Change of Seasons Organic Backyard Food Garden Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- In this video, I show how much food can be grown organically and harvested from our small homestead backyard garden.
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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :) #garden #gardening #organic 
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That freeze dryer is going to be working triple shifts with that lot!
Something for the rest of us to aspire to, well done.
Mark! Do all the gloating you want! That's an amazing garden you have there! A Garden many of us would give our eye teeth to enjoy! 👀👀🦷😍
Hahaha... Thanks Sharon! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme - Mark,, remember back when you busted out that tree stump with wedges? You said you were building a nursery there in that spot? What happened with the plans on the Nursery? I haven't seen any updates from that video on when you will be putting the nursery into that space.
@@Selfsufficientme can i grow a phineaple in southern europe in ballkans
who in the world would dislike this video?! this is amazing and a dream of anyone to have a bountiful harvest like this! hello from louisiana united states
people who have brown thumbs and not green ones.
I am baffled by this as well! I watch so many benign, positive, cheery videos and I guess it’s just unhappy trolls that have no hobbies or passions besides being trolls in the internet!!
If I could give this video a thousand likes I would. Some miserable people out there. They just don’t get ‘grow your own to stay fed’. Supermarket junkies.
I know right, some people are just miserable. I guess lack of Vit C in them LOL
Yeah totally! I saw that and was like huh! Really! Like why are you even watching then!
The best part of your videos is now i can grow a crap load of veggies..... The wost part is i really dont know how to store so much ... Id like to see a video about what you do with all your stuff ...
Get a dehydrator or a freeze drier if you can
Fantastic Food Forest!!!
The smell of citrus flowers is - in my opinion - THE BEST SMELL ON THIS PLANET !!!
It must be pure heaven with all those trees in bloom!!!
If I were there, I would have to spend day AND night out there, just so I wouldn't miss a single second of it!
Thank You for sharing!!! ❤
It certainly is one of the best natural perfumes! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme ahhhhh!!! The way to my heart n soul! Literally!! 😍💖
By jingos! That's garden goals right there! Top job!
God bless you and your family for staying positive and pressing on while your country is in chaos
Thanks for your "concern" mate, but rumours of our demise have been greatly exaggerated.
@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock is that a fact. That wasn't ment for you either. That was for Mark. As far as any government there Or here in the U.S. you can kiss the inner most realm of my free white American arse.
and to that table I just have to say: "Let's....... GET INTO IT!"
That citrus will help you and your family fight the flu and COVID maintaining a higher PH level. Nice harvest!!
Holy cow!!! Fantastic harvest. I love fruit and would literally be in heaven in your garden. Can't grow citrus in cold Colorado, USA. But, I can get peaches, apples, plums, grapes and most berries. Love this video. Thanks Mark enjoy!
Grow to your strength Cris and it seems you have plenty! All the best :)
The star fruit makes me miss my grandma. She had it planted in her house in Brazil. We rarely find them over here. Great harvest, my friend.
Thanks mate and good to see you too! Yeah, I have garden memories linked (or embedded) from my childhood at my Grandparent's place - for example, whenever I pick a strawberry I think of my Grandfather and how he used to grow them right outside his front door. Cheers ;)
What an amazing spread of citrus! Florida is only about 2.5 hours away from where I live, so I am very blessed to be able to have easy access to FRESH citrus. I have never actually seen a dragon fruit before, but have tasted them in a fruit salad once. They are SO good! Thank you for taking time to show us what your garden is currently up to Mark!! Love it!
Good on ya Rachal, thank you! Cheers :)
OMG, I always dreamed of having that kind of harvest. Someday once my tiny food forest matures I hope I can get at least 1/3 that much of a wonderful harvest. Good luck on the bountiful harvest.
Can't believe Russel Crowe is so green fingered :-p
Absolutely love the content. Thank you brother.
Russell Crowe is from New Zealand. 🙄
LOL...
@@pineappleallie7672 I appologise and stand corrected! Still, got to love the content and this guys enthusiasm? Makes me smile every time I watch him.
