G'day Everyone! Hope you are enjoying this series if you have any comments or questions on this episode whack'em down below and I'll try my best to get to them! Cheers :) P.S If you haven't seen the first 3 episodes here's a link to the playlist goo.gl/ef3jNt
Hey Mark, I have been watching your channel grow for some time, but this vid is next level. Your editing and production is really stepping up. Keep up the great work but please please dont sell out, stay down to earth, the way we love you
Self Sufficient Me have you got a podcast program? Im harvesting an its something that would be awesome to listen to whilst in the header or tractor My wife an i grow most of our own food to an the kids eat better as well. Thanks for your experience information 👍
I cover pallets with mesh both sides.. Then fill and cut slits in mesh to house plants.. Keeps compost in and retains more water.. I also grow more high yield nutritional plants.i don't have a massive space like you, it's a great way to make a flower wall... Love your channel..
Love the way you describe your acreage as "fairly small". I could fit my whole house and garden into one of your raised beds!!! Loving your small spaces series :-) x
LOL - yeah but it's small compared to what most people describe as "acreage" although yes I get your point! Realistically though, our vegetable garden takes up only about 300m square out of our 12,000 so that's not too big in comparison and is equivalent to a good size suburban backyard. I'm not counting our 120 plus fruiting trees/shrubs of course... Glad you are liking the series thank you! :)
Your too funny, “out of ammo, reload” oh you are the best to watch and learn from, as my teacher use to say, ‘learning should be fun’ and gee you’ve nailed it Mark.
I've been doing the bottle thing for years... it works well.. at the moment I have strawberries 🍓 in a 5l water bottle.. I cut holes in the sides.. filled it with soil.. now I have strawberries hanging away from pests and they also don't rot this way... love all your videos. Your brilliant 👏
I love the grow wall idea! I just purchased a house and there is currently no garden space and I need to do quite a lot of landscaping. I still want to have a garden this year so I feel like this is a great solution for a temporary garden for a year or 2!
This is by far the most wholesome youtube channel I've ever seen. It's really easy to see how much you care about the well-being of your plants and also that of the people around you!
This was great. Good tips. I only have a sill at the edge of my apartment balcony to garden, and I manage to grow peppers, lettuce, kale, tomatoes and assorted other things as well. My apartment is the one with all the plants around here haha
Awesome idea, using pallets to create a space for compost and a green wall. They should go together, 2 in 1, yay! I have 14 of them, when the house is done, I know what I can do with them now. 🤗
LOVE the vertical grow wall, it's so obvious and simple! Have been toying with the idea of strawberries in pallets because they're narrow enough for strawbs to flop over the side, instead of (the leaves sometimes) rotting in the pots I have them in, I'm obsessed with pallets!! and have a few in the shed just itching to be used. I've got to try this now! I'm lucky that my porch is a heat trap, and grow things in a very small space (less than 1foot x3) well into autumn. I made a rack with about 7 layers (bottom from pallets! and chick wire, top part is an old veg rack??), at the start of the season I grow on veg for planting outside, then come May/Summer, cut 2litre coke bottles long ways (about 1/4 of the width removed feels like a nice depth) add drainage holes, and they make great growing troughs, they're usually pretty successful for cut and come again salads. 2 bottles fit in a layer, so ... that's a lot of baby veg and salads 😀
Love your videos. I did hear pallets with paint on them, you shouldn't use for food. Also, to keep dirt inside, make like a hammock in each section of pallet with cloth, then fill each level with soil. Takes longer to cut & staple cloth, but holds soil in place. I've used the gallon water jugs to seed. I polk holes around on top near spout & 3 holes in each section on bottom. I cut around leaving the handle in tact. Then I tape sections back together after putting soil & seeds, plus initial watering. Take caps off also. I left them outside in the rain & snow, (how they water themselves). I never watered them again. It was so exciting to see them start sprouting & how well they did.
Man, there are lots of you guys doing this self -sufficiency stuff, but I have to say, I really enjoy your videos the most. Some of the other's are great, too, but I always find myself wanting to watch your video's first. Thank you!
