You should try the Japanese method of burning the wood. It turns the wood black, and you also get the benefit of it being bug and rot resistant. Rather than using black paint in your organic beds. I think it's called Shou sugi ban.
I love your chateau above all the others on UA-cam. Yours has great land, outbuildings, and the chateau itself isn’t so massive that it is too much to upkeep.
💜🧡💚I love how Enzo was being your audience while you were telling us about your "wall bones"! My pooch stares at me and whines when I'm talking on my cellphone, poor guy! They must feel sorry for us, thinking we are just chatting away, to ourselves...crazy humans! Excited for spring and your garden!💚🧡💜
You may find weeding a good deal easier by spreading large black plastic sheets (held down by bricks or rocks) until you are ready to plant in spring. The black plastic and the heat from the sun will fry the weeds to death so they WON'T grow before you begin spreading your new compost. Take-up the plastic for use the following autumn. Also, I would recommend cutting the bags of compost at the top so you can re-use the plastic bags for being the linger for a bog garden. Near a shady spot in the yard, dig a decent sized hole (10 feet by 10 feet - or however large you like), line it will the plastic bags, stab them with holes to allow some drainage, and cover them with grass clippings, chopped leaves, and some dirt (plus a good deal of water) and you'll have a wonderful bog garden. Doing this will allow you to plant some terrific large Gunnera and other such bog loving plants.
Love how the dog is listening to your talk on the bones … I bet he’s the only one on the plane listening to the safety demonstration too ! He’s a good boy.
Is it possible to collect leaf mould from your woods to help build up the soil in your beds? I think you're being a bit hard on yourself. It's coming along nicely. When you garden you always have a bench or chair near where you're working. You do a little bit to the garden, and then sit, admire what you've done and plan your next move. Repeat at regular intervals :)
Your humourous "eye" is Sunny and full of Light! It will surely keep the laughter going for the colder and not so Sunny days! May the Blessings and Love of GOD fill your cup with HIS Abundance in your vegetable garden and with every tread!🏰⛱️☀️💐🦅🙌🦁🙋🏼♀️
You must be growing more vegetables and flowers than last year. Your garden is lovely! I love all the pets! What a pretty spot with the white umbrella. Yes, I always enjoy your videos!
Maybe paint all sides of the boards to protect from rot & being eaten by bugs. Also after the growing season, cover the beds with heavy tarps or thick gage trash bags for the winter, to stop the early weeds.
Suggestion to help with weeds in your veggie gardens……try growing a winter cover crop like rye, clover or buckwheat. It really helps keep the weeds down and as a bonus adds nutrients. So interesting about the bones, kind of creepy but makes total sense! Watching from Vancouver Island 🌸🇨🇦
@@OurFrenchChateau lol…..we all have such good intentions when it comes to our gardens !! 😀 I forgot to sow my seeds last fall, didn’t remember till February 🤪 Absolutely love your videos, look forward to them each week.
@@OurFrenchChateau Have you every been to a cardboard manufacturing plant? or smelled one? I have, living in a town nearby a cardboard manufacturing plant is horrible and I feel terrible for the workers and there families. I drove Trucks to the plants with loads of cardboard to be recycled and there is nothing organic about the chemical's being used to produce cardboard. Large amounts of water and chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide, and sodium silicate, are added to the shreds to further break down the paper into separate paper fibers. As well they often contain bleach, ink, and other chemicals from their original usage. Absolutely nothing about your garden is organic if you are using cardboard.
Very funny - and so true. We have to add 10 steps of pushing away the neighbor cat, tossing the neighbor cat, yelling at the neighbor cat, etc. She gets between our feet - and thinks being tossed out of the way is a game.
I carry a bucket everywhere I go in the garden. I always have the gloves, bug spray, clippers, etc . Your garden is beautiful and accentuates your beautiful chateau. I love your taste. It’s edgy, but classic.💗🌸💗
The heat has been insufferable this summer. Too hot to work in the yard. My beds have never been so overrun with weeds. Mostly a kind of grass. So i am calling them wildlife meadows. BTW when the classical violin music starts it rips out my heart. Gorgeous but wrenching.
