I just remembered one of the many reasons I love your channel. I'm in the Northern hemisphere and i was just going through my seed inventory for February planting when you popped up in my feed wearing shorts and cracking Santa jokes😂😂❤
Write your own story with the earth-each plant is a chapter, filled with growth, challenges, and the ultimate reward of seeing your hard work come to life. ❤🌱
I saw a video recently about creating long term woodchip compost in your garden pathways, which has the added benefit of giving you something to walk on instead of muddy ground. every few years you just dig up all the broken down wood chips and use them in the garden and replace with new chips, might be something to look into to solve your muddy path issue
Can't believe you're growing betel leaf - I only just learnt about their existence. This is why your my favourite, always expanding your garden plants and introducing us to the common and 'uncommon' ones
That is not betel leaf but 'wild pepper ' ( KADUK in Malaysia, Singapore n maybe in Indonesia too). It has a milder taste than betel leaf which is spicy.
Bitter gourd (also known as karela) is a unique vegetable with a slightly bitter taste that can be balanced beautifully through proper preparation and frying. Here's a recipe for Crispy Fried Bitter Gourd (Karela Chips) to minimize bitterness while making it a delicious snack or side dish: Ingredients: 2 medium-sized bitter gourds (karela) ½ teaspoon turmeric powder 1 teaspoon salt (for soaking and seasoning) 1 teaspoon red chili powder (optional, for spice) ½ teaspoon ground cumin or coriander powder 2 tablespoons rice flour or chickpea flour (for extra crispiness) 2 tablespoons semolina (optional, for crunch) ½ cup cooking oil (for frying) Here in the UK i have been trying to grow them for years, if i am succesfull next (2025) i will make video of me cooking them up on the allotment
I've grown bitter gourd a few times. I like to let them get over mature to a very orange color. The seeds have a beautiful and tasty red gel around them. The gourds don't seem to be as bitter and you can just add them fresh to a salsa.
I'm in southern Vermont but we also have turmeric available this time of year because of our lovely winter farmer's market and a local farm who harvests and stores enough turmeric to supply interested customers. It's otherwise mostly tubers, hard squashes, onions and greenhouse greens for local produce otherwise. I can't complain about local fresh cilantro weekly!
That bitter gourd or cerasse is prepared by my Chinese Jamaican family by cutting in half and cleaning out the seeds. So your left with 2 cylinders that they usually stuff with minced pork or any favorite meat that was seasoned with grated garlic, ginger, bit of sugar and then steamed. Eaten with rice and oyster sauce or any sweet hoisin type sauce is good with it. The bitterness is lessened when steamed and the oyster sauce brings the sweet and salt. In Jamaica, the leaves are used for tea. Thought to be a blood cleanser and possibly thinner so its not to be drunk too often.
-6C here (North Eastern US) today with snow showers, can feel the warmth of your weedy beds and gets me in the mood to plan next season's gardens. Hope you and your family have warm and happy holidays, cheers!
I like bitter melon. I somtimes pickle them with cucumber and carrots with vinegar. Also I like Okinawa style cooking. You can make stir fly with pork, hard tofu, carrot, and eggs. Use Japanese dashi, soy source and sugar to flavour. I recommend slice bitter mellon thin, and branch them first. And i suggest add them at last stage of cooking. The combination of pork, and dashi flavour and sweet soy source flavour is devine. It is really good for you. I hope you can try the recipes.
Such a fantabulous video to wake up and find today! I love listening to you and your family talk about growing (and catching!) the food you eat and how others can do the same, no matter where you live on this planet. I can't really grow anything right now, except for my fig tree which has been taken in for the winter, so watching your channel's videos is a blessing. I want to try one of those purple sweet potatoes the next growing season myself now. lol Purple Yam... Purple Yam... May you and yours have Happy Holidays!
Mark I absolutely love the way you describe the bitter gourd. I grow that here in Arkansas and it is a beautiful beautiful plant with fragrant flowers and I love the fruits. They fruit so prolifically. However I too cannot figure out how to eat it I wish I could. My husband is Filipino and there are a lot of different Asian varieties in Northwest Arkansas and they all love them. So I give a lot of way.
Merry Christmas Mark. looking forward t the nut grass plan. I put in som new beds recently, loads of cardboard on the bottom and it came up THROUGH the bloody cardboard!!! bane of my existence!
