What's GROWING On In The Garden? No Dig Spring Garden Tour in Portugal 

The birds twittering, the doggie barking in the distance and the two of you working leisurely in your lovely garden. Can't get any better than that. 🤗

echinacea is a perennial it will get very large but does great in hot dry! I companioned strawberries and asparagus, I have no idea why they say that is a good idea! ripping all the strawberries out this spring will plant them on their own long hilled row of wood chips with soil added for their shallow roots. I'm sure you have read this but you can plant tomatoes very deep, prick off all but the last 4 leaves at the top and plant them they will grow roots all along their stem, makes them much more drought tolerant. Loved your Kayle voice!

To get the best carrots that don't fork, you need a light, fine soil. Put the soil through a riddle and mix well with sand, 1:1. Super carrots will follow!

Anything with a taproot (parsnips, carrots etc) won't transplant well because in the plug the taproot will not have had enough room to grow straight down. And when you transplant the plug, the taproot is disturbed. This results in forked or stubby carrots. The hugelculture beds might also cause them to be a bit shorter. But there's no need to fork the soil or add sand. As you might already know by watching Charles, no dig carrots do just fine! Good luck with the garden this year 💚

Just as I was laughing out loud at your humorous description of your garlic experiment, I heard you say, "What are you laughing at?"

You both are role models in gardening! So spectacular to see how You harvest everything You plant with Your own hands! Thank You!

Bravo to Kylie for getting that thankless task of weeding done !

Your garden looks good. Tip. Electroculture helps enormously in the garden. Use small cardboard chips, small wood chips and the grass clippings as mulch on the soil. It protects against drying out of the top layer and nourish the soil and attract worms.

Please more of your gardening

Not cheating to purchase plugs or starts! You're planting food, doesn't all have to be from seed yourself!!! You're building a house, so lighten your load by using starts when you can. Totally agree with Kylie on this one, Guy, not cheating. 😀

Remove the leaves from the tomato plant till the crown. Put it in the ground till the crown. The complete stem is getting roots and the plant don't need support because it is strong enough.

“Shelter from the heat”…looking forward to it being hot enough to say that, as I look at a 6 Celsius thermometer. Loved seeing your garden again. Amazing what you can harvest in early spring.

Having had snow a couple days ago....I have garden envy. 🍻 🇨🇦

Tomatoes and carrots are great companions. The carrots loosen the soil for water to the tomato roots.

Your veggie garden is looking good 👍💯🤗

I was catching up on your videos and saw your chicken coming to see you in your kitchen. Since you don't have a rooster you are her "rooster." You are boss. She kneels down for a rooster to "top" her. She then goes about her egg laying day. When I had hens with no rooster I would place my open hand on my hens back as they kneeled and pushed down gently. That made them happy and they get up and shake their feathers. She keeps coming back to you for you to "top" her as a rooster would do. Roosters are good but they can get mean if your hens look at you as their provider more than them. It is no fun when a rooster spurs you and you always have to be on guard. I really enjoy your You Tube videos. I have gardened for many years and always did many projects as you. God Bless!

I was so excited when I saw a new video! I just love following along

Carrots rarely transplant well. There is a good technique where by you fill a gutter pipe with soil, sow your carrot seeds into the pipe (you could mix the seeds with sand to sow more thinly), then when it is warm enough to plant outside you just slide the soil out of the pipe into a 'pipe' sized trench. You can sow peas in this way too to avoid mice eating them. I bloody love Spring and your garden looks fabulous. xx

Most gardeners dont recommend transplanting carrots but prefer direct sowing them. You can check if the soil is rather compact at around 10-15cm where the carrots stopped growing.

Love the sound of the bird action 😊 {bye!} very funny😂

Cats like being in & under tall plants vegetation… they think they are hidden & in a jungle. Our cat likes the long grass around a garden trolley. He gets under & sleeps there. We are not allowed to mow that area.

You should try making Portuguese fava bean stew. You can make it with dried fava beans (you will have to soak them) or make them with green fava beans. It is very good. My mom use to make it all the time and I have also made it.

