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Late...yet placing rebar (reinforcing) concrete-brick-soil is the norm ..at least in some countries. Your patience, modesty, alongside your perseverance is way cool. Again your graceful pace, gorgeous music & your own slow clear speaking...your politeness & the ways you are sweet towards each other...sometimes almost brings tears to my eyes....you both are excellent examples as to how we folks can & could be more graceful & peaceful.🐾
For the next concrete work in cold weather if you use hot water 38-48C+/- it will make the concrete get hard faster(set-up) which is common practice for cold weather concreting. You can still make concrete with wet (not dripping wet) sand & rock, you will just use less mix water. Was going to mention on the last vid when placing the blocks to wet the surfaces before you mortar, it will help the mortar stick better and not suck moisture out of the mortar mix. For the first time doing that kind of work I would say pat yourself on the back, you did good!! Keeping all the new work covered during cold weather is important for at least the first 15-30 days, even cover it with straw. In my opinion concrete and masonry work are some of the hardest jobs in construction. So when that is done everything else will be "easy". Again good work, you're a pro now!
Are you letting the rabbit poop and the lamb poop dry out for a year? Maybe a compost pile layered with the animal waste will help develop better soil. It may be too rich? Also, if you put a black water container in the greenhouse, it will absorb heat in the day and release heat later. That might give you a little more time to get your tomatoes ripe. We pick them green at the end of the season and put them in the window to finish ripening too. I'm in California.
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Guys, this will have to be my donation: Your garlic must be HARD NECK. When harvested, properly dried and stored it should keep for 10 - 11 months. Try 'Music'It is my favourite. It produces heads with 4-5 cloves. Each head should weigh 50 - 65 gm.Concerning soil : Lots of safe for use compost (25% of your bed, layered in); bone meal and eggshells (a thorough dusting over the entire bed); composted cow manure ( safe for use with no heat left in it, 2 cm. over entire bed); peat moss (2 cm. over entire bed); very light dusting of fine wood ash over the entire bed.Using a garden fork, go up and down the bed, inserting and rotating the layered soil only 90 degrees. "Give it a light roll" The planting bed should be rock free, with good soil, in full sun and NOT in a low location. Garlic does not like 'wet feet'.Plant your largest cloves with no damage to the outer wrapper, 'top knuckle deep' (10 cm.) and 15 cm. apart in every direction.Plant 2 - 3 weeks before hard frost and harvest in late August, or when the lower 5 leaves have dried and turned brown.Once planted, mulch the garlic bed with 15 - 20 cm. of straw or deciduous leaves. In the spring, when green shoots are8-10 cm. above the leaves, gently pull the leaves 5 cm. away from the base of each sprouted stem. The mulch remainson the bed all season long.Once harvested, just shake the soil off the roots. Do not wash them. Do not over handle the heads and roots. A little dirtis no problem. Leave full stems on until cured. Dry on framed wire racks, out of the rain, in the shade in a well ventilated (airy) building for at least 5 weeks. After drying, remove the stems about 8 cm. above each head. Store in paper bags, 6-8 heads/bag, in the dark, at 15 C. and use as required.Note HARD NECK garlic does Not braid, because the centre post is too hard if properly dried.Best of luck. Happy gardening.
Nice work on the stairs!! gardening is a lot of work and takes time you and Mathias are so busy and work so hard it seems all your friends come to visit enjoy there time there another beautiful video breathtaking your animals are so loved and y’all take such good care of them !! Thanks again
I have a couple of garden suggestions if you don't mind? I live in a northern area of Alaska at 61.5 degrees of latitude which is very close to your 63 degrees of latitude. In fact, your forest, the plants and the weather looks identical to our area. We have been gardening organically on our little farm for almost 20 years now and I try to get my soil tested at least every other for nutrients and PH level. Northern soils tend to be overly acidic and because of that, the plants have a difficult time absorbing and utilizing the nutrients you apply to your garden. From watching this video I would make a guess that your soil probably needs an application of garden lime. The cooler temps could also be effecting the absorption of nutrients with acidic soil. Garden plants do not like wet roots or water logged soil. There is not much you can do about that outside, but in the green house during cloudy and cool weather I have gone as long as 2 weeks between watering of my tomatoes.
One thing to try is to make compost tea. Fill a bucket half way or so with natural compost. The fill the bucket with water. Let it soak for a couple of hours. Remove the compost and throw it back on your compost pile. Use the water (tea) in the bucket to water your gardens. The measurements dont have to be precise but i think you understand.
Not to be pedantic, but I am studying microbiology and if you do not aerate your compost tea, you will only be growing pathogenic bacteria. Give Elaine Ingham a watch on various youtube channels to learn about the critical importance of an aerobic compost or compost tea. Beneficial microorganisms grow in aerobic conditions, pathogens grow in anaerobic conditions.
Hello from Maine. We used insulated tarps to cover our stone masonry on frosty nights while we were building. Maybe this could help extend your building season a little. Each episode gets more beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I'm watching from Sydney Australia, i wish i was there with you both. I love your farm and all your beauty animal's. Especially the Rooster's crowing!!!! It's so relaxing .
Tova, with the tomatos take away the flowers as soon as you think that they wont have a chance to make it in to ripe tomatos. Also take away some leaves of the plant as well. Especially the ones covering the tomatos from the sun. But in the end the plant does not really need that many leaves. All this may help the plant to focus on the ripening.
