ITALIAN SUMMER GARDEN TOUR - Is this the best garden in Positano?
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- I met Antonello who lives in Montepertuso a few weeks ago and asked if he would let me film a tour of his garden which is very different from ours!
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This an amazing documentary of a real slice of life over there. I just love it.
Thank you lovelyxx
Couldn't agree wuth you more. It's the real life quality that keeps me coming back time and again. And I'm getting so many ideas from Nicki and Carlo, which i can apply in my own home here in Kenya. Lovely!
With plenty of fresh fruits and veges and a stunning view, this has got to be the happiest place on earth
I agree. I love how self sufficient people can be and how well the produce grows in that area.
I absolutely agree!!!😋🙌❤
IDK - Well, unless you're not a warm weather person. I'm a winter girl - all year round, a veritable vampire where sun is concerned, but I do love olive oil, wines, pasta and lots of seafood, so coastal is best (anywhere in the world actually). I stayed in Alicante, a coastal city in Spain and they enjoy fresh catches everyday of the year.
My daughter Gigi dated Felipe, before he married! Now he is King 👑
I recall the first time i went to Italy I was about 12 years old we stayed at my grandparents home 10 acres of a beautiful hill top farm..My mom had asked me to go get some vegetables for dinner and I replied ok ma give me the money i will go buy it in the small town below ..She looked me in the eye and starting laughing ..She replied turn around the corner of the home the vegetables are all around you. I will never forget that and I am in my 60's now. The farm had everything you can imagine. silly little city boy.
I hope you loved it there!
@@NickiPositano oh i travel to Italy quite often still have a home on that property in Calabria ..and my wife's parents have a home in Abruzzo but i haven't been in a few years ...thats why i watch your videos ...i miss it so much
@@tsocanuck that's a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing!! I'd love to have a home and land with a garden like this one one day too.
Considering all the stairs, you climb, no wonder you look so fit. And as always, little Holly makes me happy.
I am in my 30s and lockdown made me realise how much more sense it makes to grow your own foods. We have a garden now!
What a wonderful tour of Antonello’s garden. He’s so gracious and proud to share his amazing garden and wine making.
As always, you, Carlo and Holly are a pleasure to watch and those views!!! Thank you for another wonderful video 🥰🥰
This was wonderful I felt like I was actually there. It’s so beautiful a true garden of eden. Thank you for the tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is what life is about. This man is not lazy, hard work, this is why the Italians who left from the South and crossed the Ocean got successful in North and South America. Good discipline, survival skills and habits!❤⚘🙏
Loved Antonello's garden♥️
So many fruits, vegetables and nuts!
Can't wait for the wine making.
So glad TH-cam recommended your channel. It brings me so much joy!
A garden takes dedication and Love!! I can tell the gentlemen cares for his and holds to old tradition's that should never die. You'll see that if people stray from this now ultimately the next generation will bring it back out of need. Thank you for another lovely video and your friend for sharing 🤗❤️ Love that Holley.
An English rose amongst all that beauty..and as someone else commented so honest 🙏❤
Well, the truth is roses are originally from Asia and may have passed to England with the romans so that rose may have existed in Italy well before England existed.
@@jburgo15 True🙏
This was divine. I looked at another Amalfi video and ... well let’s say nothing compares. This is so real!!! Love it. Thanks Nicki
THanks Sally xx
Spectacular - what a wonderful way of life. Sad to think of it being lost. Thank you very much Nicki.
Absolutely fascinating insight into your local culture and way of life...so interesting...and thank you to Carlo too!...love your channel Nicki...🇦🇺
Thank you so much!
Love your videos The views are stunning and absolutely enjoy Carlo always working and creating such interesting things Your everyday life is a refreshing change from the everyday boredom from the quarantine here in El Paso , Texas
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Not only are your vlogs beautiful- but so insightful ... ❤️
I love how you and your friends take such pride in growing all these fruits and vegetables! Gorgeous Gardens!
Having wonderful diverse gardens like these is the absolute best way to live!!
Thank you for Carlo's friend to let you record so we can watch this awesome video.
I enjoyed a lot. 🌺⚘🌹
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for the tour of Antonellos beautiful garden. It brought back wonderful memories when I was younger and my grandparents who immigrated from Serina, in Avellino to New Jersey in 1920 and had a garden much like yours and Antonellos. They would have loved having Carlo help them in their garden with all of his knowledge and helpful tips. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful video Nicki and Carlo.
