Wow, Harriet, there’s abundance everywhere. So happy to see you and the channel and your beautiful homestead thriving . Blessings and love from Australia. Xxx
You are really a hardworker. Thank you for sharing. My only suggestion is regarding your beds that are too far away from the hose: You could use dryland farming techniques. The old and tested way is to give plants twice as much space as they usually need, then to till around for supressing weeds (5cm deep) and forming an earthy top layer that blocks evaporation. This layer needs to be tilled again if blocks of earth appear after heavy rains, since water may escape through the cracks. A more modern technique is the grocery row garden designed by David the Good in Florida. That is, growing a food forest in rows, where your shrubs and dwarf trees will protect your crops from heat and evaporation, pathways are weeded (this is your water catchment area), and the spacing between rows depends on how much rain you get in your location. In these beds or rows, instead of applying a layer of pure compost, you may apply a spoonful of compost diluted in a watering can for every square meter. Think of it of just adding extra good microorganisms in the soil and letting your plants feed them. Best to do this when the soil is moist.
Thank you! That's really interesting, I've heard people round here talk about dry farming (for tomatoes, potatoes etc) but never really explored the techniques. It's not as simple as just "not watering" hahaha! This is very useful!
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead they're fab & so handy that you don't need to know when to pick them at their prime etc I'm in southern Spain & this is my 2nd year growing them xxx
Love your garden. Nature is like a wonderland , us, no matter how mature and educated are like children to get lost in it and be wowed by its majestic presence
Don’t pull up your broad beans, cut them down and leave the roots in, as you know broad beans are nitrogen fixers, the nitrogen is in the nodules which are attached to the roots.
Hola Harriet, buen vídeo como siempre!! Pero... Las habas fijan nitrógeno en el suelo con sus raíces, no las arranques pues quitas el aporte al suelo, sólo córtales el tallo y déjalas ahí mismo que se sequen y ya estarás super abonando para plantar tomateras por ejemplo. Los guisantes y todas las leguminosas hacen esta función como abono verde. El naranjo tiene lo que se llama clorosis férrica (hojas amarillas) soluciones: 1. Pones clavos tornillos oxidados en agua y riegas cuando el agua esté color café 2. Pones hierros oxidados bajo el árbol y cuando riegues el sólo tomará lo que necesite 3. Nitrato de hierro bajo el árbol, es una solución inmediata y en una semana estará verde pero tendrás que repetir esto todas las primaveras. 4. Poner azufre en polvo bajo la copa del árbol ( tarda más en hacer efecto y es más a largo plazo pero para mí la mejor opción) esto cambia el pH de tu suelo (lo vuelve un poco mas neutro bueno para ese árbol) pues el azufre con el agua del riego formará ácido sulfúrico que disolverá la piedra caliza bajo el árbol que es lo que le impide desbloquear nutrientes como el nitrógeno,potasio, manganeso y hierro (para hojas verdes y buen cuaje del fruto) el árbol no sufrirá con el ácido sulfúrico no temas.
I use the plastic just to kill off strong weeds in my garden then I lift it and then I place wet cardboard or wet newspapers etc down, really does help me 💚
Hi Harriet, I am glad to see all your progress and the abundance of food in your gardens. I think you are doing an awesome job. The first year I moved on my land. I planted trial gardens to see what plants, veggies, and fruit trees that liked my soil. Most of them did well. Others did not do so great. So now I only plant things that do well. Each year I experiment with new things and if they don't like my soil I plant them in pots. Gardening is fun for me, I love being in the sunshine, putting my hand in the dirt, and planting things than watching them grow and becoming something beautiful or edible. Keep the videos coming I like to watch your progress on your land. You can plant, lettuce, cilantro, and strawberries in the shaded areas under your trees. since those plants like a bit of shade. I plant spinach under mine and thy do great because they are in the shade and stay cool. Cheers.
Si tenéis problemas con las malas hierbas, podéis plantearos hacer bancales en altura (es un trabajo extra) pero ayuda a la organización, a mantener la humedad y alejar a las malas hierbas. No parece que tengáis plaga de pulgones, pero conseguir atraer mariquitas os limpian el huerto de manera natural. Otra manera es diluir jabón potásico (elimina hongos también), o algún antiplaga natural, como una mezcla de ajo cayena y pimineta. Mucho ánimo, se ve todo genial!
I don't comment on many videos... probably should more, to support... but you can see you were in your element in this one... I think your best yet! Congratulations and thank you for making and sharing.
Discovered your channel a week or so ago and binge watched to work my way through all your videos. Love what you're doing. You've made so much progress in just over a year. Looking forward to following your journey for years to come.
Your doing wonderful things with your land and I am sure it will thank you in many ways for many years to come. I have found over my life time that after a crop comes out to put a couple of inches of homemade compost over it ( no digging ) more mulch leave it for a couple of weeks and plant again. The biology of the soil is not disturbed and keep working for you. As for the drenching of water - seeing and learning how to persuade it to soak into your land ( around berry bushes and fruit trees ) and have less run off is something that will come with time . Swales come to mind. Love your videos Harriet. The wonder of nature , enjoy..
Thank you! 💚 I hope I can start producing enough compost to do something like that for the next season. Still got 3 tonnes of manure composting away in a big pile... got a while to go get though!
I liove your Videos and I admire your work and your passion for gardening and just for nature. You are a big exemple for all of us. I am already dreaming of your garden.
