I watch your video up to the end. I don't have a garden, I only have pots at the balcony, facing north😂

@bluebell1924

4 күн бұрын

I also enjoy such videos and started with a north facing mini balcony. Now I improved to a west facing one and who knows where it will end someday 😊 I mulch my pots with hay for small pets.

What a difference you have made, taking your barren block of land to a thriving garden and ecosystem 🌱 wonderful 💚

@howardrisby9621

8 күн бұрын

It's a wonderfully inspiring education, isn't it? I absolutely love this channel.

I hope these tips help you successfully grow no-dig vegetables in a Mediterranean climate. If you have any questions or want to share your own experiences, write a comment below! Read the full article here: www.rootsreconnected.com/articles/growing-no-dig-vegetables-in-mediterranean

I find thick layers of compost and wood chips create an ideal environment for earthworms and in turn moles which feed on them. I once saw that something was moving under the mulch and earthworms were trying to scatter in different directions. I thought I was filming the whole thing not realizing I had forgotten to hit record! Thanks for sharing your experience with others. All the best to you. Happy growing.

dude what a space, cool channel

wow those big rocks in he background are magical

This video was great! I love to hear all the experiences in the hot climate and see all the challenges you are facing, and the solutions you have found. More of this please!

Hi Moreno, regarding moles, Richard Perkins had a interesting ( and entertaining to watch) way of getting rid of them: gas cannon where you basically blow gas and then you ignite the whole tunnel. Very efficient but maybe not that youtube friendly :D

@lorebrown5307

6 күн бұрын

If you put in owl habitat it will take care of tunneling creatures naturally

@anthonywalsh2164

6 күн бұрын

Ferrets?

Moreno, as always another great video with helpful tips for all of us. It's great to see you surrounded by lush foliage and growing produce!

I absolutely love your homestead. I watch and read everything on your channel. ❤🇨🇦

I love what you’re doing. I tried this in Adelaide South Australia 25 years ago. It has a very similar climate to you I think. After about five years my water usage was way too much due to all the deciduous trees that I planted. I literally could not afford to water as much as I needed to keep everything growing well. So I pulled out a lot of trees. Very sad! Now I do the same as you but use white 50% shade cloth to protect the veggies from summer heat. This works very well, but I may actually have to resort to additional mid day watering on the leaves like you as even with shade cloth the heat is still too intense. Keep up the great work.

It is amazing to see what you have done. Bravo!

Here in Cape Town, South Africa, we are also in a Mediterranean climate. Exactly the same problem with sandy soil, I call it minimal dig. My veggie patches in my back yard are much smaller and due to walls around the property I have micro climates and I intend to use shade cloth as well.

I am Dutch and now live in Spain. I remember that in our garden, empty bottles were buried at an angle. Then the wind would get into them and cause a sound that the moles didn't like.

Hallo Nederlandse tuinder :-) Over de mollen.... Ik woon ook in Portugal en vorig jaar heb ik mijn eerste poging gedaan om een groentetuin aan te leggen. Nu heb ik ook mollen op mijn land, maar er zijn ook woelmuizen, en deze laaste zijn vooral heel vervelend omdat deze aan de plantwortels knagen. Mollen doen dat niet, maar de gangen van mollen kunnen wel de planten laten uitdrogen omdat er alleen lucht is. Om ze te vangen (nee niet diervriendelijk) kun je van die metalen kokers met trechter vorm kopen en deze zet je in de gang. Deze val is dicht aan 1 kant en heeft een éénrichting klepje aan de andere kant. Ik heb ook geexperimenteerd met drip irrigatie (met kleine sproeiers op de buis, en gewoon dripbuis) maar ik vind het veel te veel gedoe met buizen overal, en ik heb ook heel sterk het idee dat de wortelkluit zich niet goed ontwikkeld omdat het water zo lokaal gegeven word. Nu heb ik overhead sproeiers, geen enkele buis meer in de tuin, vind het veel fijner. Staan jullie ook open voor bezoekers? Ik zou het best leuk vinden om eens bij jullie te komen kijken hoe het er allemaal uit ziet en dan kunnen we ook ideen uitwisselen. Hartelijke groet, Robert

@teresarubel2182

8 күн бұрын

Insiggewend. Dankie Robert.

