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What Did You Do BEFORE? – ASK #003

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What Did You Do BEFORE? – ASK #003

What did we do for a living before moving to Portugal? Were we architects? Did we work in the building trade? What do we do for work? Do we still have jobs? How did our past careers help us with what we do now? All this and more will be answered in this video.

Plus, stick around at the end for a bit of a sneak peek at what’s growing in the summer garden and for a bit of cucumber pruning.

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39 COMMENTS

  1. I wonder if you two get into fights often. I know I would get into fights with my partner a lot doing a project of that scale. How do you resolve issues when they come up? Do you always find a consensus when you're planning?

  2. Love your journey! Greetings from Finland. We moved here in February and bought an old farm house. But gardening here is a bit more challenging. Must get the hang of it .

  3. I'm an IT bod as well though in a different area. Problem solving is my thing too. I enjoy working with technology, like big challenges and project management but dislike a lot of things about the way the industry has progressed. It's chewed me up and spat me out 😁 I've become too distasteful for it 😄

  4. Hi questions for your next Q&A 1: why did you destroy your pink bathroom before it was absolutlely necessary? you could be using an indoor bathroom all this time. 2: why are you choosing to live (kitchen, livingroom) in the catacombs of the house instead of making your bedroom down there and living in the sunny, happy, larger parts of the house, upstairs?

  5. Just curious.. have you ever thought of having a small bamboo patch to grow your own garden stakes? I’m thinking a non invasive variety of course.
    Cheers from Oz🇦🇺🌸🌸

  6. Don’t get rid of the marigolds! Also, tomatoes love banana skins strewn around their base. Organic and “ natural” also cheaper than bought chemical fertilizers! Same applies to roses. They really love banana skins. I throw them into an earthenware pot, let them go completely black and hard and then cut them into half to one inch (sorry replanted Cheshireman in USA where they haven’t gone metric – YET) pieces for use as needed – typically a new application every month or so. If you prune your tomatoes to get rid of the new growth between stem and existing branch the plant will climb and have good sized fruit at every side branch. It will also grow up your string and then along the horizontal supports. Typically they will reach fourteen or more feet in total length. Like what you’re doing and hope my tips help if you didn’t already know them

  7. I'm very curious how you preserve your food. There are only two of you and you have a huge amount of food in your garden. Are you freezing any of it? Or mostly canning and pickling?

  8. We can "see" that you are happy here with us, and you love what your are creating together !! I wish I could know how to film and edit as you do. I love the idea that you are learning and accurating your skills, and at the same time, teach the DIY as well as motivating people to do things, and to change life, no matter how old they are. For that I do love you both. 😉👌💚💖

  9. I have an important question. Where is the beautiful feline that accompany them on a daily basis? I probably didn't see him in the videos due to lack of attention or something. But that's it, where's that fluffy cat?

  10. How much do you spend on food each month at the supermarket vs how much you would have spent had you not done this magnificent growing your own stuff stuff? 10/10 by the way.

  11. No wonder, no wonder. You have the right combination of geeky, organised, project-minded, problem-solving, training-minded, with a good dollop of Benny Hill humour, plus you have a nice sense of timing, and are both at ease and just being yourselves in front of the camera/ mike. Makes it always engaging to watch, and inspirational in a practical sort of way. Though I am not a grafter like you both, so would definitely aim to do a whole lower key kind of thing.
    Everyone commenting on the garden is right. It had great bones, but you have really already made something truly special of it, not to mention your plants look well loved.
    The other YouTube gardener I really enjoy watching is Eugenia on Modern House Cabin, who has also created a beautiful and productive little oasis in just over a year in the Alentejo, plus she and her partner Pepe are building steel-framed structures from scratch.

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