Hello from Canada. Look up garlic scapes. It is a stem that comes out of the garlic and curls with a flower bud on the end. If you cut it off as soon as it shows up when it is fine and tender an only a slight flower bud, you can chop them up like chives and stir fry them or pop them in soups etc to add a garlic flavour. Cutting them off will also cause the plant to put more effort into making the underground bulb bigger instead of wasting that energy on making a flower. Love watching your videos.
Garlic n ginger both need sand and dry soil..lot less water..sweet potato's are the same.. so plant em in pots.. Inside ur covered green shed..Egg shells are good fertilizer.. Stay safe..God bless.
On the west coast of Canada we plant the garlic in the autumn and harvest in following spring/summer. We then dry it in the loft of our shed where they are kept dry but well ventilated. We’re still trying to figure out our best reproducer and best flavour garlic. Be sure to schedule a lot of Spaghetti Aglio & Olio in your life 😋
Those "small onions" from the garlic scape are called "bulbils". They are great to use in cooking and you can even plant them but they take a lot longer to grow and will only produce small heads of garlic. Better to use large cloves in the same space for better harvest and best to just cut off those scapes when they appear; more nutrition for the bulb instead of the flower spike.
great job on the cellar stairs. To me they look great! When it comes to summers like this it's a good thing we can still go to the grocery store to get our produce. We raise all our own meat (beef, pork, chicken, turkey) and that has been the easiest thing for us to raise. Veggies and fruit are so weather reliant and can be so unpredictable.
California here. Fall is approaching with crisp, cool nights. It is very welcomed. I wish you well with your projects before the really cold weather comes.
Bitter lettuce means inadequate watering. If you're not getting regular rain, you'll need to supplement that need. How about getting another solar panel to operate heating pads for the greenhouse? That's really common in the colder areas of the States. Chiles love their roots to be warm, and you'd also have better luck with other vegetables.
The only other thing I can think of to replace those plastic pipes is bamboo. No idea of those are easy to come by in Sweden though! And I think I'd like to be that cat.... he looks so happy and peaceful in your arms guys!
In Canada as well summer 2019 everything was very late in growth. People that had hibiscus plants growing in their garden were only blooming in October which is very odd. No one really had a good gardening experience either.
Maybe those little garlic/onion things are actually shallots. I've not ised them but have heard they are great for flavoring food. I have some very dear friends who grew a couple of acres of Lingon Berries and made the most fabulous tasting syrup with it. We lived in Rainier, Oregon at that time which is what your property reminds me of.
Tova , if you put a candle under a upside down clay pot you have good heater for the greenhouse ( I use those indoors too , when the heat is off and we are cold
You might have better luck with your garden when you move into your new home, you can plant seeds much earlier to get a head start before planting them in the ground?! I always start my seeds inside about about 6 weeks, maybe this would give them the head start they need? Love watching your journey❤️
i canned pickled green tomatoes. i also dehydrate. let your garlic dry and separate the cloves and you will multiple your heads every year. egyptian walking onions. replant the top bulbs. they will keep growing also every year. if you have 2 beds(one this year and a new bed for next year) you can pull up the under ground onion bulbs and eat them of the older bed. you replant the little tops and you can also trim the greens in the spring(like a scallion)just make sure to leave the largest stalk. don't pick that one. looks nice. do asparagus grow there? comfrey, mint, sage, lemon balm, horse radish, sorrel, those are some perennials I like and don't need care. rose mallow hibiscus(so beautiful)
Thank you for your advice! I have sage and mint at least, im not sure the rest of them you mentioned can survive here, i have tried to keep the lemon balm and lavender during the winter but its to cold for them, so many of them i have to reseed every year.
Looks like your garlic is going to seed. Usually happens when it is stressed, which could be down to your cold year. Looks like it will not grow any more, so I would pick it, let it dry until the leaves have died completely and then it should store for some time. The cloves are not big, but should taste fine.
Hi I found your Vlog today and really enjoy watching it, though just started backwards. I am german with a big love of the north . Since I have been in Canada I grow Garlic every Year. I put the garlic bulbs into the ground before frost. In Canada they cover with branches from pine . When the plants start to have buds you remove this, then all the power goes in the lower parts. You can use the little ones from the flower- it is no seed!- for growing; result of this should be a seeding bulb for the next year. There is a really good book : Engeland- Growing great garlic. My garlic was the same size this year, we were lacking in water. now I will continue following your adventure, thanks a lot for letting us being part of it. All the best Evi
@@eva-uw9de thank you so much for all the info! I will look into the book. That was what we did last year. Planted them in the fall and covered with spruce branches. I would like to learn how to succeed with garlic since we love the taste and have garlic in almost everything we cook /Mathias
@@Talasbuan Just the same with me, here in Germany nearly nobody grows garlic, I often heard that's not possible, but it is not true. Maybe you can find special north-loving garlic varieties?
@@eva-uw9de yes! I will have to read some and test some more. I'll definitely check out the book. Sadly I didn't get any garlic in the ground this fall. But I'll test and plant some in the spring anyway just to see how it goes. Yes, good idea! Need to check if there's any northern heritage varieties. The ones I planted here was bought from some garden store, don't remember the names. Need to be a little bit neardy and star writing a garlic growing logbook :)
Try not planting your lettuce so thick....give it room to grow!! If it stops growing and is bitter it sounds like it was stunted from lack of space. Garlic and onions alike can be braided together and hung in an ideal place from a nail. Say like in a nice cellar when it's completed 😉. Just found your channel. Glad to have found it.