I enjoyed your tip on how to eat a fig, Carlo. Very interesting! 😉
Thanks Angela!
We eat the whole thing, skin and flesh, love your vlog, always good.
Ms Nicki, this video is epic !! You have shown so much of Positano and the surrounding areas that make me love Italy more !! It was so nice for Mr Carlo’s friend to show his property and it is AMAZING !! Thank you for sharing
Ciao from the Eternal City 🌃
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting! So satisfying to be self-sufficient. A lot of these types of practices are dying out. Farming, fishing, arts and crafts. It's a shame. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to the fall for the grape harvest!
I learnt a lot with your upload today! From growing fruits and vegetables, wine making, up to Italian tradition and culture!😉 A sustainable garden with a magnificent view!😍Thank you!😊
What an absolutely beautiful garden, the love and time spent to make it shows immense dedication. I hope this tradition does not stop with his generation. Thanks again Nicki, it something I would never be able to see with out you. I am going to watch again just to see what I might have missed the first time.
So nice of you
Yes, thank you Antonello for taking such good care of Mother Earth and all she does for us.
O loved it!!! The Italians knows how to live and how to maintain important and wise life style! Without focusing to much on the big cities consumerism.
That was a beautiful and very interesting tour. Thank you for sharing with us 🥰
I think some of the younger generations will take on these massive gardens. I love them! My mother grew everything she could, as did my paternal grandmother, I am trying to get our garden to sustain us and have 15 different fruit trees, as well as vegetables and herbs. I love your videos! Many thanks from California.
Antonellos garden is amazing, you know, i just wish they would take the children from the local schools, and take them round a garden like this, back to their roots, and inspire them to maybe think they can do this too, and to keep this tradition going.
Thankyou Nicki, it was lovely to watch, and cant wait for the wine to be made. 🏴 xxx
That would be a good idea!
When I was growing up I always wished I was the child of a farmer, loving animals and seeing things grow! I was raised in the city though, and I still long to live off the land and eat from the work of my own hands! I am now in my late 60s and still deeply admire those who work so hard in their gardens, to can, make wine, as your friend does, etc. Thank you for sharing such a different way of life that is so hard, but so very good! Love this!
If it’s not too intrusive could you tell us a bit about Carlo’s family history in Positano. They must have lived there a long time and seen many changes. Love your easy going vlogs.
That would be interesting to do but I would have to ask the family for permission
A beautiful garden. I pray that people wake up to what they may loose. Growing up in Southern California, we had small farms they grew various vegetables and the families would have a small stand for people to buy. Now, the fields have buildings. You can't get the health benefits from fruits and vegetables bought in markets, especially "big box" chain stores, there is no taste! The taste home grown or bought from local farmers is so different and amazing. I have a small little garden and enjoy it. It gets me outside and enjoy the beautiful fresh air. We need more home gardens, even if you have a small space you can grow in containers. Thank you taking us along. Lets hope this will inspire people to preserve those amazing old gardens.
We just finished watching! OMG, it is soooo good!!!! So interesting, so educational! Love you, guys!
This is such an interesting and educational video I LOVED IT! Please tell Carlo we patrons adore all your vlogs Nicki - nothing is ever boring! che cosa? Carlo, nessuna versione beauty americana con pomodoro? (LoL) Grazie mille Nicki, Carlo e Antonello. Veramente interessante e informativo, mi è piaciuto moltissimo !! xxx
I love Antonello's amazing, productive garden. He's very knowledgeable . I hope I meet someone who likes animals, and likes to grow food and have an amazing garden with a view. If he likes to cook as well, that would be the icing on the cake.😃He also has to be a caring and loving fellow of course. 😀 Grazie Nicki + Carlo + Antonello for the tour of this fabulous garden. xx
I'm from Philippines and I easily fell in love in Positano, such a lovely place!
Fascinating and well done. Incredible views but even more, just the mood of the farm was a delight.
This is the best Nicki, I could watch it over and over. So lovely, so real, such hard work to extract
a living from the land.
I can imagine the wonderful flavours from all that home grown produce. Your garden is just as lovely only on a smaller scale.
That was fabulous. A big thank you to Antonello for being so kind to share the beauty of his craft!
That farm is so unbelievably diverse with both in/edible species. Italians are really doing farming right.
