Hi @rebeccainfinland do you have a website?

@@traveladdict7173 nope, sorry.

❤Dear Daniel and family, thank you for your vedeos. It is such a pleasure to hear your stories. I have been following your contents from the beginning. Your work is so inspirational and I have learned a lot, hopefully I will put it into practice as soon as we get enough money to buy a small holding ourselves, and integrating it with what already known. Your determination, problem solving and enthusiasm are remarkable. Looking forward to your future vedeos and hopefully to folklore stories and local farytales as the ones you retold in your fantastic style from Ireland. Finland must have a rich traditions of those. Your folklore tales were so fascinating, I am surprised people didn't appreciate them.... what's wrong with you people!? Storytelling was so much interwoven with self-sufficient country living, it was as natural and essential as growing your own food ... anyhow I hope you will reconsider this possibility. Wishing you and Angela all the best as usual, love from Tuscany Italy.❤❤❤ P.S. thank you to all the kind Finland people who advise our Daniel on local tips and tricks.❤

​@@traveladdict7173 Growing food here near the Arctic Circle Finland 😁 66.3°C, our channel is @Korpitalo

Carrots in the snow?! How on earth?? I am intrigued. Never had carrots germinate properly in the cold...I tend to direct sow when I sow the tender plant seeds, like zucchini and beans. Sounds like we are similar in climate, except our winters get a bit colder at -42. Not all the time anymore tho. We had -8 still in May. Had a few plants die despite covering them. I planted early since we had a very mild spring up until then:)

That is indeed the key to life. Focus on yourself and what makes You happy.

You are so right. Don't we all just want contentment ❤

Marty T here on KZfaq is an amazing New Zealander who goes around and fixes everything from old tractors to boats, while explaining his approach to troubleshooting...

@@ivans3806 Mustie1 is another good one as he repairs anything with an engine.

I love that attitude "It's not going to be any more broken if you take it apart" :)

I garden in Shetland at 60degrees north. It's not as cold as Finland but on a hill by the sea and subject to gales and salt. I have a polycrub. A tunnel using recycled salmon farm tubes and double polycarbonate sheeting. It was developed by our north mainland community development company and withstands up to 120mph winds. They have sent kits as far as the Falkland isles. I love the joy of trial and error gardening as well as your videos. I too have wild strawberries from a plant gathered in Scotland in the 70s, when the blackbird leaves some.Wishing you a good summer.

@@mariac4602 challenge accepted ........... daily

I was going to comment on the lupines as well. You have a little bit of extra work to do getting rid of them, they are highly invasive. But it is doable, we had some on our plot, a few years of pulling them out and the numbers should diminish to nothing if being consistent.

I was just googling for lupines and I found a Finnish article about eco farmers who were using boiling hot water to kill lupines. They were using an Eco Weedkiller spray made in Finland.

As for the lupines, it’s a lost battle, unfortunately. They are pretty but very invasive and where the country roads used to be lined with flowers natural to Finland in my childhood, Lupines have taken over and we will never get rid of them again.

​@@jarnolehtinen2269You may see a lost cause, I see a great opportunity for jobs. Those have to be pulled out sooner or later. They are invasive, hence they will invade all the places suitable to them if we give up. Biodiversity is at stake. It can be done, just enough resources will have to be poured into it. Again this summer, we are finding them and picking them out here in my municipality.

The seeds of lupins are edible, however. Either as small, dried beans or ground for flour. Eaten since the ancient Greeks!

Great 👍 Comment and fully represents my thoughts 💭 too . This dudes voice has a lovely lilting cadence 🤙☘️

They definitely are.

In my opinion it's mostly about long days, but some credit must go to the varieties grown. Smaller farms go for tasty ones even if they don't yield as much crop per hectare, and that's just lovely. I'm happy to pay a little extra for that!

It is the gulf stream which warms Finland

@@nonniperkl6273 and Ireland, supposedly ;).

@@nonniperkl6273 I think it's the gulf stream which makes Ireland milder: less temperature variation, both heat and cold. Same as the UK to a lesser extent. Finland has a continental climate, because even though it has a coastline, the Baltic sea is sheltered from the gulf stream. So it gets colder in the winter and hotter in the summer, much like North America.

