It’s true! Vegetables do grow in my lawn especially during winter when the grass doesn’t grow as fast. This video explains how I make use of self-seeding vegetables that pop up through my lawn. Thanks for your support! Cheers 🙂
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Now I want to go throw all my leftover Brassica seeds around the yard!
The good old lessons of forgings. Don't destroyed over harvest and leave things to nature's. The future we'll be much brighter.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I agree 100%, I wish more people would select they're best plant or plants to let seed. When done properly, it helps create as you said, local adaptations, but also by selecting the best plants, breed improvements. Most seed producers just plant and harvest, so breed improvements sit stagnant, which is why you get so many duds in a seed pack.
Thanks Mark. Do you have any tips for gardens heading into winter?
Mark, perhaps you could start a seed exchange where once a year fellow growers meet and swop collected seeds and even rooted cuttings.
So true Mark. It's always the veg that I neglect that do the best. It's almost as if they would rather do it with no help from me.
I've had the same experience.
great idea – works for me
be well
sometimes it's just fun to see what comes up as a surprise. 🙂
Glad you persevered. I enjoy your videos.
good day Mark !! great idea about I took up all my lawn and turn it all into beds in able to starting growing fruit and vegetables !! thanks for sharing and happy gardening !!
Love your videos! What are you mulching your raised beds with?
Hey Mark! Thanks for that video. I'm going to show my hubby because this kind of thing happens here and he thinks Im nuts, out there picking things for dinner from the lawn (well its not a really well looked after lawn). So now there are at least 2 nuts in the world who eat their lawn, ha ha!!
Great idea Mark. I have found veggies pop up all over the yard. I have a potato plant in the middle of my lawn at the back. I agree them plants are hardy and grow well it seems. Now, I let seeds fall to the ground or I chuck more in the garden.
Hi Self Sufficient Me,
What Zone are you in?
I'm going to start small and take baby steps, all I have now is clover growing in the lawn and a persimmon tree…. But you are an inspiration although I haven't found a video of your first steps…
Thanks for the gardening tip.
I loved this video!
Amazing to see the changes since 2017.
Good'ay
I am interested in food growing on the ground naturally like nature intended.
I'm a DIY at home beginner ammature gardener just started growing with the kids..now I'm hooked. I want edibles everywhere. I have a garden bed but what things to grow in the yard.
Love your ideas. Great inspiration.
Great! i work my butt off to try and grow vegetables, and Mark does it by accident ha ha 🙂
Good morning sir
Ha! I knew it was possible.
Been tempted to take old seeds and just chuck them across the grass to see what happens.
Would it work with beetroot etc?
You are really amazing, Sir! I learn so much from you. I have camphor trees around my lawn. They hinder growth of anything else. What to do to st up a mini veggie garden? Thanks for replying.
If you leave corn to dry for seed: do you leave it on the stalk or pull the ears off? I would think they should be kept dry. But I don't know for sure.