I’ve been watching these videos from an apartment in San Diego for a couple years now. I just moved to a big piece of land in Tennessee and was only here for 1 day before the garden was planted. So stoked!!!
Sounds fucking delightful! I had the luck to grow up on a farm in northern germany with a lot of space. For somebody who lived in the city and now is able to grow a lot of stuff on a big place it must be phenomenal! Best of luck with your garden!
I currently live in San Diego and have four chickens and a few plants. i’m hopefully going to move to a big piece of land in upstate New York and own horses , cows , sheep , more dogs , cats , etc. i also want a giant area for a garden. best of luck for you and your garden!
His videos lower my blood pressure and he makes me want to eat more veggies. He’s happy and fun to watch and his garden and yard is amazing. I am from California. I am going to like all his videos.
i'm 21 and i think i have finally figured out what i want to do in life : make a career in wildlife conservation and live self sufficiently. your videos give me butterflies ! i have started growing my own veggies for the first time (lockdown is a perfect time to try it out !) and i couldn't be more excited
As an American, let me just say that galangal is one of those words that exemplifies the beauty of the Australian dialect. You've got a beautiful garden sir, and your enthusiasm is really inspiring.
@@Selfsufficientme thanks for the reply long time watcher and inspired definitely. getting the first round of fruit trees in at the moment. unfortunately we only get 2 seasons in darwin hot and wet and hot and dry ahah tropicals it is.
I love the kookaburra in the background. Sounds like a smile among the crop! I been watching for a year or so now and I learn so much that I have applied to my own area here in US. Much love! Blessed Be
You are my favorite gardening pro! I’m always inspired by your videos and would kill to visit your place one day! A man can dream right? Do you ever have problems with airflow in your dense planting technique? Do you battle fungus, disease or insects in any particular parts of the garden? I’ve had problems with leaf blight with my toms and powdery mildew with the cukes, gourds, and melons. Also get cucumber beetle, flea beetles, and thrip in the garden.
Awesome video Mark. Love your work. My father taught me to grow fruit and veg when I was a boy some 50 years ago and it became a hobby over the years. I have passed on the knowledge to my kids and they love growing food. We live in Sydney and have a very large backyard. Grow all we can eat and some. We are not fortunate to have a sub tropical climate but have a greenhouse to grow our tomatoes over winter. You are a great educator so don’t stop till you drop cause everyone should learn to grow food.
One of your videos came up randomly while i was watching youtube/playing games. Been hooked ever since and I've never had any interest in gardening before. Even had a crack at growing basil from seed, had 5 in different pots about 10cm tall. Then I put some fertiliser on them and they all died from fertiliser burn hahaha ;( Learnt my lesson though, now I've got so much i can't eat it all ;D. Thanks Mark/Russel Crowe for sharing your knowledge and passion with everyone =)
I grew up on a farm and collards were a staple in spring and fall. Our summers are to hot for most, if not all greens. We grew potatoes starting in Feb.and stored them packed in pine straw under the house and had potatoes through winter. I don't like collards myself, but would force myself to eat them, so my children would eat them.
I love Mark's pride and enthusiasm. I have a short attention span as of late, but I have no problem and enjoy listening to him. I'm about ready to try an hour video of one of his tours. It's hard enough to do what he does, much less take videos of it. Thank you Mark!
You've been a huge part of me starting to grow my own vegetables. I love how educational your videos are and the amount of experience that you have. I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I'm loving it already. Keep up the great videos!
Nice cameo by the jumping spider on the camera lens at 24:20 :-D Also, only the aril (flesh) of the red-backed native ginger is palatable - the seeds are quite bitter. The best use of the plant is the rhizome, similar to standard, exotic ginger.
“Self Sufficient Me” is so appropriate for this channel. You have all the vegetables , vines and trees( banana trees) that I eat and want to have in my garden, although I have limited space, unlike yours. The raised beds are impressive. Thanks for sharing!
Mark your place is a slice of heaven. I watch your vids to relax and reminisce my childhood. Mum and I also bought a raised garden bed each today so can't wait to 'get into it' 😂 thankyou so much
Howzit from a fish artist in South Africa. Would like to say thanks for these awesome videos and tips it's given me the inspiration to get the garden back in shape over this lockdown period. Cheers mate keep them coming.
Mark, if you want to stop having to use so much compost, and buying or having to make all that compost, start using species-dense cover crops over the winter in stead of making compost yourself. Cover crops will do it for you provided you plant the right mixes at the right time. And no, it is not a regenerative agriculture 3000+ hectare thing only, you can do it in raised garden beds too.
