Another great video! We moved out of town on 2002 motivated by bad neighbors and 9/11. We are very thankful we did. We are self isolating on 16 forested acres, all fenced, shop space, 2 big gardens and a small orchard, around a mile of walking trails. The virus is not being taken seriously by people in our State. Sorry, off topic. We love your videos, you are teaching very important things at a very serious time. Thanks again
Last year I put in a bunch of raised beds. We built ones sorta like yours. When I had my veggies growing. I would find those tiny green frogs in my kale, chard, lettuces, spinach. They ate all the bugs that would normally eat on all the leaves. I would be careful not to disturb them. When I had to harvest the whole bed I would find the little frogs and move them to another bed of veggies. They were really great pesticides. 🐸🐸🐸 ribbet!
If you haven't already research how to handle frogs safely as we can pass fatal illnesses to them from our skin. Otherwise it's great to hear you working with the Eco system rather than against it
I got the whole family to help me put in my new Birdie beds and fill them and plant them this last weekend. And now they look great and are ready for the harvest to come. We all enjoyed the time together, the laughter and good food.
Pamela Roden , I ordered two beds, but I'm not sure how to fill them. I'm a new gardener, and don't have extra dirt or fillers. How did you fill your new beds?
@@docmarmalade5224 i started with a little bit of small gravel to level them out and make for good drainage then i filled them with cut limbs and wood and some straw, had ordered 3 buckets of good garden soil from the landscape company for 50 US ,delivered, then put that into them to fill them, then i used black cow and peat moss mixed some compost i had, mixed in some pearl light , blood bone, epsom salt and a little 13-13-13 fertilizer. And thats how i back filled and filled the beds.
@@docmarmalade5224 your welcome. I got most of my garden things from our local big box stores and from a sod farm and they delivered. Got the straw from a local farm srore.
1. Sunlight - Six hours or more. 8-10 hours is better, especially in cooler climates. 2. Soil - Good soil is grown. Regularly adding organic matter, compost, and manure keeps good soil growing. 3. Ecosystem - Grow to attract beneficial bugs and critters to keep damaging pests and disease in check. 4. Growing Space - Less clear on this one. I think: it takes some space but not as much as you might think; and arrange your spaces to work for you. ? 5. Effort - It takes steady effort. No slacking. You can do it! 💪
You are such an inspiration, Mark. Two years ago I built 2ft tall raised beds because I was so impressed with yours. Best decision ever! It’s soooo easy to tend to the plants in those beds, and it’s easy for my 4 year old to help. I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve taught me over the years.
Hello, Enjoyed seeing the family (wife and children ) and everyone pitching in. Mark, I'm 66 years old and a veteran also. (U.S.M.C) and I am a subscriber. Mark, I've got MANY health issues. I now do small pocket spaces, all over the place, I.E. tomatoes here, cucumbers there, potatoes over there, all in ground and not in raised beds. everything from seed and heirloom if I can find it. Love, the channel.
Paul Chesson thanks for your contribution, not just for the US but for the rest of the civilised world. Please, for your own sake invest in raised beds. Love from Australia 🇦🇺🇺🇸. PS the marines are priceless. Fuck China
I've learned that I'll work way longer and harder in the garden than I ever will just doing "exercise." Gardening is my favorite form of physical activity. It's interesting, engages my brain (lots of creative problem-solving!), gives me a great work-out, and benefits our household in so many ways. When my friends were complaining about not being able to get to the gym during lockdown, I just grabbed my tools and headed out into my urban garden. As you said in a previous vid, Mark, it wasn't that different for you in lockdown. I experienced that, too. And I also agree that when you're in the garden, the time just flies!
To answer your question about people living in cities thinking about moving out: I live in the suburbs just outside a large city, and I'm so so glad that we couldn't afford to move to the city a few years ago when we bought a house. We were originally really sad that we couldn't afford the multi-million dollar condos in the city, when we left the rental world, but now we're so happy to be in a townhouse with a yard and a large deck because I have quite an extensive container veggie garden going on the south-facing deck and a great shade-garden in the north yard to add to the habitat for animals :) We'll never move back in.
He's Steve worthy. He cares for the environment, he doesn't take more than he gives, he educates, he shares and cares. Steve and he would have been friends without a doubt in my mind. So yes, he is Steve worthy, and I'm sure his family would agree. Keep up the amazing work Mark.
My wife and I found your channel a couple of months ago and have learned a lot already. Our objective has been for a few years to move to the countryside and become as self sufficient as possible, but property is really expensive in our country, even out in the bush. Your videos have provided great inspiration nonetheless, especially when sometimes we feel, like now, trapped in the city forever. One last note, my wife calls you, endearingly, uncle Valencia. Thanks again for the good content and inspiration.
Greetings from the other side of the world ... Washington State USA ... I love the timing difference between us ... Watching you gives me ideas that I have 6 months to prepare for ...
Awesome video. You mention dedicating a lot of time. Could you do a video on a daily garden maintenance day for those who work full time? I’m sorry if you’ve already made one but it be really helpful.
Yes please. That's a large garden and I reckon it's kept going by "boring" things not generally considered film-worthy? It's also good to see what's needed so you can plan properly. If you work you don't always have the time or the energy to maintain it and that's difficult to tell before you start
Thanks for this channel, Mark. I spent last year laying plans and starting to prepare my garden, now that the wandering toddler who kept heading for the main road is a teenager who can help weed, and move compost around. Your channel has both been entertaining, and supplied a lot of good information to help me get back into it, and now I've got food going and ways to get the kids out of the house and staying something like sane. They're even enjoying most of it, much to their surprise.