Also having the windows over the boxes will allow you to start your seeds much earlier. Here is a link. www.google.com/search?client=safari&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ACYBGNQOjJLRI4lCFZoPFOcdKxVuF889Jg%3A1578606513689&ei=sZ8XXpjZKcXE-gSPxbKYDA&q=old+window+greenhouse+box&oq=window+hothouses&gs_l=psy-ab.1.3.0i71l8.0.0..20749...0.2..0.0.0.......0......gws-wiz.B-HQ4lMec0M
Those little bulblets are good in salads or for saving and planting in the fall. Have you tried testing your soil? It may be too high or low in an ingredient. To much nitrogen will make your plants nice and green but not produce fruit. Also, how are plants pollinated there? Do you have bees of any kind? If they do well in your area, I would suggest getting a few, esp. if you plan to get fruit-bearing trees such as apples. If not then you should try pollinating by hand each spring when you put them in. I don't know if you have tomato cages there that support the branches as they grow. I always get a jump on the growing season by putting clear bags over the plant in the cage and bury the edges in the ground. Then use a razor or very sharp knife and cut halfway around the top creating a flap. First thing in the morning I open that flap and hold the plastic back with a clothespin. Then before sunset, I would close the flap up, holding it closed with the clothespin. This creates individual "greenhouses" which is easier to control with them all in a big greenhouse. When it stays warm all day, I slip the bags off or the plants will burn. I rinse them and air dry them before storing them for next spring. I reuse the bags year after year until they split open or get a tear in them and I recycle them. Doing this way I get a month or two jump on everyone else. I get tomatoes by may which is early.
with garlic i find that if i wait till the leaves are brown and half way down the stem then i get a better garlic... also the flower bulbs that you are seeing you can pick off when you starts to see them come up or start to see them curl.. and you can eat the scape its called just like garlic... the garlic was working on the flower seeds more then the garlic bulb you are wanting to eat ... i cut mine off the stem and let them dry just in a tray on my counter and have had luck that way .. then i let them get cold in my fridge about 2 to 3 months before i plant .. just the way i do it not sure if its right but it works for me .. i know you dont have a fridge but your celler spots when it slowly starts to get warmer may be the place to put the bulbs if you dont plant in fall .. your rabbit poop is excellent to out right in to your garden beds without even composting them .. if you put it in the garden when you clean out their summer hutches and put it right in the garden beds it will help for spring ... or plant your veggie scrapes right in the garden so they break down right at the place where the plants need it .. just some suggestion hope it works out what ever you guys do for the next growing season! loving your channel!!
Looks like Egyptian walking onions. I have some in my garden. If it's garlic, then they are called bulbils. If you plant them, after re planting for 3 years they'll become regular sized. If you cut the garlic scapes off when they curl, you should get bigger garlic bulbs. If you do this you won't get bulbils.
Hi again other things to use wood ash for great weed and ant killer and I have an indoor composting tolit I use wood ash or shaving from cutting wood my friends no smell and I also use wood shaving and beeswax with pine cones to make fire starters it gets -20-35 below here in Alaska and Im not going out to freeze in the out house 😄 everyone have a Happy and Safe New Years
We have been running high 70's to 90's this week, so crisp, cool nights in the 50's are very welcomed. Don't laugh, but this Mediterranean area dips below freezing on it's coldest nights.
are siberian special varieties of tomatoes for short summer and cold weather for egzample: mongolian dwarf, or 42 days, and cucumbers not long but short varaieries are better for your climate, tomatoes can ripe on windowsils in house, or is nice jam from unriped tomatoes or you can fermentate big unriped tomatoes too like pickles
Ok I am so curios . I guess you have an outhouse. How do you shower? I saw no bathroom in your home. I’m fascinated by your channel. Your editing skills are amazing! I feel like I am watching a movie! I’m in the United States in Arizona.
Great channel, I have been enjoying your videos for a couple of days now. :) I am curious, after watching your home stead tour video, as to how many acres of land your homestead is on? Those onions at the 16:30 minute part of your video, look like heirloom Egyptian "Walking" onions to me. They are a mild onion that you can eat everything on them, from the bulbs in the ground, the stems, and the small bulbs that grow near the top. Save some bulbs for future growing, or let the bulbs naturally fall to the ground, and they will reproduce more onions for you. :) I grow them as well, you will love them, and find many uses for them, in your culinary experiences Stay blessed
Thank you so much! Thank you for the tip about the onions! About the land question its a bit complicated, the land belongs to my family. :) Wish you a happy week!
@@Talasbuan You are very welcome. I appreciate the team work you and your wife/husband do together. I look forward to watch as you grow your homestead and add new animals to it. Keep up the good work. I also appreciate your camera work, you capture some great video captures. :) Have a great week as well. :)
Yes! We got that suggestion here a while ago. That would have been the best! A pity we didn't know that beforehand. Then we would surely chosen that. I have no idea what they cost though. /Mathias
I think you would learn a lot of tips that would help you from watching Utube channel Simple Living Alaska. They are a young couple with similar interests as your own. I can’t help yet with patreon, but I watch thru your advertisements that should help a bit. Much love from USA
Moi! Ehkä oletkin laittanut terästä harkkokerroksen "uriin" jäykistämään rakenteen, jos et niin kannattaa laittaa. Sillä maanpaine, joka painaa kellarin seinää ulkoapäin saattaa rikkoa harkkoseinän, sitä helpommin mitä korkeampi seinä on. Mukava näitä on katsoa! Tsemii!
