Expanding the Food Forest on our Homestead | Planting Pomegranate and Pistachio Trees
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2022
- We plant Pistachio trees in our orchard or food forest. A fig, and a pomegranate were added too.
We tidy the big garden arch and plant up the new vegetable beds that we created when we excavated the old stone wall.
There's a visit to the local market and a trip to a wood yard.
In 2021, we bought an abandoned farm in Portugal.
Our homestead is improving week by week.
Our property in Portugal is in Zone 10a with long hot dry summers.
We hope you join us as we create a great big edible garden and restore this beautiful quinta to the productive land it once was.
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Meraid and Dan
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Hard to believe you've only been there 18 monyhs, you've so transformed your land with your constant hard work and nurturing!
The work is hard but every result, no matter how small is a great reward. Thank you. We appreciate your support, Ruth. It's lovely and encouraging.
Olá ,vocês são muito fixes e têm técnicas muito giras de trabalhar o pomar está a ficar bonito e a casa .?fica em ruínas?
Agora, a casa é uma ruína. Obrigados
Good people doing good things! Love Dan’s sensible and drôle descriptive and then the Irish lady arrives singing!
Good to have balance 😉
Your absolutely right about cover crops. Old saying goes.. roots in the ground
It’s true. 👍
Suggest you stand the tree in a bucket of water for a couple of hours before removing from the pot, to allow the roots to soak up water. Maybe, you're already doing that. Greetings from North Wales, UK.
Greetings, Peter from North Wales. We do indeed soak the roots. Thank you 😊
Lovely! Fingers crossed for the pistachios..
Barney’s pear tree ❤❤ ❤
And of course I very much enjoyed ‘And this is my orchard…’ sweeping gesture😅😂
Barney’s pear 🍐 tree is looking all grown up now.
Next video, this is my land 😂
Yes, I do love pistachios!
Yummy 😋
Thank you for your wonderful story. I'm thinking of retiring abroad, I have heard good things about Portugal. I will like to come for a visit to appreciate the culture and the country. Thank you, looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Excellent. You should definitely visit for a decent length of time before you make your decision. Good luck with your retirement. 😊
I love what you doing with the place
Thank you so much 😊
You both are just like us: on every visit to a plant market we just cannot help bringing a couple of them…
Just a remark regarding the 30 cabbages you planted: I believe they are of the sort “penca” (the traditional Christmas cabbage in Portugal) and they can get really big (in diameter not in height), so you may need later to pick some before the season to make place for the others. But it is all part of the fun, to discover new plants and traditions!
Oh my goodness, we will be turning into cabbages! We might be able to thin them out a little bit before they get established. Thank you 😊
Hi..you guys are so hardworking couple I really admire you..god bless
Thank you so much 😊
That's a fantastic idea, to have friends and family plant a tree, clever you. I also started to use cardboard to hold back the weed's and this year I extended the idea by using old curtains and bed linen 👍.
It’s funny, everyone loves the idea until they have to dig the hole. 😂
You both deserve all the happiness in this world.
Hard Working and Honest.
And Teaching us too !!!
Extremely grateful xxx
I’m coming very soon to try and make the best life for my family and the Portuguese people.
Do our bit.
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Thank you so much. We also appreciate you. Good luck with your moving plans. 😊
You are both so infectious with your ambitions and spiritual righteousness.
Love.
You have done wonders to the property, in such a short time, The last time I was there, about 5 years ago, it sure did not look anything like that. Keep up the good work, and do not be shocked come next year, if a strange woman comes by and says " Hello" how are your pistachios doing???
Well, I look forward to hearing that question from yourself. 😍
You have accomplished so much. I wish I could see a still photograph from the air of your complete property.
Hi Shirley, there are lovely new drone shots showing the property in the Vegetable Garden Makeover Video. Try that. Thank you 👍😊
eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel vlog için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍
Thank you
What a great project The food forest. Hope you have many a fruitful year !
I hope so too! Thank you.
I love pistachios - I hope they take well! LOL re. garden centre - the number of times I've gone in for 'just a bit of compost' and come out with a big handful of plants (that I have no space for!🤣) is too many to count!😂 Lovely to see your plans for the food forest!
I get weak when I get to a garden centre too. Great to have you back again. 😊
Thanks!
Thank you so much. 😊
Haven't seen a tree tomato since my days in Papua New Guinea, where the Highlands got pretty cold Good luck and thanks for the great videos.
