Grow Food All Year Round | Transitioning from Summer to Winter 

A couple years back one of your clips randomly appeared in the girlfriends account on the loungeroom tv. I clicked on your grinning mug, cos you looked interesting and for some reason i was mesmerised. I was not a gardener, ever. Our quarter acre block was just something i ocassionally walked through playing with the dogs. Your common sense and low maintenance gardening peaked my interest somewhat, maybe theres something to this... Anyway, fast forward a couple years and i am a composting machine, half the backyard is now a back-to-eden style sea of tranquility, im working on a couple 7 metre hugulkulture raised beds down the back, standing up pallets everywhere to harvest my soon to be world class strawberry walls of tastiness and generally getting some value out of our largest ever investment. We've started eating healthier as a result, and have met some incredibly interesting people thru my new hobby. In an age of being constantly flooded with useless information its great to find people whose contributions actually matter and enrich the lives of the rest of us. Thanks heaps mate. Keep up the good work

I love watching Russel Crowe talk about plants and gardening.

Why do people dislike this dude's videos? Are they from competing channels or something?

We're preparing for the winter crops *puts tomatoes*

You should totally have a time-lapse camera just watching the plants grow! :)

I am now learning the differences between cool weather crops and warm weather crops. I SO appreciate your videos! Your information is still very helpful here in sub-tropical east Texas, USA. In addition, your personality is very pleasant to listen to (and not bad to look at either!) Thank you for all you do!

You are a gem… You are excellent in how you explain all you are teaching us. My dad was a excellent farmer. He passed 2 years ago from an aggressive cancer. Watching your videos has given me so much more appreciation for all the hard work my dad put into his gardens. Your videos have taught me so much more than I ever knew I could learn and I have had success in this growing season. I am in the Vancouver BC Canada area. What veg should I grow in green houses for survival in these price hiking days over the winter? Back to binge watching your vids.😂😊

Loved the video! Could you please make a video about how you preserve your food?

hey marky just delving back through some of your old vids, would love to see what your planting & harvesting now were are in autumn! hope your keeping dry! love from sunny sydney, scotty

I'm intrigued by the way you've done your trellises for the passionfruit and the smaller one near the turmeric plant. Is there any chance you can do an episode on how to build them?

Hi Mark! You are always so enthusiastic about your garden. Every video gets me so excited to go out and garden for my family. Thanks for everything! Love your show 😊😊

Though our seasons are flipped, it's tomato time where I live in California. It's always tomato time somewhere. Thanks!

I really am envious of all the tropical trees you can grow right in your backyard

Winter in Queensland, that time of year when you might have to wear trousers instead of shorts.

The difference in climate from my allotment site in UK and your site in Australia is amazing.

My partner is jealous of u. U are my garden husband😉

I don’t know if you ever get this. Maybe too busy or you don’t check stuff that’s been cup years old but I’ve been following you for a few weeks and you have inspired me to start a raised garden experiment. I love your videos, your enthusiasm, And your skills. Thank you so much!

you are living the dream. I love how many different edible plants you grow. Your tomatoes have to be delicious.

I love how he always says "we" so cute 🥰🥰

Wow! Summer is coming here in America. How interesting to see the difference in weather from here to there. ❤️ I’m a huge fan of your channel!

Winter's coming for you but spring's coming for us! Love from Canada.

Hey USA and Canada, we get it! Summer is on its way for you. We all studied Geography. Now watch this again in Dec or shhhh so we can watch.

I’ve got garlic and onion growing. I followed the instructions from your pot ash video and all of my bbq ash feeds the garlic and onions. They love it! Every time I add a batch, a few days later I can see a difference!

I live in south Florida and really get a lot of info from your videos because we are so similar.thanks for all your good work.

I moved from Florida to Ohio recently. It's a trade off between only having 6 months to grow, instead of all year, but with the benefit of being significantly easier to grow tomatoes. It's about 10 times easier to grow in general in this cooler climate because of less humidity, heat, diseases, pests, and no root knot nematodes. Every place have it's own challenges.

Your videos are the only thing getting me through quarantine.

Thank you! Im in Los Angeles CA and in my 2nd year with a garden here. Trying to grow all different vegetables to see what and when to grow. Last year was a bust. But i left a few things in the soil and they did great through the "winter" . Love your garden wish i had that much space!!

You and your garden is amazing. I did gardening as a creative outlet this summer due to pandemic but the more I watch your channel, the more I think about “hm, could I be self sufficient since I don’t really want to go to the grocery store anymore?” I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your vids. Thanks a lot.

Thankyou again for letting us see (and me, personally, get cheered up and inspired by) your vids. It's gotten a little chilly here in the UK of late so it's always an absolute pleasure to see the world from near Brisbane... good-on-ya sir. Regards as ever.

Greetings from Finland! Thanks for all the awesome tips and tricks we have a very intense winter here but luckily for us it's spring! 🍅

I'm regularly startled whenever I remember seasons are the other way around.

