sharing. See you on Sunday 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Oh, and nice dams around each plant to grab water and allow it to settle around the new plants.
I agree! One other thing. When you take the plant of the pot, gently pull the soil ,over your planting hole, away from the roots. Just a little bit to loosen up the plant roots. Even more so if the plant is root bound.
LOVED SEEING DARLING LITTLE CRUSOE ❤JUMPING TILL HIS HEART'S CONTENT ON THE TRAMPOLINE XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Lovely video of life and progress on your beautiful Portugal farm. I just love all your plans and what you are doing with the land. Missed seeing Sawyer but Crusoe never disappoints with his enthusiasm and egg gathering. I’m wondering, did the eggs get safely to the refrigerator?😊 Looking forward the your new channel too….no such thing as too much Newbys🤗.
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We are so happy to hear you enjoyed it friend. Yes the eggs made it safely to the fridge 😂 Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
@@TheNewbys Crusoe is just a remarkable little boy! 💖💖
I love to watch you guys and the indie project. I would have never found you all if it weren't for you getting chickens from the indie project kiddos. Please stay in contact with other youtubers in Portugal, you all could use the friendship network there and help each other. The whole Idea of friends and family networking would be awesome. Indie project kids need the support. God Bless you all.
That is amazing friend, we love meeting up with fellow RUclipsrs here in Portugal. We have met some incredible people and so thankful for those friendships. Thanks so much for watching friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Olá Friends beautiful video started with clouds , sunshine ☀️ and beautiful blue sky. Your farm is very big from the rod we can see New plants 🪴 nice. Tara enjoying her green house and John doing what he loves . Crusoe enjoying his trumpolin and collecting the eggs 🥚. Thanks so much. See you Sunday .
Hello Marilia. It was one of the most magical mornings! Thanks so much for watching today friend, we can't wait to see you again on Sunday 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
hi Newbys, Verdolaga (Purslane in English). All parts of the plant are edible. Can be eaten cooked or raw. Salads soups and stews. Short cooking time. Good source of Vitamin E & C. Enjoy. I first came across it when I moved to mexico 37 years back. Easy to grow and maintain. All the best JIM
Thanks JIM! ❤️❤️
Here in Thailand the soil is also rock hard and my gardener uses a mammothi, I don't know the exact spelling, to dig a hole. Before planting, I always pour plenty of water into the hole, wait 10 minutes and then plant. then water thoroughly. This is the key for the plant to spread its roots into the soil. Compost soil and eggshells are added to the hole
Amazing friend, thanks for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Está ficando tudo muito bonito. Parabéns.
Thank you Renato 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Beautiful little family hard at work as always. Greetings from Cape Town.
Thanks so much friend. Your support means so much to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I would paint or oil the roof. It rains all the time here and paint or oil is needed or else mould everywhere
Thank You for Sharing your Fantastic Fabulous lives on video twice a week. It's all very exciting and interesting plans for you all.
We enjoy all your video's and listening. We think we've realised you all could be traveling again, sounds very exciting for you all
Take care safe to you all 💝💝💝💝 xxxx
Thanks for this lovely comment Sue. Your support means so much to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
John. Maybe you should waterproof the outdoor kitchen with a sealant so it stays the beautiful natural color.
Great advice, thanks so much Ann 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
In Austria we call that salad leaf 'bird salad'. Interspar sell a super ready salad of bird salad leaves, cubed Emmentaler cheese, dried cranberries, walnuts, olives and cherry tomatoes.
You can keep the worms in a special container and they create alot of flyid for fertelizer its great for the soil
Ohh great idea Jo! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
but not earthworms!
Tara also I found the best inexpensive way to save seeds is in a cardboard shoe box and I save them in a cupboard away from rodents so inside the house is best I find. Sometimes the bounty of seeds can be large and might take half a box so keeping them safe and dry is important.
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this tip with me 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The Living Soil Handbook would be a great reference book for you. Typically you only want to used unfinished compost on top. The reason is that the unfinished bits of matter in the unfinished compost will take up at the nitrogen from the surrounding soil. Putting it on top will allow it to continue to decompose without affecting the plants growth, it will help retain moisture in the soil which is great!!!
I also sometimes sift my unfinished compost which separates the unbroken down from the finished so you still get some of the goodness without robbing the nitrogen. Then I use the bigger bits on top of the soil.
You’re doing great Tara! There is so much to learn about soil biology!
That does sound like a great book friend, thank you so much for sharing! I would absolutely love to learn more about soil biology 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I absolutely love your channel, guys. I lived in a similar setting in Spain about 15 years ago and miss it every day. Faith took me to America, where i fulfilled my career ambitions before succumbing to ill heath . A side effect has left me with social anxiety, so watching you guys i feel like im sitting on your porch and interacting. I love the way your children are immersed in the farm, and you let them be themselves, as my sister says about her kids " let them be little, theres plenty of time to play grownup".
