A Pumpkin PROBLEM - June Garden Tour 2024 - Gardening in Portugal 

Cats, obedient? Are you kidding? They're our owners. 😂

We planted 10 pumpkin seeds and so far we harvested 70 huge pumpkins ..too many ..great presents for friends.

Potatoes in pots don't need to be harvested until you want them, you can put the pot on it's side under a hedge so it doesn't get wet and the potatoes stay good for a long time.

Oh yes love Kylie’s signature “Bye” 💋👩‍🌾🇫🇷

Love the squares around those plants that spread much. What a great idea.

I'm going to make a prediction: you are going to have the pumpkin version of other people's zucchini problem. Remember it is definitely totally legal to sneak around at night and drop them off on your neighbours' door steps.

Butternuts are my favorite keeper over winter. There is nothing better than one roasted with large amounts of fresh rosemary and olive oil. Yum! Your potatoes are fabulous. Hopefully I will have a similar harvest this week. The strawberries will make better jam than wine. Your gardens have come leaps and bounds over the last several years. Well done!

Your garden is so neat. It is beautifully organized with the artistically laid out beds.

Take a couple of bottles of olive oil and put your sprigs of rosemary in the oil. Nice for salads, chicken recipes, bread recipes etc. Process/shred your courgettes into 1 cup baggies and freeze. They make a fabulous sweet bread. I toast it for breakfast, or serve it for tea time. They also make a nice pancake recipe for breakfast. Add it to shredded potatoes and fry up latkas (potato pancakes) serve with apple sauce or sour cream. Strawberry ice cream would be yummy.

Perfect day spent with you two in your beautiful gardens. Thanks for sharing and bye bye.❤

4:30 Oh my heart alive, Listen.......I can hear a Turtle Dove. I haven't heard one since we left France 7yrs ago. They are now rare & precious, you are very lucky to have them there. Thank you for a very interesting video.....I loved every minute in your garden.

Knowing your tendency for research, I’m hoping you already know that Blueberries only grow well in ericaceous soil - the same sort you’d use for rhododendrons, etc. In other words, acidic compost is needed. You can amend the soil with coffee granules, pine needles and the correct sort of wood chips, which I’m hoping you’ve used. The rest is all looking good, 😍

Well you certainly are not going to be hungry, great harvest and plenty following on.👋👋⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Your garden looks so nice and neat. Looks like your going to have a great harvest.

*Kylie & Guy, your garden looks amazing. 🙂 You both have put in a lot of hard work to get it where it is today, from when you first started. 🙂nz*

The soil in your garden is gorgeous.

Огород у вас шикарный! И по организации, и порядку и по разнообразию. Даже когда вы строги к своим результатам - мы со стороны можем только восхищаться!👍

The garden is looking great. Well done.

Incredibly impressive potatoes. When you can harvest them with your hands you know you've cracked the no dig method.

Really enjoy spending time with you both. Strawberry jam is the hit at my house.❤️🇨🇦

You need to sow your seeds using toilet paper. Simply do a long row of toilet paper (on a table). Then spray with water. Put the seeds, spaced as needed. Then fold toilet paper tape in half. You can fold the wet and seeded paper tape up and place in a zip lock bag or glass jar with lid on. Once the seeds start growing lay the tape out on the soil where you want to grow. Wet tape again. Then put soil layer on top.

9:27 I'd love to see you making essential oil 😊

Veggie beds look lovely! I love your vegetation and your property! ❤ Kitties are so cute! 🐈❣️🐈🌟❣️

As always I am impressed by your hard work. Gardening is rewarding and frustrating simultaneously. Hugs from 🇨🇦

I never throw away the radish leaves. I use it in the same way as spinach in potato stew. The foliage contains many minerals and vitamins, and it has a nice taste (not as spicy as the radish itself).

Wonderful ,lots of work but so rewarding when you've canned and stocked up the pantry. I miss the garden and fresh vegetables. For years my husband and I grew our own food including meat,we had pigs,steers,chickens, so forfeeling

Картофель в этом году отличный! Крупный, чистый - просто загляденье!)

Looking forward to the development of courgette wine v2.0. Was impressed by your reaction last year, been trying to persuade people to give it a try.

