I always use the carrot tops especially in the soup. I put it nicely chopped in the last few minutes before serving. I love the flavour. And it is full of goodness. Never understood why people do not use it. You are the first l find that do this, Wow, l had to wait 85 years to see this haha❤
Thank you for yet another great video! I so love learning about the old days. May the family that will enherit this land be aware of the past and current care given and not go the way of the current ways of the agriculter of ease and speed. I love the "herb wall" that you've started. I wish myself to be younger sometimes so I could play with stone masonry. Have a wonderful week ahead!
The oven is a work of art. Definitely save it, if you can make pizza in it so much the better…. Love watching your videos. I love that you bring some education about the garden, and weeds. In Phoenix AZ, USA we have a Bermuda grass that has runners and it’s really hard to get rid of. Great progress so excited to see what you do next.
Thank you, I love it’s simplicity and history, I can’t wait to put it back to work. Weeds are to gardening like trolls are to the internet. We can deal with them.
My thought on tuber plants is if you keep the green away, the tuber slowly withers and dies. It’s a lot of work but so is digging. We have something like that in the states we call nut grass.
I agree, hence the hoeing of times gone by that would control the green and often damage the root ball. Allowing the plant to come back from fall until next Spring only ensures its survival and expansion
The oven? Hell yes! Keep it! It's amazing. You have colorado beetles there? Really? I tried to grow blue potatoes last year. (In N.S.) They were growing well. Beautiful flowers. Then one day I saw those bugs. It was quite an infestation. So I dug everything up and the potatoes were already full of holes. The advice was to pick them off 1 by 1 and drop them into soapy water.Unfortunately it was too late.🙂👍👍🇨🇦
Corn is a monocot and the ‘weeds’ are dicots so the herbicide kills the dicots and the corn is not affected. Another way to think of it is the corn has parallel veins and the weeds have palmate form. Monocotyledons have one section. Dicotyledons have two sections when they sprout from the seed. So they’re different types. They can target the herbicide to one type of plant.
Ola Joaquin i just discover your Chanel and I subscribed. I am Portuguese but I am abroad soon will be back. I am so moved you back to Portugal to recover your grandparents house and land beautiful place the birds the church bels. Can I asking in the part off Portugal where is your place, not exactly your village because your privacy.See you soon
They may grow other little tubers like the oxalis weed, which get left behind when you extract the main tuber. Really the only way to control it is as you are doing. I really enjoyed this week's video, Joaquim. Love what you are doing.
I wonder if those weeds with the tubers had/have any purpose. Are they possibly medicinal or used to make dye or left to grow to use to make baskets or fibres for other uses? What are they called so I can research them? If you are able to make the old oven workable again I would save it, Hot plates or electric grills can be used where they used to cook on hot coals/embers. The hole that you don't know what it's for is where salt was kept to keep it dry. An elderly lady told me, that as a child, she helped bake bread. A fire was lit in the oven with brushwood, small sticks/branches were piled on, the door was then shut and the fire burned for 30 minutes or so (some ovens were left with the door open to heat the room while the bread rises). When the door was opened, very little smoke was released as the fire burnt everything. The ashes were raked out, the prepared dough was put in, door shut, go away for an hour, bread baked !! Some had a hood vent that led to a working chimney for another fireplace used to heat the house. That hood vent had a damper that could be opened or closed when the oven or cook table wasn't in use. The hood vent would have looked like a small lean-too roof type structure that directed the smoke to the chimney shaft (was there a fireplace upstairs near the kitchen stove/oven). Some were built as shelf type structures too where cook pots and Iron pot stands were kept. The iron stand went over the coals and the pot was placed on top of it for stability. coals would then be built up around the pots depending on what was being cooked. The cook stands come in many different heights and circumferences, others had iron bars with hooks and chains for hanging pots over the coals. There were fire dogs or sort of iron book ends that a Skewer would be placed on with meat or poultry and it would be turned by hand. some had these also attached to the wall like the rod for the hanging pots - all of the rods were on hinges to swing them off the fire and they would lay flat against the back wall when not in use.