Love your videos and your whole yard. You've done well and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Love how you explain in such a useful way what and why you’re doing things in the garden. Perfecto for this novice veggie gardener 🙌🏻

Hi, I love your videos. They are always so full of information and really fun to watch. Could you also do a "How to grow a ton of mangoes" video?

Thank you for your videos! You make it seem so doable to be self-sufficient in something and I'm really excited to get more self-sufficient!

We're currently transitioning from summer to winter here in southern Brazil as well, although the cold weather is a little bit late this year. I own a small plant nursery business and we grow mostly aromatic herbs and spices. Cheers.

Here in the Texas panhandle, it's going to be a coin toss on the weather. I've seen it snow in May. I've seen all 4 seasons in 24hrs in November. Hot during the day, cooler with rain in the evening and freezing with snow by the next morning

Surprised you are not growing root crops and more brassicas. Carrots, parsnips, brussel sprouts, etc. Greetings from Georgia USA, my peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and melons are going in their beds now.

What a massive amount of knowledge you share on your channel. Thank you!

Thanks for the turmeric tips. I’ve been wondering when mine were gonna come back. It’s been consistently 80 for weeks now here in Florida.

Thanks Mark, excellent video for me living in northern New South Wales with a similar climate to yours. We haven’t had a frost for the last 3 years.

Mate great episode and there is no reason why folks cannot grow all year round in cold climates either, a polytunnel or high tunnel will help folks grow things to continue to put meals on the table. With you going into winter and us going into summer you gonna have to continue watching mine so you can keep warm ;) The tomatoes will shoot up really quickly and you will soon be harvesting lots of fruits. Really enjoyed this episode pal. Great job

Greetings from Florida! I'm so thankful for your videos because they're helpful for learning how to garden in warmer climates.

Great video Mark, I'm growing broccoli, cauliflower, leeks and tumeric at the moment and a bumper crop of eureka lemons, thinking of making lemon marmalade this weekend

Hi Mark, you're great. I admired your style of living.

Excellent vid Mark. I have just started growing, this year, in Campbelltown, Sydney (Oz), but I am used to growing in the colder climate of NZ so a lot of it is trial and error ATM and this vid has been a great help.

Thanks for the video Mark! I'm in South Africa, and so we've also got winter on its way. Thankfully I'm in an area that usually doesn't get below 0 degC, but my issue tends to be lack of strong sunlight in the afternoon. Might look into putting up temporary greenhouse netting or plastic this year.

Hi. I'm from Maldives. I love watching your videos. I have just started gardening. I'm starting with Tomato, Chili, Cucumber, Watermelon & Garlic. I love the way u talk about specific plants especially about the climate in which they grow best.

Yes, it is very enthusiastic seen your videos that teach me a lot and your contagious enthusiasm that inspire me to convert my back yard patio into a food garden and sometimes the weather here in P.R. gets a tiny cold I wish we had more chill days to grow other foods.Thank you Sir.

I love that you didn't cut out the mosquito attack @6:55. . .it's such a part of gardening, isn't it?

Who knew planting fruit and veg could be so interesting. I am rapidly becoming a convert eyeing sites in my garden that could be used for vegetables. Thanks for your many inspirational videos. Your enthusiasm and can do attitude is totally infectious… enough to get me off of my couch 👍😃

Thank you for teaching n sharing your gardening, veggies, fruits

Thanks so much for posting this video, my partner and I are just getting started on our own small acreage becoming as self sufficient as we can, and food production is one of our top priorities. We already have a small orchard started with much more to be added in the near future. My next major project will be getting the first of our raised garden beds built. Eventually I will be building shade houses as summers here in southern NSW get very hot and dry. Your videos are some of the most interesting and informative and well produced.

Since i grow plants indoors, My season is neverending. It os rewarding having a watermelon plant during winter

I'm so grateful for finding your videos, mate. I'm helping mi abuela with her chickens, ducks, roses and radishes. Cheers from Perú.

Hey Mark thank you for that tip to save growing tomatoes to Winter. I'm struggling here in Sydney trying to grow tomatoes during summer.

Greetings Mark, Spring is making way to Summer here in Tifton, GA and the grow season here has just began, truly amazing it is the climate and season here versus there! Great to see this latest video upload from you mate!

If an explorer discovered a garden that grew every vegetable and/or fruit known to man it would be in your back yard. I can't tell you how much I enjoy watching your channel!

Winter is coming oh no! Spring just got here. 😊

Love the video Mark. I’d love to see more videos of your fruit trees

Such a good intro. I love the small amount of harvest that I get.

As always, your videos are inspiring. Thank you

Your channel is chock full of useful info! Thank you! We're new to growing our own food but it's something we've wanted to get into for a long time. We moved back to Queensland (from living in Europe) late last year and I am completely clueless about how to grow food in the various seasons here. We're on the hunt for a property to buy but have a small veg patch in our rental garden at the moment. We inherited some tomato plants and some carrots with the rental and I'm growing some spinach at the moment too. Working my way through all your videos to get an idea of where to start, thanks again for the hard work you put into sharing all this information :)

Your place looks incredible! Bit of garden bed envy here - lots of perfect raised beds. Must be an absolute gardening dream. Love your vids they're so helpful. Love your appreciation of all the interesting varieties of food too!