I can't wait for your new channel, i feel like you will take me on adventures that, unfortunately, i can't do anymore, and best of all, i get a front seat through the camera. Keep doing what you do, knowing that there's at least one person whose quality of life has improved from watching your channel xo
Thanks friend! Your kind words and support means the world to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
This video was absolutely beautiful. Well done guys.
Well done with the planting!! You may want to put some drainage holes in the bottom of the greenhouse planter.
I/we moved to Nevada, USA 5 years ago. I have a small garden and 3 fruits trees. Every season I try and learn something new.
I LOVE picking, eating and cooking with my home grown produce. You keep up the good work!!
Thanks for sharing your advice with us Laura 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Missed little Sawyer this episode.❤
Thanks so much for watching Maura 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The seating area should be called Folies Bergère, certainly with lights twinkling at night 😍 The roof is so interesting.
All the planting along the path and greenhouse pre rains the way to go.
Absolutely love that Maria! Thanks for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Talk garden beds are great for your back, well done❤
When planting, i was taught to soak the pot so the root ball is nice and wet, then soak the hole, add wetting agents as your soil is very dry, plant then backfill and water again. Create a dish effect around the plant to capture water to help the plant. Water at least every day for the first few weeks if you’ve not had any rain and if it’s hot and humid. Also use a plant feed when watering will help them get established.
Thanks for sharing Emma 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Loved today's video and especially the timelapse on the beautiful roof on the deck. The planting along the old road is genius and will no doubt look terrific as it grows taller. I love watching Tara plant the herbs and vegetable plants in the greenhouse and the opening scenes of the views of the valley and mountains beyond. Well done!
I’m so inspired after watching you in the green house. I really want one!
Thanks Joy! We absolutely love ours 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
For what it’s worth, I have found that having my herbs I cook with by the house so that I use them more. That way you only use what you need and don’t waste as much by cutting and putting by your stove or sink. Lettuces and broccoli and such I keep further away from the house as you only cut when ready. Love your channel. Hope you dont mind my spoken experience.
Great idea friend! Thanks so much for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
The old drive way will look abundant with hedges etc in couple years. Im excited about your new channel. 💚
We can't wait Sheila! Thanks so much for watching friend. Sending you lots of love 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Put wood protector on the roof. You won't have any problems.
Thanks so much for watching and for the support Roseanne 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Maybe put some type roof felt on top garden kitchen. Wood rain don’t mix will curing chemicals which prevents rot.
I like the todays music on the video. I love countrymusik a lot.
To plant. Dig double the size of hole put compost in add bone meal. Add lots of Water then put plant in more water on top then put soil in stamp around hole
Nice video roof looking great.greenhouse planting in your new boxes looks better looking forward to your secret. 👍😊
Happy birthday John. Sending big hugs from Chile and Canada ❤
Thank you so much Carine! We all send you lots of love and hugs 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Improving your soil: No dig method is the way forward. Just keep adding compost/humus/muck in layers and the structure will support and grow and maintain some sort of moisture. You really need to think about what each plant needs? so some need an acidic soil to survive; others alkaline or neutral.. So you really need to know what you are planting and what conditions each need and what you need to incorporate into the planting hole to give them a good start, otherwise they will fail. When you plant from a pot; have a bucket of water and put each pot in the bucket and push them under the water until the bubbles stop. Then water in the bottom of the hole and water over the planted hole immediately. As you have discovered, you need to water deeply and those new plants will need deep watering once a week until they get their roots down. Your aim should be to get your worm count right up - then you are on the right track with your soil. Thanks for the vlog, always a joy. x
Thanks for the advice friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Both have been busy . All good jobs. Loving that Crusoe loved the worm and was soo very careful how he handled it bless him. Loved wacthing😘😘
He loves meeting new animals and getting to hold them, so special to see. Thanks so much for watching and for all the love Annette 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
@@TheNewbys 🥰🥰
Another tip for planting in soil, apart from adding water to the hole (as mentioned below by someone else) put plants into a square hole that way their roots will go out looking for water not round and round.
Thanks for sharing Selena 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Bless Crusoe he is so gentle with all the lovely creatures in your garden.
Thank you Jacqueline ❤️❤️❤️
Have a wonderful fall!🍁🏈🍁
I amnot an expert in Gardening but I do know Earthworm are absolutely good for a compost heap!
hi, nice to see entry getting green.. and outside kitchen moves ahead. And your garden.. John has good long-term energy... by the way (no publicity😂). was lately falling on youtoube channel the 'dutch farmer'.. was impressed on super strategic approach to develop ground from scratch .. you re much better off😂❤.. luckily.. as said, just interesting..
Hi Hans, we had such a great day outside! Thanks so much for watching friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I love to hear the sounds of the birds and the children in the background of your video. I hope you take silent moments to appreciate those valuable sounds.
Jolly, Holly, Folly, Blimy, poetry in the making this Wednesday afternoon with the Newby family. Mark Twain was right early morning mists in the mountains being together with the angels. Very happy you found your paradise in Portugal for your family, settling, planting, building and planning your home there. Can't wait to see what Edoardo has drawn for you. Now going to explore more travelling with you all. Cheers and God bless you all.🙏💖🌺🥰🌄🏡🇵🇹 P.S.: love you final announcement on your new channel, it is time for Sawyer to visit the UK 🇬🇧 now that he is older seeing his parents meeting place. Love to see Scotland 🏴 with you again that is where we first met.