So nice of you. Thank you 😊
Im from korea. I love to watch your video. In August I'm to move to Portugal. I like to see you oneday. I Wish you
Thank you! 😃
I love pistacchiooooo❤
Fantastico. Mi mancharai sempre xx😘
we agree100% with all your reasons, maybe notinthe sameorder, but tehey are equally important for us. my husband is irish (cork) and iam costa rican. just returned form holidays there and it was great. all of our trips for the last 3years have been possitve. and still l got to explore other areas before we buy.we are52 andplan to retire in a few years. weare very inspired by you andotherexpats couples w se doing what we want to do. thanks for sharing. the challenge for us isto choose an area to see properties. the more we visit the more difficult it gets. we love more cities the ore we de around. we still have not beento azores or madeira...i will be back in spring to volunteer with nick and andrea at project portugal. if you are aroung it would be nicet visit.
That’s great. Every couple will have their own criteria so it’s lovely to look around. We’re in the Coimbra district. It’s a fair distance from Castelo Branco. Enjoy your trip. 😊
how awesome done. amigo.
Thank you! Cheers!
It's better to plant the tamarillo in a sheltered area, under a big olive tree, if your area has sever frost. I had a few tamarillos in the Algarve, but a cold winter killed them all. The couves you planted might be too close to each other, as they can get very big.
Thanks for the tips, Enrique. The tamarillo is quite close to a big olive tree so we’ll have to wait and see. We get a good bit cooler here than the Algarve. 🥶🤞
Someone else said the cove natal grow very big so we moved a few and the voles got a couple. We gave them more space and They are already too big for the space. We’ll know for next year. 😊
Looking great 👍
Thank you, Debora. 😊
Parabéns pelo vosso trabalho TMJ 🙏
Obrigado.
Well I never knew we van grow pistachios in Portugal.
There are a few pistachio farms in Portugal, we’ve since discovered. 😊
Persimmon is Dióspiro! I guess rojo brillante is the type of Dióspiro. But rojo brillante (bright red) is spanish. I hope you are enjoying Portugal!
We are loving it here. Thank you 😊
Those trees get huge, huge, huge. Hope you gave them room to grow. They have huge crops every year too. You can make a living off that crop. I had a pistachio, I know. Best of luck.
Let’s hope so. We’re quite excited about pistachios. May we ask what country you grew yours in?
@@NearbyVeggies California
Ah, similar climate. 👍
I love you guys, i am from India. I wish one day I visit you guys:)
Thank you 😊
Enjoyed watching your video. Very impressed with what you have achieved. .clearing.the big well, planting your orchard keeping safe, getting on with the locals and surviving in a remote place in a different country..WELL DONE!!!
And much more to do. Thank you 😊
Fantastic all what you both are doing in your exellent farm.👌♥️
😊 Thank you.
My friend gave a handful Tamarillo fruit after visiting Tibet. I extracted a few seeds, and then seedling until now finally the strongest one survived, it has become a very tall tree. Yet wait for the first harvest. I realised the leaves smell a bit aweful but the fruit I once tasted is so good.
It’s a delicious fruit. Let’s hope it grows well. 👍
@@NearbyVeggies ✌ seems it can endure cold rather than heat.
The leaves don’t like the cold. I’ve learned that already. 😊
A drone-shot of the house and gardens would be nice!!!
We have a few videos with drone shots. Try the vegetable garden transformation and 7 Good reasons or finding our property. 👍
Oh, another one, the garden arch video 👍
Fantastic!
Thank you 😊
I too come back from nurseries with more than I planned to get, sometimes more than I have space for! They're hard to resist. I enjoy your videos. You are both funny.
I’m a total flop when it comes to resistance in the nursery. I go there, determined to get what I went for and whether I find it or not, home I go with more than I have time or energy to plant. Space is no longer an issue which means that there’s no chance of a cure for my compulsion. Delighted you’re enjoying the videos. Thank you 😊
Pistachio ❤
Oh yes. Great love for pistachios.
You will need to plant flowers to attract the bees so your trees snd plants can be pollinated. 😊
You are right! And we have done and will continue to add many more. 😊👍
We had one male and one female pistachio tree in our 1/2 acre garden in Gawler, South Australia. They grew beautifully there. The pistachios were delicious. Our climate was very similar to yours, but we had less rainfall - about 460ml per year. Best of luck with them. Our only problem was the cockatoos. We had to net the female tree several weeks before harvest, or we would not have had a crop. At least you won't have a cockatoo problem. Of course I have no idea if any of the local wildlife in Portugal like pistachios. 😊
We really hope they’ll do well and as you say, we don’t need to worry about cockatoos. There will be something that thinks they’re yummy 😋
I buy some of these trees and think they are pretty expensive. However, if they bear fruit then it's worth it.
