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.
35:35 “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. 👍
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
"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...
I enjoyed your longer video and it was great to see your entire garden setup. I was also glad to see I'm not the only person with pots full of plants and trees to replant into the ground. 😂
i threw out some crimson giant radish seeds i had left over from a few years back and low and behold, i got one massive 2 inch beauty. the rest that grew resembled carrots in shape and i ended up letting them all go to seed, ate some of the radish peas that were in the tender stage and am now letting them finish out the season to collect seeds. the local bees LOVED them very much. i was picking pods alongside the bees gathering that nectar and pollinating and it was HARMONIOUS! Cheers!
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!
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.
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.
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. ✝️
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 👍
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.
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.
No worries on the length, as I always find your garden tours and other long videos worth it. I like a couple of others am always baffled at some negative comments, like you were talking about when using the fish scraps. We try not to waste anything! One of the other things I always like about watching your videos, is that you are sub-tropical so it’s interesting to see what you grow, then I sometimes do research to see if I can somehow manage to grow some of those things here (even though many Aussie seeds are hard to find here) in the desert southwest of the U.S. Keep it up mate, highly informative!
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.
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!😊
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 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! 🐦🔥
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.
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
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.
It was great to walk around your garden. Love to see another tour, at the height of your growing season. I have just bought 2 birdie beds. Very eggciting to have spuds growing in the first bed. Blessings from South Australia 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤
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 :)
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! ☺👍
Thanks for sharing! We were just enduring Hurricane Milton. Fortunately our home, garage, stable and GARDEN SURVIVED!!! Needed some inspiration to do clean up now of all the tree debris! Thanks again for sharing video! 🙏🏼💞🫶🏻
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. 😀
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!
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.
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😊
Great video, lots of information. Nicola potatoes are my favourite. Woolies used to sell them but discontinued them and went to Dutch creams. Every now and then I see them at farmers markets and road side stalls and always get a bag. Yummmm
Thanks Mark. Very useful for us in Dayboro. Hoping the upcoming rain will get our asparagus starting. I’ve been so well behaved and not harvested for 2 years since buying the 2 year old plants but this is their year.
Would you be open to do a straw bale gardening experiment? I had a idea that it essentially is a one-season raised bed. You start by adding nitrogen to it to effectively make it a compost pile, then add seedling plugs to it, and finally disassemble the straw bale as compost for next season. It seems like a low investment way to get started to generate material for more permanent raised beds later.
Loving it, Mark! I wish winter here would be as warm as youra. Its still hot summer here in NWArkansas. It will be very warm to hot until October easily. But July was 90-100 degrees and a lot of my tomatos and peppers went dormant for a few weeks. Coming back strong now. We should have a good late harvest. Im hoping my figs and Hibiscus Roselle will rock the house in September amd October. I have 5 Roselles and they look like 5' tall lollipops. Such beauties! AND i have a soring and fall bearing raspberry thats really taking off this year. Going to have a harvest by November. Take care!
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 have some winter squash that popped up all by itself in one of our compost piles and got a bunch of beautiful winter squashes.can’t wait to eat them. I love experimenting in the garden. If I had cockatoos….omg how amazing that would be(except for eating my garden for fun)
Thank you for the garden tour, your garden is amazing and I'm jealous of the space you have available to try growing anything you like. The weather is slowly starting to warm up here (South Island of NZ) so I'm thinking about what seeds I want to buy, and where to plant things for Spring and Summer. Looking forward to watching more of your videos so I can learn more.
G'day Everyone, yes, this is a long video, but I thought you might like a good old relaxing long walk around the garden with me... Cheers :)
These videos always seem the most popular. I personally look forward to them too!
A large freezer/fridge can help the garlic but you probably already know that.
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.
Thanks Mark
35:35 “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. 👍
No worries about the length of the video. Many of us love a good garden tour. ❤
Thanks for the feedback! Cheers :)
What are you supporting your Marion Berry with please?
There may be a number of reasons why you don't get olives: species/, pruning method soil and cultivation/grafting methods
OMG! NOT AN ANUS😮!!! I INSTANTLY FELL OUT LAUGHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THAT was the funniest thing all day
I suck at pronouncing plant names that that one had me choking on my beer 🍺 🤣
Ananas? Like the Pineapple?
I think he meant Anise - definitely laughed out loud
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.
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
Thank you! Yes, we're very happy and proud of how the garden is looking. Cheers :)
Nasturtium leaves , chewed and swallowed, kills a sore throat after only 2 or 3 tries! Truly remarkable results
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 loved your phrase "Corn in the Lawn". That corn growing in off season itself shows, impossible is possible. Many love from Bhutan
Yes I love the resiliency of nature. Unfortunately with nothing to pollinate it, you will probably not get any ears
@@gregryeii403 hand pollinate it.
