Abundant Harvest in our Wildlife Friendly Garden in Portugal 

I love the 'wildness' of your garden. Absolutely beautiful 😍 🤩 👌

The old olive tree trunk is like a piece of art. Love your veggie garden

Such a stunning garden and so peaceful

Could watch you all day…just love your garden, so gorgeous and productive too!!! 🥰🥰🌻🌻❤️❤️

What a fantastic harvest after all your hard work. Fingers crossed for the sunflowers, I hope the bird seed doesn’t result in a crop of birds! Another great video. Pauline

Well, that’s what’s happening around the globe: one regions “enjoying” non-stop rain, others are toasted. 😅 But… you have such a beautiful garden. Congratulations on the first potato harvest.

Fresh potatoes. YUM!

Bonjours de Paris, Nous ne parlons pas anglais, mais nous aimons beaucoup regarder revivre, grace a vous, une vieille maison et la terre qui l'antoure. C'est tres emouvent. Jean Paul et Marie.

Watching the two of you in your garden is pure pleasure!❤ Such a place has been a lifelong dream of mine, but small spaces only have been my lot. Enjoy every minute. I shall be content with my vicarious joy as I share your time each week 🥔🍆🥦😍

Dear Meraid, dear Dan, thanks to all your hard work you have created a wonderful garden, the potato harvest is super good, even if the garlic leaves something to be desired, you both have green fingers, Mermaid it may be that with all the work lost weight, I think so. Looks good on you too, I wish you both continued strength and joy in everything, whether gardening or building a house. Kind regards, Elke Weiß

Your filming skills are getting awesome! I loved the shot through those white flower umbels against the blue sky. What I particularly like is how you mix your shots with wide versus close, just the way we look at a garden and how you tell your story. Very natural. Thank you for an inspiring visit to your garden. Saludos desde Asturias.

Impressive potato harvest. They look lovely. Your gardens make me so happy. I could gladly spend hours just admiring them. We have had a lot of rain this spring in Central Italy.

You ended up with a fair amount of potatoes in the end 😊. Well done your hard work has paid off so beautiful watching what you share with your channel.

Another heart warming video. Lovely to see everything coming along so well. You guys seem to have bucket loads of energy, pardon the pun. Good luck going forward with the house, it's amazing to see how far your love and hard work has got you. Can't wait for the next installment ❤

Contente de vous retrouver ! Et merci pour le soin que vous apportez a vos vidéos, belle musique, belles images de fleurs 🌻🌻

That must be the most diverse, beautiful and productive garden in Portugal. Love your content. Will you show us how you preserve all the harvest?! Thanks for sharing, I’m always waiting for the next video.

love the music too👍

I missed you guys, but I am happy that you took some rest. Love the straw hat at the end.

Great and beautiful video! I love the orange poppies. You both work really hard and it pays off so well. I don't have my garden any more, so it's nice to live vicariously in this case. It's always a wonderful feeling to harvest what one grows. You're both a testament to lifelong physical work and eating lots of veg. Can't wait to see the changes in your house. I hope you have a great week.

Good morning, guys. Can't believe I'm first to comment. OK, time now for me to sit back with a coffee and enjoy this episode. ❤

Welcome back! The garden is wonderful! Rain is better than no rain.

Video calmo. A música óptima

Amazing life sharing thank you

Wow! Those potatoes!!!! Fabulous :) I just love your garden

Fantastic work, your garden is looking great Mr & Mrs Veggie.

Were you happy with the in ground potato harvest this season compared to last where they were planted under straw? That, being with the number of chits that you planted this year. You may be able to start a second crop by planting some in 5 gallon buckets or pots in the shade of trees and if you will have enough water. Ten grow bags I did last April gave me enough of a crop to get me to the end of Jan. The few tiny leftovers I planted in three grow bags in Feb, put them in a shed. They came out the first part of April and the plants now have blossom which means there should be potatoes ready to harvest. It would be worth testing a few in pots with all that lovely compost that you have. All that rain has certainly made your garden beautiful even if the garlic did not like the wet

My father who was born and raised just down the road from where you are, loved to plant potatoes , even when he came to Canada ,he used to plant them every year for the family and we had potatoes all year round, it was great, I do love potatoes. Keep up the great work , Adeus !!!!!!

Absolutely beautyful garden

I am in awe of your magnificent garden. The hours of work involved is incredible. Kudos to you both🇨🇦❤️🇨🇦

Such a ridiculous thing. Here in Central Russia potatoes are being planted only this week😅because of continuous cold weather. Normally, we do that in the beginning of May. Finally, summer has come🎉we had such a freezing spring 25 years ago they say. I’ve got one question: why don’t you use a shovel to pick potatoes? P.S. What a beautiful garden you’ve got!❤

🇧🇷🌄🤩 Lindo jardim todo colorido, AMEI a variedade na produção dos alimentos da Quinta. Parabéns, o trabalho é grande; más, é gratificante e saudável. A reforma da casa tá empolgante, força, vai ficar lindo.

