Abundant Harvests in our No Dig Garden in Portugal - End of Summer Tour 2023 

Beautiful garden, guys! Some lemon verbena preparation possibilities: Infused honey, infused vinegar, tea, tincture, poultice, fresh leaves in salad, beverage flavoring (tea, lemonade, sodas, cordials), desserts (ice cream, cakes, muffins), fresh leaves cooked and eaten like spinach. It has *lots* of medicinal properties: digestive tonic, antispasmodic, expectorant, febrifuge, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antioxidant, mildly astringent, nervine, mild sedative, cooling. Hope you have fun with it!

I accidentally found your videos. I think you are amazing and so talented. you could be living the dream that so many would love. I'm disabled and have enjoyed seeing yours projects😊

And a new idiom arises " I've got a loofah as long as my arm". What a lovely harvest. Well done. X

Bumper harvest !!! ,and so relaxing watching you both pottering about ❤😊

Awesome harvest!! Lemon Verbena is absolutely amazing as a tea! Dry the leaves or even fresh...just throw some leaves in a cup and hot water on top 😁 Soooo nice

Lemon verbena is an excellent moth and bug repellant for keeping bugs out of cupboards.

Lemon verbena is a great after dinner herbal tea. The French call it vervein. A great tisane ! So good to dry it for that purpose.

Guys you have the most organized vegetable garden in whole Portugal I think. Congrats.

Guy, your late season tomatoes look like they need calcium mixed in the soil. Your garden is wonderful!

The first year I planted loofah I put up a little trellis and direct sowed in late March, intending for them to grow along a fence. By October they'd swallowed a tree, a large climbing rose and most of the little casita in my backyard. My landlord was hysterical, but it only took a couple of hours (and a ladder) to harvest and clean up the vines. I get a volunteer loofah every year now, from the ones the dogs got ahold of, but nothing like that first year from the seed packet.

Your garden and gardening skills are absolutely amazing! Any horticulturalist would beam with pride over such a success!!

Amazes me how much you've accomplished! As much as you do in the renovation project, can't understand how you manage to have such an organizado fruitful garden. Simply beautiful!

love it!!!!! now please do one episode featuring cats and chickens doing cat and chicken things! 🐈‍⬛🐓🌻🍅🫒🥬🫑🌶🍇

You guys are just incredible. You overcome any challenge that comes your way. I myself did renovations to properties but not to the extent that you are doing. It annoys me when you get comments about you carrying out the work. I did most of the work whilst my husband went to work. You will have many years of happiness in your home.

Looking absolutely delicious!! I'm quite impressed by the way you guys are doing your home renovation almost full time as well as gardening which is quite successful and maintaining your plot very well! Lovely to see self reliant people with goals set

The female asparagus is not as productive, upto two to times less than the males. The dropped seeds propagate so easily as to become weeds. What a great harvest, it's so satisfying to eat home grown food. I don't think that the tomatoes had blight as the tomatoes/potatoes would have turned to mush. It does look like blossom end rot a lack of calcium. Adding crushed eggs shells in and around the planting holes should help with this problem, also tomatoes need regular consistent watering over the growing season. I love the idea of producing soap infused loofah slices/chunks I would make excellent gifts and so practical. I can see calendula and lavender soaps to name but a few. If you had some less than perfect pieces of loofah left could you possibly use it filled with compost as a cutting 'pot', which when the seedling gets ready to go in the bed, could be planted out roots and all. Happy gardening

You've put a lot of work into the garden and it was fun for me to see your harvest. Now when you want some "leisure" time you can be canning and prepping all your food for the winter. You're making great progress in your building and farming and it's nice that you share your experiences. I like that you keep it real by posting all your results, not just the good ones. Best to you both!

Very impressive especially considering how much building work you have been doing.❤

Today's video is so calming

You have one of the neatest most pleasant gardens I've seen

Wow, what a beautiful harvest.👍

*Kylie & Guy, wow that is a great harvest 🙂.*

Lemon verbena is for tea. Lemon balm you can make tea but if the shrub grows you get a fruit - cidrão which we glacé to use in Christmas cakes

What a beautiful harvest! Congratulations!👍👍👍

Noma's komboucha with lemon verbena is really good!

Great harvest and what a big watermelon. By the looks of it, the cucumbers are doing very well! Nice to see all that abundance! Keep up the good work. 😃👍

Cherry tomato can be the heaviest croppers but don't like extra water or feed? I just stick mine in the flower beds or a random corner and they just take off. I am in the South of France so same climate. Thanks for the vlog; always a joy x

Wow big harvest. 😍

Yay! Another garden adventure to watch!

