End of Summer Harvest and Pantry Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- It's been a busy season in the garden with bumper crops of many of our favourite foods. As the summer fruiting crops start to finish we're already sowing and planting food for the winter.
Join us for a quick recap of the growing season so far and then a few odd jobs in the veg garden. We'll wrap things up with a tour of our preserving pantry (including some homebrew experiments) and talk about some of the things that did well - and some that didn't do so well - this year.
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Hi 👋 just an idea about the ‘dig’ garden area. It would actually be good for the soil If you do grow something in there. You could plant sweet potato or anything that just does it’s thing without you having to care for it. Plant a couple of things, companion planting being best because the plants help each other with nutrients and pests. Even if you don’t get much of a harvest it will be a long term treatment for the soil. I’m no expert but I’ve been studying up and learning about permaculture so I just thought I would share that. ✌🏼
Thank you both for showing us your lovely garden!
A French farmer was interviewed on French TV news in summer, regarding farming during a drought. For the last 20 years, he has grown tomatoes on the ground. He explained that by doing so, the branches will root as well. He doesn't water the plants so the leaves will get brown or die but the tomatoes will get all the moisture the extra roots will bring and grow to be very sweet rather than watery.
That's really interesting - when you consider that if left alone, without artificial support, this is how they would naturally grow - maybe we're doing it wrong! I imagine people have grown them in a way that maximises number of plants within a given area. It would be interesting to experiment with this method if space allows.
That is the way I grew my tomatoes but they come in so thick you need to keep the plants far apart and yes very watery, some vines were 10 feet long lol.
And thats the way the professionell farmers do in China or Italy
Pascal Poot? He has a very interesting and sensible approach to farming in dry situations.
Greatly edited. Wonderful overview of your food garden season. You have a very organic approach on how to use this property - the land will keep giving ❤
Beautiful when investments of labour pay out. You have been very productive and creative in your processed food. Our winter with large accumulations of snow is not far off, so we will be living your shared videos until next spring. Thanks for all the great videos.
Lucious gardens!!! You should feel very proud f what you created and harvested. 😁❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶👍🇨🇦
Asparagus can last 75 years. Sweet potato grows virtually everywhere and are great to help break up and aerate soil naturally. Another is Jerusalem artichoke. They also store well.
If you grow a season or two of potatoes ONLY in the DIG garden your soul will be beautifully amended for other crops too! 😁❤️🇨🇦👍
I love the idea of soil and soul being interchangeable 😂
@@denisehayes195 Unintended but I like it!!! 😁❤️👍
beans are a good indicator of soil quality. if beans don't grow. your soil is lacking. even in the no till areas. also could mean contaminates. (if you brought compost in from outside sources) Mushrooms and sunflowers do a good job of pulling out the bad things and cleaning soils. Sunflowers are nitrogen fixers too. I'd suggest that lower clay area, planting some sunflowers.. not only will they bring in pollinators they will put some nitrogen in the clay soil and help break it up for future projects down the road. Sweet potatoes too will help break up that clay soil
Your garden is doing beautifully and I'm charmed by the gorgeous peppers. They freeze very well and if rough chopped, they will be convenient to cook with. I enjoy seeing and hearing how other gardens are doing so that I might put into practice fresh ideas myself.. Thanks for sharing!
G'day again from downunder Kylie and Guy
I love all the chutneys and relishes you've made and all the experimental "happy liquids". I'm living vicariously through your exploits. I'd love to see a video of you two sitting down and enjoying the fruits (pardon the pun) of your labour in both food and beverage form
Keep up the great work 👍
So satisfying when your at the end of your harvest and cleaning up, then looking at how full your pantry is ,I love it brings back memories of when my husband and I gardened. for 25yrs . This is great to see a young couple with so much energy and love for the ground. Keep up great work again so enjoying your progress both in garden and your house renovation 💙
Never in my life seen people work so hard. Boa sorte
You two are such hardworking people!!! 😁❤️🇨🇦
if beans are sowen in modules, they need to be deep ones. Beans make deep roots. Maybe your soil hasn't improved enough yet and you have an hard layer of soil underneeth your new soil that prevents roots from going down. Could be that next year the soil will be better if you add compost on your beds now in the autumn
edit. if you add compost to your no dig beds, don't add it on top of the tree bark mulch. The decomposition of the tree bark will eat all the nitrogen from the soil. So rake the mulch first to the side and then add the compost and fake the mulch back on top
I think you will find that the bark covering is for the path areas only and not as a mulch for the beds, which get the compost mulch
You might try "cow" fencing (heavy wire, big square openings) for the tomatoes. You can make individual round cages, attach it to a taller post like the T-post you showed, or make arches.