Hi Mark, thank you for this video, I always learn something new when I watch you. I tried Jerusalem artichokes for the first time here in Colorado and oh my, they went nuts, bumper crop, I now have to learn how to cook and process them. I always try a new seed or crop every year to see what will grow here and what fails. Hope your family have a Merry Christmas and safe Happy New Year. Crystal
I grill our Bitter Melon (Gourd) just long enough to make it easy to chew, but not so long as it will get soggy. I'll grill steak once a week and fish 2-3 times a week. Will have bitter melon with each meal. Seems to take alot of the "bitterness" out of it if it's grilled.
Mark, you're the best. Your gardens and gardening are so impressive and inspiring, especially with Australian weather and spiders as your companions. Merry Christmas and Best Wishes to you and yours for a prosperous New Year from us in Colorado.
The bitter melon or gourd as you call it is used in salad but it is still very bitter. It's an acquired taste. Either you like it or you hate. As a kid I hated it now I absolutely love it.
I planted Asparagus (which i don't like) this spring, so maybe next year we'll have some to eat. Will plant more, grew them from root stock (thanks to electroculture they grew). I'm in the states, pacific northwest & we're in winter, so far mild. I had some late planted half dead tomato plant's, that thanks to electroculture survived until late October & produced fruit, had to ripen them inside. But i also planted way late some potatoes in summer, even though they weren't watered continuously they grew some, they actually sprouted underground & the plant's were beautifully green. I planted some towards fall & they were growing nicely too until late October when the frost got them. They are still buried, i just dug up some, beautiful Russets. Didn't get much water. But I'm going to use this put together hoop house as a cold frame next fall winter.
If you let it ripen and turn orange. The red pulp on the seeds is really really good. And not at all bitter. Some say that the skin is less bitter when it's ripe as well. It will be orange
I've been watching the weather maps lately and what I saw was horrendous: temperatures above 42°C all over Australia! unbearable... I hope you and your family have a merry Christmas and a very good new 2025! Thanks for all your great videos! Greetings from Argentina
Here in the northwest. N. Idaho here we are warmer than normal and getting inundated with rain instead of snow! Unless you are up in the mountains. We will have a Brown Christmas for the first time in over 30 years. Yuk!! So understand about all the rain. But Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!! Love your garden!!❤
GDay Mark. Love your show. My son is in the 2nd week of January near Brisband. He is all the way from Holland. He loves your show Just like i do. Kerp up the go work.
Black tarp over a raised bed just full of weeds would cook it all out easy I imagine. Maybe those bitter gourds as a fermented pickle would reduce bitterness?
Merry christmas to you, my Jerusalem artichokes have taken over my pumpkin patch, they are about the only thing left deliberately growing in my garden, the possums and bandicoots have got my meagre attempt at growing some cherry tomatoes over the summer.
sedgehammer on nutgrass and grow flowers in the bed for a couple of seasons until a few bits of nutgrass grow back. then be diligent to not let it get away from you again.
I’ve never seen bitter gourd; but since you ask- have you tried fermenting some? Sour may offset bitter. I’ve seen that some bitter plants are very good for health…
Man! Your place is green. I did an experiment this winter to see if seeds would sprout in the high tunnel. It's been anout a month and nothing has sprouted. I was told it should come up when it gets warmer in there in the spring. Everything planted last spring is doing great, getting sweeter. Next tear I'll try the same experiment except planting in the fall when it's cool enough for it to sorout before closing high tunnel up for the winter. I'm also quite suprised that the fig growing in the ht hasn't died to the ground, making me think I may eventually get figs
Joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année depuis la France. Ma recette pour les concombres trop amers : après les avoir lavés soigneusement, et épluchés si vous n'aimez pas la peau (moi je la laisse, perso), couper en tranches fines. Disposer dans un plat en verre une premiere couche. Tartiner la couche avec du yaourt liquide, que l'on a salé et parfumé au cumin. Puis ajouter une autre couche de concombre, puis tartiner de nouveau avec le yaourt liquide salé épicé. Et ainsi de suite, superposer les couches jusqu'à remplir le plat. Couvrir et mettre au réfrigérateur pendant 12 à 24 heures. Le concombre a rendu son eau et la marinade est plus liquide. Prélever les légumes et dégustez en entrée ! Certains ajoutent de la ciboulette à la marinade, et on peut remplacer le yaourt par de la crème liquide pour un goût plus gourmand. Bon appétit !