Hello Harriet, I love the way your are explaining your experiments + how much detail you give, both of successes and failures. We have a 'huerto' (allotment) near Girona in northern Spain. We have been learning as we go - and making a lot of mistakes!!! It's really heartening to watch you persevere + to see what worked, what didn't and why! I think some UA-camrs hide things like that, and try to make it look so easy. The reality is you need patience, grit + determination (- something you have in bucket-loads). Thank you so much for sharing your journey + discoveries with us!
make sure to turn the eggs during incubation . May increase your hatching. Mother hen constantly turn eggs. You must do the same in an incubator. Thank you for the videos. I absolutely love them.
Me too I add things out of my garden every day and sometimes make a whole meal eg omlette, eggs from my chickens with tomatoes, chives and capsicum. Sometimes salads with edbile flowers and weeds and mixed vegetable soups. Legumes and peas can be dried at end of season which can give extra ingredients for whole meals from the garden . I enjoy your videos so much, thank you.🥰
Harriet, you are so inspiring! What a steep learning curve! The calendula looked so artistic in its flat basket -- after it cures in oil, what will it be used for? I adore your first chick and can't wait to meet the other animals.
Greetings from Indonesia, have you tried to grow freshwater shrimp and mussel in your pond? It will help your algae problem plus shrimp could be your fish source of food and mussel will eat algae while filter your water like a lot, it will be good for your pond even if you don't maintained it properly.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead from my experience you should start looking for some native species in your area specially small fish and shrimp because they will be easier to grow and benefits you more than big fish because freshwater mussels, freshwater shrimp, and small fish are the ones who eats algae and larvae in your pond, big fish only prey on another smaller fish that's why they are so dependant on fish pellets, grow lot of small fish then you can add bigger fish later or grow it in separate area then moving it after they breed, don't grow invasive species like goldfish it doesn't benefits you at all they only eat fish pellet and another small fish it will be better if you grow tilapia rather than gold fish they eat algae when it small then prey on another small fish when it grow bigger plus their meat are delicious, I have abandoned muddy pond that only grow algae in my backyard last year I started foraging some bitterling fish, dwarf shrimps, and freshwater mussel from nearby river, I started with just 20-30 of them after a year now I have like more than 1000 of them and the best part is I never feed them or do anything not even once after I moved them from the river, the water become more clear with less algae (algae growth in tropical area are nightmare), for algae problem more mussels are better they have slow growth so maybe you should get more of them, don't throw away dying mussel shell from your pond because it's perfect breeding media for the mussels, from my experience this 3 combination are the best (mussels, dwarf shrimps, bitterling fish) you can add another small fish like mosquito fish and guppy they will grow even you never feed them, fish pellets are bad they will make algae grow faster, and most of the fish are dying because sudden change of temperature not starvation that's why fish pellets aren't necessary just make adjustments before you release them to the pond. to be honest it's just simple methods foraging, move them to the pond, and leave them alone, that's it. good luck! Remember small fish are better 😀
It's all just beautiful Harriet. I so envy you your sunshine. Its only 12deg here in Scotland today and the garden is so behind. However, I keep plodding on with sowing and planting out. Love all your vlogs!
Me encantan tus videos Espero estos vídeos toda la semana y me relaja Se todo el trabajo que estáis haciendo y que no es todo tan bonito como parece pero me encantan.
I think you can water proof cement pieces or areas by washing them with a mixture of cement and water using a brush to apply not too thin or thick, not to use concrete just powder. I have molds to make garden objects and the wash will hold water when cured
The yellowing if the leaves on your citrus indicates an iron deficiency. Get some iron supplement and apply as directed. Also, with your citrus, they have very shallow wide rooting systems. They struggle with competition round their bases. A good tip is to fertilise round the base of your citrus ( chook manure is best) and add the iron supplement where necessary to at least the diameter of the canopy of the trees, then get carpet offcuts and spread on the ground around the base of the tree, again as wide as the canopy of the tree, then soak. The trees roots will then not have to compete with the grass and moisture will be retained . Careful to make sure the carpet does not touch the trunk at the tree as this can result in disease - leave a good 10cm clearance between carpet and citrus tree trunk.
Thank you for the information, I'm gonna try with an iron solution. It's impossible to find carpet in Spain lol, it's simply not used, but maybe some thick cardboard as an alternative? Not as long lasting but I can't think what else...
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead Harriet, podrías hacerle al naranjo en uno de tus vídeos unas tomas que estén más cerca?, de esta manera viéndolo con un poco de detenimiento, a lo mejor podría decirte alguna cosa.
I live in a similar climate, California and the mustards will be bolting and prefer cooler weather.. I grow the mustards and brassica in the fall winter...and early spring 🌻
Always amazes me how quickly things shoot up after some rain and then a bit of sun (and then I start thinking about how powerful the sun is and how it's just hanging there in space and so are we. Then I get freaked out and stop thinking about it haha)... Oh the chick is so cute! And Tofu licking his lips omg 😁 Yes! Saw Coffee Bean on Instagram, looking forward to that... Everything is looking soooo lush! Well, crack on and take care! 💚
hello harriet---i realy admire your work and energy----i also like watching what you fix to eat----you have such a beautiful place to live. thank you for all of your tours and ideas---deatra
I once saw a lady make tofu (hello Tofu) out of edamame. I wonder if its possible to make it out of broad beans. Great video thx! Something funny.. you had an advert from Mcdonalds 😂 which made me chuckle just from the inappropriate match with your great channel! Also hello to the 🐥 so cute
It`s so exiting!!!! All of what`s happening in that garden of yours!!!!! Loooots of Peas and beans!!!! Big up for collecting your own seeds! Thats the way to selfsuficiency!!! Love the little chick, i hope he/she get well with tofu and the kittys!!!! Cant wait to hear about the rest of the animals!!!! By the way, i hate the black plastic too, but it is good experimenting. I think the worst part is that it get really hot and can damage the plants. Keep it uuuupppp 💚💚💚💚
I can appreciate the amount of work put into your growing spaces and am pleased for you for the results you are having. On a permaculture video I recently watched, they talked about planting nitrogen fixer trees next to food producing trees so that might be something to consider for your sickly tree and your idea of utilizing the space under the trees more efficiently. The climate was totally different than yours so you would have to do some research to find the best companion tree.