I just love ❤️ your personalities ❤️🧡💛 you crack me up with your garlic story 😂🤣😂 It’s very nice that you have nice neighbors that like to share with you some of their harvest!! 🤗❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧

You'll have more energy for the garden once you've sorted the house and gotten all your services working so makes sense to concentrate on getting that done. It's surprisingly draining living without those modern 'conveniences' and easy to underestimate how much time it takes growing your own food, even with the time that's saved using no dig - and turn your back for 30 seconds and the weeds have taken over :D

Good Morning!

When it's time to get the garden in, everything else must wait. Can't miss that window of opportunity or your garden will suffer.

You two crack me up, thanks for the videos

CARROTS/PARSNIPS - as they have long tap root growing in a hugelkultur bed will encourage roots to split. They need ... - deep - fine - stone free growing medium, they also don't like being transplanted I love your gardening exploits as I only have a small urban garden, I do grow some edibles amongst the flowers. I do grow round carrots in a window box 'Paris Market' which do well. Another tip LABEL LABEL LABEL with the plant name and variety and the date sown and or planted. 😁👍

I hope you can donate those beautiful oranges. ❤ Or sell them. Nice garden... 😊

Give yourself grace with the store bought seedlings, and the smaller garden. You have some other tough and extensive projects to focus on, and thankfully, we are still able to buy plant starts in the shops. You're doing a great job. I love spending time with you both through the magic of film. And I'm totally jealous of those oranges having grown up in Florida. Maybe one day if you have the time, you can give us an update on the transplanted trees you filmed previously.

really enjoyed seeing your garden. Great work. Just a few points - echinacea is perennial (sometimes short-lived), your purple carrots look like they need harvesting sooner rather than later. As it gets warmer they will bolt and become inedible. (probably same for the other carrots too)

Hope you had a great, well deserved vacation. Your garden looks beautiful!

I hope you enjoyed your weekend away.❤❤😄👋

I always grow carrots by direct seeding in at least a 12” raised bed. Does very good as long as you soil is free of rocks and nice and loose. Also need to thin to get nice carrots.

hope u had an awesome holiday, so good to see you back too

Your gardens look amazing!!! 🤗❤️👏👏👏🎶👍🇨🇦

Don't give up on over-wintering peppers! My California weather is much like yours and some years are good for over-wintering and some are too cold. I had trouble with this year as well but when it works you will get a big head start with that established root system. Oh, and I HIGHLY recommend using straw for a thick mulch on everything. It will greatly reduce evaporation & watering, and it eventually breaks down to enrich the soil.

I'm crying looking at your garden like I want that so bad thank you for sharing

Look forward to watching you garden grow, also. And the exciting food preservation recipes you come up with😁

Your garden beds are a work of art.

I highly recommend using hay/straw to cover the spots between the plants. It prevents weeds, and forms humus as it decays. If a weed pops up, just drop a inch or two of hay/straw on it, and it withers from lack of sunlight. The hay/straw also helps to keep moisture in the ground (although with the wet winter you've had this may not be a concern now) during the hot summer months.

Lovely to see you two in the garden again.

Ok it's life you can't win them all carry on with the good work all the best for all good weekend

It's amazing to see the garden grow and shrink as your skills and knowledge grow.

Olá, aqui do 🇧🇷 como gosto de ver seus trabalhos, vídeos são incríveis. Boa colheita 🥬🥒🥦🌽🧅🥕🌶️🫑🍆🧄🍒🍓

Here in Québec Canada, in date of april first, we have more than 2 feet of snow staying on the ground. Your place is very earley.

You're gardens veary beautiful 👍🌹💓🙏.

Nice to see you both in the garden....hope you have an easier gardening year to allow you to crack on with your house renovation. Nice to see Spring has finally arrived....do envy your oranges...still on the trees!!

Echanacia are perennial in growing zones 4-9. We grew them in central texas, they last years and naturalize easily if they like the spot. Do not fertilize or baby these too much. They are the most rewarding with minimal work 😊

How satisfying it must be to plant, grow and eat from your own garden. Hugs from 🇨🇦 where we are not yet ready to garden😢

Guy & Kylie, thank you for your videos. They are so refreshing and mellow. I think I have watched every one of your releases. Can’t wait to have a glass of (rhubarb 😂) wine with you one day. Have a great week. Keep ‘em coming.