Merry Christmas mark! From the far north of southern Ontario Canada!! ( we are also green here, but not sweating lol) Love your humor for the time of year, well....every other time too!!! Happy holidays! A bit jealous you're growing right now😊
Habanero's! In my opinion are not flavourful if anything slightly peppery but all heat.(Just like the ghost chilli all heat no flavour). But the Cayenne, Thai or birdseye personally again. These are the flavourful varieties (with the aroma hanging around the pallet for long intervals). 👍
Mate!! Im a long time viewer and will continue to be. Fantastic content and very applicable to my local area (central Queensland). And how about this bloody rain? The grass is throwing itself out of the ground, it’s a problem I dont mind too much. All the best to you and your family. Keep on growing and keep on fishing.
I'm glad to have Mark back while my region goes through winter. Do you have any tips for gardening with back pain? My gardening suffered this year as I had to deal with frequent flare-ups of my sciatica.
beryl shereshewsky does a series challenging her viewers to give her recipes for food she doesn’t like including bitter gourd. It might be worth a look.
I enjoy your channel Mark, being on the east coast of South Africa (Durban) and being sub tropical too, I can base off what to grow, thanks to you. The problem is, I don't have the heart to chase the Vervet Monkeys away, they love the tomotoes, onions, garlic, chives, broccoli and some other things. I try to be organic too, because of pets and wildlife. Any tips to keep pests away, without harming anything?
😂those were weeds👀 I thought maybe chives😅 I think of southern hemisphere when we hit winter solstice and think how we are heading to spring and you fall. Days will get a bit brighter here. Time is flying. Merry Christmas 🎄
G'day and Merry Christmas Everyone! Thanks for all your support this year, and I'm looking forward to "getting into it" in 2025. Cheers :)
Merry Christmas Mark
You've always been inspiring. Appreciate your humour, time and honesty. 🎉🎉❤🎉🎉
Little fun fact. About 80% of sugar in the USA is derived from beats , not sugarcane
Merry Christmas ⛄🎁 from Angola Indiana 🙏🔥
@@Natepwnsu And 98% of them are GMO sugar beets so that they are Roundup Ready.
Merry Christmas to you & your family as well! Enjoy your summer gardening as we are having snow flurries.
I just remembered one of the many reasons I love your channel. I'm in the Northern hemisphere and i was just going through my seed inventory for February planting when you popped up in my feed wearing shorts and cracking Santa jokes😂😂❤
The weeds are doing super well. Merry Christmas everyone.
Write your own story with the earth-each plant is a chapter, filled with growth, challenges, and the ultimate reward of seeing your hard work come to life. ❤🌱
I saw a video recently about creating long term woodchip compost in your garden pathways, which has the added benefit of giving you something to walk on instead of muddy ground. every few years you just dig up all the broken down wood chips and use them in the garden and replace with new chips, might be something to look into to solve your muddy path issue
Clever!
I do this. It works great, it's be walking in clay mud up my ears without it in the rainy season.
Can't believe you're growing betel leaf - I only just learnt about their existence. This is why your my favourite, always expanding your garden plants and introducing us to the common and 'uncommon' ones
That is not betel leaf but 'wild pepper ' ( KADUK in Malaysia, Singapore n maybe in Indonesia too). It has a milder taste than betel leaf which is spicy.
Bitter gourd (also known as karela) is a unique vegetable with a slightly bitter taste that can be balanced beautifully through proper preparation and frying. Here's a recipe for Crispy Fried Bitter Gourd (Karela Chips) to minimize bitterness while making it a delicious snack or side dish:
Ingredients:
2 medium-sized bitter gourds (karela)
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon salt (for soaking and seasoning)
1 teaspoon red chili powder (optional, for spice)
½ teaspoon ground cumin or coriander powder
2 tablespoons rice flour or chickpea flour (for extra crispiness)
2 tablespoons semolina (optional, for crunch)
½ cup cooking oil (for frying)
Here in the UK i have been trying to grow them for years, if i am succesfull next (2025) i will make video of me cooking them up on the allotment
I've grown bitter gourd a few times. I like to let them get over mature to a very orange color. The seeds have a beautiful and tasty red gel around them. The gourds don't seem to be as bitter and you can just add them fresh to a salsa.
🎵 Oh, the weather over there looks delightful, but over here it's so frightful.
