7 Tips to Keep Vegetables Growing Healthy
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- In this video, I give 7 tips on how to keep vegetables growing healthy for maximum food crops at home.
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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 :)
Mark aka Brussels Crowe coming in with the EPIC tips!
Hahaha thanks Kevin! 👍😁
Dad joke to Dad joke *FOR THE WIN*
so cute watching all you gardening youtubers cross pollinate
what a non-toxic community ^_^ organic asf
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Brussels Crowe, fightin' (pests) 'round the garden!
Tip #8. I found when I talk to my plants with an Australian accent in the garden they tend to grow great. 🤣
I love these back to basics videos! Thanks again🙏
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Me too, I thought I was the only one!!
I do too, but I don't have to try for an Aussie accent, I am Aussie!!!! Lol! :D
Didn't myth busters do an episode on this very thing?
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Interplanting with marigolds, garlic and members of the mint family with my crops has helped to deter pests like my nemesis, the dreaded cabbage moth from my brassicas. Thanks for all the great videos.
This is similar to what my great granddad told my granny ... if you have problems with vine louses on your roses, plant lavender next to them. I've seen it work in her garden. She had the most beautiful flowers. I think that very essential oil heavy plants are good for such things. They share over the roots with other plants to keep them healthy. They "know" it is saver for them to keep the neighberhood strong too ;D .... at least that is how I explain it to myself.
does mint itself work? mint seems like a very easy herb to grow and will probably grow alongside anything..
x o yes it will grow alongside anything and EVERYTHING, lol. An absolute must plant to be grown in pot.
Top tip on companion planting! Thank you :)
Garlic! Absolutely ♡ bugs just hate the stuff ;)
1. Water
1a. Observation
2. Fertilizer
3. Protection from Pests
4. Protect plants from disease (good hygiene)
5. Timing
6. Weeding
7. Mulch
And an ozzy daddy to take care of it all
And repeat...
;-)
Where are the timestamps? Cheers ;)
8. Speak in Australian Accent.
Thank you.
Mark! My girlfriend and I are homesteaders in Southern Canada and we love all your vids. Avid viewers regularly. Your personality coupled with your intellect are unparalleled.
The only thing I can ad to this video is the integration of animals. Such as ducks taking care of all your slug problems. Dogs chasing away your moles and voles, chickens eating your flats, grubs and bugs. It's the cycle of self sufficiency.
Cheers mate. Hope you're well since the floods. All the best from Canada!!! ❤🇨🇦❤
You’re a smart, kind man; you’re in tune with nature.
As an army veteran myself i can only say. Great video's! I never knew gardening and growing veggies could be so good for the soul.
Thanks for being so enthousiastic and putting out so many helpfull video's. Truly love the content!
Cheers from the Netherlands.
Olaf
Thanks!
My wife and I are beginner gardeners in South Carolina in the US. This is our 2nd year and we've expanded our garden from last year. I find your videos very helpful and easy to follow. Thank you.
"Wiggle it around if you want to have some fun" LOL! Thought you could slip that past us did you?!!
the dudes ex-military, he definitely is placing innuendo throughout his videos
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Been following this channel for years now. Finally have a good raised bed going. Thank you for all this information, I seriously appreciate it. Cheers from the top of Texas 🧙🏼
Love watching your vids, sitting here knitting myself a thick woolly jumper for winter, thinking about setting up my veg garden for the summer.
OMG this guy is the best and he has the best garden tips! Love you you brighten my day!
I spray my powdery mildew plants with a 50/50 milk and water mix 2 times a week and I find that works really well. Before I did that I plucked all moderate to heavily diseased leaves off the plants. I’ve been doing it for about a month and I’m really happy with the level of prevention. I’ve plucked maybe 2 leaves off my pumpkins since I started. Before the plant was covered with plucking only every week.
Finally have my own place so I can go completely organic. Am loving these simple tips to make sure it's done right the first time. Many thanks!
Watching you for over a year now. I have changed everything I do with my gardening and to many successes. Thank you mark. Would love to show you my super huge compost pile. lol
No doubt you've got a better compost pile then me at the moment Luke - I still have to "renovate" my other two bays but I'm getting there... Cheers :)
I just want to thank you for so much experienced tips and guidance. Been watching your videos for a bit now.😊🌱👌
Awesome tips as usual...
Any gardener, seasoned or total beginner, needs to follow these!