@@ruthconstantino6861 The fat dripping from meat would be collected in an iron dish under the skewer for making soap and candles so the ash from the oven was also kept. A formula for making soap was written on a Sumerian clay tablet around 2500 BC; the soap was produced by heating a mixture of oil and wood ash, the earliest recorded chemical reaction, and used for washing woollen clothing. The Roman Empire was the first to provide evidence of a candle that resembles the candles of today. They melted the tallow (animal fat) until it was a liquid and poured it over fibers of flax, hemp, and/or cotton, which were used as a wick. These candles were used in religious ceremonies as well as lighting for their travel and homes. Most kitchens had a spinning wheel of some sort. Spinning spindles. Winders. Herbs/plants/flowers would be hanging from the rafters near the bread oven to dry they would be used for cooking, tea or dye. Like the salt in the cubby hole it was the driest place to keep them near the bread oven. The Elderly Lady is my Mother :) They didn't have indoor plumbing or hydro until she was 12 when they moved to a new house. My Great Grandmothers kitchen was in a house that is now about 350 to 400 years old.
I agree. I was afraid so, not that I’m willing to try it but I do wonder if it provided the bread with anything special, after all the biodynamic crowd swears by the power of cow manure.
@@Joaquim_Conde hahahahaha..it most likely did! Not quite sure if my grandma did it that way. Doubt it, as the oven was in the kitchen, and it was just a 3 room house..imagine the stink, but who knows..all I know is that as a kid I used to tear that still hot off the oven 'pão de milho' crust faster than a cow's tail chasing a fly! I got swatted a few times over it...not by the cow but by my mother...I stole her childhood pleasure; the crust!
Hi, Joachim 👋🏼 Your strawberries might surprise you -- other homesteaders (in Centro) i watch had plants that gave fruit into August and then overwintered, survived frosts, and began flowering again this Spring resulting in bowls of fruit, jars of jams... i'd make parfaits, too, even a pie! Breakfast of champions you had there. Loved that you bedded strawberry plants with your trees. Will Alabaster get a summer fur trim/buzz to help him cope with the heat? If it's not a detriment, sure!, keep the oven and stone bench and counter. Rather than shove a partial grazer (carcass) in there, i might like to try braising meat stews in tagine-style clay pot and baking breads and allow the oven's modern replacement flue to send heat upstairs? Great overhead view of the house. I'm so glad you've rescued and repurposing it for your own home. No doubt its rebuild will be a testament of your good life there with your grandparents. Those are really nice carrots even if stubby. Maybe deepen your next carrot bed as well as working in more sand? Dude, you're not crazy with the organic way you farm. You do exactly how my grandparents in a remote and poor part of the Philippines did the first 3/4ths of last century. It the only way my mom & sibs know how to farm & garden. I don't yet, but am not down with cancer-causing glyphosate. And why does the evil manufacturer of Round Up bear the name Monsanto 😥? Anyway, nobody used to need gyms bc farming is the workout 💪🏼👨🏻🌾. Joachim, you are just having fun with each chore... this gives me hope that more of us can, too, in our time, God willing. What type of work did you do in Canada?
Bom dia, Joaquim. ☀️ É uma maravilha, poder ver, a rica produção e o trabalho nos campos verdes.. A natureza e as paisagens, por esse, lindo alto Minho, são deslumbrantes. Obrigado por mostrar! A casa dos meus avós, encontra-se, mais ou menos, a 5km dessa zona. O Palácio da Brejoeira é simplesmente encantador. Boa semana pela frente. 😊 Sam e Pedro, Canadá.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you Joaquim I'm against poison to it's not healthy at all for human and animal and maybe goes into the ground water, the old bread oven is beautiful.
Regarding fruit trees, the varieties you can grow makes me a little envious. My absolute favourite plum is the Mirabelle de Nancy, very small, yellow fruit, it makes incredible jam.
