Your videos are always great, I have a couple of Birdies raised garden beds in my shed I bought using your discount code, I will end up with about a dozen of them in the end.
😎🤠🤔 I was going to ask you: why raised garden. 🤠less turning of soil and better control & water effectiveness, no doubt... Augh, yes & pest control... 🤌🤌🤌🤌👏👏🙌 😎😎 At your age: you need to become knowledgeable of your blood type, mate. 🤠 Eat Riight 4 Your Type ~ Handbook Title. 😎😎😎 Stages: 1 Potates; 2 sunflower; 3 Corn; 4 strawberries?.. 🔱🌈🤠🥵🥵🥵 Making an Oasis in hell, brother. ~ Honestly the Sunflower took 1st. 😎🤔🤔 Yea, see to it: you anchor every tree that can fall on house outwardly. Then you will be ready to cut down the danger in that season./!\ = Tractor tension: use dual rings & stake down 2nd with oger type ancher.??anchor.?? Thanks mate: 🤔🤔 Garlic Chives in sub for {cheat grass/fire hazard}. 🔱🔰🌈🌨 (31:52) come winter time: reverse your moving blankets, to ~ Blackening The Face Of The Earth.
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2135">35:35</a> “don’t worry so much… just like my diy crappy jobs….” 😂 i felt that in my soul. diy isn’t always the prettiest, but if it meets a need, it’s good enough. 👍
What a massive transformation you and your son have accomplished after all that rain. I love how you reward those determined strays & stragglers with a dose of love. TY for the garden tour
The wood is beautiful from Olives. My dad went to Spain years ago and brought home Mortar and pestles made from Olive wood and I use it everyday. Stores my Himalayan salt for the table and cooking. My dad no longer on this realm, so it is a beautiful gift to remember him by.
I always look forward to these videos. I appreciate when you show your experiments regardless of failure or success. It helps me feel like I can also make mistakes in my own garden and learn to experiment.
Just wanted to say thank you for these videos. We live in SE QLD (about 2 hours west of you) and find your recommendations and experience invaluable. My partner and I were so excited to use our tax return to buy our first raised garden beds last weekend - Birdies of course, thank you for the discount. We have now upgraded from containers and one in ground bed to four 1.2 x 2.5m raised beds. We have saved so much money and gained immeasurable mental and physical benefits from gardening and would love to buy you a beer if we are ever in your neck of the woods. Never doubt the good you are putting into the world!
I for one watched your whole video and enjoyed it very much. I don’t live in a subtropical climate so it’s interesting to see what you are growing that I can’t. We do a lot of salmon fishing and the freezer burnt or to old to eat always gets ‘planted’ in the garden. People have been doing this for hundreds if not thousands of years. Why someone would leave a negative comment is beyond me. Using everything is a good thing. Especially animals that we eat should never go to waste. We use the heads for crab bait. We use the bones of deer and elk for bone broth and making bone meal for the garden. Your garden is so beautiful! I have two gardens and I know it takes hours and hours every day to keep it going. And sometimes it fails. I just had a Vole do what your cockatoos did to my pole beans. :( oh well, next year….😊
Thank you Trish! Yes, I'm totally with you on the "return to earth" policy with excess plant materials, veggie scraps or meats - it does wonders for the garden. All the best :)
I have rabbit trouble. The little darlings cut off every branch of the blueberry plants and leave them lay there. They got under the fence and got my garden this year and well I am planning fore next year.
I grew 15 alliums this year. Elephant, store bought, Canadian Meadow and perpetual garlic, garlic chives, 4 bunching onions, white yellow and red onions, shallots, leeks, and Egyptian walking onions. I even eat the wild garlic that grows in the lawn.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Thanks. I gathered the scapes from the garlic and leeks this year and roasted them like asparagus with Parmesan and they were lovely. And I made a green onion powder/flakes from the flower stalks of the walking onions. It is like you ate fresh onions, but a minute or two ago, and maybe a bit got stuck in your teeth. It’s so fun. Most of the garlic 🧄 was tiny, so some I put in a foil pack in the oven and roasted them till I could squeeze out the goo, instead of trying to unwrap a 1000 tiny cloves. I just love growing stuff.
HA! Damn you! I was just about to go to bed [1am] and you drop a long video. No worries, I'll sleep when I'm dead and watch your vid now. Many thanks for the great vids.
Love your videos!!! I have grown the same garlic chives for 30 years in pot and now in the ground in Australia.. the snow doesn't hurt eigher! Your lucky you can grow vegies all year round
Thank you Mark for always motivating us to get out into the garden and get into it.btw i love the longer videos and kept checking the time because i didn’t want it to end.I also love how you have such a a successful garden but are still experimenting with new growing techniques and new plants. always an inspiration love from south carolina USA.
"Food gardening is about what's growing, not what it's growing in"... love that! And I would add that it is also about the crop you get, not what the plants look like. Because it's so easy to get worried about the appearance of the plants (they're not green enough, or their leaves are being damaged, etc.)... but some of the best tomatoes I've ever tasted were off of plants that looked TERRIBLE! So it's really important to get out of that "house plant mentality" when you step into the veggie patch...
