Abundant Harvest in our Wildlife Friendly Garden in Portugal
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Join us in the garden as we harvest and sow. The Stone House Renovation continues and we take time to enjoy one of the reasons why we moved to Portugal.
We're Meraid and Dan. We moved to Portugal in December 2020 and have spent our best time establishing a apollinator freindly garden while producing lots of veggies. This year we started our historic stone house renovation and even while the rebuild is going on, we continue to create more space for wildlife, you and us to enjoy.
Dan has a full time job and I create the videos that we truly hope you enjoy.
Meraid and Dan
I love the 'wildness' of your garden. Absolutely beautiful 😍 🤩 👌
Thank you so much 😊
What a fantastic harvest after all your hard work. Fingers crossed for the sunflowers, I hope the bird seed doesn’t result in a crop of birds! Another great video. Pauline
It's always worth trying these things.
Could watch you all day…just love your garden, so gorgeous and productive too!!! 🥰🥰🌻🌻❤️❤️
Thanks so much 😊
Watching the two of you in your garden is pure pleasure!❤ Such a place has been a lifelong dream of mine, but small spaces only have been my lot. Enjoy every minute. I shall be content with my vicarious joy as I share your time each week 🥔🍆🥦😍
Our pleasure to share it too. Thank you.
The old olive tree trunk is like a piece of art. Love your veggie garden
It really is. Thank you.
Bonjours de Paris,
Nous ne parlons pas anglais, mais nous aimons beaucoup regarder revivre, grace a vous, une vieille maison et la terre qui l'antoure.
C'est tres emouvent.
Jean Paul et Marie.
Merci beaucoup 😊
Such a stunning garden and so peaceful
It's a really pleasant place to be. It is peaceful when the builders are finished up for the day.
where are you? It's been 8 days since your last video. waaaaaa.......
About Garlic in Canada we Put it Down like the tulips in October Then the ground freezes up and in April it comes out nicely
Well, that’s what’s happening around the globe: one regions “enjoying” non-stop rain, others are toasted. 😅 But… you have such a beautiful garden. Congratulations on the first potato harvest.
It's our 3rd harvest here in Portugal, and the first of this year.
Fresh potatoes. YUM!
Really good this year
Such a ridiculous thing. Here in Central Russia potatoes are being planted only this week😅because of continuous cold weather. Normally, we do that in the beginning of May. Finally, summer has come🎉we had such a freezing spring 25 years ago they say.
I’ve got one question: why don’t you use a shovel to pick potatoes?
P.S. What a beautiful garden you’ve got!❤
Oh wow!
Very pretty calming garden to be in, I just love it and can see what the attraction is to living there..
The renovation is going along nicely, everyone seems happy 😊
My dad always harvested with a wide pronged fork, certainly occasionally a potato would be spiked, but it got the deep ones. He always banked his potatoes high and I can remember as a child, his chitting and splitting the biggest ones. Your garden is so lush.
I have family about an hour from Coimbra and this year most of the time we faced timed each other it was rainy but they have no regrets leaving North Wales a year ago for Portugal.
Unlike yourselves they’re not growers but are in the process of converting an old adega (wine cellar) into an Airbnb, just waiting for the license from the câmara so they can open. Love your videos.
Thank you
Impressive potato harvest. They look lovely. Your gardens make me so happy. I could gladly spend hours just admiring them. We have had a lot of rain this spring in Central Italy.
Now it's over 30C
Wow! Those potatoes!!!! Fabulous :) I just love your garden
Thank you so much 😊
Garlic ,Patatos, Cebolas, need kind of slowly land and more. AREIOSA. but you have to water more,
It a marvelous garden you made! I'm perhaps visiting a 3h and 500 acres land in France near Toulouse I hope succeeding the negociation ! It's been raining as in Portugal ...
Have a great visit.
That must be the most diverse, beautiful and productive garden in Portugal. Love your content.
Will you show us how you preserve all the harvest?!
Thanks for sharing, I’m always waiting for the next video.
We'll do another video about that later, Thank you for your suggestion.
