Summer Vegetable Garden Harvest

Amaranth is a wonderful plant that survives drought. As Summer fades, and Autumn creeps in, we collect the last of the harvest from the vegetable gardens and prepare for the cooler season.
It's time to gather firewood. and store crops for winter.
We go to a local Festa and enjoy some Portuguese traditions.
We save seeds - Sunflowers, Amaranth, chillies, tomatoes and winter squash.
If you're new here, We bought abandoned land and an old stone farm house in Central Portugal.
Over the last 18 months we’ve been restoring the land, and continuing our love of growing vegetables on a larger scale than we've ever done before.
We'd be thrilled if you LIKE this video and hit the SUBSCRIBE Button and join us on our big adventure to turn this land into a great big edible garden and homestead.
Thank you.
Meraid and Dan

[@danyoutube7491]

The axe makes a lovely crack when cutting the wood!

[@NearbyVeggies]

The sound of success.

[@Shahid_mir123]

Very nice place I like your video from Pakistan .

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@monalingan9523]

I was wondering where you were living. Thank you for answering that question.

[@NearbyVeggies]

You’re welcome 😊

[@mesutozsen903]

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

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 🙏

[@petermak750]

Hi Dan & Meraid, last week I’ve been watching all of your updates, and loving them from start to end. You’re both doing a great job on your land and share the daily adventures with many people. Two jobs, actually. Next month my wife and me will visit Portugal (near to Leiria) for 10 days. We hope to enjoy our time and also look for a small farm to buy. Somewhere between Coimbra, Leiria and Castello Branco. So, if you have any good advice, that would be really helpful! Enjoy your time and keep up the good spirit! Hugs from the Netherlands, Karin & Peter

[@NearbyVeggies]

Welcome. We’re asked similar questions all the time, so bear with us and we’ll get the answers together in a video. Meanwhile, visiting the areas you hope will suit you is a great start. 😊👍

[@quicknumbercrunch8691]

I grow Amaranth outside of Paris France. The leaves lose their bitterness when cooked. I use them where I would use spinach. Omelets, Tex-mex dishes, Japanese dishes. Nice videos. I'm impressed by your energy. I'm about your age, but not nearly as dynamic.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Sounds great! Thank you 😊

[@ilciavargas7318]

Wonderful, wonderful to see the brave amaranto plant in your hands because amarantus seeds are the only seeds who stood up against the spanish armada and now is standing up against Monsanto. Amaranto originated from México and central america and the aztecs used to decorate their magnificents temples with the flowers of the amarantus but the spanish armada used to detest the amarantus plants so they burn the crops but the amarantus plants stood up from the ashes like the Phoenix bird stronger and biggers and more beautiful. Hundred of years has passed and Monsanto came to México and provide transgenic seeds to mexican people but the brave amarantus seeds were taken by birds and the trangenics crops were according to Monsanto , polluting the transgenic crops. Monsanto was struggling with the amarantus plants because they would not die in spite of Monsanto herbicides so the burn the crops in order to exterminate the amarantus plants but the amarantus plants stood up stronger like the Phoenix bird and more beautiful than ever like the Phoenix bird from the greek mithology. Is important to preserve organics seeds not only amarantus seeds but also all the seeds for our children and our future generations. King Charles has a kind of organization and help british people who are restoring farmsand nature in Portugal you would be the perfect people because you are just doing all that .

[@NearbyVeggies]

We do try to grow and save old seed varieties. 👍

[@crivensro]

I am so impressed by all the wonderful crops you have had espite the drought. Have you thought of planting sorghum? It is very drought resistent and packed with nutrients and protein.

[@NearbyVeggies]

We have been given some sorghum seeds and will plant them this year as a trial. 👍

[@crivensro]

@@NearbyVeggies Wonderful! I wish you lots of success! Thank you so much for your very enjoyable videos 🙂

[@MokingJay-Ilysium]

World wide bee shortages. So get some information to pollinate and get bee’s or other natural pollinators.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you. Our neighbours keep bees.

[@louiseswart1315]

I have the same problem with scarcety of bees and other pollinators here in South Africa this year('23). U don't have too many cucumber and squash plants so I'm thinking of pollinating by hand.

[@carlosvictor8679]

awesome produce u blessed with,bom dia :-)

[@NearbyVeggies]

Obrigada.