@svenvanwier7196

2 күн бұрын

Zeker als jij jouw tuintje ook wilt laten zien, emigreren is top 1 prio voor mij nu hahahha

Hello there from Huelva, hot dry mediterranean zone, we just change the irrigation system to exudation, is even better, becouse of the hard soild that u mentioned that become hidrophobic it take like 4-8 hours to fullfill the garden we do it at night and it water all the soil, is amazing. We cant use watering above the leafs becouse sun can burn the leafs becouse of the water drops work as a glass.

@AllGrowing

6 күн бұрын

Hi! What is exudation system?

@equilibriorural

6 күн бұрын

@@AllGrowing Hey hello, just know how to explain it in spanish hahaha, if u put exudation irrigation in google u will find a better english explanation.

@AllGrowing

6 күн бұрын

@@equilibriorural Ok, no problem!

Geweldig mooie uitleg. Vooral tip nr 1.Ook hier in Nederland is het HEET. Houtsnippers is een must. Vocht blijft langer in de grond. Compost is zo waardevol daar wil je ook het vocht in houden voor een beter bodem leven. Succes daar. Petje af. Jullie zijn echt doorzetters en bouwen daar een paradijs. Groet van Chris.

Fantastic work!! Enjoy all the wonderful food coming from such a challenging situation. Impressive👏🏼

even in mild climate(netherlands) the drip-irrigation works miracles in the garden. Have it from 2 years now and it rocks hard, garden loves it, Thriving soil and stable water are only things i take care of, rest is easy (healthy crops, bugs, worms, birds, moles, and hardly "pests/diseases": stabiel als dikke stront).

So interesting . Thank you . Your veg garden looks great . 🌎🌸

@TheDutchFarmer

8 күн бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you found it interesting. We're really happy with how the garden is coming along.

Thank you for making this wealth of knowledge available to all!!!

So much quality information!

Your videos are so interesting and informativ - really inspiring !💚

Great explanations. I can relate to all the points you mention in my garden!

Great videos! Thanks for well educative content bringing value from your experiance out to us! I like your mulch efforts. The garden looks very healthy!

so helpful and informative to me. Thank you so much!

You have done such a great job! Thank you for sharing your successful tips. I will try them out in my garden.

Excellant!! Thank you so much!! 😊🌿

I had some hosta plants that were getting ravaged by slugs and my grandmother told me to leave out saucers of beer overnight. I thought she was joking, but I did it and the next morning, the saucers were completely full of dead slugs. I did it again the next night and only got a few survivors but they did not come back for the entire summer

I advise those who do gardening in Portugal to read "Borda D'água", which is a Portuguese almanac published annually (since 1929) that helps Portuguese farmers know what to plant at each season. It costs 3 euros and is sold at newsstands.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Great info, thanks!

You can eat that green almonds as a fruit before it dry out into a nut,it's so sweet,I'm a mediterranean and we love it

finally dude, an update !

This is what I'm doing, near Alicante. You seems to be in west Spain. Take care with the Eucalyptus trees, they suck so much water, avoid them closed to your garden. What is the kind of mulch you used ? From eucalyptus ? This material take a very long time to decompound, so long time to nourrish your soil. I don't invest so much money, as you do, to fertilize the soil, I used another technics, seen in my videos. So in 2000m2 I had 200 fruits trees and 80 beds for vegetable. Long time to regenerate this destroy clay soil with tilling, a managing of 5 years, with plants, waste of pruning trees, their leaves in automn, horse manure and chicken manure, and a little part from kitchen waste turned to compost. Yes, the trees are very important in our climat, they provide shadow and much more. The mycorhize is the main key of my system. I've got video for you, as you understand french.