Forget the compost piles. Keep trench composting. Add shredded paper too, the worms love it. If you have a manure the compost bins would be great to age the dung.
Up here in northern Canada we have a short growing season, so many plants you have are amazing to see. But we always manage to fill our cellar for winter. We’d love to walk through your garden! Awesome job! I’d be poking about for snakes before I was brave enough to reach in though! Lol. Who in the hell would watch this and give a thumbs down?🤔😳😡
I have a small garden but will be expanding, sheet mulching is done, just waiting for spring. The amount of energy to have a garden this size......wow! It's beautiful and full of things I've never grown. Canada. We grow excellent garlic and icicles.
Nicola !!That is some tour Mark must have about 5 plus acres of land I have a Meyer lemon tree in a container I have no green thumb like his but this year with his teachings I got sum fist-size lemons from my container tree,,,,say a prayer for it to keep up with the new year and roots
I live in Lake City Florida. Yep, your video are sprinkled everywhere in the world. I’m glad because you have educated me a lot. I don’t use raised garden plots. I might at some point but for now I like tilling and hoeing my rows ‘keeps the weight down’. I’ve learned much about new plants, composting and stepping outside the box with respect to trying herbs and plants not normally grown in this part of the south, asparagus being the first experiment and I owe that to you and your channel. Hope for your continued success and again thank you.
You totally ROCK!! You educated me on Hugelkulture and raised corrugated beds. So many good ideas..Another trick that has worked wonders is fish covered with agricultural lime at the bottom of the planting hole. Learned this from Hollis and Nancy’s Homestead in Florida. Has totally changed my tomato game.
Beautiful garden! Watching from branford, Florida USA. Love your videos, very informational and entertaining. Its very appreciated from all your subscribers keep them coming
Loved the video.we are growing in self wicking mineral buckets and space is crowded .good to know that things can be grown closer together. You're loved more than you know.
Your videos are always so full of great info. You're the BEST!!! I love how connected you are to all of your surroundings and especially enjoyed your little visitor that arrived at the 24:30 mark on this video! It looked like a tiny green spider?
Greetings from the Palm Springs, California desert! I look forward to every one of your videos as I grow as a baby gardener. My daughter calls you "Mac from sesame!" Say hello to your little friend @ 24:19 for us!
Saw a video old lady got a small water bottle small hole in the lid cut about inch and half of end put Vegs in put bottom back inside dug small in pot put in bottle 3/4 bottle of Vegs not only fed the plant she got half a bottle of compost to put on other plants easiest composting ever great for your small garden watchers Place looking great mark
So stoked to have found you just got 4 mangoes of my tree from seed (best I've ever tasted)..growing lettuce and tomatoes like crazy(your toothbrush method)what a mighty achievement if I do say so my self.. Thankyou Mark all from what you have taught me
I mulched my garden with a fine cedar mulch this year, after watching your videos. My plants are happier and I'm having better water control, needing to water substantially less so far this year. Thanks for your tips and videos.
Is noone going to mention the little green huntsman spider on the GoPro during the compost segment? I'm glad he wasn't in focus, but Mark didn't seem to mind. Plenty worse spiders to worry about, I reckon.
My cosmos grew up through my corn, which was about 7 foot tall. Super cool! I really enjoy your videos. My husband watches them with me and acts on some of your ideas. Which makes my gardening heart sing!
Glad to see Russel Crowe is keeping busy in retirement. So many people find themselves at loose ends. 10/10
Hahahahah :D
now that you mentioned it! LOL, he does!
We've nicknamed Mark "uncle Rusty"
To me he looks like a mix between Russle Crowe and Steve Irvine xD, if Russel and Steve had a baby..
Lol
I’ve been watching these videos from an apartment in San Diego for a couple years now. I just moved to a big piece of land in Tennessee and was only here for 1 day before the garden was planted. So stoked!!!
All the best with your new garden - how exciting! :)
Sounds fucking delightful!
I had the luck to grow up on a farm in northern germany with a lot of space. For somebody who lived in the city and now is able to grow a lot of stuff on a big place it must be phenomenal!
Best of luck with your garden!
I currently live in San Diego and have four chickens and a few plants. i’m hopefully going to move to a big piece of land in upstate New York and own horses , cows , sheep , more dogs , cats , etc. i also want a giant area for a garden. best of luck for you and your garden!
