Lemons Galore, Bike Gangs & a BIG GARDEN REVEAL - Off Grid in Portugal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- It's time for another video of my off grid life here in Central Portugal! This one is packed with stuff and Sinead is the star of the show as she helps me with a couple of tasks that I can't stand doing. Thanks Sinead!
Plus we finally taste the lemon pickle after two months of fermenting, we start a bike gang, I get to a simple job that I've been avoiding for way too long, and I finally get into the garden finish up a few things that will complete the look for 2024. 😀
I hope you enjoy it! If you do, please give it a like! Thanks!
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I'm Kirsty and I'm novice builder attempting an off grid stone barn renovation here in Central Portugal. I love going slowly, learning along the way, and trying new things as I attempt to build a beautiful tiny house using natural materials.
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I loved this video and your land is looking beautiful. It’s nice to c how happy u have been with your family and your friends working and having fun together. What a wonderful group of people u have surrounded yourself with. U compliment each other’s personality’s and have great sense of humour.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'm very lucky to have lots of great people around me!
Hi Kristy, another great video, your 30mins+ videos never seem long to me. Great that you n Sinead both got bikes now, get some fun bike trips planned. Hopefully loads more companies send you cool stuff to test. Have you thought about making lids for the plunge pool like your dad did for the big tank? Would give you extra seating area when plunge pool not in use. Garden looks great, defo think woodchip instead of sawdust, hopefully it won't blow about like the sawdust will and you dont want to waste time watering your paths lol have a great weekend Woo x
Fun times ahead for sure! Yes I thought about a deck over the pool awhile ago... I had people for lunch and the open pool seemed a bit sketchy. I think that'll be a project for next summer thought.
This was such a delightful video! It's great to see your friends. Sometimes I see people working hard on projects in Portugal and I worry that people moved away from friends and family. So, it's good to see your social living.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yes I like to be social from time to time. 😁
I'm so glad the two of you now have each other to do things with, and develop your individual homestead dreams. I think it's a smart idea to buy the woodchips, then it will be done and finished with for the summer, and so much less weeding in the future. Deck area looks fun and cheerful.
Money is always an issue so I'll try sawdust first and then see. Yes it's been amazing having Sinead here!
So happy for you that you have your friend Sinead is near now and you both can be companions. I feel so happy that you a have someone near to you now. The extra bike arrived in time for you both being able to ride together also. 😊😊😊😊 Things are really looking great.
Me too! It's been amazing!
Great video! Great to see Sinead again! Looks like you guys have a lot of fun together!!
We do, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Wood chips for the garden paths are a good idea. It's looking great in that area. You could trim back the lemon tree for easier picking.
Thanks!
Hi Kirsty and Sinead! The garden looks amazing! Lucky you to get the gift of two electronic bikes. Enjoy your places! Take care, until next time!! Best, Angela
Yes it was perfect timing!
Hello Kirsty! I haven't commented in quite some time. I love the deck your Dad built. It suits the relaxation zone beautifully. I also really liked seeing the lineup of pots along the wall on your first terrace down. You really stepped up your propagation game. All of the little plants were so nice and tidy in two rows. They looked very happy and vigorous. Good for you :)
If you can get a big tote of wood chips delivered I think that is a good decision. Based on the amount of landscape fabric you have to cover, you may want to ask about the delivered price for 2 bags. I'm thinking the giant tote bags, right? I think you can use that much. Chips will last a lot longer than sawdust. Plus you don't have all that wear and tear on your car running back and forth. If you have some left over, strim a circle around your favorite trees all the way to the ground and add a nice mulch ring. Remember the rule of 3's? 3" away from the trunk, 3 feet around the trunk (unless it is just a whip) and 3" thick.
I'm back so you'll likely see more of my thoughts. All the best 👍
Hi! Glad to see you back in the comments. 😁 Yep they're giant totes and Sinead recently had a huge one of sawdust delivered that you'll see in tomorrow's video. She might use it for insulation but if she doesn't, I'll steal it. 😁
Great video mate. Garden is really coming along. How fun to have Sinead there and be able to work on projects together. Keep it up.
Thanks! Yes it's been amazing having Sinead here!
If you want more trumpet trees, just cut off a branch put in a pot keep lightly moist soil / shade and it will root. Remember the leaves are toxic, just wash hands after handing.
Yep! This one started as a tiny stick from my friend's place!
It's so fun that you have two e-bikes now! You guys are going to have so much fun and save so much petrol on local trips. Extra bonus: it came in a big cardboard box for the garden!
Yep! I love the cardboard! 😀
Hey Kirsty!!! Fun video...that lemon pickle looked delicious! Love your "biker gang"...those ebikes are a great addition to your homestead. I had an idea for your spring water pool...perhaps put some landscape fabric/ geotech over it so no debris gets in it. You can easily pull the cloth off to dispose of debris. You are a powerhouse! Love your garden! That deck is a perfect gathering spot. Cheers from the homeland🇨🇦
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I definitely need a cover solution soon!
