In this video, I explain how much water a vegetable and fruit garden needs by using our property as an example.
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So in Australia you can't do wells?
A person needs that much water a day? What for? !! I am not doubting you !!! but… I just dont understand… Drinking, shower, toilette, watering plants… but is it really that much? I would like to have that explained to me : /
Hi Mark i’m new to gardening, i just want to know when you think it’s best to water the vegetable garden as i’m living on the Goldcoast and have started a couple of garden beds?
Great information. Thanks Mark!!
every rainy season I can collect 56780 Liters of water
Thank you for covering so many topics!
How's the quality of your hose reel?
I live in Florida and we have a well pump. Are y'all not able to have them over there?
Hàve ýòu Peppa oùt on ýour farm
Your “good day” sounds for me “ good eye” now I am just saying hello for my wife like that “ good eye honey” …
Where are you located ?
How do you get rid of the chlorine out of the water before using it to water your fruit trees?
???? Why are you watering established fruit trees. Or any tree. They do not need watering
Really don’t get why your watering established fruit trees
You're lucky because you have town water? That confuses me.. Wouldn't you be lucky to have a deep well? I have a shallow well for when power goes out and we dug a deep well down the center as well.. I don't think I will ever have a need for water.. is well digging not a thing down under?
Crazy how much water people use… (lived off grid for several years (unfortunately in the suburbs now) had the house hold of four down to about 150 gallons a month including laundry and showers and all in a very comfortable life style. … the trick is foot pumps on the sinks and Navy showers… so much water waste with free flowing faucets and long showers.
Can your sister and brother in law use a gray system like yours?
I live in a desert. My husband and I amend the garden beds every year with our spent plant matter, peat moss, manure, pine shavings and paper shreds-plus any other minerals or fertilizers we need, then we mulch with straw or shavings. During the first part of the summer we may get away with watering once a day, later in the summer it can sometimes go up to twice a day. It depends on the type of crops we are growing.
Here i am trying to grow food with an annual rainfall of around 380mm lol
You should do more fruit tree videos
Good info and wonderful property you have!
I grew up in Toowoomba too! 🙂
Isn't it not recommended to use waste water from the septic to water edible plants?
I am realising as I age, what a precious resource water is …some cities eg in Sth Africa, struggle to have enough water for drinking and living, let alone growing veges and watering lawns. I now think it is crazy that if you live in a dry desert-like place, as in parts of Aussie and USA, that you should be using water like this and trucking it in, Move to where there is rainfall. That water has to come from somewhere. Okay maybe collecting rainfall from gutters, but not from rivers and wells, they will run dry. In NZ we have massive Dairying in a hot dry flat rubbish part of the south island and they have massive irrigation systems to make grass out if dry rubbish dry dirt land , it's absolutely ridiculous, and only done so they can have huge dairy farms and make lots of money. They are running the rivers dry buy sucking water out of the rivers to irrigate :(:( I myself water my very tiny garden, but not my lawn, and I myself have to start thinking how I can save this precious resource that we will run out of if we are not careful. The water they use in the USA , in desert areas, to have English type lawns and gardens is just crazy, Aussie may be the same. I think some US states are banning lawn sprinklers now. End of moan 🙂
hi mark when you prepare bed for corn do you need to mulch them first what is the best much sugar cane or hay.where you put corn seed do you put compost.
Ah I just asked this question on another one of your videos.