@@jackwbishop Actually Gulf Stream pushes warm air over the Skandinavia and Finland. Finland is very warm compared to continental climate just east of us. If I remember right it is at least 5 C warmer than just few hundred km east of us. In summary Finland has warm winters with occasional cold periods and summers are mild with occasional high temperature periods. And this depends on how Gulf Stream pushes warm air over Finland. Coastline is more warm and rest of the country is boreal climate.

@@mukamuki If I have understood it correctly, the Gulf Stream has an impact of about +2 degrees in Finland, especially in winter. A notable difference to be sure, but nothing compared to how much it impacts e.g. Norway and Sweden. Do you know how much it influences the climate, and temperatures, in Iceland, and for that matter Ireland?

Maybe a heritage-pig like the "Linderödssvin" as a pet-farm-animal would be as efficient as a tractor, to "pig the land" (Seymour's expression) not to butcher it. I'll try to find the right words in Finnish. 🙂

Information in Swedish on the Linderöds-pig from the preservation-initiative, below translated with the assistance of Google to English and Finnish (just as a first orientation, I'm not sure the terms are spot on.) "Välkommen till Föreningen Landtsvinet Linderödssvinet är en lantras som är anpassad till ett äldre huvudsakligen självhushållande bondesamhälle och passar bäst att även i dag användas i ett liknande sammanhang. Vill du vara med och bevara linderödssvinet så köp genbanksdjur och anslut dig till genbanken. Rätt använda blir linderödsgrisar en viktig del av ett naturligt kretslopp. De äter maskar och larver, ogräs och rötter, bearbetar jorden och gödslar den." (Denna gris är robust och trivs ute året runt.) *Welcome to the Landswine Association* The Linderöds pig is a land (rural?) breed that is adapted to an older mainly self-sustaining farming community and is best suited to be used even today in a similar context. If you want to help preserve the Linderöds-pig, buy gene bank animals and join the gene bank. Properly used, Linderöds-pigs become an important part of a natural cycle. They eat worms and grubs, weeds and roots, till the soil and fertilize it. (This hardy pig thrives out-doors all year round.) *Tervetuloa maarotu-yhdistykseen* Linderöds-sika on maarotu, joka on sopeutunut vanhempaan, pääosin omavaraiseen viljelijäyhteisöön ja soveltuu parhaiten käytettäväksi nykyäänkin vastaavassa ympäristössä. Jos haluat auttaa Linderöds-sian säilyttämisessä, osta geenipankkieläimiä ja liity geenipankkiin. Oikein käytettynä Linderöds-sioista tulee tärkeä osa luonnollista kiertokulkua. He syövät matoja ja tikkuja, rikkaruohoja ja juuria, viljelevät maaperää ja lannoittavat sitä. (Tämä sika viihtyy ulkona ympäri vuoden.)

Also, adding a back wall would help keep the heat in and prevent the wall/foundation from being watered. And keep birds out.

I was thinking of this also with the cellar. There often is very little air flow and watering the seedlings makes the room damp. Will that accumulate moisture?

Adding to this, you really shouldnt have anything growing against the foundation of the house. If I remember correctly, the building code requires at least 20cm of gravel between the foundation and anything organic. If the whole house is like that, against dirt and grass, the foundations are gonna rot in a decade. Seriously, dig around the whole foundation (rent a digger, that way its gonna be a days job instead of shovelling for 3 weeks), wrap it in a patolevy and maybe even put some styrofoam on there for insulation, fill with gravel (kivituhka).

@@itseperkele181 Only true in clay based areas, which has pretty much defined the whole finnish building code. The scenery makes it look like it's on sandy hill, which doesn't have that problem as long you don't let the side of the house be too lush.

I agree, it's been chilly some nights recently, on the east side here too but I refrained from putting on the heating. Tonight it's 24 degrees in the house, typical Ireland.

Ireland... Green and pleasant land. Over there everything grows. It's unreal how good climate they have. Meanwhile Finnish climate and soil is hostile. Bad soil, bad weather ultra short season etc etc. You probably can't even find earth worms from the soil. It's so bad!

​@@pepevonkek7803Sure, the growing season's short, but there's nothing wrong with the soil. And where do you get the idea that there are no earthworms?

@@kallioranta for example Vihti area. Guys wanted to go fishing and couldn't find any worms. They had to buy plastic bate from Motonet. Personally I threw hundreds of seeds years ago and nothing came up. Only thing growing is grass 😂 Commercial fields of course have productive soil but average household can grow something only in greenhouses. At least thats my observation.

