The apples on your tree look like "Glockenäpfel" (bell apples?), a very old variety that is common in Austria, Switzerland, southern Germany and Holland. Well suited to harsh climates, its a bird- feeding plant an bee-friendly. Well suited for storage (a so-called winter apple): ready to pick at the end of September, ready to eat December - March. I hope this helps to identify your tree.
You have restored my faith in finding nice people. Not only do you have a huge project at home,you go out and share your experience. I loved this. You are so hard working and kind. ❤
It’s nice to help out, we know more than most how nerve wracking it is starting a job that you have no clue how you’re going to do it. Mitch was chuffed and he’s since sent a photo of the room with the osb down and he now has a room upstairs that he can use, which is lovely. 🥰
That house will always have damp ! Due to 2 things. The outside is covered in cement render + a path . That's part a stone + rubble + brick house that must be able to breathe. There is nowhere for the moisture / condensation to go because of the render + pathway. It should have a thin lime render , going straight down to the ground with a fall off to a gravel pathway ( which should be slightly below. house level ). A French drain is not a solution either, to this problem. I speak from experience .as I have an Irish 1700's farmhouse.. I had a builder renovate the house, but builders generally only know about later block build houses.. . . You will get all this information + booklets + online from ' AN Taisce ' the National Trust for Ireland, on these issues. '. ♥
Mitch has a lot of courage to take on such a needy house. It was very kind of you to help them out. The house seems as though it could be a lovely home one day, such a shame the road was built so close to the property.
Please pick any green tomatoes before frost and put on a tray in your kitchen. I put mine stem side down. Right now I have a number of nice red tomatoes on my counter and they were picked green. Leave them on the vine as long as you can but they will turn red in the house. I cover them lightly with a paper towel. I do not wash them until I’m ready to use them. Let me know if this works for you. I have done this for several years.
Thank you for the tips Vicky. I'm ashamed to say that we haven't been looking after them very well and they haven't fared well. Fingers crossed for next year!
Green tomatoes can be used in place of egg plant for parmesan,, and I have a marvelous recipe for green tomato mincemeat. Also, wrap each in paper and store in a cool place (not refrigerator cool) and they will turn red. I used to pick all the green ones when a frost was due and still had some for salad for Thanksgiving dinner. Did not have an rot.
The land looks great, Dawn the flowers are called love in the mist. they will seed off and come again next year, lovely to see you two on here again, ♥xxx
Glad to see you back . The peat in the walls was done on purpose as it would not burn but provide a stable wall so therefore the cottage could be a lot older. Thanks for giving a glimpse of a another abandoned renovation
Mitch has a beautiful property. I would say that concrete render needs to be removed as soon as possible and repoint the stones in order to dry the house out.
You're absolutely right, monumental task ahead , first priority was stabilise the settlement , get water tank filledand working , put in a working toilet. And decided to put that bedroom floor in so can at least have a comfortable bedroom while doing the rest.
Re: your apples-I vaguely recall that there was an old variety called “sheep’s nose” that looked sort of like that. It was an ancestor of the golden delicious variety.
I was going to suggest golden delicious, or Granny Smith for the apples, although they didn’t appear green enough for Granny Smiths. Whatever the variety, what a beautiful crop on the one tree alone! Applesauce, anyone? 😄
Ooh that sounds interesting I will have a Google of that. They are a very weird shaped apple and the name sheep’s nose suggests not the normal apple shape 😂
I don't blame him for asking, I'd be feeling overwhelmed looking at what he's trying to do. The front door looks amazing, it lets in so much light as well, really beautiful.❤
I was totally overwhelmed i was like where do you start ? We were lied to about there being a well.. there isnt, its a rainwater tank. Skip hadnt turned up so the rubbish was mounting, Ordered a huge shed . It got stuck in customs for a fortnight ( just have it now) so everything had to go into the kitchen the one useable room . All my timber arrived the same day was meant to be joists then flooring then plasterboard with a few days in-between it all arrived in one go. But the dynamic duo arrived and made it ok. Im eternally grateful. And now have a plan going forward
@@Mitch-Hendren It's great that you guys have become friends, they are awesome. I think that you are very brave taking on your house and getting on with it. You will definitely gain loads of knowledge and hopefully more support from people who can. Great to have a chance to see your project and I can only wish all the best for the future work.❤️
Those apples look like what we call yellow delicious in America. You guys are experts, in putting those up now . I really missed your videos. Much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie 🇺🇸💖
If you're going to have an open vege patch, the best thing to do is have lines of sacrificial lettuce plants that the pests will be attracted to most, and hopefully the others will be alright.
Ours haven't fared very well at all. I think we got them out a bit too late really and haven't had the time to take care of them properly. Maybe next year will be a more organised year for growing.
@@thecornerhouseproject Barrie from portnoomarket gave a great tip he said to take off as much leaves as you can and tug at the roots and they will turn red quicker. I'll be doing that sooner next year 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
I believe that all of the outside rendering will have to be taken off to do the pointing for the whole house, a job that is and can be very expensive. Unless your friend can do it himself, but even then he will still have all of the materials to buy. He has some real friends in you two, taking time from your own renovations makes you that.
Hey Ben & Dawn. Love your hard work as always. As for those apples - I'm pretty sure those are Costard Apples (not custard apples). Favourited by Edward I (circa 1292). More prosaically, they were commonly used as hard cider apples. They can be eaten raw and have a tangy green, sweet, acidic flavour. This will give you a drier tasting cider - not so sweet as red apple varieties. So you can eventually fill one of those out buildings with scrumpy barrels & a press.
