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Dealing With Extreme Heat Off Grid – Homesteading Portugal – Weekly Vlog (S2E9)

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Dealing With Extreme Heat Off Grid  –  Homesteading Portugal – Weekly Vlog (S2E9)

Living off grid and homesteading in droughts or extreme heat adds a lot of complications. How do you get and manage your water? Do you have enough water? Staying cool and maintaining work levels when its over 40 degrees? All part of the OFF GRID CHALLENGE!

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  1. Don't forget to smash the like button as if it is going out of fashion and subscribe everyone! Hat's off to you Dom for getting all of the video done and all your daily tasks whilst still looking after Missy and Rosie. Please wish them the very best and a speedy recovery from us. We have spent a fortune avoiding the heat and off gridding is certainly not cheap but ultimately very satisfying. Well done Dom!

  2. Lovely to see the Cat swimming reminds me of an old cat we used to have! it would come and walk with the dogs! people always would comment! can i just ask why all you animals are on leads?… they won't go far! they know who feeds them!.. they trust you by now!.. like i say our cat would walk with dogs, none of them had a lead.. but each to their own! and where are they going to go?… love the show guys and please don't take this a negative! it's just me! im used to animals running freely.. stay safe guys and hope all feel better soon..

  3. Hoping that Missy and Rosie are getting better, if not fully recovered by now. You need to be careful, Dom: heat exhaustion can be a terrible thing. Best of luck to the lot of you. The Wildlands looks (look?) wonderful and you've done a fantastic job so far in such a short space of time. We really love the videos: entertaining and informative. Kudos to all.

  4. I can imagine how hard it must be to dig holes to plant trees there, so I’m looking at those badger holes and wondering if you could take advantage of them to plant something in them during cooler weather?

  5. I hope the girls are all better. Never fun to be sick. Your garden or nursery is looking so beautiful! The variety is incredible. Is there anyway you can automate some of your watering? It saves time and water as I am sure you know. As others mentioned, a mulch around the plants helps so much . This summer I've started using shade cloth as our temps are getting higher. Just my two cents. I look forward to seeing more of your wildlands. Thanks for sharing. See you next time.

  6. You have a lovely garden (new subscriber – hi)
    I'm not sure if it will help but the nursery we buy our plants from have white Cooleroo shade net over their plants. It doesn't effect the quality of light, it just cool it down enough for the plants to grow better. The temperature here in summer are sometimes 44°/45°
    (Its not solid netting)

  7. I don't always comment but I do often watch your videos, and just wanted to say you are doing great and achieving such a lot! Thank you for showing us what you're doing with your water. Looks like you are well prepared for summer and hope the well holds out for you over the coming months! It is true, it is a learning experience seeing how much water the garden will consume. One thing I've found is that a REALLY deep mulch layer of straw really does wonders. About a foot deep, if you can manage it. The beds where I've done that really hold their moisture well even on the hottest days. But not always easy to achieve, the price of straw is twice the price it was last year here, so it can get pretty costly…

  8. Hi, coming from a country that can get very hot in the summer, I can imagine how the heat must be effecting you. Seems a pity that you could not put a roof on the ruin, and a wooden floor to cover the existing uneven one. With the lovely thick walls, I can imagine how cool it would be in summer and keep the cold out in winter. And adding a large wooden room onto the front of the ruin with glass sliding doors, would give enough room for a practical tiny home.

  9. Hi Guys, Love your videos. A lot of bars/restaurants/homes in Turkey/Morocco use a simple garden misting system around a frame/pergola to help people keep cool, uses minimal water and easy to set up, also not very expensive either. Just some small tubing, connectors, and misters. Brass misters are best. Theres lots of videos on youtube, heres an example. Good Luck 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgd36U0Wyc

  10. Really sorry to hear Rosie and Missy have been so poorly 🤒!! Hope they’re better soon, give them our love. Meantime try not to over do it mate- we know how difficult it can be. 🙏👍😊

  11. Always hot here in Queensland in summer with high humidity even winter 23 deg C today in Brizzy but wont swap it for anywhere in the word ,keep hydrated thats the answer to the heat !

  12. Sorry to hear the girls are not well hope they recover fairly soon,surprising how quick that bracken grows need a small dozer to scrap the surface to try and get rid of the roots.

  13. Sorry to say but you waste a lot of water by overhead watering and spraying around the pots. I recommend subsoil watering for the raised beds. There are many ways to do it, but I dug in 3 inch plastic pots ballasted with a few pebbles. Seedlings in my GH are sitting on a tray and I give water on the tray. In the GH I also have a simple guttering system: old waterbed liner, raised at the edges with bricks. Not only less water needed, but also less weeds. It's weird, but water can move sideways and upwards by capillary action, no petrol needed.
    Hope every1 recovers well. I was glad to have reduced watering setup when your hot air reached into Holland for only 2 days, while I am revovering from Covid. Dang, had all the shots, avoided a lot of ppl during 2 yrs, but caught it at a funeral.

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