@@aurelia5776 That sounds awesome sage!!! Blessings to you!
This is awesome man
This is the university of the future...
Can you imagine spending a 4 yr term with him and this beautiful space.
Each season is a lesson.
I love that the comments are filled with people from just a few Ks away to people from all over the world loving how this man loves his garden :)
This guy my fav youtube gardener. good on ya m8
Thank you! :)
His videos lower my blood pressure and he makes me want to eat more veggies. He’s happy and fun to watch and his garden and yard is amazing. I am from California. I am going to like all his videos.
i'm 21 and i think i have finally figured out what i want to do in life : make a career in wildlife conservation and live self sufficiently. your videos give me butterflies ! i have started growing my own veggies for the first time (lockdown is a perfect time to try it out !) and i couldn't be more excited
Husband and I love your videos. If you're ever in Texas (US of course), feel free to reach out, we'll show you around
Glad I bumped into your channel.Subscribed.
As an American, let me just say that galangal is one of those words that exemplifies the beauty of the Australian dialect. You've got a beautiful garden sir, and your enthusiasm is really inspiring.
Hi... ....Mark, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 🎥👍👍👍
nice vid mate. should do a 3 part tour during each of the seasons.
Ok, I'll see what I can do - make this one "summer to winter transition" - thank you! :)
@@Selfsufficientme thanks for the reply long time watcher and inspired definitely. getting the first round of fruit trees in at the moment. unfortunately we only get 2 seasons in darwin hot and wet and hot and dry ahah tropicals it is.
Great garden, great video! Your voice is incredibly soothing! Thank you for this long video. Greetings from Germany!
Thank you Karo! :)
Thank you for taking the time to teach people how to grow crops may the Lord bless you my friend
I love the kookaburra in the background. Sounds like a smile among the crop! I been watching for a year or so now and I learn so much that I have applied to my own area here in US. Much love! Blessed Be
Thank you for sharing your garden with us!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Have you written any books? You should. You are amazing!
You are my favorite gardening pro!
I’m always inspired by your videos and would kill to visit your place one day! A man can dream right?
Do you ever have problems with airflow in your dense planting technique? Do you battle fungus, disease or insects in any particular parts of the garden?
I’ve had problems with leaf blight with my toms and powdery mildew with the cukes, gourds, and melons. Also get cucumber beetle, flea beetles, and thrip in the garden.
It must be so much fun to be able to grow Year round.
Saving this for later when I get home from work but liking it already coz I've wanted this video since I discovered your channel! 😂🙏🏼
What I love best about your videos is the experiments and companion plantings you do. Maximizing the space and bringing a solid wall of produce.
You are soooo cute mate I’m watching this from south Germany and enjoy it so much ! ♥️🌳 Love how you live and treat your plants and animals 🌎 ♥️
I have been watching your videos for 4 hours now...can't stop... I am addictive to them!!.You are totally Awesome!Thank you so much!!!
Awesome video Mark. Love your work.
My father taught me to grow fruit and veg when I was a boy some 50 years ago and it became a hobby over the years. I have passed on the knowledge to my kids and they love growing food. We live in Sydney and have a very large backyard. Grow all we can eat and some. We are not fortunate to have a sub tropical climate but have a greenhouse to grow our tomatoes over winter.
You are a great educator so don’t stop till you drop cause everyone should learn to grow food.
One of your videos came up randomly while i was watching youtube/playing games.
Been hooked ever since and I've never had any interest in gardening before.
Even had a crack at growing basil from seed, had 5 in different pots about 10cm tall.
Then I put some fertiliser on them and they all died from fertiliser burn hahaha ;(
Learnt my lesson though, now I've got so much i can't eat it all ;D.
Thanks Mark/Russel Crowe for sharing your knowledge and passion with everyone =)
I so enjoyed the vegetable garden tour! Since you also raise chickens I would think you and your family have a very short grocery list!
Do you have any idea how long I've been waiting for this?!?!?!? Thanks m8 keep up the good work!
You need your own show! 😊
Yes I like the occasional garden tour.
My first carrots just sprouted! Thanks mark for the tips!
Congrats! 😊
Turmeric leaves can also be used in cooking as a wrapping for fish, rather than leaving then to dry
I grew up on a farm and collards were a staple in spring and fall. Our summers are to hot for most, if not all greens. We grew potatoes starting in Feb.and stored them packed in pine straw under the house and had potatoes through winter. I don't like collards myself, but would force myself to eat them, so my children would eat them.
