G'day Everyone, this is a good time of year for growing in most places around the world so all the best with "getting into it" and giving growing your own food a go! Thanks for your kind feedback and ongoing support - you online Gardening Community Legends! Cheers :)
Hi Mark, You mention you have not eaten elephant yam before 2:24 - just a word of caution to wear gloves while you are cutting it. Otherwise it will leave your palms with very uncomfortable itch that doesn't go away for hours, even if you wash it with soap! Also another tip - as soon as you cut the yam, dunk it in cold water for a while (preferably some turmeric powder added in it). This will help prevent instant oxidation and browning
from one paratrooper to another, like the ole saying goes "it ain't stupid if it works" lol 90% of my garden is from recycled or reclaimed materials, it might not look pretty but it sure grows a lot of food.
Hey Mark can you do questions and answers, so that us gardeners that have some questions about our gardens, can grab some advice? Like a once a week UA-cam video were we can ask questions that you can answer.
It's so good to see an influencer garden overgrown and chaotic instead of super neat and perfect (which we know isn't reality). Thankyou for always keeping it REAL! Loved seeing the clean up your son did, amazing!!
To be fair, being organised and not taking on more than you can sensibly handle, is possible. Of course, being perfect is not possible, but I’ve seen plenty of productive and well organised gardens. Good organisation usually means good efficiency and less work. This chap is an ideas man. So am I. We tend to get into trouble because we’re so busy experimenting and not so busy organising, lol.
YES, his gardening style always makes me feel like I'm not a total failure because my garden isn't super neat or weed free. I even tried to put some nice deep wood chips to help against the weeds. HA! the chips all came heavily seeded with weeds!! 😡😩 I hate row gardens as I feel it looks very industrial. I like things more natural and like to interplant with a wide variety of plants put in a very artistic sort of design. .... that the weeds ruin...
This place looks like a garden heaven . I'm 23 and want to start a garden so bad. I'm currently only growing a bell pepper. All I did was but the seeds/waste part in a potter and boom we got a seedling :) . Hoping to buy some land in the future and become self efficient !
Well done young fella! Experimentation in gardening leads to more interest, which leads to satisfaction and success in growing your own healthy, uncontaminated food.
I have a friend that grows yaccon and she peels and slices it and puts it in honey that she has had rose petals marinating in the honey . The yaccon tastes sweet and crunchy.
Fresh raspberries are amazing. We have them in our garden, because without raspberries, it would be missing a great advantage of gardening. Also we usually grow sweet peas. Eating them freshly from the pod is such a delicious treat, and you can't usually buy them like this. Unfortunately, this year we had to skip beans and peas this year because of a bug infestation.
Did you see the tiny sprouts in the Heritage raspberry beds? Looks like maybe it's not a goner. I have had canes that I planted look dead for a long time, dry and brittle, and then low and behold, tiny sprouts. Don't give up on that one! Have a good day and keep growing!
Old cds or empty cask wine bladder blown up like a balloon also work to deter birds. I find that once the birds get used to one it's time to change to the other. You should grow butternut pumpkins too.😊
Hi from Florida. Been watching you for a couple years now. We have similar climates I think. Last year I turned 55 and well I suppose going into gardening is just natural. You give good information and done with fun. I imagine the discipline from service serves well when gardening is scheduled and all. Thanks Mark
G'day Christopher, thanks for supporting my vids. Yes, Florida is very similar climate-wise to our State of Queensland. In fact, both are called the "Sunshine State," and I think that's fitting most of the time unless you go through a rainy 12 months like we have! My summer videos would be more appropriate for what you can grow now in your part of the world, and my current videos obviously show what can be grown in a subtropical climate throughout the cooler months. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme our seasons are opposite.. I've a little quip. Life is cruel but gardening is a godsend. Nothing better than making ones own compost to other amendments. I'm lucky I've crab shells all over. You have given so many wonderful ideas . I enjoy your humor too.
I am in central Florida too. We do have similar climates but opposite times. I just harvested the last of the Spring veggies the first part of June and planted the summer crop. I will be planting cold weather veggies in late September and early October. I enjoy Self-Sufficient Me as well. No hype and honesty. I try to do the same.
You're a treasure Mark, happy father's day and thanks as always for showing us the mistakes and challenges. For both the long time gardeners (like me) and newbies, it's refreshing to see and allows us to know that we all face some uphill climbs on occasion. You just have to stick with it, push through, and you'll end up with a bountiful harvest. Cheers!
😂 Your bum looks great, Mark. Love the surprise pumpkins still soldiering on in the mud! We are either moving to Savannah, Georgia or coastal Oregon this year-- very different growing conditions. It gives me hope to see so much of your garden thriving in heavy rain, just in case we do end up on the moody west coast. ⛈️
Great to see you again Mark, as always humorous, informative and inspiring, good on Lucas for his hard work and Bella for always looking gorgeous and interested in everything you do, cheers to the whole family!!!🥰👍👍👍🙏🐕
Years ago my Son and I planted beetroot for our Summer salads. They never made it to the pickling stage as we got stuck into them still warm . Yum ,whole freshly cooked beetroot with salt and pepper.