Wondering if you’ve ever grown Elderberry?? Thanks for the walk about round the garden 😊👍 Everything looks great. Sorry to see the damage the pesky critters do, but if Im honest, I did giggle since I deal with the same torture! 🤭 Little buggers I’ve never left you a comment, but since you mentioned our 3 sisters… I felt I should. Our people supposedly came up with that design and it is a great way to grow the 3 up 🎉 We found a garden clay that is sprayed onto the plants. It looks odd, but doesn’t hinder the sun doing its job for photosynthesis but it does taste yucky to the pests… including snails, slugs, squash beetles etc and the birds don’t like it either YAY!! We have been having great success for our first year using it. We had to spray the fruit trees as well and its made a huge difference. Thanks for your time and the lovely videos. Much Appreciated!! PS you can eat / drink the aloe Vera as well as using on your skin!
Mark your garden is awe inspiring, green with envy from an oldie in Tasmania. I loved the longer video and walking with you around your veg fruit garden. I did it in two stages as watching i decided oh b………i will plant out my collards that were beaut seedlings then stalled when put out in the growing box. So that done I’m hoping as warmer and more stable no freezing nights they will take off and i have watched the rest of this terrific video. Thank you Mark
Thank you! I often forget that down south, it's still icy, and spring is your best growing season. It has been over 20 years since I visited Tassy. We'll have to do a trip down there sometime soon. It's such a beautiful State. All the best for the coming season! Cheers :)
Love how you do all these experiments so we can learn from you! I don’t have a full veggie garden yet, but I have learnt so much from you with my front garden which is more floral. I built 2 years ago and I’ve been using mulch to improve the soil, turning it in every 6 months and adding more on top. I now have beautiful soil developing and earthworms in it! Just from using the cheap Bunnings water saving mulch. When I turn it in I add compost and add a lot of soil wetter to it. So happy with how it’s developing! Thank you!😊
My husband and I love your channels. We noticed that you and your son are gaining your confidence as fishermen, which is great to see. Your garden/yard looks lovely, although we still talk about your old pups penchant for toads! We really miss him and his antics, can't imagine how your family must miss him. You have talked before about how different wildlife affects your garden and family and I wonder could you do a long video dedicated to just that? I'm very curious. Thanks 🇨🇦
Thank you! Yes, we miss old Scooter-he was such a good and faithful dog. Bella is, too, and she's loved just as much (and some of that love is because we do miss Scooter). Life is to be cherished indeed. How wildlife affects the garden is a good idea for a video! I'll see what I can do... Cheers 🙂
@@Selfsufficientme Thank you so much!! We will be looking forward to watching that video and of course all of the other ones. Maybe Bella could be in it too? Thanks so much once again as I really didn't expect to hear from you!! Cheers from Alberta Canada🇨🇦
I do the same as you,if something self seeds or is “volunteer “. I nurture it. It deserves a chance! I have a much smaller veggie garden in the BOP in NZ. We start at the end of this month or so. I love planting different veggies together so they have new “friends”, I also plant flowers around the edges for the bees and for me. Lots of marigold and calendula, lobelia and nasturtiums. Good to know I’m on the right path. We’ve also got our first compost this year… wish us luck, we don’t know what we will find when we take the side off! 🐦🔥
I agree with you on the fact that your garden doesn't have to look pretty to grow great food. I don't care what others think about how my garden looks. I'm feeding my family fresh food. Thanks for the tour Mark.
They’re called potato onions because, much like when you plant one seed potato and end up with several tubers, when you plant one potato onion, you get a mess of more onions at the end of the season. An excellent onion that I have found will bulb up nicely in short day onion areas with some nitrogen fertilizer. But they don’t keep for more than about 4 months.
Thanks for making videos and sharing your knowledge. I’m a complete beginner (living in central QLD) and your channel is the first I’ve found that seems to have a similar climate to mine which has been immensely helpful. Loved the garden tour, it was like having a chat with a friend while I tidied up.
Its August here too in Houston TX. 100°, heat index 105. Yes that mustard is beautiful. When sauteed w red bells, onion, makes a great dish on a cold day. The earth is not a ball. I enjoy your vids. ✝️
You’re able to grow so much in what for me would be February, but I’d have up to-20 nights. So I enjoy my window garden in the cold months. Started 12 orange hat tomato plants to grow in the south facing windows this year. Tiny plants with a large yield.
Hey Mark, sorry the cockies raided your garden, I know how that feels. I planted freesias in my new garden (4 years ago) and as they started shooting out of the soil, the cockies & long bill corellas came down and ate them. I woke one morning & caught them having breakfast on freesia bulbs! They seem to have an instinct for bulb plants & know to dig for the bulb. Probably what “saved” your garlic was the taste of the leaves. In the wild these parrots love nut grass, they help spread it into our gardens where we don’t need it. With the potato shoots, it could have been the high moisture in the stem & that “snapping sound” that makes them happy (😢 sorry) Since I started feeding my wild friends with wild bird seed from Woolies, I havnt had any destruction in 4 years. PS. They might come back for your passionfruit 😮
I had the same problems last summer but with deer...so this year I built cages over the beds...worked great...against the deer...but this year we have been invaded with snails...so they ate everything ...start over again..but with netting...the plants that did best was the ones I did not plant..old seeds in the soil...Greetings from Sweden🇸🇪
Watched whole video. I loved that you took us on a journey through your garden beds as if we were there walking around with you. Took me back to a time I would do this at my Nana's house. Love learning with you. Thanks 👍
That Japanese collard is just beautiful! I'd have it in my garden too, just because it is so pretty. I don't ever eat up all the herbs and plants I grow either, sometimes I like them just for the aesthetic aspect they give to my garden!