Watching this one again, and in my minds eye I can see the chateau and estate finished!!! There will always be work to do and gardens to tend. But you will have created a magical place to just be. Of all the estates on the UA-cam channels, this one is my favorite. It feels like home. Enjoy the fruits of your labor and don’t be too hard on yourself. You can’t renovate AND keep a perfect garden!! 😊
Love that you painted the border boards black, but if you only paint one side, the boards will warp and age unevenly. Next time do all sides even if you won't see it after planting. This goes for fences, doors, shutters, etc.
Lol well that’s a little macabre, shudder, but then our ancestors did use what was at hand. 👍😉🤷♀️❣️ Interesting. Absolutely beautiful listening to the different birds.
This is a gem of a vlog. A super mixture of content and shots. You sure have the skill of entertaining the viewer and being yourselves whilst you do it. We call those secateurs(the clippers)which seems a French word anyway. You have an armoury for gardening. Are you feeding an army by the way,with all those beds? Neat job!
Spring is the best season in the countryside and your place is lovely. Regarding the bones in the wall, a famous example is the 18th century "chaumiere aux coquillages" in the park of Rambouillet. This rustic little folly is decorated with ox bones sticking out the walls. As you told us those bones were used to drain moisture out of the wall. (and in that case to underline the rustic style outside the chaumière in contrast with the very precious decoration inside)
Did you know when a glove is turned inside out it fits the opposite hand? This way when one glove is still okay it can be reused on other hand. Saves having single same sided gloves not being used!!
Maybe a local store will give you cardboard. Or the dump. Stop stressing if the garden is your joy , make it so. Also the greenhouse wall could be made out of old windows . Maybe found from bro antes ,dumps, or junk shops. Build a frame ,add windows, attach to tall wall on your storage garden shed. Just a thought. Use until can afford fancy one.
Wow not only is your chateau beautiful but eh coastline is gorgeous! How lucky your family are to have such beauty in your home and your surrounding areas! Stunning!! Cheers! Oh and vampire like skin is ageless!!!
Always when I see your beach …I remind myself that moving to France would be a beautiful idea….keep it up… lots of Org, yet it takes years off your life
Love the idea of doing espaliers along the 'bone wall'... Wonder if that micro climate in that part of the walled garden will allow you to do a fig tree? Know fig trees are more a southern France thing, but... There's nothing like a sun warmed ripe fig, plucked from a tree, and split open with fingernails, and eaten immediately. If you guys like figs.... ❤
We just returned back home from visiting our son and family in Brittany, a region of France that we have visited and loved for more than 20 years. Thank you for sharing your beach and coastline. Brittany is so beautiful and I’m missing it already. Five weeks was not long enough, it never is. ❤ 🇫🇷
Love your channel. Just curious, are your children involved with your projects? I love the donkeys! I would stay outside all the time with your lovely garden and the care of your animals.
I too have pale vampire-like complexion! It is very hard living in such a sunburnt country as Australia, I practically have to wear full hazmat gear to venture into the outdoors for any length of time greater than a few minutes or pay the price! To add to my woes, I am also allergic to most of the pollen and dust that swirls around in the air!!! It's little wonder I prefer to stay indoors and just longingly at the outdoors, like looking at a masterpiece at the museum.
Love the garden and the history lesson on the sheep bones. I have vampire pale skin as well so an umbrella and sunscreen are necessary protection. Cracked up at the break from the glove situation but really loved the beach drone shots. Thanks for sharing 😍😘
Amanda, I loved you going through your garden tools. The description of the tools is exactly how I would describe them. 😊 Along with all with the holes in the gloves. I know I would be creeped out with the bones, sticking out of a buildings wall. 😬 As we all know, in life projects, never go according to plan even in the gardens, don’t lose heart! ❤ I think in life were we are our worst critics. I don’t know what the garden looked like before, but I thought it looked pretty good. The garden you’re putting in is a work in progress. Thank you Amanda and Lincoln.
Your gardening tool demonstration made me laugh! Clippers, clippers, clippers, weed-a-nator, gloves, gloves, gloves! Similarly, I own a… “thing-a-magig, pointy thing, hole-maker, and tiny rake!” 😂😂😂
I love your videos. Your humor makes me laugh, they’re always beautiful, your chateau and out buildings, property and views are stunning! The bones are creepy but definitely a good example of nothing going to waste in past centuries. I love how you switched over to a gorgeous beach, sharing its terribly sad history, countered by its mesmerizing beauty shows that you live in an area of France that is very special. xx
This was a perfect episode from you, merci! I totally love your mysterious and slightly sarcastic vibe. The cliffs, shown without comment - chef's kiss. Enjoyed your discussion and demonstration of garden creation. And even the day with no work was delightful and brought to mind French films from the 1970's. The last shot of the donkeys going into their secretive donkey lair, ahhh.