It’s nice to see neighbors helping neighbors. I love your “yard”! A little wild and overgrown but lots of space and peacefulness. Maybe those apples will make nice pies and tarts which would be good with coffee.☕
Yes, it is still a little wild Cindy and some work still to be done. We will probably wait until all of the leaves are off the trees and branches which still need to come down as we have more leaf mulch from the chipper than wood chippings if we do it now. We are really looking forward to getting the last bits opened up down there. I would think it is time to pick the apples now. Not sure what we will do with them yet, but we don't want to waste the crop. I am sure an apple pie is on the cards though :-)
It was so nice that you offered to help a friend. Love to see whatever you care you share with us, whether it is pruning trees, helping friends etc. Thank you.
I've really missed you two! I know with a death in the family it can take a spell of time to clear things up. Wish you the best. You are so wonderful to help Mitch. I do think his house is in worse shape than yours. Look at how much you have learned already. You were removing the plastic, etc., from the wall and explaining why the damp is not leaving. His house will be wonderful when complete or even sort of complete. smile! Oh! Dawn NEEDS a door like that. It is awesome. Your land looks great. A testament to your hard work.
Isn't that the most beautiful door!? Just stunning! Mitch is a lovely bloke and he'd got himself in a little bit of a pickle of where to start on his joists and when he asked if we'd give him a hand, we immediately said yes because we knew the stress it caused us figuring it all out! lol
Hi Dawn and Ben, everytime I have tried to write this my daughter-in-law has rung me, so I am trying again 😂 What a great video this week, you 2 are real sweethearts, I am not surprised you would someone in need of help, can you imagine how you would have felt if someone asked for your help to fit joists a year ago, I am so glad you have videoed your journey so you can look back at just how far you have come. Im looking forward to Sundays video, it will be nice having you back, I hope you have taken the time you needed and are ready to start posting again. Sending love to you both and the kitty cats xxxx
Hi Kim, lol oh my goodness we wouldn’t have had a clue. It’s amazing how much you learn from “just doing there’s definitely things we would have done differently with the kitchen joists had we known what we know now lol. Maybe they will be revisited at some point 😉 It was lovely that Mitch trusted our work enough to want us to help. Fingers crossed he was right lol to trust in it! 😂 Yeah we back to “normal” now and it’s nice to be back. Love to you too Kim.xxx
Happy to see you back! It's so nice of you to give Mitch a helping hand. He has an enormous amount of work to do. Maybe in a few months, you can go back and film a little bit more so we can see his progress 😉 😊
Yes, makings of the lovely house it once was. Dry peat is a great insulator. It has been used in unsupporting walls, a binder in lime mortar, and as interior liners of roofs of old cottages in, but pre-dating, Northern Ireland. Flax was also used in a way similar to hemp today. I can remember both in our 19th century cottage, which looked much like Mitch's, in the 1950s. Fire protection wasn't the art then as it is now. In those days many practices were common within all counties of a Province so doesn't surprise.
That explains an awful lot. Thank you 😊.. my old house was a railway house in Co Armagh amazing what was used and of course no foundations . Just footings . Thanks for your comment.
Hahaha no, we definitely wouldn’t stroll down that one! We’re very behind with comments but trying to tip away at them…can’t believe this was a month ago, time has flown by soooo fast this year!
Its not finished yet . Noggins are next then double up the joists the hangers are on, then finally a shoulder into the wall on the right of the chimney breast. I can manage that myself we were concentrating on the parts i needed a hand with .👍👍
My intention is to make a " joist sandwich" with two joists and 22mm osb in the middle all glued and bolted together . For the supporting ones. I watched that being done in a previous house with bowed joists. They stayed level afterwards . Probably overkill but we were limited to the original 6" joist size here, as ceilings are only 7'2" tall as it is . Thanks for your comment very much appreciated
We’re so behind with comments so first of all apologies for that and with the delay I can now reply and say Bens been working on doing just that lol. Little more to go but getting there 🙂
Hi Dawn and Ben, it's great to see you again. Wonderful gesture, giving a hand to Mitch (a "Minga" in southern Chile). How beautiful the apples are!!! All kinds of delicacies are coming, compote, jam, cooked apples and their respective frozen juice, cakes, kuchen, strudel, apple empanadas, apples roasted in the fireplace... A big hug for you. Hola Dawn y Ben, es una gran alegría volver a verlos. Maravilloso gesto, al darle una mano a Mitch (una "Minga" en el sur de Chile). Que bellas están las manzanas!!! ya se vienen todo tipo de delicias, compota, mermelada, manzanas cocidas y su respectivo jugo helado, tartas, kuchen, strudel, empanadas de manzana, manzanas asadas en la chimenea... Un gran abrazo para ustedes. Mario.
@@Mitch-Hendren 🤣😂🤣 Hi Mitch. "Minga" in Chile refers to community work, whether in works in favor of the entire town, agricultural work, repair of buildings, even the transfer of complete houses with teams of oxen. Greetings and best wishes for your project.
If your tomatoes are still green before first freeze, pick them & wrap loosely in tissue paper & leave out on counter… check every few days for ripening. It does work.😌 Good luck
So, so happy to see you both back! You are kind to help with another set of joists. It does make me remember how far you've come in your own home when I see the bathroom with the rotted floor. Mitch's house will be lovely when it's done. That peat, though. I guess if it was dry when it was installed they used it as inexpensive filler? But peat does tend to absorb and hold moisture. Yikes!
