In this video, I give you a full raised-bed vegetable garden tour of Self Sufficient Me, showing what’s growing and what I have planned to grow.
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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 🙂
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0:00 Introduction
0:34 Will big trees take all the water & nutrients?
1:24 Digging a trench to cut through roots
2:32 Water
4:30 What about nutrients?
5:26 Problems with garden beds under trees
9:22 Shaded garden from big trees
9:54 Possums getting into raised beds
10:53 Root invasion from trees into garden beds
13:52 Tip number 5 Harvesting
13:46 Positives of big trees
14:29 Conclusion
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42 Comments
G'day Everyone, yes, this is a long video, but I thought you might like a good old relaxing long walk around the garden with me… Cheers 🙂
I loved your phrase "Corn in the Lawn". That corn growing in off season itself shows, impossible is possible. Many love from Bhutan
You mentioned wanting to do the Japanese mustard as a sweeter sort of pickle.
You might look up Bread-n-Butter pickles. They're very sweet, and might go very well with those mustard stems
"4:06 they are called an Anus" 😂😂😂😂
I love that we get the real garden ie. not gone through and weeded and made it perfect first. love the experiments too.
I'm extremely invested in Corn in the Lawn. Can't wait for updates.
Did you ever try growing peanuts, they are really interesting.
Did you seriously pronounce ANANAS as Anus? 😂 ananas means PINEAPPLE in every language in the world apart from English and Spanish. Therefore ANANAS NOIRE means "black pineapple".
So organized! Looks amazing. Thanks Mark
Hi
I’m about to retire and move to my daughters property on the south coast of NSW, would like to be self sustainable and found you by Google ? Wow , just watched your tour through your garden. I’m only a novice but found your tour to be very informative on what’s achievable, will be an avid watcher from here on in, wish you were my neighbor 🙂
Question, do you look after all those garden beds on your own or how much help do you have ?
Brad
"Ananas" is Dutch/Flemish for pineapple
Thanks Mark. I'm a gardening beginner and I've learned so much from you. Appreciate your honesty and love the experiments. God bless.
Love this full garden tour and all the updates and behind the scene content.
what is the name of the raspberry please?
I found that giving blueberries a rocky mulch it gives that acidic soil that they tend to thrive in. It works for me to get a couple of bushels a year from them.
Mark have you tried growing certain weeds. I’ve started leaving my dandelion for a salad leaf & drying it out for using as a tea. It has so many health benefits
Lawn corn will thrive.
Reminds me of Jim's gardens years ago. YouTube channel " green dreams " Pete visits Jim's place &
w❤w wee he's planting right into the mowed weeds & not watering either & the gardens are thriving. Pulls out weeds then drops them next to growing veggie seedlings for moisture & nitrogen. Food crops abundance.
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36:21 but my grocery store ensured me their produce grows in beds made out of solid gold. 😢
Joke obviously. Nice one mate. Garden looks awesome regardless.
Would be interested to see a video specifically on the envirocycle, how it works, what you do with it etc. .
G'day to you from San Diego, California. I love a good long walk around your garden. Love your new feature, "corn in the lawn". 🌱🌽🌱
Ananas, means pineapple in french and some other latin based languages, on the other hand the tomatoes are very popular in france, super mety, similar to beefateak.
So glad I found this corner of the Internet
Great video! My garden here in Maine looks like a jungle right now. I can't wait to harvest and be able to clean everything up. I grow strawberries in raised beds and when the berries are ready I cover them with a black bird netting. It's hard to see and the birds are scared to death of it. After awhile I can take it off and the birds won't go near the bed. If you put this netting over plants those parrots like to destroy; I wonder if they would stay away. You want to lay it right on the plants. I enjoyed the tour! Thanks!
Thanks Mark great tour , inspiring and informative, thank you for sharing your knowledge that you have gained through experience and therefore is true knowledge, what I have learned from you is priceless, your presentation of this information is calm and casual despite its educational integrity, you have inspired me with taking up veggie gardening again in my later years to the point where my motivation is rather fierce and my conscience has been reawakened , I've already been able to provide my relatives with some of my produce, potatoes, passionfruit, mangoes and myself with the same as well as basil, parsley , tomatoes, pumpkin, cucumber and strawberries, so thank you sincerely Mark, love to you and your family, cheers !!🥰💕👍👍👍🙏🙏
Always a pleasure to see you growing along and trying new things in the garden.
Big fan from Uganda. I keep on telling myself one day!
I love the purple potatoes, but its so strange how they make blue mashed potatoes.. lol.. doesnt look that appetizing.. tastes great though. good for you with the extra anti-oxidants in them as well
Yr raised beds. What are they made from… meaning is it all wood, steel what r they called. So I can look to purchase something like that please. Thank you
I really look forward to your tours, thank you for the effort you put into showing your garden mark ❤❤❤❤
The tomato with the funny name is French. Stands for "Black Pineapple"… Thorny, scaly tomato?
Thank you for the tour❤. I loved it
I really dig a good long stroll in the garden. You’re always growing such interesting things. Love the trellis/cattle panels too. Now I have to go find your water chestnut video. I am very curious as to how to grow them here in Riverside, California. Cheers!
You have cockatoos, I have cows. If they think they CAN get in, they will FORCE their way in. And then gnaw off everything except the squash and tomatoes. And even those aren't safe, because the cows will tread on those to get to the chard, beets, marigolds, and anything else they like.
Interesting, I've never heard of verbena as an herb. We grow it for the flowers. I wonder if they're still the same plant? What is the Latin name?
Very informative mark. Great look at what you grow. 😊
2:05 your garlic may want some nitrogen? I grow them in michigan and they are heavy nitrogen feeders in my experience for that first phase growing leaves
I know Ananas is pineapple, French to English -> Ananas noir is black pineapple.
A cross between a red and yellow stripped pineapple tomato with an unknown black tomato, a Belgium hybrid introduced in 2005.
My dad was always allergic to strawberries, or so he thought, because he has no allergic reaction with my strawberries. Makes me wonder what they put in store strawberries. I know they use growth stimulator to make them big and watery, reason they aren't as sweet, watered down version of the real thing, but I've never heard of that causing allergic reaction. Perhaps a pesticide.
Do you have a video on how you made those long diy high beds ? Love your garden. Thanks for showing.
Watched whole video. I loved that you took us on a journey through your garden beds as if we were there walking around with you. Took me back to a time I would do this at my Nana's house. Love learning with you. Thanks 👍
I love long garden wandering.
I love the garden tour videos! Excited to see what's growing in your climate that's the reverse of ours. I wish I could grow bananas. You've given me a lot of growing ideas in your videos and I watch every one that comes out. This year I'm growing Egyptian Spinach and Winged Beans b/c of your videos-the spinach is doing great and is a wonderful summer substitute for regular spinach (I actually like it better b/c it's not as "slimy" but the Winged Beans may not be a hit in my climate. I've got a lot of vine growth but then it turned yellow and I didn't get any flowering or pods. Could just be this year's weather or my micro climate, I'll try it again next year.
Curious what could you use for gardening besides wood ash, like could gardeners use coffee grounds or hair for plants?
You can maje a tincture out of the nasturtium…antibiotic