G'day, Everyone; most of you should be well into the new planting season, so I hope it's growing well! If something is not going to plan, don't be deterred. Just get more determined! Thanks for your support... Cheers :)
There’s been no rain (2.1 mm) in Perth Western Australia for 6 months, it’s so dry and still quite hot. I’ve delayed any planting until things change. Also I’d love to grow sugar cane but can never find any!
Hi Mark. Great video. We are fellow SEQ residents also. Can you please make a video about what crops we can plant now coming into the Autumn/Winter? That would be really helpful. Thanks again for your content. We love it 👍
@@TheGunSmith My comment was a joke, most Australians have a great sense of humor so your clearly not one 🤣 Jumping to calling someone fatherless in a comments section is wild, and you let us know that you don't respect any military man or police who died for their country. Now that's real fatherless behavior, being a brat in a comments section for attention.
@@marandamurphy Sugarcane should be able to get well underway, at the least, and sorghum, which can be used as a poor man's sugarcane, should be able to pull it off easily if you have irrigation or plant sparser to reduce the need.
In Mexico, we use the rosella calix for hibiscus tea. The calixes need to be dried first, once they’re nice and dry, put a handful in a pot of boiling water. Once you start getting a stronger fragrance, remove from the heat. Add sugar (to taste) and ice. Let it finish cooling in the fridge, and serve it cold 😋
Adriana! Greetings from El Centro. I love making jamaica from roselle calyx. Missing you and your family (saw your brother recently). I'm new to this channel but looking forward to trying some of his great ideas adopted to the desert where we live. Yes,
Hi Mark, we're in stuggletown a bit here in the southwest of WA. Drought like we've never seen before, the bush is dying, dams are empty, rivers drying up with no rain in sight for the future. It's hard to watch so much rain and growth without being "green" with envy! Thank you for your videos, they keep us going with thoughts of better times.
Northern suburbs of Perth here and yes, so green … with envy! 🙃 I lost all my chilli plants last year as well as my passion fruit vine due to excessive heat. Even with watering daily, sometimes twice. I grow succulents as a hobby and even those were half alive and struggling. I’m also in a windy coastal suburb so it’s been a harsh few years plant wise. Let’s hope this winter is nice and rainy.
Same story, but not as unusual here in the desert Southwest of New Mexico. I lost all but an established tree and one rosebush in a protected spot - the lantanas thrive as always. This year I've bought 2 desert native trees to plant in the hopes of providing some shade for future plants and to cool my house.
The story here in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas has been one of a lot of Stormy wet weather. I added lots of mulch of shredded limbs and leaf to as many areas as possible.. including the fruit trees.. then I brought 2 pickup full loads of aged sawdust....on top of that I brought a load of dried cow manure and spread it Parsley over the top and tilled it in. All of those additives I figure will help build the soil and feed the plants so they prosper through hard times. There's too much to explain all the ins and outs of the trials and errors of my gardening endeavors but I usually eat quite well. I'm able to can, dry or freeze any surplus. I always save seed from growing heirloom or open pollinated plants. I moved from Arizona around the Phoenix area with a total different ground makeup and hot dry temperatures but I managed to grow corn out in the middle of the desert where other gardeners said it couldn't be done I did that by tiling up an area and banking it with about foot high edges and then flood irrigated it... Used mulch and goat manure to feed the dry sandy soil. When we bought the place we discovered that the original owner had built up the soil for 2 years before he put in an orchard of apricots, plums, a dwarf peach tree that put on baseball-sized peaches and figs. I tilt between the rows of trees and planted alfalfa which I found my goats preferred already dried in the form of hay... They gave me plenty of milk... My neighbor had lemon trees ... And he was allowed to graft the apricot and plum trees ending up with plumcots. . That proved very tasty and interesting. I'm 73 and still plugging along and will never stop learning something new everyday. BTW the gourd you grow reminds me of the Tromboncino squash.. it vines heavily and produces long straight squash if grown on trellis, or if left to sprawl on the ground makes all kinds of snake-like shapes... When it is green you can eat it cooked like a zucchini or you can wait until it's at its growing season and becomes like a winter squash and it will keep in a cool pantry for many months .. it then makes delicious soups, stews stir fries and delicious pumpkin like pie. It's a very versatile plant and what you call pumpkin. Everyone have a beautiful day... We all can never give up on our growing endeavors cuz that's what feeds our mouths...😊 So everybody just prepare for the worst and do our best...I wish the BEST for everyone worldwide 🌄💚🌿🫂❤️
Gardening can be many things. It's actually a common practice among people with PTSD as it can be healing, or those with depression to help give them purpose in dark days, and so on. Plus, it has the added bonus of health benefits as you can control what pesticides (if any) you use. I would definitely recommend it :)
DFW area here!! I like crops that reseed and like hot temperatures. Don't have so much to replant each year. Our water bill gets really high come July and August!
It's indeed quite similar! If you're ever stuck, Mark has a forum full of people happy to share their own experiences and knowledge. Questions are always welcome too :) It's called Self-Sufficient-Culture. It's also found in this video's description box. www.selfsufficientculture.com/
@@Selfsufficientme Thank you for including biomass. North Queensland is STILL RAINING! Chop and drop is a technique to ensure access to the water and electricity metre so you dont get cut off. The Triffids will eventually be replaced with food plants. Thank you for showing your weeds. I feel better now.
If sunflowers do well in your climate, you can use the sunflower stalks as poles! They need to be dried for about a week or so after the flower is harvested, but they turn into an almost bamboo-like pole.
I grew rosella last year during our hottest summer on record, and as I watched my garden die from the heat, the rosella turned into a gigantic bush, bigger than any rosella I’ve ever seen.
@@glendaquick9290not really, but they live longer than most annuals. I've had one that went on for 2 years before it finally gave up. By that time should have already harvested a lot of seeds for replanting.
Hi Mark, the plant you called Egyptian spinach, is also in the hibiscus family, like okra and the cotton plant. It also grows in the Mediterranean region and the locals cook a soup from it called Malochia soup.
I was SO EXCITED to have the El Nino back. It turns the rain loose for us here in Florida. Under the La Nina we tend to be dry and hot. WELL, that heifer kicked El Nino out the door, and is trying to take over, again. Already, our rain has stated to dry up. BUT, we here in Florida are having our first REAL spring in 3 years. So, I am thankful! My plants are the happiest that I have seen them in so long, I just walk out to look at them, and tell them how proud I am of them. 😆😆
Many Middle Eastern dishes use Egyptian Spinach. I make a dish with it that's almost like a soup. I make it with chicken and chicken stock, onions, and lots of Egyptian Spinach. It is most commonly made with beef or lamb. It's served over rice. It's called Molokhia. It's so, so good. I grow some every year and blanch and freeze the leaves to preserve them.