I just want to say how much I have come to appreciate your Channel. Your attitude towards your property, your effort, and the value of growing your own fruits and veggies matches my own. You have come to be a constant source of inspiration for me move forward despite my physical limitations. New York may be different climatically from Australia but the principles of stewardship, gardening and permaculture remain constant. Thank you friend.
Yes. Have to agree Linda Davidson. Why fight it. Letting nature live in harmony with the Veges. If I see grows or bugs I just relocate them to my composting piles. And I loved the line- good soil is grown. So true.
Yes! The effort is the most important. The saying goes that the best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. My first year gardening I knew nothing, but I spent hours loving my baby plants, and had a massive harvest because of this peaceful time in the garden! It is cathartic, especially during times like these!
Mark, I just wanted to tell you how much you mean to me. I was having a bad night watching Twitter and Facebook and opened RUclips and saw this video. Literally seconds into your video, I was in wonder at your louffa and laughing about dreaming about you saying "let's get into it." And as I reflect now upon the video I've watched (I watch your videos almost daily, along with other gardeners) , tears fill my eyes and I have such a feeling of appreciation for you. The amount of information and knowledge and general wisdom and joy that you are full of, brimming to the top and spilling over on all these videos is a balm to my soul, and I guarantee the rest of your fans as well feel the same way about you. You're a special dude, and I think seeing the frogs and birds who you are also taking care of almost make me weep, it's so incredibly lovely And that reflects back to my garden (this is my second year doing it by myself, though my girlfriend is incredible at the labor, she is also a novice like myself and she has let me do the planning 😁) and how much security I have because of it, and our new chickens that we got two weeks ago. And further calms my anxiety and sooths my stomach. I actually feel like I can eat the dinner that my lady and I prepared together now, thanks to you and everything you bring to these videos. I'm absolutely going to binge watch more episodes, if you ever appear in my dreams, Mark, I'm going to give you the biggest hug. Thanks again for your content, but also this experience I'm having, with tears streaming down my face as I write you.
After a warm period in suburban Denver, Colorado we have cold weather and snow. I have my raised beds covered with broken down boxes and moving blankets, and seed packets on the bench waiting to plant. Mark’s videos get me psyched up for the work ahead when it that’s out again. Dreaming big!
Sitting in the lockdown on my small apartment with a small terras, I have a few strawberry plants but your vids convinced me I need to put more pots and small beds all over it, ordered some salads and herb variaties, beans, spicey peppers and Zucchini seeds, wish me luck lol
Hi Mark. I love your top 5, here is my top 10!!! 1 -effort 2 - sunlight 3 - soil 4 - water 5- mulch/mulsh 6 - grow in season 7 - compost 8 - pest control 9 - companion planting/poly culture 10- share the harvest with your friends.
I have been gardening for about 5 years now, and I just had to pause this video and say: Your videos are packed with excellent gardening information, seriously!! (but also entertaining which is a nice bonus, haha!) I'm not even halfway through this video and it has made me realize why I had so many issues in my first 2 or 3 years of gardening, so it's helping me to apply the information I've been learning over the years. It's making me realize more about my soil and conditions just by the way you've explained things! The problems I had were caused by many factors, but one factor I had not fully understood until now was the fact that my plants weren't getting enough nutrients because I wasn't fertilizing much, plus I had not yet done anything to encourage a thriving community of beneficial soil microbes. Early on I had read that one of the most common gardening mistakes was over-fertilizing, so of course I made the opposite mistake for years, hardly fertilizing at all, even for plants that are heavy feeders! Now I'm trying to build healthy organic soil, but that is going to take years so I need to be better about properly fertilizing (with organic fertilizer only so I don't discourage the worms and microbes), especially for things that need a rich soil like squash, radish, onion, etc. Anyway, if anyone else is reading this, this guy knows what he is talking about!!
Mark! You are the one who is awesome! Love it all but let's face it.. You're in the tropics! Yeah! You've got all the advantages. Love all your varieties of corn. 😍😍😀😀
My zucchini’s are big enough to make into canoes. But still making new ones! I am proud of my straw bale garden though. All my beetroot, carrots, silver beet,collards, onions,beans ,peas and taties are all germinating now. Had to shield them and shade them in the last few hot days, and birds are catching the bugs, so I’m feeling proud! The proof is in the offing. And.....yes we moved to a region to do just this. Got out of the rat race and got more space. Ps...the dragonfruit lives! Even in Kojonup WA.
Writing from 🇺🇸. I love watching your videos. It helps to have ideas for recycling, growing in small areas, and tips of how to grow different styles of plants. My kids also love when you show the wild life like the tree frogs and kookaburra that we don't get to see here. Thanks!
Excellent vid ! I lived in Melbourne for a short time .I liked it there and the people were great. I am back in the US now . I just disked up a garden it as about 50 yards by 25 yards wide .I really want raised beds(not in the budget yet).I am ex-army and have a back injury from there. So I figure this will make it much easier to do. I like your attitude and positivity .Keep up the great work my friend!
