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Well, I am fascinated with the bees. I know nothing about them at all and so I’m completely up for the journey that we learn through your experience. Cheers!
Love your hat!
I just joined Craftsy and hope to learn to crochet and quilt. I really love our channel - so much exciting stuff to learn about. Looking forward to the bee keeping!
Tara minha querida faz canteiros elevados vai ser mais fácil controlar os matinhos
It’s all looking fabulous. I’m just so concerned about those steps near the bathroom with no railing. All it takes is one false step……please, pretty please, put something up, even if it’s temporary. So exciting to see the 🐝 story starting to happen. 👏
Foxes Afloat youtubers are bee keepers and you might enjoy looking at some of their videos since they just started and having success.
I want to change the name from TheNewbys to the BusyBees 🐝 wow 20 kilos of sticky sweet honey 🍯 🍆🫒and I am so glad you put a condom on the bees nest safety first 😊
Love your veggie garden! Can't wait for you to show us your bee keeping! As always, greetings from Michigan ❤️
I would do a darker grout in the bathroom.
The whole bee thing to me is nature's alchemy. I absolutely love those tiles in your bathroom.
Time to put a fence up in front of your garden so he can’t get there
I love a bucket hat and yours is stellar! Wish I had one just like it.
Look up on Google to find out what cover crop to grow in your area and this will replenish the soil that the plants are taking from the earth. The cover crop put back in and it’s naturally you don’t have to use fertilizer.
NO WHITE GROUT! YOU'LL REGRET IT BIG TIME! Add some "dye" to the grout if you've already purchase some , to match the tile color. Looks great and who has time to scrub grout lines with an old toothbrush? Tara..you have too much to do already! A home, a husband and 2 boys a veggie garden and green house, chickens and their coop, a dog, plum trees to harvest, an outdoor stone oven to complete, an outdoor kitchen to maintain, grounds to keep tidy and safe for the kids, property to build, bees to watch. Have I missed anything? Oh yeah, I almost forgot, olive trees 🌳 to tend to.
Hi, love love love your utube. Can you please talk about Juaw, I know he's your neighbour but does he also work for you, is he a school student, love seeing him help your family and he's so gentle with your boys. Keep u the fantastic work ❤
You need to plant a cover crop at the end of your growing. Let the cover crop grow when it dies off you get the man the tilled it into the ground or whoever comes to the farm which will add nitrogen and phosphorus back into the ground and then you have to tarp it to kill the weeds so when you start next spring, the grass won’t be there and you have to keep doing this cycle and then you will be at the point where there will be no grass growing there.
I became a beekeeper about 10 years ago but regrettably, I can’t do it anymore. My learning began when my retirement was out in front of me. Classes and classes left me certified. It was the MOST interesting learning I’ve ever done. I highly recommend you do the same. The lives of bees are interesting behaviourly and you soon realize their personalities are predestined but very intertwined with their jobs in a hive. Jump into KZread for some high level care if you haven’t already. It’s super interesting and there is a ton to learn. Good luck and bee happy! 🐝🐝🐝
Wish Amazon had some Togobriga honey!!
Bees are so miraculous and play such a special role in our world. Thank you for sharing your love and enthusiasm for them on your channel! 🐝♥🐝
Hello Newby family… Flowhive ( an invention from a father & son from Australia) is a must for anyone interested in having bee hives, just google “Flowhive”. Anyone that has had beehives knows how much work is involved, right down to having to sterilise all the equipment needed to rob the hive of its honey, to the expense of the spinning barrel that you put the honeycomb frames into to extract the honey , on & on it goes…. With Flowhive none of that is necessary. Please watch the video. You will be amazed. One of the best inventions I have ever seen. It is designed to just pull a handle & the honey flows from the hive into bottles you have positioned. So easy & clean… Loved todays video…. Everything was fantastic. Happiness in Paradise. Cheers Noeline, from Australia. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Good for you....
❤thank you I just signed up for Craftsy. I love learning . So this is right up my alley . I love your show.
Love synchronicities. I've just bought a Flowhive and embarking on our own honey/bee journey 😊
English is my second language. While in French school in 6th grade we learned and acted out Old Mac Donald’s farm. I still remember because I was the tallest girl and I became a COW! I was mortified, but I acted my part. My father painted my shoes grey and Maman made me a grey outfit. Fast forward 60 plus years. English is now my only language in the States. All of that to say, I still like the song and many more , in English. lol! And I’m learning Portuguese along with you. That would be my seventh language… if I stuck to it seriously. I enjoyed all of the bees talk. I learned a lot. As one who has a large garden at my age, I was surprised to see the carrot planting. I thought that was hysterical. I don’t know how that would work in the Southern US though, but I will give it a try. Onions and carrots. Hummm . I’m learning about companion planting. Here, I’m being over run with okra and peppers. Want some? I tried some nightshade tomatoes. They are doing well, ….as I am pulling horn(?) worms off their stalks. Blasted worms! I so enjoy your videos. When I revamped this house, I had the floor tiled. It was so practical for so many reasons, one being cool to the souls of your feet as you drop your shoes by the door in the summer. Being in a hurry and not up to date on decorating, my tiles are 12 by 12 white tiles. I’m not picky. It does the job. If you ever feel the need to come to Arkansas, I have the room to host you. I’d love to see you , meet you and visit. I grew up in Western Africa in the fifties and sixties up to 1973. We can share stories. Hugs to all of you. Et bisous,
Try a natural weed killer for the nut grass White vinegar Water Salt And washing up detergent This kills even ivy spray it on the nut grass
Unsure re white grout ? With lots of foot traffic perhaps a darker option would be more practical
Wow that is a nifty tile cutter what brand is that ?