@charliefoxtrot6017

7 күн бұрын

Agree about eucalypts. They also contain allelopaths in bark and leaves, inhibiting germination and stunting growth of surrounding plants to reduce competition.

@westaussieeggs8867

6 күн бұрын

he uses untreated pine mulch from Spain.

@victoremman4639

6 күн бұрын

@@westaussieeggs8867 Are you talking of my mulch ? Yes, I use pin needles for muclhing, and if I remember, Charlie use bark, and it looks like from eucaliptus.

Using the pine woodchips is the best resource you have available now and a lot better than using no mulch. However, two concerns: 1. decomposing pine wood chips lead to acidification of soils over time and 2. it does use up the nitrogen in the top layer of soil as it decomposes no matter how you turn it. you might be able to find some local material with a narrower C/N-ratio than wood chip. that would be ideal.

encore bravo pour le travail magnifique que vous réalisez et merci pour les précieux conseils qui me serviront beaucoup à ( essayer de ) réussir un jardin potager sur l'ile de Djerba ou je réside et ou les températures avoisinent facilement les 45 degrès en saison chaude . bonne continuation et beaucoup de joie à toute votre famille

very informative tips..

Hello I experienced exactly the same with compost in my homestead near Madrid. It quickly became hydrophobic and was impossible to get the water further than surface level. About the moles, the ones that eat the plants are called topillos in Spanish and they're a kind of mouse. Real moles are carnivorous as far as I remember... My cat huns many topillos and keeps them in check. 😻

We used stakes that you bury into the ground, with a small solar panel that powered the stake. The stake emits into the ground a high-decibel tweet every few minutes, making it uncomfortable for underground dwellers. People have mixed results. They worked really well for us. We used them right from the start, though, which maybe discouraged below ground dwellers from building their tunnels. It may be that once the tunnels are in place, the sound doesn't travel well through the empty space of the tunnels. Perhaps more emitters would solve that hiccup.

I have free water ... it's gravity fed off the creek high up through a accumulating pond so no electric pumping and the pressure is high so I can run more than one hose. Sprinkler hose seems to be excellent but I need more hose so I'm not moving them. Thank you for the very informative video!!!

I like your method, it is very efficient. Best model garden in my opinion. I will do something like this in my country 🇵🇭

¡ Moreno becoming much morenito ! take care 🙂

Brilliant!

Greenhouse is the key to protect plants from heat and increase production in hot climates.👍🙂

I love your veggie patch fence

I like to use grass clippings for all of our annual mulch instead of compost because it doesn’t get hydrophobic. But I also have great soil starting off with, so I didn’t need any amendments

Ducks are apparently useful in managing slugs and snails in regions of the world such as the UK. I recall the popularity of a trickle irrigation method that would irrigate different sides of a plant. Early data suggested it was even better than standard trickle irrigation methods. I have no idea as to what further trials delivered but it was an interesting idea predominantly utilised by grape farmers.

Love the Mulch. Do you just clear it off for replant then put it back? Bark/wood chips would rob some Nitrogen from top soil?? Straw would be great if you can get it! Classic trio of maize, pumpkin and beans work well for shade? Does your damp atmosphere attract Mosquitos?? Do you put the green netting over your greenhouse in summer?? You are doing a great job there and communicating the good and bad!!

@westaussieeggs8867

6 күн бұрын

As he explained if mulch on to and not dug in it doesn not rob the nitrogen from soil and I guess he would rake it awat from cleared beds, put more compost, replant and put the mulch back. Straw is not of great use in hot windy conditions, it gets blown away. your idea of maize, beans, pumpkin is good it is just that at times the sun is so hot that it scortches leaves and you have no shade. Trees are much better even when they loose some leaves in summer. it looks like he does with the shade cloth, the only thing I would suggest is cream coloured, with about 50% protection. You can get several grades up to 90%. Hope this answers all your questions. Cheers from Down Under.