I dont do any of your accomplishments but i really enjoy your videos and look forward to them thankyou

lemon verbena is a menace. You will have to pot it up; it will spread everywhere and completely smothers out other plants (been there ..) It is worse than mint. I even thought of processing the kilos of it for oil. It killed a couple of roses I put in and is just so dense.. Thanks for the vlog, a joy as always x

Mmmm pumpkin pie, pumpkin scones, pumpkin loaf etc. etc. etc plus all the usuals. Enjoy, cheers from Australia 🇦🇺🥮🥟🥧🍯🍹🎃

I noticed your potato garden is kind of shallow (maybe 4" or so) and I wanted to share another way to increase your yield. I saw another channel build a huge mound of dirt (like theirs was like cheating high, but you wouldn't need to go that high, they were in Alaska), and then plant the plants all around (not just on top) of the mound. And literally when they harvested then had enough potatoes to last for about a year and a half if not longer. I've heard potatoes like loose sandy soil.

Ooh those potatoes look yummy! Thanks for sharing your garden!

Your garden is looking amazing 👏 Well done!!

Beautiful garden! You put a lot of work into it, that is evident.

Your rosemary is amazing! Oh to be able to literally grow a rosemary ‘bush’ here in Zone 6b-only in my dreams😌.

Pumpkins are such fun love pumpkin soup.

That was so charming and relaxing ! Thank you for showing us your garden 🪴

The "big bluey-greeny one" was probably a Hubbard squash. 💚

Strawberry and Rhubarb wine is lovely.... also yes, bu-bye is a Thing.

Ohh, I love Guy's spuds! And Kylie's squashes look impressive, too

When I can get hold of enough rosemary, I put it on the barbecue coals so the sweet smoke can add a bit of flavour to lamb kebabs. Or just burn a little as 'incense' as the fire dies down.

Rosie Rosemary Vinegar….fill a huge pot with fresh rosemary…add a jug of white wine vinegar, cover and heat. Let sit for most of the day…strain, and toss rosemary stocks and leaves. Add a bottle of red wine to rosemary vinegar liquid and bottle. Makes a great addition to salad dressings and marinades.

Fabulous garden

Kitchen garden is looking great Re: courgettes, we purée them as a creamy base for soups. Healthy and delicious!

Your veg garden looks wonderful

hi lovely people. I have a question since you like answering our questions. My grandparents lived in a village, so I have seen a fair bit of old school farming and gardening. I do not recall seeing a raised bed ever in the village. Apart from raised earth for growing tabbaco plants, when they made 40cm high 40cm wide long rows of raised earth and planted tabbaco on top. For vegetables, there were only rows of plants (e.g. tomato, aubergine, cucumber beans) separated by little shalow ditches between these rows for water to flow when watering, since those days you would water with the hose in the evening and make little pools of water in those ditches. Plants were growing amazingly good. So my question is why put all the effort and cost for raised beds if you can plant directly in your nice soil which is already there and waiting for you? 😊

I still have a P bucket 😹 great vlog good to see your variety

Our indoor/outdoor cat miaows to let us know he wants to go out- usually followed immediately by him setting up a racket outside the kitchen window to either get back in, or for food (he will already have been fed). This theatre production happens daily and has prompted our older outdoor cat who was previously fairly silent, to start raising her voice too - obviously never too old to pick up new tricks.

Your are now on the cat distribution list ! Get more rooms ready.

I really like the garden videos. I like that your go to recipes are alcohol based.

Great looking garden!

Thank you ❤❤❤

Home grown pickled beetroot is the best. I would definitely be putting those blueberries in the ground.

Really nice garden 😊

I think you would do well with watermelon, cantelope, or honey dew- maybe take some of that squash space. Garden looks great!

I plant basil on either side of each tomato and pepper plant. The strong smell keeps the pest away and you can freeze the basil. You can't eat marigolds.

Hey you two garden looks GREAT

Strawberry wine is awesome. Made some many years ago. You have to let it age. 😊

I add a bit of sugar to my raw strawberries and use an emerge hand brender to make a sauce than I frize it and use it as a pancake or waffles syrup, it also goes really great on vanilla ice cream

Love you guys! Fabulous channel. Just a heads up, I was told that happy, healthy lemongrass can be a bit like mint and take over the world. Recommend planting it in a pot! 😅❤

When you plant your pumpkinplants you can ferilize it by digging in a compost bin neerby (bucked without bottom/ or with holes in the bottom). Screw holes on the sides and the bottom. The pumpkinplant loves siting neer a kompost. Give tshoppt organic waste into the bucked.