My Dad, when I was a kid, had a beautiful vegetable garden, some flower beds, a grape trellis, a lawn of course (full of the native "goathead" stickers though!) & fruit trees in our yard that he'd reclaimed from a small patch of extremely alkaline sand in the Mojave Desert. He started a compost pile in one corner (I was thrilled to discover a cherry tomato plant in it...our personal snack tree as we were outside all day long!). Dad always called it "the mulch pile" and I think, in the desert, that was a pretty good description of how he used it.
Dad was well known to be a fantastic gardener, always ready to try something new. I remember Mom proudly serving cole rahbi (sp?) to our Independence Day guests. It was so crisp and sweet. Little did I know at the time that achieving such results with a cole crop in Northern Hemisphere Mojave Desert July were really unusual!
corn grow nice when u plant it when the rain season starts.... thats how we do it here in mexico... corn sometimes can me difficult uwu.... the aztecs used to grow corn in a form called chinampas... its like an ancient form of hydroponics
Another good tip: Physically support your veggie plants that need it with trellis/stakes.
After my recent experience I'd put a good soil above anything else. I had an old raised bed, which I fed with fertilizers bagwise as all do and I established a few new raised beds with a 50/50 mixture of top soil and mushroom compost. The difference was mindboggling.
14 is my lucky number! ... I use 7 a lot in life because of it being half of 14!
I like you a lot, my friend! ✨
It’s funny.. reminds me of me a bit. I won’t set an alarm to wake up unless the combined numbers are divisible by 3 which is my favorite number. 5:22 in the morning.. that’ll work. 5:21 won’t work. It’s not divisible by 3.
I could just listen to Mark talk for hours. His manner of speech is so soothing, almost meditative.
I like your 7 tips and over the years through trial and error we have adopted most of them but it is always encouraging to hear someone else reinforce good gardening habits with their experience. The reasoning behind the practice is also most welcome.
Fantastic tips there Mark. especially about taking the information from guides as a guide only, Great video mate
Hey Mark, I've been watching your channel off and on now for a couple of years, but I just recently subscribed. I subscribed because I found you to be a hoot to watch! Even though I can't grow half of what you do in my climate, I watch anyway. I know that when I watch any of your videos I am going to grin, chuckle or just bust out laughing!!! So, stick your finger in it, wiggle it around a bit to have some fun and I'm sure it will come out wet!!! LMAO
Thanks!
Another great, straight forward video Mark. Thanks so much for your continued efforts to promote the love of gardening.
I landed a job as a horticulturist for a school here in Brisbane 2 years ago. With a background in bush regeneration, the school job was a big change of pace but your videos really helped me to create great gardens for the school.
Keep up the great work, I always look forward to your videos.
Cheers 🌱
Greetings Mark. Today I assembled my first two raised beds. They are 3'x4'x12" deep. I filled them with a mix of garden soil and compost, with two inches of mulch on top. I put in five tomato plants, five pepper plants, and a Thai basil plant. 14.
Excellent! Thank you Mark. Great info.
Great video. Thanks for sharing! My biggest issues starting out were over-watering, under-nutrienting, and then also planting at the wrong time. Being in Central Florida, I cannot use seed packets to tell me when to sow and plant as the summers here are REALLY hot. Love that you grow in a similar climate. We just have crazy sandy soil. So, that makes it interesting as well. The worms bring the sand up into the compost as well. So, the beds have plenty of sand in them, even though I started with sand-free compost. I had too much wood in my beds from the green waste compost and I think it has stolen some nitrogen in the first year because of the nitrogen sequestration. Bugs are pretty bad here in the summer too. So, it is kinda cool / crazy that most of our growing is opposite of everyone else. We can grow better in "winter" than summer.
YTE Events and Balloon Decor hi fellow Floridian, greetings from the treasure coast! Have you looked into adding biochar and a bit of clay to your soil to help in water retention? Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!
YTE Events and Balloon Decor central Florida Gardener here as well! I did every mistake you just mentioned lol! Must be a Florida thing.
Im not alone!!! Native florida girl here in the treasure coast as well! We tilled our very first spring garden here on our plot and our plants did pretty decent. Then come fall i wanted to be like everyone else on youtube and be a no till gardener and honestly its not working out in our favor. Everything has been doing horrible since i built raised beds the pests come in by the boat loads especially the soil pests and its just a mess. This fall we're going back to trying minimal tilling once in spring and once in fall to see how that does.