I’m from the uk and as someone who’s seen lots of rain and cold weather for months now…it’s so nice to see the sun in your garden. I’d love to grow bananas but don’t have a greenhouse. I’ve started some seedlings off in the shed for now and crossing my fingers 😂 so far cabbage, mustard, Italian salad, tomatoes and peas have started to sprout.
Tip from across the north sea: hardier varieties of leeks, spinach, kohlrabi, kale, radish and onion can be grown in the weather we have! I have my first harvest of radish and massive amounts of spinach now. Sowed and grown outside (but coveted at first) in mid February!
There is now a Super Dwarf Banana which only grows head high. I'm testing some in containers. They would be perfect for a small hot house. All the best for your new developing plants this season 👍🙂
@@moe4561 yeah I find it interesting historically, too. Like in Elizabethan times, cinnamon was imported and other spices like black pepper. As I’m part Italian I’d find it bland too, but I find that kind of stuff interesting and am so grateful for different types of foods and seeds out there. I have lemon pepper seeds and really want to grow them, but I’d have to think of a heat solution first. I’m also trying kohl robi this year and never had it before. It’s shooting up so far.
@@Selfsufficientme Thanks. I’ve seen the dwarf banana plants before at a craft fair, they were £70 each. It was tempting but the expense plus the lack of a hot house ☹️ maybe one day. I do love the versatility of bananas. Also apparently butterflies like the banana skins, due to the sweetness.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, USA, and I also pronounce it toooomeric. 🤪 We grew rosella last year, and it was my 6 year old grandson’s favorite part of visiting our garden. He loved the sweet/tart taste of the calyx’s.
Where I am in Nova Scotia our climates are so different, we can’t grow the same crops, but I still come to your channel to learn- I trust your knowledge& experience more than so many newbie RUclips gardening channels.
I’ve never heard turmeric pronounced any other way! 🤪 I mean yes - you have an accent … but ? Your garden looks so green and abundant, regardless of the rough season. Always happy to see your new videos pop up. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
American living in Papua, Indonesia. Our climate is almost identical so your videos have been a God-send. Not a whole lot of growing in Indo content out there! Thanks for the excellent content.
In my world that’s exactly how you pronounce turmeric! Thank you for another great video. This helps me make decisions for my garden. I really like how you share how you eat your produce as well as all the growing tips. Happy gardening.
Australians can not pronounce "tu". Any words that start with these letters are pronounced "choo". For example Tuna is pronounced choona. Not a criticism, just the Australian accent. I've lived here most of my adult life but haven't fully developed an Australian accent, and people roll around laughing when I say the word Tuna as "t u n a". They often get me to repeat it and then laugh some more. On the subject of bananas. What are you feeding them? This season the hands on my bananas are spindly with tiny sporadic bananas along the flower spike. 5 hands like that now. At the worst of the rain 2 of the stems with these hands just keeled over before any fruit could even ripen. They are "Lady Finger" bananas and planted near the bottom of a short slope, but high enough that they can drain properly. I'm in SE Qld.
In jamaica we call the rosella Sorrell it makes really good juice, if we had a national juice it would be in heavy running. We usually grow it as a seasonal crop for Christmas. We blend or boil it together with ginger, adding pimento beans and overproof white rum and sugar after, put it to chill in the fridge then have it throughout the entire December season especially around Christmas eve to boxing day. Thank me later😊
Hey Mark, I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share a video idea with you that I think could add an interesting addition to your channel. I was thinking it would be great if, during your next garden cleanup session, you could film the process. The idea is to capture a "Bird's Eye view" style video, similar to some of your previous videos where you zoom out to film the entire garden. It would be wonderful to have a long, unedited video showcasing the beauty of your garden, filmed from your balcony. This way, viewers can enjoy the serene ambiance of the Australian countryside, complete with the sounds of birds chirping in the background. I've noticed that these "long style background ambience" videos have been gaining popularity on RUclips lately, so there might be other people who would appreciate it as well. Of course, this is just a suggestion, and I understand if you're busy with other projects. I just figured if you were going to clean up/weed the garden anyway you might as well get two birds stoned at once and make it worth your while by getting some potential content out of it haha. Keep up the fantastic work on your channel.
I am growing a "hardy tropical" ornamental garden, and one rule is that plants that like humidity can be fooled by densely planting around them. The larger leafed plants produce a lot of humidity through their leaves just by photosynthesizing. This is likely why your bananas were so happy. Their water needs were colossal in a clump like that, but any additional water they got was just turned into humidity, which bananas love.
@@伏見猿比古-k8c Yes, but my favourite way to explain it is to say it's natures AC unit. If you ever get the chance, visit a bamboo forest in person. The temperature inside one is so much lower than it should be, and it is just because of this exact effect.
Fantastically informational. Every place where food can be in short supply should have lots of these edible plants just grown everywhere at random. Can you imagine what a difference these would make in a country like North Korea!
I lived briefly in NSW in the early 1970s. The state was just coming out of a 7 year drought which had been pretty dire. My boss showed me a crop of Jerusalem artichokes and another of asparagus. Both had been planted by his father many years before. He and his family did not cultivate or use either, but I used both regularly for myself while I was there and both cropped generously.
I'm on a newly established homestead, working on starting my garden. Last fall, you let us know there was a Black Friday sale, plus your discount, on a couple of Birdies Raised Beds. I bought 3 of the 6-in-1 tall and finally got them set up yesterday. Today, I lined the bottoms with hardware cloth and a layer of cardboard, then filled them part way with logs and sticks. I don't have access to leaves, so I'll dump in pine shavings to fill the gaps, then top them with compost. I can hardly wait to start planting in them!