I agree. Condiments make a huge difference and homemade condiments bring great satisfaction! 😁❤️🇨🇦👍
Lovely music to match with a bountiful garden.
You two are very impressive with what you accomplish and what you continue to learn and share. Thank you so much.
Suggestion if you put enough into your freezer bag,to lay flat a burp it 🤷♀️ you’ll be able to get more into your drawer space, plus it’ll defrost quicker. Plus your capsicums freeze very well, I’ve one freezer drawer just of my last crop. All diced or sliced😉❣️
Your tomatoes might do well if they are planted towards the west with some shade over them. They’ll get the warmth and sun from the morning and afternoon and as the heat peaks it’ll be OK because they’ll be shaded as the sun goes down. Where are you are located in Portugal is very similar to parts of California. Specifically, north of San Francisco, south of San Francisco in the central valley. You might find information from these areas that will help you in Portugal. Also, obviously, Calif will have some great information regarding growing grapes and making wine😂
Love your channel and I always look forward to seeing what the two of you are now up to you. Thank you for sharing all that you are doing and allowing us into your life
* 1.5-2 hrs N of SF or S of SF
Tonight I finished my beet pickles. Will be making white currant jelly tomorrow.
I have yet to glean up the green tomatoes for relish again. It was a big hit from last year with everyone.
Seed saving time for some of the veg and flowers. I find I must have 20% flowers to get the pollinators in the garden. People tend to forget there is a value to flowers, especially open blossom ones.
We have a leaf shredder and find it very handy to shred leaves into a finer mulch for things like lettuce, carrots, and blank areas that need some kind of cover. I plan on planting a clover mix for "green manure" over the winter.
Friend ... weeding with a Ho is the way to Go. Point down, roots up, pulling is a breeze. Rake up and save your back pain for more digging !
From Canada, I just love all your videos. thank You so much
So pleasing to see the gradual progress you guys are making. Each season offers more opportunities for developing recipes and outrageous ingredients that improve your menu choices. Q: would consider growing spices amongst your plantings? Stay safe, keep warm. 💙🤍❤️👍🇫🇷🍷🇬🇧 A’bientot from Cleguerec.
Indeed, learning a lot and enjoying eating it all in lots of different ways.
We have plans for lots of different herbs and spices but want to expand the raised beds for those …. Maybe next year, or the year after 😀
I absolutely LOVE watching your video's! I know I've probably mentioned this before, but my husband and I have been seriously thinking of moving to Portugal, and now he's even paying attention to your video's when I put them on. lol. . He hears your voice, and asks, "Is that the ones in Portugal? " lol. . We love them! :) Ok, so , for your asparagus, I've heard, that you only have to plant them once, and they continue to grow for years and years. . also, I've been told, to put them in a designated area, because they seem to want to take over your garden. One person put his in a huge raised bed, (2-3' high) and just lets them go. . By the 2nd or 3rd year, he has had lots of them . . Just a thought :) GREAT job, you guys!!
Love to see the abundance from a garden. Hard work but so rewarding.
Ratatouille is really good when bottled in kilner jars to use up your tomatoes/peppers and Aubergine? I have store here ( I literally make gallons at a time) and it goes on any meat to make a good quick casserole - chicken/fish/sausages/lamb.. just fry off some onion and garlic; brown the meat; tip over the rat and stick in an oven. (I add a bit of chilli to pep it up) and add beans to make a good pasta sauce. It's great when you don't feel like cooking but want a good home cooked meal. If you haven't tried making root wines.. they are amazing. Parsnip is a winner..
WOW!! That was a very rewarding harvest! I’m very impressed with your preserves and frozen fruit and veg. Well done!👏👏👏
Garden is looking good. Abundance of food preserved.
Pepper plants are perennial but most gardeners grow them as annuals but given the right protection during the colder months ie - lift them and pot them up and put indoors or grow in a poly tunnel, then they should overwinter and give you a crop for a few years to come!
