A Pumpkin PROBLEM - June Garden Tour 2024 - Gardening in Portugal

[@marthamaeda8257]

Good job your garden is thriving well❤

[@ninemoonplanet]

Cats, obedient? Are you kidding? They're our owners. 😂

[@potagermalo]

Superbe vidéo A bientôt

[@rudymazar5266]

We planted 10 pumpkin seeds and so far we harvested 70 huge pumpkins ..too many ..great presents for friends.

[@christinetrewin9717]

Oh yes love Kylie’s signature “Bye” 💋👩‍🌾🇫🇷

[@JVSwailesBoudicca]

4:30 Oh my heart alive, Listen.......I can hear a Turtle Dove. I haven't heard one since we left France 7yrs ago. They are now rare & precious, you are very lucky to have them there. Thank you for a very interesting video.....I loved every minute in your garden.

[@AbigailGerlach-zt1sh]

Take a couple of bottles of olive oil and put your sprigs of rosemary in the oil. Nice for salads, chicken recipes, bread recipes etc. Process/shred your courgettes into 1 cup baggies and freeze. They make a fabulous sweet bread. I toast it for breakfast, or serve it for tea time. They also make a nice pancake recipe for breakfast. Add it to shredded potatoes and fry up latkas (potato pancakes) serve with apple sauce or sour cream. Strawberry ice cream would be yummy.

[@jamesgrover2005]

Potatoes in pots don't need to be harvested until you want them, you can put the pot on it's side under a hedge so it doesn't get wet and the potatoes stay good for a long time.

[@nicarazzi]

Love your gardening videos.

[@EnglishMadeleine]

Knowing your tendency for research, I’m hoping you already know that Blueberries only grow well in ericaceous soil - the same sort you’d use for rhododendrons, etc. In other words, acidic compost is needed. You can amend the soil with coffee granules, pine needles and the correct sort of wood chips, which I’m hoping you’ve used. The rest is all looking good, 😍

[@celiasnyman2885]

Love the squares around those plants that spread much. What a great idea.

[@rachelfrees1268]

Perfect day spent with you two in your beautiful gardens. Thanks for sharing and bye bye.❤

[@madamevavra]

Butternuts are my favorite keeper over winter. There is nothing better than one roasted with large amounts of fresh rosemary and olive oil. Yum! Your potatoes are fabulous. Hopefully I will have a similar harvest this week. The strawberries will make better jam than wine. Your gardens have come leaps and bounds over the last several years. Well done!

[@shirleyrice7093]

I love butternut squash with maple syrup roasted on it.

[@nickfosterxx]

Incredibly impressive potatoes. When you can harvest them with your hands you know you've cracked the no dig method.

[@shirleyrice7093]

Your garden is so neat. It is beautifully organized with the artistically laid out beds.

[@nickfosterxx]

When I can get hold of enough rosemary, I put it on the barbecue coals so the sweet smoke can add a bit of flavour to lamb kebabs. Or just burn a little as 'incense' as the fire dies down.

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

The "big bluey-greeny one" was probably a Hubbard squash. 💚

[@kerrylynnparsons7879]

Gorgeous gardens!!! 🥰🎶❤️🎶🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@kylieharrison3782]

You need to sow your seeds using toilet paper. Simply do a long row of toilet paper (on a table). Then spray with water. Put the seeds, spaced as needed. Then fold toilet paper tape in half. You can fold the wet and seeded paper tape up and place in a zip lock bag or glass jar with lid on. Once the seeds start growing lay the tape out on the soil where you want to grow. Wet tape again. Then put soil layer on top.

[@alidabotes6264]

Excellent tip!! Thanks.

[@user-ho3dk4pg8y]

Oh wow! Genius!

[@the-reading-lemon]

I'm going to make a prediction: you are going to have the pumpkin version of other people's zucchini problem. Remember it is definitely totally legal to sneak around at night and drop them off on your neighbours' door steps.

[@Bdub323]

😂

[@josefamelanialeonor]

Your garden is beautiful 😍

[@nickfosterxx]

Looking forward to the development of courgette wine v2.0. Was impressed by your reaction last year, been trying to persuade people to give it a try.

[@ArtofHosting]

What I learned about parsnips... they like to grow where they choose. Not where you like them to grow - IF you have one, let them go to seed, and then see what comes up next year.