That sounds like a bang-on idea! Use what you have. If you're new to gardening and are looking for tips, or are simply looking to share your progress... Mark has a forum! It's found in the video's description box, and it's called Self Sufficient Culture. www.selfsufficientculture.com/
Jerusalem artichoke (sunchokes) are amazing. They also thrive up here in Canada. They can survive underground in -30 C, popping up when soils thaw. You can't stop it! It's actually the only starch tuber native to northern north America. Sand, clays, etc doesn't matter (with reduced yields of course)
@@likkleginger delicious and creamy sounds pretty good..do they have like a certain taste , like say do they taste like any other veg or do they have a taste all on their own?. ..farty hmm I have enough problem in general with farting as it is and don't really need to add to that 🤣😂😂 and thanks for answering my question. Have a great day 🦘🐨🇦🇺
@sharont2878 potatoes? But water chestnut? They are strange. But good. Their inulin fibre content is good for diabetes BUT is tough on the gut and causes flatulence. Best to pre-cook or ferment. I ferment, then mashed and cooked and used to thicken stews
I love them too! Sweet and nutty. Makes a beautiful pureed soup and delicious roasted or pureed. There's a lovely Ottolenghi chicken with Jerusalem artichokes recipe too. A good source of prebiotics I believe. Plus amazing soil conditioners. Peace.
Always loving grilling up some dinner outside, then coming in to sit and watch your new videos! It's a treat to see what you've got growing out there! Here in subtropical southeast Virginia, I'm doing well off with corn, chard, lettuce, spinach, around 50 Everglades Tomato plants, peppermint, coriander, rocket, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, strawberries, sweet and Thai basil, zucchini, pumpkins, sunflowers, green beans, chilis, and finally 1/8 of an acre of my property dedicated to sorghum. May be missing some, but that's off the top of my head! Hoping to get some more bananas planted out soon, as well. Looking forward to more videos as you get into your Fall season! Cheers
I think that Jerusalem Artichoke is called "ground artichoke" in Finland. It can even survive under the ground over our harsh winter so definitely good for harsh conditions.
Cape Gooseberries are a tough harsh conditions plant too! The heatwave here in Perth was so bad there are huge old trees all over the city from end to end that have died! Hedges everywhere - I had a massive infestation of Mealy Bugs on a big line of Hibiscuses along with the heatwave and dead reticulation so no ladybugs to eat them! There is a really awesome looking old Eucalypt tree nearby my house which is several hundred years old that was gutted out completely by a bushfire decades ago and it regrew to thrive, but this heatwave killed that old tough tree!! I wish I took a photo of it before it died...it was a wide thick trunk but it is all burned out so hollowed out and mostly gone apart from a few edges.
Dry the bulbs of the rosella then put a handfull in cold water over night next day use the water put a bit of sugar very good hot or cold we drink it in egypt
My grandmother used to grow that Italian gourd. She called it a cacouts. She would cut it into rings scoop out the soft seed area and peel it. Then stuff it with minced beef mixed with onion and tomato. Cover it in a good tomato sauce with basil and bake it covered till it was tender and the beef cooked through. It was delicious.
My aunt taught me how to eat Egyptian "Spinach." She cooks the tender shoots (never the older leaves) with a little water with fish sauce or just salt and it's delicious. It's one of my favorites. And better than regular spinach.
Greetings from north Florida! Thanks a lot for the trumpet blast at the end... It woke my Labrador Retriever up and she came running over. It must be some kind of dog signal to commence licking my arms.
It's always heartening when you do something that shouldn't work and it does. I absolutely wish I could grow bananas. I thing it's time to turn all the bottles that never got to recycling into a greenhouse.
My most favourite channel of all time! Valuable, informative content with ease and the special Mark touch! Ur a hoot and bloody good bloke! Thanks for sharing mate
I just put in the sunchoke/jeruselum artichoke as well as a maypop/passion fruit vine in my garden this year. Zone 8a United States. Looking forward to the bounty!
My goodness! Your delivery is on point and so engaging. You've got me gingered up to sow a few seeds to grow some crops this summer! In fact, i just soak some ginger to get them planted tomorrow. Thanks Mark 😊
Mark ...the Roseland plant ..in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 we call it sorrel and it makes an amazing drink just look up "how to make sorrel drink" trust me you won't regret it
I live in the Mojave Desert in Northwestern Arizona, USA and we had a terrible grasshopper infestation in our area for the past two years. I garden organically and have tried it all to rid us of the grasshoppers. We have a Bermuda Grass lawn over our septic tank drain field so cannot do any rototilling in that area which is a thing (tilling) that eradicates the eggs of the grasshoppers. We also have grasshoppers in neighboring yards and the dirt/grass/weeds alley behind the homes on our street. I am winning the war year 3 but it is hard. Last year the grasshoppers ate the grape leaves, the Bearded Iris leaves, and even tried to eat the tree leaves on the fruitless mulberry trees!
Got a friend with chickens? Place temperary fence over septic tank area place borrowed chickens in for a week. They will clean it all up. Plus free eggs.
@@autumnwest5854 I wish I had such a pal. Not so. Thanks for the great idea though. We mowed and I only saw three adult grasshoppers which I easily killed. Last year there were hundreds then probably over a thousand. We have a grass dirt alley behind the whole street here so that is another area where the grasshoppers may be coming from too. Thanks again.
It is fantastic watching you go through with the climate over your side. I'm in WA and we are still going through a drought. I applaud you for not creating a giant shade cloth structure. I honestly can't justify doing that to 200sqm of land mass
I looked up Egyptian spinach and found that it's the same as "molokhia"! I just bought seeds for that one and am about to plant them. Thanks for the information! I don't live in Australia, but I do live in very hot and humid Texas. 😀
Thank you for all of the work and effort you put into these videos. It's clear that not only are you passionate about gardening for yourself, you're passionate and thoughtful about getting others to start gardening and make the best gardens they can so you work to be informative and educational as much as you work to be entertaining. You nail the balance perfectly, and it does not go unappreciated. Thank you for all you do and all the wonderful ideas you give people like me every time our growing seasons come around ❤
I’m in hot humid SE Florida, torrential rains in summer, scorching Sun when not raining…so thank you very much! When you are fermenting/pickling veggies, would appreciate your comments on what you used for liquid and powder!
I live in Florida and I have grown so many things you have recommend! You grow a survival garden for sure! But WHAT was that really large orange spotted bug!! YIKES!!
We normally cut banana flowers when it finishes having fruits. We don't leave it with the fruit to save energy for the fruit. We also use banana flowers (sugar banana) for some soup, salad,...
For viewers who live in the southeast or southwest of Queensland, the humble choko is a tough and vigorous vine. Best picked small (apple size), this vine produces a huge amount of fruit. It has a mild flavour with a surprising sweetness to it. It is ideal for the back fence or any neglected part of the garden. Over the last 3 years I have never needed to water mine. It seems the only care required is pruning and harvesting. Oh, and leave a couple behind to regrow the following season 😂 I got mine from a local organic fruit and vegie shop.