Hah, your garden gloves look like mine. I toss the broken one, keep the one that is intact and somehow you always end up having a pair, even if mismatched in style and color. Who cares. You garden layout is lovely. Happy digging and growing.
No wonder the garden is taking so much work….the beds are huge!!! Are you going to have a farm stand with all the produce? Love the drone scenes at the beach. Our earth - isn’t she exquisitely lovely?❤
I got tired of bed gardens and added plants without beds. I only put plants that I thought most animals would not eat if accessed. It’s saved a lot of money and I still got great veggies. They have a few UA-cam channels of great chateau and castles that plant without beds just for reference.😃
Ha ha...."how to build a garden in 85 easy steps!" Oh yeh! I was wondering why you didn't paint each entire board as well, being that it's untreated wood? I have those pairs of gloves too....I wonder why they make them like that? lol. You garden tools look a lot like mine, especially the many pairs of gloves with holes in them! I just laugh when I see you rooting around knowing that you'll spring something hilarious on us at a moment's notice! Thanks for making my day, yet again!!
Aren’t you concerned about all the Ivy and bramble on top of your garden wall? It looks lovely but so many chateau owners remove them. My husband and I enjoy your vlogs and look forward to each new one! ❤️🇨🇦
Love the garden beds. Too bad you couldn't just tractor the areas then when the soil is loose, pull any big weeds still visible and then add your borders in. Could be easier ( just a thought) And if your tractor doesn't have a tiller attachment maybe see if a neighbor does who could help? Keep the videos coming. Love them.
Thanks for a Friday update. Strange about those bones. Never knew that. Garden is looking really nice. Veggies will be bursting out. Donkeys so adorable and gentle. Had no idea the ocean was so close. Enjoy your weekend. ❤
Well the bones certainly last and don't rust. With the garden bed wood, paint is another preservative. The insides will rot quicker but hey ho. You certainly live in a lovely area.
Wow. Gardens can be beautiful, but they are a lot of hard work. Don’t know how you both manage to do it all-both inside and outside. So interesting, but a little disturbing about the bones. Glad Lincoln has healed. Have a good weekend
Just place cardboard down on top of the grass in the garden beds, inside your wood boxes. Then place soil, compost on top of the cardboard. The weeds and grass under the cardboard will die and turn into compost as it will not have anything sunlight to continue to grow. Just make sure the cardboard covers the whole area and have no tape or shiny stickers on them. It makes gardening easier.
Great video 👍 The bone's are used all over France as other video vlogers have said some believe it's for a pagan good luck ward off evil or just decorative 😊
Could I suggest a quick sanding of the rust on your garden tools? They will last longer and there is less chance of infection if you should nick yourself. I once read of a woman who died from septic blood from a nick of her shears she ignored . The bones where very interesting , thanks for the info , I’d never heard of that use before.
My father, a very successful gardener, used oiled sand to somewhat rustproof his garden tools. He also oiled the wooden handles. Those tools lasted for decades. Sorry to say that I don’t follow his example. 😉
Yep. An old bucket, part filled with sand and oil, to poke spades and garden forks into a few times to re-oil. Just set in the garden shed near where you hang or prop the tools.