Heather Reis when you till, try adding some biochar (get a bag of lump hardwood charcoal and crush it or a bag of hardwood charcoal briquettes and soak in compost tea and urine to activate it) and some clumping kitty litter (benzonite clay) and some alfalfa meal with your compost and see how that helps the soil.
Zone 9 northern Florida here. Yup, crazy Sandy soil = renders poor soil drainage.
I've committed to raised beds with compost; garden soil; some top soil and peat moss.
I've added bone meal; blood meal; compost that includes salmon skins; coffee grounds and egg shells etc.
Fertilizer and the like. Soil is doing well.
Now? Meletia cucurbitae; tomato horn worms and other assorted tomato eating bugs.
I do agree with most here that fall/winter gardening is more enjoyable in FL than summer gardening.
Yes , the seed packet planting times are not reliable for Florida. Go on web sites that are specific to your zip code for FL. Found that they re spot on...
Not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but keeping your tools clean ~ especially if you’ve used them on diseased plants! Learned this one the hard way when I was a newbie 😉
Your videos are a bright spot in this crazy time😊🌷
Thanks for another great video! I shared your quick crops video with our local Nextdoor app, trying to get more people growing their own food. You are the perfect combination of knowledge, experience, and funny! I have a couple tips: 1) use old (garage sale) BIRD CAGES with bottoms removed and put them over seedlings or tender plants to keep the birds and animals OUT, and 2) if you have GOPHERS like we do by the ton and are not planting in raised beds, line your hole with metal sheeting that has been secured into a cylinder at least 18 inches tall and 24 inches wide. The gophers do not go down below 18 inches. It has worked for me for years.
see that broccoli get pulled off man, brilliant! one of the most satisfying experiences of veggie gardening when you pick that wonderful fresh produce. It always makes me feel like a king.
You rock my world, actually you rock our raised beds!! Beautiful videos every time!! Thank you brother 🙏 much ♥️ from India
Thanks Mark, spring has just sprung in the UK. Being at home all the time, has allowed me to watch my garden come to life. Useful tips, I’m definitely not growing veggies for the pests.
Good on ya Duncan! All the best with your garden mate :)
I used to talk to my flowering indoor plants....they were beautiful,
Now.....I talk to my veggie plants.
Scientists have proven, that the vocal vibration of your voice, WILL make plant a respond & become or get healthier! Even your yard trees respond to vocal tremors/vibrations.
Love ya Mark! God bless you!
Weed root systems "choke" the veggie root systems, that are essential for good veggie crops.
GREAT tips!
Awesome tips Mark
That daily observation tip is something I never would have called out when I first started gardening, but it's a beauty. It's at the root of all the others.
Hey Mark, Garden bed rotation and Companion planting are a couple of others that come to mind. I never plant legumes in the same garden bed season after season, and neither tomatoes, cucumbers etc. Legumes put nitrogen back in whereas the salad types need nitrogen. Also if the has been disease in a particular crop, it could still exist in the soil so therefore, change the crop up and give time for it to finish its cycle or die. Companion planting helps with pests in my experience. Planting Basil with tomatoes is always successful for me. Not only do they go together in recipes and cooking but they seem to love growing together and the pests are certainly less when they are.
Love you videos most don't apply to me as I do solar powered aquaponics for 90% of my plants. Still love watching all your videos
Lock down in city (greetings from Bulgaria) i've turned my balcony in garden thanks to you. Stay positive and amazing all time!!! thanks mate!!!
We are starting our gardens here in South Texas your videos are very informative... Thank you.
this channel is so handy, im going to have a go at something this year, this lockdown is doing my head in ....bless from the UK
check out charles dowding. his you tube channel might help you! he is awesome like mark and is in u.k. Grow on!
Yes! That Australian accent has got to help! ❤️❤️
Please consider coming to Perth to baptise my raised veggie beds 😉👍🇦🇺
Amazingly informative video Mark. Thanks for sharing!
Timing is a big one in Ireland, mostly when to get your seed planted, too early can be hit by frost, too late & you're losing valuable time in a, sometimes short, growing season. On top of that it's different every year!
Thank you for providing such valuable and informative information! I started a home garden a few weeks ago and I learn something new every time I watch one of your fantastic videos. Cheers from Florida and I hope all is well!