I’m a subscriber, but I recently rediscovered your channel. I have to say that your presentation style and knowledge is very impressive and enjoyable to watch. You seem to know the ins and outs of everything in your garden. It feels like you have memorized the information so well that you could speak for hours about it. Really enjoyable stuff here. I’m happy that I found your channel again. How many years or how long did it take for the garden to reach this level? Impressive!
❤❤❤I love Farmer Mark's Garden videos and how he chews on the raw food , his accent is fatherly . You are a good farmer Bambi . Thank you. You inspired me to just grow any thing sweet peppers I pray they fruit
Your giant passionfruit (we call them badea here in Ecuador) looks a lot different than my variety. My badea is thriving at 2400m elevation in a cooler climate than the internet says they can survive (8c to 24c). It's one of my favorite fruits because the flesh tastes like a melon but the pulp and seeds still have the typical tangy floral passionfruit flavor that is great for juice and ice cream.
Your asparagus pea is called winged bean here....I've been meaning to try those. I've grown Eyptian spinach and love it! I snacked on it after the hurricane came through my city. I haven't tried rosella but I have grown and eaten false rosella. It has dark purple leaves and beautiful purplish flowers. It also tastes like cranberry. That new Guinea bean looks interesting. My mom has a ton of passion fruit growing wild in her front yard but we have never seen any fruit. Great vid!
Thank you such wonderful new plants I'd never heard of. Love to try the Italian cucumber. I now have Jerusalem artichokes, and i grow Loofah. The plant that makes sponges when mature and dry, but are very edible when young and tender, just like zucchini. bananas start out here, but get frozen before they can make fruit. But I sure want to try some of the others mentioned. I live in Llano Texas-Central Texas.
This reminds me of the winter we had here. I've never ever saw as much rain as this year and last year. My backyard became a pond very often, yet with that combined with occasional frosts, winter onions, different Mediterranean herbs and flower bulbs survived and thived. Even my grape survived the flooding. I didn't expect that one. Plants can be way more resilient than people give them credit for!
Your a champ mate, so many can benefit from this sort of positive resilience regardless of any disasters and failures in the garden. Keep up sharing the great positivity and thanks for also sharing what you do in the kitchen with your resilient crops. Blessings mate. Ben
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G'day, Everyone; most of you should be well into the new planting season, so I hope it's growing well! If something is not going to plan, don't be deterred. Just get more determined! Thanks for your support... Cheers :)
Our planting season is coming up very soon...Michigan USA 😊
Always like watching your videos Mark, you really do try to give people the best information you can.
Have a ripper mate!
There’s been no rain (2.1 mm) in Perth Western Australia for 6 months, it’s so dry and still quite hot. I’ve delayed any planting until things change. Also I’d love to grow sugar cane but can never find any!
I enjoy all your videos! Bring on the sweet potatoes :) Yams! I do envy all the citrus and sugar cane.
Hi Mark. Great video. We are fellow SEQ residents also. Can you please make a video about what crops we can plant now coming into the Autumn/Winter? That would be really helpful. Thanks again for your content. We love it 👍
Steve Irwin is the father of conservation
and Mark is the father of horticulture.
Australia just keeps pumping out legends
So unfortunate that Australia is now a completely communist nation.
Pumping out? Thats 2 people, you also gave us Iggy Azalea, settle down 😂
@@gingerydelights3554 iggy azalea is fatherless and your negative comment is also fatherless behavior
@gingerydelights3554 his name is the gun Smith. He's not from Straya. You settle down😂😂😂
@@TheGunSmith My comment was a joke, most Australians have a great sense of humor so your clearly not one 🤣
Jumping to calling someone fatherless in a comments section is wild, and you let us know that you don't respect any military man or police who died for their country. Now that's real fatherless behavior, being a brat in a comments section for attention.
1. Banana
2. Turmeric
3. Jerusalem artichoke
4. Egyptian spinach
5. Sugarcane
6. Rosella
7. Asparagus pea
8. "Giant" passionfruit
9. Kent/Japanese pumpkin
10. Italian gourd/New Guinea bean
I can't grow most of these in Seattle. Wish I could!
"banana" "unstoppable" oh the irony. Already nearly extinct several varieties and the last one is on it's way out lmao
Japanese bamboo (knotweed) is technically edible... and might be the most unstoppable of all plants.
@@marandamurphy Sugarcane should be able to get well underway, at the least, and sorghum, which can be used as a poor man's sugarcane, should be able to pull it off easily if you have irrigation or plant sparser to reduce the need.
Thank you, my friend.
In Mexico, we use the rosella calix for hibiscus tea. The calixes need to be dried first, once they’re nice and dry, put a handful in a pot of boiling water. Once you start getting a stronger fragrance, remove from the heat. Add sugar (to taste) and ice. Let it finish cooling in the fridge, and serve it cold 😋
😮 sounds delicious 🎉
Adriana! Greetings from El Centro. I love making jamaica from roselle calyx. Missing you and your family (saw your brother recently). I'm new to this channel but looking forward to trying some of his great ideas adopted to the desert where we live. Yes,
@@KelleyAshbrook hey!!! Wow! It’s such a small world 😅 hope you guys are doing well. And best of luck with your gardening adventures
I grew hibiscus last year, the calixs were so damn tasty lol
Yuuuuum
One of the few channels I give a 👍🏻 to before I watch the video.
Hi Mark, we're in stuggletown a bit here in the southwest of WA. Drought like we've never seen before, the bush is dying, dams are empty, rivers drying up with no rain in sight for the future. It's hard to watch so much rain and growth without being "green" with envy! Thank you for your videos, they keep us going with thoughts of better times.
Northern suburbs of Perth here and yes, so green … with envy! 🙃 I lost all my chilli plants last year as well as my passion fruit vine due to excessive heat. Even with watering daily, sometimes twice. I grow succulents as a hobby and even those were half alive and struggling. I’m also in a windy coastal suburb so it’s been a harsh few years plant wise. Let’s hope this winter is nice and rainy.
Same story, but not as unusual here in the desert Southwest of New Mexico. I lost all but an established tree and one rosebush in a protected spot - the lantanas thrive as always. This year I've bought 2 desert native trees to plant in the hopes of providing some shade for future plants and to cool my house.
