5 Acre Off Grid Homestead Renovations in Central Portugal

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Everything is looking really good. I do have a suggestion. The thistles growing in the compost need to be dug up and destroyed or the whole compost material will be full of thistles.

try Diatomaceous earth for the earwigs

I really enjoyed the video.

Love all your flowers! 🌺 💜

Omg we love John! ❤️

John's awesome, where does he get all his energy. Great to see the tidy up coming along so well at the off grid property.😊❤

What a fun garden project you have Bee, definitely full of beautiful surprises. I love it when random things grow that you actually haven't even planted because a rogue seed finds its way there. So much progress at the offgrid property. Theo and John are doing a great job there. It's looking great.

Dear Bee.. look up clove spray for a natural bug deterrent. It doesn’t hurt your garden, is totally natural and it’s the smell that repels insects from eating your veg garden.
Much Love ❤️

I really like that off-grid property.
It’s good to see you taking care of it, and finishing up the left over projects.
Whoever buys this place is surely going to love it.
Best Of Luck!

Oh Bee, your gardening looks similar to mine. My veggie garden cannot sustain even 1 person. But I do get the odd pepper, green onions, herbs, tomatoes. mint and a few other things. Thank you to you and Theo for❤ motivating me to do things outside, around my cottage.

What I learnt about strawberries Bea is while it is fruiting and it put runners out cut the runners do not let them grow until after the strawberries have ended their season then let them grow their runners and then you can root them up into the soil next to the plant or pots and once established in the /soil/pot you cut the runner and this way you get more strawberries. Have a lovely day.

I really hope you can put up a drone and show us the birds view of the property, that I am sure, many will love to see, thank you, Light and love to you both.

Your garden looks really great Bea‼️👍😊I really enjoyed being with both of you, just moving around the stone barn property, seeing places we got used to seeing when you made those videos‼️You are really doing a LOT of work getting the property ready to sell‼️👍😊. Have a GREAT WEEK👍😊❤️‼️

Great video. Love the chaos gardening.
Is your friend John a Weigie?? I know he's Scottish, he sounds very much from central/south west. His tile bashing rant had me giggling.... it is indeed "good fur the heid!" (good for the head) 💪👌🤣💕
P.s...im Weigie, that why i understood every syllable. 😂

Love your chaos garden Bee. That would be the type of garden I would like. However, we have way too many deer and would need to build some huge, high fencing to keep them out. For now, no garden.

How much you guys selling it for?

Hi Guys, Off grid land is looking a lot better and a very nice space. Would love a space like this 😍. At some point are you going to let us know the selling price? God bless

More of John please... forever! He is hilarious! ❤

In art history I remember studying the “English” garden… Bea you are spot on! Excellent lil herb garden! Let the dill and spinach go to seed. Save the seeds! You will Always have dill and spinach!
Fresh dill in sour cream or goats cheese- is so good!

Brilliant! Reuse & repurpose.
❤ the garden.

Jeez, John's an ox, eh? He throws boulders like a giant.

I am a cluttered gardener, so do you with squirrel 🐿️ chaos! If you do it with joy and love that’s what matters

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Those rods will always come in handy in the garden!! Not rubbish!! Save them I say!!

Oh it's fun to see the projects be completed. Given all the obstacles you faced, it's lovely to see you pass it on in the sort of shape you would have wanted. I love the idea of chaos gardening! That's sort of what I do. I think this year I'm going to get potatoes to survive! Cross your fingers. I hope your gardens come out nicely as well. Happy Monday.

Bea grow what you want it’s fun to see something to come alive

Put crushed egg shells around your veggie plants to protect them! 😊

Love what you guys do. Love your raised gardens. Have you got an approx selling price for the offgrid property?

Great video. Love john great character…❤❤❤❤

The trick to good strawberries is to plant 20 30 100 plants straw , and as much as it pains you ,nip off all the flower buds every day so as the energy goes to the roots feed them your coffee grounds seaweed tincture or any algae from your pond... and when first weeks of summer roll in let them flower and they will boom big blush outrageous berries all summer. Enough for every day or to put in the freezer.

Bea - you are looking radiant!!

Spray baking soda and water on plants to keep insects off. OR sprinkle a line around each plant. Use an old 2 liter soft drink bottle, cut bottom off, place over top of each plant, sprinkle baking soda around the bottle. Insects won't cross it.

Use Epsome salt on plants for growth. Use copper wire coiled around tall sticks, place in garden between plants at large intervals. Connect the copper covered sticks with copper wire. Plants will grow prolifically quickly.

Love your flowers bea

Looks Good ❤

Hello madam nice working😐🐔

Sprinkle crushed up egg shells around the inside edge of your vegie patch. It deters pests.

Bee, Lightly dust your plants with food grade diatomaceous earth to keep the Earwigs and other crawlies at bay!!!

This is wonderful. I just came across your channel, but my dream has been to live a similar lifestyle, having a cottage and live in more balanced life with nature and cherries the simpler life overall. Thank you again for making these videos and having chance to see your journey. Love it and staying a fan. All the best.

Everyone has their own way of gardening. We need to figure out our spaces for planting things. You’re lucky you have started there, here in the US we haven’t. I’m so itching to get started. Happy gardening!!

I am going to adopt the idea of ‘squirrel gardening’ for my balcony this year. Except I am already behind so perhaps I am a grasshopper.

You can make parley pesto. I would love to be teleported there.

Glad to see the to of you doing so good!
I love following you every week, but you should definitely make subtitles for John for us not native speakers 😂

I do enjoy the way you grow. I also enjoy grading as well as the 8 chickens that are just a hobby. My neighbors enjoy the eggs. I give 90% away. I just love the girls and their cooler full egg basket.

I've been waiting for years to see you fill the hole at the door entrance and do the tile or stone entry.
Have I missed it?

I have the same kind of garden, Chaos

Love what you are doing in your garden. When you plant your strawberries next time plant them on their own in a more sandy soil up on a slite mound. They love the sun. I tried one of the terra cotta strawberry pots and found that worked best for me. 😊

Are you living back at the barn?