I have experience this some, but I am in Australia. My garden this year have been destroyed twice because of rain and till today I am trying to fix everything and I am building slowly way for the water to flow ....where???? ....to my neighbours as my yard was full of water from my 2 other neighbours. You a young and I am old, and I am still learning , but I am enjoying very much. Your plants and flowers look beautiful. My rot and went to bin. =)
Oh no, that sounds horrible! Do you have any swales or anything like that to help the water soak into the ground? I don't have any yet, but in permaculture they talk about them a lot and maybe they could help. It's so hard when all the rain for a season comes in one go!
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead I am redirecting slowly water from my yard to hole water have made, but now I will put net in that hole to keep soil from been washed to neighbours place. When we have floods no none is safe, so I am rebuilding my garden after each huge rainfall.
Yes, we do want to plant more trees. We planted 5 new ones this year, which is a lot when I have to carry water to them by hand every other day all through summer, if we can get our irrigation working a bit better we definitely want to be planting more!
Your weather sounds like Portland Oregon this year. Although we get a lot of rain, this spring it rained and rained and rained. The wettest spring on record. Then hot high temperatures. Everything was so lush from all the rain but then keeping up with watering every minute afterward.
I have a variety of lemon verbena here in Canada, and I personally love the fragrance and taste. The verbena I have has smaller leaves. A temperate rainforest zone is obviously not home to lemon verbena, so every autumn it comes inside. Each and every year planting a garden is going to have failures, revised decisions, changes in weather, growth and the plants will thrive in some, won't in others. Seed saving allows you to determine preferences for your foods, flavours, and allows some experimentation. Under the trees, maybe either lavender or rosemary. Green compost should work as long as it gets cut before setting seed.
The overwintering of broad beans adds quite a bit of nitrogen. One thing I recently learned is to cut off leguminous plants, leaving the roots in the ground, planting again in the soil with the roots, especially higher demand plants like tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers. One year in, you have managed to get the soils greatly improved, which bodes well for future crops.
Hay que ver todo lo que estas aprendiendo en tan poco tiempo en dos años vas a ser toda una experta. Como me e reído con tofu mirando al pollito y lamiendose los labios 😂
I think you are right and that I got my labels muddled up! 😂 It certainly tastes like rocket and I've been enjoying it in salads in large quantities without falling asleep so I'm gonna say it's definitely rocket!
As always, a great video with great explanations. It’s amazing how the seasons change in Eastern Spain. Your huerta looks amazing. We lived up in Peñíscola (pay attention to the accents!) for a year, then we lived between Valencia and Alzira for years. It’s a beautiful part of the world. I am getting really “homesick” (I miss my querida España) and want to return! I loved my gardens when we lived rurally and on housing estates (urbanizaciones), we always had about 2000m2 of garden with loads of fruit and veg year round. The biggest thing I miss at this time of year, apart from the climate, the people and the pool, is Nísperos (loquats). Beautiful fruit, quite why we can’t get them in the UK, I’ll never know. Ajos tiernos are superb though. I also love the subtitles in Spanish! Is there a difference between “compost” and “abono”? We also used to buy “substrato”, it’s difficult! I managed to get the C2 level qualification in Spanish and a good level of Valenciano, but there are still some idiosyncrasies which I don't get! Had off grid been something I had known about back then in 2010, I would have done it. However, no regrets, just look towards the future and am planning my return to Spain. Thank you.
Aw thank you! Peñíscola really is beautiful. I met a guy the other day who lived up there for 7 years with no road access. 30 minutes on a horse or donkey to the nearest road! You are right about the loquats. Never seen or heard of them before we came here, now they're one of my favourite fruits! I think "compost" would refer specifically to something that's been through/is going through the composting process. Whereas abono could be more general, like "fertilizer" in English. Urine could be an "abono" for example, it hasn't been composted but it is still a fertiliser. I am not sure I always use the right word in Spanish when I'm not paying attention, though!
The rain definitely get everything going. Perhaps a garden to table kinda video after this? A snippet of the meals that u make of the harvests. Tofu licking his tongue like that is kinda sus 😆😆 take care Harriet!
Hey, he pensado avisarte que vayas con cuidado con la Ruda ya que puede ser tóxica y solía utilizarse como abortiva. Para que estés segura de la dosis si haces infusión. un saludo y enhorabuena por el huerto y esfuerzo! Muy inspirador...
Hi Harriet, I love how you are making your soil rich! If you cut the broad beans from top of the soil instead of putting out the root, the root will keep on improving your land! Love from California!
Hi Harriet, we are currently working on our Quinta in Central Portugal. And hoping to inprove the degraded soil Could you please let me know the name of the green manure you tried out. Is it available on line? . Enjoy watching your progress. Wishing you ever success in your future projects.
Hi! Thank you so much. And yes of course, this is the mix I used, not sure if this shop ships to Portugal but maybe you can find something similar if not: botiga.lesrefardes.coop/ca/barreges-d-adob-verd/352-adob-en-verd-per-cultius-arboris-al-seca.html
Wow Harriet, so good to see you harvesting the fruits of labor 😀. Awesome job. Food everywhere! You guys have us envy🥰😍😂. So very happy for you ❤💗!! Do you have blueberry planted? Please show us when the the trees bearing fruits, will you? Love to see them.