Mark, I have grown 2 beautiful cherry trees in heavy clay. Only problem, keeping the birds from getting to them. Even with netting, the tricks they pull to get up under the nets are hilarious. Never sprayed my garden with chemicals, otherwise, may as well just buy. The standout taste of my cherries, which everyone commented on, was the lack of that bitter chemical residue. Put 2 of my cherries in mouth and press down to drink. So juicy, unlike bought cherries which tend to be firmer flesh.
Mark (and Luke who helped us see everything), Saludos from Mexico. Retired 37 years back. Mexico and Australia are mirror images of each other. Deserts and long coastlines and a bit of the tropics, dry and rainy seasons, and the mud. Thank you for these glimpses of modern survival. Helping others is how we survive as a species. Thank you for your continuing service. Wishing you and yours all the best this Spring oh wait, late Autumn June. Jim
The same here in England. I lost virtually everything last year to slugs, mice and even rats. Leeks, carrots and onions were wiped out. Brassicas did nothing. Whatever survived the summer then rotted over the winter, even hardy plants like my licorice and horseradish. I threw in my old seeds and walked away this year. About half the carrots emerged and a few spring onions and I found a few tomatoes and pumpkins that self seeded so they're in the polytunnel. Slugs and snails are rife again and even shrubs and asparagus are being eaten. Most of the garden is just weeds and wild flowers now and even many of them are getting slugged - including poppies! I've been growing in one form or another for 50+ yrs but I've lost interest now as even the fruit trees are being attacked and failing. Our native trees are getting diseases and fungi that's killing them. I've lost ash, oak, elder, cherry and fir to disease in the last few years despite maintaining soil fertility. Nature is changing and the plants, trees, birds and wildlife are suffering. Meanwhile our neighbours are spraying their fields to destroy everything except the crops - the bulk of which end up in biodigestion plants to produce methane gas for the local industry. It's cheaper and less effort to have organic veg boxes delivered but the quality is still not great.
@@BromideBride Oh, how discouraging. I can't help with tree diseases, but you can find many natural recipes on Google to kill slugs/snails - even using BEER! [They will die, but with a smile. Lol ]
Interesting seeing you grow yaccon i tried it last year and it did amazing in my really heavy soil, im in BC so I dont have the longer growing season so i harvest it at the first hard frost which kills the leaves and sweetens it up, 4 plants gave me about 30 pounds!
Every time I watch you work and growing such yumminess, makes me want to move from the US to Australia. But then I think of the spiders, ooh. Well, it is always a joy to see you Mark. Also, I forgot it is Winter in Australia while it is Summer in US. Our amazing planet. Take care.
Most spiders are friendly! Red-backs are shy and slow moving. Sydney funnel web, not so friendly. Don’t move there. Victoria is great, not too many creepy crawlies! We’d love to have you here in Healesville. Happy life. 🙏🏾💕
Don't worry about our spiders [which I'm scared of too!] Come for a holiday, but don't stay in the major cities. Just go a few kms away from the cities, into the Hinterlands. You'll love it!
100% - same for me! Melbourne based and beds installed during the endless months of lockdown and not being allow out! Miss the time that I had in my garden, it was the one thing that kept me sane. I worked all the way through, but my relief was my backyard on the weekends and after work.
Thanks Tony! I've been reading your book on Composting Masterclass (great read) we have the wrong type of decay down the back of our veggie garden with all this mud - I can smell it lol... All the best :)
That's a good idea Mark, transitioning some former veggie beds to easier-to-maintain fruit trees. You could even grow herbs underneath to help supress weeds. But you won't get any fruit on the Minnie Royal Cherry as it isn't self-fertile. Unless you've got another variety planted somewhere else? Otherwise, I'd get a Royal Crimson (also low chill) to help pollinate.
Bless your heart. It rained insanely here for weeks a few weeks ago and this was how the chicken yard was and it smelled so bad. I had to put a ton of stall dry and those pellets and in a couple days it didn’t smell as bad. Love your garden!!
If you drink coffee and brew some at home, try using the wet grounded coffee powder. It absorbs some of the bad odors, in and outside the house. We put some of the already brewed ground coffee powder in a small plate in the fridge at work one time when a colleague forgot a stinky cheese in the fridge overnight and it worked wonders.
@@marugochan131 that’s wonderful!! The chickens would eat it so wonder if that’s ok. I’ll use this in many areas now. Thank you. This community is always so helpful
Throw limestone powder into the chicken run then deep litter with straw. The lime burns off a lot of the nitrogen and neutralises the ammonia smell whilst killing harmful bacteria. We use limestone all over the garden and hydrated lime as a whitewash in the sheds to sterilise, especially when growing mushrooms.