Yay we’re happy to be back! We do forget how bad this place was when we first got here 🫣 There’s so much still to do but it’s now a home again. Yes, Mitch’s house will be beautiful, it’s a lovely place with some real nice features. We’re looking forward to seeing what he does with it. ❤️
Eso que creéis que es un manzano silvestre, es un membrillo fruta típica de otoño. Se consumen pelandolos y hirviendolos en agua con azúcar, canela y clavos de olor. Se hace un almíbar y se come con los trocitos de membrillo. También se hace carne de membrillo. Esa son algunas recetas de aquí en España
So glad to see you back, I've really missed your videos. I can only imagine how overgrown the garden must've been. Looking forward to watching again.❤️
It's lovely to see your smiling faces again Did you taste one of the apples? Baked apples, apple sauce, apple pies, apple jelly, apple cake, chopped in a salad, dried apple rings mmm. If you eat one apple every day you need 365 apples each until next harvest. They make the house smell nice too. Set up the camera please - we WILL watch you pick apples. farm supply should sell apple baskets (bushel baskets) for storage. I even put apples in my curry
Yes, they have quite a tart taste so could be more a cooker than an eating one. We didn't get to try many of them....we had some visitors (cows) onto the land a few months back and they bashed into the apple trees a bit and knocked quite a lot of the apples off. 😕 Fingers crossed for next year though we can concentrate a little more on growing things properly.
Brilliant work there Dawnie and ben.and what a wonderful surprise to have your daughter over I can't think of a better suprise. Take care love Aunty Chrissie and uncle Dave xxxx
Had a great few days too so Thank YOU both . As you know id got to that " where do we start Next " phase. What you did was better than just help . Ed said try window ledge near bananas to ripen tomatoes. It sounds daft but does work. See you soon . 😄😄
@@morrigans_cottage Thanks so much it has a lovely feel to it. Sounds daft but I persuaded my partner to buy it.. ( mostly) because I felt sorry for it ! I've been passing it for years and watched it slowly falling apart . This is the second time ive done this, still renovating "calamity cottage " in mayo..... Bought that 4 years ago for the exact same reason .... Ill never learn !
@@Mitch-Hendren omg stop I feel sorry for things like that too 😂 so I totally understand! I’m so stressed with my one project I don’t know how you can handle two!!! Fair play!!!
Glad to see your new video. The land looks great. Is the weather starting to cool there? So nice of you to help your neighbor. His place looked to be in worse shape than yours did when you began renovation. Your advice to him will be invaluable I am sure and much appreciated. Are you going to can any apples ? I look forward to your next video. From sunny Florida, just nana 🪨🪨🪨🌳🌳🌳❤️
We had a nice few days up there with Mitch, he is a lovely man and good friend. I am sure we will pop up there again to give an update. He is doing well from what he tells me. Yes, the weather is changing. We had ice on the windscreen of the car this morning :-( that is no good for Dawn using Lime. Thank you as always Brenda :)
Might be an idea to look up raspberry pruning. I think you should only take out the old growth as next years fruit will be growing on this years growth.
The yard looks so great!! I remember when it was just mud! and before that a jungle. I live near Seattle and we have a similar climate to Ireland, I got my tomatoes out too late this year and I don't think the small number of fruits I have are going to ripen. With our short growing season tomatoes are always kind of risky here, some years they do great others not so much.
Thank you ❤️ It’s funny as I’ve just been watching back over a couple of old videos of ours, looking for footage of the outbuilding that I’m fixing at the moment lol but seeing how overgrown everything was is quite the reminder of how much we’ve actually done to the place outside! The mud outside our back door is all but gone and we can actually access every part of our land now!
Got to give you credit to you both you put so much work in even when things are tough from a person with the same things going on anyway still love watching 👍
Aww I'm sorry to hear that you are going through the same struggles in life right now. We are sending our best wishes to you and hope things are ok for you right now.
I’ve gone back to your first video and have enjoyed every one. You both have come so far in renovating your home. Can’t wait to see it completed and what your next adventure will be. Condolences to Ben and his family.
Maybe Transparent apples? If they are they make great applesauce. Think they really need a good pruning though. Not sure what is the best of year to do that in your area but if you prune them you will get much better results next year.
Mitch's joist with all the hangers, and the joist off which it hangs, both look like they could do with being doubled, as in another one alongside, spiked through every 600 or so with 100mm nails
Hi Peter its nowhere near finished yet. Noggins next and once its tightened up the load bearing joists will be doubled with a solid osb layer in-between glued and bolted through every 400 cm hopefully that should take any bounce out ..we were stuck using 6 inch joists because both ceilings are already only 7foot 2 tall . thanks for your input . Very much appreciated
@@Mitch-Hendren I agree with Peter, all of those joists bearing on a single joist is not good, at least double up the joist that the trimmer is bearing on. That single joist is bearing the weight of most of the floor!
Like I said in my reply to Peter, its nowhere near finished yet. Noggins reinforcing and stuff like that i can do myself , we concentrated on the stuff i did need help with .
We went forwards and back on rhat issue and decided that these pockets are so damp that plastic would make things worse and trap moisture , Ryan's pockets had dried out . These wont until the outside is sorted and inside heated . As a compromise the new pressure treated joists are sitting on dpc membrane and ill be using lime as a, packer not concrete as was used before .
Did I hear you say Mollohan? I have ancestors from Ireland by the name of George Mollohan and Nancy Hanks Jones. They both made it to America back in the 1700s and were married not too long after arriving in America. Two of their sons married into my 4x great grandfather's (William "English Bill" Dodrill/Doddridge) family. They married two of William's daughters, Mary and Martha. Enjoy watching the progress you are making on the cottage and admire your patience! Keep up the good work!
He’s a lovely bloke and it was a pleasure to go help out. We’ve recently had pics from him and he now has a floor down and a bedroom! Which was lovely to see ❤️
Well done guys, your garden looks excellent , just a pity you hadnt planted in time and your netying hadnt arrived. At least you know better for next year. As for sharing your knowhow ~ wrll that just says a lot about you both. Hope to see you soon, Wheelo
Ooh yes next year we are going to try and get a little more organised for what to plant and grow and when to plant. It would be lovely to have all sorts growing but we will have to see how everything pans out.