I never thought that both dairy farms and the land owned by my now deceased grandparents would be sold. We always thought we'd have the farm in the family. But life events happened. I live in a suburb but instead of moving, I lease land and use that for my beekeeping. A big benefit to this is the land is conservation land so it's pesticide-free. My father does the same and has a very large family garden on a cousins' farm. The cousin benefits from free veggies from the garden in exchange. These are our workaround solutions.
@Dog The one farm is used just for cash crops and the other was converted to pig farming but you are right. 25 head of cattle and 100 acres is old school. Now they run with 400 to 600 acres and usually own several farms on the concession. I know dairy has been given a bad name but I believe there will be a comeback when people realize they've been duped.
Mark, love you and everything you have to say about gardening and everything else you show. I'm in Maine, USA and our planting zones couldn't be further apart, but it's the things that I can take away from what you do that are making gardening better here. I have chickens and goats, and I need to incorporate the manure better. No Kabota here, just shovels and buckets. This summer, it's time to do some work! Retired Army here with 24 years, and thank YOU for your service. P.S. I can't wait to make the home grown mustard this summer. Thank you for that video!
You're a crack up. I'll second The Steve Irwin of the Garden title! Here! Here! Thanks so much from everyone on Maui. I've been turning people onto your channel. We have very similar weather. We REALLY appreciate all you're doing. No room for an orchard here on Maui (price of land is too expensive) but I'm on 1/4 acre and my kids are learning from you - you're helping us with our school grow project!
As usual. Good listening and info. I'm currently living in a city in the UK. Growing what veg I can. This current event as resparked my love for gardening and good fresh food. The patch is small but with some more work should produce amble crops to reduce my sufficiency on others. Keep up the good work.
Sadly where I am, the Rabbits & Brush Turkeys are making gardening more like a battlefield than a playground and, thanks to the Midge flies, I look like a Commando heading to the front line when I want to spend time in the garden. It’s a bummer but I soldier on 😆👍
@@stellaqaustralia lol... I battle rabbits, racoons and deer... Don't mind the rabbits and deer so much, I also love the wildlife. And the rabbits and deer don't come up on my deck where I have containers with plants. But you can't keep those racoons off my deck and they're not happy just grabbing a tomato or something. They have to pull over the whole pot and emty the dirt all over the deck to see if I hid something on the bottom.
Pamela Bean 😆 Cheeky Rascals! Our equivalent is the possums. (Different to your Opossums though) …& Cockatoos & Parrots, 🙄😁 It’s an uphill battle without some sort of Alcatraz fenced fort. Still, I prefer to have the wildlife around, as annoying as it is. Living on the edge of a Nat Park will do that. No loss, I’m all thumbs when it comes to gardening & none of them are green. 😂
Excellent Mark! Happy Easter to your family. My husband wants to build some of the higher raised metal beds. Love your enthusiasm and the funny bits too. Much love from SoCal. ❤🌿
In 2005 I was hit by a VBIED in Iraq. 2 years later we bought a few acres of chest-high brambles and weeds in France. Over the last 13years, our garden has been my consellor, my physical therapist and (although I'm not religious) my spiritual guide. Your videos have been my educator, allowing me the knowledge to keep making small victories. Growing, tending and eating one's own fruit and vegetables is just the best therapy for PTSD. Thank you for your efforts, I genuinely can't watch any civvies' channels!
My heart melted seeing that beautiful little frog. We are just about to get started growing here soon as the ground warms up and we stop having freak snow storms
Totally agree with your tips. A day in the garden is a day in Eden lol. I could never get my all my kids (now grown) to work together in the garden, hats off to you!
We got a chuckle out of your comments about the family helping! I'm the gardener in the family but have had health problems that have limited what I've been able to do in recent years. Every spring I get the itch and start planning the garden while the family starts groaning and make themselves scarce. I've ordered 3 Birdies raised beds because of your show. Anxiously awaiting them but probably won't be here until June. We've really enjoyed watching your you tube channel especially in this time of Covid 19. Deb from Pennsylvania, USA
Ordering my raised bed this week. Just bought a house with a bigger yard but still only 6100 sqft. Garden and grapes in the back, fig, lemon and pomegranate in the front. Can't wait!
Hi Mark, I just wanted to thank you for all that you do with your videos to educate me and assist with my new gardening skills. You seem like a very sweet man, you show us how we can make these Covid lockdown quarantine times a lot fun. Keep doing what you do. Thanks! 👍 now let’s get into it!
I am totally loving your channel Mark. All the rescue piggies would just love to eat from there. You are inspiring me to work harder in my garden. Cheers 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
It seems to me that you down unders are the masters of the understatement! I chuckle when I watch your vlogs. It makes me feel better.thankyou for that and the new or needing said again bits of gardening wisdom!
Thanks so much for all the invaluable learning you provide Mark. My veg garden experience is a whole 4 months old and watching your videos is inspiring. I really appreciated your comments about the necessity and time needed to grow the soil.. a timely reminder to be patient as we help our soil grow.
i’m only 18, and after getting really into cooking, this channel is giving me an amazing gateway to be interested in gardening, and (once i know my stuff) enough to make my own, and i’m super excited for it!! PS, thank you Mark! you’re a truly amazing Aussie bloke
I love watching your videos on gardeing and growing things in containers. I often save a couple of your videos to a playlist to show to my husband and to watch them again. I love the tips on the mulch as well. Your videos are very helpful. We are going to feed a family of four and we will need to learn to use our space as wisely as possible. We are going to try to raised beds as low cost as possible. We greatly appreciate your videos and the knowledge that you have shared with us.