That "streaker" at 11:42.. 😂 Chickens, never a dull moment with chickens! About that plastic pipe, why not use bamboo logs? Cover the outside with tjära! Then they can withstand rot, and they are water repellent also for inside, the moisture from inside the cellar can escape. Just a thought. My harvest of tomatoes failed also this year.. My lettuce to.. Carrots however grew like mad like they were possessed. If you think about it was August just 2,5 weeks ago, waking up at -3 C is not that fun.. Comparing to last year when summer never ended.. At least this weekend, summer is about to make a last entry, i for sure will try to make the best out of it. Also hope it wont get as darn cold in the beginning of October when i have plans go go back up to the mountains for a week of hiking. Hope you get better weather so you can get some sunflower seeds and other stuff! That dog of yours Malva (?) seems to be a bundle of joy and she has some nice dance moves on the roofs!! :) Thanx for sharing as always!
Terracotta pipes would have been the best option but we didn't think about that until now and its also a money question :/ I harvested some tomatoes, they are nicely green and i have them inside hoping for some ripening, but i don't think it will happen, green fried tomatoes! The weather haven't been the best for a long time now, cold and rainy, not so inspiring going outside and do something. I really hope your october hike will have better weather that it is now!! Malva is a lovely and happy dog indeed! :D Have a great sunday!
Its a swedish heritage breed called Helsingefår, im really bad at spinning but will try and learn when the time is right, will try to felt soon though :) /Tova
The little things on the garlic are called bulbils. Here is a great article about it. www.garlicfarm.ca/garlic-bulbils.htm I am from a small town in South Africa called Tulbagh. I really love your vlogs and can't wait for the new episodes.
I watched all your videos and now cant wait for the new ones. Talabuan is a very beautifull place and I hope that I will be able to visit someday. I live in a small town and grow most of our vegetables, next step is getting some chickens.
Yes, we have pretty good internet here. We have a small solar panel that we used for the pigs fence, now we use it for charging our stuff. I guess we will have another solar panel in the future, a bigger one, for charging, but we are not interested in electricity in the house :)
I'm glad your dog is better now. A pity about the weather. I hope it won't damage the concrete or slow down your progress. For the garlic Ariel from the Fy Nyth channel gives a lot of great advice in this video, including harvesting and curing ua-cam.com/video/jys0TS9J-xM/v-deo.html. All the best.
Where do you keep your dogs while at work? :) Our dogs are hunting/working dogs and we have free ranging reindeers and the dogs would be shot by the owners if they hunted them. We also have a lot of regulations regarding loose dogs in different seasons. Almost Every household in the north of sweden have a dog yard like this.
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Late...yet placing rebar (reinforcing) concrete-brick-soil is the norm ..at least in some countries. Your patience, modesty, alongside your perseverance is way cool. Again your graceful pace, gorgeous music & your own slow clear speaking...your politeness & the ways you are sweet towards each other...sometimes almost brings tears to my eyes....you both are excellent examples as to how we folks can & could be more graceful & peaceful.🐾
Thank you so much canyon!
Absolutely, a rare treat for us observers. So different to Australia but a joy to watch none the less
For the next concrete work in cold weather if you use hot water 38-48C+/- it will make the concrete get hard faster(set-up) which is common practice for cold weather concreting. You can still make concrete with wet (not dripping wet) sand & rock, you will just use less mix water. Was going to mention on the last vid when placing the blocks to wet the surfaces before you mortar, it will help the mortar stick better and not suck moisture out of the mortar mix. For the first time doing that kind of work I would say pat yourself on the back, you did good!! Keeping all the new work covered during cold weather is important for at least the first 15-30 days, even cover it with straw. In my opinion concrete and masonry work are some of the hardest jobs in construction. So when that is done everything else will be "easy". Again good work, you're a pro now!
The dog is SO cute playing with the long legs out like that.
Are you letting the rabbit poop and the lamb poop dry out for a year? Maybe a compost pile layered with the animal waste will help develop better soil. It may be too rich? Also, if you put a black water container in the greenhouse, it will absorb heat in the day and release heat later. That might give you a little more time to get your tomatoes ripe. We pick them green at the end of the season and put them in the window to finish ripening too. I'm in California.
