In the spring of 2022 we built some raised beds out of dead pine trees and filled them with all sorts of logs, sticks, twigs, leaves and vines – a method called hügelkultur. We now want to make some design improvements to one of our beds in particular which meant pulling everything apart. This…

This is Portugal during a very wet spring! We've had a lot of rain over the last few weeks and months and today is no different. Between the showers we plant some potatoes (no dig potatoes), transplant some strawberries, give a brief tour of our vegetable garden, show you some of our fruit trees,…

Our seedlings are coming along nicely although it's not all good news. Some of them popped up much earlier than expected after the improvements we made to our seed starting system in our previous gardening video - and this ended up with some very leggy seedlings. In this video we'll install some lights to…

Spring is just around the corner and we're a bit late with our seed sowing for the season – particularly because we wanted to start early this year! In the past we've struggled with germination rate and we've narrowed it down to four potential pitfalls. We'll discuss the seed starting challenges we've face so…

We tend to follow the "stick it in the ground and see what happens" school of gardening. But while we're not experts and most of our gardening efforts are just for fun, we do follow a few guiding principles that we've picked up by watching other gardeners do their thing. In this video we're…

We always enjoy spending a bit of down time in the garden and there's loads of stuff to harvest today! Join us for a morning of gardening, a bit of a tour of our #nodig veg patch and a couple of updates on how this season's growing has been. In short, we've had many…

It's been a while since we've been down to the garden and some time since we made a gardening video. Join us for a tour of what's growing in the no dig veg garden and our raised beds. And then kick back for an afternoon of trellis building and installing drip irrigation. We'll show…

It's the end of April and things have been growing well in our no dig garden in Portugal - but there's always room for improvement. We love the no-dig way of gardening but struggle to keep a separation between the compost in the beds and the bark in the pathways. In this video we're…

It's been a while since we've been down to the garden so we thought it high time to show you what's been going on over winter into spring. After many frosts and a ton of rain, not everything has survived - but the weeds have done incredibly well! Join us for a bit of…