@@matthewcampbell5877 I do too. 😊
@@pineappleallie7672 yeah but we got rid of him :-)
Absolute paradise, mate. Great inspiration.
Wish you could buy mulberries easily. They’re fantastic and remind me of childhood. if anyone has the land to plant them do it. They are the most amazing fruit.
I remember as a kid in North Brisbane properties used to seemingly have 1 on every 5th house
ahhhh mate wagging school back in the day and walking through kedron brook id eat so many mulberries
They grow from cuttings. Find a branch to prune and shove the stick in your soil.
@@lawntofoodforest thanks mate, I just don’t have the space + in a rental :( they don’t really lend themselves to suburban pot gardening
@@Stevo1078 theres dwarf varieties and you can grow it in a pot and youd be able to manage it i know its not the same as grandmas mulberry tree that chooks roost in and thats massive and has more berries than you can eat.
I am here just for your style I got interested in farming because of your video I just you deserve more than million followers
Thank you Ali - that's very nice of you to say. All the best :)
Thanks Mark, been a while, hope you're all good, cheers! 👍😎👍
Cheers Roy! :)
I had my headphones on and at 4:44 I nearly jumped out of my skin - thought my roof was falling in! I was very relieved to realise it was just the video. Love the harvest!
Well done Mark. Congratulations.
I didn't realize star fruit had pectin. Ooooh, I'd love to try to make a jam with them.
*_WOOOOW!!! SELF SUFFICIENT ME, For a high quality (value added) video like this, You are teaching me to be patient with plants,we will not get tired of watching this video, please don't stop gardening, continue like this, GO GO GO GOOOOOOOOOO!!!_*
Man, I envy your climate. It would be so lovely to see such a huge harvest after winter at 49° northern latitude. :-)
I feel for you. He's as hot as you are cold. Zone 3 American? Sorry, if you're Canadian. I am unsure of your zone temperatures.
@@MichaelSHartman neither :-) central Europe here, slightly warmer than 49° in North America, but still short 8 hour days in winter and only 7 months of growing season outside a greenhouse.
But the long days in summer partially make up for it. Don't you think?
@@michaelbraun9750
Went to Alaska in September 1990, and could not get use to the day length. I stumbled across the state fair. Never before had I seen such vegetables. Turnips were 8" (20 cm) across if they were 1". Radishes were 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm), and cabbage heads 2 foot across (61 cm). If someone had told me beforehand, I wouldn't have believed them.
Time between frost here is April 1st to October 15th. Hard frost/freeze comes November 4th. Onion sets can go in mostly clay ground March 10th. Hope you have a great garden.
We need to plan our growing fairly regularly however last year my green onions rode out the winter fine and grew well until that heat we had in early august. Be safe Michael. Ps I live between the 49 and 50 parallel on Vancouver island.
@@MichaelSHartman summer is a time of abundance, that's for sure. And Alaska is even further north than us, 18 to 20 hours of sun in summer. Our frost time is between start of November and can go as late as end of March.
My "garden" currently only consists of indoor plants (a small fig tree, a limquat), 3 apple trees in a park nearby that I have decided to appropriate and a red currant plant from which I got the very first harvest (4 berries! ) this year. What's your garden's acreage?
Im not a gardener myself but I love watching your videos for your passion for gardening. Keep at it!
Watching this with a tall glass of orange juice squeezed from my nearly 30 year old tree that's always both in flower and fruiting all year round.
What a nice coincidence that I felt like filling up a 3ltr the other day and had a glass on hand when watching.
You are my Guru, you are my source of courage to do hard work in my backyard.
San Diego, California USA growing zone 10b checking in 🌱 *Congratulations* on your outstanding crops!! You are truly *blessed* !! 🤗 🙏 👩🌾
Hi, from Vancouver, Canada. That table looks super! We adopted a cockatoo 30 years ago, and I can’t imagine the trouble a flock of “Angel” would cause!