Obi. Is a baby destruction derby!
Tara, see if you can get some Gem Squash to grow. Something you might remember from Africa.
So exciting for bees and veggies!! 🎉
Finally I am watching on my phone and not my TV! I have wanted to comment on so many videos and have not had the opportunity to do so while watching and I don’t remember later. First off I love you guys. You are lovely through and through. I have been watching twice weekly since you were first working on the tiny house. I wanted to say a few things so I’m sorry if this is overwhelming. If the James Bond room is still part of the plan I recommend putting a half bath in it. We fixed up our room above the garage and never used it until there was a bathroom in it. I thought it was maybe the inconvenience of leaving the house or going up a ladder but it actually must have been the toilet situation. Especially with little kids. Next I have been just in the last couple weeks going back and watching earlier videos I wasn’t around for. It is so fun watching them now. Do you ever go back and watch your own videos? It’s amazing absolutely wonderful to see you garden begin and the lawn go in and then see your amazing mowing pattern I. This video and your rows and rows of onions. It’s so fun! And lastly I was thinking in this video that if you have several of the tile rectangles that you made by cutting off triangles to fill in maybe you could put them up the wall a couple of inches so that you could mop or just have a wet floor and not we walls. Just thought it when I saw the rectangles being made. Love love to you all I love your example of marriage and parenting in this crazy world…also mead…YES we make it it’s not difficult and is fun.
I have been fascinated with bees and the honey they produce. Our local honey has helped our family with our allergies. Maybe you will find your inner 🐝 keeper!❤🎉👑🐝
Go Bees!! Thank you for helping them out. Seems a bit wierd. ha but hey whatever works.
gardening tip: To keep Wisteria blooming for longer make sure to remove the seed pods like you do with sweet peas. Yay for bees! It's so fun to watch all the bees marching into a new home where the Queen has been placed.
Hello Newbys Enjoyed seeing your vegetable patch. It's good to see so many vegetables, with the bees and the chickens You really are becoming self sufficient. However, as far as I am aware rhubarb leaves are deadly to chickens.
I do not have a green thumb but I have tried cucumbers once. The grow with a spikey skin, little spikes everywhere, not nice. I’ve never seen that when I bought cucumbers in the store?
Just reminding you with the tiles only Screed one small section at a time and then wipe it off before you do the next one. Don’t leave it to the end for it all to dry on there and you can’t wipe it off. Also I think you might need a different type of screen for these tiles because it’s so porous so just find out about that as well. I would absolutely love to come and visit you guys one day in Portugal from Australia. You’re doing such a fantastic job.
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You're so BLESSED TO HAVE A NEIGHBOR LIKE FAMILY. BEES, BATHROOM THAT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. HOPE YOU' HAVE A PICNIC IN YOUR YARD WITH YOUR MUM. GARDEN GROWTH IS AMAZING. LOVE AND PRAYING 🙏 SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏🙏🤲🙏🙏
I absolutely loved the information about the bees!! Looking forward to more!
Haha aww John...i was disappointed too there's were no bees today! And did you hear about Kara?! The tiles look great on the floor!
Don't you use water with your tile saw? If you don't you mite want to double check on it because there is a number of reasons you should.
I get so excited when I see a new video to watch. It's always a joy watching your amazing life. Love your hat and laughed at the happiness your new bee adventure is bringing. ❤
So lovely to see you all progressing and creating new things, love it from the heart. 🙏🙏🙏
Love the hat Tara better be safe from the strong Sun. Also love the tiles. Great job John did. We have some purple flower bush the bees are crazy about them so I am planting everywhere even somebody told me it is a weed. But I am wondering why a nursery would sell weed so I don't believe it for now😊. Our neighbour has some bee hives so they don't have to go farto work🐝🐝🐝😅. Love watching them buzzing around and they share the flowers with the naitive mini bees. Those native bees are not stinging. They love to sit in you especially when you are sweting.😊 Hardly can wait to see your working beehive. 🎉
Just another proof that God exists and designed it all. Oh, the wonder of it all - and to think that Jesus loves me!!! 😊
Diogo the bee man even had hexagon tattoos lol I am really interested to see how it goes with the bees. Love your bucket hat, so important to protect yourself in the sun. Sawyer standing in the garden with his hand on his hip so funny. The tiles in the bathroom look great, John you did a really good job, love the tile cutter so much better than those plastic hand ones. The pattern and co;our are so nice and it goes so well with the sink unit x
When I was young I had a phobia of bees, then I learned about them and fell in love! They really are incredible, and thank goodness we have them. I'm so excited to watch the progress. PS my sister has lived in Portugal for many, many years and her husband's family live on the other side of the valley where you live. Portugal is my spirit home. Thank you for sharing your journey, so inspiring. You remind me that at any age (I'm 61) life is an adventure. ❤
Hi guys, keep an eye out for tortoises. I just planted some cucumbers and they were pretty healthy...then I went to water the garden and i caught a tortoise . He had eaten all of them but nothing else...just a thought. The tortoise now resides over the wall in the neighbours garden. I wont tell him if you won't..lol
Hey Newbies! Projects look fantastic! Research using granulated sugar to kill nutgrass...hope it helps! Sending love and positive energy!