Just can’t stop watching these beautiful videos from you beautiful smart loving people. You have my pledge of support. Stay well and stay true to your goals. We await the next video with anticipation. Peace and God be with you. From Michigan, USA
Guys, this will have to be my donation: Your garlic must be HARD NECK. When harvested, properly dried and stored it should keep for 10 - 11 months. Try 'Music'It is my favourite. It produces heads with 4-5 cloves. Each head should weigh 50 - 65 gm.Concerning soil : Lots of safe for use compost (25% of your bed, layered in); bone meal and eggshells (a thorough dusting over the entire bed); composted cow manure ( safe for use with no heat left in it, 2 cm. over entire bed); peat moss (2 cm. over entire bed); very light dusting of fine wood ash over the entire bed.Using a garden fork, go up and down the bed, inserting and rotating the layered soil only 90 degrees. "Give it a light roll" The planting bed should be rock free, with good soil, in full sun and NOT in a low location. Garlic does not like 'wet feet'.Plant your largest cloves with no damage to the outer wrapper, 'top knuckle deep' (10 cm.) and 15 cm. apart in every direction.Plant 2 - 3 weeks before hard frost and harvest in late August, or when the lower 5 leaves have dried and turned brown.Once planted, mulch the garlic bed with 15 - 20 cm. of straw or deciduous leaves. In the spring, when green shoots are8-10 cm. above the leaves, gently pull the leaves 5 cm. away from the base of each sprouted stem. The mulch remainson the bed all season long.Once harvested, just shake the soil off the roots. Do not wash them. Do not over handle the heads and roots. A little dirtis no problem. Leave full stems on until cured. Dry on framed wire racks, out of the rain, in the shade in a well ventilated (airy) building for at least 5 weeks. After drying, remove the stems about 8 cm. above each head. Store in paper bags, 6-8 heads/bag, in the dark, at 15 C. and use as required.Note HARD NECK garlic does Not braid, because the centre post is too hard if properly dried.Best of luck. Happy gardening.
Nice work on the stairs!! gardening is a lot of work and takes time you and Mathias are so busy and work so hard it seems all your friends come to visit enjoy there time there another beautiful video breathtaking your animals are so loved and y’all take such good care of them !! Thanks again
Just discovered your show. The cinematography makes the show . keep posting
Some enchanting visuals. A drone makes for some magical shots.
I have a couple of garden suggestions if you don't mind? I live in a northern area of Alaska at 61.5 degrees of latitude which is very close to your 63 degrees of latitude. In fact, your forest, the plants and the weather looks identical to our area. We have been gardening organically on our little farm for almost 20 years now and I try to get my soil tested at least every other for nutrients and PH level. Northern soils tend to be overly acidic and because of that, the plants have a difficult time absorbing and utilizing the nutrients you apply to your garden. From watching this video I would make a guess that your soil probably needs an application of garden lime. The cooler temps could also be effecting the absorption of nutrients with acidic soil. Garden plants do not like wet roots or water logged soil. There is not much you can do about that outside, but in the green house during cloudy and cool weather I have gone as long as 2 weeks between watering of my tomatoes.
One thing to try is to make compost tea. Fill a bucket half way or so with natural compost. The fill the bucket with water. Let it soak for a couple of hours. Remove the compost and throw it back on your compost pile. Use the water (tea) in the bucket to water your gardens. The measurements dont have to be precise but i think you understand.
Not to be pedantic, but I am studying microbiology and if you do not aerate your compost tea, you will only be growing pathogenic bacteria. Give Elaine Ingham a watch on various youtube channels to learn about the critical importance of an aerobic compost or compost tea. Beneficial microorganisms grow in aerobic conditions, pathogens grow in anaerobic conditions.
Hello from Maine.
We used insulated tarps to cover our stone masonry on frosty nights while we were building. Maybe this could help extend your building season a little.
Each episode gets more beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Christina and thank you for the tip! Thank you so much!
I'm watching from Sydney Australia, i wish i was there with you both. I love your farm and all your beauty animal's. Especially the Rooster's crowing!!!! It's so relaxing .
Tova, with the tomatos take away the flowers as soon as you think that they wont have a chance to make it in to ripe tomatos. Also take away some leaves of the plant as well. Especially the ones covering the tomatos from the sun. But in the end the plant does not really need that many leaves. All this may help the plant to focus on the ripening.
Fell in love with Malva (hope spelled correctly) instantly. Sweet soul with high energy level
Malva is easy to like, she's a darling! :D
Hello from Canada. Look up garlic scapes. It is a stem that comes out of the garlic and curls with a flower bud on the end. If you cut it off as soon as it shows up when it is fine and tender an only a slight flower bud, you can chop them up like chives and stir fry them or pop them in soups etc to add a garlic flavour. Cutting them off will also cause the plant to put more effort into making the underground bulb bigger instead of wasting that energy on making a flower. Love watching your videos.
Thank you so much Jennifer!
Garlic n ginger both need sand and dry soil..lot less water..sweet potato's are the same.. so plant em in pots.. Inside ur covered green shed..Egg shells are good fertilizer..
Stay safe..God bless.
On the west coast of Canada we plant the garlic in the autumn and harvest in following spring/summer. We then dry it in the loft of our shed where they are kept dry but well ventilated. We’re still trying to figure out our best reproducer and best flavour garlic. Be sure to schedule a lot of Spaghetti Aglio & Olio in your life 😋
Omg those two dogs playing along are so funny!
I love you guys!! I'm one single weekend I have watched all 46 of you blogs!! 😂😂😂 Can't wait for the next one ❤️
Those "small onions" from the garlic scape are called "bulbils". They are great to use in cooking and you can even plant them but they take a lot longer to grow and will only produce small heads of garlic. Better to use large cloves in the same space for better harvest and best to just cut off those scapes when they appear; more nutrition for the bulb instead of the flower spike.
great job on the cellar stairs. To me they look great! When it comes to summers like this it's a good thing we can still go to the grocery store to get our produce. We raise all our own meat (beef, pork, chicken, turkey) and that has been the easiest thing for us to raise. Veggies and fruit are so weather reliant and can be so unpredictable.
