Grow Food All Year Round | Transitioning from Summer to Winter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I show how we grow food (vegetables and fruit) all year round in our home garden as we transition from summer to winter.
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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 :)
You should totally have a time-lapse camera just watching the plants grow! :)
We're preparing for the winter crops *puts tomatoes*
I absolutely love your pfp. Gerard Depardieu has been my secret crush since forever.
I first saw him in a SBS movie about the French revolution and was struck with awe.
I can't speak French but when I hear him I pretend I can...lol
I am now learning the differences between cool weather crops and warm weather crops. I SO appreciate your videos! Your information is still very helpful here in sub-tropical east Texas, USA. In addition, your personality is very pleasant to listen to (and not bad to look at either!) Thank you for all you do!
Why do people dislike this dude's videos? Are they from competing channels or something?
Kevin Y maybe people living in colder places?
Some would be doing it accidentally.
its only 20 🤷♂️ some get 300 + there the 🧙♂️ Dislikers IN Capes 😄👉🐨🤳straya !
Kevin Y, I'm also wondering about that! 😂😂
Kiwis
You are a gem…
You are excellent in how you explain all you are teaching us. My dad was a excellent farmer. He passed 2 years ago from an aggressive cancer.
Watching your videos has given me so much more appreciation for all the hard work my dad put into his gardens. Your videos have taught me so much more than I ever knew I could learn and I have had success in this growing season.
I am in the Vancouver BC Canada area.
What veg should I grow in green houses for survival in these price hiking days over the winter?
Back to binge watching your vids.😂😊
Hi Mark! You are always so enthusiastic about your garden. Every video gets me so excited to go out and garden for my family. Thanks for everything! Love your show 😊😊
Thank you! There's plenty to be enthusiastic about gardening, especially growing food! Cheers ;)
Your climate is similar to Honolulu, great recommendations for the lanai.
I love how he always says "we" so cute 🥰🥰
I don’t know if you ever get this. Maybe too busy or you don’t check stuff that’s been cup years old but I’ve been following you for a few weeks and you have inspired me to start a raised garden experiment. I love your videos, your enthusiasm, And your skills. Thank you so much!
You and your garden is amazing. I did gardening as a creative outlet this summer due to pandemic but the more I watch your channel, the more I think about “hm, could I be self sufficient since I don’t really want to go to the grocery store anymore?” I just want to tell you how much I appreciate your vids. Thanks a lot.
Winter's coming for you but spring's coming for us! Love from Canada.
Thankyou again for letting us see (and me, personally, get cheered up and inspired by) your vids. It's gotten a little chilly here in the UK of late so it's always an absolute pleasure to see the world from near Brisbane... good-on-ya sir. Regards as ever.
Thanks Mark! Hope it warms up soon over in the UK, Cheers :)
The difference in climate from my allotment site in UK and your site in Australia is amazing.
I moved from the UK to Perth, Australia a few years ago, I still don't think I'm used to all the fruit and veg I can grow here, I miss my old allotment plot sometimes though!
I’ve got garlic and onion growing. I followed the instructions from your pot ash video and all of my bbq ash feeds the garlic and onions. They love it! Every time I add a batch, a few days later I can see a difference!
I moved from Florida to Ohio recently. It's a trade off between only having 6 months to grow, instead of all year, but with the benefit of being significantly easier to grow tomatoes. It's about 10 times easier to grow in general in this cooler climate because of less humidity, heat, diseases, pests, and no root knot nematodes. Every place have it's own challenges.
hey marky just delving back through some of your old vids, would love to see what your planting & harvesting now were are in autumn! hope your keeping dry! love from sunny sydney, scotty
I'm intrigued by the way you've done your trellises for the passionfruit and the smaller one near the turmeric plant. Is there any chance you can do an episode on how to build them?
Thank you! Im in Los Angeles CA and in my 2nd year with a garden here. Trying to grow all different vegetables to see what and when to grow. Last year was a bust. But i left a few things in the soil and they did great through the "winter" . Love your garden wish i had that much space!!
Trial and error Sean - one of the best ways to learn mate! Cheers :)
Hi, I just moved to Los Angeles. Do you have some sort of calendar guide of what to sow when? I’m on the hunt now…first time to garden too 😬🤞🏼
Love how you explain in such a useful way what and why you’re doing things in the garden. Perfecto for this novice veggie gardener 🙌🏻
I live in south Florida and really get a lot of info from your videos because we are so similar.thanks for all your good work.
Winter in Queensland, that time of year when you might have to wear trousers instead of shorts.
