What Vegetable Crops I'm Growing and Sowing NOW in WINTER Garden
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2021
- In this video, I show you what vegetable crops I'm growing and sowing now in our winter garden.
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G'day Everyone, CRIKEY I hardly took a breath in this video! If you have questions about raised beds or equipment check out the description below the video first to see if that helps. Cheers :)
LOL yes I noticed how quickly you are speaking in this one, ha! On a personal note this is super-interesting, so, thank you for this!!!
Mark I'll buy a couple of pumpkins from you!!
Regarding your tomatoes problem my father used to wrap the growing area with plastic sheeting but he made like an opening to remove the fruit and obviously to water them but the sheeting traps and holds in heat... Great content you work very hard 😊😊😊
No worries, it was worth it just to see you hold up the pack of radishes.
How do you fight powdery mildew?
His subtle comedy is the best.
I know. I laughed at the hobo comment. 🤣
I knew Mark was a chad, but I didn't know he was "I can bring down a tree with my bare hands" level of chad
Mark is based. But most brissy north siders are.
Hate to bring Mark, or your comment down, but pawpaw is easy to push over. I’m nearly 60 and just put in my first raised bed. I’ve been pushing pawpaws over for years, easier when they’re old.
LOL... "chad" I like it! ;)
Ye paw paws you sometimes need to tie to poles so they dont fall over, their roots are the weakest in wind. But no mark is still the chad you profess him to be.
@@Selfsufficientme Glad to have made you smile, for all the times you've made me smile!
So fun fact from a Canadian gardener! One of the best year round crops to grow in Canada is kale. If you plant it in the spring it will keep growing and survive all the way through winter into the next summer. My family plants about 25 kale plants and just cuts off a couple leaves every other day for salad or kale chips, and as long as you leave the top leaves they will just keep producing. During winter they can survive harsh temperature under even a pretty crappy tarp or (like my family did our first year) if they get buried in snow they can survive under it as well.
Love kale - very true, it's such a hardy crop and we (as a family) like the taste of it too! Cheers :)
Same here in FL. Though this year, broccoli has done better. No joke , this year for the first time we had florets in our shady garden and we're still eating those big, beautiful leaves in August...there's nothing about broccoli in Revelations, right? Lol. Crossing my fingers that we get seeds from this magnificent freak of nature. Every time I look at those broccoli, I marvel at the possibilities of this world.
Thanks for this useful info! I will try to grow some in the UK too!
Mark we have you for gardening like we had Mr. Roger's for learning, Bob Ross for painting, and the other greats. It is so enjoyable (and helpful!) to watch these videos!!! A big thank you from California!
Hey Mark, I'd love to see a video on how you store all your produce, because I've seen that you certainly make a lot of food all year round and I'm certain you almost don't go to the store any more.
You'd be horrified if I showed how I store our produce because it's all over the house including linen cupboards lol... However, this is all about to change! Hopefully, in the next month, we will start renovations to turn our little-used dining room into a big pantry so finally, we will have a storage room dedicated to food. What I intend doing, is making several videos showing the making of this pantry and obviously how we store our produce etc. Thanks for the feedback! Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme Please do. I am actually really interested in that. You really inspired me to get into growing, and I have become obsessed with it, so I know I will get to the point (like a one or two of my neighbors) where I can't eat all that I'm making, so I would love to see what others do.
@@Selfsufficientme YES! that would be a great little series of videos. I would love to see that!
I was thinking the same do you use all your produce or have you a market stall for the overflow
@@Selfsufficientme I would love to see this - do you do chutneys or pickling?
I taught my dog to pick snow peas. They really do grow like crazy. Bear loves them and we eat them right off the vine week after week here in Wisconsin.
LOL. That is funny. When my kids were growing up, our dog would eat the blackberries, but he taste tested them first to see if they were ripe, and he only ate ripe ones. I told my kids to pick the ones out of Charlie's reach and let him have the low ones.
I never get tired of watching Mark. 👍
Camera quality via the different angles is next level. Keep up the great work. Inspiring and entertaining.
