Episode 9 - Preparing for winter

[@jeanrichardson2044]

All respect to you both, you are so hard working. Happy New Year.

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@jeanrichardson2044 thankyou so much, it's worth putting in the effort when you are doing it for yourselves and our budget doesn't allow is to employ people to do it for us, so wish us luck lol ❤️🙂

[@eileentallula2365]

I really enjoy your videos. Love your animals.I hope you get lots more subscribers you deserve to. Love from Bradford 👵🏼🇬🇧❤️

[@PlanitPortugal]

​@@eileentallula2365 omg I'm a Bradford lass! Where are you from in Bradford, I was raised in Wyke? Thankyou for your lovely comments too ❤️🙂 x

[@eileentallula2365]

Thanks for your reply . Lovely Eccleshill! 👵🏼😊

[@PlanitPortugal]

@eileentallula2365 know it well, I had friends there, took my bike test there. 🙂❤️

[@eileentallula2365]

Wish we’re in Portugal, much too old now!👵🏼😊❤️

[@PlanitPortugal]

@eileentallula2365 you're never too old, yes it's a big leap of faith to move here but if you don't try you'll never know. Life's too short for regrets. If you do decide to come over you've already got some friends here ❤️🙂 x

[@juliad1768]

Happiest of New year wishes, love more tree plantings and yes you covered them just in time, phew xxx

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@juliad1768 thankyou, hopefully more trees to come 🤞yes our timing was very good 🙂❤️

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@juliad1768 Happy New Year to you too 🎉❤️🙂

[@hildamoll1]

Just discovered your channel, love the two of you, you seem so sincere, I'm gonna love your videos. It's because you're animal lovers !! All the best, may you go from strength to strength ❤ Hilda, Montagu, Western Cape, South Africa

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@hildamoll1 thankyou and welcome to our little channel 🙂 we are animal lovers, we get so much love and pleasure from them, each one in a different way. Hope you continue to enjoy our videos over there in Montagu 🙂❤️

[@GailTarrant]

I live in South Carolina, watch several Portugal channels. You are one of my favorites. I’m an elderly woman living through your dreams. Thank you. I just recently found your channel and binged all videos. Don’t change anything. What some channels are missing is personalities. You get an A+.

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@GailTarrant hello, what lovely comments, thankyou so much. We will always be ourselves, we are very down to earth, real people and like it that way 🙂 thankyou for joining us from South Carolina on our journey and hope you continue to do so. Thankyou again, Mandy and Rob ❤️🙂🙏

[@nagibkanaan2464]

Happy new year Good to see u got three dogs and cats get mote chickens and even rabbits More fruit trees plums figs and lotsjellës of grapes

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@nagibkanaan2464 hello and thankyou, we intend to get a few more chickens 🙂 we already have lots of fruit and nut trees and over 60 grapes now, we will be getting more berry bushes though. ❤️🙂

[@andrewdaniel653]

Happy New Year to you both. Looking forward to watching your channel grow as you work on your home

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@andrewdaniel653 thankyou, we will here for a while, we have so much to do! Happy New Year to you too 🙂❤️

happy new year! stay warm, stay strong 🤠😎

[@PlanitPortugal]

Thankyou, we will certainly try! Happy New Year to you too 🙂❤️

[@lisacraig4585]

Dogs and saplings can be a tricky mix. Good idea to keep the trees in pots until they are more mature. Your oliveiras are at least three years old. Those lamp lights are to die for❤. Did you find them here? Keep warm and dry this week.

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@lisacraig4585 hello 🙂 yes we are finding that, may have to wrap them in wire to protect them. oooo it's good to know the olive trees are that age, I'm so pleased thankyou. The lights we bought the first on UK FB market place, the spent a further year finding the other two, all very reasonably priced and pre owned as is most of the things we own, more of things like these to come as we progress. It's tricky keeping warm in a totally uninsulated but we are getting by, it is water tight though, thankfully 🙂❤️

[@babausa6010]

Happy New Year!

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@babausa6010 thankyou, Happy New Year to you too 🙂❤️

[@insAneTunA]

First of all, Happy new year!! Lovely lamps. It is best practice to plant fruit trees in the fall. If you plant them back in the spring it will be a very big shock for the tree for multiple reasons. They can survive, but the survival rate from fruit trees that are planted in the spring is much lower compared to trees that are planted in the fall. So if the trees revive I would suggest to keep them in their pots until next fall. And when you plant them add some mulch to cover the soil around the tree. Preferable wood chips or else a bunch of short thinner twigs, and some leaves. It will act as a blanket against cold and hot weather, and the micro organisms love it as well. And it helps a lot to prevent water evaporation during the summer. The micro organisms are very important because they convert no matter what you add to the soil into the nutrients that the trees need. So if the micro organisms are doing well, then the trees will also grow well. And when you prune them, drop some of the bio mass around the tree. It is called chop and drop. It is very good for the soil and the micro organisms. Green leaves are nitrogen rich, and woody material is carbon rich. 👍

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@insAneTunA hello and Happy New Year to you too. That's great advice, I've not heard of the chop and drop method but it makes perfect sense. I'll have to order more of the cloth and get the new orange tree in the ground, I'll pot the sprouting twig in a pot in the poly tunnel until next Autumn as you advised. This is the first time we have planted trees so good advice is always welcome, thankyou 🙂❤️

[@insAneTunA]

@@PlanitPortugal The chop and drop method is a method that comes from the Permaculture type of farming. And Permaculture is a sustainable regenerative type of farming that works with nature, and it aims for the least amount of harmful impact on nature and the highest amount of bio diversity, without using any commercial fertilizers. There are many videos about Permaculture. But the videos from Dr. Elaine Ingham are very informative about the science behind soil fertility. As well as the videos from Charles Dowding or Stefan Sobkowiak. If you want to make it look nice and organized you could put a 1 meter diameter stone circle around the trees, and fill that circle with bio mass while leaving the stem of the tree free from contact with the bio mass. It also helps to prevent weed growth. And the soil under the bio mass will become nice and fluffy over time, and permeable for water and air, which is a good thing. I try not to overload you with information. But if you start watching some of the videos from the people that I mentioned then you can learn at your own pace.

