Planting Garlic | Using our Woodchipper

We're preparing for Autumn (Fall) on our little farm in Portugal. We show you how we plant our saved garlic.
We use our Garland woodchipper to turn our mimosa (Acacia dealbata) and forest waste into wood chips to use on our garden paths.
There is a mini review of the Garland wood chipper we bought about 18 months ago and share the good and not so good things about it.
We grow and harvest the ingredients for a traditional Portuguese dish Migas (Recipe below) and share a bit of news.
If you enjoyed this and want to see where the wood chip came from, join us for a walk in our forest and see how we manage the invasive mimosa and regenerate native trees
• Forest Tour with Map o...
Dan's Recipe for Migas
This dish is based on how migas is served in our locality in Central Portugal.
There are many variations across the Iberian peninsula and you can be as flexible as you wish when making it. The traditional reason to make this nutritionally balanced dish is to use food that is normally in the kitchen and garden all year and to use up leftover bread.
Ingredients
300g of cooked black-eyed beans
250g of kale
200g chunky stale bread crumbs
Generous glug of Portuguese olive oil
1 onion
5 cloves of garlic
Bay leaves (1 or 2)
Salt and pepper
METHOD
Shred the kale thinly.
Dice onion and cut garlic into small pieces.
Heat olive oil in a heavy pan and saute the garlic and onions on medium heat.
Add the bay leaves.
Once the onions have turned a light golden colour toss in the bread and another glug of olive oil.
Season with salt and pepper.
Next add the kale or cabbage. (Pre cook kale for a couple of mins in boiling water if you prefer soft leaves)
Continue to cook for about 2 to 3 minutes
Stir the mixture.
Add the black-eyed beans and heat thoroughly.
Remove bay leaves before serving and serve hot.
Let us know in the comments if you have tried Migas, have a different recipe and what part of the world you're from.
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[@stucraven]

Loving these! You should link a recipe for midas as it looks delish!

[@NearbyVeggies]

We will add the recipe for migas in the description later today. 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

I will add it tomorrow, Steven. Too much to do at the moment. 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

The recipe (Dan's version) is in the description 🙂

[@naturenurture7387]

2.41k subscribers and I am one of them. Won't be long before you reach 100k! Loving your content and style.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Welcome and thank you 😊. We’re delighted to be growing our channel and appreciate every single person who decided to follow along. Wouldn’t that number of subscribers be amazing 🤩

[@jeanettenicholas2863]

It must be lovely to have a slower pace of life doing a good job

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you. It’s a delight to be here.

[@shirleyrice7093]

That is a lovely big leafed kale.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Quite a common sight in Portugal. We love kale.

[@EnriqueLopez-lf8qm]

Woodchopper is essential for overgrown land. Good investment

[@NearbyVeggies]

Money well spent for sure. 👍

[@tapovardhanraut9873]

The way you both are doing farming is very nice to watch and also very informative. Thanks for your wonderful Video. Best of luck for your Harvest. 👍

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@100Noddy]

Machinery is expensive, seems you bought wisely. Feeding, building and mulching the soil the soil is a great investment for your future.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Building soil is important. It takes time but will be worth it. 😊

[@maryhauser6523]

I remember those wicker baskets that you were using, loved them, they are called "cesta", maybe next year I will bring one back to Canada, they are great for collecting vegetables, fruit etc., and look nice on a table, very rustic. Since you have so much kale, you should make caldo verde, my Canadian husband who does all the cooking, makes it and we all love it on a cold rainy day. Thank you for bringing back to life that "old farm" the both of you are just doing Wonders and I thank you for sharing your great efforts with us.

[@NearbyVeggies]

I love baskets Mary. We are totally in love with this land. 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

We love caldo verde. Dan makes a good version 🙂

[@mesutozsen903]

eline emeğine sağlık bu güzel vlog için kolay gelsin hayırlı işler....👍👍👍👍

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍😊thank you.

[@helenaurelius-haddock4695]

Great video - we are in France and have had damaged trees taken down (HUGE!) I kept pretty much all of them, using the twigs , lovely and dry for kindling wood, so it might be worth keeping even the smaller stuff for winter. Thanks for sharing.

