7 Tips to Keep Vegetables Growing Healthy
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- In this video, I give 7 tips on how to keep vegetables growing healthy for maximum food crops at home.
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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 :)
Mark aka Brussels Crowe coming in with the EPIC tips!
Hahaha thanks Kevin! 👍😁
Dad joke to Dad joke *FOR THE WIN*
so cute watching all you gardening youtubers cross pollinate
what a non-toxic community ^_^ organic asf
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Brussels Crowe, fightin' (pests) 'round the garden!
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🙏
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Me too, I thought I was the only one!!
I do too, but I don't have to try for an Aussie accent, I am Aussie!!!! Lol! :D
Didn't myth busters do an episode on this very thing?
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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!!! ❤🇨🇦❤
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.
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.
does mint itself work? mint seems like a very easy herb to grow and will probably grow alongside anything..
x o yes it will grow alongside anything and EVERYTHING, lol. An absolute must plant to be grown in pot.
Top tip on companion planting! Thank you :)
Garlic! Absolutely ♡ bugs just hate the stuff ;)
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.
Another good tip: Physically support your veggie plants that need it with trellis/stakes.
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
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 :)
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.
OMG this guy is the best and he has the best garden tips! Love you you brighten my day!
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!
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 🌱
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.
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! ✨
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.
currently waiting for the rain to stop so I can go outside and tend to my veggies. cheers from California. love your channel
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.
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.
Your videos are a bright spot in this crazy time😊🌷
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.
You rock my world, actually you rock our raised beds!! Beautiful videos every time!! Thank you brother 🙏 much ♥️ from India
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.
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.
pretty sure he has a video on this
@@michaeltoner1993 Good to know, Hopefully he pops the link in by some slim chance!
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!
yes totally, one of the few good things about this whole covid thing is the time it's given me to observe my plants, understanding what is doing well and what not so well. My garden has never looked better.
"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.
We are starting our gardens here in South Texas your videos are very informative... Thank you.
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. :)
Thank you for providing such valuable and informative information! I started a home garden a few weeks ago and I learn something new every time I watch one of your fantastic videos. Cheers from Florida and I hope all is well!
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
check out charles dowding. his you tube channel might help you! he is awesome like mark and is in u.k. Grow on!
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
I could just listen to Mark talk for hours. His manner of speech is so soothing, almost meditative.
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.
Yes! That Australian accent has got to help! ❤️❤️
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.
All the best with your trees this season! :)
I just recently found your channel and I just wanted to say I love watching your videos and thankyou!! So inspirational, uplifting and educational! Well wishes to you and your family from NY, USA
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 👍🇹🇷
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.
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
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. 😢
@@SilverCoatl can you tell me what you did wrong
Hi Mark Love your videos & I am going to mulch more & have my raised garden elevated.
Stating the obvious, if you have enough space don't mow an area until it gets high you always have lots of coarse mulch.
Lock down in city (greetings from Bulgaria) i've turned my balcony in garden thanks to you. Stay positive and amazing all time!!! thanks mate!!!
SELF SUFFICIENT ME THANK YOU FOR WONDERFUL AND HELPFUL CONTENT!! THUMBS UP TIMES A MILLION!!
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.
It's a mineral. Make sure you buy "food grade" to use in your garden.
Is it really ground up sea shells
@@jakep8678 yeah but it's made after thousands of years, you can't make it by crushing some shells
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!
I think it nice to promote Ozzie made and grown products especially in these times. Thanks for all your tips. Always nice to see you on my TH-cam feed.
The way you threw your shovel - you mean business. Great Tips Mark!
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.
Sorry, what did he sprinkle? Thanks!
Think it was $20 worth of corn, since that is what the squirrels ate.
@@ohio_gardener yep, that was a good idea. Squirrels love corn.
You can buy tiger scatter puts of animals coming to your veg.
Thought you meant 20 dollars worth of lead shot
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
Roy, from Virginia. I really enjoy the show and all of your tips. You’ve really helped improve the soil for me this year and saved a lot of money. Good work!
Great video. I live in mid atlantic region in US and find that getting my cabbage family plants in as early as possible helps me get ahead of the cabbage loopers which are very bad here the later you get into the warm season. It helps to be able to grow your own broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower etc under grow lights so you can plant large healthy plants early in the spring and harvest before the moths come around and begin laying their eggs which produce the loopers. This year I'm going to try insect screening on one bed to keep the moths out.
I have the thought that you would make an excellent doctor, with your patients feeling very grateful for you...😊
G'day mark from self sufficient me! Your videos are helping me get inspired for my garden. There's still snow on the ground here in British Columbia.
luv ya guts mark what an amazing legacy for out planet ,fun,story telling comedy.Your rocking and a global star
Amazingly informative video Mark. Thanks for sharing!
Love your videos mark
I've found that putting egg shells in the soil when planting tomatoes prevents blight or rot bottom as i used to call it.
Thanks for that tip 😊
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!
Ah, seven. The number of creation! Love your videos, thank you for what you do.
Rabbit manuer is my favorite fertilizer.
Thank you for your teaching, I'm looking forward start this idea. God bless.