We don't have any blueberries yet. To be honest we haven't planted many more trees than the ones that were already here (oranges and tangerines) which are ready in January. Trees are definitely something we need to invest more in, I think!
Looking outstanding we both are on the same page 😉🙏, can I ask you (maybe you mentioned it before) how big is your little farm and how much are you using of it so far? Can't wait to join you ❣
Wonderful to see how abundantly your hard work is paying off 😊 what type of valerian is that? I don’t recognise it 🧐🤓 Always look forward to seeing your progress- love your vlogs 🥰
I like your expresion: a learning garden".could we know whereabout are you in castellon? what's the next city or Village? we do líder it what you obtiene formación nature. I am Lola.
Buenas noches Harriet. Me encanta tu canal, veo todos tus vídeos pero no se si alguien más te habrá comentado que es imposible leer los subtítulos en español porque se montan las frases una encima de otra. Yo no entiendo inglés bien y me cuesta seguir la conversación. No se si será problema de tu edición de vídeo o solo es que me pasa a mi. Saludos desde Málaga.
ahhh sí, estás usando el ipad? Alguien más me ha comentado que le pasa a él también con el ipad. Creo que es problema de youtube pero voy a ver si puede hacer algo para arreglarlo, creo que hay un par de trucos que puedo probar. Perdón la molestia!
Hi, im watching and enjoying from Denmark, if you want to maximize or upgrade your farm you should watch "the dutch farmer" he does it the smart way with trensches and irrigation tubes and canals
Thank you! Yes, I've seen him, he knows his stuff, having run a farm before. I am cautious about making big investments in time and money before I have sufficient experience to know I'm making the right decisions but I get lots of inspiration from folks like him, for when the time is right.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead just a reminder to not work harder but smarter, they embrace rainwater collection and drainpipes, you could do this on a smaller scale firstly by rearranging your layout of gardens so water is high and gardens are low, then just buy lots of 2.hand gardenhoses punch small holes in it so they leak were your veggies are, and try to buy stuff that can collect rain when ever possible, in your heat you will always need water and it is always a pain and heavy so just let it trickle through leaky gardenhoses is perfekt.. Used stuff can be very usefull and cheap, and a few pipes to connect and make overflow into more reservoirs,bins,cans, even trash cans, but remember to shield from sun (algaes) and avoid openness so animals dont drown and pollute..you might also want to look into hydroponics as you have a stream (a few fish and a pond and your veggies will explode)
So sweet how you feed the chick wurms❤❤
You’ve found a slice of heaven. Beauty in abundance, movement, sight, sounds, peacefulness. Thank you for sharing.
I ‘m fascinated by all the work you have accomplished!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Much love ❤️ from Kentucky
Wow, Harriet, there’s abundance everywhere. So happy to see you and the channel and your beautiful homestead thriving . Blessings and love from Australia. Xxx
I agree
It is better to keep calendula infused oil not in the sun, bright place and warm, because olive oil can spoil.
Poetic to say the least…..the way you described the coming of spring?……"Harryet you and your husband are a good people
You are really a hardworker. Thank you for sharing.
My only suggestion is regarding your beds that are too far away from the hose: You could use dryland farming techniques.
The old and tested way is to give plants twice as much space as they usually need, then to till around for supressing weeds (5cm deep) and forming an earthy top layer that blocks evaporation. This layer needs to be tilled again if blocks of earth appear after heavy rains, since water may escape through the cracks.
A more modern technique is the grocery row garden designed by David the Good in Florida. That is, growing a food forest in rows, where your shrubs and dwarf trees will protect your crops from heat and evaporation, pathways are weeded (this is your water catchment area), and the spacing between rows depends on how much rain you get in your location.
In these beds or rows, instead of applying a layer of pure compost, you may apply a spoonful of compost diluted in a watering can for every square meter. Think of it of just adding extra good microorganisms in the soil and letting your plants feed them. Best to do this when the soil is moist.
Thank you! That's really interesting, I've heard people round here talk about dry farming (for tomatoes, potatoes etc) but never really explored the techniques. It's not as simple as just "not watering" hahaha! This is very useful!
Try growing black eyed beans, they dry on the vine & are picked when dry so they can go straight into a jar for future meals xxx
Ohhhh great idea!
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead they're fab & so handy that you don't need to know when to pick them at their prime etc I'm in southern Spain & this is my 2nd year growing them xxx
Love your garden.
Nature is like a wonderland , us, no matter how mature and educated are like children to get lost in it and be wowed by its majestic presence
I love watching the progress you made in the garden Harriett. Before you know your market garden is up and running. Well done, amazing achievement! 😁
Don’t pull up your broad beans, cut them down and leave the roots in, as you know broad beans are nitrogen fixers, the nitrogen is in the nodules which are attached to the roots.
A lovely video
Como relajan tus videos, Harriet!!!!! Gracias!!!!
Hola Harriet, buen vídeo como siempre!! Pero...
Las habas fijan nitrógeno en el suelo con sus raíces, no las arranques pues quitas el aporte al suelo, sólo córtales el tallo y déjalas ahí mismo que se sequen y ya estarás super abonando para plantar tomateras por ejemplo. Los guisantes y todas las leguminosas hacen esta función como abono verde.
El naranjo tiene lo que se llama clorosis férrica (hojas amarillas) soluciones:
1. Pones clavos tornillos oxidados en agua y riegas cuando el agua esté color café
2. Pones hierros oxidados bajo el árbol y cuando riegues el sólo tomará lo que necesite
3. Nitrato de hierro bajo el árbol, es una solución inmediata y en una semana estará verde pero tendrás que repetir esto todas las primaveras.