@@creekbird_homestead not if it's limestone or hydrated lime, calcium carbonate. Don't use hydraulic lime, calcium hydroxide where stock are going to live, used for lime mortar and render as that's hot. As long as you deep litter with straw or similar material then the reaction goes on under the bedding and is safe. If you live on limestone or chalk then the soils don't burn animals and all you are doing is adding rock powder. It's been a traditional addition to gardens and stock pens for hundreds of years. Back in the 1960s my great Aunt had a long drop toilet in the orchard with a bucket of lime, sawdust and fire ash to throw on top. Kept smells and flies away.
May the Lord continue to bless the work of your hands, Mark, and thank you for another lovely video! It's passed by 26 minutes on the East coast of the US, but Happy Father's Day, none the less❣️
Being an old soldier myself, I loved that comment; You can take an old soldier out of the Army, but you can't take the Army out of the soldier. I often feel very much that way. 😉
I had the privilege of serving on the HMAS Warramunga in the Persian Golf back in 2009, and I fell in love with Aussies! Thank you (and Mark) for serving, and may the Lord abundantly bless you and your loved ones🙏🏻❤️🙌🏼 (I retired in 2014 from the US Navy)
My garden was hit hard with the heat. I covered everything with a shade cloth. Bella is a cutie pie. ❤❤❤ Thank you for another great video. 👩🌾🍒🥦🧅 P.S. I forgot I threw some old bush beans (2018) in a large grow bag and several sprouted. 😊
Love your work Mark. I planted raspberry for the 1st time this year wow yum. Victoria's climate seems to suit raspberries. Great to see your young bloke having a crack well done.
Well done, I've had to take a bit of time off from my gardens but now with the cooler weather I feel like getting back into it, I have heard good things about 1000 L IBC containers cut in half & can be picked up for $50 to $60 on marketplace etc, I was going to start with 4 & see how I go, wish me luck, & thanks for another great video.
So great to see your garden beds hold up after 10+ years. Hooray for a son that helps in the garden! ❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Looking good! Next round of seeds… here we go!
Loved the video Mark! Happy winter in Australia! It’s getting really hot here, on the Gulf Coast, in Alabama! Love your techniques of growing specialized plants in containers with their modified soil.
Back when I used to garden, I would sometimes mix a combo of 5 to 6 parts water to 1 part urine, a bit of wood ash, some kelp powder, and a bit of epsom salts all together, and it seemed to help most of the plants grow.
The last 4 years i have grown some of the best gardens in my entire life. I've been watching your channel on various accounts over the last 5 years or so, which obviously must be why im getting better at it 😜 youve sold me on trying more things I've never grown before in my beds and containers. We grow many different things than each other because our climates are so different, but ive tried a few of the things youve introduced me to that work here and had success. We're just two middle aged men feeding our families safer, fresher food and getting exercise and sun. Cheers 🍻
Mark you should create a second channel called Self Sufficient Me Kitchen and us show what you've grown how to cook and what things to look out for, I honestly love your videos man and I hope u got this
I got a similar rasberry to your 'giant rasberry' exept I live in Croatia where in winter we get winters with cold down to ~ -10°C so it grows to half a meter and dies back to the ground in winter.
I love the way you make your garden beds, in high containers, very easy to work with and especially you don't have to kneel down on ground, and this idear high bed garden looking fantastic but most of all, save veggies from eaten by snails, because they do destroy. What you have, is safe, fantastic, and beautifully organised. Very wise 👌💯%✓ Please be careful, look after yourself especially your arms from thorn sharp plants. Your health and safety is important. Your family needs you👌 Thank you for giving me a fantastic idear and I learned from watching and listening to you.🤗🌺 From NZ❤ Take care with thanks 👍
That bush you were talking about around the raspberry plant, i have known a plant by the name "wait a while" with thorns. Once you get caught in it, youvwait a while for someone to free you haha
Wow, I’ve never seen a raspberry like that. I live in California do have on most berries. I hope you have a good week and even better weekend take care & purple🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
o m g that opening line..😂 thanks I needed that. so sorry about the bog.. I hope that clears up for you soon. I enjoy the content.. the good with the bad, you just go with the flow. keep up the good work. and cute little mud puppies 😊
I'm in the desert southwest of the United States, and we'd love to take some of that rain off your hands. We've been experiencing a mega drought for the past 25 years, and we need all the rainfall we can get.
That is so cruel. Makes it hard to feel light-hearted. May the storm clouds gather and bring all the rain you need. [You'd be singing in the rain while stomping in the mud.] Truely hoping the rains come soon for you. ♥
I bought some asparagus pea seeds and they've sprouted! Thanks to you, I'm hoping they do well through my hot, dry Oklahoma summer, because my sugar snaps croaked in May. LOL!!!