I've had same issue of rust on my garlic this year. In UK, South West in Bournemouth. Last year planted and harvested 50 pretty decent bulbs, end of year planted 100 and all were doing fantastic till we had a long spell of rain then the rust hit, removed all of the infected leaves and stems then sprayed with a watered down milk evolution to try to prevent and further spread. It's looking like it was too late in catching it and will probably lose about 75% some of which I might be able to plant elsewhere for next year. If you re plant the immature bulblets they will grow but you won't develop large garlic bulbs however plenty of garlic green for in stir fries.
Thank you and good luck.
Another heart warming video. Lovely to see everything coming along so well. You guys seem to have bucket loads of energy, pardon the pun. Good luck going forward with the house, it's amazing to see how far your love and hard work has got you. Can't wait for the next installment ❤
Thank you so much!
Were you happy with the in ground potato harvest this season compared to last where they were planted under straw? That, being with the number of chits that you planted this year. You may be able to start a second crop by planting some in 5 gallon buckets or pots in the shade of trees and if you will have enough water. Ten grow bags I did last April gave me enough of a crop to get me to the end of Jan. The few tiny leftovers I planted in three grow bags in Feb, put them in a shed. They came out the first part of April and the plants now have blossom which means there should be potatoes ready to harvest. It would be worth testing a few in pots with all that lovely compost that you
have. All that rain has certainly made your garden beautiful even if the garlic did not like the wet
Thank you
Ha! There you are, I missed you 🙂 I always forget to mention that I love you are re-using these old field baskets. They are lovely. Have you thought of using worms in your garden patches? Earthworms can turn clay into nice fertile soil and red worms in your compost bins can then also be transfer with the compost into the gardens. And look at all the life, butterfly, little ants, bees, slugs even!
That is a lot of potatoes. Now, not sure how it is in your neck of the wood but here in Canada and USA sun flower seeds (as many other products) are made sterile with pesticide so you cannot use them for planting anymore (charming isn't it?). If you go to organic growers the seeds from their harvest can be used. It will be interesting to see what happens with yours.
We have eathworms and compost worms already and the soil is getting better each year as you say. More and more life is coming into the garden.
Actually, it can be good to leave the potatoes in the soil even after the greenery is done. It can help them to firm up. “For storage potatoes, wait until the plants wither and turn brown, and then leave them in the soil for a further 3 weeks as their skins firm up. Harvest them for storage if there’s a threat of very cold or very wet weather.” West Coast Seeds (west coast of Canada, but the principle is universal)
Thank you
Your filming skills are getting awesome! I loved the shot through those white flower umbels against the blue sky. What I particularly like is how you mix your shots with wide versus close, just the way we look at a garden and how you tell your story. Very natural. Thank you for an inspiring visit to your garden. Saludos desde Asturias.
Thank you very much. The white umbel is Ammi majus.
@@NearbyVeggies, thank you! I didn't know what it was and it's very pretty.
love the music too👍
Thank you
Contente de vous retrouver ! Et merci pour le soin que vous apportez a vos vidéos, belle musique, belles images de fleurs 🌻🌻
Merci beaucoup
🇧🇷🌄🤩 Lindo jardim todo colorido, AMEI a variedade na produção dos alimentos da Quinta. Parabéns, o trabalho é grande; más, é gratificante e saudável. A reforma da casa tá empolgante, força, vai ficar lindo.
Obrigada
Great and beautiful video! I love the orange poppies. You both work really hard and it pays off so well. I don't have my garden any more, so it's nice to live vicariously in this case. It's always a wonderful feeling to harvest what one grows. You're both a testament to lifelong physical work and eating lots of veg. Can't wait to see the changes in your house. I hope you have a great week.
Thank you so much!
Some interesting experiments! Good luck with both!
Dear Meraid, dear Dan, thanks to all your hard work you have created a wonderful garden, the potato harvest is super good, even if the garlic leaves something to be desired, you both have green fingers, Mermaid it may be that with all the work lost weight, I think so. Looks good on you too, I wish you both continued strength and joy in everything, whether gardening or building a house. Kind regards, Elke Weiß
Many thanks
You ended up with a fair amount of potatoes in the end 😊. Well done your hard work has paid off so beautiful watching what you share with your channel.