Glad that there is a nice practical explanation for all those bones. 😅 I have been gardening in raised beds for many years in Maine. I use 2" x10" boards that I just plunk on the ground and fill with a soil/compost mix (sometimes I have to do a little digging to level). The grass and weeds are too deeply buried to do anything but die. Over the years I have made various refinements. I sit each board on a 12" strip of weed barrier to prevent weeds from outside coming up the inside of the board (4" outside, the rest inside). I use angle irons for the corners since I found the wooden corner posts rot quickly because their end grain is exposed. I put them together with hex head bolts so they are easy to remove when the boards need replacing; by that time the soil is so formed in place that I can remove a board and pop on a new one without the dirt moving. Every fall I turn in some compost. In the spring I lay soaker hose in each bed to make watering efficient in terms of both time and water use. In the past I have covered each bed with black plastic and made a hole for each plant; tedious but no weeding all summer. This year I am trying a self-composting paper (made for the purpose) instead. I lay cardboard in the pathways and cover it with grass clippings to prevent weeds from getting too close and dumping their seeds wholesale into my beds. If you don't use some sort to weed barrier on the whole bed, for widely spaced plants like tomatoes, you can lay a few layers of newspaper between the plants and anchor with compost to prevent weeds. This spring it took me at most 10 minutes to yank a few random weeds out of almost 400 sf of raised beds. Your beds are shallower, so I would suggest laying your cardboard and soil in the fall so the cardboard kills all the weed roots over the winter. I love my gardening time in spring but in summer I want to be doing other things so I like to have my gardens on autopilot. Plus, I also have large perennial gardens that require attention. Maybe a few of these ideas will be helpful to you. Gardens are fun, healthy and useful but also can become a burden. Thanks for my donkey fix at the end of the video!
You are both very talented and courageous people. Really your achivement is admirable. Without your devotion this historical place would have gone to rumbles over a decade or so.👍👍👍👍
When I watched you carry the long planks in, Amanda, for a horrible moment I thought Lincoln was going to become the sacrificial lamb & his bones added to the wall! 😂 Then hysterically funny, you closed as the pale faced vampire. Now I'm convinced! 😂😂 Delightfully funny!😅 Rikki Biermamn, Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
Love the vampire complexion comment as I am the same. It takes a lot of effort to get gardens ready, more than we figure and it happens every year and yet I am forever surprised 😮 😂 Thank you for another interesting and humorous video. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks for the beautiful scenery today, I really needed it. My small garden is coming along but no garden is ever without issues so breathe Amanda lol! Your flowers are lovely this year!
I am beginning to think we maybe twins-your gardening glove situationis just like me and I too this year seem to be behind on the garden bloody dreaded ground elder is everywhere.Your place is looking great. I have pasty skin too but with a large smattering of freckles oh to be olive skinned
Maybe you show the bone wall to all that stop and ask to stay at the chateau thinking it's a B&B. 😂 Great job on the garden beds, they do take an enormous amount of time but look fabulous!
You should try the Japanese method of burning the wood. It turns the wood black, and you also get the benefit of it being bug and rot resistant. Rather than using black paint in your organic beds. I think it's called Shou sugi ban.
As always your very dry sense of humour shines through. Fantastic! Great editing and music choices. Cheers from Toronto
I wish I could "like" this episode 5 times. Thank you so much. Bones in the wall? You're right. A little creepy. But, interesting.
Thanks!!
I love your chateau above all the others on UA-cam. Yours has great land, outbuildings, and the chateau itself isn’t so massive that it is too much to upkeep.
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The château looks beautiful as the warm weather comes in ! You are very blessed
Glad Lincoln is feeling good enough to do all of this physical work.
It’s a stunning area with the ocean on hand , it’s a dream site
Very interesting about the bones! I bet there are thousands of stories you could uncover in time : )
💜🧡💚I love how Enzo was being your audience while you were telling us about your "wall bones"! My pooch stares at me and whines when I'm talking on my cellphone, poor guy! They must feel sorry for us, thinking we are just chatting away, to ourselves...crazy humans! Excited for spring and your garden!💚🧡💜
You may find weeding a good deal easier by spreading large black plastic sheets (held down by bricks or rocks) until you are ready to plant in spring. The black plastic and the heat from the sun will fry the weeds to death so they WON'T grow before you begin spreading your new compost. Take-up the plastic for use the following autumn.
Also, I would recommend cutting the bags of compost at the top so you can re-use the plastic bags for being the linger for a bog garden.
Near a shady spot in the yard, dig a decent sized hole (10 feet by 10 feet - or however large you like), line it will the plastic bags, stab them with holes to allow some drainage, and cover them with grass clippings, chopped leaves, and some dirt (plus a good deal of water) and you'll have a wonderful bog garden. Doing this will allow you to plant some terrific large Gunnera and other such bog loving plants.
I covered half of my beds. The other half I never got around to = weeds.
Love how the dog is listening to your talk on the bones … I bet he’s the only one on the plane listening to the safety demonstration too ! He’s a good boy.
Yours is my favorite house of all my chateau vlogs. Each is unique and interesting but yours is a "home."