Your garden looks good and you planted such a nice variety of vegetables. Make sure the melons are on a separate water grid. You turn off the water supply to them one week before harvesting. It helps to concentrate the sugar in the melons.

I love watching your garden videos. I think your cideos are well done and well narrated and edited well. Guy reminds me of my son. I wonder about both of you and your parents. I bet they miss you.

Love your vlog and how hard u guys work...🇿🇦

Try dipping the individual bolted cauliflower heads in flavoured eg curry, tempura batter and deep fry.

All the compost that you tilled into your gardens last year is paying off, and the wood chips help keep in the moisture. The gardens are looking prosperous already! I see you also have no shortage of oranges. ;-)

You folks are truly blessed.

Love your garden videos, like someone said below your carrots may go to seed as the weather heats up so take them out now and eat them 😋. Jealous of your early spring and long season. Happy growing 🌱 👍

Echinacea is a perenial, which usually flowers from the second your onwards

HELLO KYLIE & GUY...AH, GARDEN TIME...'THE TIME OF THE SINGING OF THE BIRDS IS COME'...YOUR GARDEN TECH IS VERY GOOD, BTW...ENJOY IT IMMENSELY...WALLY, HAVE YOU KNOW SHAME! RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA!......ALL THE BEST...🙏;)

Hi, Kylie and Guy. It’s good to see you in the gardens for a change. Echinacea is a perennial here in Ontario, Canada. The roots have medicinal properties.❤️❤️

It's always wonderful to get a garden update, not to say I don't love the renovation vids, I do, but a nice, well-rounded channel is superb. By the way, I did mention that when you planted them, strawberries do like to take over an area pretty fast, and they keep giving year to year. Keep up the fantastic content. 👍👍👍

best of luck)) looking good

Long time no see, love the time lapse for floor heating. Heavy and wonderful work. Garden is great. Thank you.

oooooooooo such a relief)) thank you dears

Good job !. I wonder if u thought of planting your pumpkin on those cement trellis (i believe its for the grapes) near the garden patches. Plant a pumpkin seedling at the base of each poll, the plant climb to the top of the poll. I find growing pumpkin or bean on height produce a better harvest.

Your garden is looking wonderful. I think that one can never have too much pumpkin but I didn't see any. They are delicious roasted with fresh rosemary, in spinach and pumpkin rissotta (which freezes beautifully, effortlessly great reheated after a hard days work sprinkled with fresh parmasen cheese and a glass of two of wine!), or in a marinated fruit pumpkin cake. In your climate I suggest creating a 'volcano' about 1 metre diameter, planting 3-6 seeds inside volcano, and covering with hay and water to fill volcano when planting. Water from time to time but essentially volcano plus mulch will hold water longer. Thin to 3 strongest vines. Also works for all melons in hot dry climate. Except melons do not have storage advantage of pumpkins. Store harvested pumpkins on open mesh racks under cover, eg garage. In future, your creative zone would work well. Which I fully endorse. I have such a zone in my home with a wall of boxes of yarn, fabrics, craft and art supplies. Enough for my remaining years, then some. I believe I my occupation is haberdasharyrologist. 😏

It takes effort, by high rewarding... and healthy. Good job!

Ooh, I've got broad bean envy now, look amazing.

Thank you for the garden tour. Hoping we can get our garden ready for fall planting this year on the Silver Coast. We don’t get quite as much frost as you do. We don’t have your stamina to have our house renovated and plant a garden at the same time. Slight difference in age here 😂. By the way, you just missed the Big Wave season in Nazaré, but as nice that you got away for a few days.

You have beautiful raised beds in the garden!

Lovely garden. It's nice to see it progress. Enjoy your day 😊.

Your less is still a lot😂. Great job. Good luck with your renovation. I really apreciate your efort. ❤

Beautiful garden! I can't grow carrots to save my life, but what I learned is they don't like high nitrogen or being watered a lot :)

I love that you are gardening. I had many tomatoes left and made red and green salsa. Delicious!!!