I've bathed with luffa but have never eaten it.
My favorite dangerous gardener.
I love Mark's pride and enthusiasm. I have a short attention span as of late, but I have no problem and enjoy listening to him. I'm about ready to try an hour video of one of his tours.
It's hard enough to do what he does, much less take videos of it. Thank you Mark!
You've been a huge part of me starting to grow my own vegetables. I love how educational your videos are and the amount of experience that you have. I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I'm loving it already. Keep up the great videos!
I would love to see more walk arounds like this at different times of the year!
I love hearing your kookaburra, and your attitude towards them!
Nice cameo by the jumping spider on the camera lens at 24:20 :-D Also, only the aril (flesh) of the red-backed native ginger is palatable - the seeds are quite bitter. The best use of the plant is the rhizome, similar to standard, exotic ginger.
“Self Sufficient Me” is so appropriate for this channel. You have all the vegetables , vines and trees( banana trees) that I eat and want to have in my garden, although I have limited space, unlike yours. The raised beds are impressive. Thanks for sharing!
Mark your place is a slice of heaven. I watch your vids to relax and reminisce my childhood. Mum and I also bought a raised garden bed each today so can't wait to 'get into it' 😂 thankyou so much
Those kookaburras are insane! They sound like hyenas! I love them!
I like the intro music, perfect, swag.......
Absolutely amazing..
yes more tours please!!! youve given me so many ideas bc we share the same climate!!
Bok choi- is short, white stem and light green leaves
Pak choi- is longer, light green stem and dark green leaves.
Howzit from a fish artist in South Africa. Would like to say thanks for these awesome videos and tips it's given me the inspiration to get the garden back in shape over this lockdown period. Cheers mate keep them coming.
Bought my first raised garden bed recently! All my herbs are sprouting like mad. Also, good to have someone from QLD. I follow all your tips.
You know how much I love raised beds! Good on you Valerie! Queenslander! LOL
Oh yes I did want a full video tour. Mind reader. The romantic intro music was a nice touch 🥰❤💋
I really enjoy watching your videos. I'm learning quite a bit from you. THANK YOU 🌱
My late and I did this several times when we had a garden. Ate only out of garden. We loved it!!! He's pasted now n I miss it....
I lived in Brisvegas for 16 years.
I never spent time growing anything.
I spent it chopping down and clearing up.
I could almost see the lawn growing.
Despite living in zone 3 short season LOVE BOTH YOUR CHANNELS 💖
lol @ passionately stroking that pumpkin with love-making music
Mark, if you want to stop having to use so much compost, and buying or having to make all that compost, start using species-dense cover crops over the winter in stead of making compost yourself. Cover crops will do it for you provided you plant the right mixes at the right time. And no, it is not a regenerative agriculture 3000+ hectare thing only, you can do it in raised garden beds too.
Forget the compost piles. Keep trench composting. Add shredded paper too, the worms love it. If you have a manure the compost bins would be great to age the dung.
Up here in northern Canada we have a short growing season, so many plants you have are amazing to see. But we always manage to fill our cellar for winter. We’d love to walk through your garden! Awesome job! I’d be poking about for snakes before I was brave enough to reach in though! Lol. Who in the hell would watch this and give a thumbs down?🤔😳😡
I have a small garden but will be expanding, sheet mulching is done, just waiting for spring. The amount of energy to have a garden this size......wow! It's beautiful and full of things I've never grown. Canada. We grow excellent garlic and icicles.
Great tour, loved the different camera angles so we could see where you were. Thanks Mark
Nicola !!That is some tour Mark must have about 5 plus acres of land I have a Meyer lemon tree in a container I have no green thumb like his but this year with his teachings I got sum fist-size lemons from my container tree,,,,say a prayer for it to keep up with the new year and roots
I live in Lake City Florida. Yep, your video are sprinkled everywhere in the world. I’m glad because you have educated me a lot. I don’t use raised garden plots. I might at some point but for now I like tilling and hoeing my rows ‘keeps the weight down’. I’ve learned much about new plants, composting and stepping outside the box with respect to trying herbs and plants not normally grown in this part of the south, asparagus being the first experiment and I owe that to you and your channel. Hope for your continued success and again thank you.
You totally ROCK!! You educated me on Hugelkulture and raised corrugated beds. So many good ideas..Another trick that has worked wonders is fish covered with agricultural lime at the bottom of the planting hole. Learned this from Hollis and Nancy’s Homestead in Florida.