My number one is preparing the soil.Water at the ground,I don't like the cold well but I put my in bucket in the sunlight to raise the temperature, I think it helps.
G'day down there, enjoying your channel, and knowledge, and methods very much.
Great important garden tips, Mark. You are globally loved, good to see that :)
Love your videos and tone. I do the same thing. Monthly an organic granular fertilizer and weekly either fish emulsion or kelp liquid feed, but really weak. Been working great!
Thank you for all your advice and your tips you are a awesome guy. BIG BIG THANK YOU from Florida USA
Always great learning from your channel, even though we are in a totally different climate - love symbiosis too - let nature work its magic 💚 Peace and Plants ✌️🌿
Thanks for putting together such a great channel! I've been slowly making my way through your videos. My husband and I have been wanting to start a garden, but we were away from home so much that we hadn't made the time to get it started properly. Now that we're under a stay at home order it's the perfect time to start! I appreciate all of the beginner level gardening videos with your good humor and the sneak peeks into your life. Thanks from North Carolina, USA! Also, I'm very jealous of your ability to grow mangoes, but I'm not willing to move back to a subtropical climate for them.
Thank you and all the best with your garden - get into it! Cheers :)
We're hurting out here in on lockdown in California. Thanks for your enlightening message.
Great advice. It's so true that if we do the stroll we keep so much more up to date on how the plants are doing. Same applies to the many ( mean a lot) of houseplants I have. I need to tour the house to be sure they're doing fine.
I must admit I am a fan of house plants also but we only have one - it's big and lush though and I acknowledge it every time I walk past... All the best :)
My new favourite channel! As soon as our gardening stores are back open after the lockdown I want to get some raised beds and start growing some vegetables!
Just bulit my potato and sweet potato beds inspired by you my friend. Thankyou.
Thank you for all this helpful info Mark!
"Ah McCain, you've done it again!"
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 🧙🏼
You talking about walk around the garden atleast once a day and I practically live in my garden, I’m always working on something new or jsut admiring the process and the plants. Building a orchard now and gonna put a seating area in the shade of the trees
Water, Fertilizer, Pest, Disease, Timing, Weeds, Mulch. Thanks Mark!
Diluted Aspirin is great for boosting plants disease fighting abilities, as well as colloidal silver.
Coffee sprayed on and around seedlings is a blessing to keeping the slugs away aswell.
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.
My Favourite TH-cam site. Always look out for upcoming postings.
#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.
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
That first tip about water is golden for a new gardener like me
I used to talk to my flowering indoor plants....they were beautiful,
Now.....I talk to my veggie plants.
Scientists have proven, that the vocal vibration of your voice, WILL make plant a respond & become or get healthier! Even your yard trees respond to vocal tremors/vibrations.
Love ya Mark! God bless you!
Weed root systems "choke" the veggie root systems, that are essential for good veggie crops.
GREAT tips!
favorite gardening channel
Thank you for the video, Mark!
Permaculture is a great way to let your garden take care of itself. There are many ways of doing this (like planting different plants together, or not removing weeds can sometimes benefit the crop) and I strongly recommend to give it a read. It's a lot different than the traditional monocrop (instead of having 1 plant in a bed, have a few together) but it pays out in the end. :)
Excellent! Thank you Mark. Great info.
I'd be very interested in seeing a video on what to plant next to each other. Which plants benefit each other and which harm. Or which ones take on the taste of others. Etc.
Also, a video on your organic pest control liquid and other techniques in organic pest control. A deeper drill down. Maybe even a series on it.
Thanks for all you do. I really appreciate it.
I don’t have a video but there is a book that I love called “ The Vegetable Gardeners Bible” that addresses companion planting and many other wonderful other tips you might find helpful. You can even look them up plant by plant which I found very helpful.
Brawndo's got what plants crave
It's got electrolytes
Your my fav TH-camd all you do is teach me things
Thank you for this. :) just some reinforcement for my own thought and for telling boss to get a proper bee keeper to remove a bee hive. Done kill stuff because its in the way. Just deal with it sensibly.
Mark, have tried growing okra in your country? It is so delicious and I believe you have the perfect climate to grow it well. Love your show I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. 😉👍🇱🇷
Another banger, mark. Thanks for the inspiring content!
How to water is also important based on where you live. I for example live in a hot humid climate so I installed subsurface drip irrigation to help prevent powdery mildew, blight, chilli wilt and other soil born issues. And if I foliar feed I do so in the morning so the foliage has time to dry. Like you said it all goes back to being observant.
He's tips always help me in my garden Even though I live in the middle East
Hi Mark! Thank you for the video and the tips. I love the part about making our own mulch from the corn stalks. Very cool. Much thanks! Cheers and boogie boogie, Ivy.
I just love your videos, informational and fun.
this is my favourite youtube channel.
Thank you for your knowledge about crops.
Nice tips. Can you do a tips video on fertilizers since many in the Northern Hemesphere are getting ready to sow/transplant! When to N, P, and K and maybe plants that do or don't benefit these catagories. Thanks!
Howdy Mark. Thanks for the video. This is an issue that afflicts me every year. (Btw, I like the toned-down opening. ) Cheers.
Good well presented video for beginner gardners like myself
Love the videos mate keep it up