[@CarlosPereira-lq1cw]

Eu sou Português . Bem vindos a Portugal. Que Deus abençoe a vossa vida.

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@CarlosPereira-lq1cw muito obrigado, seu país é muito acolhedor e lindo. é um privilégio viver aqui 🙂❤️

[@howardsportugal]

Stay warm, guys! Great to see you getting all those trees in...be great to know where you got your dog tags. Take care!

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@howardsportugal thankyou, I'm slightly obsessed with trees and changing the blank canvas into a beautiful little fruit farm 😁 I'll send you the details to email Peter about the tags, lovely bloke and he posts too. 🙂❤️

[@Quintabarrentaportugal]

Good vid as ever guys. Thought I recognised those fruit trees lol. See ya soon x x

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@Quintabarrentaportugal thankyou, yes the exact same ones lol.see ya soon 🙂❤️ xx

[@freemountain4801]

I've seen some channel s that have talked about starting olives by putting trimmed off branches into the ground. If you have someone nearby pruning back one inch or so (2-3cm) branches, you could get some. If you planted 20 in a nursery plot and got 4 or 5 trees it might be worth it. Your neighbors might have a better idea of this would work in your area.

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@freemountain4801 hello and Happy New Year, that's a good idea and will definitely try it again, I have tried before with no success but never say never. Thankyou for you advice 🙂❤️

[@siwwootton6821]

eee that's looking nesh! lol We're expecting a high of 40+ tomorrow - I'll melt lol hate summer here - roll on late March when it starts cooling down. I'm now working a 6 day straight then 3 off then 4 on 1 off routine! This will take me until we go to New Zealand April-ish it will be lovely to see the children again. I think we're over in New Zealand for about a month. Then it will be the travelling season. I have a conference in Fremantle WA in May then The Butler and I will take little trips around in out camper trailer - named, wait for it, 'Princess Pearl the Perambulating Penguin' lol I just like the alliteration, for short we call her Pearly. 15 months until I get my UK Pension - so things will really change for us next year. Anyway enough of me going on, lol I agree I think your little crower is a rooster (that's what we call them 'ere in Aus) is growing up. Roosters aren't too bad to keep - yes they're noisy. You have to give him a name! lol Take care looking forward to the next one. 😆

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@siwwootton6821 hi again, we can't wait until March, it's freezing here at the moment and start to warm up then. What do you do to work those shifts? Bet you're looking forward to a good long holiday in New Zealand. Love what you've called your camper trailer, funnily enough the little crower was called pearl! Will have to rethink that one now! 😂 Rob said to ask where in Yorkshire is the Butler from. Until next time take care 🙂❤️

[@siwwootton6821]

@@PlanitPortugal Hi The Butler comes from Sunnyside, Rotherham. It's such a lovely accent to listen to - soft but very direct in his answers sometimes. Diplomacy doesn't really come into his thinking let alone vocabulary! lol We have a house in New Zealand that we plan to sell in the next couple of years. We are both New Zealanders and planning on getting Australian citizenship this year (once I get down to applying). For work - My main work is Lymphoedema Practitioner, but I dabble in Wound care as a specialty also and work in a High Risk Foot Clinic. I work for two Health Authorities so that keeps me busy. lol Out of mischief is what Kev says lol. I've lived and worked in 6 countries so far (not sure if I've mentioned that before) Sorry for repeating - is this the start of dementia I wonder? lol Anyway back from day 2 of 6. Take care Siw 😀❤

[@1000djf]

Crikey is Alfie on steroids he’s huge 😂! Great vlog guys your channel should have so many more subscribers it’s always full of great content and well edited BTW Happy New Year … ps your vlogs are absolutely fine

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@1000djf thankyou so much, we watch a few channels that concentrate on one thing, we didn't want to do that, we wanted to show us doing things that need to be done and a varied mix. We are heartbroken warmed by the interest we have got already about our journey and the comments are great. We are really grateful and looking forward to putting out more vlogs in 2025, loving it 😁 Happy New Year to you too, fingers crossed this year our subscribers will grow, thankyou again ❤️🙂

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@1000djf p.s. Alfie is growing so fast, the one floor will live on is filling up fast! Need more rooms done 🙂

[@alittleheavenonearth]

Hello 👋 nice to meet you !! NEW SUBSCRIBER LOVE TO HAVE YOU JOIN US AS WELL CENTRAL PORTUGAL 🇵🇹

[@PlanitPortugal]

@@alittleheavenonearth Hello, nice to meet you, and lovely to have you with us on our journey 🙂 of course we will, love watching other vlogs, it gives us lots of ideas ❤️🙂