Glad to see you have a son with the heart of a helper. Great video, and Happy Father's Day, Mark. I have a couple of 30" high raised beds here to (east coast US) and am eager to get growing in them. btw, love seeing Bella with you out in your garden. If you can imagine a dog about 10 times her size, all black, with shaggy bangs over his eyes, you see my dog Pete.
I like wood chips in the muddy areas. Keeps the weeds down and easily removed, and fertile for growing low flowering plants, clover, or productive crops like pumpkins in the summer.
Howdy! Here on the Upper Gulf Coast near Houston, Minnie Royal and its pollenizer, Royal Lee, produce maybe 3-6 fruits each year. They are the recommended pollen partners, neither is self-fertile. However, our issue is that there is little to no overlap in blooming. One has finished before the other blooms. So the pollen may be compatible, but the timing is off.
G'day Everyone, this is a good time of year for growing in most places around the world so all the best with "getting into it" and giving growing your own food a go! Thanks for your kind feedback and ongoing support - you online Gardening Community Legends! Cheers :)
Hi Mark,
You mention you have not eaten elephant yam before 2:24 - just a word of caution to wear gloves while you are cutting it. Otherwise it will leave your palms with very uncomfortable itch that doesn't go away for hours, even if you wash it with soap!
Also another tip - as soon as you cut the yam, dunk it in cold water for a while (preferably some turmeric powder added in it). This will help prevent instant oxidation and browning
There is something exciting, and perhaps even a testament to hope in planting seeds! Can't wait to see how your crops do! ❤
Hey mark, I buy my seeds from boondie seeds! They are great
from one paratrooper to another, like the ole saying goes "it ain't stupid if it works" lol 90% of my garden is from recycled or reclaimed materials, it might not look pretty but it sure grows a lot of food.
Hey Mark can you do questions and answers, so that us gardeners that have some questions about our gardens, can grab some advice? Like a once a week UA-cam video were we can ask questions that you can answer.
It's so good to see an influencer garden overgrown and chaotic instead of super neat and perfect (which we know isn't reality). Thankyou for always keeping it REAL! Loved seeing the clean up your son did, amazing!!
To be fair, being organised and not taking on more than you can sensibly handle, is possible. Of course, being perfect is not possible, but I’ve seen plenty of productive and well organised gardens. Good organisation usually means good efficiency and less work. This chap is an ideas man. So am I. We tend to get into trouble because we’re so busy experimenting and not so busy organising, lol.
@@glennmaillard5972 Exactly ^^
YES, his gardening style always makes me feel like I'm not a total failure because my garden isn't super neat or weed free. I even tried to put some nice deep wood chips to help against the weeds. HA! the chips all came heavily seeded with weeds!! 😡😩
I hate row gardens as I feel it looks very industrial. I like things more natural and like to interplant with a wide variety of plants put in a very artistic sort of design.
.... that the weeds ruin...
When I feel lonely or homesick I immediately find a video of yours, you feel like home and for that I thank you so much 🥹
Kudos to your son Luke for an amazing clean up! What a hard worker!
And fast, too!! 😂
This place looks like a garden heaven . I'm 23 and want to start a garden so bad. I'm currently only growing a bell pepper. All I did was but the seeds/waste part in a potter and boom we got a seedling :) . Hoping to buy some land in the future and become self efficient !
Well done young fella! Experimentation in gardening leads to more interest, which leads to satisfaction and success in growing your own healthy, uncontaminated food.
Do what you can! Even container gardening on a door stoop & growing Mico greens inside!
Yay! Excellent! So satisfying isn’t it 🤗
Time is with you, stay with it. 🤙
I started my first garden at 28 in the low Phoenix, Arizona desert. Pots or earth, learn your climate and talk to locals. All my best.
Happy Father's day Mark! You're an inspiration to fathers and men all around the world!
Don’t Australians celebrate fathers day in September?
@scoobydoo5447 yes.usually the Sunday closest to the 10th
@@crankiemanx8423 The first Sunday in September.
I have a friend that grows yaccon and she peels and slices it and puts it in honey that she has had rose petals marinating in the honey . The yaccon tastes sweet and crunchy.
I think Lincoln may have meant 'Happy Fathers Day Mark', for his caring son doing hard garden work for his father.
There's something about muddy puddles, ponds, swamps, and similar that makes water super tasty to dogs.
It's got vitamins and minerals in it.
Probiotics, I bet.
Makes my heart swell with joy when I’m out hiking with my dogs lugging 2 gallons of clean water n they choose to drink muddy swill
If it stinks, they love it.
@@jayrowe6473ya this is the answer
Raspberries fresh off the vine have the most elegant taste of anything imho.
