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Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi
Carissa, Iwan & Frankie decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month they were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call their new home. We picked up Albi the cat along the way. Subscribe to follow our journey as we turn an old stone barn into our home, and learn the ropes of looking after a piece of land to make an abundant garden and one day, our very own winery.
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Thank you for the stonework !! I LOVE seeing it 💕
Watched loads of your videos now, probably missed it, where abouts are you in Portugal?
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I think your soil needs a lot of building to get better yield on veg, raised no dig beds would also be easier in terms of soil build, see what @ecoandbeyond did with there’s when they started, seeming very healthy & productive
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Check out Charles Dowding's No Dig YT channel.
How lovely growing your own food.
Veges grown from left over stems. Add some soil slowly to the plants after taking root. After a couple more weeks root gtrowth plant in the permanent spot. Putting them straight from water to soil will put them into shock & they will die.
Keep adding wood chips. The more you add the better the soil condition will become year by year. Easier to dig & easier to pull weeds. And less weeds. And less water needed for better results.
I think its best if your seed stash wasn't sitting in the sun. But thats a nice collection you have!!!
Happy Life with Gardens, Nature beauty ,Fruit Trees,Pets,..
Mwynhewch Cymru. ❤️❤️❤️
Great garden review..well done.
👋to Wales…🐑⛰☔
I love see'ing your garden, I have a small garden and it brings me so much joy, I also propagate Avacados and you'll find that if you just put the seed straight in soil in a pot and keep well watered, Avacados do not like their roots disturbed at all so growing them in a glass with water can stress them out when re planting. Mine grow much stronger and quicker in soil from seed but still keep them inside in the sun, once you have a few leaves, you need to keep turning them so they strengthen on all sides toward the sun, once they are about 18 months old they will need a slow intergration to the outside until they have a decent size trunk then they can be planted outside, not in frost prone area's tho. I live in South Australia so very similar conditions, Good Luck with it all ❤
I love seeing your cats and dog in the videos
Pretty sure all your plants in the beds (1st half of the video) need more regular watering and all your problems will be solved. I know, I know – easier said than done, life is busy etc.
I meant to mention with last week's video about plastic bottle greenhouses – very cheap if not free. Look on YouTube for 'plastic bottle greenhouse' or have a look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF7Odl877d4 You just need to find a hundred plastic bottles, or more, for nothing …
Nice to see that Wrexham Town beat Chesterfield midweek – that will please a few people
Always look forward to your vlogs, I hope you have a great time in Wales, I watched Nick and Andrea’s latest vlog and Frankie had a muddy nose🤣that dog loves digging
Egg shells ( now you have chickens) to put around veggies as a deterrent for caterpillars and slugs. i mean to say crushed egg shells. Beer pots for slugs, sometimes peeing on Citrus is good. In our garden in New Zealand I get my Butler (Yorkshire born husband) to oblige on my citrus. Lol. Haven’t seen New Zealand for over 2 years now 😭😭😭😭. Hopefully going in July and I will see my children again – 2 years is too long.
Safe & happy trip. Thanks for sharing bc i'm virtually gardening with you (we have gophers and moles/voles that eat up produce, so we never bothered trying to grow food, as much as we'd like to; and our soil doesn't get much sun, either, bah). 😉💖
A friend who weeds is a friend indeed! Have a lovely holiday and see you next time! 😉😊
I think spinach is wind sensitive as well as needing water, cabbages need to be planted deeper and firmly into the soil. Sage can be pruned, not sure what time of year though.
It’s coming along. Good for you. Have a safe trip.
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Indiginous micro organisms(IMO) for the soil look at jadam farming
I am saddened that you fast forwarded that segment of you and your friend weeding. I dislike weeding so much and would have liked seeing you weed at a normal pace. As for that Bak Choi , I like to grow the purple leafed one from seed and normally wait till the weather is not to hot before putting it outside as I do have a few bugs that like it. I sometime spray it with a mix of vinegar & soap liquid so the bugs, butterflies don't lay there eggs on it. Your have a great spot and are doing wonderful with your place, Thank you for sharing your journey. After a few years of putting compost on your garden beds and maybe cardboard and wood chips / mulch on your garden walk ways ( cuts down on weeding and mowing)every thing will come together. Remember one thing, "Your job is to grow Soil" without turning it over all the time, Plants and flowers will come in time and your place will bloom all year round.
A foolproof way to grow avos (I get 100% success rate) is to wrap the seed in wet kitchen towel and then put it in a ziploc bag in a dark cupboard. Forget about it for a few weeks and you'll have an ace seedling to plant!
The garden looks promising!
MINT….do you think your mint would be happier over where your land is a bit boggy? I used to have the best luck planting mint around my water faucet…sometimes it got a bit invasive. 😵💫
Hope you have a good harvest this year.. maybe you can cover seed/seedlings/young plants with jute to help them along? Plant more seeds than you going to need.. better to have them taken out and gift to others than risking missing the season because the few didn't make it..success
Absolutely awesome video guys, stop showing how well the garden is going, Andrea is keeping on at me😂😂
I'm not 100% sure but I think you should keep your seed box in shade… keeping it cool as possible OR with as little temperature fluxuation as possible will keep your seeds viable for as long as possible
Garden looking great.
What are you using as fertilizer? It looks like your soil is poor. Tilling your soil is important as well if you add some organic manure or fertilizer when you till your soil. It will aerate your soil and give them some nutrients. If your soil is too dense your root system can't develop well.