Mate great episode and there is no reason why folks cannot grow all year round in cold climates either, a polytunnel or high tunnel will help folks grow things to continue to put meals on the table. With you going into winter and us going into summer you gonna have to continue watching mine so you can keep warm ;) The tomatoes will shoot up really quickly and you will soon be harvesting lots of fruits. Really enjoyed this episode pal. Great job
No reason? How about tight budgets? The price of a poly/high tunnel is so far outside what I'd be able to manage it's not even on the horizon! lol...no offense, but generalizations like this make no sense to me.
@@sherryellesson9665 Sherry, I built my own tunnel, recycled timber and scaffolding poles all free, Yes I had to pay for the plastic but that was just over 100 pounds. I'm not saying it's for everyone but a lot of people will be able to grow 365. plus I only meant that the weather shouldnt hold you back there are ways to grow 365. even if it's just a window sill. I wasnt trying to upset you. Tony
Thanks Tony and all the best with your growing season (and channel also) cheers :)
We're currently transitioning from summer to winter here in southern Brazil as well, although the cold weather is a little bit late this year. I own a small plant nursery business and we grow mostly aromatic herbs and spices. Cheers.
I'm regularly startled whenever I remember seasons are the other way around.
Thanks Mark, excellent video for me living in northern New South Wales with a similar climate to yours. We haven’t had a frost for the last 3 years.
What a massive amount of knowledge you share on your channel. Thank you!
I love that you didn't cut out the mosquito attack @6:55. . .it's such a part of gardening, isn't it?
I love watching Russel Crowe talk about plants and gardening.
I think you mean Russell Coight
@@natashanagy1117 .
More Like Peter Russell-Clarke. G'day! Wheres the Cheese?
I can imagine him in the gladiator pose yelling out "aren't you guys self Sufficient?"
The General from Down Unda!
Greetings from Finland! Thanks for all the awesome tips and tricks we have a very intense winter here but luckily for us it's spring! 🍅
All the best for your coming growing season! Cheers :)
Greetings from Florida! I'm so thankful for your videos because they're helpful for learning how to garden in warmer climates.
Since i grow plants indoors,
My season is neverending.
It os rewarding having a watermelon plant during winter
Yes, it is very enthusiastic seen your videos that teach me a lot and your contagious enthusiasm that inspire me to convert my back yard patio into a food garden and sometimes the weather here in P.R. gets a tiny cold I wish we had more chill days to grow other foods.Thank you Sir.
Greetings Mark, Spring is making way to Summer here in Tifton, GA and the grow season here has just began, truly amazing it is the climate and season here versus there! Great to see this latest video upload from you mate!
Thanks mate! Yes I see you guys are getting into some nice flowers there in GA over on your channel - great stuff. Cheers :)
Who knew planting fruit and veg could be so interesting. I am rapidly becoming a convert eyeing sites in my garden that could be used for vegetables. Thanks for your many inspirational videos. Your enthusiasm and can do attitude is totally infectious… enough to get me off of my couch 👍😃
Hi. I'm from Maldives. I love watching your videos. I have just started gardening. I'm starting with Tomato, Chili, Cucumber, Watermelon & Garlic. I love the way u talk about specific plants especially about the climate in which they grow best.
Thanks so much for posting this video, my partner and I are just getting started on our own small acreage becoming as self sufficient as we can, and food production is one of our top priorities. We already have a small orchard started with much more to be added in the near future. My next major project will be getting the first of our raised garden beds built. Eventually I will be building shade houses as summers here in southern NSW get very hot and dry. Your videos are some of the most interesting and informative and well produced.
If an explorer discovered a garden that grew every vegetable and/or fruit known to man it would be in your back yard. I can't tell you how much I enjoy watching your channel!
Thanks for the turmeric tips. I’ve been wondering when mine were gonna come back. It’s been consistently 80 for weeks now here in Florida.
Such a good intro. I love the small amount of harvest that I get.
Hi Mark, you're great. I admired your style of living.
Excellent vid Mark. I have just started growing, this year, in Campbelltown, Sydney (Oz), but I am used to growing in the colder climate of NZ so a lot of it is trial and error ATM and this vid has been a great help.
Thank you for teaching n sharing your gardening, veggies, fruits
Thanks for the video Mark! I'm in South Africa, and so we've also got winter on its way. Thankfully I'm in an area that usually doesn't get below 0 degC, but my issue tends to be lack of strong sunlight in the afternoon. Might look into putting up temporary greenhouse netting or plastic this year.
Mark, I got to tell you, I was trying to enjoy your video, but you kept saying something about winter, and we here in far north are just getting out of winter! Actually, I truly enjoy your videos. It is amazing we are at opposite ends of this beautiful green earth, and grow food for our family!
Yes Mark, I totally understand you guys have had a long winter to endure but all the best for your growing season - how exciting! Cheers :)
bloody hell I thought I had seen all your videos, followed you a long time, then this came up lol. Thanks , tc and be safe
I'm so grateful for finding your videos, mate. I'm helping mi abuela with her chickens, ducks, roses and radishes.