Yes! Thank you!
😂Yes. Meriad's citizenship's safe this year!😉
those white flowers against the blue sky at 1‘54 are so beautiful! What are they: ammi majus, carrot or? It’s a weird gardening year also here in the north of Germany: the forever lasting winter, then the ants plague, now the invasion of snails and slugs. About perennial garlic: I might have accidentally grown one. planted it i think in june 2022 in a raised bed, no clue that was the exact wrong time 😂. But: it’s still growing, getting bigger and bigger. Don’t dare to pick it up. Btw: your garden is a paradise!
It is indeed Ammi majus. Thanks for sharing your garlic experience.
Hello! Great to see this time you got the potatoes right (and your Irish citizenship back?). The secret, in Portugal, is patience. The land is fertile, and if you give it the time and care it needs, it 'll be plentyful! Happy to see you're doing both well, Take care and keep up the good work !
ps If butterflies and birds come, it means the land /Earth, is happy!
Sorry for my bad English.
Hooray! Success! Thanks, Pedro.
Fantastic work, your garden is looking great Mr & Mrs Veggie.
Thank you kindly.
Wow potatoes and butter, cant beat the early crop ❤
Spuds butter and salt. Heavenly 😊
Yum
Welcome back! The garden is wonderful! Rain is better than no rain.
Thank you
Love your garden .Reminds me of my Dad ,he had two allotments and a large garden.We were vegetarian before it became popular!I'm talking about the 1930s!I was the youngest of our family -- born in 1935 and still keeping going even though after an accident not able to walk.Not feeling sorry for myself ,just wishing I was able to garden and cook my too favourite activities. I love your videos--thanks so much.Tess in Britain.😊
Thanks so much. I eat everything, only Dan is a vegetarian and he makes lovely meals with our veggies.
You are so cute together... such a lovely grocery-garden. Appreciate its not all in clean rows. Has such a natural feel to it.
"Clean rows" are going away from most gardens, it's better for the plants to mix in other things, flowers especially for the insects.
The umbrell flowers are especially good.
Thank you
SLOWPY inclinada.
Thank you
Good morning, guys. Can't believe I'm first to comment. OK, time now for me to sit back with a coffee and enjoy this episode. ❤
Enjoy!
The weather is unpredictable due to solar flares, with unstable geo-magnetics
Video calmo. A música óptima
Thank you
I missed you guys, but I am happy that you took some rest.
Love the straw hat at the end.
Thank you
The bird seed Sun Flowers, is fabulous 😁
I did exactly the same after discovering how few seed you got in a packet and expensive 😏
Fair play to you 👍🏻
Good luck 🍀
Wonderful! The've already germinated.
@@NearbyVeggies They're incredibly quick, 😮
Good luck🍀
Absolutely beautyful garden
Thanks for visiting
I am in awe of your magnificent garden. The hours of work involved is incredible. Kudos to you both🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦
Thank you so much!
Eline Emeğine Sağlık Bu Güzel Vlog Ve Video İçin Kolay Gelsin Hayırlı İşler Bol Bereketli Kazançların Olsun👍👍👍👍
Thank you 😊
As batatas arrancam-se com uma enxada.
Finally I figured out WHO your hubby sounds like!!! Its Alfred Hitchcock!!! OMG! He sounds just like him!!!😮
I’ve watched some of his movies but I’ll have to check what he sounds like 👍
I love seeing all those potatoes! I have no soil to grow in, I either have to build or buy raised beds. On a very limited fixed income it will be a few years before I have a bed for potatoes but believe you me I will have it! I may just ave a couple grow bags next year though!
Love seeing your beautiful grade and the progress on your house so exciting ❤
You can do it
Maravillosas esas verduras y las manos que la plantan..... felicitaciones!!!. Saludo cordial.
Gracias
Nice harvest. planting material, turnip, cauliflower, leek
Thank you
Have you consider creating terra preta with all vegetable waste and other organic materials from your garden and kitchen?