Fresh raspberries are amazing. We have them in our garden, because without raspberries, it would be missing a great advantage of gardening. Also we usually grow sweet peas. Eating them freshly from the pod is such a delicious treat, and you can't usually buy them like this. Unfortunately, this year we had to skip beans and peas this year because of a bug infestation.
I love the commitment to stay in the garden all night 😂😂😂
Happy father's day!
Aussie Father’s Day is usually in September.
Sussan is correct. Fathers day here is the first weekend in Sept 😊
But happy States Father’s Day! Lol
We call prisoner vine "Wait-a-while" because you have to wait a while for someone to untangle it once they get caught
Yes im from QLD and have always know it as wait a while
You saying you stayed up all night waiting for the sun to shine cracked me up ❤
Did you see the tiny sprouts in the Heritage raspberry beds? Looks like maybe it's not a goner. I have had canes that I planted look dead for a long time, dry and brittle, and then low and behold, tiny sprouts. Don't give up on that one!
Have a good day and keep growing!
I just saw those too! 😁
Raspberries tend to sprout back from the ground indeed, so let's hope he doesn't give up on them. 👍
I just got tons of brick pavers and made path ways around my flower beds worked great for the mud and helps with weed as well
If I've learned anything from Stardew Valley, this is the way.
Kinda wish that was a reason you needed to do that
When rain falls it gets muddy and slows your character down
@@DomenicDatti Ha ha ha. Yes!!
So funny: ground apple is the literal translation for “aardappel”, what we call potatoes in dutch
French too
Is that like Aardvark 😂?
And Afrikaans in south africa
It's the same in Afrikaans too!😃
Bella: Gee Dad, this mud it tastes like a delicious soup to me!
😂😂 I loved the zoom in on her muddy chin haha
As per your first question: Bum looks fine.
Looks damn fine!
as a silver back gorilla asking if hey looks human enough
We are in Indiana with a lot of heavy clay in the soil. I can tell your our cherries don’t mind a bit.
Old cds or empty cask wine bladder blown up like a balloon also work to deter birds. I find that once the birds get used to one it's time to change to the other. You should grow butternut pumpkins too.😊
Hi from Florida. Been watching you for a couple years now. We have similar climates I think. Last year I turned 55 and well I suppose going into gardening is just natural. You give good information and done with fun. I imagine the discipline from service serves well when gardening is scheduled and all. Thanks Mark
I'm right there with you!!
G'day Christopher, thanks for supporting my vids. Yes, Florida is very similar climate-wise to our State of Queensland. In fact, both are called the "Sunshine State," and I think that's fitting most of the time unless you go through a rainy 12 months like we have! My summer videos would be more appropriate for what you can grow now in your part of the world, and my current videos obviously show what can be grown in a subtropical climate throughout the cooler months. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme our seasons are opposite.. I've a little quip. Life is cruel but gardening is a godsend. Nothing better than making ones own compost to other amendments. I'm lucky I've crab shells all over. You have given so many wonderful ideas . I enjoy your humor too.
I am in central Florida too. We do have similar climates but opposite times. I just harvested the last of the Spring veggies the first part of June and planted the summer crop. I will be planting cold weather veggies in late September and early October. I enjoy Self-Sufficient Me as well. No hype and honesty. I try to do the same.
@@debbiesorganicgarden melbourne
A garden is a big responsibility
Not sure why I didn't know until now that each beetroot seed contains more than one plant! Great video. Thank you!
You're a treasure Mark, happy father's day and thanks as always for showing us the mistakes and challenges. For both the long time gardeners (like me) and newbies, it's refreshing to see and allows us to know that we all face some uphill climbs on occasion. You just have to stick with it, push through, and you'll end up with a bountiful harvest. Cheers!
😂 Your bum looks great, Mark. Love the surprise pumpkins still soldiering on in the mud! We are either moving to Savannah, Georgia or coastal Oregon this year-- very different growing conditions. It gives me hope to see so much of your garden thriving in heavy rain, just in case we do end up on the moody west coast. ⛈️
LOL... Thank you, Rina! All the best with your move and adapting to your new growing environment - it seems like a great challenge! Cheers :)
Great to see you again Mark, as always humorous, informative and inspiring, good on Lucas for his hard work and Bella for always looking gorgeous and interested in everything you do, cheers to the whole family!!!🥰👍👍👍🙏🐕
You raised some good young men, Mark! Hurray for Luke on this effort for his dad!
Years ago my Son and I planted beetroot for our Summer salads. They never made it to the pickling stage as we got stuck into them still warm . Yum ,whole freshly cooked beetroot with salt and pepper.
Mark, I have grown 2 beautiful cherry trees in heavy clay. Only problem, keeping the birds from getting to them. Even with netting, the tricks they pull to get up under the nets are hilarious. Never sprayed my garden with chemicals, otherwise, may as well just buy.
The standout taste of my cherries, which everyone commented on, was the lack of that bitter chemical residue. Put 2 of my cherries in mouth and press down to drink. So juicy, unlike bought cherries which tend to be firmer flesh.