What about growing some Orchard Trees which would thrie in the intense heat ( lemons ? you decide what you like to eat) and their leaf canopy would provide some shade and when the leaves fall they will break down and contribute to the soil composition. Regarding the Moles or Voles - Thank God ofr their help and Read the Book : The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy. ( I recommend the paperback version with Horizontal Blue Jean blue wave lines on the books cover design. ) Drip irragation that they use in the Middle East is helpful and what about creating a Rain Harvesting system when the Rains do fall. Rainwater storage collection is something to investigate. I am so impressed with your beautiful garden. Turkey has fabulous agriculture to look into. Again consider growing Lemon trees and maybe sweet Olive trees ! I love Butternut squash and Watermelons ! Gerogia USA is a harsh climate and they somehow produce juicy peaches and Watermelon so much so they practically have to give them away for very low price so that they don't go to waste. Look at all the trees surrounding your garden! Thos gree trees are accessing underground water. Are you allowed to dig for well water ? Reason for reading this book above recommended is you Must never misuse your God -given Imagination to imagine your worries or fears coming true - Instead imagine how grateful your are your Moles and Voles are working to improve that hard soil. Realistically you need then to hang around for a decade. Because without them it would take you too long to recondition your soild. To prove my point is look up teh Life cycle of a mole ( or Vole ?) and you will see they have a very short lifespan ! So you need them to be perpetual for years. And Imagine that they keep their population at the present numbers. I grew up in Jerusalem back in the 1970's and we used Brown course Berlap sewn together to create a Shade cloth draped over Metal Cables stretched over our very large out door Cafe Courtyard. It Blew up and down in the wind but it provided Sun protection from both wind and noon day sun. we sewed them together and sewed them around the cable wires above. Have you explorde Electro culture using Copper wire wrapped in a coil and stuck in the ground to encourage growth year round. It is a facinating subject. I love No Till Gardeing ! You are do ing a terrific job ! Thank you for sharing your journey !

Love from Bhutan

@sallylyons430

8 күн бұрын

I loved my 10 day visit to Bhutan in 2018

@soullessshadow5805

8 күн бұрын

@@sallylyons430 Glad that you loved it. 🥰

moles don't like the ultrasonic sounds. They sell silly electronic devices, but where i live (in southern italy) everyone just uses metal rods with little plastic bottles on the top. the wind and air move the bottles and they send vibrations that tend to keep the moles annoyed and keeps them away a bit. All the posts around my garden have these bottles.

I always mulch over compost and I am bordering subtropical/temperate

Buenas. Te escribo desde el norte de Cáceres, Extremadura, España. Tengo una huerta comercial con bancales tipo nodig sin acolchar y me parece súper interesante tu video. Una cuestión: cada año aportas nuevas capas de compost y corteza de pino sobre la ya existente?? Lograste eliminar adventicias como la correhuela o la grama con el acolchado? qué cantidad de acolchado aldea cada año? Muchas gracias!!

Well ya live n learn. I'd no idea you'd have moles. Awesome critters 👍😁

mollen hebben een hekel aan de geur van kruisbladwolfsmelk(let op sap is giftig) en keizerskroon. Mijn strategie: meer zaaien/planten 🙂

What I noticed on first viewing is you have no fire breaks on the perimeter of your property. Dry grass, shrubs and dead wood should be cleared. I enjoyed & will watch at your other videos.

Cats. It’s the nature way. 🐺

@fabrijohanna

8 күн бұрын

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@TheDutchFarmer

8 күн бұрын

Yes! It'll probably be best. Thanks for the input!

@TheBereangirl

8 күн бұрын

Cats are excellent and efficient hunters. Lethal to rodents and as cute and cuddly as can be!☺️💕🐱

@howardrisby9621

8 күн бұрын

Lynx formerly roamed those parts. Maybe it's time they did so again?