Wow! It's looking great!

Wow the beds are looking mighty swell with all the harvest growing. I hate gardening but love watching both of you working your magic. Xx

Many types of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, & melons will vine upwards of a trellis, netting, or fence....makes them easier to contain.

My marigolds didn't germinate either. I have gigantic corget plants and no corgets. :( giant tomato plants and no tomatoes. Peppers are coming along as well as other misc items. And wow! Such a big garden you guys have. Must be tons of fun. I don't know how you do it.

You can make some rosemary tincture, Essential oil, and drying some to mix with oregano, parsley etc.

I love the precision of the layout of your gardens!

Thank you for sharing. Have a good day❤🎉💙🦋👍☺👏

Looks like heaven ...well done you two. 🎉❤🎉

Wow you two have an amazing work ethic Always so busy but great results because of your dedication I really enjoy your videos They are informative and very relaxing to watch Thank you

Those long rosemary twigs make excellent BBQ skewers

Amazing potatoes !

Don't be too aggravated with the cats getting into the garden. They just want to add a little fertilizer

Your garden is lovely! Have a wonderful weekend 😊

Lovely

Good morning. If you want to save seed, be careful saving squash, pumpkin. If they cross pollinate and you save the seed you can get poisonous squash. Google toxic squash. The tomatoes with the funny leaves are just a "potato leafed" variety.

Super vlog.your garden is flourishing.🌞😄🎉🏖️

What I learned about parsnips... they like to grow where they choose. Not where you like them to grow - IF you have one, let them go to seed, and then see what comes up next year.

All the volunteer squash I’ve noticed comes from the compost in my garden

Good morning, Kylie and Guy. Your garden looks amazing. Thanks for the tour. (BTW…I’d love to see your other cats.) See you later❤️❤️

I’d love to see a video of you cooking up something in your beautiful kitchen. That stove is amazing!

Please, just put a tarp down and upend the pots. It's really much easier to remove heavy weed infestation than way than trying to dig them out of the top of the pot.

Have you thought about planting artichokes?

I love radish leaves in stir-fries. Not so much in salads.

Your patch is very productive must be great going to pick fresh veg & herbs for dinner. I’m jealous ❤

Rosemary probably doesn't need raised bed in your climate. In Croatia I saw it growing everywhere.

I like watching people gardening. Btw what happened to your previous cat?

A+

If you let your radishes go to seed, you can also eat the seed pods when they're young and green. I actually like the pods better than the radishes. Very tasty in salads.

Make strawberry jam and strawberry sauce for strawberry shortcake 🍰

Ye two work so hard between house and garden and great success and rewards in both. Its so lovely to see the cats and hens around the property. How do ye get time to pickle..freeze...oh yea its in the title..Make..😂. Yer brilliant...and lovely humour in videos too. Take breaks though. I'm not grt one for following youtube but really enjoying yers. Ver very genuine.

Your concrete trellises near the garden run cables along both sides in the top and then train your melons your pumpkins and then you can tie them off with the cloth so they don’t drop off and that would be beautiful

Try making strawberry jam using figs and strawberry jello. It's great and you can't tell the difference.

Harvest your mature potatoes in that bed, amend the soil, and put in the pumpkins. I'd pull the mystery squash/pumpkin things and focus on the ones you have intentionally started.

תודה ❤❤❤

Strawberry wine is everything you hoped it would be.

courgettes are often a famine or feast. I find them to be a tasty accompaniment to most meals if you grate them, fry lightly in butter, season with salt and black pepper and add fresh cream or cream cheese. Here in Austria we can also buy bottled courgette salad - thinly sliced courgette and onions in a vinegar marinade. I haven't found a recipe to make my own.

Our strawberry wine turned out like champagne all bubbly xx

If you are unable to grow vertically, Is it possible you borrow some of the roadside around your home in your verges, both you and the neighbours could benefit and it would look quite interesting, I know we always end up giving away so many each year anyway (nz)