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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- The second of our 'Mini Chronicles' where we show you bitesize pieces of family life in a medieval chateau renovation. This year we've found that trying to make progress with a massive renovation (10 buildings, some completely derelict), manage a 130 acre estate, build a viable business and nurture a growing toddler, is quite ambitious for just the two of us. Adding in the project of filming it for UA-cam has at times been the straw that threatened to break the camel's back... So while we'll continue to release longer videos that do justice to our biggest projects, we'll not put a timetable on that and instead we'll try to do these Mini Chronicles more frequently. They won't be beautifully filmed or edited because doing that takes literally days of time that we don't have, but we hope that they make up for it with immediacy and frequency.
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The two of you are so sweet and I love your sense of humour. I miss Clement when he isn't in the videos.
I miss him too! He was having an epic nap that afternoon - it went on for about 2.5 hours!!!
The wheat harvest can only get better 😃
LOL Not going to lie - Amy barley visible amongst the weeds, harvesting her wheat, was so funny (and cute). Awesome pumpkin harvest though 🙃🙂😂
You and Mark are hilarious. And, you have a great attitude. I can't claim to know exactly how busy you were but, it seemed like you two had a huge amount of events happen so... on to next year!!!!
I guess next year there will be a little baby to take care of and a Clement running around, perhaps we would aim a bit further in the future XD
That’s quite an interesting spiritual principle… called the wheat and tares. But for you, quite an experience. don’t give up .You can always buy your wheat all grown and harvested in lovely burlap bags.
We love your stories, you are the sweetest chateau owner of them all. We love the tenderness and the joy expressed between your husband and yourself and the love in your little family.
You’re so kind Norma - thank you!
You may have the same problems next year with weeds in the wheat if you till up all the weed seeds. Try covering your wheat patch this winter with some thick heavy black plastic. It will heat up the soil, killing all the seeds and give you a good start in the spring. This is a new way of thinking about small farming, but it is having excellent results here in the USA. I love watching you both interact and can’t wait to see your next beautiful baby! Stay healthy and happy!
Yes, I did that in Alaska, but left it covered over one summer. I covered the plastic with old used carpet scraps to keep from blowing away. The weeds composted, & the following spring, I uncovered beautiful weed-free soil.
Hilarious - farming can be trial and error Amy - better luck next year . Isn’t the autumn light just gorgeous . :)
I lived in Wisconsin and Iowa for many years.I saw the huge combines that ran 24 hours a day during harvesting. Marc and Amy's wheat harvest has been the most fun to watch.Very impressive "Equipment"!The grains are lovely! May I suggest that next year you plant the weeds in a different area. Look forward to next years crop! You guys are awesome! Love from Vermont
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Oh Amy. Now I know I am not alone with a weed filled garden. I had the best crop of weeds ever. 😆❤🇨🇦
"You really shouldn't have to search for your wheat!"😅
Brilliant vlog, what amazing surroundings. You look as if you're nearly ready to harvest your own little pumpkin! :) xx
Marc is being very cheeky
Always!
The feijoa is a great choice for a sustainable garden. They are a tradition in every New Zealand garden - beautiful fruit with loads of healthy recipes online!
I loved that you are going to plant your 5 stalks next year and "hope for a better crop"! Have got to hand it to you - you are a supreme optimist!! Wishing you both every success.
You’ve made me laugh so much searching for your beloved wheat!! xx
The pumpkins look great!! 😝 AND you’re growing a baby so screw the wheat!! 👍
😂😂😂
Awesome pumpkins and sunflowers. Good luck next year with the Emma Wheat.
You two are hilarious! I love how you can find the humour in things. And you look fabulous!!!
Amy, I love your sense of humor. Laughing at your "lack" of the wheat crop! I am not much of a gardener myself, but I do appreciate a lovely garden and all the hard work that goes into it. I have been inspired this year to start my own cutting garden, as I want to have fresh flowers in the house. I am going to start small. My husband, who is "the" garden, has "granted" me a smallish size tub, about 1m x 1m, so that is not too many plants to kill :). If I am successful then next year I can look forward to a whole garden bed of my own!!
So generous of your husband!!!!