[@NearbyVeggies]

It’s great to be able to use all the wood. Thank you 😊

[@louiseswart1315]

I forget just the same. I got a tip on Hugh Richards' channel of cutting the side of a commercial yoghurt pot(of which I have many) into strips to use as name tags.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Plastic degrades rapidly in the sun here so I tend not to use it 👍

[@paulajones6366]

I put little sticks in where I’ve planted stuff so I know where I’ve planted. The ground is very dry good luck.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@Leed216]

Love your woven fence. Yesterday i was cutting the last of our flowers and today we had snow. Life in western Canada

[@NearbyVeggies]

Brrr! we get snow on the nearby mountains and it gets a bit chilly in winter but nothing like Canada. 😊

[@victorgscardoso]

Thank you for the detailed review of the shredder. A great follow up from last week’s video and we’ll worth waiting 😉. Regarding the voles, I was told that they are not garlic lovers. Someone even mentioned that sowing garlic around young trees helps to keep rodents, voles included, at a distance and protects them from having the tender roots eaten…

[@NearbyVeggies]

I really don’t know what the creature is that are my garlic but they ate the bulbs and the stalks left standing. 😱

[@mm.6991]

Beautiful video, good work.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@maggiemorgan8422]

Fab! That dish looks tasty. Please can I order that?? X

[@NearbyVeggies]

You’re booked in. 😊

[@helenomahony6280]

We have a similar Shredder and the safety drives me crazy too🤣. Great vlog guys

[@NearbyVeggies]

Annoying but perhaps lifesaving!😉

[@potagermalo]

Bonjour 👋 Superbe travail bravo à vous A bientôt 😊 😊 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Merci. 👍 A bientot. 😊

[@potagermalo]

@@NearbyVeggies De rien c'est avec plaisir 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Merci beaucoup 😊

[@bearders22]

I’m new to your channel - you both have a wonderful presentation style. I have some videos to catch up on but where are you living at the moment ?

[@NearbyVeggies]

Lovely to know. Thank you. We live in a rented house nearby. 😊

[@Budita62]

Ese utensilio en Galicia se llama picaña, y una guadaña es para cortar o segar hierba

[@NearbyVeggies]

Gracias.

[@valentinaestacio6693]

Sros adoro vos ver. A cultivar a trabalhar ao ar livre. Waww 🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇨🇦 Sros quando vai comessar as obras da voça casa. Um Sro Clau brasileiro está 😂 contente com o contractor. Em Viseu. Você me -sés muram longe de Viseu ,falem com este contractor. O Clau gosta 👍 dele diz bem dele etc. good look bjs 😘 🇨🇦.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Obrigada 🤩

[@victorgscardoso]

I have a further question/suggestion that is somewhat related to this topic: when you first got the land were your olive trees in good shape or have you made a “severe pruning”? On our land (purchased this year 😊) the olive trees are rather wild due to several years of abandonment. Someone suggested us to make a really strong pruning, but we believe that it would be more reasonable, and less brutal for the tree, to take a “multiple year approach” and work on the corrective actions on a slower pace. It would be great if you could make a video sharing your experience on the matter! (In the previous video you already mentioned the cleaning of the forest but was mostly focused on the “non-fruit” trees)

[@NearbyVeggies]

Our olive trees were pruned many years ago but when we got the land we gave the big orange tree a severe pruning , so hard that we were almost ashamed of the brutality but a year later it looks like we did nothing. The olive trees were entwined with brambles and really tall. About 20 are still huge but at least the brambles have been extracted. In what we call the olive grove, we have another 20 and we pruned those when we harvested our first crop last autumn. We have a couple such a hard pruning with only a few small twigs left and they still look bare but they look healthy and a much better shape. I asked about pruning and watch how how neighbours do it. We should have pruned harder and we will this year. You also need to thin in the spring which I didn’t do because it got too hot. They say you shouldn’t be able to swing a cat but a bird should be able to fly through each tree. It’s a beautiful art. I’ll take a few at a time. Thank you for a great question. 😊

[@frederickbowdler8169]

I don't have a chipper I put my trimmings under the hedge or make a swale to divert or hold water rather than chip it .I am not against machine s but I already have cultivator hedge trimmer and chainsaw and they all need maintenance . I have been surprised just how quickly a pile of branches rot down .chips do rot down quickly though and look good on paths.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Here in Portugal, heaps of prunings need to be burned or shredded due to fire risk. We live at the edge of a forest. We make great use of the wood chips.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

Oh yes my environment is much wetter. Thanks

[@catarinatorres6378]

Olá! We have the smaller shredder and we’re thinking about the next model…hummm not sure now!.. I don’t know the name of that bent fork, but a gadanha is a scythe! Love your gardening method, I’m a begginer trying to do the same things! Will love to see it later! Boa semana!

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s interesting about the gadanha because we bought it after our local goat herder told us what it was when he was delivering goat manure. So we asked for gadanha at the local coop and they gave us that tool. Perhaps different areas of Portugal have different words for tools. Whatever it is it’s magic. 😊 If you have a lot of material to chip and can move the chipper around your land then go for the bigger model. It’ll get through the wood easier.

