New project ahead | Hoping for birds of prey in our natural garden (Farmstead vlog)

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We keep fighting with voles over our garden. It's a never-ending fight, so we're trying to get some help from nature. We're installing birdhouses for local birds of prey to attract them to our garden. Hopefully we're doing it right, and they will come join us soon. With autumn here, we have more produce to harvest. Not everything is doing as well as we would like, but that's life 😃
If you'd like to see what it's like to have long-eared owls and kestrels moved into your birdhouse, you can check out this video: • Ze života kalousů 2023
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@tommyandpeter Год назад

If you'd like to see what it's like to have long-eared owls and kestrels moved into your birdhouse, you can check out this video (they nest, hatch, hunt voles, grow): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mcVFlPDwSQM.html It's amazing to see and we keep wondering how it would be if we'd get lucky too 💚😊

@ronroach5623 Год назад

Whoo is the Owl that moving in. LOL

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Haha, we don't care who it is as long as it moves in 😀

@jrw5831 Год назад

Great video guys and look forward to many more

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you. So see you in the next video 😉

@manilajakarta Год назад

I like birds so it nice to see you guys have these bird boxs I'm taking of having bird boxes and feeders for the wild birds

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Yes, we like to have diversity in our garden and various birds are a part of it. We'll see if the birds of prey show up, it would be great 😊

@lestatthaddee Год назад

03:31 Peter : If the owls don't show up, I would be really disappointed. 03:32 Me : I will pray the owl god Moloch. 05:33 Tommy : Fingers crossed.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

We hope your magical powers are working well 😀

@ninocaruana945 Год назад

I always enjoy looking at the bounty of fruit and vegetables you grow in your garden, well done and it shows all the hard work you put in to get such results, as always take care of each other

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you! It's really rewarding when we can harvest various fruits and veggies from the garden 😊

@tom-ss2mn Год назад

You have such a huge variety of fruits and vegetables growing. Very cool. Oh and I'm glad you didn't die during the owl house installation lol

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thanks Tom, we are very glad too 😁

@RT3319 Год назад

I'm coming to honestly believe that one could search the wide world over and still be unable to find anyone else as adorable as these two men. The world would be a much better place for all if we had more like them. In this horrible time of war and disastrous environmental change, they give us a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow. Blessings to them, this day, and always....! Love and deepest respect from Yakima....

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Aww, that is so kind of you to say, thank you so much 😊

@shelleyritchie3568 Год назад

A lot of luck with your owl and kestrel houses. Hope they really attract the birds so they can get rid of those darn voles! I wish I could try a golden berry! We just don’t have them here in the US.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, Shelley! We really hope some of the birds of prey will show up. Here they sell the goldenberries in supermarkets but they are kinda expensive - they import them from South America, mainly from Peru. Maybe you can buy them in stores too (Internet says that they are also called Cape gooseberries, Peruvian groundcherries or Inca berries). Some people don't like them but we love them 😁

@neutonrenda2303 Год назад

What you call golden berries we call gooseberries in South Africa.👍

@tommyandpeter Год назад

So interesting because goldenberries are not the same as gooseberries; they are two distinct types of fruit. But we read on the internet that goldenberries are also known as Cape gooseberries, Peruvian groundcherries or Inca berries. So maybe from Cape gooseberries you have the short term gooseberries...

@neutonrenda2303 Год назад

Hopefully an owl moves in, we watched one year as a spotted eagle owl raised a chick on our property. It felt very special to witness.👍❤

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Wow, that must have been amazing 😊

@fosterapp Год назад

Guys, this was an extremely interesting episode talking about the birds of prey there. Peter, when you climbed that ladder way up in the tree to place the owl house I experienced vertigo and had to have a gulp of some elderberry liqueur to stay calm.😏 We so enjoy your channel! 👍

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, glad you found it interesting. Some of the information is also new to us so we like to share 😊 Haha, hopefully the liqueur didn't destroy you 😀

@SamPhan-f9s Год назад

Peter the Great!!! Peter the Amazing!!! Peter the Courageous!!! Enemy of voles!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously guys, this is another beautiful documentation of your charmed life in the country. I know it takes lots of hard work, but it is still lovely to watch. I appreciate the music choices you make. I also like the fact that you vary the styles of music you use. It makes your vlogs even more interesting. I know you hate to see summer end, but I hope you will enjoy the autumn. It is my favorite time of year. Love to you both!!! ❤❤❤🍁🍂🍁🍂 🎃🎃🎃

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Haha, thank you, another confirmation that I am the best 😀 I love that you notice the music, I always spend a lot of time choosing it. Autumn is definitely coming and when it's colorful it can be very pretty. But maybe we will extend our summer. Watch this space 😁

@focusedfreebird Год назад

Beautiful country home. That is so good that you are giving the owls a place to live. I hope they come and eat lots of those pesky rodents in your garden. I love watching your channel. You make great videos!!