4. Poner azufre en polvo bajo la copa del árbol ( tarda más en hacer efecto y es más a largo plazo pero para mí la mejor opción) esto cambia el pH de tu suelo (lo vuelve un poco mas neutro bueno para ese árbol) pues el azufre con el agua del riego formará ácido sulfúrico que disolverá la piedra caliza bajo el árbol que es lo que le impide desbloquear nutrientes como el nitrógeno,potasio, manganeso y hierro (para hojas verdes y buen cuaje del fruto) el árbol no sufrirá con el ácido sulfúrico no temas.
Muchísimas gracias, estoy probando con el método de clavos oxidados en agua porque tenemos muchos clavos viejos, a ver si funciona 🤞
I use the plastic just to kill off strong weeds in my garden then I lift it and then I place wet cardboard or wet newspapers etc down, really does help me 💚
Hi Harriet, I am glad to see all your progress and the abundance of food in your gardens. I think you are doing an awesome job. The first year I moved on my land. I planted trial gardens to see what plants, veggies, and fruit trees that liked my soil. Most of them did well. Others did not do so great. So now I only plant things that do well. Each year I experiment with new things and if they don't like my soil I plant them in pots. Gardening is fun for me, I love being in the sunshine, putting my hand in the dirt, and planting things than watching them grow and becoming something beautiful or edible. Keep the videos coming I like to watch your progress on your land. You can plant, lettuce, cilantro, and strawberries in the shaded areas under your trees. since those plants like a bit of shade. I plant spinach under mine and thy do great because they are in the shade and stay cool. Cheers.
Thank you! For the support - and the ideas!
Me encanta!! Gracias por compartir tus proyectos!
Si tenéis problemas con las malas hierbas, podéis plantearos hacer bancales en altura (es un trabajo extra) pero ayuda a la organización, a mantener la humedad y alejar a las malas hierbas. No parece que tengáis plaga de pulgones, pero conseguir atraer mariquitas os limpian el huerto de manera natural. Otra manera es diluir jabón potásico (elimina hongos también), o algún antiplaga natural, como una mezcla de ajo cayena y pimineta. Mucho ánimo, se ve todo genial!
Gracias! 💚
Me gustan mucho tus videos, felicidades,😘🙏🙏🙋🐕🌻🐈🐈
I don't comment on many videos... probably should more, to support... but you can see you were in your element in this one... I think your best yet! Congratulations and thank you for making and sharing.
Thank you - I appreciate the comment 💚 thanks for watching!!
Discovered your channel a week or so ago and binge watched to work my way through all your videos. Love what you're doing. You've made so much progress in just over a year. Looking forward to following your journey for years to come.
Ah wow thank you!
Your doing wonderful things with your land and I am sure it will thank you in many ways for many years to come. I have found over my life time that after a crop comes out to put a couple of inches of homemade compost over it ( no digging ) more mulch leave it for a couple of weeks and plant again. The biology of the soil is not disturbed and keep working for you. As for the drenching of water - seeing and learning how to persuade it to soak into your land ( around berry bushes and fruit trees ) and have less run off is something that will come with time . Swales come to mind. Love your videos Harriet. The wonder of nature , enjoy..
Thank you! 💚 I hope I can start producing enough compost to do something like that for the next season. Still got 3 tonnes of manure composting away in a big pile... got a while to go get though!
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you guys,wow beautiful garden you are a bissy 🐝.
Hi Harriet always waiting to watch your videos thank u for sharing, Im a Mexican girl living in California
Loving your garden explosion of abundance and diversity 🙂
I liove your Videos and I admire your work and your passion for gardening and just for nature. You are a big exemple for all of us. I am already dreaming of your garden.
Hello Harriet, I love the way your are explaining your experiments + how much detail you give, both of successes and failures. We have a 'huerto' (allotment) near Girona in northern Spain. We have been learning as we go - and making a lot of mistakes!!!
It's really heartening to watch you persevere + to see what worked, what didn't and why!
I think some UA-camrs hide things like that, and try to make it look so easy. The reality is you need patience, grit + determination (- something you have in bucket-loads).
Thank you so much for sharing your journey + discoveries with us!
Aw thank you so much 💚
make sure to turn the eggs during incubation . May increase your hatching. Mother hen constantly turn eggs. You must do the same in an incubator. Thank you for the videos. I absolutely love them.
Me too I add things out of my garden every day and sometimes make a whole meal eg omlette, eggs from my chickens with tomatoes, chives and capsicum. Sometimes salads with edbile flowers and weeds and mixed vegetable soups. Legumes and peas can be dried at end of season which can give extra ingredients for whole meals from the garden . I enjoy your videos so much, thank you.🥰
Love seen a newly established garden....
Muy interesante y agradable!
¡Qué lindo el pollito !
Harriet, you are so inspiring! What a steep learning curve! The calendula looked so artistic in its flat basket -- after it cures in oil, what will it be used for? I adore your first chick and can't wait to meet the other animals.
I was thinking of using it as a face oil, but I'd like to see how it tastes too as a salad dressing!
Greetings from Indonesia, have you tried to grow freshwater shrimp and mussel in your pond? It will help your algae problem plus shrimp could be your fish source of food and mussel will eat algae while filter your water like a lot, it will be good for your pond even if you don't maintained it properly.
I hadn't thought of that... I definitely want to investigate it though. Would be very useful!
