It’s Spring time and we take a tour of the food forest orchard and vegetable gardens.
We look at what’s growing now and see how our plants and trees have survived a cold winter.
Since moving to Portugal and buying an abandoned farm, we’ve been planting and growing fruit and vegetables.
Living in rural Portugal is beginning to show progress.
We’re sorry about the wind noise, it’s been windy all week.
We really hope you enjoy this video.
Meraid and Dan
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I just got back from the pub, if i watch this vid now i be seeing double, i watch in da morning, god bless you both🙏🙏🙏😎
quince blossom will come later in may … nice gardening work
No Bugs in Portugal? in Canada when spring is that far we have many black flies and mosquitoes. Lovely property, you will have a busy year lucky you are full of energy.
Welcome to my country! Good and pleasant life, it is Springtime! Prosit!❤🎉
What do you do with all of that produce? Especially the lemon and orange trees. That is an awful lot of fruit to eat.
Well done. The place looks great.
I can feel the excitement of Spring in this video. Love this time of year, do the same thing in my own yard, checking to see what has survived the winter and what is starting to bud. Still to cold to put my seedlings in the ground but soon…
Property looks good and all that hard work is showing
O love your house ,views ,the garden area just so wonderfully beautiful
Adorei a visita guiada ao vosso terreno. Está a ficar cheio de vida, compensando o vosso esforço e dedicação.
good afternoon couple, I follow your project in Portugal. Funny, some couples from the UK, going to live in Portugal. I live in Rio de Janeiro(Brazil), but my son and his wife in Montijo(in front of Lusbon). I liked your story and I've been following. Looking forward to seeing you guys work on the home renovation. if you want seeds of something, like passion fruit seeds I can send them to you, as well as tomatoes. I think that for both you will need a greenhouse. Success
Beautiful property, and you are doing an awesome job in the garden… congratulations, but please leave the buds alone 😅
Cilantro’s coriander will taste like Soap, am told by my Natural-path, is a sign of metal toxicity. Mercury being the biggest offender. And eating Coriander leaches the heavy Metals. We love it too. Tasty
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The bond that you have developed with the land and the joy you have with nurturing the garden is infectious.
A second microphone for Meraid will improve your videos.
Beautiful organic garden, it is absolutely necessary that we surround ourselves with nature as much as possible, this is something that most people very much need today but are not getting, they suffer from nature deficit disorder, very impressed with your garden !!
You two are very hard working people, quite a project you took on. I wonder how old the olive trees are. Keep up the good work.👍👏❣️🙋♀️❣️
Great progress!👌🥰👌
Wisteria is lovely but very invasive…it will get out of hand if not maintained. Beautiful property. ALOT of hard work…. great job y'all.
Such a tonic to watch and how blessed you are to have Bay Leaves at this time of year 😉
You are both wonderful gardeners!!
Have a happy growing season!
You’ve done so much in a little bit of time. Garden looks great.
What a food and nature paradise the two off you are creating! ❤ I loved every minute of your garden tour. I could smell the smells, hear the sounds and feel the grass beneath my feet from my living room chair.😊
Bom dia! Acho que os damasqueiros estão muito perto das laranjeiras porque ficam, em adultas, árvores muito grandes. Eu já tive de cortar um porque fazia muita sombra e tive de os plantar mais afastados. Desculpe estar a dar a minha opinião pois nem sei se esse é um damasqueiro anão.
Great garden! Will not take long until you start making some food preserving videos 😉
As you mentioned some vole damage, I'd like to ask if the damage they do to your plants is manageable and one can live with it, or can it be totally crop/plant ruining? Where we live if we do not protect the ground with wire mesh we have losses from 80-100% on almost every vegetable…
Hottentot fig is beautiful but like the acacias is a bit of a plague and evasive species in Portugal and I’d be careful where I planted it as it spreads and is so hard to get rid of. Right now you are there to look after it but think years to come.. if for some reason your place falls abandoned again then the Hottentot will just completely take over meaning any other species will get suffocated out. I think it’s quite important to think of all scenarios when introducing plats somewhere as once it’s there it’s so hard to get rid of xxx
I absolutely loved your garden tour. So many different plants and all with a purpose. With regards to your Asparagus I planted one year crowns last year which are just about coming up now. I'm sure you'll be as amazed as I am at how quickly they develop into good sized spears. This will be third year for me and I will be having one small harvest just to taste 😉, despite the 3-4 year rule.
The archway is looking good and it will be fantastic covered with fruit over time.
Thank you for a lovely update.