All those gorgeous citrus fruits and no blood oranges? That surprised me just now. All those sumptuous fruits - so beautiful 😍😍 lovely star fruits, juicy oranges, yummy tomatoes, fat berries...makes me happy just to see it all!! 😋 Awesome display, well done!!! ❤
A delightful garden and an inspiring video. I'm an expat South African living in San Francisco. I started working from home when Covid arrived (saves me 4-6 hours a day commute) and my husband is now retired. My food-growing genes started screaming for expression.
We don't have much space. The whole backyard is about 35' x 45'. A third of that is under concrete, what with a stretch in front of the house and paths. It had a steep slope so my husband terraced it about 40 years ago - long before we met. There are high solid wood fences along the sides, tall trees, and fog. Throw in rats, mice, squirrels, raccoons, and jays. We had gophers but our cat has taken care of them. The soil is very fine sand and silt, very hard to actually get wet. There are some challenges is what I'm getting at!
The climate is limiting because of the fog and the chill. Despite the fog, it gets really dry here.
So this is what I'm doing. The best light falls on - tada! -the concrete slab in front of the house!!! I bought two small plastic zip-up greenhouses. These are amazing! I put a cherry tomato plant, and we get tomatoes! There's also a basil plant to keep it company. We get enough to use as flavouring and we made one small batch of pesto. The other greenhouse serves as a seed starter. We've had several batches of sweet carrots from it.
I've just bought 6 fair-sized rectangular bins. My husband will drill drainage holes in them and raise them on bricks. These will go on the concrete. It'll cost a bundle to get good soil to fill them, but we have two compost bins going and that'll help for replenishing. In addition, there are two areas of 4'x8' that are suitable for vegetables.
After much research about varieties that will grow here, many reality checks about the actual available space, and cost-effectiveness, I've ordered seeds and they're on their way.
This is going to be a learning process. I doubt we'll get enough to really feed ourselves, but we can certainly grow a significant amount of fresh produce.
We have two apple trees, one pear, one plum, and a nectarine, all planted by my father-in-law 50 years ago. This year we actually got some fruit. We learned to encase growing fruits in plastic bottles, slit lengthwise.
I have three planters that hold ever-bearing strawberries. These suddenly appeared in the garden so I transplanted them into the big pots. We get a small handful of small, explosively flavourful berries every day. There are also blackberries along one fence. These mostly go to birds but we do get a small bowlful every so often.
It took a lot of arguing but I finally prevailed and we got a professional to come in and top off the tall redwoods, and top and prune the buckeye. These were starving our little garden of light. I'd have taken these trees out completely, with my mother-in-law's full support. My spouse prevailed. These were ridiculous choices for such a small garden, and they were planted in ridiculous places. They're much too near the house, they'd swallowed the power and phone lines, their roots are cracking the narrow stone terrace walls....oh well...I'll do heavy pruning as opportunity permits.
I think you should do more videos like this mark. Good to see everything going well in the garden except for the little ants in the oranges!!
You really inspire me alot, I admire your life sir... much love from Kenya Africa. May God bless
Yes. YES. *YES!* MORE of this, please! Your thumbnail with the star fruits drew me in! I recently went to Florida and the nicest thing that happened to me was when I was giddy over seeing a star fruit tree for the first time and a guy pruning them straight up GAVE ME five of them. I almost cried I was so happy.
I don't garden, but someday I'd like to. These videos are so enjoyable and informative. I personally appreciate them. 😊🙏
Really abundant Mark. It’s the dream. So nice. The citrus made my mouth watee
I saw you using a short rake to handle some of the higher up branches in your citrus trees to grab fruit, so I'm wondering if you've got an older video or were planning to make one about the usual tools and tricks you use when harvesting varied sorts of plants that need more than just a snip or a tug up from the soil. Stuff that may not be as apparent as a shovel or such.
Rakes, shovels, snips, and simple sticks are the real tools of this trade. There aren't any magic wands.
That's a great idea!