Isn't it great, getting comments from all over the world? You have about seven different suggestions of what those apples are! I'll throw in one - an Ein Shemer Apple, it's a heritage apple variety.
You are so right! It truly is amazing to see people from all over the world commenting with help and comments! I will have a Google of your name and see what I think 🤔 🍏 thank you very much!
@@paulabodine5317 unfortubately the pannelling was taken out and replaced with a single sheet of glass sometime in the '70s it was a thing at the time . Panels bad, flush good ! Some of the internal doors are covered in plywood hoping the original panelled doors are underneath
Nice to see ye back Ben and Dawn and Tis nice of ye helping out Mitch. Ye are getting familiar with the very old Irish homes. I liked the front door also. Maybe the apples are crab apples but I’m no expert
When Ben filmed as he entered the home, there were two fireplaces, the more grand mantel was right behind the kitchen table - is that mantel stone or wood and is it original? Dawn, I too love the transom and sidelites surrounding the pretty front door and I love the balance of the house from the front view. Mitch said, "I have a floor!" - not quite Mitch, but by golly it's so close, haha. So happy for you Mitch - Ben and Dawn this was a huge gift you gave Mitch and his wife.
The fireplace in front of the window is a wooden surround for a cast iron insert . Its to replace the low wide one with no tiles on . That was a freebie from someone replacing it for a more modern one . Fits that period house beautifully though .
Good to see you! Another great Irish property on her way back to glory! Am fascinated by those apples with the pointy bottom! I’m guessing Chinese quinces which are different to normal quinces. Don’t cut those Raspberries down as fruit sets on the previous years growth. Just cut out old growth. Cheers, stay well! 😊
Ooh lovely thanks for the tips on the Rasberries! They are a strange looking apple, I'm not sure if they should look like that or whether they have grown slightly weird because of the damage to the tree and that it has also been hidden beneath ivy and brambles for so many years previously.
I think I would have passed on this house also. It looks like the outside walls and the inside walls need to be chipped away to the original parts. That way you can see what needs to be done and what is hidden from view, what is original, and what needs to replaced. There is no way one can do anything in that over crowded building. Glad to see you back and hope all is well.
It was cheap as in very cheap.. only overcrowded at the moment . Storage is on its way . 😊 ( Thankfully ) Its a long term project not a quick fix, its to keep me busy and out of mischief in retirement. So no rush 👍
The apples on your tree look like "Glockenäpfel" (bell apples?), a very old variety that is common in Austria, Switzerland, southern Germany and Holland. Well suited to harsh climates, its a bird- feeding plant an bee-friendly. Well suited for storage (a so-called winter apple): ready to pick at the end of September, ready to eat December - March. I hope this helps to identify your tree.
You have restored my faith in finding nice people. Not only do you have a huge project at home,you go out and share your experience. I loved this. You are so hard working and kind. ❤
It’s nice to help out, we know more than most how nerve wracking it is starting a job that you have no clue how you’re going to do it. Mitch was chuffed and he’s since sent a photo of the room with the osb down and he now has a room upstairs that he can use, which is lovely. 🥰
What a beautiful old house. I am so glad your friends are rescuing it. 💖
I am so glad to see you two. Hugs
That house will always have damp ! Due to 2 things. The outside is covered in cement render + a path . That's part a stone + rubble + brick house that must be able to breathe. There is nowhere for the moisture / condensation to go because of the render + pathway. It should have a thin lime render , going straight down to the ground with a fall off to a gravel pathway ( which should be slightly below. house level ).
A French drain is not a solution either, to this problem.
I speak from experience .as I have an Irish 1700's farmhouse..
I had a builder renovate the house, but builders generally only know about later block build houses.. . .
You will get all this information + booklets + online from ' AN Taisce ' the National Trust for Ireland, on these issues. '. ♥
Thank you for all the suggestions and I am sure Mitch, in time, will address all of the problems.
Mitch has a lot of courage to take on such a needy house. It was very kind of you to help them out. The house seems as though it could be a lovely home one day, such a shame the road was built so close to the property.
Please pick any green tomatoes before frost and put on a tray in your kitchen. I put mine stem side down. Right now I have a number of nice red tomatoes on my counter and they were picked green. Leave them on the vine as long as you can but they will turn red in the house. I cover them lightly with a paper towel. I do not wash them until I’m ready to use them. Let me know if this works for you. I have done this for several years.
Thank you for the tips Vicky. I'm ashamed to say that we haven't been looking after them very well and they haven't fared well. Fingers crossed for next year!
A little see through sheeting over the tomatoes will keep them warm and let the sun through! They should keep growing!
Good tip thanks Kelly ❤️
Glad to see you both back!
And I’m sure I’m not in the least the only one that enjoys garden upkeep and landscaping videos! 💚
Of course you helped a subscriber out, you guys are sweethearts. ❤️
Aww thank you. It was a pleasure to help him, he’s a lovely bloke who normally visits with a couple of bags of coal on board too!
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Put the green tomatoes into a brown paper bag on a window sill indoors. They will ripen
Thank you very much for the tip 😊
Green tomatoes can be used in place of egg plant for parmesan,, and I have a marvelous recipe for green tomato mincemeat. Also, wrap each in paper and store in a cool place (not refrigerator cool) and they will turn red. I used to pick all the green ones when a frost was due and still had some for salad for Thanksgiving dinner. Did not have an rot.
The land looks great, Dawn the flowers are called love in the mist. they will seed off and come again next year, lovely to see you two on here again, ♥xxx
That'll be nice to have them seed off around the place. It needs a bit of colour here and there! xxxx
The apples look like Granny Smith apples. Good for baking
Glad to see you back . The peat in the walls was done on purpose as it would not burn but provide a stable wall so therefore the cottage could be a lot older. Thanks for giving a glimpse of a another abandoned renovation
Hi Ronnie we have it traced back to 1782. But of course it could be older than that .
