In this video, I give you five tips on how to know when to harvest fruit and vegetables that you grow at home in your garden.
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Who needs therapy, I just need to watch mark and i feel relaxed! You're the best Mark! Keep it up!
I love your channel.
God makes the strawberry. The strawberry isn’t the one who thinks.
It’s God. He’s trying to let us know
Hi Mark. I am in Brisbane. I love your channel, your enthusiasm and the great advice. I have introduced Leather Leaf slugs (yuk) to my garden from free tip mulch (big mistake). Does any one have any advice on how to get rid of them or minimise them please. I hate them and they are dangerous to health. Thank you, x
Gday bud, just watched an old vid of yours when you picked up 6 new chickens to enhance your chickpoop harvest……I used to keep chooks and stumbled onto a really handy trick to get more undisturbed chook poop. If you put a cage under their roost the poop falls in and they can’t trample it into dust. I went further in my next coop and built a step under the coop with 10mm weld mesh which could then be shoveled out from outside the coop……worked a treat. Love the channel and the dad jokes!
We have a suburban creek walk edged with wild (weedy) mulberries and I thought it was funny that all the ripe dark mulberries in reach had been eaten but no one had touched the white mulberries. I tried them and they were ripe.
I have been thinking about you and your family during this time of craziness. You don't sound as chipper as usual. Maybe it is just me.
Your garden as usual is beautiful.
We have the same knives haha, loving the videos Mark hope all is well mate
Does it help with keeping bugs off your veggies to have your plants up that high?
carrots, you can store in a plastic freezer bag, and add a little water in. Just to keep them nice and moist.
ok time for a dumb question, In gardening we speak often of Spring, Summer etc. When you speak of a particular season is it during the same time as the Northern hemisphere? Do you call December winter? I'm a long time viewer and have always wondered this. Thanks!!!
Dont harvest fuit or veg while under fire, best joke of the channel so far
Never water your garden during the hotter parts of the day. If you do, it cooks the roots and kills the plants.
hi sir… i came accross your youtube channel and i reallllllly love it….. you are like me who wants to be self sufficient and i love recycling thus i just love your channel….. this is Agie Lorico Magsombol from the Philippines
Hail the Kale!!! Still chuckling now 🙂 xxx
Mark I’m looking into getting a birdies tall garden bed. My question is should I wait until spring to build and fill it? I am in zone6b, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA. We do get very cold weather here thru the winter. A few sub zero days in February and usually a good bit of snow. Thanks
Probably been asked and answered, but what do you do with all the veggies you grow? Looks like way too much for one family.
Thanks.
Fast question. Where You put all the things You harvest?
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Hubby and I have had a garden since we met (over 35 yrs ago) and I am still learning new and interesting gardening tips watching your videos. Well done!
Thank you so much, so much hard work, Even I Love to grow plants.
I usually know my fruit and veggies are ripe when something else eats them.
Can you make a vid on how to counter powdery mildew it’s ruining my pumpkins plants