Growing my own Cottage Garden
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Carissa, Iwan, Frankie & Albi
Our Story:
We are Carissa, Iwan & Frankie the sausage dog, and in 2020 decided one night over a bottle of wine that moving from North Wales to Portugal would be a good idea. Within a month we were on the road to Portugal to find the perfect piece of land to call home. We picked up Albi, Joao and Simao the cats along the way, as well as Diogo the podengo and a flock of chickens.
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It’s lovely to see the cats stealing the show again …..your lovely animals are therapy to the mind and soul …..very grateful that you include them in the videos ….thank you ❤❤❤
may be (understatement) to suggest as a 73 year old that Clarissa is the image of a female role model - which suggests no less for Iwan in a complimentary role. In whatever future I have, hopefully I will find a more flattering and popular way to describe this remarkable relationship. Thank you Iwan and Carissa for sharing your life in such a meaningful and relatable way. As we all know (for those who have attained it) the first lesson of maturity is recognizing that the young will reject the wisdom of their elders. Iwan and Carissa should expect no less but they are furthering a trajectory begun by many hugely motivated individuals and their hugely beneficial experiences, and their (I&C) sharing in social media may be an inestimable benefit for a lifestyle that has unlimited potential (however modest its inception) benefit for the future of the human race?
Wow Carolina, thank you for such a kind and thoughtful comment. 💛🌼🌱
When the squash overwhelm you, make zucchini bread and zucchini brownies.
I feel so spoilt, a midweek vegatable garden tour, it was brilliant. Your hard work is paying off Carissa, the garden is amazing xxxxx ❤❤❤❤❤❤
What can be better than growing your own food, keep up the good gardening.
I love that you gave us a midweek present thanks! I just noticed your new logo it made me smile.
Your garden is a joy, thanks for the tour😊 And sweet Albi free of the awful cone at last😃
What a lovely surprise on a Wednesday evening❤❤
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Great tour Carissa😊..being 'a strange kid ' turned you into an adventuresome and creative adult..💗 from me and MissT 🐈🐠🌺🦎🐓🇯🇲
Wonderfully calm video, as I sit listening to our very unseasonably heavy rain.....hoping my IBC's are full by the end of the downpour.
Hope you're both well, thank you 💕👍
Midweek video surprise! Love the new color Diogio and Frankie logo.
Thank you for a lovely peaceful tour. 😊
night watering may curtail evaporation but it can encourage rot and fungal growth as well as insects (according to Google)
Also, morning watering allows the plant to dry out in the day time which can be helpful in avoiding the above.
Oh, a sneak peek at the pallet home. 😉👍❤️
Thank you for the tour of your garden! Having two videos in one week is a real treat, especially when we get to see a part of your life that is so close to your heart♥️ I’m looking forward to the Saturday video so we can catch up on the progress you’ve made on the cabin build.
Lovely surprise, a Wednesday video, thank you.
Just what I needed. gardens. Thank you for the video. Fennel. When I roast and or cook brussel sprouts , I pepper fennel seeds over the sprouts. and the flavor is beautiful. Looking forward to next video. And kitty is not wearing his cone anymore. Bravo
Do you all eat meat? I’ve gone to just fish/vegs and I feel so much better. Been watching you all for a long time. Your patience and know how have turned your soil for gardens into something great. Keep planting asparagus every year so you don’t go without. Cold cooked beets make a good sandwich with sharp cheese added. Take care.❤
Happy to see you in the middle of the week. Thank you for the garden tour 😊, very lovely
Beautiful garden and so much growing
Love the way you named the plants and the animals 😁
My squash are growing very slow too
Thank you for sharing 😁
A beautiful garden visit, thankyou for sharing.
Bom dia! You make the best breakfast videos…enjoying your garden at 07:00 on a beautiful sunny morning in the Netherlands ☀️☕️😊
Thank you for the wonderful garden tour. I find you approach restful and almost therapeutic.
The sound tracks and music choices I would listen to as a meditative background
Congrats, you have worked a lot and it is thriving!!!
How lovely, a midweek visit to your lovely homestead.
Thanks for the garden surprise!
When all your hard work pays off into a harvest!! It makes it all worth while!!
It's looking sooooo beautiful and happy, Carissa! Thanks for taking us on a lovely tour- it was just divine:)
They way market gardeners often grow carrots, is to sift out all the lumps, and the fine light soil allows the carrots to grow straight down.
Nice garden and awesome new logo.
This was beautiful!
Love your pets so pls don’t excuse when they walk past the lens, ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
❤what a treat ❤️
Thoroughly enjoyed this treat. I didn't realise how extensive your food gardens are. And how productive! Bravo!
That was just delightful 🪴🥰
Oh so much garden love from us. I always love the volunteer plants from last year's missed harvests, or the self seeded plants. When the lettuce go bitter, they'll start to flower. Those seeds may be worth collecting and putting between the plugs next year and see if they do alright because they've had an opportunity to become acclimatised?
