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CAN WE GET 100,000 LITRES OF WATER IN OUR POND? Off Grid in PORTUGAL – EP8 (Week 12)



WE FINISH and line our 100,000 LITRE POND & Can we save enough water in our garden to keep everything alive? Plus we update you on our FOOD FOREST progress, Dom shows you the finished BANANA CIRCLE AND we get in a complete DRIP IRRIGATION system.

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45 Comments

  1. Arjan Vogel

    Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, I wish you a wonderful growing season now you have a lot of water I will look forward to it.

  2. CLFL14256

    so much thought and planning gone into your gardens and food forest, excited to follow along. Don't know if I can use any of the info, maybe in reverse, being in rainy Ireland, lol!

  3. Bart Waterschoot

    I love Missy's professional naming of all the tools.. But i think she forgot naming the whirligigs, thingamabobs and the doohickeys. 😅

  4. Sally Dacre

    Fabulous update, you've done so much and it looks amazing. Can't wait to see it all grow. Very impressed with the irrigation system. Hoping to visit this year. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  6. Diesel Bushcraft

    Wow the difference between last year and this is like night and day. Are you going to leave the IBCs uncovered as they’ll probably get full of algae, will that contaminate the crops through the irrigation systems.

  7. Jeanne Cronce

    You guys love to grow plants! So do i… isnt it so rewarding! I speak long life and much fruit in your own
    Lives and your gardens!

  9. peter jordan

    I love watching your progress as you continue to build / plant out your dream garden. Cheers from Australia.

  12. Lori Montcalm

    Good job!! I wish I was in a position to "buy a coffee" or tree but with so many people to watch I can only support by watching!!
    What gives the best YouTube revenue?
    1. Subscribing & watching?
    2. Just watching?
    3. Liking with the thumbs up?
    4. Commenting?
    5. All of the above?
    6. Something else???
    Advise please…
    Hugs from 🇨🇦

  14. Lyn Hardie

    All looking great, wishing you a happy healthy harvest, I am very interested in your bananas, I grew up in a sub tropical region in South Africa , we had a great deal of banana trees on our farm!! regards from South Africa 🇿🇦 p.s. I no longer live in that area, now in a very cold frosty area, which we are heading into right now 🥶😂

  16. Elaine Roede

    Loved seeing your update‼️. I’m wondering about how your shower/bathroom building is coming along – is it finished❓. Have I missed something, or❓. ❤️

  18. Lynne W

    It's coming on a treat. Looking really vibrant. Well done with the drip irrigation, that'll be such a time and water saver. Maybe you already know about these, but just in case, yesterday i came across a video on how to make ollas, which might help in places where you don't have the drip feed. If you already know then ignore this, but if interested I can send. Looking forward to seeing the tour. Good for you too not to post every week. Otherwise you are being sucked back into the rat race! and absence makes the heart grow fonder 🙂

  19. david Stoddard

    Rather than wrap I would go with the cover overhead also just above the plants itself and if necessary around the sides too . That should be rather good for the bananas to protect them

  22. Gerardo Trilobites

    Im sure bananas and other tropical fruits could grown in Portugal. I choose there for have my own piece of land, because I understand is the more "tropical weather" that we have in Europe. Only in Portugal. In Spain in the hot areas are not much water. For that Portugal is unique in Europe.

  23. Ros Beaton

    I just love your garden! It fills me with so much inspiration and envy and I can watch your videos over and over. Everything is done so meticulously and with admirable planning. Really well done, you guys!
    You are also fortunate that both of you share a passion for plants and growing and are able to do things together. Wishing you every success for the season

  24. Jackie C

    I've just started a food forest in my humble backyard. I'm learning so much from you guys…so thank you 😊

  27. Sue Oldbird Stone

    I'm excited about my little veg garden (a couple of toms/cucumbers/courgettes and some beans) so goodness only knows how excited you two must be with your vast array of produce production!
    It's all looking great, and I'm looking forward to seeing the progress as time passes. Fingers crossed that this year the heat is less and the rain is more! (and the opposite for me!)

  28. Celia Pereira

    You guys are achieving so much… every video gets more and more exciting to see the amazing progress 👌💯🤗

  30. Lynne Gunn

    You are amazing, so clever and special people- hope other people hoping to grow food in Portugal take note❤

  32. Greg Virgoe

    Really interesting to learn about the way banana’s grow and good to see some water in the swimming pool 🏊‍♀️😂 that’s gonna be too temping to jump in when it’s really hot 🥵

  36. LilBitsDK

    great video as always 😀 so enjoyable and I am just as excited about the banana circle 😀 want my own when I get my own little piece of land eventually… it is one of the plans

  38. ray pearless

    You guys are great hopefully all your hard work will pay off and you get lots of lovely fruit and vegetables thanks for sharing 👍

  41. Anita Hasch

    I really enjoy your videos on building. The kitchen you build is amazing. And you did it in such a short time.

  43. clickbait numberone

    This pond holds 100 cubicmeters? I suggest you do a calculation once again! For example, 100 would be 7 by 7 meters, which is about 50, and the whole thing two meters deep… for what I ve seen, yours is about a third.

  44. Rosalinda

    Great video XXXXX your videos are worth waiting on, and yes it's a wonderful thing to be excited about plants, a joy to see your so happy X

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