[@jackiesaylor2487]

I noticed your potato garden is kind of shallow (maybe 4" or so) and I wanted to share another way to increase your yield. I saw another channel build a huge mound of dirt (like theirs was like cheating high, but you wouldn't need to go that high, they were in Alaska), and then plant the plants all around (not just on top) of the mound. And literally when they harvested then had enough potatoes to last for about a year and a half if not longer. I've heard potatoes like loose sandy soil.

[@florentinalily]

lemon verbena is a menace. You will have to pot it up; it will spread everywhere and completely smothers out other plants (been there ..) It is worse than mint. I even thought of processing the kilos of it for oil. It killed a couple of roses I put in and is just so dense.. Thanks for the vlog, a joy as always x

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

Well you certainly are not going to be hungry, great harvest and plenty following on.👋👋⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@lorimontcalm9086]

As always I am impressed by your hard work. Gardening is rewarding and frustrating simultaneously. Hugs from 🇨🇦

[@Aotruba]

Veggie beds look lovely! I love your vegetation and your property! ❤ Kitties are so cute! 🐈❣️🐈🌟❣️

[@andreacrashe9894]

*Kylie & Guy, your garden looks amazing. 🙂 You both have put in a lot of hard work to get it where it is today, from when you first started. 🙂nz*

[@dawnfitzgerald2951]

Really enjoy spending time with you both. Strawberry jam is the hit at my house.❤️🇨🇦

[@paulan5989]

Kitchen garden is looking great Re: courgettes, we purée them as a creamy base for soups. Healthy and delicious!

[@MAKEDOGROW]

Do you can or freeze them as purée?

[@paulan5989]

@@MAKEDOGROW we chop and freeze them in portions for each soup batch. We purée them with a hand blender.

[@jamesgrover2005]

9:27 I'd love to see you making essential oil 😊

[@cathybrewer8958]

Your garden looks so nice and neat. Looks like your going to have a great harvest.

[@isobelkirk6602]

The garden is looking great. Well done.

[@maeveskelly4686]

Our indoor/outdoor cat miaows to let us know he wants to go out- usually followed immediately by him setting up a racket outside the kitchen window to either get back in, or for food (he will already have been fed). This theatre production happens daily and has prompted our older outdoor cat who was previously fairly silent, to start raising her voice too - obviously never too old to pick up new tricks.

[@janlafournaise6505]

The soil in your garden is gorgeous.

[@ronguille9721]

You didn't harvest the potato bed too early, the plants were done and would not longer size up the potatoes. The ones in pots can stay until you need them. Just don't allow them to get soaked with water, turn the pots on their sides or store in a shed etc. in their soil until needed. The Butternut squash that I have purchased the past few years in the stores have no flavour at all. New varieties? I wish that I could still go my own. Nice gardens guys!

[@GerdaVB-m3n]

I never throw away the radish leaves. I use it in the same way as spinach in potato stew. The foliage contains many minerals and vitamins, and it has a nice taste (not as spicy as the radish itself).

[@christinetaggart2715]

Mmmm pumpkin pie, pumpkin scones, pumpkin loaf etc. etc. etc plus all the usuals. Enjoy, cheers from Australia 🇦🇺🥮🥟🥧🍯🍹🎃

[@miachambers830]

One of my biggest ‘envies’ is of the Rosemary bushes that grow in Portugal. I would love one OR MORE of those in my herb garden, which pretty much needs a real ‘intervention’..! 😔🤭🤷🏼‍♀️

[@vickihoneycutt456]

Wonderful ,lots of work but so rewarding when you've canned and stocked up the pantry. I miss the garden and fresh vegetables. For years my husband and I grew our own food including meat,we had pigs,steers,chickens, so forfeeling

[@tomrichardson3107]

Strawberry wine is awesome. Made some many years ago. You have to let it age. 😊

[@suzannegerstner2841]

I think you would do well with watermelon, cantelope, or honey dew- maybe take some of that squash space. Garden looks great!

[@MAKEDOGROW]

We have a whole bed of melons … that’s what is in bed 7 😀

[@theroo3625]

The weeds (some dandelion variety) in the mulched blueberry pot have very long deep roots - unless you remove them down to the bottom, they will keep coming back. Atm you have pulled off the leaves up top but the - quite hardy - root is still happy and ready to regrow 😊

[@KelpsSousa]

I need to find more time to do some gardening. In the previous house I made a raised bed on top of the gas cylinder shelter and we planted some herbs there. But since we moved, there hasn't been any time to plant anything yet. But we'll get there. One thing about your beds that I don't think I would get used to is that they are on the ground. I know that raised beds take a lot more time, but I would make them that way to be more comfortable to plant, tend and harvest. Just seeing you on your knees while planting or harvesting makes my back hurt... BTW, it was an expect surprise to have the carport build mentioned. That was so cool! I've had very busy weekends since I posted about the carport and not much progress since then, but it should be back on track next weekend.