Yes that is probably it after the potato famine . So you are going to find history mysteries every where .what a great cottage it will be one day
I do believe peat serves as a very good insulator, I remember reading this a long time ago.
Fried green tomatoes are delicious
Looks like a yellow delicious
Mitch has a beautiful property. I would say that concrete render needs to be removed as soon as possible and repoint the stones in order to dry the house out.
You're absolutely right, monumental task ahead , first priority was stabilise the settlement , get water tank filledand working , put in a working toilet. And decided to put that bedroom floor in so can at least have a comfortable bedroom while doing the rest.
Re: your apples-I vaguely recall that there was an old variety called “sheep’s nose” that looked sort of like that. It was an ancestor of the golden delicious variety.
I was going to suggest golden delicious, or Granny Smith for the apples, although they didn’t appear green enough for Granny Smiths. Whatever the variety, what a beautiful crop on the one tree alone! Applesauce, anyone? 😄
Ooh that sounds interesting I will have a Google of that. They are a very weird shaped apple and the name sheep’s nose suggests not the normal apple shape 😂
I don't blame him for asking, I'd be feeling overwhelmed looking at what he's trying to do. The front door looks amazing, it lets in so much light as well, really beautiful.❤
I was totally overwhelmed i was like where do you start ?
We were lied to about there being a well.. there isnt, its a rainwater tank.
Skip hadnt turned up so the rubbish was mounting,
Ordered a huge shed . It got stuck in customs for a fortnight ( just have it now) so everything had to go into the kitchen the one useable room .
All my timber arrived the same day was meant to be joists then flooring then plasterboard with a few days in-between it all arrived in one go.
But the dynamic duo arrived and made it ok.
Im eternally grateful. And now have a plan going forward
@@Mitch-Hendren It's great that you guys have become friends, they are awesome. I think that you are very brave taking on your house and getting on with it. You will definitely gain loads of knowledge and hopefully more support from people who can. Great to have a chance to see your project and I can only wish all the best for the future work.❤️
Those apples look like what we call yellow delicious in America. You guys are experts, in putting those up now . I really missed your videos. Much love from Oklahoma USA Jackie 🇺🇸💖
That was my first thought, as well.......yellow delicious. I sure missed you. I also send love from Idaho.
We call them golden delicious
Lovely to see you both. You could always make green tomato chutney (with some apples) if they don't ripen.
If you're going to have an open vege patch, the best thing to do is have lines of sacrificial lettuce plants that the pests will be attracted to most, and hopefully the others will be alright.
Ooh lovely thank you for this tip! Will keep that in mind for next year.
Hi guy's, good to see you both back. My tomatoes are still green, I got 2 red ones today. They grow up until nearly December 👍
👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire /Ireland
Ours haven't fared very well at all. I think we got them out a bit too late really and haven't had the time to take care of them properly. Maybe next year will be a more organised year for growing.
@@thecornerhouseproject Barrie from portnoomarket gave a great tip he said to take off as much leaves as you can and tug at the roots and they will turn red quicker. I'll be doing that sooner next year 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
I believe that all of the outside rendering will have to be taken off to do the pointing for the whole house, a job that is and can be very expensive. Unless your friend can do it himself, but even then he will still have all of the materials to buy.
He has some real friends in you two, taking time from your own renovations makes you that.
Nice to see you guys again.
The organic centre in Leitrim has it's apple day at the end of the month...If you bring some apples they should be able to identify...
Hey Ben & Dawn. Love your hard work as always. As for those apples - I'm pretty sure those are Costard Apples (not custard apples). Favourited by Edward I (circa 1292). More prosaically, they were commonly used as hard cider apples. They can be eaten raw and have a tangy green, sweet, acidic flavour. This will give you a drier tasting cider - not so sweet as red apple varieties.
So you can eventually fill one of those out buildings with scrumpy barrels & a press.
They do have a cooker smell to them bit more tart smelling than an eating apple so you could well be right with good for cider 🍺😊
You two are amazing , down to earth , no nonsense and your love shines through , well done , I wish I were there too
Aww thank you Jan. that’s very nice of you to say. Xx
It’s nice to see neighbors helping neighbors. I love your “yard”! A little wild and overgrown but lots of space and peacefulness. Maybe those apples will make nice pies and tarts which would be good with coffee.☕
Yes, it is still a little wild Cindy and some work still to be done. We will probably wait until all of the leaves are off the trees and branches which still need to come down as we have more leaf mulch from the chipper than wood chippings if we do it now. We are really looking forward to getting the last bits opened up down there.
I would think it is time to pick the apples now. Not sure what we will do with them yet, but we don't want to waste the crop. I am sure an apple pie is on the cards though :-)
LOVELY to see you back. you two have hearts of pure gold xx
It was so nice that you offered to help a friend. Love to see whatever you care you share with us, whether it is pruning trees, helping friends etc. Thank you.
thank gooodnesss we have you back ,missed you both so much yeyyyy great back to your renovationsxxxx
You can wrap the tomatoes in newspaper so they ripen. And I have seen where you hang the whole plant upside down in the house so they ripen as well!
Great to see you back.Glad you both had a rest away from your home 😊
I've really missed you two! I know with a death in the family it can take a spell of time to clear things up. Wish you the best. You are so wonderful to help Mitch. I do think his house is in worse shape than yours. Look at how much you have learned already. You were removing the plastic, etc., from the wall and explaining why the damp is not leaving. His house will be wonderful when complete or even sort of complete. smile! Oh! Dawn NEEDS a door like that. It is awesome. Your land looks great. A testament to your hard work.