@timvogelin8632

7 күн бұрын

Cats are the second biggest of exctinction of other animals. They kill everything (talking about housrecats not wild cats) that they get their hands. Especially birds and big insects (bumblees for example which are very useful pollinators) are threatened by those cats. Because oweners feed their cats they can kill for fun and don't need to conserve energie like wild cats do. So they can hunt all day amd don't even need to eat the thibgs they kill. Also birds are very useful in pest control. so yes you might reduce some voles but you will also reduce a lot of beneficial animals. My source of this stuff is dr. proffessor berthold which is a german ornithologist.

In some part of Portugal we use fresh parts of a common plant called Trovisco, or Trovisqueira to get rats and other similar animals out of the garden. Stick some sticks of it inside their holes and usualy they move away..

Euphorbia lathyris it is the plant that will will rescue from moles. Good 🤞 🤞 luck

🎉🎉🎉 thanks

Hi! Looks like a wonderful project! Can you give an extimate about how much compost is needed per bed at the start?

your garden is very beatiful! for slug, snail control, easiest and cheapest way is to have small army of indian runner ducks, which prefer those rather then your veggies..

In South Africa we dig in smalll hole chicken wire around vegetable gardens .to stop moles coming in .

so many resources are used in this type of gardening....

good work. Can you do full video of your farm showing everything done so far

Great video ! Woodchips don't provide nutrients in the soil the amount is negligible, but they are a great carbon source for the soil.I tried the woodchip method but its unhandy for planting, I tried grass from my garden than I grow grass still searching for the best mulch. My composts are mostly fungal dominant due to a lot of woodchip my garden produces, you are right veggies grow great even with fungal mulches. I tried to find pests in the video but your canopy looks great🤣. How do you do that you don't have challenges with pests? My biggest weakness is water schedule optimization,we use pots, and they dry super fast then you get water stress and pests attack.

In India even if we don't use wood chips, wood termites and ants are coming and destroying plant roots. How do you take care? My 13 out of 25 fruit plants killed by termites and ants in 2-years

How wonderful your garden looks. Are you sure it’s „moles“ you have and not voles = Woelmuis ? The whole you showed in the ground looks exactly like my vole holes, moles tend to make a mound of dirt they push up. I only have a small garden, but the voles were a major headache, I seem to have mostly gotten rid of them by pushing folded up stems of euphorbia lathyris into the holes, they apparently don‘t like the smell of them. Lots of info online about them.

I live in a very similar climate just "upside down". We are in the mid winter now with some rain, not much but at least it started to rain after 8 months of no rain. My problem is getting enough water to the plants, not just for the veggies but to all plants, trees are stressed and many are dieing. My question is what is your water supply? Do you rely only on rain? I do not think so as I have noticed drip irrigation everywhere. We, in the city are only allowed to water our gardens twice a week for 10 minutes, regardless whether it is city water or ground water from a bore.

Thanks for your work! What was your approximate budget for starting your homestead?

Great videos. I farm in Greece that also gets hot in the summer (35-40C) and have problems with making my own compost as water is a scarce resource, made worse by the fact that the dry & hot weather, coupled with 5-6 beaufort winds dries out the compost pile super fast. How have you been able to make such fantstic looking compost? What type of mulch do you use to protect your soil? Finally, trees along your vegetable plot could make it harder to grow winter vegetables - what's your plan for the winter?

With all those fruit trees you can spend a video on winter and summer trimming

Beautiful. Have you considered Moringa Olifeja tree? Its fast growing and beneficial

Great video again. Cats could help you with moles. My do.

Yes am trying it myself, but the results are not encouraging. Biggest problem is compacted soil. Doesn't let the air in so germination isn't good growth of some things is stunted and when watering the soil doesn't let the water in as easy. The only good point I have found is less weed, but as I spray the whole garden off in winter when empty there isn't much different so willgo back to digging or turning the land for next year.