The story here in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas has been one of a lot of Stormy wet weather. I added lots of mulch of shredded limbs and leaf to as many areas as possible.. including the fruit trees.. then I brought 2 pickup full loads of aged sawdust....on top of that I brought a load of dried cow manure and spread it Parsley over the top and tilled it in.
All of those additives I figure will help build the soil and feed the plants so they prosper through hard times.
There's too much to explain all the ins and outs of the trials and errors of my gardening endeavors but I usually eat quite well. I'm able to can, dry or freeze any surplus. I always save seed from growing heirloom or open pollinated plants.
I moved from Arizona around the Phoenix area with a total different ground makeup and hot dry temperatures but I managed to grow corn out in the middle of the desert where other gardeners said it couldn't be done
I did that by tiling up an area and banking it with about foot high edges and then flood irrigated it... Used mulch and goat manure to feed the dry sandy soil.
When we bought the place we discovered that the original owner had built up the soil for 2 years before he put in an orchard of apricots, plums, a dwarf peach tree that put on baseball-sized peaches and figs.
I tilt between the rows of trees and planted alfalfa which I found my goats preferred already dried in the form of hay...
They gave me plenty of milk... My neighbor had lemon trees ... And he was allowed to graft the apricot and plum trees ending up with plumcots. . That proved very tasty and interesting.
I'm 73 and still plugging along and will never stop learning something new everyday.
BTW the gourd you grow reminds me of the Tromboncino squash.. it vines heavily and produces long straight squash if grown on trellis, or if left to sprawl on the ground makes all kinds of snake-like shapes... When it is green you can eat it cooked like a zucchini or you can wait until it's at its growing season and becomes like a winter squash and it will keep in a cool pantry for many months .. it then makes delicious soups, stews stir fries and delicious pumpkin like pie. It's a very versatile plant and what you call pumpkin.
Everyone have a beautiful day... We all can never give up on our growing endeavors cuz that's what feeds our mouths...😊 So everybody just prepare for the worst and do our best...I wish the BEST for everyone worldwide 🌄💚🌿🫂❤️
Never thought gardening could be so entertaining. I really enjoy your videos 😊
Thank you for the kind feedback 🙂👍
Gardening can be many things. It's actually a common practice among people with PTSD as it can be healing, or those with depression to help give them purpose in dark days, and so on.
Plus, it has the added bonus of health benefits as you can control what pesticides (if any) you use. I would definitely recommend it :)
@@MandyOnderwater Someone I used to work for called it the 'Green Gym' Loved that expression.
@@Clyde__Frog ah that's pretty cool!
I use to work in a greenhouse in high school, one of the most popular plants was the banana tree, plus we would eat the bananas while working...lol
I'm from South Texas, and I think Texas is a mini Australia. So I really like your show. OK ready to get into it.
DFW area here!! I like crops that reseed and like hot temperatures. Don't have so much to replant each year. Our water bill gets really high come July and August!
South East Texas here...very much like northern oz!
I'm looking forward to visiting Texas one day soon! Eating at some of your famous barby joints is on my bucket list... Cheers 👍🙂
It's indeed quite similar! If you're ever stuck, Mark has a forum full of people happy to share their own experiences and knowledge. Questions are always welcome too :)
It's called Self-Sufficient-Culture. It's also found in this video's description box.
www.selfsufficientculture.com/
@@Selfsufficientme we have a lot of barbecue places to eat along with Mexican food! You won't go hungry!
The amount of biomass you get with your crops is impressive !
As always, it's a pleasure to follow you in your garden !
Thanks! That's true about the biomass and it's a good point too. Something I don't often think about but I should appreciate it more 👍🙂
@@Selfsufficientme Thank you for including biomass. North Queensland is STILL RAINING! Chop and drop is a technique to ensure access to the water and electricity metre so you dont get cut off. The Triffids will eventually be replaced with food plants. Thank you for showing your weeds. I feel better now.
If sunflowers do well in your climate, you can use the sunflower stalks as poles! They need to be dried for about a week or so after the flower is harvested, but they turn into an almost bamboo-like pole.
I grew rosella last year during our hottest summer on record, and as I watched my garden die from the heat, the rosella turned into a gigantic bush, bigger than any rosella I’ve ever seen.
Rosella looking at all the other plants: Pssh, pathtic 💪
Are they perennials?
@@glendaquick9290not really, but they live longer than most annuals. I've had one that went on for 2 years before it finally gave up. By that time should have already harvested a lot of seeds for replanting.
Sambung, Moringa and Sweet Leaf have been abundant this summer, they are high nutrition plants...
Really enjoy your show. Thanks
Hi Mark, the plant you called Egyptian spinach, is also in the hibiscus family, like okra and the cotton plant. It also grows in the Mediterranean region and the locals cook a soup from it called Malochia soup.
Excellent. The tougher it gets, the more you come out on top. Well done.
Just found this guy! What a legend. And nice to find aussie gardeners too!
These video's always make me feel nice and calm :) Keep up the good work!
I was SO EXCITED to have the El Nino back. It turns the rain loose for us here in Florida. Under the La Nina we tend to be dry and hot. WELL, that heifer kicked El Nino out the door, and is trying to take over, again. Already, our rain has stated to dry up. BUT, we here in Florida are having our first REAL spring in 3 years. So, I am thankful! My plants are the happiest that I have seen them in so long, I just walk out to look at them, and tell them how proud I am of them. 😆😆
Great stuff KP! 👍😉
Please send some of that rain to Sarasota!
I'm not looking forward to the La Nina summer, and hurricane season.
@@shebasheba777 I think this one might be Irma 2.0.
Watch Mark Sudduth Hurricane Track
It's been good here in north Florida. Things are doing well. I had a lot of cold damage from the prior winter so I think this spring feels even nicer.
Many Middle Eastern dishes use Egyptian Spinach. I make a dish with it that's almost like a soup. I make it with chicken and chicken stock, onions, and lots of Egyptian Spinach. It is most commonly made with beef or lamb. It's served over rice. It's called Molokhia. It's so, so good. I grow some every year and blanch and freeze the leaves to preserve them.
Does this come back every year after winter.
That sounds lovely.
I’m from the uk and as someone who’s seen lots of rain and cold weather for months now…it’s so nice to see the sun in your garden.
I’d love to grow bananas but don’t have a greenhouse. I’ve started some seedlings off in the shed for now and crossing my fingers 😂 so far cabbage, mustard, Italian salad, tomatoes and peas have started to sprout.