Enjoyed the walk round thanks 😊
I always call it "accidental corn".
Even wrote a song about it that I like to perform while pulling weeds. 😅
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.
Olive trees are amazing.We use EVO every day. We use olive wood for small cheese boards.
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!
Ananas (ah-nah-nah) is french for pineapple. Noir (n-wah-r) is also french for black. So black pineapple tomatoes.
So glad I found this corner of the Internet
Not an idiot, just an Aussie. We all get sunburn from time to time. Thanks Mark, your amazing ❤
I'm extremely invested in Corn in the Lawn. Can't wait for updates.
I love these videos because it catches me up in what I’ve missed, and what’s to come
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.
Lol, love your post!
LOL... Thank you for being so committed to supporting my video! I hope it was worth it... 😀👍
😂❤
Me too
"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...
I enjoyed your longer video and it was great to see your entire garden setup. I was also glad to see I'm not the only person with pots full of plants and trees to replant into the ground. 😂
35 min in . Man i'm so envies' of your garden.
Looking good
i threw out some crimson giant radish seeds i had left over from a few years back and low and behold, i got one massive 2 inch beauty. the rest that grew resembled carrots in shape and i ended up letting them all go to seed, ate some of the radish peas that were in the tender stage and am now letting them finish out the season to collect seeds. the local bees LOVED them very much. i was picking pods alongside the bees gathering that nectar and pollinating and it was HARMONIOUS! Cheers!
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!
Love your long videos like this to show what is working and not working in your garden. This way I can learn from your mistakes instead of my own. 😂
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.
Some of us need this long form video. To realy help unwind
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.
That sounds wonderful! I love onions & garlic.
@@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.
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. ✝️
I just noticed; the haircut and shave are looking good!
LOL... Thanks Mandy! 👍🙂
I also noticed the clean cut 👍
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🇸🇪
When my Aloe gets a fat leaf(?), I cut them and keep them in crisper drawer in the fridge. That way I have cool aloe for the sun burn.
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 👍
I have grown Ananas for 3 seasons, they are so beautiful and have the flavor to match
Oh good! Thanks for letting me know! Cheers 🙂
@Selfsufficientme oh and I say it like Bananas only without the B... Probably not right either 🤣
I love the long full garden tour!!
That was awesome! You are such an inspiration, and I find your vids are complete escapism from all the ills of the world. Love them so much, thanks! 😘
When planting Mint please teach dill Rosemary Thyme Oregano 👌 Thanks l think Balconies can grow these in pots
I absolutely love these longer videos :) The moment i saw that it was 1 hour long, i was wrapped! Good stuff, there, mate :)
Thank you for the full garden tour, Mark! It was nice to see and listen to your thoughts and plans 😊
Thanks Jamie! All the best 👍 🙂
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.
I love a nice long walk through the garden.
Mark, Your nasturtium leaves make a FABULOUSLY effective antibiotic!!!...Everyone I've given it to request more!
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.
Great stuff - thanks for charing that information! Cheers :)
No worries on the length, as I always find your garden tours and other long videos worth it. I like a couple of others am always baffled at some negative comments, like you were talking about when using the fish scraps. We try not to waste anything! One of the other things I always like about watching your videos, is that you are sub-tropical so it’s interesting to see what you grow, then I sometimes do research to see if I can somehow manage to grow some of those things here (even though many Aussie seeds are hard to find here) in the desert southwest of the U.S. Keep it up mate, highly informative!
Ananas is pineapple in a few different languages, so not so weird after all. Probably a sweet fruity tomato!
And noir is black in French. The name of the tomato is Black pineapple.
Lovely garden Mark. Good luck to all of us on the east coast of Australia in this big rain event that is predicted this coming week.
Wow! You look so minuscule standing by your enormous garden! Beautiful! G’day from NE Alabama USA!
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.
Thank you, I didn't know.
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!😊
Thank you for the tour❤. I loved it
Thanks for sharing...your garden sings! God blessing your way you and all your loved ones!
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!😃
Love the way you think and work in the garden, thanks for a great video 😊🌿
the Anaise Noir is a great tomato! beautiful color and nice sized! (sorry about the spelling)
HI MARK, I ALWAYS LIKE WATCHING YOU EXPLAIN THINGS ABOUT YOUR PLANTING METHODS. YOU GO GUY. FROM CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA😊
Love these vids… who doesn’t love a good garden tour!