Absolutely. We already do 👍
Welcome back! Great to see how the garden is getting on, and such a plentiful harvest of potatoes! Were they your greengages in the tree ready to be picked? They looked amazing! 💚🌿💚🍀💚
They are an early red plum. The greengages are only in the ground a few months.
Amazing life sharing thank you
Thank you too
So beautifull nature Garden ❤ i love what you doing
Thank you
it doesn’t look like you hilled your potatoes. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what I’m seeing?
That's true. We covered them lightly once the started growing.
I hope you give your workers some of your abundant vegetables
It's interesting that you suggest that because we have always offered some of our harvests to Portuguese friends and neighbours but they usually decline. The reason is because they all have their own farms or gardens to grow food for themselves. One of the builders has 120 sheep to look after as well. Sometimes, they eat an orange or two from the tree if they feel a bit peckish.
Oh my goodness , hello lovely people ❤
Hello 😊
Walnut is a beautiful wood but very prone to wood boring beetles. Make sure you paint it with a preservative.
Thank you
Actually I've been watching several Portugal off grid migration from people who are from other parts of Europe. However, you guys are the best in planning, and executing your plans for crops which will give you harvest all around the year, long term, short term and immediate requirements. It's beautiful to look at all around your house 👌
At the same time you have planned very well for your future home 👍
Thank you
good engineers know how to plan😁
Your garden looks beautiful! You an amazing job with it!
Thank you so much 😊
Climate zone 8a (Switzerland) the average rain was almost double for most months. Lots of garlic (softneck) rost except those garden beds with insect netting... this really puzzles me.
Could be a coincidence or the covered beds get more air and drainage?
Hello, have a good day
👏👏👏👏 Qué verde!!! Qué bonito está todo!!!!
Obrigada
Aw lads ye need a spade to dig the spuds. This rootin with gloved hands won't do. Get a good Irish pike or spade Meraid. Garden looks amazing though...stunning flowers. How are your vines coming along? An Irish fan.
Vines are growing and we used a fork for some of the harvest.
hi im portuguese, giving some advise, plums, luquoat nespera, figs, kiwis, grow the best in portugal, also hot peppers malagueta.
Thank you. We are growing everything you said.
I grow sunflowers from bird seed. Mostly they appear springing up unplanned. So far they have not grown much taller than 4'. I have three planted this year and we will see how big they grow. Good luck yours grow nice and tall.
For us, the height is unimportant, it's only about gathering the seed. The ornamental and showy sunflowers have their place in our garden too (the ones the goldfinch birds love)
Las mimosas deben quitarle la corteza desse la mitad y el arbol se seca y no se reproduce contrario si lo cortan verde naceran mas de ese tronco. SALUDOS AMIGOS.
Gracias 👍
Baked potatoes with sour cream and chives!
Lovely
👍👍👍
Mmm I know years ago we were told that potatoes and sunflowers are incompatible. Fingers crossed yours are ok post potato harvest. 😊
That is true when grown together but the potatoes are no longer there and a bit of great news too - the sunflowers germinated 4 days later 😊
Can you add it to the subtitle in Turkish translation?
I love watching it, thank you.
You can turn on the subtitles (CC Setting) and choose the Turkish auto translate. Thank you for watching.
I would like to share some information your soil for potato is way too chunky I live in southeast USA we grow lots of potato you need to add some sand and run ( I use a tiller to break up and airaite it). Garlic is a perennial we leave in all year and it multiplies. Oh and for your voles a good cat will take care of that menace and a lot more too. Rats, squirrels,rabbits chipmunk and snakes. A good cat worth it's weight in gold.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, garden looks wonderful good work 👍😁.
Thank you
What an awesome food forest...enjoy the fruits of your hard labor
Thank you ☺️
Otro año deberías considerar poner en la parcela de ajos encima a dos metros unas placas de polipropileno traslúcido, evitando ese tal vez exceso de lluvias 🧄🌿🧄🌿🧄💛
Thank you
It's not like this, just with your hands, that you pull out the potatoes. Ask your neighbors and they will teach you
Our neighbours have a field of potatoes which will be ready in July
Maybe a stupid question but how do you process all your potatoes and how do you store them so they don’t sprout right away? Lovely garden.