The Mark of a true gardener....if it's not producing, replace it. Great video
South Australia here, it’s starting to feel like spring. Ripped out last of my broccoli today, have 3 cauliflower left, celery is stunted this year, spinach going strong
Starting to feel that way in Melbourne too. My broccoli is only starting to get big, haven't even seen any florets yet 😩
@@richardchristian6894 anything that grows well in a Mediterranean climate. Think about what you eat. I have persimmon, lemon, lime, apples x3, plums x3, apricot, cherry, peach, peacherine, orange x2, mandarin, peach, pear x2. Steer clear of the tropical ones in this video. Adelaide is not good for bananas or pawpaw. If you want small and simple put in an apricot and a mandarine. The apricot will fruit in summer, the mandy in winter. A dwarf orange also fruits in winter. You need to net the apricot but not the citrus. Put them in now though, they need to be planted before winter ends.
@@richardchristian6894 I have never grown kiwi here but it looks like it’s possible, though you seem to need a male and female plant. I have grown passion fruit, it is a very easy plant to raise in Adelaide. It likes lots of water though. I pulled my vines out as they were so thirsty and my children weren’t huge fans of the fruit. My attitude is just give it a crack. You can always take it out if it doesn’t work for you.
Yes, I noticed our spinach is growing much better as the weather warms up slightly. You would probably have time for another crop of broccoli if you wanted? Cheers :)
Hello from the UK where these crops are useful all year.
imagine growing tomatoes in the winter, what a paradise for gardeners. meanwhile the summer here in germany is so cold and rainy that my peppers have absolutely zero spice and my tomatoes barely have any fruit.
Hey bro water loss can be a constant battle and fair disheartening. It's not all great. Pests thrive etc.
I didnt water ny jalapenos enough in texas, and jesus christ they were the spiciest jalapenos I've ever ate. I could barely eat one.
And then in other parts of Europe, there are firestorms! Just before covid I was lucky enough to drop into Munich for a few days and the markets there had some of the most wonderful tomatoes I've ever seen or grown myself. Nina and I are looking forward to doing a proper tour all through Germany one day (fingers crossed). Cheers :)
Get a greenhouse. And a hot bed
The herb bed with flowers is a great idea, I feel like flowers help a lot.
Oh the envy! Our winters get to -27C and 40 cm of snow. I am going to try lengthening our season by planting cold hardy crops in polytunel.
My gardening took a hit with the addition of a little one but I am ready to get back into it.
Yeah... I should really start planting soon. I have some seeds prepping... but that being said it's still dipping under 5 C at night in South Africa
`Great episode mate and the new beds are looking fantastic I may have to get a few for my plot for deeper roots and stuff
So when we decide to have asparagus I have to buy 2 cans at $5 a pop. For $5 I bought a good amount of seeds and yes they are now coming up. In 3 or 4 years we will have our own and can probably eat them when ever we want. Sounds great.
Awesome Nancy! And, asparagus is one of the longest living food crops at about 25 years. Cheers :)
The Romanesqo has a natural buttery flavor and a mild cauliflower flavor.
Nice! Thanks Sherlyn :)
Beautiful garden , many kind of vegetable in raise bed , the raise bed is very good quality and thanks for sharing garden tips and tours
(A Cacaco Tree / Chocolate 🍫 🌳) would be amazing if you could do an experiment into showing everyone the progress in the videos on how to maintain a Cacao Tree and what you need to do for it to grow and where the best places are to grow would be so cool to watch !
Thank you Mark. 🙂
Jeepers! With such an array of veggies, you could start a market!😲 You have been mightily blessed! 😁
I knew about the shipping shenanigans when I ordered my Birdies. Still waiting. Glad it wasn't fresh veggies. 😀
Blessings! 💜
Edited to add - MY BIRDIES CAME IN YESTERDAY!!! WOO-HOO!!!
I'm following a similar method interspersing pollinator plants and herbs in between the vegetables in my beds. Pretty much any hard to reach space I put an herb or a flower. Marigolds are said to help plants close by produce more. I also have thumbelena zinnias . Having a mixture of highly scented plants can help with pest control. Pests will hone in on the type of plants they like and a mixture of scents should help confuse them.
