In this video, I give you 5 gardening mistakes not to make in your fruit and vegetable garden when growing your own food.
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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 🙂 #gardening #vegetables #fruit
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I love it when some of my favorite channels do colabs together. It really makes for a great community, everyone helps each other out. Thanks for all you share. God bless.
Seriously, I am green thumb challenged – I throw scraps into a mound and everything grows I put seeds into pots or buy plants and they die. Friend great gardener says you can't kill blah blah well I just proved that wrong 🙂 (it was a herb, cannot remember which as all I buy and try to plant die). I throw seeds from veg and even birds old seed and I seriously had corn growing by back fence at my studio, tomato plants came up and peppers and pumpkin. Rotten sandy rocky soil at my industrial studio. Sometimes I suppose you should just let nature do her thing 🙂
I bought premium pot mix from bunnings and planted variety of greens, the lettuce and spring onions have sprouted in about 7 days but i find that it drains very fast, compare to my homemade compost. Since i planted seed i dont want disturb the soil but at the end cycle should i mix manure? thanks. (long time fan btw)
With arms like that please be gentle with the weeds LOL
How did you injure your arms
You should tell us a little more about who you are and what you do for a living and stuff
So, then, do you do all your work in the garden in mornings and late afternoons?
(I'm planning to move from a Northern US State (An urbanite) to a more southerly State (Rural) — with known high humidity.)
Tips Please!
Great content; I've followed you for some years, but at 60 on a low income I'll never afford yr raised beds. My grafted Avo grows in clay on a hillside; know any Gardners specialising in sloped gardens?
Gooday! Do you ever watch Laura from Garden Answer? They are in Eastern oregon…got a great place, like you. Sometimes they take us on their shopping excursions…its so fun to see the nurseries around them etc or showing her parents gardens….sometimes can you take us to your local nurseries or stores? I love your place, just binge watched you, and a 2016 garden tour…man your orchard has grown! I had to get up and squeeze 7 oranges to drink after looking at your citrus. I recently started dehydrating citrus! Oranges taste great!
You are a wonderful human
Great advice. It can be expensive and a lot of hard work learning from your own mistakes so these little tricks and tips are well worth sharing. I've been gardening and growing me own for over 30 years and I still make mistakes. To err is human! Only nature gets it right.
Different strokes, for different folks. What he promotes may not apply to me in north central US, with my soil and climate, I appreciate his videos.
I made the same mistake as you in trying to garden in the soil. My knees are bad and getting worse, and trying to kneel down almost killed me. Now I have a set of concrete block beds, no larger than 4’x4’, two rows high with toppers on the blocks for seating. I can reach the center of the beds from any edge.
Seeing your dragon fruit cactus gave me a good idea of what to do with Mama’s old clothesline poles. 60 years ago, she got frustrated with them falling down, so she got 3” galvanized steel pipes, connected them into T-poles and cemented them in place. They’re going nowhere, which is exactly what that dragon fruit needs!
What is the dimensions of the raised beds you have. The website confuses me a bit.
@selfsuffientme what do you think about this? https://youtu.be/ej-NJjEJJ6U
Once upon a time, when I was younger we had a saying. It was it it isn't raining, you're not training. Maybe that applies to gardening too!
KISS = keep it stupid simple
This video came just in time for me Mark as I'm about to move into the building stage of my raised beds.
Great to have some considerations to think of.
I've also got avo's in the ground so it was nice to see your learning curve on these too.
Thanks as always for sharing.
As a 60’s baby in her 60’s! I also need some advice from someone who’s learned. As the BOD fails in strength we all need help to keep practicing our favourite hobbies. Thank you!
I'm so glad to see your channel growing! Your climate is much like mine here in Florida but lucky me I don't have to deal with clay soil, its all sand everywhere lol and avocados love it.
I want them garden! i'm so keen to make my garden to look like that
Love your videos! They are so down to earth (sorry for the pun!) cheers
You killed two birds with one boomerang, LOL. Mounding for the avocadoes was a great idea, but you could double the depth by digging out that much first, filling with good soil and then mounding over it. I have to contend with clay here in NC as well.