I live in a subdivision with just a small yard. My partner and I have been at odds for years about where we live. I want a place with lots of land and he loves it here. We finally agreed that we will invest in this little bit of property that we have now and make it as productive as possible. We are in Canada and started our yard transformation last fall and will do as much as we can this summer given our movement restrictions. We have decided to buy a second property in sunny Florida and have agreed to buy a property with lots of land! Once we have freedom of movement again, that will be a priority.
I absolutely love your videos! You inspired me to grow more and more stuff in my first little home of 512m2. Also now when I start filming for my videos I always wanna say “lets get into it!” Thank you for the inspiration! I’m obsessed with watching your videos I think I’ve always binge watched all your videos !
Thanks for your videos m8! They're not only super educational but honest to God they're great company during these times. Hope it continues going awesome for you
Looking forward to the next instalment on the old beds.. you are right about buying soil..it's taken 12mths of care and improvement to get the best out of my new raised beds..👌
I am in Melbourne, Australia. I heard a rural real estate agent say today (on the radio) that starting a few weeks ago, there had been a surge in interest in regional properties. People are thinking that if they are working from home via the internet as seems to be the new normal here, why not live in the countryside rather than a big city? Mark has cited another benefit of the rural life at this time - having lots of space to roam around in if sentenced to a life at home.
We built and are still building a cinder block raised bed garden. It is a 42.5 foot by 25.5 foot square. Planting area between inner and outer wall is 3 foot 10 inches. We are going to enclose it in a framework and fence it in chicken wire. We are also going to put 4 to 6 beds inside of the square.
You're my favourite gardening RUclipsr! Such an Aussie sense of humour too, I constantly find myself laughing at the dry humour/dad jokes 😂 Thank you for your videos! We are kicking off our veggie garden this week and have found your videos very helpful 😊
I absolutely adore your personality and videos, and you've majorly inspired me to start growing food even though I live in city suburbs and don't have much yard space. My back patio is now full of food plants that are sprouted in the last week from seeds and I'm excited to see how well they do, especially the turnips!
I think I've just found my new favorite channel. It's great to find someone from my part of the world making content. I look forward to binge watching your videos 👍👌
Whenever I'm really stressed and anxious I find myself gravitating towards this page, his voice just soothes me lol.
Mark seems like such a good natured fella… so Nature is good back to him. True blue! 🇦🇺👍
Indeed! Also awesome videos with great content and a bit of entertainment :D Keep up the good work Mark!
Fair dinkum.
Dr. Ho Lee Phuk 👈🤣
Stella Q, Mark is the Steve Irwin of gardening
Aussie Lady 😄👍 That’s a perfect description
Another great video!
We moved out of town on 2002 motivated by bad neighbors and 9/11.
We are very thankful we did. We are self isolating on 16 forested acres, all fenced, shop space, 2 big gardens and a small orchard, around a mile of walking trails.
The virus is not being taken seriously by people in our State.
Sorry, off topic.
We love your videos, you are teaching very important things at a very serious time.
Thanks again
Last year I put in a bunch of raised beds. We built ones sorta like yours. When I had my veggies growing. I would find those tiny green frogs in my kale, chard, lettuces, spinach. They ate all the bugs that would normally eat on all the leaves. I would be careful not to disturb them. When I had to harvest the whole bed I would find the little frogs and move them to another bed of veggies. They were really great pesticides. 🐸🐸🐸 ribbet!
If you haven't already research how to handle frogs safely as we can pass fatal illnesses to them from our skin. Otherwise it's great to hear you working with the Eco system rather than against it
mark t Would regular rubber gloves protect them? What diseases can we pass to them?
I got the whole family to help me put in my new Birdie beds and fill them and plant them this last weekend. And now they look great and are ready for the harvest to come. We all enjoyed the time together, the laughter and good food.
Pamela Roden , I ordered two beds, but I'm not sure how to fill them. I'm a new gardener, and don't have extra dirt or fillers. How did you fill your new beds?
@@docmarmalade5224 i started with a little bit of small gravel to level them out and make for good drainage then i filled them with cut limbs and wood and some straw, had ordered 3 buckets of good garden soil from the landscape company for 50 US ,delivered, then put that into them to fill them, then i used black cow and peat moss mixed some compost i had, mixed in some pearl light , blood bone, epsom salt and a little 13-13-13 fertilizer. And thats how i back filled and filled the beds.
Pamela Roden thank you for sharing
@@docmarmalade5224 your welcome. I got most of my garden things from our local big box stores and from a sod farm and they delivered. Got the straw from a local farm srore.
You deserve your own tv show mate. I reckon youd knock 'home and away' off that prime time spot.
craig mumbo ... better than Burke’s Backyard.
Agree! He needs his own show.
Nobody watches TV anymore.
RUclips is perfect
@@lat7805 Netflix / Hulu then :)
1. Sunlight - Six hours or more. 8-10 hours is better, especially in cooler climates.
2. Soil - Good soil is grown. Regularly adding organic matter, compost, and manure keeps good soil growing.
3. Ecosystem - Grow to attract beneficial bugs and critters to keep damaging pests and disease in check.
4. Growing Space - Less clear on this one. I think: it takes some space but not as much as you might think; and arrange your spaces to work for you. ?