The most money I paid is 28 euro for trees but they are all healthy at the moment and it makes happy.
Healthy trees makes me happy too. 😊
Great use of permaculture principles. I am enjoying your channel.
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you.
So, here’s a thought for you, can you graft a male branch on a female tree ? Can you graft them to a different type of tree that you already have ? Do you know anyone else who already has trees that can be donors ? I’m about to attempt to make my already 2 type of apple tree into five varieties and my pear tree into at least three varieties. Yup…tiny back garden ☺️
Grafting would be a great idea to keep costs down too. We don't know anyone nearby with a Pistachio tree. We have lots of space for individual trees. I love multi-fruiting trees, it's so wonderful to see and ideal for tiny back gardens.
great job guys ( my hubby said you should dig a bigger hole when you plant trees)
Thanks 😊
I thought the cove with the ancient stone wall was going to be for compost?! It would look lovely housing veggies, though.
I love your optimism and I love the way that you both work together.Have you seen the you tube channel Sun Garden....he shows you how to grow lemon trees from cuttings by sticking the newly cut end in to a tomatoe and then potting it into a pot with soil.Good luck and looking forward to more videos.I am also addicted to buying plants 😊 xx
What lovely things to say, Victoria. I haven’t seen that channel but I will. I’ve grown fig trees from cuttings and a long time ago, when I was a teenager ago I grew a purple plum tree. Never heard about sticking the end in a tomato 🍅!!
No I haven't either 😂 he is really clever with his ideas xx
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It’s going to be amazing. My best ground covers this year were strawberries (yes in the blistering Valencian sun) and sweet potatoes, massive crop, still digging them. Pumpkins and luffa. The alficoz cucumbers did better than other varieties and are surprisingly crunchy and delicious. One thing I’m doing religiously is chopping and dropping to protect the soil, I see you are mulching trees, but all bare soil just turns to dust. I also had good success with a green manure of alfalfa, Phaselia, mustard and broad beans, the mustard and broad bean tops provided greens early in the season. I also have lots of flowers to attract pollinators. I’m hoping to start an orchard soon.
Excited for you, all the best 🍀
Hi Monica, we are feeling very positive about the orchard. Our pumpkins did well and we harvested a couple of useable luffas. We chop and drop everything and our trees are carefully selected for chipping. We only clear where there is a native sapling to give it light and space to grow.
We’re planning a little tour of our mini cork oak forest soon and a look at our native trees too. Our strawberries have come back to life ( they’re under young trees but the physalis has been amazing and is an amazing drought tolerant fruit.
Oh, we’ve covered all bare earth with phacaelia, buckwheat and red clover.
Good luck with your garden expansion and thank you for your hugely informative and interesting comment. We appreciate it. 🥰
@@NearbyVeggies physalis huh? Will try that, or tomatillo the bigger one if I can get seed. I’ve planted it and it hasn’t chosen to come up. I’m new to veg growing, so it’s great to see seasoned allotmenteers, albeit in a different climate and soil, I’ll watch with interest 🌱🌱🌱👍
I’m really looking forward to having tomatillos.
I loved pistachios until I became allergic to them!
Oh no! All nuts or only pistachios?
We've just started watching your videos and are thoroughly impressed by your knowledge and progress - thanks for sharing! BTW, I thought "maçã reineta" were russet apples not pippins? Anyway, they make great crumbles. Regards from Sintra
Hi Susan. Thank you for joining us. The reinata apples are a russet and although not the prettiest of fruit, quite delicious. Did I say pippin? Anyway I’m looking forward to the day I can make a good crumble 😊👍
Olá! Nice to see that I’m not the only crazy about trees! We are also are trying to make a food forest, a lot of effort to water them, and they end up dying in the end of summer… need to persist in the mulching… do you think pine bark is better than wood chips? Thanks for sharing your good energy and humor with us! Keep us updated with the trees tours all seasons! Boa semana!
