Tip #8. I found when I talk to my plants with an Australian accent in the garden they tend to grow great. 🤣 I love these back to basics videos! Thanks again🙏

@bernardjohn4699

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😄😂😂😂

@singy555

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, I thought I was the only one!!

@Bunchof8

4 жыл бұрын

I do too, but I don't have to try for an Aussie accent, I am Aussie!!!! Lol! :D

@apocalypse487

4 жыл бұрын

Didn't myth busters do an episode on this very thing?

@laceysnursery5080

4 жыл бұрын

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Mark aka Brussels Crowe coming in with the EPIC tips!

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha thanks Kevin! 👍😁

@karaamundson3964

4 жыл бұрын

Dad joke to Dad joke *FOR THE WIN*

@SadieScarlett

3 жыл бұрын

so cute watching all you gardening youtubers cross pollinate what a non-toxic community ^_^ organic asf

@abhideval

3 жыл бұрын

@@Selfsufficientme o

@NoSageMeadow

2 жыл бұрын

Brussels Crowe, fightin' (pests) 'round the garden!

Mark! My girlfriend and I are homesteaders in Southern Canada and we love all your vids. Avid viewers regularly. Your personality coupled with your intellect are unparalleled. The only thing I can ad to this video is the integration of animals. Such as ducks taking care of all your slug problems. Dogs chasing away your moles and voles, chickens eating your flats, grubs and bugs. It's the cycle of self sufficiency. Cheers mate. Hope you're well since the floods. All the best from Canada!!! ❤🇨🇦❤

As an army veteran myself i can only say. Great video's! I never knew gardening and growing veggies could be so good for the soul. Thanks for being so enthousiastic and putting out so many helpfull video's. Truly love the content! Cheers from the Netherlands. Olaf Thanks!

My wife and I are beginner gardeners in South Carolina in the US. This is our 2nd year and we've expanded our garden from last year. I find your videos very helpful and easy to follow. Thank you.

Interplanting with marigolds, garlic and members of the mint family with my crops has helped to deter pests like my nemesis, the dreaded cabbage moth from my brassicas. Thanks for all the great videos.

@coronastern

4 жыл бұрын

This is similar to what my great granddad told my granny ... if you have problems with vine louses on your roses, plant lavender next to them. I've seen it work in her garden. She had the most beautiful flowers. I think that very essential oil heavy plants are good for such things. They share over the roots with other plants to keep them healthy. They "know" it is saver for them to keep the neighberhood strong too ;D .... at least that is how I explain it to myself.

@emu_warrior

4 жыл бұрын

does mint itself work? mint seems like a very easy herb to grow and will probably grow alongside anything..

@juneshannon8074

4 жыл бұрын

x o yes it will grow alongside anything and EVERYTHING, lol. An absolute must plant to be grown in pot.

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

Top tip on companion planting! Thank you :)

@wild-radio7373

4 жыл бұрын

Garlic! Absolutely ♡ bugs just hate the stuff ;)

"Wiggle it around if you want to have some fun" LOL! Thought you could slip that past us did you?!!

@emu_warrior

4 жыл бұрын

the dudes ex-military, he definitely is placing innuendo throughout his videos

@TheMons26

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

1. Water 1a. Observation 2. Fertilizer 3. Protection from Pests 4. Protect plants from disease (good hygiene) 5. Timing 6. Weeding 7. Mulch

@KanishQQuotes

4 жыл бұрын

And an ozzy daddy to take care of it all

@louismurphy3527

4 жыл бұрын

And repeat... ;-)

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

Where are the timestamps? Cheers ;)

@niccatipay

4 жыл бұрын

8. Speak in Australian Accent.

@darrelldunman3627

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

You’re a smart, kind man; you’re in tune with nature.

Another good tip: Physically support your veggie plants that need it with trellis/stakes.

I spray my powdery mildew plants with a 50/50 milk and water mix 2 times a week and I find that works really well. Before I did that I plucked all moderate to heavily diseased leaves off the plants. I’ve been doing it for about a month and I’m really happy with the level of prevention. I’ve plucked maybe 2 leaves off my pumpkins since I started. Before the plant was covered with plucking only every week.