I love warm weather so, I hate snow, I hate snow, I hate snow...🎵
I'm in southern Vermont but we also have turmeric available this time of year because of our lovely winter farmer's market and a local farm who harvests and stores enough turmeric to supply interested customers. It's otherwise mostly tubers, hard squashes, onions and greenhouse greens for local produce otherwise. I can't complain about local fresh cilantro weekly!
"Santa's underpants" made me laugh so hard my drink came out of my nose and I nearly fell off my chair 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That bitter gourd or cerasse is prepared by my Chinese Jamaican family by cutting in half and cleaning out the seeds. So your left with 2 cylinders that they usually stuff with minced pork or any favorite meat that was seasoned with grated garlic, ginger, bit of sugar and then steamed. Eaten with rice and oyster sauce or any sweet hoisin type sauce is good with it. The bitterness is lessened when steamed and the oyster sauce brings the sweet and salt.
In Jamaica, the leaves are used for tea. Thought to be a blood cleanser and possibly thinner so its not to be drunk too often.
We normally soak it in salt water for 1/2 hour during preparation to leach out some of it bitterness
Unreal Mark. Love these long tour videos of yours. Have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas 🎅 This Florida gardener is really motivated by year videos. Looking forward to next year. 😊
-6C here (North Eastern US) today with snow showers, can feel the warmth of your weedy beds and gets me in the mood to plan next season's gardens. Hope you and your family have warm and happy holidays, cheers!
I like bitter melon. I somtimes pickle them with cucumber and carrots with vinegar. Also I like Okinawa style cooking. You can make stir fly with pork, hard tofu, carrot, and eggs. Use Japanese dashi, soy source and sugar to flavour. I recommend slice bitter mellon thin, and branch them first. And i suggest add them at last stage of cooking. The combination of pork, and dashi flavour and sweet soy source flavour is devine. It is really good for you. I hope you can try the recipes.
Such a fantabulous video to wake up and find today! I love listening to you and your family talk about growing (and catching!) the food you eat and how others can do the same, no matter where you live on this planet. I can't really grow anything right now, except for my fig tree which has been taken in for the winter, so watching your channel's videos is a blessing. I want to try one of those purple sweet potatoes the next growing season myself now. lol Purple Yam... Purple Yam...
May you and yours have Happy Holidays!
Thank you my Australian friend. We are covered with snow and the ground is frozen solid here in the mid atlantic US. Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Mark and Family🎄, home alone with Covid🥲
Oh I am so sorry, get well soon! But Merry Christmas anyway!
Feel better soon! I’m also sick for Christmas. Been sick since Friday, really hoped I’d be feeling better by now but no.
Merry Christmas Sir !
Thank you for all your posts and have a happy holiday.
Merry Christmas Mark! Hope you and your family have a wonderful time. God bless and thanks for sharing your expertise with us.
Mark I absolutely love the way you describe the bitter gourd. I grow that here in Arkansas and it is a beautiful beautiful plant with fragrant flowers and I love the fruits. They fruit so prolifically. However I too cannot figure out how to eat it I wish I could. My husband is Filipino and there are a lot of different Asian varieties in Northwest Arkansas and they all love them. So I give a lot of way.
Moon gardening with a miners lamp in this heat is my kind of gardening. Lots of good ideas Mark. I would add chokos to the list of summer veg.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixon; Comet, Cupid Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph of course.
Merry Christmas. I have 6 inches of snow in my beds currently and it's about 4 months until planting season. Time to plan and dream.
Merry Christmas Mark. looking forward t the nut grass plan. I put in som new beds recently, loads of cardboard on the bottom and it came up THROUGH the bloody cardboard!!! bane of my existence!
Happy and enjoyable Christmas Mark and your family
Hi Mark, thank you for this video, I always learn something new when I watch you. I tried Jerusalem artichokes for the first time here in Colorado and oh my, they went nuts, bumper crop, I now have to learn how to cook and process them. I always try a new seed or crop every year to see what will grow here and what fails. Hope your family have a Merry Christmas and safe Happy New Year. Crystal
I grill our Bitter Melon (Gourd) just long enough to make it easy to chew, but not so long as it will get soggy. I'll grill steak once a week and fish 2-3 times a week. Will have bitter melon with each meal. Seems to take alot of the "bitterness" out of it if it's grilled.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Mark!