[@victorgscardoso]

Gadanha is indeed a scythe, in some regions also called “foice” or “foucinhão”. My father comes from the Douro region and there the tool you showed is called “gadanho” (masculine form of “gadanha”). As you say, depending on where you are the objects get different names.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Oh how silly of us. We didn’t see the word in writing so thought we used the correct word. We apologise. Thank you for the explanation. 😊

[@catarinatorres6378]

@@victorgscardoso ah também não sabia!

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

That's a really nice chipper if you only paid €750-€800. I bought a small Chinese electric chipper/mulcher and it was worthless. Then bought a cheap gas-powered 3" chipper that really only handles 2" and has a too-small chute - grrrrr. Now that I've had experience owning them, I wish I had bought one like yours that has bigger hopper.

[@NearbyVeggies]

It really was a great buy. It’s not perfect as we say, but it serves us well. That was the price 2 years ago.

[@sandypollard562]

♥️👍🏻

[@NearbyVeggies]

👍

[@leonine01]

Raw garlic, when eaten alongwith your cereals provide the much needed disolver of any arterial blockages, in your bodies...means less likelihood of strokes, heartattacks. 3-4 pieces of garlic, chopped fine, every day is sufficient.

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s an interesting tip. Thank you 😊

[@simrankashyap2839]

in India, we fry onion tomato gravy and add the Soaked,Beans.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Yummy 😋

[@susanyates4233]

I have three echiumsi n what was my husband's veggie garden. They are massive, but not flowered yet. I have laidcardboard over all the weeds and soil too.

[@NearbyVeggies]

I had echiums previously and love them. Great pollinator attractors. 😊

[@victorgscardoso]

Sorry for the weird question, but which is the width of the chipper? The room where we can store it has a 90cm wide door, so in our situation size does matter… 😅

[@NearbyVeggies]

I'll measure it either today or tomorrow but it's definitely narrower than 90cm.

[@angelique2653]

I love the great work you are both doing on your land. But, the old farmhouse looks to me like a very major restoration. I think it may cost you tens of thousands Euros and several years. Would you consider building a small house, using the existing old stone from farmhouse on your land? I think it would be more practical, if that is allowed by local council? The site itself is really beautiful. Best wishes.

[@NearbyVeggies]

We know it's going to be a lot of euros to fix it but it will be easier than getting permission to build something new.

[@leonine01]

The walls look strong enough, but the ceilings could be redone with stronger inter beams...including replastering of the internal walls...

[@NearbyVeggies]

Lots of work and as you say, the walls are good.

[@rrain3375]

With all the veggie you are planting and harvesting. Are you vegetarian? No chickens for eggs yet?

[@NearbyVeggies]

We swap our surplus veggies with a neighbour for eggs.

[@carlosvictor8679]

olà bom dia 🙂

[@NearbyVeggies]

Bom dia, Carlos 🙂

[@Susan.I]

Voles eat the roots of vegetables…Ie…Sweet potatoes, carrots, potatoes, etc…

[@NearbyVeggies]

We sure know that now. Etc etc etc. We plant extra to compensate for the voles 😂

[@flowersflowers473]

If you are losing so much of the crop to voles, why not make a raised bed & line it with vole-proof mesh? Seems a pity to put all that work in only to lose it to the voles before you can harvest it.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Raised beds are difficult to keep watered in this climate. I’d rather test and experiment growing in different areas and trying new plants until we get a good balance going. It’s a great idea but lots of work.

[@maryalff1689]

Need a small farm in Portugal. Could you help me find one?

[@NearbyVeggies]

There are thousands of farms for sale in Portugal. Websites include, Idealista.pt and green-acres.pt to get you started. @Farmerforfun and @okPortugal and @destino2portugal are KZbinrs showing farms and properties for sale too. Have a look and best of luck in your search.

[@cocorouko]

helou i tried plant garlic in sud America but didnt grov 🙂

[@NearbyVeggies]

Garlic grows in South America. Try and buy the bulbs to separate into cloves from a local farmer or gardener. If you get them from a supermarket they may be sprayed with an inhibitor to stop them sprouting. Also, the supermarket bulbs may not grow in your climatic region. Keep planting. And let us know how you get on. 😊👍

[@sharilove8780]

Are you close to Fundao?

[@NearbyVeggies]

No. We are in the Coimbra district

[@aung3627]

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[@greenthumb6241]

Perhaps you need a cat

[@NearbyVeggies]

We have a cat but she lives at the rental house not on the farm. 😊