Isn't that the most beautiful door!? Just stunning! Mitch is a lovely bloke and he'd got himself in a little bit of a pickle of where to start on his joists and when he asked if we'd give him a hand, we immediately said yes because we knew the stress it caused us figuring it all out! lol
Welcome back you have been missed! So luvely ro see people helpoimg each other out, it doesn't happen very often these days bless you. CC
So pleased to see you back. The property looks so good all your hard work has paid off.
Thank you ❤️
Hi Dawn and Ben, everytime I have tried to write this my daughter-in-law has rung me, so I am trying again 😂
What a great video this week, you 2 are real sweethearts, I am not surprised you would someone in need of help, can you imagine how you would have felt if someone asked for your help to fit joists a year ago, I am so glad you have videoed your journey so you can look back at just how far you have come.
Im looking forward to Sundays video, it will be nice having you back, I hope you have taken the time you needed and are ready to start posting again. Sending love to you both and the kitty cats xxxx
Hi Kim, lol oh my goodness we wouldn’t have had a clue. It’s amazing how much you learn from “just doing there’s definitely things we would have done differently with the kitchen joists had we known what we know now lol. Maybe they will be revisited at some point 😉
It was lovely that Mitch trusted our work enough to want us to help. Fingers crossed he was right lol to trust in it! 😂 Yeah we back to “normal” now and it’s nice to be back. Love to you too Kim.xxx
Happy to see you back! It's so nice of you to give Mitch a helping hand. He has an enormous amount of work to do. Maybe in a few months, you can go back and film a little bit more so we can see his progress 😉 😊
@@Rebeca-sd1md hopefully there will be an odd update yes . Keeps me on my toes too 😀
Yes, makings of the lovely house it once was. Dry peat is a great insulator. It has been used in unsupporting walls, a binder in lime mortar, and as interior liners of roofs of old cottages in, but pre-dating, Northern Ireland. Flax was also used in a way similar to hemp today. I can remember both in our 19th century cottage, which looked much like Mitch's, in the 1950s. Fire protection wasn't the art then as it is now. In those days many practices were common within all counties of a Province so doesn't surprise.
That explains an awful lot. Thank you 😊.. my old house was a railway house in Co Armagh amazing what was used and of course no foundations . Just footings .
Thanks for your comment.
With raspberries fruit only grows on the new canes, you must cut out the old canes before the next season
Lovely thank you very much for the advice 😊
Did you ask your neighbor if they know what kind of apples they are? Maybe they are common in the area. And Welcome back!
Cooking apple's for stewed apple's and apple tarts..xx
No crap apples you can make juice out if it.
Also we are here to see how you tide up the garden.
Ok, now THAT is a busy road😂You wouldn’t be taking us on an amble down the middle of it.
So glad to see you back. I missed you two and your silliness.
Hahaha no, we definitely wouldn’t stroll down that one! We’re very behind with comments but trying to tip away at them…can’t believe this was a month ago, time has flown by soooo fast this year!
It appears that there were no noggins between the joists to stop the floor from creaking and the joists from twisting due to climate.
Its not finished yet . Noggins are next then double up the joists the hangers are on, then finally a shoulder into the wall on the right of the chimney breast.
I can manage that myself we were concentrating on the parts i needed a hand with .👍👍
They look almost like a golden delicious that we have here in Canada
Tell Mitch to double the floor joist with all the other joist on it
My intention is to make a " joist sandwich" with two joists and 22mm osb in the middle all glued and bolted together . For the supporting ones. I watched that being done in a previous house with bowed joists. They stayed level afterwards . Probably overkill but we were limited to the original 6" joist size here, as ceilings are only 7'2" tall as it is . Thanks for your comment very much appreciated
Nice to see both back 👍
Get all that dirt away from all around the house and get a French drain in be for the rains come in October
We’re so behind with comments so first of all apologies for that and with the delay I can now reply and say Bens been working on doing just that lol. Little more to go but getting there 🙂
Hi Dawn and Ben, it's great to see you again. Wonderful gesture, giving a hand to Mitch (a "Minga" in southern Chile). How beautiful the apples are!!! All kinds of delicacies are coming, compote, jam, cooked apples and their respective frozen juice, cakes, kuchen, strudel, apple empanadas, apples roasted in the fireplace... A big hug for you.
Hola Dawn y Ben, es una gran alegría volver a verlos. Maravilloso gesto, al darle una mano a Mitch (una "Minga" en el sur de Chile). Que bellas están las manzanas!!! ya se vienen todo tipo de delicias, compota, mermelada, manzanas cocidas y su respectivo jugo helado, tartas, kuchen, strudel, empanadas de manzana, manzanas asadas en la chimenea... Un gran abrazo para ustedes.
Mario.
Minga has a totally different meaning in English. 😱 Hoping it means Ginger ! 😉
@@Mitch-Hendren 🤣😂🤣 Hi Mitch. "Minga" in Chile refers to community work, whether in works in favor of the entire town, agricultural work, repair of buildings, even the transfer of complete houses with teams of oxen. Greetings and best wishes for your project.
@@MARIOCABU so glad you cleared that up 🤣🤣 and thanks for your lovely wishes
If your tomatoes are still green before first freeze, pick them & wrap loosely in tissue paper & leave out on counter… check every few days for ripening. It does work.😌 Good luck
Thank you for the tips, very much appreciated 😊
to keep branch form break when the fruit is small take some off and you will get large fruit.
Thank you for the tip ❤️
So, so happy to see you both back! You are kind to help with another set of joists. It does make me remember how far you've come in your own home when I see the bathroom with the rotted floor. Mitch's house will be lovely when it's done. That peat, though. I guess if it was dry when it was installed they used it as inexpensive filler? But peat does tend to absorb and hold moisture. Yikes!