5. Effort - It takes steady effort. No slacking. You can do it! 💪
You are such an inspiration, Mark. Two years ago I built 2ft tall raised beds because I was so impressed with yours. Best decision ever! It’s soooo easy to tend to the plants in those beds, and it’s easy for my 4 year old to help. I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve taught me over the years.
Hello, Enjoyed seeing the family (wife and children ) and everyone pitching in. Mark, I'm 66 years old and a veteran also. (U.S.M.C) and I am a subscriber. Mark, I've got MANY health issues. I now do small pocket spaces, all over the place, I.E. tomatoes here, cucumbers there, potatoes over there, all in ground and not in raised beds. everything from seed and heirloom if I can find it. Love, the channel.
Paul Chesson thanks for your contribution, not just for the US but for the rest of the civilised world. Please, for your own sake invest in raised beds. Love from Australia 🇦🇺🇺🇸. PS the marines are priceless. Fuck China
I've learned that I'll work way longer and harder in the garden than I ever will just doing "exercise." Gardening is my favorite form of physical activity. It's interesting, engages my brain (lots of creative problem-solving!), gives me a great work-out, and benefits our household in so many ways. When my friends were complaining about not being able to get to the gym during lockdown, I just grabbed my tools and headed out into my urban garden. As you said in a previous vid, Mark, it wasn't that different for you in lockdown. I experienced that, too. And I also agree that when you're in the garden, the time just flies!
To answer your question about people living in cities thinking about moving out: I live in the suburbs just outside a large city, and I'm so so glad that we couldn't afford to move to the city a few years ago when we bought a house. We were originally really sad that we couldn't afford the multi-million dollar condos in the city, when we left the rental world, but now we're so happy to be in a townhouse with a yard and a large deck because I have quite an extensive container veggie garden going on the south-facing deck and a great shade-garden in the north yard to add to the habitat for animals :) We'll never move back in.
Self Sufficient Me: The Steve Irwin of veg.
Definitely a guy you want advice about gardening from 👌🏻💯
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lol its the shorts!!!
Crikeys mate! She’s a beaut!
Steve was a legend, those are some big shoes to fill. But hes still a good sort not yet steve worthy tho
He's Steve worthy. He cares for the environment, he doesn't take more than he gives, he educates, he shares and cares. Steve and he would have been friends without a doubt in my mind. So yes, he is Steve worthy, and I'm sure his family would agree. Keep up the amazing work Mark.
“Good soil is grown”...love this! Do you ever buy produce? What percentage of your own do you grow?
I do I won't plant my corn seeds untill next month.
good like your comment
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I appreciate that
I already seen this video
Thats so true. Time flies too fast in the gardens. This last week i thought i spent about 30 minutes. It was more like 3 hours 🤣
My wife and I found your channel a couple of months ago and have learned a lot already. Our objective has been for a few years to move to the countryside and become as self sufficient as possible, but property is really expensive in our country, even out in the bush. Your videos have provided great inspiration nonetheless, especially when sometimes we feel, like now, trapped in the city forever. One last note, my wife calls you, endearingly, uncle Valencia. Thanks again for the good content and inspiration.
Greetings from the other side of the world ... Washington State USA ... I love the timing difference between us ... Watching you gives me ideas that I have 6 months to prepare for ...
Awesome video. You mention dedicating a lot of time. Could you do a video on a daily garden maintenance day for those who work full time? I’m sorry if you’ve already made one but it be really helpful.
Yes please. That's a large garden and I reckon it's kept going by "boring" things not generally considered film-worthy? It's also good to see what's needed so you can plan properly. If you work you don't always have the time or the energy to maintain it and that's difficult to tell before you start
Thanks for this channel, Mark. I spent last year laying plans and starting to prepare my garden, now that the wandering toddler who kept heading for the main road is a teenager who can help weed, and move compost around. Your channel has both been entertaining, and supplied a lot of good information to help me get back into it, and now I've got food going and ways to get the kids out of the house and staying something like sane. They're even enjoying most of it, much to their surprise.
I just want to say how much I have come to appreciate your Channel. Your attitude towards your property, your effort, and the value of growing your own fruits and veggies matches my own. You have come to be a constant source of inspiration for me move forward despite my physical limitations. New York may be different climatically from Australia but the principles of stewardship, gardening and permaculture remain constant. Thank you friend.
5:36 Love the green frogs. You are blessed, man!
Love the mention of the ecosystem!
Yes. Have to agree Linda Davidson. Why fight it.
Letting nature live in harmony with the Veges.
If I see grows or bugs I just relocate them to my composting piles.
And I loved the line- good soil is grown. So true.
@@MrHSIE Agreed!
Yes! The effort is the most important. The saying goes that the best fertilizer is the shadow of the gardener. My first year gardening I knew nothing, but I spent hours loving my baby plants, and had a massive harvest because of this peaceful time in the garden! It is cathartic, especially during times like these!
Always appreciated marks sense of humor, makes my day better. Especially in times like this.
I really enjoy your videos. Ireland doesn't have your weather, but your enthusiasm is very motivational. Thanks.
Hi again thanks again I am only new to food growing 4 years but loving it more every day kit
Good to see the Fam out there helping.
maybe not the 1st time anyone has said this... but Self Sufficient Me has the same passion as Steve Irwin, but on the veggie side.. Love it!
I love that you gave us Americans the measurements in yards. I appreciate you and all the little things you do!