8:29 , so what you are saying is if I see one bug I should not call in a nuclear strike on my garden :D

@SilverCoatl

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you definitely don't want to overreact. I just accidentally killed a succulent I've been trying to revive for months by overreacting to a spider mite infestation and putting a little too much rubbing alcohol on it for the little plant to handle. 😢

@chalseywilder937

4 жыл бұрын

@@SilverCoatl can you tell me what you did wrong

Awesome tips as usual... Any gardener, seasoned or total beginner, needs to follow these! My Dad, when I was a kid, had a beautiful vegetable garden, some flower beds, a grape trellis, a lawn of course (full of the native "goathead" stickers though!) & fruit trees in our yard that he'd reclaimed from a small patch of extremely alkaline sand in the Mojave Desert. He started a compost pile in one corner (I was thrilled to discover a cherry tomato plant in it...our personal snack tree as we were outside all day long!). Dad always called it "the mulch pile" and I think, in the desert, that was a pretty good description of how he used it. Dad was well known to be a fantastic gardener, always ready to try something new. I remember Mom proudly serving cole rahbi (sp?) to our Independence Day guests. It was so crisp and sweet. Little did I know at the time that achieving such results with a cole crop in Northern Hemisphere Mojave Desert July were really unusual!

"Or you can wiggle it around if you want to have some fun". Mark, I dont know you, and you dont know me, but your content is one of the best healing things Ive found.

Watching you for over a year now. I have changed everything I do with my gardening and to many successes. Thank you mark. Would love to show you my super huge compost pile. lol

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

No doubt you've got a better compost pile then me at the moment Luke - I still have to "renovate" my other two bays but I'm getting there... Cheers :)

An old tip for adding copper to tomatoes instead of spraying, is to pierce the stalk about 2 inches above the ground, with a short piece of copper wire. You do this when you see the first flower open, and you remove it when that flower sets a fruit. The acids in the tomato will take the copper it needs if any.

@michaeltoner1993

4 жыл бұрын

pretty sure he has a video on this

@enjoy_being

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaeltoner1993 Good to know, Hopefully he pops the link in by some slim chance!

Finally have my own place so I can go completely organic. Am loving these simple tips to make sure it's done right the first time. Many thanks!

Been following this channel for years now. Finally have a good raised bed going. Thank you for all this information, I seriously appreciate it. Cheers from the top of Texas 🧙🏼

OMG this guy is the best and he has the best garden tips! Love you you brighten my day!

corn grow nice when u plant it when the rain season starts.... thats how we do it here in mexico... corn sometimes can me difficult uwu.... the aztecs used to grow corn in a form called chinampas... its like an ancient form of hydroponics

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but keeping your tools clean ~ especially if you’ve used them on diseased plants! Learned this one the hard way when I was a newbie 😉

Awesome tips Mark

About 3 years ago we almost ran out of water in Cape Town, South Africa so when I started my veggie garden over here I wanted to do a "water smart" garden. I am a pensioner so a lack of capital, so I dug up the tough Kikuya grass and used cement slabs to form a grass barrier. I covered the sandy soil with cardboard and cut holes in the cardboard and inserted "grow tubes" (tubes cut from soda bottles) and put them in the holes. I planted my veggies in the tubes. I use a 5 liter water bottle with a hole drilled in the lid to only water inside the tubes. This works well and I had a good harvest. My water bill has not gone up as I also used other means of saving water.

Greetings Mark. Today I assembled my first two raised beds. They are 3'x4'x12" deep. I filled them with a mix of garden soil and compost, with two inches of mulch on top. I put in five tomato plants, five pepper plants, and a Thai basil plant. 14.

I like your 7 tips and over the years through trial and error we have adopted most of them but it is always encouraging to hear someone else reinforce good gardening habits with their experience. The reasoning behind the practice is also most welcome.

The way you threw your shovel - you mean business. Great Tips Mark!

Another great, straight forward video Mark. Thanks so much for your continued efforts to promote the love of gardening. I landed a job as a horticulturist for a school here in Brisbane 2 years ago. With a background in bush regeneration, the school job was a big change of pace but your videos really helped me to create great gardens for the school. Keep up the great work, I always look forward to your videos. Cheers 🌱

After my recent experience I'd put a good soil above anything else. I had an old raised bed, which I fed with fertilizers bagwise as all do and I established a few new raised beds with a 50/50 mixture of top soil and mushroom compost. The difference was mindboggling.

Please consider coming to Perth to baptise my raised veggie beds 😉👍🇦🇺

Hey Mark, I've been watching your channel off and on now for a couple of years, but I just recently subscribed. I subscribed because I found you to be a hoot to watch! Even though I can't grow half of what you do in my climate, I watch anyway. I know that when I watch any of your videos I am going to grin, chuckle or just bust out laughing!!! So, stick your finger in it, wiggle it around a bit to have some fun and I'm sure it will come out wet!!! LMAO Thanks!