In my experience the Florida weave works fairy well with determinate varieties (especially since there's no need to prune them), not so well with indeterminate ones

Your garden is looking great, it's still a bit cold for planting here in North derbyshire!

Going back to your pod cast six months ago about: “why did the chicken cross the road.” Do you know you can put your chicken coop on wheels and move them around the garden so they can eat bugs out of the entire yard. it’s a little hard but I’ve seen it done on Rescue Homestead show.

Good to see how your garden is growing....looks good.

Those no dig beds have really paid off in terms of weed pressure. One bit of advice, the rosemary will take over in the raised bed, I’d plant it in the ground, the woody herbs don’t really like the rich soil anyway. I’m starting to use Korean Natural Farming (KNF) preps soil improvement and general health of the garden, they even help with natural pest control and drought resistance, great for your trees too. They’re mostly ferments, so I know you’ve got the kit. Check out Chris Trump, super easy to get into and takes you to another level of regenerative on your land. Thank you for your amazing videos and all you teach and share 🙏

Now I am watching bit about seed and sand ,whoops. Do you have any”plonk”around. That word reminds me of my fathers home made in Adelaide 50plus years ago.

Lovely chickens and cat🤗🤗

You have to cut pepper after January every year, just left stick for 2-3 inches. I have chili pepper for 3 years. I hope you understand my English. Olga.

I wasn’t looking for it but I just saw you on the Curvy Brides episode and I was like… wait… I know that voice! 😊❤

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

Looks great !

root vegetables, like carrots and parsnips are root vegetables - they never like transplanting; although the shops like you to think otherwise.

Appreciate the garden tour, thank you! And got that same t-shirt from your store.😎 Spring is definitely here as well. I pre-planted some basil, and two types of tomatoes ... Moskvich and Oxheart. However, I will get other tomato plants from nurseries too. The plan is to put in a raised garden bed this year as well. Cheers!

Love watching your channel! Very entertaining!

Fresh fava bean salad: (boiled, but not too soft) fava beans, olive oil, lemon juice. garlic, salt and pepper, red onion, cilantro and chives is one of the joys of spring. I've found that if you plant your favas (from seed) in two week intervals starting late fall, you can get a really long season. Just saying.

I overwinter my peppers every year here in TX. They do look dead this time of year. If you leave them alone, they will sprout up from the roots.

I also grow chard as a few plant gives us plenty. Though mine hasn't grown a base like that. You are both green thumbed. I have a broccoli recipe that Annabel Crabb (Kylie you might remember her as a journalist in Canberra) submitted to a magazine. Chop up raw broccoli and dress with lemon juice, greek yoghurt, red onion, currants and almonds. I also do a carrot version using apple cider vinegar (or sometimes ginger or apply balsamic), olive oil and parsley. No yoghurt though. I also jut made roasted beetroot and chick pea hummus.

Snow just melted in my yard...

So nice to hear the birds sing while you enjoy your garden! Thank you for sharing~!

Mulching is a must in hotter climates especially around tomatoes, peppers and other things like melon family. (Cukes too). Dried grass clippings, leaves (preferably chopped) and anything that's pruned from things like grapevines. If you remove the bedding from the chicken coop, let it "rest" for the time being. It's too "hot" meaning too high in nitrogen for plants right now. Oh, yeah, here's some chemistry for you. Wash egg shells, grind as fine as possible, add vinegar, 1 part to 1 or more vinegar. The ensuing foam gets a bit wild, but the result is a calcium that's immediately available to plants. 1 part to 500 or more water, foliar spray. It will increase fruiting and plant strength.

I love your spirit

Hi..great garden work. Like I told you all before..my Gram Ukrainian had wonderful gardens..manure and lime Raised beds are good. She didn't have opportunity To have yrs ago. You all are amazing bloggers Doers..and great videos Of great wanted substances You are having such a great Variety of foods..so much better of course I went in ms to a big box Grocery..wanted good cabbage. Was so disappointed Didn't smell didn't taste Evrntho my taste buds aren't The best.anymore Cabbage from the farm.. Was amazing Good luck .

Wise to get into the garden after all the fine dining....glad to see your efforts are paying rewards.

Oh how I wish to have a property back home

Dam it.....second!