Has totally changed my tomato game.
Liked and shared to FB. Very much looking forward to the fruit trees video...
Me, as well.
Truly did not know that luffa are edible. Sort of new to your channel, really enjoying it.
Same here, did not know Luffa was edible until he told us in one of his videos :)
@@Gloriasgreenhouse we eat them lots in the Philippines, with soups.
Beautiful garden! Watching from branford, Florida USA. Love your videos, very informational and entertaining. Its very appreciated from all your subscribers keep them coming
You guys have a wonderful garden!
Loved the video.we are growing in self wicking mineral buckets and space is crowded .good to know that things can be grown closer together. You're loved more than you know.
Can’t wait to order my first Birdie’s raised bed. Thanks for the inspiration, keep up the good work!
This is awesome. First show. Lots of hard work, brains and synergy.
Your videos are always so full of great info. You're the BEST!!! I love how connected you are to all of your surroundings and especially enjoyed your little visitor that arrived at the 24:30 mark on this video! It looked like a tiny green spider?
Greetings from the Palm Springs, California desert! I look forward to every one of your videos as I grow as a baby gardener. My daughter calls you "Mac from sesame!" Say hello to your little friend @ 24:19 for us!
Saw a video old lady got a small water bottle small hole in the lid cut about inch and half of end put Vegs in put bottom back inside dug small in pot put in bottle 3/4 bottle of Vegs not only fed the plant she got half a bottle of compost to put on other plants easiest composting ever great for your small garden watchers Place looking great mark
Aside from your beautiful garden, it's quite amazing to hear the birds 🐦
Thank you for your videos I am in a cottage so I have to plant in containers I am a pensioner love gardening thank you from South Africa 🙏🐽🥕🍅🍆🥕
plants are so strong energetic and tasty when they grow the place they choose themself, thats why i like wild plants
You have such a great garden
So stoked to have found you just got 4 mangoes of my tree from seed (best I've ever tasted)..growing lettuce and tomatoes like crazy(your toothbrush method)what a mighty achievement if I do say so my self.. Thankyou Mark all from what you have taught me
The green leafy is called PECHAY, it is good in making stew.
Kangkong is good with the long green pepper and radish with a little soury taste,you can cook it with pork, fish or beef.called SINIGANG or Sour Soup.
I mulched my garden with a fine cedar mulch this year, after watching your videos. My plants are happier and I'm having better water control, needing to water substantially less so far this year. Thanks for your tips and videos.
A tip on the compost system, there is the bathtub method if you want to look into it, it seems really nice and easy to do
Thanks for sharing I am getting so much information.
Is noone going to mention the little green huntsman spider on the GoPro during the compost segment? I'm glad he wasn't in focus, but Mark didn't seem to mind. Plenty worse spiders to worry about, I reckon.
I just figured Australians are used to spiders 😂
As long as they are not funnel webs.
Love seeing am the beds in 1 video.. great tour mate...Huge thumbs up👍👍
I crowd garden, and my veggies love it. It's my mini jungle. I enjoy diving in to look for harvests
an excellent well produced video a pleasure to watch
I’m sherri from south Texas Thank u for u 😀!! Love ya and all the info. Your so dang helpful and a delight to watch !! I enjoy ya !! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks so much for another great video! thanks to you i got my own raised garden, and i´m loving it. Cheers from Denmark
Picks up big green chilli
“This is a big red” 😂 haha I know it will turn red but just thought that was funny 😁
Loved it! Thanks for sharing.
I love all the volunteer plants that just can’t help but want to grow in your garden.
Self Sufficient Me Mark it’s so great to see how much your channel has grown over the years. Keep the videos coming
The beauty shots! Love what you do sir👍
Glad I stumbled on this channel !
Can’t wait for the fruit tree tour! Love the idea of a seasonal tour as well
I love how there is a small green spider walking across the camera lens and he never noticed around minute 24ish.
Cant wait for part 2 and 3!
Awesome garden, you've given us some great trellis ideas. Hi from South Carolina, USA!
Your videos make me want to grow my own foods, if only I could. I do enjoy your videos so much
My cosmos grew up through my corn, which was about 7 foot tall. Super cool! I really enjoy your videos. My husband watches them with me and acts on some of your ideas. Which makes my gardening heart sing!
LOVE all the cool stuff you can grow that I can't grow in Michigan.
Paradise.