Bom dia, Catarina. The watering was touch and go this year. We have used lots of wood chip as mulch. It breaks down quicker than pine bark and helps to build soil. This summer we didn't put anything through the wood chipper due to machinery restrictions and fire risk. We're lucky enough to have found a local supplier for the bark so this has been really useful. The bark takes a long time to break down and is a good weed suppressant. Both have their benefits. I think the chipper will be coming out to work soon now that the weather is a bit cooler.
Boa semana.
Your place and plans are wonderful. I just hope you aren't overextending your water supplies.
We plant with great optimism and hope that the lessons we've learned will stand us in good fortune with the water supply. We have plans to capture more water when we restore the house .
Here it is - the pistachio video!
It’ll be a while before we’re eating pistachios but good news, they’re starting to bud right now. 😊
Can persimmons grow there?
Do you can some of your foods? I love to can, and made ratatouille that I ate for years; tomatoes, berries and applesauce. Canned foods make a quick meal whereas frozen foods need to be thawed and I change my mind while they thaw, but I enjoy both.
We tend to ferment, pickle or jam. We don’t have a freezer. We use lots of dried foods too.
Yes. Persimmons grow here. We have 2 planted. Pomegranate as well.
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Next time insert a pipe besides the newly planted tree for watering, no surface watering
That's something new to me. I must look into that. Thank you.
Are you planting any dill, sage, erbs of any sort, bees? Awesome.....living your dream. Great job. Big hello from Texas!
We have already planted lots of herbs, sage, rosemary, thyme, parsley, coriander (cilantro) , huacatay, dill (doesn’t like the hot summer but is growing again) fennel, lemon balm, oregano, mint, garlic chives, bay, lovage - so far!
We need a licence for bees and I think we’re too close to a neighbouring bee 🐝 keeper. Maybe some time.
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Very amazing. You can collect waste from local vegetable market or cow dunk, urine etc. branches of trees around for manure or fertilizer purpose and the quality of your soil will improve. Also love the trees like your own children and let them listen to soft music from flute, particularly Indian classical music.
Lovely, thank you.
Perhaps that soft deep digging spot was an old septic cistern ???
We’ve spoken to the old owners since then, and discovered that that was the location of an older well. 👍
We got are Pistachio from Ecocampo this spring and they were a bit cheeper than anyone els
Hi Colin, We're a bit too far from Ecocampo, How long ago did you plant your pistachios? Any nuts yet?
@@NearbyVeggies they have been in the ground 3 years , no nuts yet
It will take you a decade to get a proper food forest yielding the food you want. I would have taken the 60 Xmas cabbage. They would be food to freeze if you do not eat them all.
Luckily, we can grow cabbage all year round in this part of Portugal and we didn’t have a freezer back then.
Judging by neighbours trees we should expect significant fruit from our trees in about 5 years. Plants grow really fast here.
It’s been quite surprising 😊
Just started watching your videos it might be wise to invest in a couple of micro phones
We have plans to do this soon. 😊
If I spent money on special trees I'd have used fertilizer
That’s a lovely thing about gardening, we all do it differently. 😊
Hope wild live understand their share of the garden?
It’s only the voles that haven’t got the message 😂
May I ask...how big is the land u purchased and how $$ did you paid?? Thanks
About 1.75 acres (7,500 m2)
@@NearbyVeggies thank you for the info...i am really considering moving to Portugal...so will see what God have planned for me...thanks.
I think the price is cheap...here in Houston a small avocado tree, peach, guava...etc cost 95 dollars, 75 and so on...and no warranty if the tree die...ouch
Normally fruit and nut trees here are about 3 euros for bare root and 7.50 - 10 euros for hose in pots. So you can see why we were shocked.
@@NearbyVeggies oh I got it now...yes, is like me going to the big hardware store and find the perfect orange tree and then i get the electric shock of my life...99 dollars for a 5 gallon tree less than 4 feet tall...
😂 Exactly.
Hello, is the pine bark a waste product please?
Also, how much did it cost for a truckload?
It is a waste product from pallet making. We paid €23 for a truck load.
@@NearbyVeggies thank you, we have a pallet factory here in Tomar.
I shall check that out.
Good luck 🤞
@@NearbyVeggies thank you. 😊
What region of Portugal?
Coimbra district.
for your channel one subcribe
Thank you 😊
It was very hard to hear what y'all were saying.. Maybe one day y'all can invest into some microphones .
Great feedback, thank you. Yes, hopefully we’ll be able to invest in some soon. We do our best. 😊
no sound again
All our videos have sound, Brian. 😊
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