Thanks for another great video! I shared your quick crops video with our local Nextdoor app, trying to get more people growing their own food. You are the perfect combination of knowledge, experience, and funny! I have a couple tips: 1) use old (garage sale) BIRD CAGES with bottoms removed and put them over seedlings or tender plants to keep the birds and animals OUT, and 2) if you have GOPHERS like we do by the ton and are not planting in raised beds, line your hole with metal sheeting that has been secured into a cylinder at least 18 inches tall and 24 inches wide. The gophers do not go down below 18 inches. It has worked for me for years.

14 is my lucky number! ... I use 7 a lot in life because of it being half of 14! I like you a lot, my friend! ✨

@lylemorrison249

4 жыл бұрын

It’s funny.. reminds me of me a bit. I won’t set an alarm to wake up unless the combined numbers are divisible by 3 which is my favorite number. 5:22 in the morning.. that’ll work. 5:21 won’t work. It’s not divisible by 3.

Love watching your vids, sitting here knitting myself a thick woolly jumper for winter, thinking about setting up my veg garden for the summer.

Companion planting. It does sometimes make for watering a bit more often but I find it also makes for better soil aeration. Very true, just walking through your garden makes you more aware and also is a tonic for the soul!

Your videos are a bright spot in this crazy time😊🌷

Thank you for all this helpful info Mark! "Ah McCain, you've done it again!"

Timing is a big one in Ireland, mostly when to get your seed planted, too early can be hit by frost, too late & you're losing valuable time in a, sometimes short, growing season. On top of that it's different every year!

Binge-ing on your videos from Melbourne, Sicktoria. Loving the extra time in my garden during lockdown. When you stuck your finger in, my head went straight to 'wiggle it, just a little bit' and I've been humming it ever since.

Thanks Mark, spring has just sprung in the UK. Being at home all the time, has allowed me to watch my garden come to life. Useful tips, I’m definitely not growing veggies for the pests.

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

Good on ya Duncan! All the best with your garden mate :)

I could just listen to Mark talk for hours. His manner of speech is so soothing, almost meditative.

see that broccoli get pulled off man, brilliant! one of the most satisfying experiences of veggie gardening when you pick that wonderful fresh produce. It always makes me feel like a king.

I don't even bother watching the video before hitting the like button. I hit the like button and then watch the video. I know it'll be good.

Hey Mark, Garden bed rotation and Companion planting are a couple of others that come to mind. I never plant legumes in the same garden bed season after season, and neither tomatoes, cucumbers etc. Legumes put nitrogen back in whereas the salad types need nitrogen. Also if the has been disease in a particular crop, it could still exist in the soil so therefore, change the crop up and give time for it to finish its cycle or die. Companion planting helps with pests in my experience. Planting Basil with tomatoes is always successful for me. Not only do they go together in recipes and cooking but they seem to love growing together and the pests are certainly less when they are.

Diatomaceous earth will dessicate pests too, without using chemicals. You have to reapply after rain. It's just a fancy type of dirt that has a sharp structure and attached itself to insects, drying them out and killing them.

@barbarat5729

4 жыл бұрын

It's a mineral. Make sure you buy "food grade" to use in your garden.

@jakep8678

3 жыл бұрын

Is it really ground up sea shells

@ivanbustelo79

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakep8678 yeah but it's made after thousands of years, you can't make it by crushing some shells

You gave great tips and I like your accent :) by the way I think the most important tip is "be interested to your garden" if you spend time in your garden, You will have a healthy garden. Greetings from Turkey 👍🇹🇷

Yes! That Australian accent has got to help! ❤️❤️

luv ya guts mark what an amazing legacy for out planet ,fun,story telling comedy.Your rocking and a global star

currently waiting for the rain to stop so I can go outside and tend to my veggies. cheers from California. love your channel

Great video. Thanks for sharing! My biggest issues starting out were over-watering, under-nutrienting, and then also planting at the wrong time. Being in Central Florida, I cannot use seed packets to tell me when to sow and plant as the summers here are REALLY hot. Love that you grow in a similar climate. We just have crazy sandy soil. So, that makes it interesting as well. The worms bring the sand up into the compost as well. So, the beds have plenty of sand in them, even though I started with sand-free compost. I had too much wood in my beds from the green waste compost and I think it has stolen some nitrogen in the first year because of the nitrogen sequestration. Bugs are pretty bad here in the summer too. So, it is kinda cool / crazy that most of our growing is opposite of everyone else. We can grow better in "winter" than summer.