@@Chroniclesofrosieres I’ve been known to kill a plant or two, usually with too much love 💕
Such a sweet couple👌
Amy, I remember when you rototilled the field and planted your wheat, you worked so hard at it. Sorry to hear that you didn't have a very good crop. Maybe next year will be better. So enjoy seeing you and Mark...you are hilarious and wonderful!! Love hearing what you do and love seeing your beautiful land and buildings.
Reminder to enable the CLOSED CAPTION feature on all your videos for your loyal hearing impaired subscribers and also sometimes it’s difficult to understand with everybody’s different accents. Thank you so very much. Love your vlogs!!
Hi Rebecca I'm glad you enjoy our vlogs. The CC option is available on all of our videos (I've just double checked the last few). It's automatically created by UA-cam. You just need to click on the subtitles icon at the bottom of the video.
I hope your massive wheat crop provides enough seed for next year!!!!
You will love looking back on this video years from now and seeing how beautiful you look while carrying this baby!!! Congrats on the wheat harvest!!!
I have a pugawowow…cross pug / chihuahua…which howls with your trumpet intro to your vlog !
That’s so funny! Somebody else sent me a video once with their dog howling at it. I love it!
👍😆 Great video! Such gorgeous scenery - and that weather - WOW - spectacular! I have faith that next years wheat harvest will definitely be improved - first year as always a learning curve 😁! Sound was good as well - stay well 🤗
Next year Maybe u can try something different like green peppers cucumbers cabbage or tomatoes & trade with a wheat farmer? Try covering the Whole Field with sheets of black or dark plastic or tarpaulin. It kills the weeds then they r easy to pull out by the roots & get it all up.
Sorry that the wheat was a bust! The pumpkins did well. And Pepper was a good supervisor! :-)
Keep making the mini videos, they are fun to watch. Good luck with the wheat for next year. You are both working so hard in your wonderful chateau. Those sunflowers are enormous!!
The rare wheat was rather rare 😂Amy maybe pea pods next year or a wild flower meadow 😉
Just love you two, I visualise pumpkin scones, pumpkin bread, pumpkin soup, roast pumpkin, Halloween 🎃, pumpkin and veg tarts, mash pumpkin for clement and the baby, pumpkin dog treats for petal 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually jokes aside, mash pumpkin frozen in ice cube trays for baby food down the track
If I had such a lovely walled chateau garden I would grow lavender. I could not help myself. And garlic, tomatoes, corn, peas, beans, radishes, potatoes, yams, turnip...goodness, so many options.
Roast pumpkin like roast potato is fantastic
Another great video . Amy , you’re looking lovely and content at this stage in your pregnancy. Really nice to see . Next year- a better harvest . So much to look forward to .
Bring in the machine to cut the wheat-
pair of clippers!
4 tons of wheat-
no four heads of wheat.
Hilarious!
Also, really helps to plant close by your chateau. Easier to keep an eye on the changes in the garden. I’m impressed with your pumpkins.
Love this video. Gorgeous weather you are having. Just like here in Toronto! Enjoy the commaraderie between you two. Certainly gives me a chuckle! Something everyone needs. Next year, I’m certain your wheat harvest will be plentiful! 😄🇨🇦
Better luck next year! 🌾 but the pumpkins 🎃 were great! And the sunflowers 🌻 were huge!! Lovely video! 🧡🌿🍁
Lovely post 🍂 your banter always brings a smile 🌻🇨🇦
Your cheerful, self-deprecating attitude is SO charming - you probably can't realize how delightful your videos are. I suspect that you need to solarize that field to kill off the weed seeds - tilling would only have enhanced their ability to sprout. I wonder if adding a cover crop of a legume would also help protect your seedlings? (Don't know, just guessing here.) Fascinating to hear that you are planting sub-tropical fruits. It's quite sweet that Magdelone's version of "Amy" is "ami".
Enjoyed that so much XXX Thankyou both XXX
The most important "basketball" crop seems to be doing well.😁
At least you tried Amy, better luck next year xxx lovely pumpkins xxx
That’s an impressive squash harvest! Good effort on the emmer wheat.
just lovely, thankyou x
“You really shouldn’t have to search for your wheat.” Love it! 😂😂
To improve weed control in this new garden area... try rotto tilling the soil in fall and then again in the spring before planting. Also, since no one is hoeing the garden area, or weeding it... you can try this trick... plant the rows a good distance apart so that you can use rotto tiller between the rows perhaps once a month through the growing season and thus reduce weed growth and better define the growing crop rows. Your walled garden immense and can support wider spacing of rows and still provide a bountiful crop for your personal use. Potatoes are often recommended to grow in new areas under cultivation as they help prepare the soil for other desirable crops and can compete with weeds as they grow big enough to be be noticable.