It’s hard working when it’s hot. Make a list for each day that’s reasonable and then you won’t feel overwhelmed. Xx
It can be brutal but a list would help for sure!
Beautiful Video, love what you made, with the abundance of lemons you have on your land 🍋🍋🍋 and the Bike ride, with Sinead, was Amazing. 🚴🚴 xx
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks!
Many hands make light work… 🍋 🚲 and more fun too 😊
So true!
I have been following you for some time now and you have always made me laugh with your haphazard approach to everything. However, the garden is now looking great, so well done. Keep up the good work. 👏👏👏
Cool, I'm happy you're enjoying my videos!
The bikes will me very handy for trips when you are not buying a lot.
Agreed!
Hi Kirsty, We’ve been enjoying your videos for a few years now and appreciate the effort you make in producing the content and living off grid in Portugal. We live in the Azores and live vicariously in Central Portugal through you. 😂 We are writing today to request that you be extremely careful with your battery pruners. Yesterday, a friend of ours, who works five acres of land, accidentally cut off her left index finger and sliced her thumb. Like you, she loves her pruners, but they are also dangerous. Please only use them when you’re feeling alert and rested. Wish they came with some kind of safety. Anywho, keep up the great work and be safe.
Oh no! This is what I've been afraid of ever since I got the clippers. They close so relentlessly 😬 I use them for pruning grapevines, but always wear thick leather gloves while doing so. I did snip a bit off a glove once and now am even more careful. So sorry for your friend. Was she able to get the finger reattached?
@@sarahnd Hi Kristy, Glad you are wearing gloves. Good idea. The finger has been attached and they will know if it took on Thursday. Fingers crossed 🤞, no joke intended 😜. We have started to come up with possible nicknames for her regardless. Speaking as a former woodworker, it is good to have a healthy fear of these awesome tools. Prune responsibly!
Thanks for the nice words about my videos and for the warning! Ya... they're powerful little things! That's horrible about your friend... I'll make sure to be more careful because it is easy to get a bit complacent with them. Thanks for the reminder!
Great Job and Great bike Tour👍
Thanks!
The bikes look great. Digging and filling trenches looks like quite a bit of work and the property continues to look so nice.
Thanks! Ya it's been a lot of work but worth it!
Your garden is looking great! I vote for wood chips. E-bikes look like great fun. Might be something that I have to have. Keep up the good work! Love your videos. Very inspiring.
Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
Enjoyed your video, you are amazing to push forward on gardening in the heat. I used to raise a large garden & there is nothing easy about that, it takes constant care, but well worth the time & effort, to have grease garden produce. Wishing you a productive week, but take time to relax & enjoy. Looking forward to your next video
You're right, it's loads of work but lots of fun, too!
❤ your videos. Thank you for sharing your homesteading journey with us. The garden, deck, and pool look amazing. Just one thing about the focus. Can you move the camera around more slowly, especially when a person isn't in the shot? It seems to need a moment to focus on things?
Good tip, I'll try to remember. Thanks!
Just found your channel...currently binge watching from beginning. You are hilarious and very enjoyable to listen to explain stuff as you go.
Thanks so much, I'm glad you found my channel and are enjoying it!
Amazing!!! You girls work your butt off 🥵🥵 I have learned so much from you!! Learning about your e-bikes!! Getting ready to order one!!🤗🦋🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great, I hope you enjoy it!!
The garden is looking great. I vote for spending your money and ordering a bag of wood chips! Nice of me spending your money!
Hugs from 🇨🇦
Haha! Ya wood chips would be great but there's also a chance Sinead and Sanchia will get a wood chipper and there's loads of stuff to chip int he forest, so let's see. 🙂
Great video ❤❤
Thanks!
It’s all looking great!! Bike gang! 😊😂👍. Take care!
Haha, yep! Thanks!
Hi Kirsty I liked Woomobile’s idea for an extra bit of removable deck space above the pool let me know if you’re interested and I’ll come up with some ideas
Yes me too, we actually had that thought when I had a lunch with a few people and the pool seemed a bit like a tripping hazard. I'd love some ideas!
Your property is looking marvelous!!
Thanks!
Great bike 🚵🏻♀️🚴🏻♀️ amazing how you could go so easily on those roads 👍
The fat tires are great for the dirt roads!
Think your parents would love Madeira or the Azores as a winter break. Like the logo, but it needs colours added, maybe using the portuguese national flag colours ❤
They might as a short holiday within a trip to Portugal, not sure!
Hello Kristy! You and you family and friends are all such hard workers. You place is really looking great!
Thank you!