That's a good idea! There's actually quite a lot to talk about when harvesting different types of fruit and veg so a 10 min video would be easy to fill out. Thanks for the suggestion :)
Thanks, can't wait to watch his video on this subject now :)
hah! Brilliant, great harvest and well done. We had more pumpkins that we know what to do with in our patch this season, and I got a little 'proud' it never hurts to show off [just a little]
You just flexed on us with all your fruits and veggies, then you say it’s not all of it. Man this is my dream.
I just loved this video. You are so blessed.
Thank you Rene! All the best :)
oh my word! how much that harvest would cost in the market!!!
Literally play his channel when im going to bed..... super calming 😌
I love your channel. Motivation for me to start growing more and also become self sufficient.
Beautiful fruit Mark! Gloat all you want. There's a few I've never eaten in my life. I live in the PNW in the US but want to try to grow a couple of these. Thanks for the inspiration. Always a thumbs up. Regards to your family.👵😊🌱🌱🌱🍊🍋🍓🌱
Amazing, well done Mark!! Your videos are so awesome and very inspirational! Keep up the great work and excellent videos.
I genuinely enjoyed this video. It would be great to have the same at the end of each season. Love it ❤️
Noted! Thanks for the feedback :)
Fantastic achievement….I’m catching up with all your older videos
I’m currently obsessed with marigolds. Focusing on flowers to create a healthy platform before I plant fruits and veggies! Great video!! Love them Marc!
A beautiful food garden it means a great job. Everything seems delicious. Thanks. Greetings from the south of Chile
Love when you cut the fruits and seeing all the juice dripping,...made me hungry!🇨🇦
Looks good Mark!!!
Thanks from London England 👍💪😎🏴
I love harvest videos Mark!
Happy Spring to you!
I am so happy that we are entering the Fall months here in the U.S. It's been a wonderful Summer...for the mosquitoes.
You're not gloating. Just showing what hard work can do.
Wow, what a harvest! Just beautiful.
Wow! That's awesome! I live in Northern Vermont, USA, my seasons and world are the total opposite but the passion for gardening is the same!
Excellent audio despite the wind. Well done. From Celia.
Thanks Celia! That wind was punishing... Nearly as tough as being an Editor for Self Sufficient Me ;)
Appreciate you doing this in full sun. Incredible
Congratulations. The last two years have been some of my worse. "There's always next season."
Yeah, gardening can be like that but you will be rewarded for sticking at it! Cheers :)
Simple, sufficient Abundance! Love it..... did someone say Vitamin C? Lovely!
Thanks for sharing. The smell of citrus bloom is simply AMAZING! We have a couple potted citrus plants than we keep indoors for the winter. We should be harvesting our first batch of clementine SOON.
AWESOME GARDEN ! AWESOME FRUITS AND VEGGIES ! IM SO JELLO !
Hello Mark! Checking in from Narnia here, we got our 1st freeze last night. So I am off to pull the green tomatoes from the vines and make pickled green tomatoes.
Have a lovely day!
Would love to see you preserving and cooking all those!
You're not the one to flex with your harvests, but I appreciate seeing how well you've done each season!
I APPRECIATE HOW YOU CUT OPEN EVERYTHING AND SHOWED US
Beautiful! I am definitely having harvest envy.
I recently moved house from a two-story suburban house with a tiny backyard (and two tiny veggie gardens as well as herbs and berries in pots) to a 11 hundred square metre block in outer suburbia! It has a fig tree, an avocado tree, an almond tree, and lots of citrus trees, lots of little veggie gardens (tomatos, peas, lettuce and carrot currently) and lots of room to make more! there's massive bunches of parsley growing around that self-seed, a massive patch of mint, rosemary and sage bushes, oregano, and we have brought our potted raspberry and blueberry bushes we hope to plant somewhere! I'm so excited to start growing much more food!
Looks like all your hard work is paying huge dividends. Good on you Mark! Thanks so much for your help.
I have been watching your videos past 2 years,
Great....
Fruits of Labour 😊
What an awesome harvest! I love your videos :-) Keep going!