Such gentle humour. Delightful. It looks like you are having a bumper harvest this autumn and it's certainly not wheat!.
Amy and Mark your sense of humor is fabulous. Hopefully next year your garden will have a more productive harvest. In gardening, it's always trial and error. What a beautiful day to be outside. I'm amazed at all you do Amy while carrying your own pumpkin. 😍 ❤😘
When you can you need to hire a gardner ground keeper.even two days a week he would make such a difference like Dan at Lalande the grounds have never looked better.Enjoyed the vlog Thank you
Gardening idea... Have you heard of the 3 Sisters growing system invented by First Nations People of North America. Since the squash grows so well for you and that is one of the 3 Sisters.... you might like to try a trial area for 3 Sisters growing system. Basically you plant corn, beans and squash together as they support each other nutritionally and in use of the land. All three crops provide winter storage as dried grain crops of beans and corn for winter use (and enjoy what you can in summer too), then the squash also can be stored for winter food source (and enjoy what you can through the summer). The corn provides upright support for pole bean growth and the squash provides ground cover growth to shade the soil (water conservation as needed) and help control weed growth. The corn should be planted close enough for wind cross pollination... perhaps in rows close together with a few bean seeds near by. I believe the bean seeds are nitrogen fixers for the soil... meaning they convert nitrogen from the air into plant usable nitrogen in the soil to help with green leafy growth for themselves, the corn and the squash that then helps support the plants vigor in flowering and fruiting. I wonder if pea seeds could be substituted for the bean seeds as they grow in similar fashion as nitrogen fixers and can provide food in summer and also as dried food source for winter storage. i hope you try the experiment and see what comes from it... you have the space.... LOL. Corn meal and corn flour can be excellent substitutes for wheat flour and provide a little variety in your diet. Also, the corn can be used to make lovely corn relish in fall pickling. The beans and squash can also be pickled for winter storage and use. All three make good soup and stew too.
we had a lot of rain where I live and nothing grew in my garden this year. Even my pepper plants turned out pathetic.
Poor you Pam!
Glad to see it pu looking so good praying for healthy baby and healthy delivery
The squash look like pumpkins to me!
I think it’s different words for the same thing here!
Great vlog lovely pumpkins thank you for sharing
Bless your heart Amy .... a far more beautiful harvest is imminent methinks.🥳💞💝 Wishing you all everything safe and good. xx
Lovely video, although not much wheat, the harvest was seed beneficial. But, what about those views, such a beautiful place to live, the scenery is just amazing. Je pense que vous etes tres chanceux de vivre dans un si bel endroit.
I wonder if the birds got most of your wheat grains before they had a chance to sprout.
Last year I tried to grow squash and got nothing but male flowers and a lot of vines and leaves with nothing to eat. At least you got a few grains of wheat.
It’s possible! I didn’t think of that!
The red amaranths makes a nice flour as well
We planted them there a few years ago but they were a bit fiddly to harvest and work with!
🥰🥰🥰 Wonderful 🥰🥰🥰
"You really shouldn't have to search for your wheat..." 🤣
Lovely to see u ALL AGAIN! Amy you look amazing and glowing. And Mark looks very happy and glowing in a Papa sort of way. God Bless🙏🏻👍❤️
Just watched you on château DIY and your latest vlog appeared, wonderful
You need pigs to clean up the weeds! Next summer, instead of planting and fighting the weeds, let a few pigs in there. They will eat the weeds, roots and all, turn the soil as well as fertilize it. Then following year you can plant your wheat …
If you don’t want to buy your own piglets maybe there’s a way to grow them for a pig farmer.
I love the positive attitude Amy, year year will be a better crop.
Your squash have been more successful than mine i grew one pumpkin the size of a tennis ball !
We always seem to be overrun even if we do nothing! Probably the only crop that happens with!
