Summer Vegetable Garden Tour | Portuguese Farm Life

Let us introduce you to our vegetable gardens. We use our hand drawn map of the property to help explain where we go. We show you what we get up to as we restore our land and carry on with our love of growing food, fruit and vegetables.
We harvest tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes, melons and more.
How big is our abandoned farm?
We bought abandoned land in Portugal. And a stone ruin to restore.
From overgrown farm to a productive garden in under a year.
In this episode we harvest and taste some of our fabulous vegetables.
We hope this gives you an idea of what is possible to grow in zone 10b with hot dry summers, here in the interior of central Portugal. We use permaculture principles on our farm (homestead).
If you’d like to see what we do to preserve our harvest, take a look at this video
Preserving Vegetables on our small farm in Portugal
• Preserving Vegetables ...
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Meraid and Dan
#Portugal #Offgrid #gardening #permaculture #homestead #veggies

[@greengardenideas]

It's absolutely your lovely farm ❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@NA-su3jk]

Melons are a winner, formsure.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Definitely 👍

[@dasher2009-t8v]

No idle hands with that garden..you guys are pioneers...house needs alot of work

[@NearbyVeggies]

It sure keeps us busy.

[@lindafulenwider1394]

Don’t throw away your overgrown zucchini. I make delicious breakfast bread loaves using grated zucchini, throwing away or composting the peel and seedy pith. It also makes delicious zucchini relish which we use when eating hot dogs or when I cook dried beans and make a pan of cornbread. I am in Louisiana and grew up in a family of 10. We had a big garden and grew lots of vegetables and fruits which we canned.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Yes, they have many uses indeed. 👍

[@coccoline]

you are so beautiful and I love your farm

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@aquilinorodrigues726]

Olá amigos. Reparei que gostam de provar as frutas onde são coltivadas, esse processo é do tradicional do agricoltor kkkkk eu acho isso natural, eu também gosto de fazer isso, de chegar ao pé de uma laranjeira, macieira ou pessiguero e tirar da árvore e comer kkkkk tem outro saborrr kkkkk. Tenham boa continuação e boa estadia num grande país que é Portugal. Um abraço. P. S. desculpe de escrever em português, porque não sei escrever nem ler e não compriendo inglês mas gosto dos vossos vidios

[@NearbyVeggies]

Olá. Boa tarde. Muito obrigado pelo seu adorável comentário de apoio, Aquilino. Gosto muito de provar a comida onde ela cresce. Encantado por estar a apreciar os vídeos e por as legendas serem úteis. Adoramos Portugal - a cultura, a comida e as pessoas prestativas.

[@johnpierce2390]

If it was me i be eating all day long that’s a nice garden that’s my happy place you and dan did a great job on your garden 🥂🌟👏👏👏👍✌️🤙❤️🇵🇹❤️

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks a million. 👍😊

[@louiseswart1315]

Interesting layout. I like to follow gardeners in Portugal, because we have very similar weather conditions.

[@luisaleonardi666]

Wonderful enthusiasm of you both. Lovely produce, so good at testing. Enjoy your property

[@NearbyVeggies]

Some excellent harvests. We love the property. Gets better every day.

[@ruthconstantino6861]

Fabulous, productive gardens. Chickpeas are loving your potato bed 😊. (Aww, Cindy Vine would have your csst off veg for her pigglies 😊.)

[@danwilkin3031]

I am sure she would but she is a good few hours drive away

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you, Ruth. Yes, little piggies would love that giant courgette. Normally, I catch the crop early enough to stop them turning into giants. It’s all growing beautifully now. 😄

[@ruthconstantino6861]

@@NearbyVeggies It's amazing how fast they grow!

[@NearbyVeggies]

@@ruthconstantino6861 It sure is.

[@hatcherhollerhoodlum4418]

Lucious lemons at 7:20🤩😛😍 I ll keep watchn!!! Wild n wonderful WVa here👍🏻

[@NearbyVeggies]

Delicious.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you! 😃

[@mariannesherman7390]

You are the cutest couple! Watching every video wishing for a gardening space as big as yours so that I, too, could try to grow so many different varieties. Portugal seems to be quite a good fit for you two. Keep up your great work because as soon as one video ends, all of your fans are looking forward to the next.

[@NearbyVeggies]

So nice of you, Marianne. Thank you 😊

[@rubivitae]

What a wonderful garden! I have so much fun watching your videos! And at the same time I'm improving my english. I hope so.... Thanks.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you, Rubi. That’s a wonderful idea. We hope you continue to enjoy our videos and learn a little bit more of the language.

[@alansomerville4806]

When courgettes get missed and grow like that, they are still edible. Cut in half longways, take out the seeds and stuff with your favourite filling. roasted off like that, they cook down nicely and are still tasty, not necessarily coarse at all, although you might expect them to be.