@alarcon99

4 жыл бұрын

YTE Events and Balloon Decor hi fellow Floridian, greetings from the treasure coast! Have you looked into adding biochar and a bit of clay to your soil to help in water retention? Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!

@austin6174

4 жыл бұрын

YTE Events and Balloon Decor central Florida Gardener here as well! I did every mistake you just mentioned lol! Must be a Florida thing.

@heatherreis7839

4 жыл бұрын

Im not alone!!! Native florida girl here in the treasure coast as well! We tilled our very first spring garden here on our plot and our plants did pretty decent. Then come fall i wanted to be like everyone else on youtube and be a no till gardener and honestly its not working out in our favor. Everything has been doing horrible since i built raised beds the pests come in by the boat loads especially the soil pests and its just a mess. This fall we're going back to trying minimal tilling once in spring and once in fall to see how that does.

@alarcon99

4 жыл бұрын

Heather Reis when you till, try adding some biochar (get a bag of lump hardwood charcoal and crush it or a bag of hardwood charcoal briquettes and soak in compost tea and urine to activate it) and some clumping kitty litter (benzonite clay) and some alfalfa meal with your compost and see how that helps the soil.

@likeargamanflaming940

4 жыл бұрын

Zone 9 northern Florida here. Yup, crazy Sandy soil = renders poor soil drainage. I've committed to raised beds with compost; garden soil; some top soil and peat moss. I've added bone meal; blood meal; compost that includes salmon skins; coffee grounds and egg shells etc. Fertilizer and the like. Soil is doing well. Now? Meletia cucurbitae; tomato horn worms and other assorted tomato eating bugs. I do agree with most here that fall/winter gardening is more enjoyable in FL than summer gardening. Yes , the seed packet planting times are not reliable for Florida. Go on web sites that are specific to your zip code for FL. Found that they re spot on...

Hi Mark, you are obviously having lots of fun in your beautiful country garden. Thanks for all the great info. I immensely enjoy watching your programme and seeing your lovely wide open spaces. I'm living in a small city unit,

@azureciels1872

2 жыл бұрын

And to get out of the rat race soon, and your programme is very inspiring. The thing I like most of all, is your sense of humour. Thanks for the laughs. God bless from Anne in Sydney Australia

misdirection my dad had an issue with the squirrels eating ll of his peaches, so he went and bought about $20 (usd) and sprinkled some around the base of the peach tree. they went for the corn instead of the peaches.

@steviachopan6893

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, what did he sprinkle? Thanks!

@ohiogardener4019

4 жыл бұрын

Think it was $20 worth of corn, since that is what the squirrels ate.

@seasonofthewitch4209

4 жыл бұрын

@@ohiogardener4019 yep, that was a good idea. Squirrels love corn.

@toffeebluenose7331

4 жыл бұрын

You can buy tiger scatter puts of animals coming to your veg.

@billy4072

4 жыл бұрын

Thought you meant 20 dollars worth of lead shot

Those water puns at the start, amazing!

You rock my world, actually you rock our raised beds!! Beautiful videos every time!! Thank you brother 🙏 much ♥️ from India

Fantastic tips there Mark. especially about taking the information from guides as a guide only, Great video mate

I just want to thank you for so much experienced tips and guidance. Been watching your videos for a bit now.😊🌱👌

Love your videos mark

You're not only an excellent gardener and teacher, you're very entertaining, charismatic and your videos are so well made. You're multi-talented. I'll bet you play guitar too😃🎸.

#8 Soil Management: Rotate your crops to keep down reoccurring pests and to keep from draining nutrients. For example, legumes can add nitrogen and assist water retention in your soil.

@funlovincop

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! He's mentioned in his videos that he doesn't plant tubers in the same beds for more than 2 seasons (i think it was 2). I'd love to learn more about crop rotation

I've found that putting egg shells in the soil when planting tomatoes prevents blight or rot bottom as i used to call it.

@05rosebud

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that tip 😊

every time i look at this guy's sub count i get so angry, cause he is amazing and deserves more respect. Heck ive even made extra accounts just to subscribe and support

SELF SUFFICIENT ME THANK YOU FOR WONDERFUL AND HELPFUL CONTENT!! THUMBS UP TIMES A MILLION!!

Brawndo's got what plants crave

@finntech531

4 жыл бұрын

It's got electrolytes

I’m so enamored by your humor. Hahaa. Very nice light humor. Thanks

Rabbit manuer is my favorite fertilizer.