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead from my experience you should start looking for some native species in your area specially small fish and shrimp because they will be easier to grow and benefits you more than big fish because freshwater mussels, freshwater shrimp, and small fish are the ones who eats algae and larvae in your pond, big fish only prey on another smaller fish that's why they are so dependant on fish pellets, grow lot of small fish then you can add bigger fish later or grow it in separate area then moving it after they breed, don't grow invasive species like goldfish it doesn't benefits you at all they only eat fish pellet and another small fish it will be better if you grow tilapia rather than gold fish they eat algae when it small then prey on another small fish when it grow bigger plus their meat are delicious, I have abandoned muddy pond that only grow algae in my backyard last year I started foraging some bitterling fish, dwarf shrimps, and freshwater mussel from nearby river, I started with just 20-30 of them after a year now I have like more than 1000 of them and the best part is I never feed them or do anything not even once after I moved them from the river, the water become more clear with less algae (algae growth in tropical area are nightmare), for algae problem more mussels are better they have slow growth so maybe you should get more of them, don't throw away dying mussel shell from your pond because it's perfect breeding media for the mussels, from my experience this 3 combination are the best (mussels, dwarf shrimps, bitterling fish) you can add another small fish like mosquito fish and guppy they will grow even you never feed them, fish pellets are bad they will make algae grow faster, and most of the fish are dying because sudden change of temperature not starvation that's why fish pellets aren't necessary just make adjustments before you release them to the pond. to be honest it's just simple methods foraging, move them to the pond, and leave them alone, that's it. good luck! Remember small fish are better 😀
It's all just beautiful Harriet. I so envy you your sunshine. Its only 12deg here in Scotland today and the garden is so behind. However, I keep plodding on with sowing and planting out. Love all your vlogs!
Oooh that's chilly! Hope you get some sunny days soon!
Me encantan tus videos
Espero estos vídeos toda la semana y me relaja
Se todo el trabajo que estáis haciendo y que no es todo tan bonito como parece pero me encantan.
Gracias 💚
Beautiful gardens! It looks so peacful there❤
I think you can water proof cement pieces or areas by washing them with a mixture of cement and water using a brush to apply not too thin or thick, not to use concrete just powder. I have molds to make garden objects and the wash will hold water when cured
The yellowing if the leaves on your citrus indicates an iron deficiency. Get some iron supplement and apply as directed. Also, with your citrus, they have very shallow wide rooting systems. They struggle with competition round their bases. A good tip is to fertilise round the base of your citrus ( chook manure is best) and add the iron supplement where necessary to at least the diameter of the canopy of the trees, then get carpet offcuts and spread on the ground around the base of the tree, again as wide as the canopy of the tree, then soak. The trees roots will then not have to compete with the grass and moisture will be retained . Careful to make sure the carpet does not touch the trunk at the tree as this can result in disease - leave a good 10cm clearance between carpet and citrus tree trunk.
Thank you for the information, I'm gonna try with an iron solution. It's impossible to find carpet in Spain lol, it's simply not used, but maybe some thick cardboard as an alternative? Not as long lasting but I can't think what else...
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead thick blankets would do just as well, folded over a couple of times so they are good and heavy and block out the sunlight.
If the sun is to sharp maybe hang a cloth a boff it.😇💟💟💟.
Me ha encantado el vídeo, me ha dado la impresión al ver las imágenes de los cítricos, de que no los habéis podado.
El que está enfermo no podé este año, pero parece enfermo desde hace mucho tiempo
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead Harriet, podrías hacerle al naranjo en uno de tus vídeos unas tomas que estén más cerca?, de esta manera viéndolo con un poco de detenimiento, a lo mejor podría decirte alguna cosa.
I live in a similar climate, California and the mustards will be bolting and prefer cooler weather.. I grow the mustards and brassica in the fall winter...and early spring 🌻
Always amazes me how quickly things shoot up after some rain and then a bit of sun (and then I start thinking about how powerful the sun is and how it's just hanging there in space and so are we. Then I get freaked out and stop thinking about it haha)... Oh the chick is so cute! And Tofu licking his lips omg 😁 Yes! Saw Coffee Bean on Instagram, looking forward to that... Everything is looking soooo lush! Well, crack on and take care! 💚
Thank youuuu! 💚
hello harriet---i realy admire your work and energy----i also like watching what you fix to eat----you have such a beautiful place to live. thank you for all of your tours and ideas---deatra
Thank you!
Very meditative... lovely
Te felicito harriet por todo el amor q pones en lo q haces ,🤗🇨🇱,chile
Very interesting and informative. Thank you.
I am binge watching your videos, they are so peaceful ,and you have been so very busy raising your plants from seed. Best wishes to you and Mauro.
I once saw a lady make tofu (hello Tofu) out of edamame. I wonder if its possible to make it out of broad beans. Great video thx! Something funny.. you had an advert from Mcdonalds 😂 which made me chuckle just from the inappropriate match with your great channel! Also hello to the 🐥 so cute
That's a great idea! 👍
Ooooh, that would be interesting to try. And now I also think I need to get an animal that I can call "Edamame"! Great name!
Loving the content!!....now you make us want to move!
It`s so exiting!!!! All of what`s happening in that garden of yours!!!!! Loooots of Peas and beans!!!! Big up for collecting your own seeds! Thats the way to selfsuficiency!!! Love the little chick, i hope he/she get well with tofu and the kittys!!!! Cant wait to hear about the rest of the animals!!!! By the way, i hate the black plastic too, but it is good experimenting. I think the worst part is that it get really hot and can damage the plants. Keep it uuuupppp 💚💚💚💚
Aw thank you so much!