California here. Fall is approaching with crisp, cool nights. It is very welcomed. I wish you well with your projects before the really cold weather comes.
Around what degrees is cool and crisp in California? :D Thank you Janeen!
Bitter lettuce means inadequate watering. If you're not getting regular rain, you'll need to supplement that need. How about getting another solar panel to operate heating pads for the greenhouse? That's really common in the colder areas of the States. Chiles love their roots to be warm, and you'd also have better luck with other vegetables.
The only other thing I can think of to replace those plastic pipes is bamboo. No idea of those are easy to come by in Sweden though!
And I think I'd like to be that cat.... he looks so happy and peaceful in your arms guys!
In Canada as well summer 2019 everything was very late in growth. People that had hibiscus plants growing in their garden were only blooming in October which is very odd. No one really had a good gardening experience either.
. Blessings in my heart all the time for yr Country.
We always save our garlic flower buds, AKA scapes, to ferment in brine or honey - makes a delicious cough syrup/throat soother.
You have a beautiful place❣️
Your dogs are precious 🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️
That small river is so beautiful
It really is! :)
Maybe those little garlic/onion things are actually shallots. I've not ised them but have heard they are great for flavoring food.
I have some very dear friends who grew a couple of acres of Lingon Berries and made the most fabulous tasting syrup with it. We lived in Rainier, Oregon at that time which is what your property reminds me of.
Thank you. Great job on the steps!
Just found your channel. Hope you all are having a great new year!
Tova , if you put a candle under a upside down clay pot you have good heater for the greenhouse ( I use those indoors too , when the heat is off and we are cold
Yes, try to do that when it gets colder! :) Thank you!
I thought I had watched all of your vlogs, but I missed this one. I miss the drone views of your homestead and forest in your current vlogs.
You might have better luck with your garden when you move into your new home, you can plant seeds much earlier to get a head start before planting them in the ground?! I always start my seeds inside about about 6 weeks, maybe this would give them the head start they need? Love watching your journey❤️
The cat really loves your arms Mathias 😊👍🏻
Love is so beautiful to watch.
i canned pickled green tomatoes. i also dehydrate. let your garlic dry and separate the cloves and you will multiple your heads every year. egyptian walking onions. replant the top bulbs. they will keep growing also every year. if you have 2 beds(one this year and a new bed for next year) you can pull up the under ground onion bulbs and eat them of the older bed. you replant the little tops and you can also trim the greens in the spring(like a scallion)just make sure to leave the largest stalk. don't pick that one. looks nice. do asparagus grow there? comfrey, mint, sage, lemon balm, horse radish, sorrel, those are some perennials I like and don't need care. rose mallow hibiscus(so beautiful)
Thank you for your advice! I have sage and mint at least, im not sure the rest of them you mentioned can survive here, i have tried to keep the lemon balm and lavender during the winter but its to cold for them, so many of them i have to reseed every year.
Looks like your garlic is going to seed. Usually happens when it is stressed, which could be down to your cold year. Looks like it will not grow any more, so I would pick it, let it dry until the leaves have died completely and then it should store for some time. The cloves are not big, but should taste fine.
Aha, thank you for the input, we will harvest them as soon as its stops raining :)
Hi
I found your Vlog today and really enjoy watching it, though just started backwards. I am german with a big love of the north .
Since I have been in Canada I grow Garlic every Year. I put the garlic bulbs into the ground before frost. In Canada they cover with branches from pine .
When the plants start to have buds you remove this, then all the power goes in the lower parts.
You can use the little ones from the flower- it is no seed!- for growing; result of this should be a seeding bulb for the next year.
There is a really good book :
Engeland- Growing great garlic.
My garlic was the same size this year, we were lacking in water.
now I will continue following your adventure, thanks a lot for letting us being part of it.
All the best
Evi
@@eva-uw9de thank you so much for all the info! I will look into the book. That was what we did last year. Planted them in the fall and covered with spruce branches. I would like to learn how to succeed with garlic since we love the taste and have garlic in almost everything we cook
/Mathias
@@Talasbuan Just the same with me, here in Germany nearly nobody grows garlic, I often heard that's not possible, but it is not true. Maybe you can find special north-loving garlic varieties?
@@eva-uw9de yes! I will have to read some and test some more. I'll definitely check out the book. Sadly I didn't get any garlic in the ground this fall. But I'll test and plant some in the spring anyway just to see how it goes.
Yes, good idea! Need to check if there's any northern heritage varieties. The ones I planted here was bought from some garden store, don't remember the names. Need to be a little bit neardy and star writing a garlic growing logbook :)
Try not planting your lettuce so thick....give it room to grow!! If it stops growing and is bitter it sounds like it was stunted from lack of space. Garlic and onions alike can be braided together and hung in an ideal place from a nail. Say like in a nice cellar when it's completed 😉. Just found your channel. Glad to have found it.
I love that enamel pitcher and wash basin you have too.
garlic fruit wonderful to cook with or replant for next year.. plant it now
You can cover the lettuce in boxes with a window. Vegetables will grow faster and will not freeze.
Also having the windows over the boxes will allow you to start your seeds much earlier. Here is a link.