I did an experiment with my grandbabies to see if our store bought beans were radiated. We used a damp paper towel to see if they germinate and transplanted them into water bottle green houses. Those little plants out performed every store bought seed we used. We did dollar store navy beans, Walmart pintos and some great northern my father gave me from his farm. And Goya brand does not radiate their beens so they're nice to keep on hand for cooking and planting
I did the pallet walls I put Italian oregano, lettuce, strawberries and a couple of cucumber plants but of course it doesn’t look as nearly as nice as yours. But I really appreciate your videos. Where I’m living right now, I have as little room to grow anything as an apartment. I’m enjoying all of your wonderful ideas, keep them coming!❤️❤️❤️
I was trying to figure out where to plant my strawberries without BUYING a strawberry planter. I can easily get free pallets I just need to tie them EMPTY to the corner of my fence/yard to condition the dogs to leave them alone. I'm also going to staple the landscape fabric to both sides of the pallet and just cut holes in the spots I want to insert/plant the plants. Great idea! Can't wait to try it!
This series is a great idea. It’s relevant to many and the idea of recycling junk materials is appealing to many. Having a definite ending to the series is good too, as long as there is another one in the pipeline....... Thanks for doing this.
Have been devouring your videos Mark, thanks for putting them out there! Family are motivated as well, and chickens about to join us is a suburban block, bayside in Brissie. The tip in this video about the marigolds and possums could be the key for us, as we have lost so much to the possum crew that cruise through. Thanks again!
Great inspiration. Important to educate people on using pallets... some are treated with harmful chemicals that will leach into your food and plants. Look for the HT symbol stamped on your pallets for a heat treated wood, these are safe to use for growing edibles.
I like to use glass jars to cover seedlings when I first plant them in my veggie garden. This seems to help them get going a whole lot quicker than those without. In summer you need to be careful of heat building up but in winter leave them on as long as it still fits the seedling.
Really enjoying this series. I live on ten acres, but I recently set up a small guest house for my mother, who used to love to garden, but who is now suffering from some issues that make her mobility an issue. I built a small deck onto her house, and I am taking notes during this series to set up a small accessible (but functional) garden for her! So even if you live on acreage, you might still want to find a way to create a small autonomous food garden!
Thank you so much for sharing the project a bit down the track, so many people present these beautiful projects but we never see how they actually turn out, you are truly passionate and a real share so thanks Mark!! Loving your channel as always!
I just love your video. I have gophers and no snakes so it’s a problem. I’m going to use the pallet wall to keep my garden up without taking up the whole yard with an hour of just watering. The jar with rocks at the bottom is genius! 👏 I have so many jars and thought I just can’t use them because they drown! Keep making videos!!!
I love this idea! I am thinking of using the vertical pallet vegetable "garden" as my fence. It will protect my property from the outside, won`t take extra space and will be just great and easy to harvest by simply walking around the property :-)!
I really liked this video Mark. Plenty of good ideas and some really helpful facts thrown in as well. As an ex Servicman myself, I enjoyed the out of ammo drill too!!
Awesome!I just happened to score 8 Pellets today that a really cheap bloke was going to burn in his fire,so I got a call tipping me off just in time-I'll go back this weekend and score some more and repurpose,excellent yet so obvious when you think about it,cheers Mark,there's always jars at the op-shop too
Just as an aside: if you have some screen material leftover from doing your windows or your screen room, it might work in place of the shade cloth. Only use nylon, not the coated metal or the fiberglass stuff. It feels really different, so it's easy to tell the difference. You can also buy off cuts and mistakes from screen companies if you ask nicely. Thanks for the super cool video! My family enjoyed it a lot.
@@Samanthax1221 not self sufficient yet mate but working on it. I have a poster of Mark from Self Sufficient Me on my ceiling above my bed so that it's the first thing I see when I wake up. It inspires me to keep working at it everyday. I also stare at it while making hand party
@@blackprincegt rottenpelican are you in ireland, you sound committed, do you grow your own food, do you have land, thank you, i have 20 acres but its overgrown and mostly bog, haha
Thanks so much for sharing your know how. I have space, but much of it is in shade. I bought a raised bed like you are using and will add the pallet wall to my fence. I have 3 dogs, so raised bed is a must. Great ideas, I am learning a lot from your videos. Be blessed.