I don't like wine and I don't like most condiments, but I really like watching you two working together so companionably. I've enjoyed pretending I'm in Portugal with you both for a while now and our UK winter is approaching fast. It also doesn't hurt that Kylie's accent reminds me so much of my Aussie Grandmother and she was a great believer in growing food and self-sufficiency after growing up in the Bush
It’s always a balance between how much time you have to maintain your garden and how much the untidiness bothers you. Some plants generate more fruit/veg when pruned but there’s always a point where you don’t get enough extra veg for it to be worth it. I’m enjoying watching y’all figure out your context and gardening personalities. Here in the US (Ohio) potato’s are considered a good crop for new soil- helps to break up the soil. You could put compost piles in areas you want to bring into production in the next couple years. I’ve only just given myself permission to experiment in my garden- after 30 years of gardening! Game changer.
Those huge pumpkins look like Queensland Blues, Jarrahdale.
Another terrific video - love how you often take us back to how you arrived at today. I always find it a bit sad as my own little summer garden comes to an end, just as it will be starting to do in another month. But it's a restful time of year, and you've captured that beautifully. I'm heading to the warmer climes of North Stradbroke Island again this winter so sadly, no plantings - just cutting off and composting the dead, diseased and dying, adding a layer of compost then mulching ready for my return in Spring. Having started from scratch three times on rural land in Tasmania and being a no-dig gardener of 50 odd years, I'm just loving walking around your property and following your renovations. I'm going to be enviously watching some of my favourite vegies grow, but in your patch - all the brassicas, peas, spinach, lettuce, garlic, carrots and hopefully, nice big swedes - they're the size of golf balls in the shops here in Oz! All the best to you both, esp 'can do Kylie' - a woman after my own heart!
Eliminate suckers while they are just a small ½” stem. Remove by simply snapping them off at the stem. If you need to use a tool, use a sharp pruner blade to make a clean cut. During peak growing season, pull unnecessary suckers and flowers at least once a week. The suckers are growths that grow between the stems and limbs. They don’t produce any tomatoes.
Maybe you should consider to plant green manure on the clay soil area you plan to let lie fallow, so you would improve the soil quality with little efford and little costs. I did this in my garden and it worked great. Greatings from Germany
How to weed between plants like squash: lay down cardboard, cover with 8 inches of wood chips, and walk away. I live in Oklahoma, where we can have temps from 120F to -15F in the same year. Very challenging for gardening, especially when we have a summer like this one, which was in the top 10 years for both heat and drought. We don't harvest our sweet potatoes until right before the first frost, and bring them inside to cure. On tomatoes, we use metal cattle panels as trellis and arches, and tie or clip the tomatoes to it. If you are going to trim to a single stem, I like to use the tomahawk lower and lean method. It works really well for us. I think you guys are doing an amazing job.
Tomatoes don't make when it is above 90 degrees I believe, We struggle with timing them here in the Southern United States. I think a planned shaded area with plenty of air flow would add a lot of productivity to your garden. You could call it the Salsa garden because Tomatoes, peppers and cilantro would all appreciate a bit of shade in your climate.
I just planted asparagus with roots flat and covered up. Did well and still getting growth after at least 10 years.
Your garden looks beautiful, I'm slightly jealous 🤩
You can actually make and can a very nice green tomato curry. I have tried this recipe : That 1870’s homestead - green tomato curry.
You guys did a very nice growing and preserving job! Nice!
Love to watch you two working hard 😊. Wanted to mention that eggplant and pepper plants are perennial in mild climate. If you overwinter them, you will get an even better and earlier crop next year. Totally worth it. There are several TH-cam ideas on that, including Next Level Gardening.
I get equally excited every time you post a video! :)
Beautiful fruits and vegetables.
Congratulations
And you have quantities for a complete regiment 🤣🤣
I am Portuguese in the USA, one of the things I miss the most is “Doce de Tomate” if you have lots of tomatoes it’s a good thing to do and it’s lovely on toast with tea ;)
Everything you do look great and makes sense. Its a pleasure to wacth. Clay soil, in our clima is the best, more nutrients and less water.
Your kitchen garden is looking nicer by the season, and I'm really jealous of the results of your labours (the pantry is deliciously abundant). Have you tried growing the black cherry tomatoes in a trellis? It's probably an indeterminate tomato variety; it would benefit from trellising and having it's suckers removed regularly. Looking forward to seeing the moat filled or the drawbridge constructed. All the best.
Its a good idea to pare back your gardening I think, you will find you have far more than you can eat and all the work involved takes you away from renovating the house.
I have already seen the wine for corgets and it was interesting. My brother-in-law makes very good wine from dandelions.
As awesome as you are to watch with your building projects, i do v much enjoy your garden work, harvests, seeing what you've madecfor preserves, and most of all you guys tucking into your nommy creations.