[@CarolLoch-ww7po]

Our strawberry wine turned out like champagne all bubbly xx

[@kentishbunyip6081]

So did ours but not before the demijohn air bung was forced out very early on, covering our kitchen in dripping sticky goo. We made 6 bottles with what was left, each then exploding at various intervals until we were left with just one. When finally opened, it fizzed so much, we had to pour it into a jug until it had subsided. We were finally able to enjoy some beautiful strawberry wine. (Never again!)

[@user-ho3dk4pg8y]

Beautiful garden! You put a lot of work into it, that is evident.

[@carolvanrooyen4929]

Ooh those potatoes look yummy! Thanks for sharing your garden!

[@anneliesemodeker2104]

When you plant your pumpkinplants you can ferilize it by digging in a compost bin neerby (bucked without bottom/ or with holes in the bottom). Screw holes on the sides and the bottom. The pumpkinplant loves siting neer a kompost. Give tshoppt organic waste into the bucked.

[@anneliesemodeker2104]

The bucked needs a lid.

[@machellep1]

Your are now on the cat distribution list ! Get more rooms ready.

[@kleaspop]

Nice - looks great on the big tv screen!

[@aldag5514]

Make strawberry jam and strawberry sauce for strawberry shortcake 🍰

[@kimevans5742]

Home grown pickled beetroot is the best. I would definitely be putting those blueberries in the ground.

[@juliemillar4394]

Those long rosemary twigs make excellent BBQ skewers

[@RobynCollis]

That was so charming and relaxing ! Thank you for showing us your garden 🪴

[@Cymindis]

Strawberry and Rhubarb wine is lovely.... also yes, bu-bye is a Thing.

[@margaretkeay97]

Hi from Australia!🇦🇺 🦘 With regards to your pumpkin problem, haven’t you thought of growing them vertically similar to the way you do your Lufas!? Lots of people over here make an A frame and grow them up and over them. They also grow them over an arch which makes them easy to harvest. It also keeps them off the ground so they don’t rot from the moist soil. 😀 Good luck with them however you do them. 😘

[@louiseupton3363]

Your garden is looking amazing 👏 Well done!!

[@dianeleirer9878]

Your rosemary is amazing! Oh to be able to literally grow a rosemary ‘bush’ here in Zone 6b-only in my dreams😌.

[@PawelGonera]

Rosemary probably doesn't need raised bed in your climate. In Croatia I saw it growing everywhere.

[@SuperHaptics]

hi lovely people. I have a question since you like answering our questions. My grandparents lived in a village, so I have seen a fair bit of old school farming and gardening. I do not recall seeing a raised bed ever in the village. Apart from raised earth for growing tabbaco plants, when they made 40cm high 40cm wide long rows of raised earth and planted tabbaco on top. For vegetables, there were only rows of plants (e.g. tomato, aubergine, cucumber beans) separated by little shalow ditches between these rows for water to flow when watering, since those days you would water with the hose in the evening and make little pools of water in those ditches. Plants were growing amazingly good. So my question is why put all the effort and cost for raised beds if you can plant directly in your nice soil which is already there and waiting for you? 😊

[@ricardolandsman9465]

Lemon grass likes well drained soil and grows great in a pot. Give it space and it will do what grass does. Take over.

[@carolyncastino7498]

Rosie Rosemary Vinegar….fill a huge pot with fresh rosemary…add a jug of white wine vinegar, cover and heat. Let sit for most of the day…strain, and toss rosemary stocks and leaves. Add a bottle of red wine to rosemary vinegar liquid and bottle. Makes a great addition to salad dressings and marinades.

[@svrooyen]

Strawberry Wine is great. Ferment out dry, stabalise or pasteurise, then back sweeten with a strawberry syrup. Or Make it better by adding blueberries. Made a batch of strawberry and blueberry wine 2 years ago, and it didnt last long. Dont even manage to keep a bottle to fully age it was that good. Strawberrybon its own is very much like a rosé

[@nf3959]

Have you thought about planting artichokes?

[@livinginthealgarveportugal3357]

I still have a P bucket 😹 great vlog good to see your variety

[@kgrand62]

Good morning. If you want to save seed, be careful saving squash, pumpkin. If they cross pollinate and you save the seed you can get poisonous squash. Google toxic squash. The tomatoes with the funny leaves are just a "potato leafed" variety.