Very interesting video! Now I want to see how to transition from winter to summer, because I live in South China and summer is very hot and humid here as well, but apparently I've just planted everything you recommend for cooler months!

Thanks, Mark. Another great video. Spring here in Las Vegas and my summer squash plants are enormous. I love that it is tomato planting time here as well as down under. Cheers

I made Jerusalem artichokes into brined pickles this winter. They are really nice. Thanks. It also gets rid of the wind they cause when cooked.

bloody hell I thought I had seen all your videos, followed you a long time, then this came up lol. Thanks , tc and be safe

I’m making grow bags from my sewing scrap cloth and putting tomatoes and peppers in them. I can’t wait until spring!

Here in Southern Nevada we have very long growing seasons. While we do get some humidity, it's not as bad. But, the heat! 😫. But, we can start our gardens as early as February and grow some veggies well into December if we protect from frost. I'm learning so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Mark, I got to tell you, I was trying to enjoy your video, but you kept saying something about winter, and we here in far north are just getting out of winter! Actually, I truly enjoy your videos. It is amazing we are at opposite ends of this beautiful green earth, and grow food for our family!

I just recently found your videos, and want to say I am thoroughly enjoying your content! I am learning so much!

You have such a beautiful, fruitfull garden. That's magnificent.

Mark, your garden is amazing. Thank you for the good advice and the cheery videos. Top bloke 👍🇦🇺🇬🇧

In my winters those raised garden beds would be flush with the ground, due to all the snow. I'm jealous.

Love this video, watched it several times and shared it with plenty , thank you !!!!

Its like Maximus is now living the life he was dreaming of when he passed away, in another life. BTW, You are so inspirational man. Thank you

Another great video, very educational and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for what you do.

This is a packed episode. I love Jerusalem artichokes, i had no idea they fermented well, and i never thought of planting radishes over them. Brilliant.

i love your winter crop videos, i live in Ireland and our summer is basically your winter. (wet and mild)

Cracks me up to listen to you pronounce collards. I live in Alabama and collards have always been a staple here, but they don't do well when the heat and humidity rise. My southern drawl pronounces col_lards. Beautiful garden you have there!

What a wonderful garden . Thank you for posting such tips, I haven't seen anyone else promote farming on RU-vid. Good going sir :)

Love love love your detailed videos, thank you for your inspiration

Thanks mate, great vid. Just found your tube.. getting back into gardening, your work is very inspirational

i always forget that the northern hems summer is the southern hems winter

I find this very interesting how in OZ, how we in the UK are so opposite in planting and cropping.

I'm absolutely LOVING your little block of dirt. Life goals.

Mark, your raised beds and the arrangement of the trellises is really inspiring. I've been in touch with the Birdie's distrib'r here in the US but will have to wait until shipping costs (all the way across the country) can be more affordable. Question for you: do you intersperse things like Marigolds with your tomatoes to help discourage insect pests?

Good Day from Michigan in USA. Rural area 2 hours north of Detroit. My property was full of trees and I have been cutting trees down around my house because it was too high maintenance, however the rest of my property 5 acres is very fertile. I just don't have the kind of time it takes to transform my property so for now I am growing fruit trees and just maintaining what I have. I add things one at a time. This year I am going to add strawberries and asparagus which are perennials. Finding the time is my biggest challenge.

I love watching your videos, even though 99% is stuff I can't personally do myself. I live in Minnesota, U.S.A., and we go from -20 (-30c) up to possibly 110 (43c)! How cold do your winters get?

Isn't that an epic amount of tomatoes to be growing? What are you going to do with it all?

Thank you so much. You make it so easy to understand. Awesome you.

I love your garden! I'm a gardener too, but I like your garden.

You're so lucky for having crop all year long. Even we have spring here in Europe, I still wait with my tomatoes and some flowers to put them into the ground (no green house). So I sweeten this time by watching all your videos and wait for Ice Saints :)

I stay in Scotland and just watched 20 of your videos in a row i hope to implement some of your ideas in my own garden thanks

Love this style of video. Would love to see more of a garden tour style videos. Thanks Mark

Fennel is really fantastic for people like myself with conditions like IBS. I supplement my prescription meds with a couple of fennel capsules and they work amazing. I’ve been binge watching your videos, they are amazing and informational.

Lots of laughs, thank you! And being from Melbourne there were some tears and 'its not fair's too😂😲

I grow Florida Everglade's Tomatoes all year round. They thrive in the heat, they're a wild native (to Florida) plant. The only tomatoes I don't have any heat or rain issues with.

Such a timely video! This was my first season having a serious attempt at food production (I’m in Sydney ) The question of when to transition to new plants has had me stymied a bit. Just ordered two round beds from birdies to add to my growing room. Planning to grow a ton of onions in one of them. Thanks for the great info 👍