I love the comfrey as a border plant because it grows by rhizome and is good for stopping weeds from getting into the garden. Corn is looking fabulous. i hope you report on thechickpeas, they're something on my wish list.
Totally envious of your walking onions.
The huge variety of salvias would go well in your climate, too, and great insect and bird attractors.
Lovely rainbow meal Carissa. Love that Diogo is also included on new logo 🐕
I'm not a petunia fan, but i could be for the beautiful starry night ones ❤
Parsnip is a cool season crop here in Western Australia(a similar climate to yours)
Thank you for the surprise midweek update ❤
Wow!!! Such an enjoyable veggie and plant video (including your sweet pets and farm animals.) ❤🐈❣️🐈❣️🐈🐶🐶👍🥰👍
Hey! A surprise this morning to see a new blog from you guys! Yippee! ❤️
What a beautiful salad plate! I find parsnips have quite a distinction flavour by themselves - steamed with equal amount of carrots, then mashed with butter and a tiny sprinkle of nutmeg!
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So fabulous to see this. I think your soil must slowly start to be reaping the hard work you’ve put into it! And wow look at your corn! 🌽 and your peaches!! 🍑
Loved this bonus vid, awesome work guys❤❤
Greatings from the north of Portugal! Love your calm videos 😊 in Portugal the Nasturtium (Tropaeolum) is called "Capuchinha" because of the hooded appearance of the flower. It's also called "Chaga". If you're more interessed in the leaves, put the plant in a more shaded area. The leaves can grow immensely! Keep up with the amazing work of making the interior of Portugal beautiful 🤗
Comfrey spreads really easily and grows vigorously. Cut it back as often as you can and use the leaves in your garden to nourish your soil or to make a lovely tea for your plants. Whatever you do try not to let the comfrey seed as you will get it coming up everywhere.
This was a welcome balm after a few gruelling days - thank you! Lovely to see Albi so utterly relaxed without her cone ❤ and your gardens are delightful. I have nastutiums everywhere - I think they like the Auckland humidity. Maybe try them near one or more of the wells, and perhaps with a bit more shade 🤔
Thank you for this beautiful video 🤗 lovely
I loved the virtual garden tour! Lovely!
I love your garden.. having watched it develop over the years, you have made it beautiful 👏👏🌸❤️
What a beautiful garden. Keep these videos coming. Looks delicious x
Wouahhh Your vegetable garden is really beautiful 😍 your love and care are doing it very well. The flowers are stunning. Congratulations ! Your homestead is great. What you have done so far is amazing. It inspires me to go on with mine in the South West of France🥰
Many thanks for your videos. I enjoy watching them very much 💜🌸
Sending you all my love and support 🙏
Hallo from South Africa! Thank you for the lovely garden tour. Your garden is looking great.
Do you have a compost pile or compost bins yet? I noticed you do have mulch but you can go alot thicker. Mulch will help retain the water and keep the soil cool during the summer and also keep the soil warm during the winter. You could make some diy trellises for all your climbing plants like your beans and peas and that would also offer some much needed shade for the rest of the garden beds. Just some tips that I've learned over the years. ❤
A good surprise
Glad you got a professional in to do your new brand / channel logo Clarissa 😂, kidding Ofc , looks great and good to see Diogo get his spot 👌🏻.Garden looks good and a great place to get away from all this election nonsense 😁, guess you don’t miss that joy .
How lovely your garden looks! What a wonderful surprise to have a midweek tour! Getting plants from friends is a wonderful way to expand your garden. I love pansies too. They seed well here. We start with two and in a few years we have dozens. Have you ever stuffed the zucchini blossoms with cheese or mince and eaten those? Parsnips, when they're ready, look pretty much like white carrots: same shape and size. Yummy!
Happy watching🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Love your mid week video. Such a surprise. Beautiful garden. From Australia xx
So nice to watch your vlog. Your tomato plants will not do well next to the potatoes. Transplanting them in a sunny spot is highly recommend. For best results clip the first set of leaves and burry plant deep and cover plant deep above those. The deeper the plant the more root structure will have and healthy fruit.
What a thoughtful & beautiful lunch~! Your 'Starry Night' petunia is lovely and enjoyed the herb garden and appreciate the names of all 💚 Your piano music is soothing and brings me Peace...what I (we need lots of turmoil in USA). Thank You for taking the time to Share, a very Thoughtful video💖☮
I love your beautiful garden and it was fun to see how big it is in 4 years. It is doing great. This is a professionally done video. Top knock, kudos!❤
I thought it was really interesting how Chelsea from little mountain ranch plants comfrey around her fruit trees and then just snaps them off and leaves as mulch. It had benificial nutrients she explained it in last weeks video: totally different climate but interesting
Thank you for sharing your garden. It's lovely to see its progress.
Love your new logo and your garden is looking great. So much variety! Have you thought of suckering your little cherry tree so more nutrients are carried to the top?😍🇨🇦
Love ❤❤ the new intro the dog scetches are brill.