Wow potatoes and butter, cant beat the early crop ❤

SLOWPY inclinada.

Love your garden .Reminds me of my Dad ,he had two allotments and a large garden.We were vegetarian before it became popular!I'm talking about the 1930s!I was the youngest of our family -- born in 1935 and still keeping going even though after an accident not able to walk.Not feeling sorry for myself ,just wishing I was able to garden and cook my too favourite activities. I love your videos--thanks so much.Tess in Britain.😊

I have family about an hour from Coimbra and this year most of the time we faced timed each other it was rainy but they have no regrets leaving North Wales a year ago for Portugal. Unlike yourselves they’re not growers but are in the process of converting an old adega (wine cellar) into an Airbnb, just waiting for the license from the câmara so they can open. Love your videos.

I've had same issue of rust on my garlic this year. In UK, South West in Bournemouth. Last year planted and harvested 50 pretty decent bulbs, end of year planted 100 and all were doing fantastic till we had a long spell of rain then the rust hit, removed all of the infected leaves and stems then sprayed with a watered down milk evolution to try to prevent and further spread. It's looking like it was too late in catching it and will probably lose about 75% some of which I might be able to plant elsewhere for next year. If you re plant the immature bulblets they will grow but you won't develop large garlic bulbs however plenty of garlic green for in stir fries.

About Garlic in Canada we Put it Down like the tulips in October Then the ground freezes up and in April it comes out nicely

Nice harvest. planting material, turnip, cauliflower, leek

Some interesting experiments! Good luck with both!

What an awesome food forest...enjoy the fruits of your hard labor

You are so cute together... such a lovely grocery-garden. Appreciate its not all in clean rows. Has such a natural feel to it.

Ha! There you are, I missed you 🙂 I always forget to mention that I love you are re-using these old field baskets. They are lovely. Have you thought of using worms in your garden patches? Earthworms can turn clay into nice fertile soil and red worms in your compost bins can then also be transfer with the compost into the gardens. And look at all the life, butterfly, little ants, bees, slugs even! That is a lot of potatoes. Now, not sure how it is in your neck of the wood but here in Canada and USA sun flower seeds (as many other products) are made sterile with pesticide so you cannot use them for planting anymore (charming isn't it?). If you go to organic growers the seeds from their harvest can be used. It will be interesting to see what happens with yours.

The bird seed Sun Flowers, is fabulous 😁 I did exactly the same after discovering how few seed you got in a packet and expensive 😏 Fair play to you 👍🏻 Good luck 🍀

What a lush garden you have now!

Hello, have a good day

I hope you give your workers some of your abundant vegetables

what e beautyful garden..

Hello! Great to see this time you got the potatoes right (and your Irish citizenship back?). The secret, in Portugal, is patience. The land is fertile, and if you give it the time and care it needs, it 'll be plentyful! Happy to see you're doing both well, Take care and keep up the good work ! ps If butterflies and birds come, it means the land /Earth, is happy! Sorry for my bad English.

It a marvelous garden you made! I'm perhaps visiting a 3h and 500 acres land in France near Toulouse I hope succeeding the negociation ! It's been raining as in Portugal ...

those white flowers against the blue sky at 1‘54 are so beautiful! What are they: ammi majus, carrot or? It’s a weird gardening year also here in the north of Germany: the forever lasting winter, then the ants plague, now the invasion of snails and slugs. About perennial garlic: I might have accidentally grown one. planted it i think in june 2022 in a raised bed, no clue that was the exact wrong time 😂. But: it’s still growing, getting bigger and bigger. Don’t dare to pick it up. Btw: your garden is a paradise!

Mr Allan Jnr would call Dan’s new blade ‘The Death Wheel’ I think 😂

What a beautiful garden

👏👏👏👏 Qué verde!!! Qué bonito está todo!!!!

Your garden looks beautiful! You an amazing job with it!

Well done, it is beautiful.

Garlic ,Patatos, Cebolas, need kind of slowly land and more. AREIOSA. but you have to water more,

Eline Emeğine Sağlık Bu Güzel Vlog Ve Video İçin Kolay Gelsin Hayırlı İşler Bol Bereketli Kazançların Olsun👍👍👍👍

Maravillosas esas verduras y las manos que la plantan..... felicitaciones!!!. Saludo cordial.

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, garden looks wonderful good work 👍😁.

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Your garden is looking lovely. All the flowers and the other veggies look so healthy and fresh. We are now in the winter here in South Africa. So, not a lot to do in the garden.

Welcome back😊

Finally I figured out WHO your hubby sounds like!!! Its Alfred Hitchcock!!! OMG! He sounds just like him!!!😮

Actually I've been watching several Portugal off grid migration from people who are from other parts of Europe. However, you guys are the best in planning, and executing your plans for crops which will give you harvest all around the year, long term, short term and immediate requirements. It's beautiful to look at all around your house 👌 At the same time you have planned very well for your future home 👍

I grow sunflowers from bird seed. Mostly they appear springing up unplanned. So far they have not grown much taller than 4'. I have three planted this year and we will see how big they grow. Good luck yours grow nice and tall.