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! 🐦🔥
Form follows function and as long it works, you are good to go! Good tour! Thanks!
Have you tried "poor mans capers" using the nasturtium seed pods? Very good.
Always a pleasure to see the progress of your self sufficiency! Excellent work, Mark!
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.
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
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.
It was great to walk around your garden. Love to see another tour, at the height of your growing season.
I have just bought 2 birdie beds. Very eggciting to have spuds growing in the first bed. Blessings from South Australia 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤
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 :)
@@Selfsufficientme thank you so much. Yes Tasmania is a great place to live.
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! ☺👍
Kipfler potatos is the one you were thinking of mate ! When u spoke of the congo spuds.
Japanese mustard was used by a guy here in the states to mix with daikon to make kimchi.
Thanks for sharing!
We were just enduring Hurricane Milton. Fortunately our home, garage, stable and GARDEN SURVIVED!!!
Needed some inspiration to do clean up now of all the tree debris! Thanks again for sharing video! 🙏🏼💞🫶🏻
As an older person i like your raised beds unfortunatly i dont have room for them
You always keep it interesting Matk
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. 😀
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!
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.
I definitely enjoyed the long garden tour. You always give me ideas and inspiration, and I appreciate your work. Thanks for sharing and take care.
Just love your garden ,got some great inspo ,I'm going to grow strawberries this year❤
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😊
Love garden tours, please do more often ❤
It took me a couple of days to find the time to watch this video, but I'm glad I took the time to see it all the way through.
Both my wife and myself *Enjoyed* this episode.👍
Those are some healthy pretty nasturtiums.
Love to you Mark & Family! Not been here for awhile, sorry. Wow ,the tour was great you Always inspire me. Love the walk arounds.Many Blessings. 😇
Thoroughly enjoyed a wander around with you, the garden is looking great.
The garden and land is looking great. 👍
Great video, lots of information. Nicola potatoes are my favourite. Woolies used to sell them but discontinued them and went to Dutch creams. Every now and then I see them at farmers markets and road side stalls and always get a bag. Yummmm
Thanks Mark. Very useful for us in Dayboro. Hoping the upcoming rain will get our asparagus starting. I’ve been so well behaved and not harvested for 2 years since buying the 2 year old plants but this is their year.
Would you be open to do a straw bale gardening experiment? I had a idea that it essentially is a one-season raised bed.
You start by adding nitrogen to it to effectively make it a compost pile, then add seedling plugs to it, and finally disassemble the straw bale as compost for next season.
It seems like a low investment way to get started to generate material for more permanent raised beds later.
Loving it, Mark! I wish winter here would be as warm as youra. Its still hot summer here in NWArkansas. It will be very warm to hot until October easily. But July was 90-100 degrees and a lot of my tomatos and peppers went dormant for a few weeks. Coming back strong now. We should have a good late harvest. Im hoping my figs and Hibiscus Roselle will rock the house in September amd October. I have 5 Roselles and they look like 5' tall lollipops. Such beauties! AND i have a soring and fall bearing raspberry thats really taking off this year. Going to have a harvest by November. Take care!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Our garden is a lose from Mugwort. Do you know of any natural herbicide for Mugwort? Thank you.
I absolutely love the garden walk through.
Banana mint sounds like it would be excellent in some adult beverages and now I'm shopping for seeds 🤷♂
have to say I am jealous of what y'all call winter in your area :D
Those black pipes look also,e! Also nice trellis on top. You are such a great source of inspiration and knowledge! thanks for sharing!
If that’s dandelion you pulled out, keep it and use it!🙏🏼🙏🏼
It's great nutrition for your chooks - they love it (after they realise how good it is)!
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 have some winter squash that popped up all by itself in one of our compost piles and got a bunch of beautiful winter squashes.can’t wait to eat them. I love experimenting in the garden. If I had cockatoos….omg how amazing that would be(except for eating my garden for fun)
Thank you for the garden tour, your garden is amazing and I'm jealous of the space you have available to try growing anything you like. The weather is slowly starting to warm up here (South Island of NZ) so I'm thinking about what seeds I want to buy, and where to plant things for Spring and Summer. Looking forward to watching more of your videos so I can learn more.
Enjoying the video on a dreary Oklahoma day.
Always a pleasure to see you growing along and trying new things in the garden.
I really look forward to your tours, thank you for the effort you put into showing your garden mark ❤❤❤❤
That guy in Ontario Canada will be coping everything you do and take credit for it 😮!!!
Loved this. The length was easy to watch in chunks over time. You have so many plants that I wish I could grow here in the Southwestern US!