... 💩😉..everyone swears😂......the gardens are going to be nice! ...that memorial beach was beautiful....❤
Great drone footage!
Your weed slayer appears to have a bottle opener on it, which seems completely brilliant! 😆
You look exhausted...take a rest and enjoy the day....Living vicariously through you all....
Don’t ever lose the sense of humor. 😂❤😂. And with those views of the coast I would take breaks often.
Is it possible to collect leaf mould from your woods to help build up the soil in your beds? I think you're being a bit hard on yourself. It's coming along nicely. When you garden you always have a bench or chair near where you're working. You do a little bit to the garden, and then sit, admire what you've done and plan your next move. Repeat at regular intervals :)
Exactly!
Your humourous "eye" is Sunny and full of Light! It will surely keep the laughter going for the colder and not so Sunny days! May the Blessings and Love of GOD fill your cup with HIS Abundance in your vegetable garden and with every tread!🏰⛱️☀️💐🦅🙌🦁🙋🏼♀️
You must be growing more vegetables and flowers than last year. Your garden is lovely! I love all the pets! What a pretty spot with the white umbrella. Yes, I always enjoy your videos!
Thanks Tura :)
Thank you for taking us along your journey…keeps on getting better and better and of course love the donkeys!
How cute is it when the donkey follows the other one into their house! 😍
Ahhh, the music, the scenery, your sense of humor-so fun! Thank you!
Your wall garden is so beautiful, bones and all! 😅.
Espaliering of fruit trees should appeal to your orderly mind, Amanda! They definitely make harvesting easier. Have you considered a cutting garden?
Maybe paint all sides of the boards to protect from rot & being eaten by bugs. Also after the growing season, cover the beds with heavy tarps or thick gage trash bags for the winter, to stop the early weeds.
Suggestion to help with weeds in your veggie gardens……try growing a winter cover crop like rye, clover or buckwheat.
It really helps keep the weeds down and as a bonus adds nutrients.
So interesting about the bones, kind of creepy but makes total sense!
Watching from Vancouver Island 🌸🇨🇦
Yes, I've been meaning to do that. Bought the seeds and everything
@@OurFrenchChateau lol…..we all have such good intentions when it comes to our gardens !! 😀
I forgot to sow my seeds last fall, didn’t remember till February 🤪
Absolutely love your videos, look forward to them each week.
@@OurFrenchChateau Have you every been to a cardboard manufacturing plant? or smelled one? I have, living in a town nearby a cardboard manufacturing plant is horrible and I feel terrible for the workers and there families. I drove Trucks to the plants with loads of cardboard to be recycled and there is nothing organic about the chemical's being used to produce cardboard. Large amounts of water and chemicals, like hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide, and sodium silicate, are added to the shreds to further break down the paper into separate paper fibers. As well they often contain bleach, ink, and other chemicals from their original usage. Absolutely nothing about your garden is organic if you are using cardboard.
Very funny - and so true. We have to add 10 steps of pushing away the neighbor cat, tossing the neighbor cat, yelling at the neighbor cat, etc. She gets between our feet - and thinks being tossed out of the way is a game.
I carry a bucket everywhere I go in the garden. I always have the gloves, bug spray, clippers, etc . Your garden is beautiful and accentuates your beautiful chateau. I love your taste. It’s edgy, but classic.💗🌸💗
Your garden will look great, good job! Beautifully views of the coastline and the last view of your home is just lovely. Thank you for sharing 😊❤
Thanks Celina :)
Appreciate seeing the beach you go to of an evening. Gorgeous coastal path. Surrounded by history. Great progress on your garden.
Thank you so much for the visit to the beach and drone shots - I love the rugged coastline of Brittany. Happy memories.
The heat has been insufferable this summer. Too hot to work in the yard. My beds have never been so overrun with weeds. Mostly a kind of grass. So i am calling them wildlife meadows. BTW when the classical violin music starts it rips out my heart. Gorgeous but wrenching.
What an incredible beach!! Thanks for your sharing them.
Beautiful by the sea~ the countryside is gorgeous ❤🙏🏻✝️
Watching this one again, and in my minds eye I can see the chateau and estate finished!!!
There will always be work to do and gardens to tend. But you will have created a magical place to just be.