We have definitely found the perfect little piece of paradise for us Joanne. Absolutely love it here. Stay tuned to find out more about our upcoming travels! So exciting! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
You can place a pipe in the hole beside your plant to help get water down to the roots otherwise recycle a 600ml water bottle for this purpose.
Got a whiff of compost the other day, nearly fainted. Had to move away fast
Amazing advice, thank you for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
John same thing here, moisture only penetrates a few inches. Rain come fast and furious and just runs off. I wonder if that’s the reason the flowers have been a poor show.
The roots from the hedge plants ,will also keep the soil from eroding the driveway. Will look very " Posh" !!! From Canada not sure of spelling , High End is the context.
Great job today on all your projects! Hopefully, you have drainage in the bottom of your planting tables. I grow my vegetables in a veg trug and it is fabulous!
Thanks so much Blake! We can't wait to see what I can grow in my new planting tables 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Your driveway mixed hedge will be beautiful. I hope you have doublechecked the potential size of your oleanders. In California I've seen them 12 ft tall and wide. You don't want them blocking your driveway or constantly having to prune them. Just something to think about. The compost you added to the holes will help condition the soil. And if you run a dripline or soaker hose for the first year or two, your plant hedge will get consistent watering. Newspaper or cardboard with mulch on top in between the plants will keep weeds down and attract earthworms to work the soil, as paper breaks down. Permaculture. Cheers!
It is great that you are planting all these bushes and plants I actually thought the purpose of having a green house is to plant seeds and once you have seedlings you take them outside and plant, not buy seedlings. Well just a thought.
You can use a greenhouse for both David. Thanks so much for watching friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
the artichoke gets really big. and is a perennial. mine grew 7' tall this year due to all the rain we had. it is a very ornamental.plant.
Amazing friend! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
I live in FL, we are buried under plants and animals that are not native, they are reeking havoc on our native plants.....all environments are delicate...hope you are checking for what is native..lavender is Portugese but there are many species...
Thanks for the advice Nancy. Great to hear from you friend, we are so grateful for your support! 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Hope the meeting with the Architect went well. Eagerly waiting to see the plan. Missed Sawyer and the chickens today.
Can't wait to share those details with you soon Mint Leaf! Thanks so much for watching friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Congratulations!
Love the farm! If you ever want a vacation in our farm in de Andes of Ecuador let me know. It would be great to host you!
Thank you Jose! That is so kind of you to say, we will definitely let you know! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Another fantastic video. Put together a worm farm and pass the castings through water to water the garden it is like a super food for plants the remnants go brilliantly with your compost pile. The roof looks fantastic. Consider putting plastic on it and covering it with plants suitable for a green roof. The music again was so well chosen. I used to insert 2" plastic pipe about 2 foot deep between plants and when a dry spell occurs fill the pipes with water and minimise evaporation. I would fertilise the same way.
Great idea . I used to use water bottles with funnels screwed on the top to drip water .
Thanks for the advice Louis. Your support means so much to us 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Every thing you do John is perfection 💯💯💯
Thanks John! 🙏🏼😃🏡🇵🇹
Lovely as allways watching your video !!
Allways so pleased,I’m behind bug I’m here enjoying Portugal so much!!
Thanks Dina! ❤️
Wonderful video love from India and portugal
Hi John and Tara. John you asked a question does the soil need to be disturbed to get better? NO what I have learned is if you just put tons of newspaper, debris, mulch then organic compost it regenerates the soil without tilling it up. Love you guys. Cheers. Gina in Upstate New York USA moving to Portugal
Thanks for answering our question friend! 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Oh how I miss your beautiful, tranquil, full of love home with my gorgeous grandbabies.. I truly loved watching this thank you xx
We all sending you lots of love and hugs Mum, miss you! ❤️❤️❤️
I order lady bugs every year! You can order specific worms too. I love soaker hoses everywhere. Easy an cheap. Philly tubing2 with connectors. Slow drip for all plantings. Pollinators, grapes, tree plantings. Not expensive an u guys can do it. Good luck. As u go you will discover an get more water.
That is amazing Christina! Something to look at for sure. Thanks so much for watching friend 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
Be brave, think big, explore. 🤗
Your newly planted trees would love a bucket of water each a week until the rains come.
Thanks for watching Marien! 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
You can use a large (deep) pot under the end of your gutter to catch rainwater. I have two and the plants in the garden love the rainwater!❤
A chain from the gutter into a large container also channels it in the right direction
Lovely idea Joy! Thanks for sharing 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡
🌱🌱🌱Seeing the dirt on your face even before John said something, made me smile!!🥰🥰
We are so glad we could put a smile on your face Jaime! Thanks so much for watching 🪴🪻👩🏼🌾❤️🙏🏼🇵🇹🏡