@@Selfsufficientme thanks for the reply, i know how busy it is getting back to everyone. You are doing such a great job on RU-vid and i love your videos and your energy I couldnt remember how long I had been following you, but when you said it was 2 years ago that you decide to do RU-vid and made the video about it I knew i followed you before that. Time goes so fast. Keep up the awesome work ! I am into veggie patch gardening so you are a great inspiration with SO many great videos. I get tips and tricks from every single one
I mainly used plastic bottles and glasses as seedling pots. You can make drainage holes in it using a cheap soldering iron, it'll only take seconds. And if you have some extra yarn, you can make holes at the top and hang it. They can also be painted and used for hanging flower/herbs pots
Really good format this episode. A good mix of comedy and straight to the point effective ways to upcycle. The palletwall was interesting. The mini greenhouse scraps were perfect for me since I live in Southern California and growing things from seed is very challenging due to pests. Keep up the good work Mark, I look forward to more videos on low cost gardening.
I LOVE the pallet wall garden idea. I think I may try it if I can get the safe pallets. Thanks for sharing bcuz some of us are working with limited space.
@@geministargazer9830 The reusable ones are sometimes plastic, sometimes metal & plastic. The disposable ones are all paper. I put them in the compost every day, coffee and filter together. My worms think they are quite tasty. You can get them organic, and non-bleached also. Both of those are better for the environment. The brown ones don't make the coffee taste any different, are the same price, and don't produce any dioxin during manufacturing.
This is so beautiful!! You inspire me to start again and rehabilitate my backyard garden, thank you so much for thisss!! Much love from the Philippines! 💕
I loved this episode so much that I am going to try all three in my new garden. I love that the ideas are so simply an easy to follow, makes me feel like I could actually get it right and be a vegetable gardener! :-D
I like the pallet wall. I wonder how potatoes would do in the pallet. If they would get enough sunlight to survive, you would be able to grow a TON of in a very small footprint. Plant the seed potatoes at the bottom, and then vertically fill as they grow.
Hey I love your information! :D I've been seeing that composting structure in many of your videos. I thought I'd offer you a suggestion. I use a method called bear claw. Basically the center of the design is empty with a path leading in, like the palm and wrist of your hand. 5 locations give you different types of piles to work with, and smaller loads for faster composting. You add fresh resources from the inside, and you work the pile outward. Always taking from the outside edge when using the compost.
When the stapler ran out of "ammo" - cock, lock, look - I remember that from my RAAF service with the L1A1. Love your channel Mark, loads of great practical ideas.
We used milk/vinegar plastic bottles in the garden also. In the summer we would put small holes in the bottom of the jugs and fill them with water so that during the heat of the day the water would be forced out to keep the soil somewhat moist. When the weather started to cool we would have "new" jugs that would be placed around the tomato plants keeping them warmer at night.
Dude, I love your videos!!! You are not only hilarious, you’re also chock full of great information and ideas. Truth be known, I wish I lived close to there in Australia….(think that’s where you’re from?), I would love to sit down and have a beer with you and talk gardening. Keep up the good work my friend!!
I love that pallet idea! We had some spare pallets lying around at work that I was about to take to do the same thing til someone nicked 'em! Gah- oh well, I might use this as another reason to head to Bunnings again to nick theirs! Might be a boring topic, but can you do some vids on actually preparing the soil for various crops e.g. fruit trees, veg gardens etc. I seem to keep getting it wrong, though maybe it's just the heat and dryness that's causing everything to die, though my eggplant is loving it!
Thanks for the inspiration! Reused an old pallet for a decorative feature in my shade garden and it looks great! Wish I could find a way to include a photo.
Hi Mark! First of all, I'm so happy I found your channel, I like what you do and your self sufficiency and creativity. I love your idea of using wooden pallets to grow a vertical garden. I'm wondering though how do you keep them from toppling over? Is the stability in those vertically connected pallets? I get that the whole construction is connected so that keeps it's stable, but if I'm going to use only 2 pallets, would one vertical pallet be enough to help it endure stronger wind? I assume I'm gonna need some big stones at the base or iron bars placed through it and dug into the ground to keep it standing. Just my thoughts before I actually start building it. 🤔