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, we hope so too 😊 Aww, we are glad you like our videos, see you in the next one 😉

@rebeccacook7924 Год назад

I loved seeing you in your yard and garden again. And I’m thrilled you survived installing the bird boxes! Good luck attracting the vole hunters.❤️❤️❤️

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you 😊 We are thrilled too and now we can hope that some vole hunters will move in 😁

@david00900 Год назад

Hope you get a new friend in the Owl house. You really made it look very comfortable. Good luck.....

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, we'll see what happens 😊

@neutonrenda2303 Год назад

You guys had a bountiful harvest this season, garden was a great success.❤

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Many thanks 😊😁

@andrewaway Год назад

Thanks guys. As always we are wowed by your amazing garden. It is such a treat. I guess you dudes are going to get a horse or two and start wearing cowboy boots and hats as the music would suggest. Well, Yahoo, buckaroo is all I can say. Can't wait. Love you. ❤❤ Bill and I went swimming on Oct. 1 and 2 in Lakes Erie and Hurun and they were the best beach days all summer.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, Andrew 😊 Haha, no we are not turning into cowboys 😀 Wow, sounds very good with your swim!! 😉 Here the summer is over but it looks like we will extend it in our next video 😉

@tanamananggrek Год назад

Tommy yes oce beatyfuul yes oce 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪❤❤❤❤❤

@FranWhorton-of5ql Год назад

Hoping you and Tommy will be lucky enough to have a long-eared osl family and the beautiful kestrel besides. It has been said, if you build it, they will come. Now we wait...the ladder climbing did look scary.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

We are hoping, it would be so cool. We'll see in spring or maybe in a few years. Thank you 😉

@FranWhorton-of5ql 4 месяца назад

I love your videos, guys. ❤ I always come away feeling happier. Installing the owl house in the evergreen was amazing and very high up there. I hadn't seen that video before.

@tommyandpeter 4 месяца назад

Many thanks 😊❤️

@robertobaldessari9464 Год назад

Wow what a color palette and the artist is nature. The mysterious power of color influences every aspect of this bio-diverse world is a magical thing. 🍒🍎🍆Today we saw Peter compete for the title of head gardener with Tommy, according to Daniela you can't do it, you must know Peter that he has a "soft spot" for Tommy. See you next time R and D 😇

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, we want the garden as diverse as possible, with the wildlife too 😊 Haha, I can compete but Tommy will always stay the head gardener, I don't have a chance 😀

@dorakranjc8361 Год назад

Did you say "skoro padel"?Because thats how we say "almost fall"..

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Yes, I screamed "Nerob, veď som padol skoro!" which means "Don't, I almost fell" 😀 So you heard that right Dora and you understood, so cool 😁

@dorakranjc8361 Год назад

@@tommyandpeter I told you at the beginnig that our languages are 70 percent alike.Some variations are. But the roots of the words are similar.Although I am not sure we would understand so well in every day fast conversation

@tommyandpeter Год назад

We don't understand fast normal conversations but sometimes we can catch some words and we have an idea what people talk about. Like you said, a lot of the words are quite similar 🙂

@FranWhorton-of5ql 4 месяца назад

Peter and Tommy, you have inspired my husband and I to make a wildflower garden in our back yard. This will be our first year for the wild flowers. Last year we put in a lot of irises, so we had pretty purple bearded iris this spring and they are still blooming. I am beginning to see your excitement as things start maturing.

@tommyandpeter 4 месяца назад

That sounds great! We are influencers now, haha 😁 Having a garden is such a joy. We walk every day in between the plants and observe what changed since the previous day. Every tiny detail. As everything grows, it's amazing. You'll love it 😊

@rabidbuddha4328 Год назад

My neighbor let grape vines grow in her spruce trees. She was told they would kill the tree. She wanted the vines and now the trees are all dead. I can’t recommend mounting things on trees either. It will choke the tree where it is connected unless you adjust it every year. Love watching all your harvest!