Good Morning, Nikki & Carlo. We absolutely loved this video. You two have inspired my Husband, Sturg and I, to plant a garden in our backyard. We completely understand the joy you are talking about. We have eaten many bell peppers in different meals, I’ve made lots of pesto from our basil plants, we canned our first batch of tomatoes 🍅 and it was really enjoyable doing this together as a couple. I always look to yours and Carlos way of doing things in the garden. Very impressive and it works every time. We love spinach. Just being able to go pick some from the garden along with cherry tomatoes, or Roma tomatoes is the best! Thank you for your wonderful videos. I’ve watched them over and over. I never tire of your views, friends, kayaking and Holly. She’s the sweetest little pet. 💗. Can’t wait for the next one😉🥰
Thanks so much!
Good morning..what a great film..thank you so much...I loved seeing the garden...during lockdown..gardening and growing veggies became more popular here in the U.K..maybe in Italy young families will re discover the joy of gardening and feeding a family from home grown vegetables.
Gardening is good for our mental health...being outside..working on the soil etc they have found it helps with people's well being.
You could send your film to Gardeners' World ( BBC) they asked for home videos and had one from Canada the other week.
You should plant a Kiwi tree ?
I had a bag of plums from a neighbour and inspired by you made jam .
Ciao.
I'll have to look into where to send it
I absolutely LOVE your garden and food videos! I get such inspiration from the way you and Italians grow and use the local food and how people garden in Positano. Thank you for all the inspiration!
The gardens are so bounty full, I love to see how you make use of all the space , healthy and sustainable. Great video!
What a treat this garden tour was! Here is Canada we are seeing an increase in young people’s interest in gardening so hopefully the same will happen in your area and keep the gardens going. It is hard work but as you said, so rewarding. And if this pandemic taught us anything, we would all benefit from being more self sufficient in more ways than now.
OUTSTANDING! So beautiful and even though no travel this year you are bringing us such amazing views. Thank you
I LOVED this garden tour and all the detailed info (and I'm not even a gardener!) I wish I was younger and more physically able, as I would happily chuck everything and come learn to make the wine and continue the tradition. In past trips to Italy, I saw many little gardens growing up the folds between the mountains, and I loved to imagine everything growing down there just out of sight. Thanks for filling me in on what I imagined. I just love the ingenious set-up your friend had for getting the crushed grape juice down into the basement room for the next step in the process. I also loved how they run grape vines above on trellises and then plant potatoes etc. below them. Such efficiency! Great video!
Paradise. Hoping young people pay heed to the older generation & carry on the traditions. Nothing compares to fresh produce from one’s own garden.
Growing your own food, it really is a communion with the Devine, isn’t it? Thank you for this, truly remarkable 🙏
Absolutely divine!!! I loved Antonello's garden and the tidbits he provided! Wonderful video Nicki! Keep em' coming!! 💜🤍💜
These gardens are unbelievably beautiful❤️ How awesome to be able to grow them
This young lady 🙋♀️will happily take over that bountiful garden if Antonello doesnt have children to pass it on to! 💕😍❤
Amazing as always. My Italian relatives in Canada still keep a lot of the Italian traditions. Some of my cousins and their husbands are continuing those traditions here. We have a garden and it’s amazing in the summer, just to go out and get fresh vegetables is so satisfying. A fresh garden salad is so much more tasty then the lettuce we buy in the winter months. We have even planted raspberries and blueberries bushes in our garden, so fingers crossed they grow. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for sharing your lovey visit to Antonello's bountiful garden! Your thoughtful and fascinating storytelling will definitely inspire future Positano gardeners! I love learning the unique ideas, incredible Positano life and culture from your vlogs.
Antonello’s Garden is Magical!
Growing food for family is smart tradition passed on from the War time.
Hope ur video inspires people to grow their own food! 🥝🍇🍅🍆🍋
Ohhhh my goodness, this garden has lot of fruits and is so so beautiful! God bless him!
Love love that you grow your own food and thank you for a tour of that amazing garden of your friends. It brings back childhood memories for me
Kiwis growing on the side of the road...heaven!! 🥝
Thank you for the garden tour, it was very interesting to learn about some of the traditional gardening methods and wine production. So wonderful that people such as Antonello keep this amazing knowledge alive.