I give my dogs clean water...and like yours they choose to drink from mud holes lol
Mark (and Luke who helped us see everything), Saludos from Mexico. Retired 37 years back. Mexico and Australia are mirror images of each other. Deserts and long coastlines and a bit of the tropics, dry and rainy seasons, and the mud.
Thank you for these glimpses of modern survival. Helping others is how we survive as a species. Thank you for your continuing service. Wishing you and yours all the best this Spring oh wait, late Autumn June. Jim
Hahaha the intro made my day ❤
Welcome to the club of wetness! I am in N. Germany and it feels as if it rained since July last year!
The same here in England. I lost virtually everything last year to slugs, mice and even rats.
Leeks, carrots and onions were wiped out. Brassicas did nothing. Whatever survived the summer then rotted over the winter, even hardy plants like my licorice and horseradish.
I threw in my old seeds and walked away this year. About half the carrots emerged and a few spring onions and I found a few tomatoes and pumpkins that self seeded so they're in the polytunnel. Slugs and snails are rife again and even shrubs and asparagus are being eaten. Most of the garden is just weeds and wild flowers now and even many of them are getting slugged - including poppies!
I've been growing in one form or another for 50+ yrs but I've lost interest now as even the fruit trees are being attacked and failing. Our native trees are getting diseases and fungi that's killing them. I've lost ash, oak, elder, cherry and fir to disease in the last few years despite maintaining soil fertility.
Nature is changing and the plants, trees, birds and wildlife are suffering.
Meanwhile our neighbours are spraying their fields to destroy everything except the crops - the bulk of which end up in biodigestion plants to produce methane gas for the local industry.
It's cheaper and less effort to have organic veg boxes delivered but the quality is still not great.
@@BromideBride How disheartening! I can relate. Trying to somehow save my tomatoes but am not very hopeful.
@@BromideBride Oh, how discouraging. I can't help with tree diseases, but you can find many natural recipes on Google to kill slugs/snails - even using BEER! [They will die, but with a smile. Lol ]
Interesting seeing you grow yaccon i tried it last year and it did amazing in my really heavy soil, im in BC so I dont have the longer growing season so i harvest it at the first hard frost which kills the leaves and sweetens it up, 4 plants gave me about 30 pounds!
Every time I watch you work and growing such yumminess, makes me want to move from the US to Australia. But then I think of the spiders, ooh. Well, it is always a joy to see you Mark. Also, I forgot it is Winter in Australia while it is Summer in US. Our amazing planet. Take care.
Most spiders are friendly!
Red-backs are shy and slow moving.
Sydney funnel web, not so friendly.
Don’t move there.
Victoria is great, not too many creepy crawlies!
We’d love to have you here in Healesville.
Happy life.
🙏🏾💕
Don't worry about our spiders [which I'm scared of too!] Come for a holiday, but don't stay in the major cities. Just go a few kms away from the cities, into the Hinterlands. You'll love it!
This was my go to when in lockdown ... now I'm back at work and busy with life it's hard to find nice calming time to do this sort of stuff now
It's still possible, hard if you do it on your own, but possible.
100% - same for me! Melbourne based and beds installed during the endless months of lockdown and not being allow out!
Miss the time that I had in my garden, it was the one thing that kept me sane. I worked all the way through, but my relief was my backyard on the weekends and after work.
It’s easier to look for perennials maybe?
I love yacon. I have it growing and when I get home from work, I dig out a tuber, scrub it, peel it and eat it - delicious!
Your son did a great job! Happy Father's Day! 🥰
Cute puppy glad you were able to get another pup it;s hard after having one pass
I'm still peeved that I didn't find your videos earlier in life, I'm genuinely grateful for your elevating energy and beautifully-dry jokes 💚
You have had such a challenge with the flooding this year mate. Your son Luke did a great job cleaning that up. Keep on growing pal, catch you soon
Thanks Tony! I've been reading your book on Composting Masterclass (great read) we have the wrong type of decay down the back of our veggie garden with all this mud - I can smell it lol... All the best :)
Happy Fathers Day!
I forget that your seasons are opposite of here in the U.S. Happy Father's Day, Mark!
That's a good idea Mark, transitioning some former veggie beds to easier-to-maintain fruit trees. You could even grow herbs underneath to help supress weeds. But you won't get any fruit on the Minnie Royal Cherry as it isn't self-fertile. Unless you've got another variety planted somewhere else? Otherwise, I'd get a Royal Crimson (also low chill) to help pollinate.
I thought my garden was a swampy mess when it RAINED. And we've gotten around 15" so far. But you win for the mire. 😁
Helluva clean up job Luke 👍👍
I love these videos. Thanks Mark for keeping it real with us!
I am amazed to learn of new crops in your garden beds, especially blueberry! Unexpected in a sub-tropical climate. You are an adventurous gardener!