I love seeing all those potatoes! I have no soil to grow in, I either have to build or buy raised beds. On a very limited fixed income it will be a few years before I have a bed for potatoes but believe you me I will have it! I may just ave a couple grow bags next year though! Love seeing your beautiful grade and the progress on your house so exciting ❤

Hi, me again, i just watched real algarve living, on you tube, so his tie choice for the roof made me think of you and that you asked us about tile choice , so maybe look at what he just completed ❤

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Welcome back! Great to see how the garden is getting on, and such a plentiful harvest of potatoes! Were they your greengages in the tree ready to be picked? They looked amazing! 💚🌿💚🍀💚

So beautifull nature Garden ❤ i love what you doing

It's lovely to see you together in your potato-field with a great harvest. Here, in the North of the Netherlands, we have a lot of rain too, after a long and dark winter, the ground is cold. The reason is that 'they' block the sun for global warming and climate change. Well, the climate has changed now and we have build a greenhouse for our vegetables to grow. With electric lamps above the food, I hope we can harvest some. (no sun, no food) I saw you had a blue sky for a while, enjoy! With love.

Birdseed certainly will grow. That's why I bought roasted seed for the birds this year. Previously sunflowers were showing up almost anywhere the birds happened to drop the seed. The potatoes look good, I didn't notice any flaws. I'm not sure, but buckwheat may also grow with minimal water. It's a faster crop and if nothing else makes a decent "green mulch".

Actually, it can be good to leave the potatoes in the soil even after the greenery is done. It can help them to firm up. “For storage potatoes, wait until the plants wither and turn brown, and then leave them in the soil for a further 3 weeks as their skins firm up. Harvest them for storage if there’s a threat of very cold or very wet weather.” West Coast Seeds (west coast of Canada, but the principle is universal)

Oh my goodness , hello lovely people ❤

Walnut is a beautiful wood but very prone to wood boring beetles. Make sure you paint it with a preservative.

Mmm I know years ago we were told that potatoes and sunflowers are incompatible. Fingers crossed yours are ok post potato harvest. 😊

Two weeks wait ! So worth it 😊

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We live in Texas/USA the weather has just been strange. It has made it hard to grow the few things we grow. Also the US has had many tornadoes and big storms. For you all to have double your normal rainfall has had to make it strange for you too. Liked the information on the sunflower bird seed use, we will have to try that.

Aw lads ye need a spade to dig the spuds. This rootin with gloved hands won't do. Get a good Irish pike or spade Meraid. Garden looks amazing though...stunning flowers. How are your vines coming along? An Irish fan.

Beautiful Video ❤😊 xx

Is it my imagination, or have you both become more athletically built over the last year or so?

Baked potatoes with sour cream and chives!

Lots of flowers everywhere. Mimosas are indeed invasive but I just love the smell when they flower, lots of pollen though. It looks you'll have plenty of maracujás and ameixas this summer. I hope you enjoyed you short break but I'm glad to have your videos back 😅😊

Physalis are one of my favorites, with passion fruit (beautiful flower!).

A sua quinta está maravilhosa excelente vidio Bom fim de semana God bless you 🙏🇬🇧🔥❤❤

Ya I noticed the garlic that I missed last year comes back even bigger I changed the location every year now it grows everywhere. lol but Canada has long winter which I hear helps the garlic who knows if it grows I eat it cheers.

where are you? It's been 8 days since your last video. waaaaaa.......

You Must dig with a fork to harvest potatoes. There will be some in deeper ground

Otro año deberías considerar poner en la parcela de ajos encima a dos metros unas placas de polipropileno traslúcido, evitando ese tal vez exceso de lluvias 🧄🌿🧄🌿🧄💛

As batatas arrancam-se com uma enxada.

Las mimosas deben quitarle la corteza desse la mitad y el arbol se seca y no se reproduce contrario si lo cortan verde naceran mas de ese tronco. SALUDOS AMIGOS.

Maybe a stupid question but how do you process all your potatoes and how do you store them so they don’t sprout right away? Lovely garden.

The weather is unpredictable due to solar flares, with unstable geo-magnetics

As always so interesting, could you tell me the name of the orange bushes please

hi im portuguese, giving some advise, plums, luquoat nespera, figs, kiwis, grow the best in portugal, also hot peppers malagueta.

Have you consider creating terra preta with all vegetable waste and other organic materials from your garden and kitchen?

Climate zone 8a (Switzerland) the average rain was almost double for most months. Lots of garlic (softneck) rost except those garden beds with insect netting... this really puzzles me.

Can you add it to the subtitle in Turkish translation? I love watching it, thank you.

Did I see lots of little artichokes going to seed? Do you trim, steam and marinate them?