Sketches
Parsnips & nasturtiums are cold weather plants (usually) as are most brassicas, i have so much trouble growing them here as it just doesn't get cold enough
love how wild your gardens are, you are getting so much better at gardening, it does take practice & patience
loved the tour
thanx for sharing
I'd love to ee you harvesting the sweet potatoes when you do it , always fun to watch an abundant harvest x
Beautiful video! And beautiful new logo too!
Clarissa.....if you want your corn to really grow...give it some fish manure....We used to dig a trench, put fish heads and tails and the internal organs into the ground, cover them over....and stand back..!! The plants love it. Even seaweed......
Compost is always great for the garden as it is natural, and you can't get good crops unless you provide the soil with nutrients. So if you are able to ever get the scraps from a Fish shop, then don't hesitate to dig them into your garden. Cheers.
Awesome Midweek Surprise Carissa, you have become a very learned dry climate Gardener👍👍💚💚So much Variety of flowers, herbs, veggies. Learnin by doin, most excellent😁😁Be blessed 🙏🙏🙏
What a lovely surprise; a midweek video! 🐈⬛🐶🦚🌺
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Wonderful video
Carissa, the garden looks so lush❤️
Thank you for the bonus video this week, really enjoyed n
Oh wow what a nice surprise 😊😊😊😊
Thank you for the garden vlog music choices were soothing & mesmerising I could feel the heat & smell the herbs ( visually 🤣😂)
Yr veggies r looking healthy and beautiful Carissa. 😊
Lovely surprise! Your garden is so beautiful, Carissa! I love the variety of plants that you have, they all live together in harmony❤
Your gardens are looking great! ❤
Bobby, Mo, Ali and Darwin 😂 YNWA
Thanks for your wonderful vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work looks fabulous 💖
Thank you. What a lovely tour of your garden and what a lovely garden.
Fab Vlog the red bugs are love bugs or stink bugs 🌻 apparently if you squash them they honk they will love your brassicas as much as they love each other 🥰 I had loads last year in my poly tunnel nots as many this year 🤔 love from the Algarve 🇵🇹
Lovely surprise and wonderful mix of plants! Very intrigued by the Love- in- the Mist and I see it is ok in our zone here on east coast of Canada so will try and find some seeds!!
I like the sketch of Diogo that you added to your opening with Frankie!❤
Super nice video.
Comfrey is big and invasive. Even if one root is left behind it will grow back.
I gave you a link about the elderflower tree or elderberry tree, maybe would be nice in your garden:)
I worked so hard to get twigs for a small wattle
I was quite pleased with the result
It was begging for a flower bed so I planted a few hardy plants to over winter In Northern Michigan
The first amount of snow, my husband happily cleared the drive……. Along with the Wattle. Completely gone
Sniff. I still miss the distinctive fence
Sadly I must have taken all twigs ….sniff
Nice new opening graphic😂❤😊 frankie and diago.
Enteresting.....I'd have thought it would be too hot in Portugal for Cherries.
Great video of your vegetable's that you are growing x
Have you tried using your vegetable juice after you cook them , it's so good for your plants, ( after it's cooled of course) even soaking your old bread in water over five days then strain ,is excellent too. Gives your plants a boost. By the way love your videos.
Something I see here in Thailand... people take a small piece of shade cloth (you'd need perhaps 30cm2) and pitch it with four small sticks over a struggling plant so that it gets more shade during the day. That may help your nosturchums (spell? LOL)
it's really coming along! good job... have you ever tried to save your seed?
tomatillos like to have a partner to produce fruit, we put in four this year so really hopeful we will get some fruit....
You've really got a vast variety of veggies. I love it. Great vegetable garden ❤
Good morning Carissa, please tell me what the music is that you are playing through this video. It's so relaxing and I would love to download the tunes? Big love and thank you for the content. Amazing, well done 😘🤗🌹♥️
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I have a long bed of Egyptian walking onions and added mint making this bed completely full. Two plants that will take over any bed are now filling out this bed in a wonderful way.
Oooh I might try that. I’m not sure how well the mint would survive the summer but perhaps the onions will give it some shade
@@FrankieOffGrid my weather is probably just a bit harsher than yours as I live in N Texas. We are at 100F for the foreseeable future. I do have a tree that provides late afternoon shade but the bed gets a lot of direct sunlight. The onions and mint are both seeding now, as you know. I have had mint now for 3 yrs, just added it to this bed a yr ago.
@@FrankieOffGrid Mint is very resistant to both cold and heat. I'm in central Anatolia and the mint I planted fares well under 40 degrees (celsius) in summer and minus 25 in winter.
Be careful with mint - it will take over everything. Maybe grow in a container.
@@SJC49 I've been growing mint for yrs. It's easy to remove.
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Keep us posted about the lilac. I didn’t think they grew in a warm climate. I live in N Florida and I was told one variety to grow here but it doesn’t have the scent.