Great video, so funny xx
Hello Marc, Amy, Clement and Pepper. How lovely to see you harvest in the beautiful sunshine 🌞 Your pumpkins are wonderful, its magical how pumpkins sit up high and just need to be picked up. Oh my gosh I never seen such a huge sunflower. Sorry your wheat harvest was a little shy to grow very much Amy but next year they will surely more bold. 😉 Fabulous, thank you. Xxxx
Quote of the day: “You really shouldn’t have to look for your wheat.” Bwa ha ha ha ha!
instead of wheatbread you can make pumkinpie😀
Your walled garden looks beautiful! Such a lot of work for you both. If you can afford it a gardner would be lovely given that you have so much else to do.
Thank you, this was fun and hilarious :)
Great Squash harvest! Typical garden though, what you want to grow most doesn’t , what you don’t need lots of grows like crazy.🤣😂🤣 We have so many tomatoes this year we’re running out of recipes, good thing they freeze well. You look like you’re ready to pop Amy, the last month or so seems to take forever. Wishing you a smooth labour🥰🙋🏼♀️
☺️C'est de la craie et du fromage...
Marc, tu es le prince de la patience! Bonne chance avec le jardin, et tout, ames courageuses 🍀🌻💛
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Enjoyed so very much! You two are a darling couple in a beautiful place. God bless your little family.
Thank you ❤️
There were some lovely weeds in the field, like the Amaranth.
Amaranth was the crop there a couple of years ago so I suppose it wasn’t exactly a weed but a hangover crop!!!
Great video, thank you
You have my sympathy. Took me four tries this year before my garden was finally overrun with tomatoes! Farmers here in Honduras use machetes for everything which can be made razor sharpe with a whetstone. Reallly enjoying your stories. Happy Aurumn! 🌻🍂🎃
great video
I will guess your next video will consist of baking…..pumpkin cookies, bread, soup, brownies. Stock up and freeze before the baby arrives. Love your videos and your lovely family. I’m from California.
Good idea! Marc was suggesting some cooking videos just tonight!!!
All I can say is well done loved the containt
Better luck next year on the wheat 🍀
Love Sue ❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤ 💐🕯😄🕯☕🍰☕🍰
I love you and Mark! I agree with Elizabeth.
Amy, you and your 'pumpkin' are both looking very well. I wish you and Mark continued health and success. As usual, this was a very enjoyable vlog to end a busy day. Best wishes.
A lovely "farm" production!!!! You two are so natural, love to watch your vlogs!
Such a fun video!
Well we were once hunters & gatherers! You're starting like our ancestors did before investing time & labor into crops! Besides, you had more important labors going on to prepare for your next big one!! (And your garden more successful than my own! 😜)
Loved watching you harvest 🥰 plant those seed when it’s time and next season you will increase and the next thing you know you will have an abundance of it 😊 sunflowers are huge!!! Good lookin pumpkins 🥰 see y’all soon 😎
First off, Amy you are absolutely glowing. Sorry about your wheat, but hopefully you have enough seeds for next year. Better luck next year. I love watching your blogs and seeing how things are progressing. Love your attitudes. Take care looking forward to your next blog.
Amy, 10 out of 10 for your initial effort! 🤩😝😘
What a lovely autumn day. Looking forward to seeing your little pumpkin.
Loved seeing the harvest! You got lots of wonderful things. It's so awesome to gather the fruits of your labor. It will be so exciting to begin again in the spring. I have been gathering flower seeds for next year also and will need to gather in all the green tomatoes before frost which won't be long. Take care and bless all of you. Janice from Arkansas USA
Never mind next year the wheat you have had your hand s full. Still lots of other produce you have . Loved watching x
Better luck next year Amy xx I tried to grow sunflowers but all my heads were very small so I think it must have been a miniature variety 🤔🤔😂😂
So lovely to see you both- Amy you look glorious. 🧡❤️
Pepper has the same personality as the golden retrievers we had when I was growing up. What breed of dog is she?
3/4 Bernese 1/4 retriever!
Your doing a great job and definitely keep going with the growing, we all have to start somewhere. I've only learnt by keep trying . You'll find what is good in your soil. Cant you sell some of your squash? If you have to many that is . I'd definitely buy it if I was close by and what with winter coming I'm sure others would too .
Given how you are feeling no wonder you struggle with keeping up with the weeds. Better try next year
It was a good try an you learned from this expierence...next year you will do better! WE HOPE! LOL...
Always a pleasure to see you two and your growing family! 🌺