[@jeanhawken4482]

Pumpkins are such fun love pumpkin soup.

[@padimills1494]

I plant basil on either side of each tomato and pepper plant. The strong smell keeps the pest away and you can freeze the basil. You can't eat marigolds.

[@ctmaizurah]

I like watching people gardening. Btw what happened to your previous cat?

[@nicolebury2743]

You can make some rosemary tincture, Essential oil, and drying some to mix with oregano, parsley etc.

[@denisemastromina7821]

I dont do any of your accomplishments but i really enjoy your videos and look forward to them thankyou

[@cferguson3368]

Many types of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, & melons will vine upwards of a trellis, netting, or fence....makes them easier to contain.

[@VisionaryGardener]

Harvest your mature potatoes in that bed, amend the soil, and put in the pumpkins. I'd pull the mystery squash/pumpkin things and focus on the ones you have intentionally started.

[@shelleycorcoran9514]

Love you guys! Fabulous channel. Just a heads up, I was told that happy, healthy lemongrass can be a bit like mint and take over the world. Recommend planting it in a pot! 😅❤

[@miriammuskal5402]

Fabulous garden

[@royking7298]

My marigolds didn't germinate either. I have gigantic corget plants and no corgets. :( giant tomato plants and no tomatoes. Peppers are coming along as well as other misc items. And wow! Such a big garden you guys have. Must be tons of fun. I don't know how you do it.

[@closerbgood]

I’d love to see a video of you cooking up something in your beautiful kitchen. That stove is amazing!

[@VisionaryGardener]

If you let your radishes go to seed, you can also eat the seed pods when they're young and green. I actually like the pods better than the radishes. Very tasty in salads.

[@gaynor3976]

Wow the beds are looking mighty swell with all the harvest growing. I hate gardening but love watching both of you working your magic. Xx

[@elisekuby2009]

I love radish leaves in stir-fries. Not so much in salads.

[@suzannecuerrier279]

I really like the garden videos. I like that your go to recipes are alcohol based.

[@suenunn9099]

Try making strawberry jam using figs and strawberry jello. It's great and you can't tell the difference.

[@jenniferstrachan7084]

Wow you two have an amazing work ethic Always so busy but great results because of your dedication I really enjoy your videos They are informative and very relaxing to watch Thank you

[@soniayoung5097]

Thank you ❤❤❤

[@White_Rabbit63]

Your concrete trellises near the garden run cables along both sides in the top and then train your melons your pumpkins and then you can tie them off with the cloth so they don’t drop off and that would be beautiful

[@idapacheco7381]

Really nice garden 😊

[@carolbulmer8253]

Good morning, Kylie and Guy. Your garden looks amazing. Thanks for the tour. (BTW…I’d love to see your other cats.) See you later❤️❤️

[@ClaireWhelan-s8l]

Ye two work so hard between house and garden and great success and rewards in both. Its so lovely to see the cats and hens around the property. How do ye get time to pickle..freeze...oh yea its in the title..Make..😂. Yer brilliant...and lovely humour in videos too. Take breaks though. I'm not grt one for following youtube but really enjoying yers. Ver very genuine.

[@SusanZiegler]

I love the precision of the layout of your gardens!

[@Neilhuny]

Ohh, I love Guy's spuds! And Kylie's squashes look impressive, too

[@susanjennings4113]

Your patch is very productive must be great going to pick fresh veg & herbs for dinner. I’m jealous ❤

[@JohnTalbot-k6xi]

A+

[@ArtofHosting]

take care from 'wild' squach: always taste before cooking. If it taste bitter, don't eat them. Patatoes with no leaves will not grow more, so good to take them out.

[@anelnel4752]

Plant and cheese lovers. After making ricotta cheese the wey water, plants love it

[@alliejones9864]

If you are unable to grow vertically, Is it possible you borrow some of the roadside around your home in your verges, both you and the neighbours could benefit and it would look quite interesting, I know we always end up giving away so many each year anyway (nz)

[@elisaferreira7244]

I add a bit of sugar to my raw strawberries and use an emerge hand brender to make a sauce than I frize it and use it as a pancake or waffles syrup, it also goes really great on vanilla ice cream

[@BlackJesus8463]

Strawberry wine is everything you hoped it would be.

[@Anyone4music]

Amazing potatoes !

[@Anyone4music]

Great gardening video thank you xx

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

Looks like heaven ...well done you two. 🎉❤🎉