Of all the estates on the UA-cam channels, this one is my favorite. It feels like home. Enjoy the fruits of your labor and don’t be too hard on yourself. You can’t renovate AND keep a perfect garden!! 😊
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Love that you painted the border boards black, but if you only paint one side, the boards will warp and age unevenly. Next time do all sides even if you won't see it after planting. This goes for fences, doors, shutters, etc.
Lol well that’s a little macabre, shudder, but then our ancestors did use what was at hand. 👍😉🤷♀️❣️
Interesting.
Absolutely beautiful listening to the different birds.
This is a gem of a vlog. A super mixture of content and shots. You sure have the skill of entertaining the viewer and being yourselves whilst you do it.
We call those secateurs(the clippers)which seems a French word anyway. You have an armoury for gardening. Are you feeding an army by the way,with all those beds? Neat job!
Spring is the best season in the countryside and your place is lovely. Regarding the bones in the wall, a famous example is the 18th century "chaumiere aux coquillages" in the park of Rambouillet. This rustic little folly is decorated with ox bones sticking out the walls. As you told us those bones were used to drain moisture out of the wall. (and in that case to underline the rustic style outside the chaumière in contrast with the very precious decoration inside)
Did you know when a glove is turned inside out it fits the opposite hand? This way when one glove is still okay it can be reused on other hand. Saves having single same sided gloves not being used!!
Maybe a local store will give you cardboard. Or the dump. Stop stressing if the garden is your joy , make it so. Also the greenhouse wall could be made out of old windows . Maybe found from bro antes ,dumps, or junk shops. Build a frame ,add windows, attach to tall wall on your storage garden shed. Just a thought. Use until can afford fancy one.
Have you thought of Shou sugi ban for preserving the wood from rot and insects?
The garden gloves!!! You crack me up. 😂
Beautiful video ❤
Wow not only is your chateau beautiful but eh coastline is gorgeous! How lucky your family are to have such beauty in your home and your surrounding areas! Stunning!! Cheers! Oh and vampire like skin is ageless!!!
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Always when I see your beach …I remind myself that moving to France would be a beautiful idea….keep it up… lots of Org, yet it takes years off your life
Love the idea of doing espaliers along the 'bone wall'...
Wonder if that micro climate in that part of the walled garden
will allow you to do a fig tree?
Know fig trees are more a southern France thing, but... There's nothing like a sun warmed ripe fig, plucked from a tree, and split open with fingernails, and eaten immediately.
If you guys like figs....
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We just returned back home from visiting our son and family in Brittany, a region of France that we have visited and loved for more than 20 years. Thank you for sharing your beach and coastline. Brittany is so beautiful and I’m missing it already. Five weeks was not long enough, it never is. ❤ 🇫🇷
There's something special about Brittany. Thanks for watching :)
Love the drone shots
More of those thingamabob tools. Love it 😂
Garden tiller might help but you both have done so much. Amazing and it’s always a pleasure to watch! From Powder Springs, Georgia. Thank you!
LOVE this series! Are your daughters happy in France? I hope so, it’s such a wonderful experience and beautiful setting.
Maybe sweet grapes? Also prior house when cold, wet, really hot, but garden when really nice so no guilt. You also lo e the garden to go to your joy.
Love your channel. Just curious, are your children involved with your projects? I love the donkeys! I would stay outside all the time with your lovely garden and the care of your animals.
I too have pale vampire-like complexion! It is very hard living in such a sunburnt country as Australia, I practically have to wear full hazmat gear to venture into the outdoors for any length of time greater than a few minutes or pay the price! To add to my woes, I am also allergic to most of the pollen and dust that swirls around in the air!!! It's little wonder I prefer to stay indoors and just longingly at the outdoors, like looking at a masterpiece at the museum.
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Love the garden and the history lesson on the sheep bones. I have vampire pale skin as well so an umbrella and sunscreen are necessary protection. Cracked up at the break from the glove situation but really loved the beach drone shots. Thanks for sharing 😍😘
Thx for the chuckles. I find it interesting that the donkeys have worn trails in the grass. Hmmm.
Love your video's...Thank you for sharing your journey with your much loved animals.
Amanda, I loved you going through your garden tools. The description of the tools is exactly how I would describe them. 😊 Along with all with the holes in the gloves. I know I would be creeped out with the bones, sticking out of a buildings wall. 😬 As we all know, in life projects, never go according to plan even in the gardens, don’t lose heart! ❤ I think in life were we are our worst critics. I don’t know what the garden looked like before, but I thought it looked pretty good. The garden you’re putting in is a work in progress. Thank you Amanda and Lincoln.
