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In this video, I give you 5 tips on how to start being more self-sufficient in growing vegetables at home in your own backyard. Check out Huw’s video: https://youtu.be/R8VltSo1pu8 Here’s Huw’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/HuwsNursery/featured Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier $25 AU enables mentoring from yours truly via an exclusive VIP email where I…
Many of you have expressed your concern for us and our property due to the devastating fires raging across Australia at the moment. In this video, I give an update on our situation here in South East Queensland. If you would like to donate here are my recommended organisations: RED CROSS (this is a Govt…
Click here to get 2 months of Skillshare Premium for FREE!: https://skl.sh/huwrichards I don’t believe any vegetables are overrated, but I do believe some are underrated and in this video, I show you what I think is the most underrated vegetable of them all and why you should grow it. Diversification is what makes a…
When people wonder what can be done on an acre or less, Liz Zorab from Byther Farm has created a perfect working example to prove how much food can be produced on a small homestead. She is also a perfect working example of what ‘Living the Dream’ is – I mean imagine not buying veg…
The temperatures have dropped and we are finally getting some rain! Almost feels like fall around here! The cooler temperatures and added moisture woke up our Shiitake logs. We had a nice Shiitake bloom. We also harvested our first watermelon of the season!
Our fall crop of green beans has really started to produce! The peppers and okra are still doing great. We are finally due for a rain and a cool down.
The garden is still producing pretty well for this time of year. It hasn’t rained in over a month and we are experiencing record high temperatures. We are still harvesting peppers and okra and we picked our first harvest of butter beans of the season!
Autumn is setting in on the plot but there are still a few vegetables worth picking. Please like, share, comment and SUBSCRIBE xx #sweetcorn
In this video, I show what happened to our vegetable and fruit gardens after being away on vacation/holiday for 5 weeks! Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Help support the Channel and buy a T-shirt/Merchandise from our Spreadshirt shop: https://goo.gl/ygrXwU or Teespring (below the video). Shop on Amazon for plants: https://bit.ly/2yRFNGQ Shop for plants on eBay…
We have an abundance of okra right now so we are preparing it to freeze in different ways. We like some of our okra unbreaded to use in soups and gumbos but we also like to freeze some of the okra breaded and ready to fry. This video shows how we bread our okra and…
Our peppers have really started to produce well! We are harvesting a lot of okra and peppers lately. Our hot steamy weather is really good for okra and pepper production!
It’s time to reveal some of my First Early potatoes. Lady Christl is the variety, I’ve never grown them before… Self sufficiency here I come 🙂 Please like, share, comment and SUBSCRIBE XX #potatoreveal #earlypotatoes
Today we harvested our first batch of Silver Queen sweet corn. We have pulled some of the Roma tomatoes and planted more bush green beans. We have some fall plants started in flats. Garden is still producing fairly well!!
This sweet pickle recipe was Alan’s Mother’s recipe. These are some of the best sweet pickles I have ever eaten! Sweet Pickle Superb 16 lbs. cucumbers 1 box pickling spices 1/2 box alum (2 1/4 oz. per box) 10 lb. sugar 1 cup salt to each half gallon of water – strong enough to float…
This video was from a recent trip I took to Shetland to visit a load of inspirational gardeners who are using undercover structures called Polycrubs which allow them to grow an abundance of food. With gusts of up to 120mph and hardly any trees, any normal polytunnel would get ripped apart. Listen to how Susan…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — As you may recall from our previous video about our neglected garden, I mentioned that our garlic scapes were past their prime, and likely far too woody to eat. Well, as a result of that statement, a number of you…
Finally, we show you the potato haul from our True Potato Seeds planted earlier in the year. Hopefully this will be the first steps towards being self sufficient when growing potatoes. Please like, share, comment and SUBSCRIBE xx #truepotatoseedreveal
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — Paula and I were tied up for much of June and July, meaning that we were often away from home and entirely away from our garden. So in this video, we’d like to quickly show you how our deep mulch…
Consider supporting our channel on Patreon, to help us create more frequent videos. https://www.patreon.com/backtoreality — After nearly four years of gardening, we’ve finally decided to plant some asparagus and strawberries! But as usual, we’ve also decided to skip the fertilizer, compost, and manure. We also decided to flip the sod, rather than using a tiller.…
This is an update of the peas we planted about two weeks ago. We had a lot of questions about weeds and weed seeds in our garden. We mulch using hay and grass clippings as well as other materials and don’t have problems with weeds. We constantly add mulch and we haven’t tilled since 2012.
Our squash quit producing almost entirely and our green beans have slowed down dramatically. It’s time to pull out old crops and plant some new ones! We planted more pink eye purple hull peas, some bush butter beans, and some more bush green beans.
Just a description of what we harvested in the garden today!
This harvest video shows a week’s worth of green beans and cucumbers. The last of the Candy Onions we harvested from the raised bed have dried and are ready for a weigh in. The rest of the harvest table is from July 3rd. The peppers are starting to show out!
We harvested the last bed of Candy onions we had planted. These are the onions that were in the raised bed.
You will need a stiff drink to get through this particular video… I’ve cranked the boredom factor up to 11, so if you have something better to watch then believe me, you need to watch that. Anyways, with that said, please like, share, comment and SUBSCRIBE xx #plottour #greatestplottour #awesomevegetables
We harvested our Stowell’s Evergreen sweet corn today!
We harvested more candy onions, squash, and our peaches! We planted some watermelon in the area where we just pulled the onions.
Today we are showing some of our early spring harvests getting ready and making space for our summer garden crops. We harvested the last of our Red Russian Kale and weighed in our first harvest of Candy Onions. Our garlic dried enough to do a weigh-in. We are also starting to harvest our blackberries and…
This is our garlic harvest for 2019. We left the garlic in the ground until all the foliage was dead this year instead of digging it as soon as the foliage started to bend over. We had a pretty nice garlic harvest!
We harvested our squash for the first time this year! It’s easy to forget from year to year just how good fresh squash is! We also found and killed a squash vine borer.