Once the surface clay has dried, we put the potatoes in a sack and store them in the cool and dark. Also, we will probably eat those in a couple of months.
Hi, me again, i just watched real algarve living, on you tube, so his tie choice for the roof made me think of you and that you asked us about tile choice , so maybe look at what he just completed ❤
Cool, thanks!
Mr Allan Jnr would call Dan’s new blade ‘The Death Wheel’ I think 😂
It works well. I think Mr A Jnr would enjoy it.
Ya I noticed the garlic that I missed last year comes back even bigger I changed the location every year now it grows everywhere. lol but Canada has long winter which I hear helps the garlic who knows if it grows I eat it cheers.
Great to know. Thanks for sharing.
You Must dig with a fork to harvest potatoes. There will be some in deeper ground
We did use a fork. You must have missed that part and there was nothing deeper 😊
As always so interesting, could you tell me the name of the orange bushes please
I don't know the variety of the orange trees if that's what you mean, but the orange flowers which grow everywhere are californian poppies Eschscholzia californica. They might look like a bush because I have them on different levels to give the effect of height, but actually, they are a low growing annual that self seeds. Very beautiful and long flowering period.
Your garden is looking lovely. All the flowers and the other veggies look so healthy and fresh. We are now in the winter here in South Africa. So, not a lot to do in the garden.
Enjoy your rest time
Did I see lots of little artichokes going to seed? Do you trim, steam and marinate them?
The little ‘artichokes’ are actually cardoons with edible stems, and we also have artichokes which we cooked in this video Building Steps to the Stone House (Artichokes for Dinner)
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Is it my imagination, or have you both become more athletically built over the last year or so?
Imagination, but we’ll take it 😂
Sorry western pa, USA, we grew it one summer, lasted two years n we just sorta lost interest
Thank you. Good to know 👍
Lots of flowers everywhere. Mimosas are indeed invasive but I just love the smell when they flower, lots of pollen though.
It looks you'll have plenty of maracujás and ameixas this summer.
I hope you enjoyed you short break but I'm glad to have your videos back 😅😊
Bom dia, Samuel. We certainly have lots of passion fruits and plums on the way. 😊
what e beautyful garden..
Thank you
You need a pixfork maybe ?
We used a fork in the video (the fast bit)
Don’t you guys use knee pads .?poor knees!
Dan does. I rarely go on my knees.
Birdseed certainly will grow. That's why I bought roasted seed for the birds this year. Previously sunflowers were showing up almost anywhere the birds happened to drop the seed.
The potatoes look good, I didn't notice any flaws.
I'm not sure, but buckwheat may also grow with minimal water. It's a faster crop and if nothing else makes a decent "green mulch".
I'm in a temperate rainforest zone and planted garlic last autumn. We get more rain here than most of the UK and Ireland. I don't get rust.
What you might be able to do is gathers some of the cloves that look good, plant them now for an autumn harvest or leave them in until next year.
I grew mostly hard neck garlic, but some of the soft neck.
One thing, don't water it for at least a week before harvest, but you likely know that.
The roasted seed made me chuckle. Buckwheat doesn't grow too well in the summer for us but we do get it in at the end of summer for autumn ground cover. It doesn't make it to ripe seed however because the cold kills it.
What a lush garden you have now!
Thank you
Two weeks wait ! So worth it 😊
Thank you so much 😊
It's lovely to see you together in your potato-field with a great harvest. Here, in the North of the Netherlands, we have a lot of rain too, after a long and dark winter, the ground is cold. The reason is that 'they' block the sun for global warming and climate change. Well, the climate has changed now and we have build a greenhouse for our vegetables to grow. With electric lamps above the food, I hope we can harvest some. (no sun, no food) I saw you had a blue sky for a while, enjoy! With love.
Agora começa o calor e o tempo seco
Clear blue skies and sunshine now and getting hot and dry for the next few months.
What a beautiful garden
Thank you
Well done, it is beautiful.
Thank you very much!
What grow zone are you in
We're in Central Portugal roughly inbetween USDA Zones 9b and 10a
Welcome back😊
Thank you