Holy gloves?? Pray while you work?
Lincoln, you look not your usual self. Take it easy. Thanks for the video
Your gardening tool demonstration made me laugh! Clippers, clippers, clippers, weed-a-nator, gloves, gloves, gloves! Similarly, I own a… “thing-a-magig, pointy thing, hole-maker, and tiny rake!” 😂😂😂
Glad to know the story behind the bones. Thanks for the update. 👍
I love your videos. Your humor makes me laugh, they’re always beautiful, your chateau and out buildings, property and views are stunning! The bones are creepy but definitely a good example of nothing going to waste in past centuries. I love how you switched over to a gorgeous beach, sharing its terribly sad history, countered by its mesmerizing beauty shows that you live in an area of France that is very special. xx
This was a perfect episode from you, merci! I totally love your mysterious and slightly sarcastic vibe. The cliffs, shown without comment - chef's kiss. Enjoyed your discussion and demonstration of garden creation. And even the day with no work was delightful and brought to mind French films from the 1970's. The last shot of the donkeys going into their secretive donkey lair, ahhh.
Thanks Elizabeth :)
Hah, your garden gloves look like mine. I toss the broken one, keep the one that is intact and somehow you always end up having a pair, even if mismatched in style and color. Who cares.
You garden layout is lovely.
Happy digging and growing.
No wonder the garden is taking so much work….the beds are huge!!! Are you going to have a farm stand with all the produce? Love the drone scenes at the beach. Our earth - isn’t she exquisitely lovely?❤
I got tired of bed gardens and added plants without beds. I only put plants that I thought most animals would not eat if accessed. It’s saved a lot of money and I still got great veggies. They have a few UA-cam channels of great chateau and castles that plant without beds just for reference.😃
The beach is amazing and so much history! The beds look great...a lot of work but great! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks :)
Oh my gosh is that a lilac tree behind you I love lilacs the smell is heavenly
xo from Whakatane, New Zealand. Looks like the Donkeys have got too much grass
Ha ha...."how to build a garden in 85 easy steps!" Oh yeh! I was wondering why you didn't paint each entire board as well, being that it's untreated wood? I have those pairs of gloves too....I wonder why they make them like that? lol. You garden tools look a lot like mine, especially the many pairs of gloves with holes in them! I just laugh when I see you rooting around knowing that you'll spring something hilarious on us at a moment's notice! Thanks for making my day, yet again!!
Aren’t you concerned about all the Ivy and bramble on top of your garden wall? It looks lovely but so many chateau owners remove them. My husband and I enjoy your vlogs and look forward to each new one! ❤️🇨🇦
I love those small little pruners too!!
The best!
Love the garden beds. Too bad you couldn't just tractor the areas then when the soil is loose, pull any big weeds still visible and then add your borders in. Could be easier ( just a thought) And if your tractor doesn't have a tiller attachment maybe see if a neighbor does who could help? Keep the videos coming. Love them.
Thanks for a Friday update. Strange about those bones. Never knew that. Garden is looking really nice. Veggies will be bursting out. Donkeys so adorable and gentle. Had no idea the ocean was so close. Enjoy your weekend. ❤
Thanks :)
Well the bones certainly last and don't rust. With the garden bed wood, paint is another preservative. The insides will rot quicker but hey ho. You certainly live in a lovely area.
Love watching you two progress. And I absolutely love your dry sense of humour! Thank you for letting us peek into your lives.😊
Beautiful beach
Just love this episode! What amazing beach! ❤
Bones! Pretty interesting history!
The view is beautiful you are so lucky love you two
I just love you guys.
Wow. Gardens can be beautiful, but they are a lot of hard work. Don’t know how you both manage to do it all-both inside and outside. So interesting, but a little disturbing about the bones. Glad Lincoln has healed. Have a good weekend
Just place cardboard down on top of the grass in the garden beds, inside your wood boxes. Then place soil, compost on top of the cardboard. The weeds and grass under the cardboard will die and turn into compost as it will not have anything sunlight to continue to grow. Just make sure the cardboard covers the whole area and have no tape or shiny stickers on them. It makes gardening easier.
Dear Amanda, your translation was perfect 😉
Merci!