Less editing in this video shows your big heart. You have plenty of info throughout to keep it relevant. Great work Mark, keep it up.
Bless your heart. It rained insanely here for weeks a few weeks ago and this was how the chicken yard was and it smelled so bad. I had to put a ton of stall dry and those pellets and in a couple days it didn’t smell as bad. Love your garden!!
If you drink coffee and brew some at home, try using the wet grounded coffee powder. It absorbs some of the bad odors, in and outside the house.
We put some of the already brewed ground coffee powder in a small plate in the fridge at work one time when a colleague forgot a stinky cheese in the fridge overnight and it worked wonders.
@@marugochan131 that’s wonderful!! The chickens would eat it so wonder if that’s ok. I’ll use this in many areas now. Thank you. This community is always so helpful
Throw limestone powder into the chicken run then deep litter with straw. The lime burns off a lot of the nitrogen and neutralises the ammonia smell whilst killing harmful bacteria. We use limestone all over the garden and hydrated lime as a whitewash in the sheds to sterilise, especially when growing mushrooms.
@@BromideBride thank you so much. I actually have a huge bag of lime. It won’t burn their feet? This is wonderful
@@creekbird_homestead not if it's limestone or hydrated lime, calcium carbonate. Don't use hydraulic lime, calcium hydroxide where stock are going to live, used for lime mortar and render as that's hot.
As long as you deep litter with straw or similar material then the reaction goes on under the bedding and is safe. If you live on limestone or chalk then the soils don't burn animals and all you are doing is adding rock powder. It's been a traditional addition to gardens and stock pens for hundreds of years. Back in the 1960s my great Aunt had a long drop toilet in the orchard with a bucket of lime, sawdust and fire ash to throw on top. Kept smells and flies away.
those sticky seeds on Bella’s nose are all over my socks. Hi Mark 🎬🧙♂️🫵🏻
My favorite Raspberry type is fall gold yellow Raspberry. It is so easy to grow and the flavor is amazing ❤southern California here
May the Lord continue to bless the work of your hands, Mark, and thank you for another lovely video! It's passed by 26 minutes on the East coast of the US, but Happy Father's Day, none the less❣️
Being an old soldier myself, I loved that comment; You can take an old soldier out of the Army, but you can't take the Army out of the soldier. I often feel very much that way. 😉
Thanks for your service, mate! All the best :)
I had the privilege of serving on the HMAS Warramunga in the Persian Golf back in 2009, and I fell in love with Aussies! Thank you (and Mark) for serving, and may the Lord abundantly bless you and your loved ones🙏🏻❤️🙌🏼 (I retired in 2014 from the US Navy)
Thank you for your service. I am forever grateful.
My garden was hit hard with the heat. I covered everything with a shade cloth. Bella is a cutie pie. ❤❤❤ Thank you for another great video. 👩🌾🍒🥦🧅 P.S. I forgot I threw some old bush beans (2018) in a large grow bag and several sprouted. 😊
I live in UK. Very interesting to watch and learn what you're growing.
Love your work Mark.
I planted raspberry for the 1st time this year wow yum. Victoria's climate seems to suit raspberries.
Great to see your young bloke having a crack well done.
Make sure to give them lots of room… they sucker widely.
Well done, I've had to take a bit of time off from my gardens but now with the cooler weather I feel like getting back into it, I have heard good things about 1000 L IBC containers cut in half & can be picked up for $50 to $60 on marketplace etc, I was going to start with 4 & see how I go, wish me luck, & thanks for another great video.
People use them for self-wicking gardens. Less time watering. I think Mark has a video on these with a woman who swears by them.
So great to see your garden beds hold up after 10+ years. Hooray for a son that helps in the garden! ❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Looking good! Next round of seeds… here we go!
YOU have never "bored (me) to tears" Thank you! from Southern California, USA
Luke did good.
Thank you Mark. Well done Luke. Happy Father's Day to you.
This channel is always a huge inspiration to me.. But when Mark gets the ole gumboots on, we know we're in for an extra special treat! 😂👍
Loved the video Mark! Happy winter in Australia! It’s getting really hot here, on the Gulf Coast, in Alabama! Love your techniques of growing specialized plants in containers with their modified soil.
Those native Australian raspberries were so cool! Never heard of them!
I have raspberries in my zone (5b) they spread EVERYWHERE! 😂
Shout out to Luke! 👍
I'm in subtropical Florida...love your input.
Back when I used to garden, I would sometimes mix a combo of 5 to 6 parts water to 1 part urine, a bit of wood ash, some kelp powder, and a bit of epsom salts all together, and it seemed to help most of the plants grow.