Yay we’re happy to be back! We do forget how bad this place was when we first got here 🫣 There’s so much still to do but it’s now a home again. Yes, Mitch’s house will be beautiful, it’s a lovely place with some real nice features. We’re looking forward to seeing what he does with it. ❤️
so is this day 33 on the land 🤣 so pleased to see you both back xx
The apples are Grenadier early cooking apples
Have a great week
Hi guys lovely to see you back🙌wow your busy,look forward to more videos to come, best of luck, don’t work to hard xx
Eso que creéis que es un manzano silvestre, es un membrillo fruta típica de otoño. Se consumen pelandolos y hirviendolos en agua con azúcar, canela y clavos de olor. Se hace un almíbar y se come con los trocitos de membrillo. También se hace carne de membrillo. Esa son algunas recetas de aquí en España
So glad to see you back!
So glad to see you back, I've really missed your videos. I can only imagine how overgrown the garden must've been. Looking forward to watching again.❤️
Oh so overgrown, it’s nice to be arriving into the slower growing months so it doesn’t need doing quite so often!
It's lovely to see your smiling faces again Did you taste one of the apples? Baked apples, apple sauce, apple pies, apple jelly, apple cake, chopped in a salad, dried apple rings mmm. If you eat one apple every day you need 365 apples each until next harvest. They make the house smell nice too. Set up the camera please - we WILL watch you pick apples. farm supply should sell apple baskets (bushel baskets) for storage. I even put apples in my curry
Yes, they have quite a tart taste so could be more a cooker than an eating one. We didn't get to try many of them....we had some visitors (cows) onto the land a few months back and they bashed into the apple trees a bit and knocked quite a lot of the apples off. 😕
Fingers crossed for next year though we can concentrate a little more on growing things properly.
Glad you are back!!! Really missed your videos, you two are amazing!
Brilliant work there Dawnie and ben.and what a wonderful surprise to have your daughter over I can't think of a better suprise. Take care love Aunty Chrissie and uncle Dave xxxx
Aww it was amazing to see her made me cry! 😭 Thanks Auntie Chris xxx
If you could throw up a frame to cover with plastic to keep them warmer they would likely ripen for you.
You will never have to seed for love-in-a-mist again!
I’m guessing it will spread quite well lol. Lots of seed pods. 😊
@@thecornerhouseproject The good thing is they uproot easily.
Lol...there is one way to find out if you can eat your apples...take a bite ...smile smile
We’ve tried them periodically and they’re a little sour so maybe cookers we think. 🤔
Had a great few days too so Thank YOU both . As you know id got to that " where do we start Next " phase. What you did was better than just help .
Ed said try window ledge near bananas to ripen tomatoes. It sounds daft but does work. See you soon . 😄😄
The house is lovely! Such great bones it’ll be amazing when it’s done!
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Thanks so much it has a lovely feel to it.
Sounds daft but I persuaded my partner to buy it.. ( mostly) because I felt sorry for it ! I've been passing it for years and watched it slowly falling apart .
This is the second time ive done this, still renovating "calamity cottage " in mayo..... Bought that 4 years ago for the exact same reason .... Ill never learn !
@@Mitch-Hendren omg stop I feel sorry for things like that too 😂 so I totally understand! I’m so stressed with my one project I don’t know how you can handle two!!! Fair play!!!
Glad to see your new video. The land looks great. Is the weather starting to cool there? So nice of you to help your neighbor. His place looked to be in worse shape than yours did when you began renovation. Your advice to him will be invaluable I am sure and much appreciated. Are you going to can any apples ? I look forward to your next video. From sunny Florida, just nana 🪨🪨🪨🌳🌳🌳❤️
We had a nice few days up there with Mitch, he is a lovely man and good friend. I am sure we will pop up there again to give an update. He is doing well from what he tells me.
Yes, the weather is changing. We had ice on the windscreen of the car this morning :-( that is no good for Dawn using Lime.
Thank you as always Brenda :)
Neat to see you back. Your garden isn't looking bad. Looks OK. I wonder if that's an Apple Custard tree?.
Might be an idea to look up raspberry pruning. I think you should only take out the old growth as next years fruit will be growing on this years growth.
Yes, agree. Fruit grows on previous years growth. So don’t cut it right back!
Thank you both for the advice. Fingers crossed next year we get to try ore the birds eat them all! 😂
The remains of what was a beautiful Georgian front door , how sad .the fireplaces aren't as nice as yours😂😂😂 .good to see you both ❤
Haha of course the fireplaces! 😉🤣
The yard looks so great!! I remember when it was just mud! and before that a jungle. I live near Seattle and we have a similar climate to Ireland, I got my tomatoes out too late this year and I don't think the small number of fruits I have are going to ripen. With our short growing season tomatoes are always kind of risky here, some years they do great others not so much.
Thank you ❤️ It’s funny as I’ve just been watching back over a couple of old videos of ours, looking for footage of the outbuilding that I’m fixing at the moment lol but seeing how overgrown everything was is quite the reminder of how much we’ve actually done to the place outside! The mud outside our back door is all but gone and we can actually access every part of our land now!
Look at the number of your subscribers! ❤
You can always make green tomato chutney if they don’t ripen in time
So pleased you are back ❤❤
wat leuk dat jullie weer terug zijn!!!!
Got to give you credit to you both you put so much work in even when things are tough from a person with the same things going on anyway still love watching 👍
Aww I'm sorry to hear that you are going through the same struggles in life right now. We are sending our best wishes to you and hope things are ok for you right now.
I’ve gone back to your first video and have enjoyed every one. You both have come so far in renovating your home. Can’t wait to see it completed and what your next adventure will be. Condolences to Ben and his family.