*Plastering with lime, using a 2 pint pot and bucket, and a 500g bag of salt. 2 to 1 mix and fill a normal bucket to the top. The bucket is the type you would get in the uk. *Then add 250g of salt, mix well. *MUST leave over night. *You will only need a couple of coats. Is it possible with the lime plant to ferment to creat your own oil, then you can create citronella candle, oil, body rub, any of these to stop mosquito. I would buy. 😁 Your brilliant pair. Fabulous ❤ love your videos. 😁

Apparently the small loofah are good eating. I think you're right about that blight. Those determinate tomatoes should have some fruits that will have viable seeds. Those are great for containers, produce usually all at the same time if they're a certain variety. I grew much the same tiny tomatoes and the flavour was excellent.

Well done Kylie I’m really struggling with herbs maybe a bit too hot down here …lemon verbena is a Portuguese go to for health really good if you’re under the weather in tea form …just dry the leaves 🌞🇵🇹🌻

Your gardens make me jealous. But your beds are filled with compost and you irrigate, and you tend them faithfully. The hot Portuguese sun mostly helps, but I can see that it can be too much for some temperate crops. With all that produce you can eat fresh, preserve and freeze, and perhaps trade with neighbors. In New England we've had an inordinate amount of rain and very few hot, sunny days, so gardens here look sparse.

You upload at a time as if you were on the other side of the world. Oh I forgot the world is not in the USA lol. Love you both.

Hi, Kylie and Guy. It’s good to see you outside for a change. That’s quite the harvest you have. I see more preserving in your future. How are the kittens doing❤️❤️

Hey y'all, So fun to see your garden and getting outside. The tomato issue is called Blossom end rot. There are a few causes. It can be caused by a lack of calcium in the soil. There are many strategies for this crushing tums and adding to the bottom of the whole helps. If You save egg shells crush and add them to the compost they will render calcium for the soil the follow year. I pulverize all the shells in a blender at the end of the year and add them to the compost.......The other cause is inconsistent watering. I know this year I had that here and there this year and by PLUCKING those tomatoes right away so they stop wasting the plants energy and focus it into the remaining healthy ones is key. So when I identified the plants with the issue and focused on them with religious attention and watering Problem solved. I like the idea of not spending money and yet still solve the problem. My wife was in Spain a couple years ago and they had the blistered Padron peppers at every meal so we grow them every year as well as the Shishito peppers and they look act and taste almost the same. Could you leave a recipe for the Sriracha you make or even a video maybe? My favorite part of the video was the amazing smiles Kylie had showing the luffa plants so happy for your success in the garden. Thank you for the video today so much fun. Peace and blessings bye for now

beautiful harvests from the garden - and what's more, you need to eat tasty food when you have your own preserves🤩🤩🤩😋😋😋😋

Fantastic harvest you have improved with your gardening skills. 😊

There's a joke in there somehow!! 😅 Saute onions with some tomatoes, add some beaten eggs and feta cheese. Call it done!! Oh the work you guys do, it's nice to see you reap the harvest! Hugs from 🇨🇦

Hi there, from South Africa, you can spray Asprin (1pill devolved in 5 liters of water, and a tablespoon of dish soap) on them after watering and no more blight and rust! Organic and won’t harm insects and animals❤Also stagger your planting through summer and you will have a steady stream of veg, love your channel❤

Basil can be chopped in a food processor with some olive oil and frozen in small jars for later use. It isn't perfect in every recipe but it works great in a lot of them!

Nice harvest💚 hope those melons are tasty, ice cold melon is so refreshing! when you put all your crates together, it is very impressive! You Two will be busy preserving👌💜

Very nice harvest! Your garden has done well there. Thank you for sharing your bounty!😊

Pre-soften the loofa by soaking in water and place it lengthwise in a loaf soap mold. Then pour the soap over the loofa . Yap the mold on the table a few times to release any air bubbles and let it set up.

Very enjoyable. Thx for doing this and sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍

Totally understand needing a break from renovations. Nothing like being in nature and putting your hands in the dirt for therapy or gloves, LOL. For tomatoes, I prune the suckered so nothing is touching the ground which helps with blight, mold and pests. Did you give the cuttings, pulled out plants, and spoilt vegetables to your chickens? I'm sure they would enjoy all the greens🐓🙂🍅🥒🫑🥬

Lemon verbena makes a very relaxing tea to help you sleep!

FANTASTIC HARVEST

Wow, never even imagined growing loofahs! You are educating me on being self sufficient! Thank you for sharing!

What a lovely harvest

Impressive the amount of vegetables. 😮

Mix a tomato a quarter onion and 1/3 jalapeño in a blender with a splash of apple cider vinegar. Blend. Instant salsa. Parsley too…

Quite the success!

Really excited to see your loofah process. Watched an Insider Business video on Luffas/Loofahs a while ago and they seem to be a great non-plastic solution for household use as well as the usual bathing accessory.

Impressive harvest!! I can't wait to see your loofah video when they are ready,

I've an online acquaintance who makes soap bars with slices of luffa embedded inside.