There is definitely no lack of things to do! As the old saying says, you can only eat an "elephant" one bite at a time.
Definitely not! It's easy to sty busy, for sure!
I'm first😂 Your place looks great!
Who, thanks!
Good work, making so much progress.
Thanks!
Yay!🎉 You're spoiling us 👍Am about to pour tea and enjoy this 🙂
Great!
Excellent fun 🤩 I love that you use all those beautiful lemons! 🍋
The lemons are amazing, I'm so lucky!
Hi Kristy, In India, we add only 4 ingredients in Lemon Pickle and it last forever and its Salt and Black Salt, Red chilli, Carom seeds and Little bit of sugar. Salt shouldn't be too much.
I've never heard of black salt or carom seeds... I'll look them up, thanks!
@@PortugalfromScratch Black salt is also known as Pink Rock salt and Carom Seeds are also known as Ajwain
Good to know, thanks!
Did you mean Lime tree when you pointed at a tree and you called it a kiwi ? I have 3 kiwi plants and they are a climbing vine . Your place is looking good , It will all look gorgeous when you get it all sorted out like you want it.
Oh maybe… or maybe I was pointing to the kiwi vines behind the tree? They’re climbing either side of the garden entrance. I don’t remember, sorry!
As always great video an especially the Second E Bike Now you have company to join in on jaunts 👍🌟👀
Thanks! Yep the bike will be a nice addition!
‘Mickey with lemons’ would make a great still life. Must try the lemon pickle, at Scottish shop bought lemon prices 😢
Haha, it would!
Hi Kristy,welcome back Sinead
Hi!
Please please please weed Tracy Trumpets garden and the pool area. I see lots of weeds growing. Half hour a day would keep them under control. ❤ mom
Ok! I'll get to it today!
Your garden looks amazing❤
Thanks!
Having had over 7 semi truck size loads of woodchips dumped (twice) on our property in the last 6 years (& we have 1/2 left from the last time… we call it mulch mountain… it’s still over 6’ tall, prob 16’ wide & 20’ long)… & I’m a big fan of woodchips, I would think twice abt putting them over that “fabric”. I would worry abt the woodchips puncturing it where there’s foot traffic, then if you have any weeds that spread by runner like Bermuda & some other grasses, sheep sorrel, etc. they would LOVE to pop through any tiny holes, and runner rampantly through the wood mulch. Maybe you could do a test patch of the wood chips over the fabric & see if you get any punctures… & if you do… just say no to wood chips if you have ANY kind of weeds that spread by runner!!!!! They will find and get through the tiniest of holes & be more vigorous spreading through the wood chips cause you killed all their competition (the other weeds).
Ooh mulch mountain, I love it! I think I'll stick with sawdust for now, but that fabric is very strong, sort of like a felt.
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I am Portuguese, live in the 🇬🇧 Bournemouth, but I’m moving back to Portugal 🇵🇹 on 25/06/24 my mom lives in Alentejo, Cavaleiro near Cabo Sardão. I am not young and have mobility issues so I hope I can settle down well, if not I’m back ASAP. I lived here for 25 years.
My cat is scared of oranges 🍊 and lemons 🍋 😝 😂 😆 😆
Haha! 🐈 🐈⬛
Enjoy the move back here!
Great video again Kirsty! That lemon stuff looks yummy. Do you have a playlist for all your recipes...?
Thanks! No I don't but I should add that, thanks for the idea!
Bikers from deep country Portugal!
Haha, yep!
Does that lady in this video does she have a channel to. I love both of y'all. From Georgia USA
Nope but she'll be appearing on mine plenty. 😁
Saludos
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Cómo es que no tienes aún la ventana? Vas ha abririrla pronto? Todo está en la casa muy oscuro!!!!!!!!😮
Soon!
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Maybe some day i can Visit you Ladies in Portugal when I can Safe up Money.❤.All of your friends Kirsty they are so Beautiful in and out so are you.Thank you for being so kind to all of Us.Love Raquel.And Please say hello to your friend's for me.Thank you very much Kirsty.❤ Raquel.God bless you all always take Care of yourself always.And your Cat's 🐈🐈 Mikie,Larry.Love them to.
Thanks for watching and for always sending lovely comments! 😀
Great to have a partner in crime living just down the road.
Definitely! 😀
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Watching you dig the trench reminded me of the hard soil we have in Arizona. Suggestion: wet the soil an hour so before digging.
Yep that's a great tip!
Your garden is looking great, much more organised 😁
Haha you get a new EBike (congratulations on the sponsorship 😊) and I got my new wheelchair complete with neck support and suspension 😂😂
Thanks so much! Yay!
Great video.
Thanks!
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Onde posso comprar uma bicicleta igual?
The link is in the description.
Yes you can find the link in the video description including a discount code. 🙂