
It’s Autumn in the veg garden and it’s time for a tidy up and a refresh of the beds ahead of some winter seed sowing and planting. We’ve got a lot growing already but we’ve got some garden chores to do as we prepare for the winter.
Join us for a selection of gardening bits and pieces and a trip to one of our favourite garden centres here in Portugal.
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HELLO KYLIE & GUY…YOUR METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL HAS BROUGHT YOU NOT ONLY A BOUNTY, BUT, TAUGHT MANY WHO VIEW SKILLS THAT THEY CAN USE IN THEIR OWN SITUATIONS…YOU HAVE, ESSENTIALLY, BECOME TEACHERS OF AGRICULTURE…AS OTHERS HAVE STATED, IT IS A BLESSING TO BE IN A PLACE THAT YOU CAN GROW A GARDEN YEAR ROUND…THANKYOU FOR SHARING ALL THE THINGS YOU HAVE LEARNED BY TRIAL & ERROR, MUCH APPRECIATED…🙏🏻;)
Hello to you both. In Australia as you may know we use sugar cane mulch for between gardens for walkways !!!
In the winter months i cut back my pepper and chilli plants. so they start producing new side shoot for next year crop. and this is my third year at doing this method and its working well. i just cover the plants and keep a watch over them i cover them with fleece to add a bit of warmth
Use a pencil rather than marker – marker sun bleaches & washes off with the rain. Permanent marker included.
Yes Kylie, bit slow on the "byeee". Love watching your stuff. I'm keen to see what you do with the "couves" and what your take on it will be. Love your stuff.
Do you even have winter where you are? Winter sowing in 22deg. C is hardly winter LOL.
I"ve been following you for a while now, being amazed on how you do this project. Today I was amazed about your great Portuguese accent. Never heard you speak Portuguese
Hello guys 🙂 where do you buy your compost? I too do not have a great home made compost, so i would like to balance it out. Thank you in advance 🙂
About the labels:
1. Brócolo roxo (not sure about this one)
2. Brócolo
3. Couve-flor
4. Couve galega
5. Couve roxa
6. Couve coração
7. Alho francês
8. Cebola roxa
9. Pak-choi
10. Feijão-fava
11. Rúcula
12. Alface
13. Espinafre
14. Pimento
15. Acelga
16. Cenoura
I hope it helps you! You are doing great especially considering how complicated Portuguese can be.
Hi, your garden looks so lovely and good organisation, you are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this tips.
You can sow leeks in clusters of 3. I pull the larger ones when still small and use in lieu of spring onions.
You made a couple mistakes there writhing in Português 😂
I love your videos. You explain things very well and have many great ideas. They’re also an inspiration and a roadmap for smaller channels like myself to want to continue and create better content to grow like your channel. Thanks again -OMG
The garden looks great!
In my experience (limited to growing garlic in the Netherlands) supermarket garlic grows just fine when you plant it. You may indeed have to fill it in the fridge first as Portugal has less for days than the Netherlands does.
You have sieve the soil almost to sand texture otherwise they don't grow straight or even no straight ..good luck !!!.
Carrots are so difficult ! I gave up on them.. never grow propertly
Just a heads up peppers are perennials in some zones, I am in Northern California zone 10a which I believe is similar to your climate and I grow my pepper plants as such and get great yields year over year. You may want to give it a try. Love your videos very informative and inspiring.
Envious that you are able to plant anything this time of year. And the variety and just the abundance available is fabulous! ❄️🇨🇦❄️ Enjoy 👍🏻
Watering system is a bit intense, pipes everywhere. Home made Olla clay pots sunk in the ground every so often and using capillary action into the soil means pots only filled with water once a fortnight….irrigation sorted.
Your gardens are so neat and beautiful
nice garden!
Have you thought of doing any hanging gardens with a watering system that way you could use the vertical for lettuces or strawberries or herbs and then have the alliums and the root vegetables in the ground
Thank you, Kylie and Guy. Your videos are always full of good information❤️❤️
Hello.Dont take out the peppers .Peppers are not anual plant but produce for 2 or 3 years..
Loved your portuguese! Your accent is very very good!
Just a little correction, FYI:
Couve roxa (not roxo), couve is feminin, like cebola, despite not ending in an "A". The words ending in "E" are very tricky, some are male, some are female, there's no rule…
Francês only has one accent (you got it right the first time, lol), the "hat". The "Ç" can only come before an "A" or an "O", never before a "E". Because the regular "C" before an A or O sounds like a "K", so you need to use the "Ç" to sound like "SS", instead of "K". A normal "C" before an "E" always sounds like "SS".
And lastly Coração, does not have an "U" in it. (some portuguese people make that mistake as well, don't worry 🙂 )
I'm very proud of you! Your Portuguese has come a long way, and I can't believe you can actually write quite accurately.
Oh, Pimentos and Pimentas…. both exist… Usually we use pimentAs to refer to spices, like black, white, green, etc, peppers. And pimentOs to like bell peppers, padón peppers…
I guess pimenta/s is for the ones you grind and use as a spice, and pimento/s to the ones you can actually eat the flesh.
Keep it on! Love your channel!
I tried those same labels and they completely faded off…waste of $
Fantastic garden progress!!! I learn so much from your channel. My winter garden consists of 3-5 feet of snow and ice!!! So my fall gardening consists of planting trees and bulbs. The rest of my gardening continues in the Spring. I start plants/seedlings inside in mid-March. Plants go outside end of May/early June. Do you plant rainbow chard??? It is so pretty!!! I am planning to build a garden cage totally wrapped in fine wire caging to prevent critters from raiding my food sources!!! I am thinking of attaching a greenhouse/garden shed to the end of my garden cage. I love how full and rich your gardens look!!! I have plenty of compost made from my forest but I also add compost from the garden shop for the same reasons as you. 😁❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶👍👍👍👏👏👏🍂🍁🇨🇦
You are never going to have "good" compost until you get a sufficient supply of manure.
Did you do drip irrigation or are there nozzles on the lines? Curious about what you found works well for certain areas? How often do you water? Or I mean is it on a timer? Wondering if the groupings depend on the watering timers?
Your Portuguese is very good 👍👍👍
Vegetables rule!!
dont know much about gardening….but that must be hard on your back..would it be better if you had all raise beds…keep up the good work.🫑🌶🥒🥬🥦