Lovely Garden good for healthy food

Awesome episode guy's, thank you. I.I'm so inspired to start planting now! 😊

You have done so well creating a beautiful garden 🪴

Hey you guys, if we asked for a loofah demo in the shower, would that offend? Love the harvest, it is early spring in SA now and we have a new garden to get started - ooooh the fun

Great sharing from your beautiful garden

What you call loofah, is absolutely delicious vegetable that can be cooked like zucchini.

everything seems to be growing much better now. your soil is building up better from when you first started there

Lovely garden! I would really like to see what you do with the loofahs and what they look like inside. I had no idea they came from the garden. ❤🇨🇦🍻🍷

Far out Brussel sprouts.. what a freaking great harvest.. I think you guys are just having way too much fun in that garden🤣 Cheers from Oz🇦🇺

Beautiful fall harvest! Yum 😋

A very nice calming video with the soft music, I like it very much. Thank you.

Was your basil leaves and dry them. Put them into your food processor and then fill ice cube trays with the mince and pour olive oil over Freeze them and when frozen pop out and put into a baggie and keep the cubes in feezer.

Wonderful video, thank you.

Good job harvesting!

I love working in the garden. What a nice harvest and hope you video the preserving. Bre Ellis recently did a video on creating luffa cases for soap. Great gift idea. Kittens please.

Wonderful garden

Lemon verbena makes a nice infusion that you can put into soap making if that's something you are planning to do, it's a lovely fresh scent!

Why do you remove the plants that are still alive? If you leave them on the beds, the soil is covered and does not dry out, new humus is formed and there are many insects that lay their larvae and eggs there. According to the Hortus Garden principle, we only remove the old plant remains in spring. This supports biodiversity and creates hiding places and new habitats. 😊 Unless you need all that space for new fall plantings.😅

Your harvest was a joy to behold, so very bountiful. I'm pretty sure your black ended tomatoes have blossom end rot which is a calcium deficiency caused by lack of other nutrients and maybe helped along by some irregular watering? There is lots of info on blossom end rot which is very helpful. It is something you can correct.

Bom dia meus amigos gostei muito da horta teem muita variedade tomates abóboras muito bom tiveram muito sucesso. Foi uma optima ideia estarem no jardim é mais saudavel apanherem ar fresco em casa além do trabalho ser pesado tambem apanham muito pó. Bom fim de semana God bless yox 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇹

You are doing an amazing job.

"Basil"? Fawlty Towers - Basil? You actually can grow those? Lemon verbena? Fish obviously, sallad spice and quite nice with youghurt, refreshing. Love following what you guys do.

Maravilhoso o vosso trabalho e dedicação 👏😍 Adoro jardinar também 😉😘 Namastê 💖😘

You could harvest young loofahs and stir-fry with garlic and eggs. It's quite delicious and we have it all the time in Asia!

great harvest guys! 😁

Thank you that was just what I needed for motivation today!

I grow Genovise basil here in Sydney west. When I pick it I juu juu it up with food processor and oil then freeze it in ice cube trays. Freeze then Transfer to plastic bags to keep for my Spagbol. Same with Oregano. You could also do a mixed cube to chuck in and include garlic. Stop, no, I've died and gone to heaven.

Looks like successful garden!

Hello) You could dry lemon verbena and use it for mixed drinks, like tea or refreshing juices or in ice cream, and put it in your meat and fish dishes to spice it up. Some recipes recommend to put lemon verbena in Pesto or jam also. Probably you already know it, but maybe my comment might Help you😅

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What a lovely harvest ! I am so jealous of your loofahs - mine would never grow.

Great harvest

Amazing garden!

Wow! That was a good haul!!!

You have endless chicken feed from your waste in the garden and also a lot of compost of course. So there is some benefits from whatever condition your crop is in.

Impressive harvest guys and despite your assertion that the tomatoes didn’t do well late on, your haul looks fantastic. I’m jealous of your chilli crop- not sure I can grow such abundance here in Ireland- maybe in a poly tunnel (assuming lack of sun doesn’t kill my dreams).

Great harvest ! Will you be selling some produce? Nice to see Loofa growing for the first time! Yes you can fill the loofa with hand made soap and then make slices to use in your bathroom. Looks lovely,

Wow, amazing growth there xx

Some hard work paying off

You can definitely add Gardening Organic Style to your impressive CV, Kylie and Guy …. I can imagine the lovely aroma that will be filling the area when you use this harvest in your cooking … seriously WELL DONE !! Durban SA🇿🇦

You should make some watermelon rind pickles! They are wonderful! I have eaten them all my life! My favorite.

excellent!

For the loofa-soap I use glycerin-soap, oils and muffin forms, they fit perfectly 😀 The verbena you could use to make some tea? There are two ways: put the verbena into hot water or cook the verbena with the water. And you can use the leaves and the flowers for desserts. You can dry both parts of the plants hanging head down (or in the micro wave if you have one but I don't like it).

Nice harvest!