Merry Christmas! Thank you for what you do and sharing what you know 😊
Mark, you're the best. Your gardens and gardening are so impressive and inspiring, especially with Australian weather and spiders as your companions. Merry Christmas and Best Wishes to you and yours for a prosperous New Year from us in Colorado.
Merry Xmas to all
Thanks for the Christmas eve upload, hero.
Merry CHristmas Eveeryone! and have a Happy New Years!
Mark, that's not betel leaf but 'wild pepper'. In Malaysia n Singapore ( perhaps Indonesia too ) call it KADUK.
You need to look up bitter gourd chips and bitter gourd pickles! They are common recipes my mom prepares in the south of India!
Mark you need to get a peppercorn vine. It loves hot and humid. Three years to production but does well in my Brisbane garden.
I enjoyed the tour and much info. Merry Christmas!
The bitter melon or gourd as you call it is used in salad but it is still very bitter. It's an acquired taste. Either you like it or you hate. As a kid I hated it now I absolutely love it.
I planted Asparagus (which i don't like) this spring, so maybe next year we'll have some to eat. Will plant more, grew them from root stock (thanks to electroculture they grew). I'm in the states, pacific northwest & we're in winter, so far mild. I had some late planted half dead tomato plant's, that thanks to electroculture survived until late October & produced fruit, had to ripen them inside. But i also planted way late some potatoes in summer, even though they weren't watered continuously they grew some, they actually sprouted underground & the plant's were beautifully green. I planted some towards fall & they were growing nicely too until late October when the frost got them. They are still buried, i just dug up some, beautiful Russets. Didn't get much water. But I'm going to use this put together hoop house as a cold frame next fall winter.
Merry Christmas from the US! Winter gardening here, and dreaming about spring planting!
If you let it ripen and turn orange. The red pulp on the seeds is really really good. And not at all bitter. Some say that the skin is less bitter when it's ripe as well. It will be orange
I've been watching the weather maps lately and what I saw was horrendous: temperatures above 42°C all over Australia! unbearable... I hope you and your family have a merry Christmas and a very good new 2025! Thanks for all your great videos! Greetings from Argentina
I wish your farm had some flowers too
Thanks for sharing the ups and downs of a garden. Fartichoke made me giggle. Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas to you Mark, and your Famil!y, from the USA!
Here in the northwest. N. Idaho here we are warmer than normal and getting inundated with rain instead of snow! Unless you are up in the mountains. We will have a Brown Christmas for the first time in over 30 years. Yuk!! So understand about all the rain. But Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!! Love your garden!!❤
GDay Mark.
Love your show.
My son is in the 2nd week of January near Brisband.
He is all the way from Holland. He loves your show Just like i do.
Kerp up the go work.
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Merry Christmas Brother i Love your shows been watching you for along time keep it going.
Happy Christmas Mark and family!
G'day Mark, happy Christmas mucka lots of love to you and yours mate
Merry Christmas! Enjoyed the look around!
Black tarp over a raised bed just full of weeds would cook it all out easy I imagine. Maybe those bitter gourds as a fermented pickle would reduce bitterness?
Merry christmas to you, my Jerusalem artichokes have taken over my pumpkin patch, they are about the only thing left deliberately growing in my garden, the possums and bandicoots have got my meagre attempt at growing some cherry tomatoes over the summer.
Merry Christmas from Joburg, South Africa. Almost the same climate.
I bought some atherton raspberry seeds from Australia and I’m going to try to grow them here in the UK 🤞🏽
Merry Christmas Mark!!
sedgehammer on nutgrass and grow flowers in the bed for a couple of seasons until a few bits of nutgrass grow back. then be diligent to not let it get away from you again.
Bitter gourd is for the chickens.