@tommyandpeter Год назад

You are maybe too negative. The grapes on the trees are not totally out of control but we'll see. We can always use dead trees for other plants that crawl high up, so we would find use for them 😁 People who take care of forests here also mount various bird houses on trees and everything is fine, it's just a few screwes...

@neutonrenda2303 Год назад

They like hot dry climate so the pot Will be better.

@yottskraper5704 11 месяцев назад

I think one of your voles is wearing Tommy’s wedding ring!

@tommyandpeter 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, that must be the reality 😀 But if an owl ate it, then it could be flown away somewhere 😯

@toms5996 Год назад

Your videos are always so lovely🇫🇮❤ Do you need a guy to help you with your garden?

@BBQNBLUES Год назад

Tommy & Peter *SHOULD* have kidnapped Johnny & made him their indentured servant

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you 😁 Help would be great, best some robot so we don't have to interact with humans. Or Johnny, haha 😀

@manilajakarta Год назад

I live in a very tropical country so golden berry would be nice growing here I admire your determination to grow it there where there is winter I'm happy I live in a tropical place where it's easy to grow stuff

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Hi, that is very nice, every time we are in a tropical country, it feels so different and cool to us 😊 But we are happy where we are. We can grow other stuff that wouldn't do well in the tropical areas, like apples or plums. We always have such a huge harvest of apples, yum 😊

@BBQNBLUES Год назад

Like Tommy, I prefer _Seedless Grapes (which I buy weekly) Perhaps you need to fertilize your Old vines. Have you heard of Muscadines ? 🍇 you might call them something else maybe "Scuppernongs"? again, they are a type of Grape seldom grown nowadays. Your Tuberous Begonia hanging planters look Beautiful ! Good luck attracting Owls 🦉 I've never tasted a Chokeberry. they remind me of a strange Tomato that also grows in a husk.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

No, we are not familiar with them. We read that Muscadines are native to the southeastern United States. Thank you, the begonias are Tommy's work and they are beautiful 😊 Here they sell the goldenberries in supermarkets but they are quite expensive - they import them from South America, mainly from Peru. Maybe you can buy them in stores too (Internet says that they are also called Cape gooseberries, Peruvian groundcherries or Inca berries). Chokeberries are something else and the strange tomatoes you are refering to are maybe Litchi tomatoes, we grew them last year. But maybe it's something else too 😁

@lilianadoval8927 Год назад

Hi guys, we are already anxiously awaiting the arrival of the long-eared owl and the krestel bird. Think of names for them. Poor voles but what is normal for the owl is a tragedy for the vole, right? Life as it is. This confirms that what we commonly call "normal" is actually an illusion. It's good to see that you have grapes in your land, exquisite fruit, but I agree with Tommy, the seeds are an inconvenience that tests our patience. Is pumpkin pie coming for Halloween? Kisses sweetie.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you, Liliana. Maybe we can name them after our viewers 😁 Savoury pumpkin pie is definitely coming for Halloween, we are looking forward to it 😊

@_gregc Год назад

Oh Guys. I was looking at your X twitter teaser for this video. Old people or just me perhaps tend to read very fast and miss half the words and half the intended context. So as I read that you were putting up owl houses, I thought you said the owls would send the voles to my yard! 😂 Oh no thank you. Keep your voles to yourselves. Just remember that while you are lithe, young, twenty somethings you needn’t worry. But….the day will come for you. It sure will. Thanks for the video!❤❤

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Haha, Greg, sounds like you need to really pay more attention while reading so you are not shocked 😀

@Stefan-dd5wo Год назад

All that lovely looking produce…though I’ll pass on the aubergine. Looks nice, but never tastes good. But the best thing this week was at 5:11 and 16:44…you both looked soooo handsome. 😀 I hope the owls and kestrels soon move in and deal with your vole crisis. Maybe you need some outdoor cats too? 😸 Hope you have a great week ahead. Best wishes, as always, from your pal in Ireland, Stefan

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Thank you Stefan 😁 We really like aubergines, they look good and taste good 😋 There are cats too, coming and going, sometimes they catch a vole or two, but it's not enough, because the voles keep coming from the neighbouring fields. So we need all the predators we can get 😀