"Or you can wiggle it around if you want to have some fun". Mark, I dont know you, and you dont know me, but your content is one of the best healing things Ive found.
I just recently found your channel and I just wanted to say I love watching your videos and thankyou!! So inspirational, uplifting and educational! Well wishes to you and your family from NY, USA
Just wanted to say Thank You for being such an inspiration! What a blessing we have in you and your lovely wife 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Hey mark ive been watching your videos for a year and today i started my little garden your videos helped me so much thanks for all the knowlege you've given me
I love to watch your channel they r so helpful
I’m in South Florida. Sun too intense to grow in Spring and Summer. I’m container gardening on the porch, sun filtered through bamboo fencing. I feed Fish emulsion and seaweed fertilizer each time I water. I’m adding a misting system with a timer for Summer. Excellent channel, thanks for the great information.
Hi Mark Love your videos & I am going to mulch more & have my raised garden elevated.
Stating the obvious, if you have enough space don't mow an area until it gets high you always have lots of coarse mulch.
every time i look at this guy's sub count i get so angry, cause he is amazing and deserves more respect. Heck ive even made extra accounts just to subscribe and support
Binge-ing on your videos from Melbourne, Sicktoria. Loving the extra time in my garden during lockdown. When you stuck your finger in, my head went straight to 'wiggle it, just a little bit' and I've been humming it ever since.
Water, Fertilizer, Pest, Disease, Timing, Weeds, Mulch. Thanks Mark!
I wanted to say hello! It’s Carolyn from Arkansas in the US. I took your advice on my none fruiting Dwarf Maulberrys and cut them back. They are popping leaves and looking nice. It’s early Spring here.
Many thanks. Greatly appreciate it. I’ll let you know if I see blooms and if I eat fruit.
All the best with your trees this season! :)
Wow, you covered a lot of ground. Well done!
Of the all the gardening/homesteading videos I’ve watched yours is the best. Thanks for the great tips,
first real gardening video I have watched on youtube....loved it straight away. No Bull and straight to the point. Oi Oi Oi! Subscribed!
An old tip for adding copper to tomatoes instead of spraying, is to pierce the stalk about 2 inches above the ground, with a short piece of copper wire.
You do this when you see the first flower open, and you remove it when that flower sets a fruit.
The acids in the tomato will take the copper it needs if any.
pretty sure he has a video on this
@@michaeltoner1993 Good to know, Hopefully he pops the link in by some slim chance!
8:29 , so what you are saying is if I see one bug I should not call in a nuclear strike on my garden :D
Yeah, you definitely don't want to overreact. I just accidentally killed a succulent I've been trying to revive for months by overreacting to a spider mite infestation and putting a little too much rubbing alcohol on it for the little plant to handle. 😢
@@SilverCoatl can you tell me what you did wrong
About 3 years ago we almost ran out of water in Cape Town, South Africa so when I started my veggie garden over here I wanted to do a "water smart" garden. I am a pensioner so a lack of capital, so I dug up the tough Kikuya grass and used cement slabs to form a grass barrier. I covered the sandy soil with cardboard and cut holes in the cardboard and inserted "grow tubes" (tubes cut from soda bottles) and put them in the holes. I planted my veggies in the tubes. I use a 5 liter water bottle with a hole drilled in the lid to only water inside the tubes. This works well and I had a good harvest. My water bill has not gone up as I also used other means of saving water.
I think it nice to promote Ozzie made and grown products especially in these times. Thanks for all your tips. Always nice to see you on my RUclips feed.
You gave great tips and I like your accent :) by the way I think the most important tip is "be interested to your garden" if you spend time in your garden, You will have a healthy garden. Greetings from Turkey 👍🇹🇷
We got some bone meal finally and ive been loading this clay soil with I know over the winter imma put more in and cover my garden for a long while. And today we dont gotta water bc it rained. Thank ya Jesus. We use a dust in our garden. There is only certain things I need pesticide on. Not on my whole garden bc that would be silly it isnt needed. Right now we put it on our young cabbage plants bc last year they were ate so bad and our head lettuce bc again they were eaten bad. And we have a horrible issue with a sqaush borer here where I live and it isnt about timing lol they lay their babies in there. And they eat to live. I dont use pesticide on it i wrap the stem near the ground with aluminum foil. Worked great last year. :)
Great video. I live in mid atlantic region in US and find that getting my cabbage family plants in as early as possible helps me get ahead of the cabbage loopers which are very bad here the later you get into the warm season. It helps to be able to grow your own broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower etc under grow lights so you can plant large healthy plants early in the spring and harvest before the moths come around and begin laying their eggs which produce the loopers. This year I'm going to try insect screening on one bed to keep the moths out.