Great video 👍 The bone's are used all over France as other video vlogers have said some believe it's for a pagan good luck ward off evil or just decorative 😊
I am inspired by your garden beds. I’d like to create two or three to grow vegetables and flowers in a cutting garden. Love your content. ❤️
Could I suggest a quick sanding of the rust on your garden tools? They will last longer and there is less chance of infection if you should nick yourself. I once read of a woman who died from septic blood from a nick of her shears she ignored . The bones where very interesting , thanks for the info , I’d never heard of that use before.
My father, a very successful gardener, used oiled sand to somewhat rustproof his garden tools. He also oiled the wooden handles. Those tools lasted for decades. Sorry to say that I don’t follow his example. 😉
Yep. An old bucket, part filled with sand and oil, to poke spades and garden forks into a few times to re-oil. Just set in the garden shed near where you hang or prop the tools.
Glad that there is a nice practical explanation for all those bones. 😅 I have been gardening in raised beds for many years in Maine. I use 2" x10" boards that I just plunk on the ground and fill with a soil/compost mix (sometimes I have to do a little digging to level). The grass and weeds are too deeply buried to do anything but die. Over the years I have made various refinements. I sit each board on a 12" strip of weed barrier to prevent weeds from outside coming up the inside of the board (4" outside, the rest inside). I use angle irons for the corners since I found the wooden corner posts rot quickly because their end grain is exposed. I put them together with hex head bolts so they are easy to remove when the boards need replacing; by that time the soil is so formed in place that I can remove a board and pop on a new one without the dirt moving. Every fall I turn in some compost. In the spring I lay soaker hose in each bed to make watering efficient in terms of both time and water use. In the past I have covered each bed with black plastic and made a hole for each plant; tedious but no weeding all summer. This year I am trying a self-composting paper (made for the purpose) instead. I lay cardboard in the pathways and cover it with grass clippings to prevent weeds from getting too close and dumping their seeds wholesale into my beds. If you don't use some sort to weed barrier on the whole bed, for widely spaced plants like tomatoes, you can lay a few layers of newspaper between the plants and anchor with compost to prevent weeds. This spring it took me at most 10 minutes to yank a few random weeds out of almost 400 sf of raised beds. Your beds are shallower, so I would suggest laying your cardboard and soil in the fall so the cardboard kills all the weed roots over the winter. I love my gardening time in spring but in summer I want to be doing other things so I like to have my gardens on autopilot. Plus, I also have large perennial gardens that require attention. Maybe a few of these ideas will be helpful to you. Gardens are fun, healthy and useful but also can become a burden. Thanks for my donkey fix at the end of the video!
The mystery of the bones solved! Thanks for letting us know.
You are both very talented and courageous people. Really your achivement is admirable. Without your devotion this historical place would have gone to rumbles over a decade or so.👍👍👍👍
Thank you
When I watched you carry the long planks in, Amanda, for a horrible moment I thought Lincoln was going to become the sacrificial lamb & his bones added to the wall! 😂
Then hysterically funny, you closed as the pale faced vampire. Now I'm convinced! 😂😂
Delightfully funny!😅
Rikki Biermamn, Pretoria, South Africa 🌍
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Your garden essentials are much like mine. 🧤🧤🧤🧤
Wishing you a great gardening season.
Love the vampire complexion comment as I am the same.
It takes a lot of effort to get gardens ready, more than we figure and it happens every year and yet I am forever surprised 😮 😂
Thank you for another interesting and humorous video. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks Cathy :)
Thanks for the beautiful scenery today, I really needed it. My small garden is coming along but no garden is ever without issues so breathe Amanda lol! Your flowers are lovely this year!
I am beginning to think we maybe twins-your gardening glove situationis just like me and I too this year seem to be behind on the garden bloody dreaded ground elder is everywhere.Your place is looking great. I have pasty skin too but with a large smattering of freckles oh to be olive skinned
Another amazing video, thanks for taking the time to share with us!
Maybe you show the bone wall to all that stop and ask to stay at the chateau thinking it's a B&B. 😂
Great job on the garden beds, they do take an enormous amount of time but look fabulous!
Great idea!
Love watching your vlogs. Always entertaining & educational. How funny I have a very similar garden toolbox, along with hundreds of holey gloves!
I have only just found you guess I should watch from the start and catch up ! ❤
Hope you do :)