Our CHALLENGES on our HOMESTEAD this spring 

G you really have a green thumb. Your seedlings are super!❤️🙏

I hope the rain has subsided, because I'm picturing you guys drenched in sunshine! 🌞🌞🌞

Great news for the oak trees, a renal bonus for the land

Seems like a great idea you have.....draining the water from your garden...I hope it works well. You doing a wonderful job planting the oak trees . Can you eat the acorns.

So much rain!! hope you will find a way to store your precious water for the dry season. Property looking lovely and green.

Definitely get some IBCs & store the water rather than pumping it away. That way you will have water during the dry summer.

Tikiuosi jusu projektas su šuliniu, del vandens sode,suveiks. Vesli augmenija,kai tiek drėgmės.

Or maybe add a pond down at the lowest level for summer water storage

We've missed you over the past week.. 😮 lovely to see you again, even with so much rain ☔️ looks like the weather is changing this week, though 😊 all the seedlings are so healthy, G 👩‍🌾

We had a big rain here on Friday… 100mm. Yesterday and today are beautiful. We needed it, but up the cost there was some serious flooding with 350 mm in about 24 hours. Not so good. Hoping your flood mitigation scheme works. I understand the way you want it to function. Happy gardening.. Cheers🌸🌸🌸🌸

Everything is looking great 😍😍

Been raining a lot in Scotland as well. Too much rain is no fun. Thank you for sharing.

Missed you. Strange to see cat in water. Hope you can solve your swamp. Veggies look good.

Great video guys I think the idea of pumping water out the well should work be interesting to see. Seedlings coming along nicely G very difficult to film when you have rain all the time just make sure you have sun in a couple of week 😎 take care ❤

The idea that you have for pumping water from well sounds like it might work, but definitely pump water into storage tanks for later use. If it doesn’t work, I do think the next step for a more permanent solution, since water always takes the path of least resistance, to start at that higher ground area above (where you stated the water runs down from) and dig a trench horizontally under that higher ground and then continue down each side the vegetable and around the back end of the garden so its “squared in”and then continue the trench to an area where holding tanks and the well can catch as water runs down the trenches. ❤ Loved seeing how well the seedlings are coming along. Oh and another great tip for roses? Blend up banana peels in water and pour around them.❤❤ we’re having the same weather pattern here, rain, rain and oh look more rain!😂

Would be great to see a video in a couple of months to see how the oak saplings are doing 😊

Make more water storage, more deeper, or make pond where you can go through bad rock, somewhere at the bottom of your property and conduct water into it.

Oh, I was planning to start my gardening after Easter. Then we got more than 20 cm of snow! But now it is gone and the weather is lovely where I live in Sweden. And what about ”sunny Portugal”. I never thought too much water would be the problem. 😎

Love watching your videos always interesting

Can't believe how much rain your are having. We have the same here in Devon, it truly does feel like it's been non stop for months now. We can't cut our grass it's so wet.

Hello to both of you. We have missed you. Seedlings are looking good. Let's hope the draining of the water works. I hope you start having better weather so Gee can get her kitchen built. Take good care of each other. Until the next time.❤❤

Queen G & King Guffey Keep him Mr A working No breaks ! When you moving in the house ? Xx

Maybe rather than wells they are a sump , built to collect the excess water from the land , for onward movement

How lovely your videos are….so pleasant and relaxing to watch….and….‘I wish you sunny skies, wherever you are’ !! What a lovely sentiment thank you….we could do with sunny skies here in Kent UK at the moment , my garden is like a bog with so much rain. I hope your well draining works…time will tell, I guess. Keep us updated on that. Love and hugs x x 🥰🥰

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Hello i have same water problem in Ireland its shaped like a bowl but you have fine way to divert it a Solar set up how will you power a pump you need electric if you had a Solar Generator could be a game changer for you and all the projects you have going All the best

Roses really like crushed egg shells too. Crushed very small you can feed to chicken's too. If possible maybe dig the drainage ditch deeper, even cut into the bedrock if you have to. Not a fun project, but it might work.

I think that is av good idea if it fails you have lost nothing if you idea works you have solve a huge problem.