Tip from across the north sea: hardier varieties of leeks, spinach, kohlrabi, kale, radish and onion can be grown in the weather we have! I have my first harvest of radish and massive amounts of spinach now. Sowed and grown outside (but coveted at first) in mid February!
@@moe4561 treasure where you are. I'd love to grow some of the cold weather plants, and fruits, but sometimes it gets too hot here for them.
There is now a Super Dwarf Banana which only grows head high. I'm testing some in containers. They would be perfect for a small hot house. All the best for your new developing plants this season 👍🙂
@@moe4561 yeah I find it interesting historically, too. Like in Elizabethan times, cinnamon was imported and other spices like black pepper. As I’m part Italian I’d find it bland too, but I find that kind of stuff interesting and am so grateful for different types of foods and seeds out there.
I have lemon pepper seeds and really want to grow them, but I’d have to think of a heat solution first. I’m also trying kohl robi this year and never had it before. It’s shooting up so far.
@@Selfsufficientme Thanks.
I’ve seen the dwarf banana plants before at a craft fair, they were £70 each. It was tempting but the expense plus the lack of a hot house ☹️ maybe one day. I do love the versatility of bananas. Also apparently butterflies like the banana skins, due to the sweetness.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, USA, and I also pronounce it toooomeric. 🤪 We grew rosella last year, and it was my 6 year old grandson’s favorite part of visiting our garden. He loved the sweet/tart taste of the calyx’s.
Where I am in Nova Scotia our climates are so different, we can’t grow the same crops, but I still come to your channel to learn- I trust your knowledge& experience more than so many newbie RUclips gardening channels.
ooohhh asparagus pea sounds amazing..I need2 grow this!
I’ve never heard turmeric pronounced any other way! 🤪 I mean yes - you have an accent … but ? Your garden looks so green and abundant, regardless of the rough season. Always happy to see your new videos pop up. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I needed this- Florida is harsh on a garden..
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Love Florida! Can't wait to get back there again for a proper holiday 👍🙂
Please do come to the Tampa/ St. Petersburg side! Would love to buy you & the missus a round! 🍻
American living in Papua, Indonesia. Our climate is almost identical so your videos have been a God-send. Not a whole lot of growing in Indo content out there! Thanks for the excellent content.
So nice to see an Australian version of self-sufficiency gardening videos!
It’s so cool to see what thrives when the weather gets extreme. Thank you for sharing! That Rosella looks wonderful. ❤
LOL you big kid! I love it that you don't deny your inner child and have fun making a imaginary trumpet out of a gourd. lol Cheers!
That’s what I love about Mark. So enjoyable
Never a bore watching this channel. Also love the signature move "let's get into it"
Welcome back Mark, good to see you!
In my world that’s exactly how you pronounce turmeric! Thank you for another great video. This helps me make decisions for my garden. I really like how you share how you eat your produce as well as all the growing tips. Happy gardening.
Thanks Katrina! All the best 👍🙂
Same here re Tumeric pronunciation 👍
Who says that's 'wrong' 🤔
Australians can not pronounce "tu". Any words that start with these letters are pronounced "choo". For example Tuna is pronounced choona. Not a criticism, just the Australian accent. I've lived here most of my adult life but haven't fully developed an Australian accent, and people roll around laughing when I say the word Tuna as "t u n a". They often get me to repeat it and then laugh some more. On the subject of bananas. What are you feeding them? This season the hands on my bananas are spindly with tiny sporadic bananas along the flower spike. 5 hands like that now. At the worst of the rain 2 of the stems with these hands just keeled over before any fruit could even ripen. They are "Lady Finger" bananas and planted near the bottom of a short slope, but high enough that they can drain properly. I'm in SE Qld.
Absolute rubbish. These are bogans who also pronounce three as free.
Love this video! Here in Houston, summer is like living in a bamboo steamer.
In jamaica we call the rosella Sorrell it makes really good juice, if we had a national juice it would be in heavy running. We usually grow it as a seasonal crop for Christmas. We blend or boil it together with ginger, adding pimento beans and overproof white rum and sugar after, put it to chill in the fridge then have it throughout the entire December season especially around Christmas eve to boxing day. Thank me later😊
Kinda goes to show how important this type of framing is! Despite the conditions, you were still able to produce food
Thank you for all your good information. Hat and sunglasses 🕶️ will increase your protection. We worry. 😊❤
Hey Mark,
I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to share a video idea with you that I think could add an interesting addition to your channel.
I was thinking it would be great if, during your next garden cleanup session, you could film the process. The idea is to capture a "Bird's Eye view" style video, similar to some of your previous videos where you zoom out to film the entire garden. It would be wonderful to have a long, unedited video showcasing the beauty of your garden, filmed from your balcony. This way, viewers can enjoy the serene ambiance of the Australian countryside, complete with the sounds of birds chirping in the background.
I've noticed that these "long style background ambience" videos have been gaining popularity on RUclips lately, so there might be other people who would appreciate it as well.
Of course, this is just a suggestion, and I understand if you're busy with other projects. I just figured if you were going to clean up/weed the garden anyway you might as well get two birds stoned at once and make it worth your while by getting some potential content out of it haha.
Keep up the fantastic work on your channel.
I am growing a "hardy tropical" ornamental garden, and one rule is that plants that like humidity can be fooled by densely planting around them. The larger leafed plants produce a lot of humidity through their leaves just by photosynthesizing. This is likely why your bananas were so happy. Their water needs were colossal in a clump like that, but any additional water they got was just turned into humidity, which bananas love.
Interesting point you made! Thank you 👍🙂
So basically....Mark made a banana sauna.
@@伏見猿比古-k8c Yes, but my favourite way to explain it is to say it's natures AC unit. If you ever get the chance, visit a bamboo forest in person. The temperature inside one is so much lower than it should be, and it is just because of this exact effect.
Mark is not kidding. It rained non stop for five months.
We live up "the road"
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Fantastically informational. Every place where food can be in short supply should have lots of these edible plants just grown everywhere at random. Can you imagine what a difference these would make in a country like North Korea!
I lived briefly in NSW in the early 1970s. The state was just coming out of a 7 year drought which had been pretty dire. My boss showed me a crop of Jerusalem artichokes and another of asparagus. Both had been planted by his father many years before. He and his family did not cultivate or use either, but I used both regularly for myself while I was there and both cropped generously.