Love ur stories🧡
QUEE lindo video Harriet, tuvo de todo un poco. me encantó. saludos a tofu
I can appreciate the amount of work put into your growing spaces and am pleased for you for the results you are having. On a permaculture video I recently watched, they talked about planting nitrogen fixer trees next to food producing trees so that might be something to consider for your sickly tree and your idea of utilizing the space under the trees more efficiently. The climate was totally different than yours so you would have to do some research to find the best companion tree.
Aw thank you! That could be an interesting idea, especially as we have a lot of black locust growing here which I believe is a nitrogen fixer!
AMAZING!!!
You are doing a awesome job
you should check the weedy garden he has really good advice
I have experience this some, but I am in Australia. My garden this year have been destroyed twice because of rain and till today I am trying to fix everything and I am building slowly way for the water to flow ....where???? ....to my neighbours as my yard was full of water from my 2 other neighbours. You a young and I am old, and I am still learning , but I am enjoying very much. Your plants and flowers look beautiful. My rot and went to bin. =)
Oh no, that sounds horrible! Do you have any swales or anything like that to help the water soak into the ground? I don't have any yet, but in permaculture they talk about them a lot and maybe they could help. It's so hard when all the rain for a season comes in one go!
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead I am redirecting slowly water from my yard to hole water have made, but now I will put net in that hole to keep soil from been washed to neighbours place. When we have floods no none is safe, so I am rebuilding my garden after each huge rainfall.
Fantastic progress,great systems emerging,youre hard work is being rewarded,keep it up well done
Little chick eating the little wormytypethings is cute 😊 Do you plan on planting more trees in autumn to expand your food forest style garden?
Yes, we do want to plant more trees. We planted 5 new ones this year, which is a lot when I have to carry water to them by hand every other day all through summer, if we can get our irrigation working a bit better we definitely want to be planting more!
Your weather sounds like Portland Oregon this year. Although we get a lot of rain, this spring it rained and rained and rained. The wettest spring on record. Then hot high temperatures. Everything was so lush from all the rain but then keeping up with watering every minute afterward.
Yes, I think we also had maybe the wettest spring on record! It certainly felt like it!!
Harriet you should have a streamer will make life easygoing for you
I have a variety of lemon verbena here in Canada, and I personally love the fragrance and taste.
The verbena I have has smaller leaves. A temperate rainforest zone is obviously not home to lemon verbena, so every autumn it comes inside.
Each and every year planting a garden is going to have failures, revised decisions, changes in weather, growth and the plants will thrive in some, won't in others.
Seed saving allows you to determine preferences for your foods, flavours, and allows some experimentation.
Under the trees, maybe either lavender or rosemary. Green compost should work as long as it gets cut before setting seed.
The overwintering of broad beans adds quite a bit of nitrogen. One thing I recently learned is to cut off leguminous plants, leaving the roots in the ground, planting again in the soil with the roots, especially higher demand plants like tomatoes, peppers and sunflowers.
One year in, you have managed to get the soils greatly improved, which bodes well for future crops.
Hay que ver todo lo que estas aprendiendo en tan poco tiempo en dos años vas a ser toda una experta. Como me e reído con tofu mirando al pollito y lamiendose los labios 😂
Love your videos. You are a hard worker. What you called valerian looks like arugula/roquette to me.
I think you are right and that I got my labels muddled up! 😂 It certainly tastes like rocket and I've been enjoying it in salads in large quantities without falling asleep so I'm gonna say it's definitely rocket!
esos guisantes raros, son tirabeques, se comen con cascara a mla plancha, son buenisimos
It's lovely what you're doing with the land. And you're making great progress. 👍
I really like the music in this video :)
Aw, thank you!
As always, a great video with great explanations. It’s amazing how the seasons change in Eastern Spain. Your huerta looks amazing.
We lived up in Peñíscola (pay attention to the accents!) for a year, then we lived between Valencia and Alzira for years. It’s a beautiful part of the world. I am getting really “homesick” (I miss my querida España) and want to return! I loved my gardens when we lived rurally and on housing estates (urbanizaciones), we always had about 2000m2 of garden with loads of fruit and veg year round.
The biggest thing I miss at this time of year, apart from the climate, the people and the pool, is Nísperos (loquats). Beautiful fruit, quite why we can’t get them in the UK, I’ll never know. Ajos tiernos are superb though.
I also love the subtitles in Spanish! Is there a difference between “compost” and “abono”? We also used to buy “substrato”, it’s difficult! I managed to get the C2 level qualification in Spanish and a good level of Valenciano, but there are still some idiosyncrasies which I don't get!
Had off grid been something I had known about back then in 2010, I would have done it. However, no regrets, just look towards the future and am planning my return to Spain.
Thank you.
Aw thank you! Peñíscola really is beautiful. I met a guy the other day who lived up there for 7 years with no road access. 30 minutes on a horse or donkey to the nearest road! You are right about the loquats. Never seen or heard of them before we came here, now they're one of my favourite fruits!
I think "compost" would refer specifically to something that's been through/is going through the composting process. Whereas abono could be more general, like "fertilizer" in English. Urine could be an "abono" for example, it hasn't been composted but it is still a fertiliser. I am not sure I always use the right word in Spanish when I'm not paying attention, though!
Hola!!! Con las vainas de las habas puedes prepara tortillas están muy buenas,pruebalas
You should make a terrarium out of the stuff you got growing
The rain definitely get everything going. Perhaps a garden to table kinda video after this? A snippet of the meals that u make of the harvests. Tofu licking his tongue like that is kinda sus 😆😆 take care Harriet!
I can try! Might have to put more effort than normal into our meals for a week to make them look more presentable hehe!
You will be able to feed the whole village soon Harriett 😅
you can pickle the beetroot it's delicious
Harriet why don't you get a hose connector. It connects two hose to make a longer one.