[@NearbyVeggies]

We haven’t got an oven to do any roasting until we move into the house. Luckily we do have lots of lovely food growing.

[@hedykarim3614]

Can you not make zucchini flour with your mature ones

[@NearbyVeggies]

We could indeed do that. It's a great idea. Thank you.

[@VitorMadeira]

One has got to love your mellons! Fantastic video!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@greensunflower]

Maravilhoso ver hortas no nosso pais, adorei ver as inspirações, um beijo desde o Algarve

[@NearbyVeggies]

Muito obrigados. 😊

[@hungariancottageadventure77]

I was just wondering if you get deer, is that why you've enclosed an area? homegrown bamboo is the best I love the little side shoots, very handy, you have a beautiful garden nice sketch too 😊

[@NearbyVeggies]

Maybe there are deer? Maybe there are wild boar? There are lots of animals out there, some say that lynx have been seen. However, we built the enclosure to stop the goats that graze on our lower terraces from eating what’s inside. 😊

[@NoeleenGrima]

Love your land layout! ❤❤❤

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@shirleyrice7093]

I love your extensive and knowledgeable gardening and your ability to feed yourself. It has been lost by millions, but we should revive the passion, knowledge, satisfaction and good eating home gardening provides. You are my favorite couple and subscription.

[@NearbyVeggies]

That’s so kind of you to say, Shirley. Thank you 😊

[@ronjarosezora]

Wow your are so friendly so cute i like you . Maybe one day we see us in portugal. Where are you live ?

Essas são Melôas. Not Melons.Melões are Longer like a rugby ball, and Melôas are Rounder, like a soccer ball. Any way, you're very welcome to Beautiful Portugal.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thanks for that, I love learning new things.

[@stephendoherty134]

Melons are looking fantastic! Do you both feel that you can manage the land ,size wise or would it be better if it was bigger or smaller? I'm looking at getting something similar but wondering if it is maybe too big for one person?? Great vid!☺

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you. The land size we have is perfect. Any bigger would be too much for us.

[@daveh8144]

Laughing so much at the melon comment , Garden looking great I have suggested to all I subscribe to The Jadam fertilisers for incredible results and so easy and cheap and the North korean farming fertilisers that need a lot more work. Your spuds didnt have the nutrients to grow and so the fertilisers recommended are to regenerate the soil.It is the soil you feed, not the plant

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you.

[@danwilkin3031]

We are busy making compost to add being our first year we didn’t have enough of our own compost to put on the potatoes

A Great Work you have done so far. Marvelous. We are alike in many ways. I was watching the Attic Exploration and i do it he same way, with all the Aw of Discovering Ancient things full of their own History. About the bullets, the previous owners(or someone in the familly) must have been in The war in Africa in our old ultramarine territories.

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you so much.

[@Coyotehello]

Oh I will have questions. But I will watch your videos first. Thank you!

[@NearbyVeggies]

Great! 😉

[@grahamsfarmportugal2022]

I'm buying 0.5h or 1 acre in UK terminology.

[@NearbyVeggies]

That's wonderful. What region?

[@grahamsfarmportugal2022]

@@NearbyVeggies castello branco just off the n233. Small village.

[@NearbyVeggies]

@@grahamsfarmportugal2022 excellent

[@remcovanandel2976]

Learning allot , the melon's are great !! Keep up the good spirit !! Greetz from vila de rei .... 🙏

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you. 😊

[@coby6417]

👏👍🌟🍀💐

[@NearbyVeggies]

🌻

[@lilly6766]

Why on earth would you throug out a lovely courget? That size I used to pickles. Remove seeds and peel. Can be used for sour AND sweet pickles.

[@NearbyVeggies]

They are not very nice to eat when they're so big and we had so many small and tasty ones. Seeds have been save and vegetables are pickled. I haven't tried a sweet courgette pickle yet so thanks for the great idea, Lilly.

[@maggiemorgan8422]

Cheeky! Xx

[@NearbyVeggies]

😆

[@danwilkin3031]

Very

[@saviraku]

I love farming too.....

[@NearbyVeggies]

Great 👍

[@saviraku]

@@NearbyVeggies iam planning to purchase land and start vegetation in Portugal.... Will you guide me...

[@NearbyVeggies]

That's a great plan. We're not experts in relocation, however we have a video here with lots of information about how we found the property and links in the description of websites to search kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqvCZIuLZZ2VoMk

[@Ajw748]

Yes me also.😂

[@NearbyVeggies]

Excellent. 😆

[@elainegriffin9685]

Keep it up

[@NearbyVeggies]

We will. 😁

[@elainegriffin9685]

Love it

[@NearbyVeggies]

Thank you 😊

[@elainekaufman2264]

You usually need 2 cherry trees to produce fruit?

[@NearbyVeggies]

We planted two more cherry 🍒 trees. Maybe next year. 😊