Try stuffed corgetts. It's a Lebanese dish. The greeks probably do it too.
Corgetts reduce sugar levels in the blood. Especially raw corgetts.
Really enjoyed that I find watching other people work very relaxing lol 😆 just have to say that fridge freezer is huge 😮 I wouldn’t be surprised if you saw snow and a lamppost at the back of it 😉
Lovely video, the harvest abundance is wonderful!!
Loved your veggie shirt very appropriate
Looks tummy.
As far as I remember, beans are not transplanted. Tomatoes last until the freezes arrive. And peppers can live several years (If you manage to handle the freezes somehow).
I have found my asparagus put out roots aggressively. They spread from the root and by seed. Delicious! I also have new tomato plants that have volunteered. They are growing up my climbing rose bushes and on my neighbor's chain link fence by my veg beds. I'm letting them do their thing. Lots of new cherry tomatoes along with ripe ones! Gardens are always a work in progress.
You two have been such an inspiration for me personally, I've followed from day dot. I'm stuck in London being swamped by rubbish and an ever increasing budget that is getting further and further away from obtainable. I hope that one day our paths cross. All the best. Patrick
I don’t know about there, but here in the USA the price of food will be doubled by end of October. May consider growing more.
Great harvest. You can take all the green tomatoes and combine them with cucumbers, carrots, beet, cabbage and a bit of garlic and put them in salt brine. You''l get some awesome assorted pickles.
Beans do better if planted by seed. They also love companion plants. Why don't you try a 3 sisters garden, corn planted with two beans alongside then pumpkins or melons to cool the earth. Google has the timings and spacing if interested? When you get loads of tomatoes you know you're doing something right. The pumpkins on the top shelf look like Queensland Blue, my favourite.
Can you over winter your pepper and aubergine plants? Your climate seems similar to mine, I am in south west Sydney Australia, winter low temps around 0 sometimes-2 or -3, tops in Summer 40+. I prune my peppers and aubergines in autumn when they have finished production and in spring they re-shoot, and I have a headstart as they have good root development from previous year. Just a thought that you may be able to do the same.
We’re actually going to trial over wintering one plant of each: piri piri chilli, aubergine (eggplant) and pepper (capsicum). We do get frosts but not much so we’re hoping they make it. They’ve still got about a month before we need to trim them back, weather permitting
If it were me, next season I would attempt sunflowers in the temperamental dig areas. That way, if I got heads to roast, great and if not I'd have a cover crop.
The group of plants, in my experience, which is always included in a cover crop mix but does not always thrive is the Legume family. With a little forethought and attention to timing, these plants can be harnessed to fix all the nitrogen your cash crop needs, while improving your soil’s tilth and breaking up compaction in ways that no other plant family can. Red clover, yellow sweet clover and Austrian winter peas are indispensable on our farm.
I was thinking the same--legumes to improve the soil as a cover crop for a few years.
Added benefit of keeping the weeds down as well! Cover crops critical for nutrients and weed control as you and Allison have said.
Add straw sand and manure it will help your garden a lot
I can’t grow anything here in South Carolina United States. I used to do great because we had oak ashes from our fireplace.
Uneven moisture can also cause the pods to drop. If the soil dries too much between irrigations or between rains, there will be no bean pods formed. Mulch can help, but hot, windy days can dry the plants even when the soil is moist. Wind protection by taller crops upwind may be a good addition to mulch.
The progress both in garden and house renovation has been amazing and a journey of hard labour and love. I have been enjoying your videos and as you say you are still learning about growing vegetables, what works what does not, though you have had quiet an abundance. My beans here in the UK did not work very well either got very little produce., though I am having to grow in containers. Love your videos.
My tomatoes are still flowering and producing fruit ... in October, in Zone 6A, in Connecticut USA. They grow and produce until first frost for us. In Portugal, you might be about to add a Poly-Tunnel and grow tomatoes year-round. Believe it or not, today (10/16) was my last hot Pepper harvest and I made your Cowboy Candy recipe !!! All the best.
One of my fav meals with zucchini (courgette) is a French dish of sliced zucchini cooked in butter and fresh sage and seasoning then when almost cooked thru, add cream to heat thru and mash roughly for serving. Delish! Another is soup with a little bit of cauliflower, onion and garlic, stock and seasoned with cumin. Yum.
For a valid comparison...add the same amount of compost to the dig area as in the no dig.