Good heavens, Mark! You right ahead and gloat! Beautiful! The best I can here is berries and grapes,🙂
Blessings!💜🌻
Good on ya Trish! Thank you! :)
Very nice variety Mark, we have a fight with White moths, snails , slugs and various other bugs, cover our crop with netting and the black birds get thru any gap and dig up the garden beds and plants, our onions and garlic are our best survivors.
Beautiful harvest!
That is really impressive! Well done.
You seriously have the best Garden I've ever seen it's beautiful
Thank you Bobbie! Cheers :)
Loved this video. And loving the Spring changeover here in NZ. Thanks Mark
Coming from the Northern USA I've only seen a cockatoo in a cage. It's cool to see them where they belong. I had no idea citrus trees could produce fruit twice a year!
Look at all that beautiful fruit you are very fortunate and a very busy man Take care and enjoy☺️☺️☺️
My winter harvest " look at this snowcone! It's soooo big" ;)
I just saw Russell walking around your garden with his basket LOL Beautiful harvest, my friend.....love it :)
Go ahead and gloat, you should be proud and I'm proud of you and your bountiful gardens too
Love love love your videos!!!
You've earned your bragging rights Mark!
Mark throw your lemons and oranges straight into a bag, skin and all into the freezer. Like berries, all citrus freezes easily. To use, throw a lemon in a mug, poke a fork into it a couple of times and microwave for 2 mins. Careful the skin might be hot but so easy to squeeze over your fish, fresh as a daisy. Also toss garlic cloves whole into the freezer. They peel ever so easily and crush under the flat side of a knife with a little pressure. I also chop chillis and capsicum freezing for cooking. Mmmm red capsicum in scrambled eggs.
Love this type of garden video! You have an amazing harvest.
I love your channel. I've learned about fruits and other produce I've never heard of. Plus, this is all happening in a land I don't know much about. Exciting!
You really are blessed to live in a climate where you're able to grow such abundant food. Even though I live in what's considered the banana belt of Colorado, growing citrus or any of the tropical food is only possible in a very expensive, well insulated, heated and misted greenhouse and even then it's a rarity. Just growing veggies here can be daunting. Thanks for sharing your abundance with us.
Yes Sir. I really enjoyed. It is a beautiful pile of fruits and veggies mix. Keep on the good job.
My friend, i am greatly inspired and feel properly adjusted, each time i watch your videos. thanks Mate
do you know the "zone" type that you live in? I'm central coast California, slightly inland
What a lovely and bountiful harvest you have there. Thanks for sharing. I was so hoping you'd cut that lovely pumpkin open. Let me feast my eyes. Ugh! Everything looks so tasty and delicious...and fresh
Gorgeous!. Thats a really nice display Mark. Its cool to see it all heaped on a table 😀
Mark I love watching your videos, I'm only a young lady 30 years old but what I wouldn't give for a garden like yours.your yield was quite amazing, I would like to make a request for a video about pickling and preserving, that would be great,eggplant, sundried tomato, gherkins,etc...
Wow amazing
My partner & i bought an apartment but we really miss a garden. So before to much longer we will buy a little house with a bit of garden to grow veggies.
Good on you. You should be proud it's not gloating. It's forward planning. Well done.
I wish I had fruit trees in my yard. All your trees are such great producers. All the fruits look absolutely delicious! Thank you for sharing!
Wow look at that beautiful food. Very glad to see this today.
each time i watch i get motivated
The climate and what grows best there is very similar to Florida. Giving me inspiration!
Yes, almost exactly the same as Florida (only reverse seasons) I'm keen to visit your State again sometime soon hopefully. Cheers :)
Wow.....how different your garden is than the northern US gardens I'm used to...might be worth moving just for the oranges!!! Your garden is beautiful!!!!!
Wow! Your garden is so inspiring.
Your garden is huge. I wish I had that size to work with. You will be very healthy eating all those. Well done
Loved seeing the variety that you are harvesting.