I’ve never seen bitter gourd; but since you ask- have you tried fermenting some? Sour may offset bitter. I’ve seen that some bitter plants are very good for health…
Merry Christmas Mark from up over Georgia , USA
Man! Your place is green. I did an experiment this winter to see if seeds would sprout in the high tunnel. It's been anout a month and nothing has sprouted. I was told it should come up when it gets warmer in there in the spring. Everything planted last spring is doing great, getting sweeter. Next tear I'll try the same experiment except planting in the fall when it's cool enough for it to sorout before closing high tunnel up for the winter. I'm also quite suprised that the fig growing in the ht hasn't died to the ground, making me think I may eventually get figs
Merry Christmas
Could you please make a video on what are good winter crops to grow, thank you
Merry Christmas to you and yours from NC
I love this video as I live in South Africa.-- also white hot Christmas season
Joyeuses fêtes de fin d'année depuis la France. Ma recette pour les concombres trop amers : après les avoir lavés soigneusement, et épluchés si vous n'aimez pas la peau (moi je la laisse, perso), couper en tranches fines. Disposer dans un plat en verre une premiere couche. Tartiner la couche avec du yaourt liquide, que l'on a salé et parfumé au cumin. Puis ajouter une autre couche de concombre, puis tartiner de nouveau avec le yaourt liquide salé épicé. Et ainsi de suite, superposer les couches jusqu'à remplir le plat. Couvrir et mettre au réfrigérateur pendant 12 à 24 heures. Le concombre a rendu son eau et la marinade est plus liquide. Prélever les légumes et dégustez en entrée ! Certains ajoutent de la ciboulette à la marinade, et on peut remplacer le yaourt par de la crème liquide pour un goût plus gourmand. Bon appétit !
I live in SW Florida and I love your videos!
Merry Christmas!
You should dehydrate them then grind it to a powder it to use in your teas
Merry Christmas from Washington state.
I think you have to spray your triffid with sea water! Merry Christmas Mark - love your channel!
Maybe add sugar (raw) to the salt for your bitter gourd? Love your garden. Asparagus is great to grow
Merry Christmas mark! From the far north of southern Ontario Canada!! ( we are also green here, but not sweating lol)
Love your humor for the time of year, well....every other time too!!! Happy holidays! A bit jealous you're growing right now😊
Bitter gourd = chicken feed. Nut grass is a major headache here as well. I look forward to seeing what you do. Merry Christmas!
hello from a very rainy UK
Habanero's!
In my opinion are not flavourful if anything slightly peppery but all heat.(Just like the ghost chilli all heat no flavour).
But the Cayenne, Thai or birdseye personally again. These are the flavourful varieties (with the aroma hanging around the pallet for long intervals). 👍
Triffid? That took me back a few decades! 🤣
Mate!! Im a long time viewer and will continue to be. Fantastic content and very applicable to my local area (central Queensland). And how about this bloody rain? The grass is throwing itself out of the ground, it’s a problem I dont mind too much. All the best to you and your family. Keep on growing and keep on fishing.
Merry Christmas!!!! BIG SPIDERS!!!!!!!! ICK!!!!!!
I gave it a weedy thumbs up
G'day Mark, you can try to stir-fried the prawn and the bitter gourd. It's great taste!🎉
Think Japanese food with bitter gourd. Your pumpkin with some bitter gourd in some dashi would probably be good.
Feliz Navidad from Baja, Mexico. We are here until March. May you bloom and grow!🌱🌴
You can box up the caraillie (bitter gourd) and ship it to me in the Caribbean! I LOVE it!
Thank you for sharing! Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Fantastic New Year!!
🙏🏻✝️👍
I'm glad to have Mark back while my region goes through winter. Do you have any tips for gardening with back pain? My gardening suffered this year as I had to deal with frequent flare-ups of my sciatica.
Maybe sweet pickle the bitter melon?
Merry Christmas Mark and fam! So happy to be learning from you! The nutgrass is actually beautiful! Could you sell it for ground cover?
beryl shereshewsky does a series challenging her viewers to give her recipes for food she doesn’t like including bitter gourd. It might be worth a look.
20:06 what's with the three boar heads you passed over?
Merry Christmas and a wonderful safe and happy New Year to you Mark and all the family 👍👍👍
All the best from Southern NSW 🇭🇲🦘🙏🦘🇭🇲
I enjoy your channel Mark, being on the east coast of South Africa (Durban) and being sub tropical too, I can base off what to grow, thanks to you.
The problem is, I don't have the heart to chase the Vervet Monkeys away, they love the tomotoes, onions, garlic, chives, broccoli and some other things.
I try to be organic too, because of pets and wildlife.
Any tips to keep pests away, without harming anything?
Do you have dogs to keep the monkeys away?
Maybe try pickling the bitter melons when they are at a younger stage??
Bitter food is excellent for the liver.
😂those were weeds👀 I thought maybe chives😅
I think of southern hemisphere when we hit winter solstice and think how we are heading to spring and you fall. Days will get a bit brighter here. Time is flying.
Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas and all best wishes for 2025!!!!!