Missed you guys! Gina, your seedlings and green house are racing away! You definitely have green fingers! I think most of Europe have had a very wet week! The only thing that really flourishes from all the rain are the weeds and the grass, everything else has got so drenched that it’s now slowing down the season growth that we’re all waiting for! Love the way your cats want to be involved with everything, very cute following the flow of the stream down through the top terrace. Hopefully the up coming week will be markedly dryer and a little warmer!❤

You have lots of strawberries ripening! How deep is that tank/well? Looks like things are really wet! n nice video!

Lot's of hard work to make your home looking great. But when your older you should have done most of the hard work.

Why do you not get IBS tanks and pump water into them , to water the vegetables .?

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work, maybe put some pins by your cork oaks or you are going to loose them when you have to mow again 👍😀

I like you both very much, sometimes it feels like I really know you. We currently have the best weather in the Black Forest (Germany), 28° today in April. I also wish you sun and less rain, everything so that it is balanced. Kind regards, Jo

I wonder if it would be a good idea to drain the water from you well into IBC tanks, that way you'll still have the water which I am sure you can use during the summer months to water the land?

I agree you need to remove the water for your garden, but dont you think it would be best if you had a pond dug so that all the extra water that you have during the raining period can be used later during the dry summer. In the best interest of your water needs I think if you had transit to know your elevations, you could do all of the channels and direction of the water could be done without the need for a pump, at least until you needed to pump water during the dry summer times.

Good to see you both, it’s been raining lots on the Uk too, glad for the trailer with the Ibc for the water storage it will be great you can transfer it around your property, wasn’t ment to rain today and it’s done quiet abit, I was hoping to transfer some plants as I have to clear and area where the garden shed is going to go and I hoped to have cleared all the plants today but hopefully I can tomorrow and we have a lot if rain until Thursday of next week again, then I have to prepare the ground for aggravate and sharp sand then the shed can sit on top of that with some slabs. Hope you get a break in the weather xxx

Hi guys! Just wondtering if you can put that water in a water tank and use it to water your crops every day including when there is a drout?

You have two tanks I would pump the water into ,or there full?or to far Well its a good ideia to have the water from the land into the well.........in the summer I am sure if you have a machine drill in the bed rock going to cost a bet. but there you going to have the best water.

With all this water you could plant watercress. Happy week-end

hi guys,where you bin,see you in next vid.

Rainy UK.......sun, wats that😂

Not a lot of sun in Sheffield South Yorkshire

So many things ready to plant ,but the weather doesn't help you , if you could keep the water for your garden in the summer , it would be great !!!...

kork and chestnuts need to be at least 10 meters apart. because its 5 for each I say ,ok at least 4 meters.

Hihihiiiiii, nothing to film made a good video, with lots of little actions and good laughs!!!

Would it be useful to pump and save the water into separate above ground tank for use in summer when the garden is so dry?

looks like your going to have to improve the drainage ditch a lot

Может не осушать, а сделать высокие грядки?

Cork or Oaks? Either way amazing 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

А где же Ваше традиционное приветствие: " Доброе утро, милые люди" ? ))

Any place to relocate all or part of the garden ?

After the recent bad weather I bet you think you are still in England. Well I can asure you it is a lot worse over there than here and far far more expensive to do what you are doing. Although cheaper and better weather is S.W. Scotland where I had my last farm is still better here, as you will see as the climate keeps changeing. U.K. will soon be incapable of producing and food. I hope you are storing some of this lovely liquid as no doubt you will need it in the summer. Later this week is forecast to reach 30 which is a bit warm in early April Mine is full and the walls have sealed so it will be there when I need it and at the moment all is growing very well and fruit setting like mad. Why don't you dig a reservoir and store more water as am sure you will need it in summer as can get into the mid 40's where you are. I now have 35,00 gallons in mine and am sure that will take me through the heat of the summer. Looking at you paddling in the garden reminds me of late last year when my pond was soaking away and flooding the garden area, but now since being flooded again and again, thankfully the walls have sealed and I don't have that problem any more. Just plenty of water for summer. Yes I have planted 700 oaks,but holy oak for the timber and too keep min of Ag happy so they keep paying me the grant as it pays all my growing costs.

Roses also love chicken poo! 💩 😅

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