Sorry about the cockatoos, but luckily the potatoes should throw up new shoots, deer ate all the leaves on my green beans,but they recovered and did make some beans anyway.
Best use of an hour of my day watching this video! What a treat to be able to have such a detailed look right through your magnificent gardens - thank you!
It is encouraging to see an imperfect garden. My garden is always imperfect and to see an absolutely perfect garden can be a little off putting. Am starting some behrens raised tanks for planting this fall. Have cut down ornamental shade trees and find my bananas are loving the better sun and air circulating as a result. With instant fruiting on very young transplants. Thank you for the walkabout😊
Mark- Your videos are a breath of fresh air! Here in the States its all politics and saving democracy. Its good to get a break and relax a while! Thank you for showing us all your work. It really inspires me. We are starting to get into fall in south central Texas. That means no more 100 degree days, only upper 80s low 90s for a while. I'm going to wait to put in my winter garden. We have another 6 months until the heat comes back again. Enjoy your spring!😃
I love garden tours and I don't care about the length of the video, in fact, I hate the one minute videos, it's just no my thing, they are good for small things but I will always prefer a complete video. You garden looks amazing and its wonderful that you can have tomato plants in your winter. Happy gardening.
Nasturtium’s are also one of the strongest anti-biotic plants. You can dry the leaves and flowers and do a tea if you have an infection, or make a tincture.
Self Sufficient Me you are Amazing. Thanks for sharing your garden with us. It is mind blowing. If I tried growing that much here, USA zone 5b, I would never get done watering. We have gotten no rain here this summer. I have mowed the yard only one time since June 13th. Thanks Again.
Great thing about our 'non-frost' locations (I'm FL), year-round gardening is a thing. My strawberries only fruit in December thru March, though.. Thank you for sharing! ☺👍
Hello Mark, watched the video and thoroughly enjoyed it. You have achieved a lot and sharing what you do will be encouraging and guiding a great many others. Thank you to you and family for the energy you give to others to enjoy.
You need to have many corn stalks standing near each other for pollenation and corn cobs. A single corn stalk won't self-pollenate, leaving only a corn plant. So put in more corn plants next to that plant for proper pollenation,
No need to water the garden this week, we're supposed to get a deluge in SEQ. Another wet spring and summer again. I have gumboots for our yard as well because there isn't anywhere for the ground water to go.
I loved this video, it’s so helpful to see what you’re growing by month in the subtropics and how far along everything is. The first year I tried to grow stuff in the subtropics I followed the conventional growing times and almost everything failed! Please make more of these!
I love mustard greens. They're packed with nutrients. I will pick them and sautee them with butter, spices and eat with eggs in the morning. I like the Japanese variety. I need to get some seeds for that. Thanks for sharing, Mark.
@@rebeccakiely38 I use Kirkland's no salt seasonings (pepper, onion, garlic, etc) and some pepper paste my wife made from cayenne, jalapeno, Thai chilies, and what other pepper we were able to scrounge from the garden.
Thanks for the garden tour! Love the ideas and prolific growth that you have with your garden. I am more a desert environment, but get lots of ideas from what you share. 😀
Greetings from the Sunshine Coast. Thanks for another super interesting video, Mark. After seeing this video I now know that it is not too late to plant my sprouting potatoes, and an asparagus tuber start. It is warming up too fast this year. Hard to believe that it is still winter.
Thank you so much for all your help. We are in the United States ( Arizona) We grow year round here except 2 months in the extreme heat. I'm in Yuma, one of the grow capitals of the world. Self sufficient me has been a blessing! Thanks again!
That's amazing! Have you gardened before? If you were willing, Mark has a forum and we're always interested in how people grow food and what techniques they may use. It's called Self Sufficient Culture, and can be found in this video's description box. You can click below if preferred too. We hope to see you there ;) www.selfsufficientculture.com/
Love your videos! I've always had bad luck with peppers. No matter whether I buy plants or seeds I rarely get a good harvest. This year the orange bell peppers I planted from seed all died before I even got them in the garden. So, I happened to buy a red bell pepper from the store and decided to start some seedlings from those seeds. I now have ten huge plants with more than 10 peppers on them.
I did a similar experiment this year with my potatoes. I popped off the 2 to 3 inch eyes and only planted those. Some did better than others but I did get potatoes from just the eyes. I hope it works for you!
Wow what a great garden! ♥️👏 I really love these tour videos so I think they are worth it, I hope it gets lots of views! It’s so good to see what you’re growing and telling us all about your favorites and experiences. Thanks for sharing 😊 have a wonderful day from Minnesota USA