An old Valmet or a Zetor could be useful, you could use wood from your own yard, to fuel it, in an old-fashioned way, generattori-kaasu, häkäpönttö. Still many elderly farmers know how to fix those old tractors, they are not computerized, plain mechanical and there are enthusiasts and scrap-yards that might have all you need as spare-parts. There are many elderly Finns who aren't much for throwing anything potentially useful away. They are called "romukauppa". The tractor-choice is good question for discussions with Finns who actually like real talk but not small talk.

Or a 1960's Massey-Ferguson or McCormick (just bought a 434 myself).

@@upnorthandpersonal Given the popularity of 500-700 series of Valmets in Finland, I would stick with it because of availability, parts and knowledge. There are 6 McCormick for sale vs 260 valmets

@@upnorthandpersonal In Finland or elsewhere?

@@DNA350ppm Finland.

Outdoor low-greenhouse can also been protected against night-frost with candel-lights inside storm-lantern. They must be within a metre from each other and they work because greenhouse is not high. That's a tip if you have more frost. We do ude candels also inside bigger greenhouse if it is possible to have one or two gold nights later in August. You have a clever system already. I hope you avoid deers. Deer never eat lupins, so it's a pity you can't anymore grow them around your potato-field. That's a working "avoid-system". They smell that flower and avoid it.

Definitely, love these.

Much help can be brought with beer/chocolate/coffee but it is just important to ask help.

Most terrier dogs will hunt them too, if that is more to your liking.

cats, at least in my experience, barely put a dent into the vole population. but certainly reduce the number of songbirds, and leave plenty of "gifts" in fluffy soil and compost of the garden. would not recommend.

I have had cats that specifically hunt rodents and others that really go after birds. Maybe it is genetic? A good mouser momma makes rodent killer babies? For sure the songbirds are more seasonal but rodents are all year long.

Something to think about yes.. though when the weather gets warmer the door can be opened for light and that dry spring air to dry up the room?

@@akse certainly something to monitor regularly at the very least, I don't think the basement is that big of an issue as the tank emits heat enough to dry but when you lay something against brick or rock work outdoors it may cause issues. Moisture is pretty magical in it's properties to seep into rocks even.

Weatherpeople are promising (or threatening) up to 30C temperatures next week.

Not to mention they're also toxic.

Agree, love them but they are invasive.

And it's especially important to understand that they're toxic to bees and other pollinators, which is the main reason they should be removed asap.

@@KalleKilponen never new that!

@@KalleKilponenI never heard of that and just did some investigating everything I see says they are not dangerous to bees. Not an expert just reading what others say. The book 100 flowers to feed the bees lists lupines as a good flower for bees.

Who's complaining?

He talked about wolves few videos back. The latest survey published a week or two ago in Finland showed the wolf pair on the island where he lives with his family, has now become a wolf pack.

The dog is sweet too!

Tomatoes are never so delicious as when you bite into one straight forom the garden on a sunny day; same with strawberries)

That location where he is living is especially known for having a lot of ticks. They spread the brain fever disease which they have vaccine against but also the more devious is that bacteria that I believe can cause the Lyme Disease.

@@akse That sounds terrible. In the Lyme Disease Community, they are now defining Chronic Lyme Disease as, “Poly microbial, multi systemic, chronic infections.” It’s never just Lyme Disease. It’s all of the co-infections that go along with it. It’s all of the infections. Because it’s never just Borrelia bacteria.

Us models 😂

If you want an old tractor for actually doing work the only feasible options are Ford and Massey Ferguson. They are common everywhere and if they happen to break the parts are readily available. You could literally build a new Ford 5000 out of spare parts. On the other hand it has become hard to find certain parts even for 1990s Valmet models.

​@@juhokestila7367 Even though the first vehicle I started driving with was a MF 165s and there where multiple of them on the yard I would never recommend one for a "newbie" They literally won't start in the cold. always something broken. 3 point on the older ones are so weak. Electrical system is a nightmare + the 2wd versions are so bad in the winter you are spinning on a downhill and they are not easy to work on Also a 390 that I had to split multiple times due to that catastrophic gearbox Fords are okay if you can find one but at least here they are gone. Older valmets have are plentiful

I agree! I could easily watch a full hour of this.