@Stefan-dd5wo Год назад

@@tommyandpeter I agree that aubergines look terrific. But the flavour is not. ☹️

@WalkiTalki Год назад

6:34 Your grapes look very healthy. lots of growth. I do not know if it is the same for all varieties, but when I had a small vineyard almost all the horizontal vines would fill with grapes while most of the vertical vines(stems) would turn woody with no grapes. Also once a grape is a couple of years old it is very difficult to kill it. So every fall cut all the vines off that aren't horizontal. I had a plant get so out of control one year that I cut it all the way down to the ground leaving only a short stump. The next year it grew huge again and I had time to train in to grow horizontally. If you think of a ladder try cutting each plant to grow like a ladder.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

They are growing very well but they didn't develop fruits. I feel like I had pruned them too much. Here it is said that you need to keep at least a few stems from last year and on them new stems will grow and only on those there will be grapes. I can't explain it in English too well, sorry 😀 Thanks for the tips 😉

@2eleven48 11 месяцев назад

You need to understand about natural life - which voles are part of - not your damn garden. It's just a garden; nothing more than that. I'm bewildered that you both should be thinking like this, given how much you go on and on about keeping everything true to how we react and respond to the natural world.

@tommyandpeter 11 месяцев назад

Well, that's why we try to attract natural predators which naturally live in the area. That's the whole point of birds of prey - as we mentioned almost the whole diet (more than 90%) of European kestrels and long-eared owls consists of voles. So it's normal that they hunt them. Maybe you confuse voles with moles or you are generally confused and know nothing about voles in Central Europe? Voles are field mice and they can be a catastrophe for crops in fields and gardens due to their rapid population growth - they spread rapidly, outcompeting their natural predators and disrupting the ecosystem balance. Seems like you don't understand at all. Even in books about natural and permaculture gardening voles are the synonym for a disaster. Natural life = predators (birds of prey) hunt prey and when there are less predators we need to make good conditions for them.

@2eleven48 11 месяцев назад

@@tommyandpeter ...Thank for taking the time to reply. I stand corrected. I shouldn't have written in the first place. Robert, uk.

@empret7704 4 месяца назад

Sorry for laughing when you speak your own language, thank goodness you did not fall. 😊Any update on the owls?🤔

@tommyandpeter 4 месяца назад

Haha, it would feel so weird if we really spoke our own languages in the videos. So we just sometimes keep it for fun in the background 😀 No owls have showed up yet. Maybe they can find better places in old barns that are in the village...

@rogershields206 Год назад

The problem with your grapes not having a good yield may be caused by a grape fungus. If your owls and kestrels eat all your voles, I can send you some more. Ha Ha. Years ago there were more cats running wild and the cats kept the voles under control but now there are less cats and the voles are terrible. They eat my perennials and Asiatic lily bulbs. No fun!!! Hope your bird houses attract owls and kestrels real soon. Have a nice Autumn.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Some years ago there was fungus/mold on the grapes, but that was because it was very wet when they were getting ripe. But this year the fruits didn't even develop because I probably pruned it too much and didn't keep healthy branches... It was also very wet in spring, so maybe that was also a problem. So sorry to hear that you also have a vole problem. They are really terrible and annoying... We catch them in traps (we catch more than 150 voles every year) but they keep coming from the neighboring fields. So the predators are needed to keep them in normal numbers 😕

@boredutopia 10 месяцев назад

omg i must be the lucky one, i have 3 owls in 3 pine trees, one ušata sova ( same as one you try to lure in), one what we call ćuk and one still unidentified, i saw it fly but have no clue wich one it is, for other i know coz i saw them in sunset.. i guess they were there even before i bhought the property.. btw with grape when pruning, the branch must be cut like under angel, not narrow cut, no clue how to explain it. i had a lot of grapes, crazy coz i did not even tend the grapevine, it is stil filled with weed, grass, god knows what and there was bunch of grapes on its fence... nature isa wired sometimes, you nurture it and get nothing lol and someone else does nothing and it is full harvest..