Hey, he pensado avisarte que vayas con cuidado con la Ruda ya que puede ser tóxica y solía utilizarse como abortiva. Para que estés segura de la dosis si haces infusión. un saludo y enhorabuena por el huerto y esfuerzo! Muy inspirador...
Hi Harriet, I love how you are making your soil rich! If you cut the broad beans from top of the soil instead of putting out the root, the root will keep on improving your land! Love from California!
GREAT tip! the roots of all legumes are nitrogen fixing so dig the into the soil.
Hi Harriet, we are currently working on our Quinta in Central Portugal. And hoping to inprove the degraded soil Could you please let me know the name of the green manure you tried out. Is it available on line? .
Enjoy watching your progress. Wishing you ever success in your future projects.
Hi! Thank you so much. And yes of course, this is the mix I used, not sure if this shop ships to Portugal but maybe you can find something similar if not:
botiga.lesrefardes.coop/ca/barreges-d-adob-verd/352-adob-en-verd-per-cultius-arboris-al-seca.html
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead ok I will have a look and see. Thanks again .
Wow Harriet, so good to see you harvesting the fruits of labor 😀. Awesome job. Food everywhere! You guys have us envy🥰😍😂. So very happy for you ❤💗!!
Do you have blueberry planted? Please show us when the the trees bearing fruits, will you? Love to see them.
We don't have any blueberries yet. To be honest we haven't planted many more trees than the ones that were already here (oranges and tangerines) which are ready in January. Trees are definitely something we need to invest more in, I think!
Es una hermosa pollita,estoy completamente segura por su cola. Felicidades.
Looking outstanding we both are on the same page 😉🙏, can I ask you (maybe you mentioned it before) how big is your little farm and how much are you using of it so far? Can't wait to join you ❣
Wonderful to see how abundantly your hard work is paying off 😊 what type of valerian is that? I don’t recognise it 🧐🤓
Always look forward to seeing your progress- love your vlogs 🥰
Thank you! Hahaha I think I got my labels mixed up. It was in fact rocket!
Everything looks super lovely. Have you planted your moringa tree?! :)
Thank you! I've got 2 tiny moringa plants, they seem to be struggling a bit though... but I have plenty more seeds to try again!
Hay un canal de permacultura que también tiene árboles y les pone muchas plantas debajo se llama objetivo la luz
May I ask, what's the name of the huge beans ?!? They look delicious😍.
Huge as in long? Those are 'meter beans'! I can't think of any other enormous beans you might have seen hehe
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead yes meter beans.Thanks☺️
Valerian is a very good muscle sleep aid
Hi my dear, can you eat all of the things you are growing? What do you do to preserve the vegetables?
yes, most things! Apart from some of the flowers :) We make pickles, chutneys, jams, freeze things, sauces, etc, occasional canning :)
❤
I like your expresion: a learning garden".could we know whereabout are you in castellon? what's the next city or Village? we do líder it what you obtiene formación nature. I am Lola.
Hi Lola! We are not far from Vall d'Alba :)
Mauro and Harriet your garden is growing ... I haven't seen tomato?
Haha I think this video was from before tomato season!
Buenas noches Harriet. Me encanta tu canal, veo todos tus vídeos pero no se si alguien más te habrá comentado que es imposible leer los subtítulos en español porque se montan las frases una encima de otra. Yo no entiendo inglés bien y me cuesta seguir la conversación. No se si será problema de tu edición de vídeo o solo es que me pasa a mi. Saludos desde Málaga.
ahhh sí, estás usando el ipad? Alguien más me ha comentado que le pasa a él también con el ipad. Creo que es problema de
youtube pero voy a ver si puede hacer algo para arreglarlo, creo que hay un par de trucos que puedo probar. Perdón la molestia!
🌟🍀👍💐
Could those unpalatable peas be pigeon peas?
I think in Spanish are called gandúles...
The latin name is Vicia narbonensis, a kind of vetch. I think it has many common names but I think pigeon pea is
Cajanus cajan
tofu wants a chiken soup! jajajaja
hahhaha, tofu sees chicken diner, lol.
You have a lot of valerian......because that is not valerian! It looks like a salad leaf?
I have a cat that looks like yours. His name is Marshmallow.
that's a great name!
Hi, im watching and enjoying from Denmark, if you want to maximize or upgrade your farm you should watch "the dutch farmer" he does it the smart way with trensches and irrigation tubes and canals
Thank you! Yes, I've seen him, he knows his stuff, having run a farm before. I am cautious about making big investments in time and money before I have sufficient experience to know I'm making the right decisions but I get lots of inspiration from folks like him, for when the time is right.
@@LittleSpanishFarmstead just a reminder to not work harder but smarter, they embrace rainwater collection and drainpipes, you could do this on a smaller scale firstly by rearranging your layout of gardens so water is high and gardens are low, then just buy lots of 2.hand gardenhoses punch small holes in it so they leak were your veggies are, and try to buy stuff that can collect rain when ever possible, in your heat you will always need water and it is always a pain and heavy so just let it trickle through leaky gardenhoses is perfekt..
Used stuff can be very usefull and cheap, and a few pipes to connect and make overflow into more reservoirs,bins,cans, even trash cans, but remember to shield from sun (algaes) and avoid openness so animals dont drown and pollute..you might also want to look into hydroponics as you have a stream (a few fish and a pond and your veggies will explode)
If ya go fishing and cut up fish head or all fish ..dig deep in your garden and put in soil ..plants will THRIVE F🐟
Lovely! Please remember, Harriet that Rue "Ruda" is abortive.
Thank you!