Cheers from Perú.
Good on you Juanfrancisco for helping your abuela I bet she is a wealth of knowledge too! Cheers :)
You have such a beautiful, fruitfull garden. That's magnificent.
Surprised you are not growing root crops and more brassicas.
Carrots, parsnips, brussel sprouts, etc.
Greetings from Georgia USA, my peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and melons are going in their beds now.
Its like Maximus is now living the life he was dreaming of when he passed away, in another life. BTW, You are so inspirational man. Thank you
Hi, I love your videos. They are always so full of information and really fun to watch. Could you also do a "How to grow a ton of mangoes" video?
Great video Mark, I'm growing broccoli, cauliflower, leeks and tumeric at the moment and a bumper crop of eureka lemons, thinking of making lemon marmalade this weekend
Thanks Nicola! Lemon marmalade is one of our favs too! Cheers :)
Dude.... this is the best tv show on the computer on my phone
Here in Southern Nevada we have very long growing seasons. While we do get some humidity, it's not as bad. But, the heat! 😫. But, we can start our gardens as early as February and grow some veggies well into December if we protect from frost. I'm learning so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Love the video Mark. I’d love to see more videos of your fruit trees
As always, your videos are inspiring. Thank you
I made Jerusalem artichokes into brined pickles this winter. They are really nice. Thanks. It also gets rid of the wind they cause when cooked.
I'm absolutely LOVING your little block of dirt. Life goals.
Your like a professor of agriculture!
Love this video, watched it several times and shared it with plenty , thank you !!!!
That tangerine was massive!
Hey USA and Canada, we get it! Summer is on its way for you. We all studied Geography. Now watch this again in Dec or shhhh so we can watch.
This is a packed episode. I love Jerusalem artichokes, i had no idea they fermented well, and i never thought of planting radishes over them. Brilliant.
Your garden is amazing. Have an awesome Sunday, Andreas 🇸🇪
Good day. Welcome winter for you.
What a wonderful garden . Thank you for posting such tips, I haven't seen anyone else promote farming on TH-cam. Good going sir :)
Make sure you give your Rocoto chilli plenty of space. Mine has turned into a little tree with hundreds of fruit each year. Beautiful chilli. Love your videos mate, keep up the great work. Cheers from Melbourne 👍
I love the way you make and edit your videos.
Cracks me up to listen to you pronounce collards. I live in Alabama and collards have always been a staple here, but they don't do well when the heat and humidity rise. My southern drawl pronounces col_lards. Beautiful garden you have there!
Every time I mention Collards I keep thinking of our neighbours when I was a boy "the Collard family" lol... Cheers :)
It's funny, the first few times I heard it with a US accent I thought they were being racist because they kept talking about the "coloreds" - not being familiar with a collard it took me quite a while to figure out what they meant!
@@Berkeloid0 I'm there are some racists in the U.S. but col-lards aren't racist at all. They go in every mouth that likes them lol. Collards have just caught on in the northern states over the past few years. They had no idea what they were when a person from the south said "I sure would like some collards and cornbread " they looked at you like you were draft. Like Australia, we have many dialects and actually the southern came from England in the early 1800's.
spot on with collards being tastier btw, i was nodding along in agreement. Excellent tastebuds.
My pot and perma garden Mary I’m from Atlanta and we say cah-lurds
Fennel is really fantastic for people like myself with conditions like IBS. I supplement my prescription meds with a couple of fennel capsules and they work amazing. I’ve been binge watching your videos, they are amazing and informational.
i always forget that the northern hems summer is the southern hems winter
Another great video, very educational and enjoyable to watch. Thank you for what you do.
I love your garden! I'm a gardener too, but I like your garden.
I grow Florida Everglade's Tomatoes all year round. They thrive in the heat, they're a wild native (to Florida) plant. The only tomatoes I don't have any heat or rain issues with.
Brillant Mark. Another great vid. All of your advice is invaluable. Keep up the humour as well 😂😉Love it....
I salute you my friend gardener👍👏👏👏
Very interesting video! Now I want to see how to transition from winter to summer, because I live in South China and summer is very hot and humid here as well, but apparently I've just planted everything you recommend for cooler months!
I'll do that video in about 5 months! Cheers :)
Self Sufficient Me can’t wait 😂
Hola from North Central Florida, USA!!!
Hola! Cheers :)
You're so lucky for having crop all year long. Even we have spring here in Europe, I still wait with my tomatoes and some flowers to put them into the ground (no green house). So I sweeten this time by watching all your videos and wait for Ice Saints :)
All the best for your coming growing season Joanna! Cheers :)
Love your show mark
Love this style of video. Would love to see more of a garden tour style videos. Thanks Mark
I find this very interesting how in OZ, how we in the UK are so opposite in planting and cropping.