Mark, I just wanted to tell you how much you mean to me. I was having a bad night watching Twitter and Facebook and opened RUclips and saw this video. Literally seconds into your video, I was in wonder at your louffa and laughing about dreaming about you saying "let's get into it."
And as I reflect now upon the video I've watched (I watch your videos almost daily, along with other gardeners) , tears fill my eyes and I have such a feeling of appreciation for you. The amount of information and knowledge and general wisdom and joy that you are full of, brimming to the top and spilling over on all these videos is a balm to my soul, and I guarantee the rest of your fans as well feel the same way about you. You're a special dude, and I think seeing the frogs and birds who you are also taking care of almost make me weep, it's so incredibly lovely
And that reflects back to my garden (this is my second year doing it by myself, though my girlfriend is incredible at the labor, she is also a novice like myself and she has let me do the planning 😁) and how much security I have because of it, and our new chickens that we got two weeks ago. And further calms my anxiety and sooths my stomach.
I actually feel like I can eat the dinner that my lady and I prepared together now, thanks to you and everything you bring to these videos.
I'm absolutely going to binge watch more episodes, if you ever appear in my dreams, Mark, I'm going to give you the biggest hug. Thanks again for your content, but also this experience I'm having, with tears streaming down my face as I write you.
This is my number 1 RUclips page that I watch. Why dont we all share and make this man and his family well off, just as how he has taught us?
Awesome video man. Have been working the whole weekend in the garden. Have an amazing Sunday, Andreas 🇸🇪
After a warm period in suburban Denver, Colorado we have cold weather and snow. I have my raised beds covered with broken down boxes and moving blankets, and seed packets on the bench waiting to plant. Mark’s videos get me psyched up for the work ahead when it that’s out again. Dreaming big!
AH cheers mark you just killed my byline lol :) Great video pal
Sitting in the lockdown on my small apartment with a small terras, I have a few strawberry plants but your vids convinced me I need to put more pots and small beds all over it, ordered some salads and herb variaties, beans, spicey peppers and Zucchini seeds, wish me luck lol
Thanks Mark for showing people from other countries a true blue Aussie bloke, good hearted with a pinch of larrikin.
Hi Mark.
I love your top 5, here is my top 10!!!
1 -effort
2 - sunlight
3 - soil
4 - water
5- mulch/mulsh
6 - grow in season
7 - compost
8 - pest control
9 - companion planting/poly culture
10- share the harvest with your friends.
I have been gardening for about 5 years now, and I just had to pause this video and say: Your videos are packed with excellent gardening information, seriously!! (but also entertaining which is a nice bonus, haha!)
I'm not even halfway through this video and it has made me realize why I had so many issues in my first 2 or 3 years of gardening, so it's helping me to apply the information I've been learning over the years. It's making me realize more about my soil and conditions just by the way you've explained things! The problems I had were caused by many factors, but one factor I had not fully understood until now was the fact that my plants weren't getting enough nutrients because I wasn't fertilizing much, plus I had not yet done anything to encourage a thriving community of beneficial soil microbes.
Early on I had read that one of the most common gardening mistakes was over-fertilizing, so of course I made the opposite mistake for years, hardly fertilizing at all, even for plants that are heavy feeders! Now I'm trying to build healthy organic soil, but that is going to take years so I need to be better about properly fertilizing (with organic fertilizer only so I don't discourage the worms and microbes), especially for things that need a rich soil like squash, radish, onion, etc.
Anyway, if anyone else is reading this, this guy knows what he is talking about!!
Mark! You are the one who is awesome! Love it all but let's face it.. You're in the tropics! Yeah! You've got all the advantages. Love all your varieties of corn. 😍😍😀😀
Love how down to earth you are! And your enthusiasm to growing your own food
You are such a delight. Thank you for spreading sunshine and knowledge with us, Mark!
My zucchini’s are big enough to make into canoes. But still making new ones! I am proud of my straw bale garden though. All my beetroot, carrots, silver beet,collards, onions,beans ,peas and taties are all germinating now. Had to shield them and shade them in the last few hot days, and birds are catching the bugs, so I’m feeling proud! The proof is in the offing. And.....yes we moved to a region to do just this. Got out of the rat race and got more space. Ps...the dragonfruit lives! Even in Kojonup WA.
Writing from 🇺🇸. I love watching your videos. It helps to have ideas for recycling, growing in small areas, and tips of how to grow different styles of plants. My kids also love when you show the wild life like the tree frogs and kookaburra that we don't get to see here. Thanks!
Watching your videos makes quarantine more meaningful and fun .. growing our own food makes more sense now more than ever..
Excellent vid ! I lived in Melbourne for a short time .I liked it there and the people were great. I am back in the US now . I just disked up a garden it as about 50 yards by 25 yards wide .I really want raised beds(not in the budget yet).I am ex-army and have a back injury from there. So I figure this will make it much easier to do. I like your attitude and positivity .Keep up the great work my friend!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'm not much of a gardener. But I have the space and the want to grow my own vegetables for my family.
I never thought that both dairy farms and the land owned by my now deceased grandparents would be sold. We always thought we'd have the farm in the family. But life events happened.
I live in a suburb but instead of moving, I lease land and use that for my beekeeping. A big benefit to this is the land is conservation land so it's pesticide-free. My father does the same and has a very large family garden on a cousins' farm. The cousin benefits from free veggies from the garden in exchange.