I have the thought that you would make an excellent doctor, with your patients feeling very grateful for you...😊

Ah, seven. The number of creation! Love your videos, thank you for what you do.

Big papa gardener with the money tips!

I always pray and give thanks to God for all his blessings and tell the plants to grow and be happy cause God is waiting!

The B roll shot of putting on the gloves was hilarious. My husband and I loved it. So funny Thanks for the video

I wanted to say hello! It’s Carolyn from Arkansas in the US. I took your advice on my none fruiting Dwarf Maulberrys and cut them back. They are popping leaves and looking nice. It’s early Spring here. Many thanks. Greatly appreciate it. I’ll let you know if I see blooms and if I eat fruit.

@Selfsufficientme

4 жыл бұрын

All the best with your trees this season! :)

I audibly groaned when you mentioned powdery mildew. I live wet side of the island on Maui, and pests and mildew are real challenges.

We got some bone meal finally and ive been loading this clay soil with I know over the winter imma put more in and cover my garden for a long while. And today we dont gotta water bc it rained. Thank ya Jesus. We use a dust in our garden. There is only certain things I need pesticide on. Not on my whole garden bc that would be silly it isnt needed. Right now we put it on our young cabbage plants bc last year they were ate so bad and our head lettuce bc again they were eaten bad. And we have a horrible issue with a sqaush borer here where I live and it isnt about timing lol they lay their babies in there. And they eat to live. I dont use pesticide on it i wrap the stem near the ground with aluminum foil. Worked great last year. :)

That’s what exactly I was thinking to water plants yourself rather than the watering system because not all viewers perhaps can’t afford to install watering system.

Wow, you covered a lot of ground. Well done!

G'day Mark, loved the vid. As an Aussie transplanted to Chicago Illinois, it nice to see the bush and the Banana palms. I grew up in Townsville and I have family in Brisbane. Good luck with everything.

Thanks brother from a another mother

Love you videos most don't apply to me as I do solar powered aquaponics for 90% of my plants. Still love watching all your videos

This is very useful and interesting. It sounds difficult. I really haven't successfully grown anything yet. Still on a very small scale, but planning on building some raised beds soon.

That daily observation tip is something I never would have called out when I first started gardening, but it's a beauty. It's at the root of all the others.

Most of our pests are beloved by our chickens. We capture grasshoppers, cabbage butterflies, earwigs and caterpillars and feed them to our chooks. We don’t buy chemicals, not even the organic ones. If a plant is covered in bugs, it is reclassified as a trap crop and removed carefully to the chicken run. We only use 3-3-3, seaweed fertilizer, and stable manure to feed our crops. We have a plastic ibc tote we add extra manure tea, left over bit and bits of seaweed or fish emulsion fertilizer leftovers and collected human urine( not more than half by volume. ) Then we then pull off as much as we need to feed the garden, diluted in water cans. I think we have about 120+ gallons of this concentrate right now ready for spring crops. This with our homemade compost and aged manure is more than enough to feed our garden for the entire next year.

I Love this guy passion for plants, he must have the best food in the world😀

Very resourceful video, Sir. I wouldn't dare to tell you to stop.

We are starting our gardens here in South Texas your videos are very informative... Thank you.

Hey mark ive been watching your videos for a year and today i started my little garden your videos helped me so much thanks for all the knowlege you've given me

Same type of climate, other side of the pond, similar goals :)

I love to watch your channel they r so helpful

Great “flow”...helped things “sink in!” Mulching is even more important than watering as M.N. (Mother Nature) is modest and doesn’t like her ground naked. Since mulching keeps the garden from drying out, less watering is needed. Keep those puns coming... They’ve “groan” on me!!!!!😉

Thanks, great advice!

Awesome info, thanks Mark!

this channel is so handy, im going to have a go at something this year, this lockdown is doing my head in ....bless from the UK

@giojared

4 жыл бұрын

check out charles dowding. his you tube channel might help you! he is awesome like mark and is in u.k. Grow on!

Thank you for all your advice and your tips you are a awesome guy. BIG BIG THANK YOU from Florida USA

Love the tips!

Great tips! Thanks bro!

Love these!!

Great Video Mark, - Thank you

I used to work for young living and got a lot of essential oils for free. My go to solution for my backyards earwig problem is a little spray of peppermint/lemon infused water on seedlings and fruits.

Love the videos mate keep it up

Some really great tips and advice Mark, keep them coming!!

Great vid, bud!

Great video! Grow on!