I would have thought that our winter in the sub tropics would be like your summer
Winter is COMING!!! Hahahahaha! I love you!
Excellent knowledge as always. Your fruit garden is beautiful
I live in Idaho, in the USA where it's too cold to garden for 8 months of the year! I'm enamored with your sub-tropic climate for gardening! I just need to invest in a nice greenhouse 🙂
Keep going, part 2 please 😊
another one for the autumn/fall is onions, important time to grow if you've got tough skinned onions (not so much for shallots but your brunswicks and brown onions also love a long growing season in subtropics), for people in temperate zones your ideal option there is to start your crop indoors and move them outdoors after the night temperatures reach above 10 degrees celcius / 50 degrees fahrenheit.
I'd recommend at that point (for cool and temperate zones) just growing them indoors on a pot stand and wheeling them outside every few days during the daytime to give them some much needed sunshine and a little extra air movement. The ideal growing situation if you want to grow indoors is in a strawberry planter, growing your alkaline (fruits and tubers) at the top, then your brassicas in the middle and lastly your onions and acidic plants at the very bottom (as the acid crop). This way as you water the alkaline plants don't get hit by acidic leaching.
In oregon the winters are far too cold to grow anything significant but still I try. I plant cruciferous veggies, beets, chard, carrots and greens in the fall and they slowly grow throughout the winter maturing in the spring just before the summer garden.
Thanks again! Looking forward to the garlic video for those of us in the subtropics!
we can still grow stuff in britain during our winters , down to minus 3 average in my area.
GARLIC --- SPRING ONIONS -even POTATOE S up untill xmas which you can leave in the ground and harvest till febuary, plus quite a few other things also.
just a matter of experementation !
Ever consider cedar mulch around the base of each bed? It won't stop all pests but it does deter many insects. I used it as a perimeter around my yard when mosquitos were unbearable and since I have yet to have nearly as many.
Thanks for sharing. Some of these plant varieties I have never hear of.
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Mark, your raised beds and the arrangement of the trellises is really inspiring. I've been in touch with the Birdie's distrib'r here in the US but will have to wait until shipping costs (all the way across the country) can be more affordable. Question for you: do you intersperse things like Marigolds with your tomatoes to help discourage insect pests?
Hi Sherry, yes we have grown marigolds in the past to encourage good bugs and discourage pests. This is a good practice, however, flowers are not something in front of mind due to the number of herbs and spices we grow that tend to do the same job and we can eat them. Cheers :)
Now you have to do a 'herbs and spices that deter insects' show.
@@nancyfahey7518 I'd like to see that too. Companion planting is very interesting to me as is soil enhancing through a combination of working it but also with plants, worms and whatnot for very clay rich earth
I love this garden. Wow!!!
Great video Mark! You have given me ideas on what to grow as we also live in Brisbane.
Thanks Claudia! Cheers :)
I live in the Toowoomba area - SE Qld .I bought am Aldi pop up meshed gazebo x2 . So i use large tubs and also pots to grow tomatoes , caps , spinash , lettuces ( in storage tubs) onions ,shallots ,cabbagee , brocs & zuuc"s. So far so good, i cover the gazebo sides wirh cotton sheets at night and my 1st garden is going well . If i gets to 0 deg... I'll light a candle in the centre me thinks ...
...thinking of conditionong a few hay bales to warm up the gazebo during the really cold months . Gonna start a worm farm for castings . Cost of food will escalate due to a Super Grand Solar Minimum , so im learning a lot ! Thanks for you tips 👍🌱
I love when he said cry like hell. Love this guy
Very interesting video, thank you!
Love the tomato trellis!
Totally enjoyed the tour. Splash in a couple cooking or preserving videos please.
Another great vid,... I'm just trying to find out the growing schedule for South Australia,..... you're videos are full of information. Thanks for bringing the m to everyone.
Luved the walk a round, thank you
Growing tomatoes in winter! That's not winter! It should have another name!
Yeah, its a touch cooler during a Tassie winter, although Tassie winters are not as cold as they were 20 years ago, where i live just outside Hobart you could count the number of frosts we get on 1 hand.
@@Tas-Devil Yes, it's interesting to look at the climate trend in TAS...it looks a bit like a V with the lowest winter temps being in 1950s - before that it was warmer...but no records that go back before 1910.
I agree! Should be called Sumter or sprinner or something
Compared to our summer it is winter! Although, I see you guys in Tassy had a hot summer too this year! Cheers :)
To be fair it does have another name once you get a bit further north! There they only have two seasons, "wet" and "dry". Maybe we should start to use those terms too in the subtropics!