Love your videos mark
Mine's 13....So only 6.5 of these tips will 'soak in'.
Top stuff Mark, thanks for your videos mate.
yes totally, one of the few good things about this whole covid thing is the time it's given me to observe my plants, understanding what is doing well and what not so well. My garden has never looked better.
Great important garden tips, Mark. You are globally loved, good to see that :)
currently waiting for the rain to stop so I can go outside and tend to my veggies. cheers from California. love your channel
I like Neem Oil pest control. I used it years ago to get rid of citrus leaf miner and it worked so well that it has become my goto for any pests or disease ever since.
Mark, you are a legend. Love your channel, your tips and your charisma. Keep em coming mate and thank you for sharing your knowledge
Love these!!
Hi Mark, you are obviously having lots of fun in your beautiful country garden. Thanks for all the great info. I immensely enjoy watching your programme and seeing your lovely wide open spaces. I'm living in a small city unit,
And to get out of the rat race soon, and your programme is very inspiring. The thing I like most of all, is your sense of humour. Thanks for the laughs. God bless from Anne in Sydney Australia
Roy, from Virginia. I really enjoy the show and all of your tips. You’ve really helped improve the soil for me this year and saved a lot of money. Good work!
My Favourite RUclips site. Always look out for upcoming postings.
That first tip about water is golden for a new gardener like me
SELF SUFFICIENT ME THANK YOU FOR WONDERFUL AND HELPFUL CONTENT!! THUMBS UP TIMES A MILLION!!
Always great learning from your channel, even though we are in a totally different climate - love symbiosis too - let nature work its magic 💚 Peace and Plants ✌️🌿
G'day down there, enjoying your channel, and knowledge, and methods very much.
I have the thought that you would make an excellent doctor, with your patients feeling very grateful for you...😊
What an amazing video
The B roll shot of putting on the gloves was hilarious. My husband and I loved it. So funny
Thanks for the video
Thank you for your teaching, I'm looking forward start this idea. God bless.
U r a great inspiration for me uncle.
Thank you Akash! :)
misdirection
my dad had an issue with the squirrels eating ll of his peaches, so he went and bought about $20 (usd) and sprinkled some around the base of the peach tree. they went for the corn instead of the peaches.
Sorry, what did he sprinkle? Thanks!
Think it was $20 worth of corn, since that is what the squirrels ate.
@@ohio_gardener yep, that was a good idea. Squirrels love corn.
You can buy tiger scatter puts of animals coming to your veg.
Thought you meant 20 dollars worth of lead shot
G'day mark from self sufficient me! Your videos are helping me get inspired for my garden. There's still snow on the ground here in British Columbia.
Those water puns at the start, amazing!
Love your videos and tone. I do the same thing. Monthly an organic granular fertilizer and weekly either fish emulsion or kelp liquid feed, but really weak. Been working great!
My new favourite channel! As soon as our gardening stores are back open after the lockdown I want to get some raised beds and start growing some vegetables!
Thank you Russel Crowe ❤️
They're from different countries.
Dr. Ho Lee Phuk no russel and mark are both Aussie
@@squall001leonheart Russel Crowe is from Wellington, New Zealand.
Dr. Ho Lee Phuk born years but lived aus
Please stop referring to MARK as russell crow. Mark is a do-er. Russell is an actor. A faker.
I love your videos. And what you do. I might not be able to do it now but hopefully this winter I can get surgery on my back and hopefully I can at least have a small garden... I can dream anyway! and your videos give me hope. You always make me smile and these days I don't have much to smile about... Thank you
Another banger, mark. Thanks for the inspiring content!
This is very useful and interesting. It sounds difficult. I really haven't successfully grown anything yet. Still on a very small scale, but planning on building some raised beds soon.
Great advice. It's so true that if we do the stroll we keep so much more up to date on how the plants are doing. Same applies to the many ( mean a lot) of houseplants I have. I need to tour the house to be sure they're doing fine.
I must admit I am a fan of house plants also but we only have one - it's big and lush though and I acknowledge it every time I walk past... All the best :)
Your my fav RUclipsd all you do is teach me things