I'm on a newly established homestead, working on starting my garden. Last fall, you let us know there was a Black Friday sale, plus your discount, on a couple of Birdies Raised Beds. I bought 3 of the 6-in-1 tall and finally got them set up yesterday. Today, I lined the bottoms with hardware cloth and a layer of cardboard, then filled them part way with logs and sticks. I don't have access to leaves, so I'll dump in pine shavings to fill the gaps, then top them with compost. I can hardly wait to start planting in them!
All the best with your new property and raised beds! Starting a new garden from scratch... how exciting! 👍🙂
That sounds like a bang-on idea! Use what you have.
If you're new to gardening and are looking for tips, or are simply looking to share your progress...
Mark has a forum! It's found in the video's description box, and it's called Self Sufficient Culture.
www.selfsufficientculture.com/
Jerusalem artichoke (sunchokes) are amazing. They also thrive up here in Canada. They can survive underground in -30 C, popping up when soils thaw. You can't stop it! It's actually the only starch tuber native to northern north America. Sand, clays, etc doesn't matter (with reduced yields of course)
I have never tried Jerusalem artichokes before and what do they taste like. Cheers mate
@sharont2878 delicious, sort of creamy ...can make some people windy! In UK we sometimes say farty-chokes.
@@likkleginger delicious and creamy sounds pretty good..do they have like a certain taste , like say do they taste like any other veg or do they have a taste all on their own?. ..farty hmm I have enough problem in general with farting as it is and don't really need to add to that 🤣😂😂 and thanks for answering my question. Have a great day 🦘🐨🇦🇺
@sharont2878 potatoes? But water chestnut? They are strange. But good. Their inulin fibre content is good for diabetes BUT is tough on the gut and causes flatulence. Best to pre-cook or ferment. I ferment, then mashed and cooked and used to thicken stews
I love them too! Sweet and nutty. Makes a beautiful pureed soup and delicious roasted or pureed. There's a lovely Ottolenghi chicken with Jerusalem artichokes recipe too. A good source of prebiotics I believe. Plus amazing soil conditioners. Peace.
Always loving grilling up some dinner outside, then coming in to sit and watch your new videos! It's a treat to see what you've got growing out there!
Here in subtropical southeast Virginia, I'm doing well off with corn, chard, lettuce, spinach, around 50 Everglades Tomato plants, peppermint, coriander, rocket, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, strawberries, sweet and Thai basil, zucchini, pumpkins, sunflowers, green beans, chilis, and finally 1/8 of an acre of my property dedicated to sorghum. May be missing some, but that's off the top of my head! Hoping to get some more bananas planted out soon, as well.
Looking forward to more videos as you get into your Fall season! Cheers
Hi Mark, can you do a video of you transplanting the banana suckers? It would be very interesting to watch👍🏼
I think that Jerusalem Artichoke is called "ground artichoke" in Finland. It can even survive under the ground over our harsh winter so definitely good for harsh conditions.
Cape Gooseberries are a tough harsh conditions plant too! The heatwave here in Perth was so bad there are huge old trees all over the city from end to end that have died! Hedges everywhere - I had a massive infestation of Mealy Bugs on a big line of Hibiscuses along with the heatwave and dead reticulation so no ladybugs to eat them! There is a really awesome looking old Eucalypt tree nearby my house which is several hundred years old that was gutted out completely by a bushfire decades ago and it regrew to thrive, but this heatwave killed that old tough tree!! I wish I took a photo of it before it died...it was a wide thick trunk but it is all burned out so hollowed out and mostly gone apart from a few edges.
Those gourds (and pumkins for that matter) are an easy way to grow food for your chickens and pigs too, they store well and the animals love them.
Dry the bulbs of the rosella then put a handfull in cold water over night next day use the water put a bit of sugar very good hot or cold we drink it in egypt
I liked the cameo appearance of the lady bug 🐞 on the rosella bush.
My grandmother used to grow that Italian gourd. She called it a cacouts. She would cut it into rings scoop out the soft seed area and peel it. Then stuff it with minced beef mixed with onion and tomato. Cover it in a good tomato sauce with basil and bake it covered till it was tender and the beef cooked through. It was delicious.
My aunt taught me how to eat Egyptian "Spinach." She cooks the tender shoots (never the older leaves) with a little water with fish sauce or just salt and it's delicious. It's one of my favorites. And better than regular spinach.
I'm loving how people know how to cook these veggies 🎉🎉
I grew turmeric once in Arkansas, zone 7. I got enough to make a 1/2 cup of powder!
Greetings from north Florida! Thanks a lot for the trumpet blast at the end... It woke my Labrador Retriever up and she came running over. It must be some kind of dog signal to commence licking my arms.
The Asparagus pea leaf rejection was wholesomely entertaining 😂, Thank 11:10 you for all of your informative content brother ❤
Have you ever considering trying long beans? Might work well for your hot summers. Great video!
It's always heartening when you do something that shouldn't work and it does. I absolutely wish I could grow bananas. I thing it's time to turn all the bottles that never got to recycling into a greenhouse.
I use a cookie cutter to get the skin off the Italian long gourd, slice discs off then press the cookie cutter to separate the skin 😉😁🌱☀️
In the Caribbean, we call Roselle- Sorrell. At Christmas, it's made into a lovely drink. Some even add rum to it.
My most favourite channel of all time! Valuable, informative content with ease and the special Mark touch! Ur a hoot and bloody good bloke! Thanks for sharing mate
That’s the way I pronounce turmeric too, Self Sufficient!
Those asparagus peas would look amazing sliced as a garnish or in a salad!
I just put in the sunchoke/jeruselum artichoke as well as a maypop/passion fruit vine in my garden this year. Zone 8a United States. Looking forward to the bounty!
My goodness! Your delivery is on point and so engaging. You've got me gingered up to sow a few seeds to grow some crops this summer! In fact, i just soak some ginger to get them planted tomorrow. Thanks Mark 😊
Rosella is Called Sorrel in Jamaica and is used for A delicious drink in Christmas time
That turmeric looks amazing 😍
Very timely, given all the rough weather in North America.