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Those little bulblets are good in salads or for saving and planting in the fall. Have you tried testing your soil? It may be too high or low in an ingredient. To much nitrogen will make your plants nice and green but not produce fruit. Also, how are plants pollinated there? Do you have bees of any kind? If they do well in your area, I would suggest getting a few, esp. if you plan to get fruit-bearing trees such as apples. If not then you should try pollinating by hand each spring when you put them in. I don't know if you have tomato cages there that support the branches as they grow. I always get a jump on the growing season by putting clear bags over the plant in the cage and bury the edges in the ground. Then use a razor or very sharp knife and cut halfway around the top creating a flap. First thing in the morning I open that flap and hold the plastic back with a clothespin. Then before sunset, I would close the flap up, holding it closed with the clothespin. This creates individual "greenhouses" which is easier to control with them all in a big greenhouse. When it stays warm all day, I slip the bags off or the plants will burn. I rinse them and air dry them before storing them for next spring. I reuse the bags year after year until they split open or get a tear in them and I recycle them. Doing this way I get a month or two jump on everyone else. I get tomatoes by may which is early.
Hi from Washington state, USA. Love your Chanel!
with garlic i find that if i wait till the leaves are brown and half way down the stem then i get a better garlic... also the flower bulbs that you are seeing you can pick off when you starts to see them come up or start to see them curl.. and you can eat the scape its called just like garlic... the garlic was working on the flower seeds more then the garlic bulb you are wanting to eat ... i cut mine off the stem and let them dry just in a tray on my counter and have had luck that way .. then i let them get cold in my fridge about 2 to 3 months before i plant .. just the way i do it not sure if its right but it works for me .. i know you dont have a fridge but your celler spots when it slowly starts to get warmer may be the place to put the bulbs if you dont plant in fall ..
your rabbit poop is excellent to out right in to your garden beds without even composting them .. if you put it in the garden when you clean out their summer hutches and put it right in the garden beds it will help for spring ...
or plant your veggie scrapes right in the garden so they break down right at the place where the plants need it ..
just some suggestion hope it works out what ever you guys do for the next growing season! loving your channel!!
Looks like Egyptian walking onions. I have some in my garden. If it's garlic, then they are called bulbils. If you plant them, after re planting for 3 years they'll become regular sized. If you cut the garlic scapes off when they curl, you should get bigger garlic bulbs. If you do this you won't get bulbils.
Hi again other things to use wood ash for great weed and ant killer and I have an indoor composting tolit I use wood ash or shaving from cutting wood my friends no smell and I also use wood shaving and beeswax with pine cones to make fire starters it gets -20-35 below here in Alaska and Im not going out to freeze in the out house 😄 everyone have a Happy and Safe New Years
Didn't know about the ant, we have so many ants here and they have started to build a stack next to my greenhouse.. Will try, thanks! /Tova
Love your videos.
Thank you Gerald!
At 17 minutes chives in your garden they grow up to 1 metre on Vancouver Island Canada
My grandmother would can green tomatoes
Also would fry them. Are good fried.
Great job on the steps guys...I think the little "onion" you spoke about is called scallions maybe? Great video!
We have been running high 70's to 90's this week, so crisp, cool nights in the 50's are very welcomed. Don't laugh, but this Mediterranean area dips below freezing on it's coldest nights.
That’s your garlic seed for next year 😀
are siberian special varieties of tomatoes for short summer and cold weather for egzample: mongolian dwarf, or 42 days, and cucumbers not long but short varaieries are better for your climate, tomatoes can ripe on windowsils in house, or is nice jam from unriped tomatoes or you can fermentate big unriped tomatoes too like pickles
Thanks for the tip, gonna check them out!
l love your video so much👏
Looks like egyptian walking onions! If so you can plan those little bobules.
Ok I am so curios . I guess you have an outhouse. How do you shower? I saw no bathroom in your home. I’m fascinated by your channel. Your editing skills are amazing! I feel like I am watching a movie! I’m in the United States in Arizona.
Hello from Poland 💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙
Great channel, I have been enjoying your videos for a couple of days now. :) I am curious, after watching your home stead tour video, as to how many acres of land your homestead is on? Those onions at the 16:30 minute part of your video, look like heirloom Egyptian "Walking" onions to me. They are a mild onion that you can eat everything on them, from the bulbs in the ground, the stems, and the small bulbs that grow near the top. Save some bulbs for future growing, or let the bulbs naturally fall to the ground, and they will reproduce more onions for you. :) I grow them as well, you will love them, and find many uses for them, in your culinary experiences Stay blessed
Thank you so much! Thank you for the tip about the onions! About the land question its a bit complicated, the land belongs to my family. :) Wish you a happy week!
@@Talasbuan You are very welcome. I appreciate the team work you and your wife/husband do together. I look forward to watch as you grow your homestead and add new animals to it. Keep up the good work. I also appreciate your camera work, you capture some great video captures. :) Have a great week as well. :)
👏🙂 ciao Claudia from italy
Those are called Walking Garlic... they can be replanted.. or used to cook with. Ninette Bird- the Caribbean Wife.
The first secs of the vlog OMG
I love huskies ♥️
Maby a Flower pot Heater is a idea for in the greenhouse. You van find it by UA-cam.
Yes, during autumn I try to do that! 😊 /Tova
Pipes made of clay are an option.
I think it is called vitrified clay. Very strong and nontoxic.
Yes! We got that suggestion here a while ago. That would have been the best! A pity we didn't know that beforehand. Then we would surely chosen that. I have no idea what they cost though.