[@greenthumb6241]

This year gardening has been rough all over so your harvest was very good . I like that you tried some different varieties . Have you considered planting a fall garden ? I have had gardens in hot dry areas and it's a relief to garden during the winter . Pegs with PBC pipe stuck on and bent over to make hoops with plastic on for winter and shade cloth in summer . You could have fresh greens and root crops all winter . Where it gets really cold a bale of hay on the root veg will keep them from freezing . Now is a good time to plant peas . If it's a really cold winter and they don't grow much as soon as it warms in the spring they will get huge and produce and everybody else will have plants 6" high . Quinoa is supposed to like cool weather and if you find it unpolished in the grocery store it would be interesting to try also millet might be a winter crop there . You probably know all these things but I get excited when I see enthusiastic gardeners so I apologize if that's the case .

[@NearbyVeggies]

We have planted a few things for fall and winter- kale, chard and peas are going in. Yes, I love a bit of winter gardening. Quinoa , at least the variety I tried didn’t germinate in the high summer temperatures. I’ve grown it before and had great success. I think we’re too late in the year now to get it to produce seed to harvest as it can get cold and wet here in winter. Millet is on my radar. I’m thrilled to get little snippets of advice for this hot dry climate. I love the new learning when things don’t grow as hoped and enjoy the small successes. 😊

[@greenthumb6241]

Your garden was beautiful - those amaranth were gorgeous . It still might be worth trying the quinoa a small patch again in the winter just to try in the cold weather . I keep reading that's what it likes . Maybe it would stay small but develop its roots until it's a little warmer than zoom . I read in another channel a comment by a Portuguese women saying she grows lentils in the winter . You never know . Love what your doing @@NearbyVeggies

[@owenp65]

A lovely early Autumn harvest there and a good crop as well. All the best for the coming week.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you, Owen. Rain 🌧 has arrived. 😊

[@owenp65]

@@NearbyVeggies as it has with us now, but I do believe your need was greater than ours. 👍🏼

[@NearbyVeggies]

Being from the west coast of Ireland, I’ve (Meraid) have always hated rain, but I could have cried with happiness this week when the rain finally came. And more is coming. 😊

[@btordxc]

Just went online and bought seeds for amaranth. Thanks for your inspiration! Love to know about that local party you went to. It seemed great…Fan from Canada

[@NearbyVeggies]

How wonderful! I’m thrilled 😁. The parties are always in recognition of some saint or religious figure, though you’d hardly realise it. It’s a lovely way to feel involved in our local community.

[@tisaninhacerveiraesteves7579]

Gosto muito deste vídeo, vocês são muito giros e divertidos ,parabéns.

[@destino2portugal]

Great vlog! i bet i could win at the hammer game, ill bring my Martinez hammer ;) is that allowed... You guys are grafters and the bounty from your hard work is clear to see, kudos to you

[@NearbyVeggies]

The same hammer for all. 😄

[@maggiemorgan8422]

Woohoo, namechecked! And a cameo as ballast 😅😅 Great to see the pine getting chopped. The fruit of our labours, eh? Will the amaranth give you grain as well as seed this year?

[@NearbyVeggies]

Great watching that footage of the trees. Lovely memories. There should be enough amaranth to make a bit of popped grain as well as seed for next year. It’s hanging in the barn over the wheel barrow to catch as much as possible. 😊

[@user-vv8md1ej2x]

لكن لماذا لا يوجد طيور وقليل من الغنم وبط ودجاج على كل حال احسنتم حياة حلوة

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks 😊

[@MokingJay-Ilysium]

The samuran seeds are often grinded and used as flour.

[@NearbyVeggies]

What is samuran? I can’t find it online?

[@marcodonegal]

How’s my friends?

[@NearbyVeggies]

Doing great, Mark. 🥰

[@coby6417]

🌟👏👍🍀💐

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks

[@flowersflowers473]

Surely it can’t be autumn already in Portugal? Isn’t it around 30C?😜

[@NearbyVeggies]

It was 30 today but with the rain this week and the shorter days and cooler mornings and evenings, it sure feels like autumn. And the swallows left this week 😊

[@alexandremichelgeorgesstie7053]

For a nice “ragout” or “Napolitana” sauce?

[@NearbyVeggies]

Great idea 👍

[@taynguyen3939]

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[@NearbyVeggies]

Great 👍