Beautiful garden😍. Thank you again for a fabulous video. Also Carlo thank you. Having the family in the videos is what makes it so real and special 😊
Love that you're up to 20K; The garden is exquisite, and just prior to your talking about how young people aren't interested, reminded me of when I was young, and how I disliked working in my parents' huge garden, not fully appreciating the luxury of eating fresh organic vegetables; now I long for those days. Tell your friends that the work they put into their amazing garden does not go unnoticed, and it is commendable, and inspiring. I'll look forward to October! Love to Holly!
THank you!
Is absolutely beautiful and fascinating Antonello garden and his vineyard. Thank you Nicky
Lovely video as always Nicki. I remember potatoes lasting a lot longer when I was little. Mum would buy a huge bag that lasted months in our dark larder. Lucky if they last a week now. I enjoy learning about how fruit and vegetables are cultivated to allow people to be self sufficient. The hard work and dedication that Antonello puts into his beautiful garden, must make him very proud. 🕊️👒🌻🙂
A few people have said that about potatoes..Ours always last for months..not sure why
WOW this guy is a garden genius. How beautiful to use nature for nature (use of willows) The grafting of the female to the male Kiwi is also interesting....soooo interesting!
Wow!!! What a great garden and tour!!!!!
Antinello !!! Adopt me !!!!!!! I LOVE THE GARDEN... I think it is HEAVEN to work in such a "rural" natural setup. And, JUST IMAGINE what MORE can be done to it !!! It is stunning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! what a beautiful garden with all excellent fruits and vegetables for healthy living. It's like paradise/simple living
So fascinating to see the tour of Antonnella’s garden and his wine making process. I have been a part of helping with a friend’s small organic vineyard here in Canada and the contrasts, and similarities, are so interesting! I loved hearing of the use of willow for tying the cordons - much more romantic - and organic than using the small plastic ties most larger vineyards use now. Great video
Dear niki thank you so much for this video it brought tears to my eyes looks like my grandparents garden in salerno back in the days I m Tring to recreate it in north london it has taken me back to my cild hood thank you so much
You are welcome Meriem!
Thank you, giving us the opportunity to see such a wonderful garden and the process for wine making is a special and rare treat. ❤❤❤❤
Another great and beautiful garden from Positano.Thanks Nicki from bringing us there.
That was brilliant, remember growing fruit and veg when I lived in Spain x
I am an urban gardener in Oregon, USA and I love all your videos but this has been a really special treat. Thank you! My dream is to farm in Italy someday.
Cheers
Hi. So many complimentary comments this obviously touched everyone’s hearts. Both sets of my grandparents had gardens of vegetables from 1930s up to late 1970s. As you say , food for eating, no flowers and already the next generation stopped by moving into towns for work with smaller gardens. I think this current generation is starting to grow vegetables and flowers together, on a small scale. Unfortunately we don’t have heat and sun like you do for great tomato growing Can’t wait for Sundays vlog. Lovely vlog with Carlo and your knowledgeable and friendly neighbour. From Ireland 🇮🇪
And I though this video might be too boring!
Nicki Positano no way. Keep them coming 🌈👍
How Gracious Antonello was to share a bit of his paradise with us. To have a garden like this in such a beautiful place has been a dream of mine since being a child. Thank you so much for taking the time to show us how amazing this garden was.
What an amazing garden. I always learn something watching your vlogs Nicki...thank you.
In Japan they do that too. Grow grapes above and grow (sweet) potatoes below.
Veggie/fruit paradise...omg. The view...stunning ! And interesting Luca story. Thank you.
Thank you that was awesome. You are right it’s so sad to see these skills being lost...that’s why I also subscribe to pasta grannies. Once this knowledge is lost it can never come back. I would happily potter around those gardens .
As one drives along the Amalfi coast, there are so many terraced garden areas. Thank you for showing a terraced garden from “ground level”. The taste of the fruits and veggies, homegrown, is far above store purchased. It IS a lot of work! The figs! Need to snag a few, fill with honey goat cheese and wrap in prosciutto! Another wonderful video!
Glad you enjoyed it
I really loved learning about the garden culture in Positano. I am so into gardening, so I really enjoy this.
So nice of you
Alstroemeria! The flower you showed at the beginning of the garden tour. Happens to be a favorite of mine. ❤
Love the private (friends) gardens, there is something special about a home garden. You have been inspiring me to get out and do more with my yard. Learned a lot of fun things on this video, thank you!!
OMG, I just wrote to you about being inspired, before you spoke about trying to inspire others. That’s awesome!