@tommyandpeter 10 месяцев назад

You must be very lucky. Owls here are not that common, we haven't seen an owl from closer in nature ever. That is so cool, that they live in your garden!! The grape pruning going wrong was mostly that I cut healthy vines and kept some that were dry, so there weren't enough live ones 😀 At least the wild ones were growing fine. Like you said, nature works weirdly sometimes 😁

@boredutopia 10 месяцев назад

@@tommyandpeter croatia is filled with owls but most people never see one, you hear them, detect the tree but cant find it. we eve have association ich takes care of wounded owls and wild birds. i live near forrest, whole area is mostly vacation houses or houses turned into such, no traffc, i mean i need to driv thru field dirt road lol.. during winter and spring you can even see deers with babies roaming around and running back to woods if they spot you. best time to spo an owl is sun set or during night with full moon so visibility is good.. they only move during night..

@toms5996 Год назад

I worked in a 'city garden' and they used ALL the chemicals lol I always tried my parents to use this particular chemical that kills everything to the depth of 2cm - they still use it in Finnish cities so it can't be dangerous? To this day they decline. Perhaps I'm lenient what comes to chemical use. A funny thing came to my mind - climate change is deemed a positive in Finland. Already next summer we can start having grape wines and having wineries. And yes - the temperatures have risen already so much - a sudden jolt to 20C in early May and summer lasts till mid October and then a sodden jolt to +5-+10. Who nows about the weather anymore.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

We wouldn't want to use any chemicals in our garden. It's getting warmer here too and people try growing various warm-climate plants so in that case it's interesting. Bud sadly it's dry, at our country house especially 😕

@toms5996 Год назад

@@tommyandpeter We in Finland have had quite serious serious changes - exactly as has been predicted. Our summer (meaning 20C+) used to start in early June in the south, now in april. We get massive heat wavevaves and then huge amounts of water. So far it has been good for Finnish agriculture. Our traditional forests have to 'be replaced' with the kind you have - it will be an absolutely huge task but it's already on-going. (It's funny that no-one talks how the whole of Nordics changes faster than the rest of Europe.) One big thing is to have AC in all place to be able to live - it has become absolutely necessary. While Finland has the money to benefit in the short term from all this mayhem of climate change - I think it might destabilise as soon as in 5 years. (I had to get AC for my apartment, my parents forests were cut down and replanted with southern European trees.). I think you guy are the only one who even care what happens here in Europe😄 Find me a hot husband and I will make changes to my living arrangements 😉 It would be nice to voice-chat with you (in -english).

@saethman Год назад

So jealous - we've had such a cold (and wet) summer that my golden-berries aren't even close to ripe, even though they're in the greenhouse (and we've had our first frost already, weeks ahead of schedule)

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Here it's usually so so but this year a lot of them managed to get ripe so we got lucky. Colder weather is coming here too now. But it's still very dry 😥

@saethman Год назад

@@tommyandpeterYou can have some of our rain :p Have you looked into swales? (since you seem to be struggling with lack of moisture a lot)

@tommyandpeter Год назад

Send it here, please 😁 We don't know much about swales but it sounds like too much work to create them for too little effect (the terrain is flat), because when it's not raining it's not raining and maybe the soil would stay wetter for a bit longer where the water would accumulate but not by much. We prefer to naturally plant according to wetter/drier areas in the garden.

@saethman Год назад

@@tommyandpeter Good, I'll inform Njord (the norse weather god) about our agreement and hope that he'll accept :) I don't know much about them either, but it does seem to be a lot of work - maybe especially for flat areas? I did forget to ask how rainfall is when it does rain, and more important how the run-off is (if all the rain soaks in your soil and stays on your land to begin with, then I guess there isn't any benefit with swales either)

@tommyandpeter Год назад

All the rain soaks in the garden, on the flat terrain nothing flows away 😉 We also catch some rainwater into barrels from the gutters on the house. It's just the precipitation is very random and we never know how the year is going to be. Saying that as a meteorologist 😁

@guy4462 Год назад

I wouldn't let that wild grapevine grow into the tree, it will top it and eventually kill the tree. Trees need sun and grapevine leaves are wide and prolific and act as a shade.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

It's ok. We'll see if the grapevines would get out of control. But we would find use for dead trees too, we always need space for other plants that crawl high up so it wouldn't be the end of the world.

@ronsmith2241 Год назад

You want to hope that the owls are heterosexual. (Some of over 1500 animal spies are gay). Please be careful when you go up that ladder. Its very dry here in Queensland Australia too. Hugs to you both.

@tommyandpeter Год назад

We hope they are, haha 😀 Greetings to Queensland, here it's still very dry too... 😉