/Mathias
You can make greentomato chutney to use the tomatoes.
Looked at a recipe for that yesterday!
New to the channel...like the content...
Watching from Philippines
I think you would learn a lot of tips that would help you from watching Utube channel Simple Living Alaska. They are a young couple with similar interests as your own. I can’t help yet with patreon, but I watch thru your advertisements that should help a bit. Much love from USA
Thank you Lexi!
Moi! Ehkä oletkin laittanut terästä harkkokerroksen "uriin" jäykistämään rakenteen, jos et niin kannattaa laittaa. Sillä maanpaine, joka painaa kellarin seinää ulkoapäin saattaa rikkoa harkkoseinän, sitä helpommin mitä korkeampi seinä on. Mukava näitä on katsoa! Tsemii!
That "streaker" at 11:42.. 😂 Chickens, never a dull moment with chickens! About that plastic pipe, why not use bamboo logs? Cover the outside with tjära! Then they can withstand rot, and they are water repellent also for inside, the moisture from inside the cellar can escape. Just a thought. My harvest of tomatoes failed also this year.. My lettuce to.. Carrots however grew like mad like they were possessed.
If you think about it was August just 2,5 weeks ago, waking up at -3 C is not that fun.. Comparing to last year when summer never ended.. At least this weekend, summer is about to make a last entry, i for sure will try to make the best out of it. Also hope it wont get as darn cold in the beginning of October when i have plans go go back up to the mountains for a week of hiking. Hope you get better weather so you can get some sunflower seeds and other stuff! That dog of yours Malva (?) seems to be a bundle of joy and she has some nice dance moves on the roofs!! :) Thanx for sharing as always!
Terracotta pipes would have been the best option but we didn't think about that until now and its also a money question :/
I harvested some tomatoes, they are nicely green and i have them inside hoping for some ripening, but i don't think it will happen, green fried tomatoes! The weather haven't been the best for a long time now, cold and rainy, not so inspiring going outside and do something. I really hope your october hike will have better weather that it is now!! Malva is a lovely and happy dog indeed! :D Have a great sunday!
You can pickle green tomatoes just like you would pickle cucumbers...
Green tomatoes will auto ripen if put then next to a window indoors.
У вас выросли воздушные луковички чеснока (бульбочки).
You can make delicious pickled green tomatoes that you can eat all winter
concrete blocks with the openings to make ventilation.
LOL 18:55 You guys are the bomb
Behind your new block wall you better put pee gravel with a leach pipe! Why the hill behind the wall water will poor in to your basement
Richard Smith They really need good construction advice Richard. It is obvious they are very talented. Just need some coaching.
Thank you, its a good advice!
Haha crazy dog !
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Wat race is Malva exactly? Seems like husky but she looks less doggy, more like wolf for me, love her
She's a Husky 😀
What is the very first music at the beginning of this video called its soo relaxing
Are the Lingonberries growing in the wild?
Yes, there is lingongerries, blueberries, cloudberries, cranberries, wild strawberries and raspberries growing wild in the forests here.
Oh the dogs so funny
I'm living in rural Maine.
how far are you from Lapland?
We are in Jämtland, the middle of sweden, Lapland are more north, can't say how much!
What is the breed of your sheep? Do you spin the wool?
Its a swedish heritage breed called Helsingefår, im really bad at spinning but will try and learn when the time is right, will try to felt soon though :) /Tova
hang it up to dry then just let them be.
Austin Texas
The little things on the garlic are called bulbils. Here is a great article about it. www.garlicfarm.ca/garlic-bulbils.htm
I am from a small town in South Africa called Tulbagh. I really love your vlogs and can't wait for the new episodes.
Hi Emile and thank you so much, South Africa are quite far away, cool that you found us :) Thank you for the garlic article!
I watched all your videos and now cant wait for the new ones. Talabuan is a very beautifull place and I hope that I will be able to visit someday. I live in a small town and grow most of our vegetables, next step is getting some chickens.
@@EmileTheart The chicken step are very rewarding, meat, eggs and company! Thank you so much, we see you soon 😊
Do you get reliable internet living off grid? Have you considered solar panels and generators for electricity ?
Yes, we have pretty good internet here. We have a small solar panel that we used for the pigs fence, now we use it for charging our stuff. I guess we will have another solar panel in the future, a bigger one, for charging, but we are not interested in electricity in the house :)
@@Talasbuan intresting. Do you want to talk about why? Just curious :)
Usa. Iowa
The dogs not getting inside the house when it's winter?
They're always sleeping inside. Winter and summer. But they don't like to be inside that much
seed garlic
I'm glad your dog is better now. A pity about the weather. I hope it won't damage the concrete or slow down your progress. For the garlic Ariel from the Fy Nyth channel gives a lot of great advice in this video, including harvesting and curing ua-cam.com/video/jys0TS9J-xM/v-deo.html. All the best.
Yes, its been really cold and rainy now, not so work inspiring :) Thank you for the tip!
Merhaba, İTS mean hello, km şükran from turkey
Lovely dogs, but why do you keep them caged?
Where do you keep your dogs while at work? :) Our dogs are hunting/working dogs and we have free ranging reindeers and the dogs would be shot by the owners if they hunted them. We also have a lot of regulations regarding loose dogs in different seasons. Almost Every household in the north of sweden have a dog yard like this.