Mark ...the Roseland plant ..in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 we call it sorrel and it makes an amazing drink just look up "how to make sorrel drink" trust me you won't regret it
I live in the Mojave Desert in Northwestern Arizona, USA and we had a terrible grasshopper infestation in our area for the past two years. I garden organically and have tried it all to rid us of the grasshoppers. We have a Bermuda Grass lawn over our septic tank drain field so cannot do any rototilling in that area which is a thing (tilling) that eradicates the eggs of the grasshoppers. We also have grasshoppers in neighboring yards and the dirt/grass/weeds alley behind the homes on our street. I am winning the war year 3 but it is hard. Last year the grasshoppers ate the grape leaves, the Bearded Iris leaves, and even tried to eat the tree leaves on the fruitless mulberry trees!
Got a friend with chickens? Place temperary fence over septic tank area place borrowed chickens in for a week. They will clean it all up. Plus free eggs.
@@autumnwest5854 I wish I had such a pal. Not so. Thanks for the great idea though. We mowed and I only saw three adult grasshoppers which I easily killed. Last year there were hundreds then probably over a thousand. We have a grass dirt alley behind the whole street here so that is another area where the grasshoppers may be coming from too. Thanks again.
I've been hearing about Australia's crazy weather this year. This video peaked my interest to see what plants were withstanding it.
Wow! Such diversity there Mark. Great info.
From Tassie, haven't tuned in for a while, love your informative down to earth shows, thanks Mark 👌🏽
It is fantastic watching you go through with the climate over your side.
I'm in WA and we are still going through a drought.
I applaud you for not creating a giant shade cloth structure. I honestly can't justify doing that to 200sqm of land mass
I looked up Egyptian spinach and found that it's the same as "molokhia"! I just bought seeds for that one and am about to plant them. Thanks for the information! I don't live in Australia, but I do live in very hot and humid Texas. 😀
I’ve never seen New Guinea bean dried out! Mad. Thanks for another great video, Mark!
Cheers Mark. Always nice to see you mucking about your garden, dropping little tips and tricks along the way :)
Thank you for all of the work and effort you put into these videos. It's clear that not only are you passionate about gardening for yourself, you're passionate and thoughtful about getting others to start gardening and make the best gardens they can so you work to be informative and educational as much as you work to be entertaining. You nail the balance perfectly, and it does not go unappreciated. Thank you for all you do and all the wonderful ideas you give people like me every time our growing seasons come around ❤
I’m in hot humid SE Florida, torrential rains in summer, scorching Sun when not raining…so thank you very much!
When you are fermenting/pickling veggies, would appreciate your comments on what you used for liquid and powder!
And quantities. I think I mean ratios.
This summer was hell not just for the garden. Hooray for cooler weather here now..happy gardeners
I live in Florida and I have grown so many things you have recommend! You grow a survival garden for sure! But WHAT was that really large orange spotted bug!! YIKES!!
Thank you for sharing
Love this information, Mark. Thank you for every video you make!! You go wear (or not wear) anything that makes you happy!! ❤❤
We normally cut banana flowers when it finishes having fruits. We don't leave it with the fruit to save energy for the fruit. We also use banana flowers (sugar banana) for some soup, salad,...
For viewers who live in the southeast or southwest of Queensland, the humble choko is a tough and vigorous vine.
Best picked small (apple size), this vine produces a huge amount of fruit. It has a mild flavour with a surprising sweetness to it.
It is ideal for the back fence or any neglected part of the garden. Over the last 3 years I have never needed to water mine. It seems the only care required is pruning and harvesting. Oh, and leave a couple behind to regrow the following season 😂
I got mine from a local organic fruit and vegie shop.
Hi what is "choko"? Haha thanks
I’m a subscriber, but I recently rediscovered your channel. I have to say that your presentation style and knowledge is very impressive and enjoyable to watch. You seem to know the ins and outs of everything in your garden. It feels like you have memorized the information so well that you could speak for hours about it.
Really enjoyable stuff here. I’m happy that I found your channel again.
How many years or how long did it take for the garden to reach this level? Impressive!
I watched this on my off member TV. Had to come in and give it a like. Love your videos. Keep up the great work.
I'm a couple of hour south from you. What a wet summer!! Very helpful video. Thanks
Nice video Mark. I know how you feel about trying to keep your garden under control in a hot summer. Exhausting but rewarding.
❤❤❤I love Farmer Mark's Garden videos and how he chews on the raw food , his accent is fatherly . You are a good farmer Bambi . Thank you. You inspired me to just grow any thing sweet peppers I pray they fruit
We have harsh summers here in southwest Louisiana. Thank you for this video!
9:40 is that a massive lady bug? 🐞 😊
Hibiscus Harlequin Bug (Jewel bugs)
Informative and interesting to see the things that have thrived. I laughed when your peeler fell apart on the Italian gourd 😀
Look at that rhazome
What a clasta
Love it!!
Keep it up!!
Last summer here in Utah, USA we had tons of grasshoppers....small, medium and huge! They were everywhere.😜
Hi..... Mark nice to see you Love watching your video Self sufficient me bye
Your giant passionfruit (we call them badea here in Ecuador) looks a lot different than my variety. My badea is thriving at 2400m elevation in a cooler climate than the internet says they can survive (8c to 24c). It's one of my favorite fruits because the flesh tastes like a melon but the pulp and seeds still have the typical tangy floral passionfruit flavor that is great for juice and ice cream.
Your asparagus pea is called winged bean here....I've been meaning to try those. I've grown Eyptian spinach and love it! I snacked on it after the hurricane came through my city. I haven't tried rosella but I have grown and eaten false rosella. It has dark purple leaves and beautiful purplish flowers. It also tastes like cranberry. That new Guinea bean looks interesting. My mom has a ton of passion fruit growing wild in her front yard but we have never seen any fruit. Great vid!
Thank you such wonderful new plants I'd never heard of. Love to try the Italian cucumber. I now have Jerusalem artichokes, and i grow Loofah. The plant that makes sponges when mature and dry, but are very edible when young and tender, just like zucchini. bananas start out here, but get frozen before they can make fruit. But I sure want to try some of the others mentioned. I live in Llano Texas-Central Texas.
This reminds me of the winter we had here. I've never ever saw as much rain as this year and last year. My backyard became a pond very often, yet with that combined with occasional frosts, winter onions, different Mediterranean herbs and flower bulbs survived and thived. Even my grape survived the flooding. I didn't expect that one. Plants can be way more resilient than people give them credit for!
Your a champ mate, so many can benefit from this sort of positive resilience regardless of any disasters and failures in the garden. Keep up sharing the great positivity and thanks for also sharing what you do in the kitchen with your resilient crops. Blessings mate. Ben