Aww thank you Sonia, that's great to read that you have enjoyed them all. Hard going some of those early ones with the sound and video quality!
glad to see you back online -
Put tomatoes on a windowsill and they will ripen easily xxx 😘 😊😊😊😊. Eating/cooking apples.
Maybe Transparent apples? If they are they make great applesauce. Think they really need a good pruning though. Not sure what is the best of year to do that in your area but if you prune them you will get much better results next year.
Yeah i think this autumn/winter we will make some time to go and prune them back and hopefully next year things will look a little more healthy.
Mitch's joist with all the hangers, and the joist off which it hangs, both look like they could do with being doubled, as in another one alongside, spiked through every 600 or so with 100mm nails
Make upstairs a bit less bouncy
Make it Spike every 300
Hi Peter its nowhere near finished yet. Noggins next and once its tightened up the load bearing joists will be doubled with a solid osb layer in-between glued and bolted through every 400 cm hopefully that should take any bounce out ..we were stuck using 6 inch joists because both ceilings are already only 7foot 2 tall . thanks for your input . Very much appreciated
@@Mitch-Hendren I agree with Peter, all of those joists bearing on a single joist is not good, at least double up the joist that the trimmer is bearing on. That single joist is bearing the weight of most of the floor!
Like I said in my reply to Peter, its nowhere near finished yet.
Noggins reinforcing and stuff like that i can do myself , we concentrated on the stuff i did need help with .
Nick Moon wraps a heavy plastic and staples it on the ends of joists that go into rock to protect from moisture and rot.
But that would prevent from drying out.
We went forwards and back on rhat issue and decided that these pockets are so damp that plastic would make things worse and trap moisture , Ryan's pockets had dried out . These wont until the outside is sorted and inside heated . As a compromise the new pressure treated joists are sitting on dpc membrane and ill be using lime as a, packer not concrete as was used before .
It's great to see you both back. xx
Good to see you both 😊
The apples 🍏 look similar to a variety we have in the US called Golden delicious
Did I hear you say Mollohan? I have ancestors from Ireland by the name of George Mollohan and Nancy Hanks Jones. They both made it to America back in the 1700s and were married not too long after arriving in America. Two of their sons married into my 4x great grandfather's (William "English Bill" Dodrill/Doddridge) family. They married two of William's daughters, Mary and Martha. Enjoy watching the progress you are making on the cottage and admire your patience! Keep up the good work!
@@rebeccasprankle3006 County Monaghan 👍
So good to see you guys helping each other out lovely job
He’s a lovely bloke and it was a pleasure to go help out. We’ve recently had pics from him and he now has a floor down and a bedroom! Which was lovely to see ❤️
What a lovely trip, and that’s awesome that you helped out Mitch! Very nice! 😊💚
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Well done guys, your garden looks excellent , just a pity you hadnt planted in time and your netying hadnt arrived.
At least you know better for next year.
As for sharing your knowhow ~ wrll that just says a lot about you both.
Hope to see you soon,
Wheelo
Ooh yes next year we are going to try and get a little more organised for what to plant and grow and when to plant.
It would be lovely to have all sorts growing but we will have to see how everything pans out.
Isn't it great, getting comments from all over the world? You have about seven different suggestions of what those apples are! I'll throw in one - an Ein Shemer Apple, it's a heritage apple variety.
You are so right! It truly is amazing to see people from all over the world commenting with help and comments! I will have a Google of your name and see what I think 🤔 🍏 thank you very much!
Amazing front door, once it’s all the same color. 😉
@@paulabodine5317 unfortubately the pannelling was taken out and replaced with a single sheet of glass sometime in the '70s it was a thing at the time . Panels bad, flush good ! Some of the internal doors are covered in plywood hoping the original panelled doors are underneath
Nice to see ye back Ben and Dawn and Tis nice of ye helping out Mitch. Ye are getting familiar with the very old Irish homes. I liked the front door also. Maybe the apples are crab apples but I’m no expert
It's so nice to visit other houses and see how they were consructed back in the day and the creative mediums that were used to repair things.
Welcome back ❤
Looking forward to seeing work on your house again!
Fingers crossed with the weather turning now for autumn we will have more “in house” stuff going on 🤩
When Ben filmed as he entered the home, there were two fireplaces, the more grand mantel was right behind the kitchen table - is that mantel stone or wood and is it original? Dawn, I too love the transom and sidelites surrounding the pretty front door and I love the balance of the house from the front view. Mitch said, "I have a floor!" - not quite Mitch, but by golly it's so close, haha. So happy for you Mitch - Ben and Dawn this was a huge gift you gave Mitch and his wife.
The fireplace in front of the window is a wooden surround for a cast iron insert . Its to replace the low wide one with no tiles on . That was a freebie from someone replacing it for a more modern one . Fits that period house beautifully though .
@@Mitch-Hendren Thanks so much for explaining.
Good to see you! Another great Irish property on her way back to glory! Am fascinated by those apples with the pointy bottom! I’m guessing Chinese quinces which are different to normal quinces. Don’t cut those Raspberries down as fruit sets on the previous years growth. Just cut out old growth. Cheers, stay well! 😊
Ooh lovely thanks for the tips on the Rasberries! They are a strange looking apple, I'm not sure if they should look like that or whether they have grown slightly weird because of the damage to the tree and that it has also been hidden beneath ivy and brambles for so many years previously.
I think I would have passed on this house also. It looks like the outside walls and the inside walls need to be chipped away to the original parts. That way you can see what needs to be done and what is hidden from view, what is original, and what needs to replaced. There is no way one can do anything in that over crowded building. Glad to see you back and hope all is well.
It was cheap as in very cheap.. only overcrowded at the moment . Storage is on its way . 😊 ( Thankfully )
Its a long term project not a quick fix, its to keep me busy and out of mischief in retirement. So no rush 👍