Turmeric is very easy to grow. No need to even water. Ginger is a bit difficult and requires some care. You could try black pepper and vanilla but they will need shade in the summer. Black pepper- easy, vanilla-tough.
Cover crop ideas: Lucerne was very popular where I used to spend time in Dordogne, France (comparable climate), reckon your chickens would love rummaging through that; Phacelia also very easy to establish; borage (seeds about very easily) for the bees; linseed (pretty)and lupins (deep roots). A mix like that would fix/draw up nitrogen and look great too.
Guy, as always, a very well put together video. Very informative and a joy to watch. You and Kylie are such an awesome team.
Great video from my favorite channel. ❤️
When you cut your Marigolds keep some of the heads. as they are the seeds for next year just like any plant you grow. the fruits of this year are the seeds for next year that way you will always have seeds. and no need to buy seeds that works for me saving the pennies
Really interesting video again this week! Really enjoy watching on a Saturday morning guys! Definitely coming to yours for the party!🤣🤣🤣🤣❤
Blue Hubbard Squash are your large grey pumpkins.
Beautiful garden.
Definitely let your Aubergine run it's Course. I have 4 in here in Harvey, Western Australian & 3 of them are 5 years old.
PS: on Johanna's Dream Home YT channel she made an aubergine paste that looks amazing, and she roasted the veg in it's skins in the charcoal of a small fire. You might check that out to see if it's one you'd like to try. Have you shared your carrot top pesto recipe yet? The large green pumpkins look like Jarrahdale or something similar.
Yes, it's called "zacusca", it's a Romanian recipe.
What agreat video learning about all your crops and what you made with them. They really make my Saturday xx
Absolutely brilliant video
Yes smaller. Like you said last year.
Grow just enough is so hard to determine until you have done it for years. I know I have had the same problem going into my 4th year myself.
Learning what works for you!!!
I have yet to get into canning hoping next year will be the year for that. Learned alot from yall for that. Thanks.
The mystery pumpkins (winter squash here in the US) look very much like a variety called Sweet Meat. If that's what they are you are in for a treat!
I'm so jealous.
Corn is a heavy feeder, if you want to try it again in future.
We are starting our journey again here in the Algarve just sold our renovation project here and bought another typical Portuguese mud and stone house 😅 with 2 acres to grow our veg. I wonder how different growing veg here will be to where you are with the Algarve having milder winters.? 🤔 Well done with your project 🥳
Hey guys, love your channel. Been following for ages, and we're at a similar stage with our garden but on a smaller scale. Its relatively large by uk terrace size at 17 fence panels long. Set up a mini allotment plus greenhouse and just did too much, too quickly. Loads of and hard work, loads of mistakes, a drink or two, loads of fun. All the best
It’s definitely a balance (amount of food vs work) that will probably take some time to get right. But so much fun along the way 😀
Lovely calm and atmospheric episode.
You can make fried green tomatoes. Or green tomato salsa. My cherry tomatoes did not fo very well this year. Sigh. 🤔
Another educational video! You will have to discipline yourselves to do more record-keeping, what plants grow best and why, what preserving methods are most successful, and what concoctions you like the best. Each year you can refine your gardening and preserving to insure a steady supply of home-grown produce. It's all hard work but also very satisfying.
You have been so industrious, wow ! loads of goodies. Nice to visit your vlog . ❤❤
I like your garden layout. And, you get food enough to share/barter with, which is great. I'd love to hear you talk about how much time and money it takes to get what in terms of food. Worth it, or not? Where I live we have bears and deer, so having a garden here is almost impossible
That’s what we are doing now! Last of the season lol
Beautiful garden haul and lovely stuff to process!
If you don’t know the association Kokopelli you should…. They have a lot of seeds from all the world and old species from France and Europe in general. It’s very interesting. Regards!
I think that top Pumpkin is a Queensland Blue.......
what did you plant your beans next to /beside....High temperatures - When the temperatures go too high (normally above 85 F./29 C.), bean flowers will fall off. The high heat makes it difficult for the bean plant to keep itself alive and it will drop its blossoms. Soil is too wet - Bean plants in soil that is too wet will produce blooms but will not produce pods.
Seems it was a good year for courgette. Same thing in my mom's garden in the Netherlands. Nothing produced last year so she planted more this year and she drowned in courgette. More are still producing even now which hasn't happened for me before either. Looking forward to growing then in Portugal when I find a place there.
Thanks for sharing , 2 funny nerds .
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🍷🍷cheers.