Great tipps! I'm on the way there currently establishing a small 8*8m food forest plot, first year I have automatic irrigation and its a huge difference! May I ask what tubing and drippers you use? Thanks

Good Luck with your homestead, how about trying some nitrogen fixing trees amongst the vegetables? I am sure Portugal gets warm during the summer especially as there is much more humidity in it's subtropical oceanic climate compared to the Mediterranean climate

If you want the goffers to not be there you need to make them want to leave for better paster. I would let the things they eat go to seed so the genetics is there for your soil, then I would spread them in the area I want them to be at.

Out of curiosity, have you considered agrivoltaic for your market garden to provide shade for the beds? If so, what was you conclusion?

tip #5 seems a bit counter productive, at least it would be here in the South of USA. If I water my plants in the high heat of the full sun, my plants will scald as the sun heats the water on the plants. Unless you are suggesting watering all day or for several hours in the hottest portion of the day, I can't see how that would work. And if that IS what you mean, .. some of us are dependent purely on rainfall, so watering for hours at a time is impossible. I have no well, creek, spring or town water supply.

Sorry if this was answered before but, why Portugal with the intense heat and dry conditions?

Is anyone aware of any list of heat/drought tolerant varieties? This info is really important to share in the coming years. If not, maybe we should create one as a commons

El tártago (Euphorbia lathyris)

Mollenklemmen bro. P.s. hoe doe je de verkoop van je groenten? Supermarkten of groothandels?

Which trees would be good to create shade that does not compete on water and nutrients?

Concerning your mole problem: Any mustelids (stoats, martens etc.) native to your neck of the woods? If not, ferrets can make wonderful pets. Edit: Are you currently growing eany edible cactii? If anything can make it through a longer than usual dry season ....

Install shade in the form of agrovoltaics. You need panels anyhow

It would be great if you could explain how you can live in land thats not recognized as urban land. Can you please just give a little clue?

Is the problem Moles or Voles? We have lots of moles on our property who dig the tunnels. But I thought moles eat living creatures, such as worms. Voles, however, can't dig but move into the mole tunnels which gives them access to plant roots. At the moment, I am watching my leeks disappearing one by one, like something from a bugs bunny cartoon. We do not have rabbits in our area.

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How do you combat aphids... i lost the battle twice 🙈 we tried growing veggies in planter boxes in our backyard but the aphids is a huge problem.

Our dog was THE BEST mole catcher ever! He was a chocolate lab. He kept my garden pristine from moles, snakes, deer, bears, and elk. I love him so much, but he’s no longer with us.

@utvc3687

8 күн бұрын

What kind of dog?

Get cats! 🐱

@TheDutchFarmer

8 күн бұрын

That'll be fun with our dogs! But yes, it's probably the best approach... We'll see! Thanks for the input.

@reisekatze3155

8 күн бұрын

@@TheDutchFarmer We have a cat and a dog. I think if you get the cats as kittens that should be fine. With our dog (aussie) it was the other way round. The cat was already here and it took a while until they got used to each other. Typically problem is the different body language. But if the cat is growing up with it, it should be no problem.

@utvc3687

8 күн бұрын

​@@TheDutchFarmernot every cat eats mice

@MBen-gt1nc

8 күн бұрын

@@utvc3687no, but they still have a killer instinct for every litter furry thing that runs 😂

@cliveklg7739

8 күн бұрын

@@TheDutchFarmer No on the cats. Cats are over kill and will kill everything including birds, and pollinators, and other small animals. They are way too destructive of a solution if you want animals and birds in the area.

Raised beds with chicken wire or similar underneath

That's great, my friend. What is your name please? I'm a new viewer. thank you🎉❤  🎉🎉

Since we have a cat, moles are not a problem anymore. Unfortunately, our cat catches birds too...

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We do no-dig gardening but jeez, the ants are bad. Anybody know what we can do? Currently I have to dig those bits.