That garden is absolutely fabulous, how could someone not want to carry on that way and produce their own vegetables and fruit.....let alone the wine.....I know it must be gruelling work Nicki , but how fabulous ....you can see how these people survive and their love of the land........so fascinating....thank you.......Donna in Toronto
I love to grow my own food and I have a little garden full of fruit trees and raised beds. So amazing to see this. Thank you for sharing.
watched this twice already-interesting tour of Antonello's garden and wine making cave and what a delight for me listening to conversations in Italian-I felt I was right there on tour-thank you so much for your fantastic videos-take care
Amazing garden. What a view, too!
Thank you for posting this. I visited positano but never got to see how people lived , a fascinating garden and so productive.
I am a keen gardener and have quite a large vegetable garden but Antonello takes it to a whole new level! I found this fascinating. Thank you Antonello for allowing us to view this amazing garden.
The younger generation don't want to take the time, too much hard work! Thank you for sharing...see you soon!
deewaipio...a lot of young people also work incredibly hard to earn a living. Many would love to grow their own fruit and vegetables but city life isn't always compatible with this. Some have seen their workload increased since Lockdown; whilst working from home (money less so) and any leisure time they get is spent having a well earned rest 🕊️👒🌻🙂
Wonderful informative video. So well done. You are a natural presenter and we are fortunate to have found your channel. Thank you!
Love the whole priciple of growing, so passionate about growing your own is a joy to watch. I have never seen a pistachio either and love the inventive ways of growing. Yes it would be such a shame if the next generation would not take on gardening. Wish we had a bit of that climate in the UK.
Hi Nicki et al. Really interesting no, fascinating, video. Good that you have documented the skill and accumulated knowledge of a food gardener growing in a hot climate. Amusingly, we also have 3 kiwis - two females and one male. The females grow vigorously but the male still small - I think it is henpecked. That is the end of my main comment, long version coming up. Skip comment in 3..2..1.. Still here … This was a two coffee cup video. Watched it twice over immediately. We had success with veg growing in England but we have moved to France, at foot of Mediterranean mountains (Roussillon plain) and we find it really hard to grow anything. The problem being the soil, not the sun. I say ‘be patient’ and my wife encourages me by saying that I have an ‘inner peasant’ that keeps me going. When in England we grew a lot of beetroot. I mention this to give you a a simple recipe. Perhaps you already know of it. Beetroot sandwich - but done as follows. Plant beetroot, grows very well in heavy clay’ee soil, but appears to be quite tolerant of most soils. Watch the little tops appear half in and half out of the soil, pick whenever it is a convenient size, bigger not necessarily better, boil just long enough for the skin to start to come away, remove and wash in cold water, use your hands - with rubber gloves - to rub the skin off - really easy, now the must do - put whole beetroots into tallish straight glass jars and fill to top with either good quality apple cider vinegar or wine vinegar. Store for not less than two months before eating, remove one as required, cut into approx 1/4 inch slices and place naked onto good quality bread. i.e. no garnish, no butter. Approx zero calories (o.k, bit of an exaggeration) and loads of vitamins. My wife ate one of these every day at work all year. If you have not tasted one you haven’t lived. The beetroot will however get progressively softer if left in the jar for too long - that won’t normally be a problem because everyone loves them, still conserved but a bit soft to be at its best. When I said naked, there is one exception that I personally like but it is probably not for everyone, I spread Marmite (Vegemite if Australian) in addition to the beetroot, on the bread thinly, Mmm.
Thank you ..we have grown beetroot before, but not this year!
Beautiful ❤ so relaxing to watch 🌱🪴🌲🌲
This garden just beautiful!
We have a small garden, my mom planted some of flowers, and vegetables.
Thank you showing us beautiful garden.
Wonderful video thank you. 13.57: That little tickle that may or may not be a spider 🤣! Beautiful garden full of nature’s bounty.... and a lot of hard work.
Loved, loved this video. Antonello has so much knowledge to share. What a great garden.
Lovely tour of Antonello's garden. I enjoyed it very much 😊
Stunning garden. I think people forget that you have to eat with the season and preserve what you can. The true joy of a garden is necessity and abundance . Work with the seasons and keep you in contact with nature. So impressed with that little slice of heaven. I'm lucky I have never had live in a time of live or starve times. My garden keeps me humble. Thank you for sharing this passionate gardener.
That was interesting. Amazing how these hard working people produce such lovely food and wine.