These are our workaround solutions.
What an awesome idea!!!
@Dog The one farm is used just for cash crops and the other was converted to pig farming but you are right. 25 head of cattle and 100 acres is old school. Now they run with 400 to 600 acres and usually own several farms on the concession.
I know dairy has been given a bad name but I believe there will be a comeback when people realize they've been duped.
Mark, love you and everything you have to say about gardening and everything else you show. I'm in Maine, USA and our planting zones couldn't be further apart, but it's the things that I can take away from what you do that are making gardening better here. I have chickens and goats, and I need to incorporate the manure better. No Kabota here, just shovels and buckets. This summer, it's time to do some work! Retired Army here with 24 years, and thank YOU for your service. P.S. I can't wait to make the home grown mustard this summer. Thank you for that video!
You're a crack up. I'll second The Steve Irwin of the Garden title! Here! Here! Thanks so much from everyone on Maui. I've been turning people onto your channel. We have very similar weather. We REALLY appreciate all you're doing. No room for an orchard here on Maui (price of land is too expensive) but I'm on 1/4 acre and my kids are learning from you - you're helping us with our school grow project!
As usual. Good listening and info. I'm currently living in a city in the UK. Growing what veg I can. This current event as resparked my love for gardening and good fresh food. The patch is small but with some more work should produce amble crops to reduce my sufficiency on others. Keep up the good work.
Sadly where I am, the Rabbits & Brush Turkeys are making gardening more like a battlefield than a playground and, thanks to the Midge flies, I look like a Commando heading to the front line when I want to spend time in the garden. It’s a bummer but I soldier on 😆👍
@@stellaqaustralia lol... I battle rabbits, racoons and deer... Don't mind the rabbits and deer so much, I also love the wildlife. And the rabbits and deer don't come up on my deck where I have containers with plants. But you can't keep those racoons off my deck and they're not happy just grabbing a tomato or something. They have to pull over the whole pot and emty the dirt all over the deck to see if I hid something on the bottom.
Pamela Bean 😆 Cheeky Rascals! Our equivalent is the possums. (Different to your Opossums though) …& Cockatoos & Parrots, 🙄😁 It’s an uphill battle without some sort of Alcatraz fenced fort. Still, I prefer to have the wildlife around, as annoying as it is. Living on the edge of a Nat Park will do that. No loss, I’m all thumbs when it comes to gardening & none of them are green. 😂
Pamela Bean I’d love to have deer around. 😍
awesome content Mark! Watching from the USA ❤
Excellent Mark! Happy Easter to your family. My husband wants to build some of the higher raised metal beds. Love your enthusiasm and the funny bits too. Much love from SoCal. ❤🌿
I'm in SoCal too,but I'm in the High Desert so it's really hard to grow anything out here. I need help 😭
In 2005 I was hit by a VBIED in Iraq. 2 years later we bought a few acres of chest-high brambles and weeds in France. Over the last 13years, our garden has been my consellor, my physical therapist and (although I'm not religious) my spiritual guide. Your videos have been my educator, allowing me the knowledge to keep making small victories. Growing, tending and eating one's own fruit and vegetables is just the best therapy for PTSD. Thank you for your efforts, I genuinely can't watch any civvies' channels!
Gardening has helped heal me from a abusive relationship. It is very healing wish you well! 🤗
My heart melted seeing that beautiful little frog. We are just about to get started growing here soon as the ground warms up and we stop having freak snow storms
Good time to be a gardener. Thanks for sharing your pearls of wisdom. You're helping a lot of people right now.
Good stuff. I’m a reborn gardener having relocated to Spain from the UK. Looking forward to a productive summer. 👍🏼
Good morning from Portland Oregon. Believe it or not but we have sun today!!!😂😂
they have reduced the stratospheric aerosol injections a little bit lately, but anyways, hope u good people of Portland are doing grand today
Overcast and hideously cloudy in Northern California. No fair.
Was able to put seedlings out already going to be a great season
18 Bees About an hour north of ya, sea level near I-5. We had thick frost this morning, before the sun came up!
Dwight Lee wow that’s crazy. The mason bees are out thick and fast this morning. It’s awesome to see.
Happy Easter from Northern California! Best of wishes to you and your family. Cant wait to see the new bed.
Totally agree with your tips. A day in the garden is a day in Eden lol. I could never get my all my kids (now grown) to work together in the garden, hats off to you!
We got a chuckle out of your comments about the family helping! I'm the gardener in the family but have had health problems that have limited what I've been able to do in recent years. Every spring I get the itch and start planning the garden while the family starts groaning and make themselves scarce.
I've ordered 3 Birdies raised beds because of your show. Anxiously awaiting them but probably won't be here until June.
We've really enjoyed watching your you tube channel especially in this time of Covid 19.
Deb from Pennsylvania, USA
You are the first to bring up effort and I think that is important to understand that it does take effort. Great video
Great suggestions thanks
Good luck with the new beds. From Miami USA.
Ordering my raised bed this week. Just bought a house with a bigger yard but still only 6100 sqft. Garden and grapes in the back, fig, lemon and pomegranate in the front. Can't wait!
Thanks for this. Over here in Boston, MA USA. Cant wait to try your tips. Best to you and your family. Stay safe, Be well.
Hi Mark, I just wanted to thank you for all that you do with your videos to educate me and assist with my new gardening skills. You seem like a very sweet man, you show us how we can make these Covid lockdown quarantine times a lot fun. Keep doing what you do. Thanks! 👍 now let’s get into it!
