In this video, I give you my 5 top tips on how to grow a ton of vegetables at home in your own food garden.
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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 🙂
Get into it. Dreams. Haha.lol. this guy too funny
The lock down and your channel have made me want to move out of the city so bad!
Legend!!!
Moving out of my apartment in the city with no yard to a house in a small town with just under an acre. Cannot wait to set up raised garden beds and start in the spring.
I live in California and I see some people here investing into their beds, trellises and other gardening tools sooo much money, which in my opinion make their vegetable very expensive and cannot be ecologically justifies.
That is why I admire”Selfsuficient Mark or Patrick Dolan in One Yard Revolution.
Gardening is a great hobby but investing so much money there denies the purpose.
Mark, or anyone… trying to do a raised garden bed. It's 2 feet tall by 3×8 and ive incorporated the hugelkultur method. About half is logs, twigs and leaves. Would I be doing it wrong if i filled the remainder with "compost" i purchased from a local place. Seems like a lot of compost and I'm worried itmay not drain well and be soggy?
To answer your question mate, yeah, I am, I am looking to get out of the city. If I can find a nice patch of land not too far away from my job ..
Love your stuff kick on love it.
When are we going to see you on tv
Try Yoga for your back, i have made one of your raised beds with awesome results, salutes from Quito, Ecuador.
I have absolutely been trying to sell my condo and buy a nice place on Vancouver island with a nice patch of land for growing.
Is there any reason to live in a city anymore?
My father asked if he built raised garden beds, if I would grow food for the family. I said yes. Then he would repeatedly ask why I was out in the garden again, "What else can you possibly do??? All you need to do is water them and they will all grow." Spent an hour trying to explain that the dirt that was put in doesn't have enough organic matter so I have to keep adding more or the plants will die off, there's an influx of caterpillars eating all the new growth and slugs are eating right through the stems of what survived the caterpillars. Ants moved into the worm bins so I had to bury the kitchen scraps deeper. There's a heat wave and the sprinklers weren't set up to water a vegetable garden, only grass.
It took 6+ months of explaining it repeatedly but it looks like it finally got through to him how much time it took to really start establishing the soil microbes, worms and truly get a better return on what was being grown…..via me walking in with a bucket full of veggies and fruit that he could eat. Now he asks me if I've checked on my plants. I am officially the family farmer.
During these turbulent times in the United states I am glad I live in the country. However I want to move more south to a milder climate.
Your vlogs are so helpful to see start to finish and the adventures in-between with your tips and tricks.
As for placement, our yard (In Canada) is backing onto a pond and then an open field. From which we get some cracking winds. This summer I am doing beds – they will be in full sun)
What are some ways to shelter the raised beds that can sustain exposure to occasional high winds? And what can I expect in terms of wind impact on veg growth in our short growing period (Northern Alberta)
Thanks and keep up the great work!
Just seen this video, and it makes great sense…providing all the produce grown can be eaten or stored. My issue is the storing part. I do not like canning, and drying does take awhile. I'm looking into a freeze drier. Now, inasmuch as seeing you in my dreams…now is the time to use that term "Crikey."
Now that you can fish out in the big blue with your boys, you can put fish parts in the garden. Best fertilizer ever!
Gardening is better than going to a shrink!
Have a composite toilet and use human manure. Gray water soaker hose’s for the nitrogen.
I grew up in the city but I've always dreamed of living on my own farm when I was a teen, for both my mental and physical health. Nothing to do with the pandemic, but now that I've started gardening, it's making me wish I could turn that dream into a reality but it's still unreachable to me even as an adult. The city really sucks the life out of you and you can't get out
i absolutely love your property. So big and peaceful.
HI mate, another great video. I love your clips. Greetings from Poland!
I've learned that I'll work way longer and harder in the garden than I ever will just doing "exercise." Gardening is my favorite form of physical activity. It's interesting, engages my brain (lots of creative problem-solving!), gives me a great work-out, and benefits our household in so many ways. When my friends were complaining about not being able to get to the gym during lockdown, I just grabbed my tools and headed out into my urban garden. As you said in a previous vid, Mark, it wasn't that different for you in lockdown. I experienced that, too. And I also agree that when you're in the garden, the time just flies!
I like the idea of using earthworms to enrich the soil