The last 4 years i have grown some of the best gardens in my entire life. I've been watching your channel on various accounts over the last 5 years or so, which obviously must be why im getting better at it 😜 youve sold me on trying more things I've never grown before in my beds and containers. We grow many different things than each other because our climates are so different, but ive tried a few of the things youve introduced me to that work here and had success. We're just two middle aged men feeding our families safer, fresher food and getting exercise and sun. Cheers 🍻
Waited outside all night for the sun to come up to finish the video. Dedication!! 😂 too funny. Love the video Mark
Wishing we had more rain on our farm, nice to see you getting lots of rain ♥️
Always entertaining and inspiring!
Happy to have found this channel Kenyan Aussie from Porthedland doing some Gardening too
Love your REAL content, showing us the good and the challenging. From NZ.
Mark you should create a second channel called Self Sufficient Me Kitchen and us show what you've grown how to cook and what things to look out for, I honestly love your videos man and I hope u got this
cherry tree grtow well in mediterranean climate and also in subtropical zone, I saw it in brazil
Raspberries are part of the rose family hence the thorns.
I got a similar rasberry to your 'giant rasberry' exept I live in Croatia where in winter we get winters with cold down to ~ -10°C so it grows to half a meter and dies back to the ground in winter.
I'm jealous you got rain. Here last we got few drops i mean few drops yes was 6- 7 months ago. Dried and Hot 🔥! Zone 9 Phx, Az 🇺🇸
I love the way you make your garden beds, in high containers, very easy to work with and especially you don't have to kneel down on ground, and this idear high bed garden looking fantastic but most of all, save veggies from eaten by snails, because they do destroy.
What you have, is safe, fantastic, and beautifully organised.
Very wise 👌💯%✓
Please be careful, look after yourself especially your arms from thorn sharp plants. Your health and safety is important.
Your family needs you👌
Thank you for giving me a fantastic idear and I learned from watching and listening to you.🤗🌺 From NZ❤
Take care with thanks 👍
💚 enjoy the Zen Zone 💚
Thanks for the videos! Please give us a follow-up on the elephant yam.
Awe! Bella just wants to garden with her best fren.
Great beds, wow
That bush you were talking about around the raspberry plant, i have known a plant by the name "wait a while" with thorns. Once you get caught in it, youvwait a while for someone to free you haha
Fantastic job son you deserve praises Happy father's day Mark
Love your brand of humor. I laugh like a dummy every time I watch one of your videos 😂
Wow, I’ve never seen a raspberry like that. I live in California do have on most berries. I hope you have a good week and even better weekend take care & purple🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
We like fennel sliced thinly and steamed with cabbage and thinly sliced (with a peeler) carrots. Yummy!
Happy Father’s Day! You’re a fantastic role model 😊
I really like Detroit beets here in Tn, USA. I have good luck , they grow easily and don't need any work, their greens are AWESOME!
Garden beds look great. Well done. 👍🏻😀 That "looks" like an all seeing eye on the t shirt and end of video too.
o m g that opening line..😂
thanks I needed that.
so sorry about the bog.. I hope that clears up for you soon.
I enjoy the content.. the good with the bad, you just go with the flow.
keep up the good work. and cute little mud puppies 😊
I'm in the desert southwest of the United States, and we'd love to take some of that rain off your hands. We've been experiencing a mega drought for the past 25 years, and we need all the rainfall we can get.
That is so cruel. Makes it hard to feel light-hearted. May the storm clouds gather and bring all the rain you need. [You'd be singing in the rain while stomping in the mud.] Truely hoping the rains come soon for you. ♥
A desert drought must be pretty dry!
Mark I loved the video you did a while back of you and your wife eating only what you produce! You should do that again next summer!
I bought some asparagus pea seeds and they've sprouted! Thanks to you, I'm hoping they do well through my hot, dry Oklahoma summer, because my sugar snaps croaked in May. LOL!!!
Glad to see you have a son with the heart of a helper. Great video, and Happy Father's Day, Mark. I have a couple of 30" high raised beds here to (east coast US) and am eager to get growing in them. btw, love seeing Bella with you out in your garden. If you can imagine a dog about 10 times her size, all black, with shaggy bangs over his eyes, you see my dog Pete.
Looking at a hot summer in our Calif. valley- so lovely to watch a fall garden come into being! Planning for Sept. Happy Days.
I like wood chips in the muddy areas. Keeps the weeds down and easily removed, and fertile for growing low flowering plants, clover, or productive crops like pumpkins in the summer.
Howdy! Here on the Upper Gulf Coast near Houston, Minnie Royal and its pollenizer, Royal Lee, produce maybe 3-6 fruits each year. They are the recommended pollen partners, neither is self-fertile. However, our issue is that there is little to no overlap in blooming. One has finished before the other blooms. So the pollen may be compatible, but the timing is off.
Watching this as we have a huge storm moving through. Supposed to rain for 8 or 9 days straight 😢
Yacon are better cold, from the refrigerator. Really nice snacks. Healthy as well.