Learning and teaching others how to compost is very important.
Keep this awesome content flowing! I absolutely love the way you roll!
I am totally loving your channel Mark. All the rescue piggies would just love to eat from there. You are inspiring me to work harder in my garden. Cheers 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Always enjoy your videos! Thanks for all the work you put into your videos and your garden!!
It seems to me that you down unders are the masters of the understatement! I chuckle when I watch your vlogs. It makes me feel better.thankyou for that and the new or needing said again bits of gardening wisdom!
Nice to see the family Mark..From one Aussie to another...Well done Mate...
Thanks so much for all the invaluable learning you provide Mark. My veg garden experience is a whole 4 months old and watching your videos is inspiring. I really appreciated your comments about the necessity and time needed to grow the soil.. a timely reminder to be patient as we help our soil grow.
How could you not enjoy watching Marks videos. Im inspired to make my garden 👍🏻
I'm binge watching all ur videos.... It's really awesome of u to share all this... Thank you... Bless you and ur family
i’m only 18, and after getting really into cooking, this channel is giving me an amazing gateway to be interested in gardening, and (once i know my stuff) enough to make my own, and i’m super excited for it!!
PS, thank you Mark! you’re a truly amazing Aussie bloke
I'm new to your channel and your videos bring me tremendous value. Thanks!
Thank you Mark from USA. Excellent comments.
I agree raised beds have so many benefits. Loved that you and your family worked together to work on that bed. I always enjoy your videos friend. 😊
New viewer from Canada cant wait to try some of your tips out great videos✌
I love watching your videos on gardeing and growing things in containers. I often save a couple of your videos to a playlist to show to my husband and to watch them again. I love the tips on the mulch as well. Your videos are very helpful. We are going to feed a family of four and we will need to learn to use our space as wisely as possible. We are going to try to raised beds as low cost as possible. We greatly appreciate your videos and the knowledge that you have shared with us.
Yesterday I applied bamboo leaf mulch on my garden. I had never though of it before watching your videos. Youre a great inspiration, thank you!
I live in a subdivision with just a small yard. My partner and I have been at odds for years about where we live. I want a place with lots of land and he loves it here. We finally agreed that we will invest in this little bit of property that we have now and make it as productive as possible. We are in Canada and started our yard transformation last fall and will do as much as we can this summer given our movement restrictions. We have decided to buy a second property in sunny Florida and have agreed to buy a property with lots of land! Once we have freedom of movement again, that will be a priority.
I absolutely love your videos! You inspired me to grow more and more stuff in my first little home of 512m2.
Also now when I start filming for my videos I always wanna say “lets get into it!”
Thank you for the inspiration! I’m obsessed with watching your videos I think I’ve always binge watched all your videos !
Thanks for your videos m8! They're not only super educational but honest to God they're great company during these times. Hope it continues going awesome for you
Looking forward to the next instalment on the old beds.. you are right about buying soil..it's taken 12mths of care and improvement to get the best out of my new raised beds..👌
I am in Melbourne, Australia. I heard a rural real estate agent say today (on the radio) that starting a few weeks ago, there had been a surge in interest in regional properties. People are thinking that if they are working from home via the internet as seems to be the new normal here, why not live in the countryside rather than a big city? Mark has cited another benefit of the rural life at this time - having lots of space to roam around in if sentenced to a life at home.
I adore your channel!!!! Thank you so much!
love ya mark
our iso has bassically been your masterclass in gardening
We built and are still building a cinder block raised bed garden. It is a 42.5 foot by 25.5 foot square. Planting area between inner and outer wall is 3 foot 10 inches. We are going to enclose it in a framework and fence it in chicken wire.
We are also going to put 4 to 6 beds inside of the square.
Can't wait to see what's going there!!! Keep up the great work and motivation Mark🔥thank you for your continued civil service 🙏
Looking forward to seeing what you do with your renewed space!
You're my favourite gardening RUclipsr! Such an Aussie sense of humour too, I constantly find myself laughing at the dry humour/dad jokes 😂 Thank you for your videos! We are kicking off our veggie garden this week and have found your videos very helpful 😊
i absolutely love your property. So big and peaceful.
So I'm sure we'll be enjoying a video soon showing the " something special" transformation of those old 3 beds. ☺ Looking forward to it.
I like the idea of using earthworms to enrich the soil
Always love each one of your videos! Thanks for the info and your enthusiasm!
I absolutely adore your personality and videos, and you've majorly inspired me to start growing food even though I live in city suburbs and don't have much yard space. My back patio is now full of food plants that are sprouted in the last week from seeds and I'm excited to see how well they do, especially the turnips!
"..small acreage of 3 acres..."
Here I am with barely 300sq feet! Wish I had even one acre!
I know your pain..... But I'll love some cattle and pigs one day
300 square feet? You live in an apartment or something?
It's amazing how much space you can use if you go vertical.
@@beyondbackwater4933 maybe 300sqf backyard?
I just moved into an apartment in the city after coming from the countryside. Rip to me 😂 been here 3 weeks and already hate itn
Thanks for another great video! It was beautiful here today... as long as you stayed indoors. Sunny and very cold!
I think I've just found my new favorite channel. It's great to find someone from my part of the world making content. I look forward to binge watching your videos 👍👌