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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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You can take the seeds out of the lemons. Soak them, peel the skin and plant them. You can do that with almost all fruitplants. You have the perfect climate there for doing that! I wish I could give you some of my seeds, plants, flowers, herbs and veggies. Don't know if I can send some by post?
Salad looked top notch, garden is coming on keep up your good work ! 👍👍👍
The hoopoe was gorgeous!
Your garden is striving, good job!
Is there anything Nick can’t do?? What a great friend to have!
Citrus are gross feeders with shallow roots around the base. Feed fortnightly, mulch to protect the roots and paint the trunks white with acrylic paint to reflect the harsh summer heat.❤️✨
When you find greenfly on Broad beens just wash the off with the hose ir you cut the top off it will branch out, they need a lot of Qatar and feeding. If you pick them small boil them in the skins they are edible and texture and taste same as the bean itself, this only works when they are young ad too old they go stringy. This is what they do in Greece we have similar climate but very high winds which burn the plants
I am from Portugal and I've never seen a squirrel there! I didn't think there were any in the country. Mind blown!
I think by looking at your garden and your planting you need to feed everything and water much more everything is small and weak. Just because you're planting into the ground don't assume that it is (good) soil.
It always need a lot of care more than you think.
What a beautiful salad Carissa, the colours are fantastic!! Do you just use olive oil as a dressing? I mainly make vinaigrettes, when adding seeds to our salads I grind linseed (in the coffee grinder) then add pumpkin and sunflower seeds, it gives the salad a lovely nutty flavour!! We love watching Frankie help dig the holes when your planting 😍😍
Please do a full video on all the edible plants, flowers, leaves etc and what we can do with them
Bom dia rsrs adorei 👏👏👏👏🥰
Love to see the Hoopoe, still one on my list to tick off! Great job with the bees! That salad looks so beautiful ❤️
Thank you for showing yor salad mix, love it, see you in the next one
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That was a great looking salad! I'm very jealous of that.
It appeared that the new piece of land has a wider variety of wild flowers from the background to the grape pruning ; that had to be worth investigation and preservation. Carissa The Brave's botany books (internet?) will pay dividends
Hello iwan and Carissa!
I am for a few days in Penamacor where I just inherited som land. If you want and if I find the time, I could maybe take the time to go show you how to work with the picota 🙂…. it would be a pleasure, as I quite like you guys, Nick and his wife and your projects🙂….
You might have to pick us up in the closest village where the bus goes to, though….
Let me know if you'd like that, if convenient for you? …. 🙂
THIS VID WAS WONDERFUL AND PEACEFUL WITH ALL THE SOUNDS TOO….
I'm excited about your trees trying to survive !! I'm not an expert but maybe you can research. I think you shouldn't let it fruit.. Let it's energy build the tree this year. (& I didn't notice but the bad leaves you remove don't drop near the tree)
Love seeing your Garden and what I use for pest control is crushed fresh garlic, dish soap and water, much kinder on plants and put on at night so the sun doesn't cook your plant's. You guys should get a bee hive of your own to have your own beautiful pollinators on your little farm ❤🌞🐝
That salad looked too beautiful to consume! Can’t wait to see the kitchen walls; it’s already looking so nice!