Good in theory - how is it working for you?
Mark, you really inspire me. Your enthusiasm is infectious! Never had a garden of my own before; we now have three small elevated beds we're about to plant for autumn, in our new home in the Pacific Northwest USA. I'm a nervous Nellie about trying new things, but you make me believe I can do it too. 💚
When I saw that romenesco I was very tempted to harvest some of the leaves to feed to my rabbit
You really got into it with this video
You are SO smart at using the space you have! I am inspired by your ideas and I'm increasing my raised beds! Thank you from Louisiana, USA!!!
Thanks Stephanie! All the best with your new raised beds :)
Man, your last month of winter looks like the start of our second month of spring here at 49 degrees north. Love your vids, mate. Keep 'em coming.
Thanks for all your videos mate!
Myself and my partner are hooked, even your terrible dad jokes make us laugh.
We've finally started growing our own and having your tips along the way has really helped.
Legend.
Acorn punkin are great bowls, clean out, drop butter, nuts,raisins, with favorite veggies. Yum.😋
Hi Mark, we live on the Gold Coast. With very limited garden and using portable garden tubs bought at Bunnings, we are having fun experimenting with different crops. Success with pak choy, cabbage, lettuce, not so much with cauliflower (not enough sun) pea plants are small, 4 tomato plants are loaded, just have to protect them from the dreaded fruit fly. Love watching your videos. 🍅🫑🥕
Great stuff Pamela! Yes, watch that fruit fly as the toms ripen but it sounds like you are getting into it and onto it! Cheers :)
Interesting. Our Climates are Similar-been watching your Vids for a few months, however, I just realized our Climates are Reversed. I am going INTO Fall here-August is still pretty hot , however it's feeling Cooler for some reason but Winter is not far off. :)
This was really helpful because at the moment our garden has gone dormant due to winter and our veggie patch is empty save for one cabbage😂
Same, although is it too late to plant winter crop and too early for a spring crop?
Been a weird year - I'm in England and it's just rained forever. Winter stuff should be OK - it'll build it's root system then pop up with a bit of sun. Keep the faith!
@@Erectmygreenhouse We're in Jacksonville, FL...rain, rain, rain here, too. Never sure quite what to expect weather-wise anymore. Predictions are often no good more than a day in advance. Wish I could be more attentive to the garden...We've lost many to waterlogging. I had meant, long ago, to move toward water-loving bog veg...but that's not the way life has been going. We'll all work it out, I expect...and then it will change again. Lol
@@fletchbodenschatz8813 Similar here with waterlogging - silly rain. Need a few days of sun to dry everything off. Weather predictions are pretty much guess work at the moment - they don't know what's going on. I hear farmers are 30% down too.
Keep growing though - sometimes it's a battle but keep the faith
What are you planting for a cover crop?
I love your garden! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us😍🤗
I would love to see how you store food.like your onions an winter veggies. My pumpkins lasted for ages but I find other things sprout and go bad quickly
The gaps between your beds, if you're happy with their position, whip and spray the grass then lay compacted limestone or cracker dust. Will make getting a barrow around easy and help prevent snails/slugs etc moving between them.
Love this channel it's healthy for the mind body and soul 👍
Where we are in Melbourne, I had a very mild winter, and now this month has warmed up a bit, even the citrus is starting to grow pretty strong. Half the other fruit trees are breaking buds lol
Omg that garden is beautiful 🤩❤️💯 Always wanted a garden like this 🌺💐 😱😳 thank u for sharing ..
You are completely amazing and so encouraging!! We have just 3 smallish raised beds and our first season of growing was a mixture of success and failure. Hoping for a better fall crop and looking forward to getting better each year. Thanks for what you do mate!
Great job Mark, you’re videos are always so encouraging and inspirational
I really enjoy seeing your work in the garden, and the tips you share.
I really appreciate your tips and new information you give us especially about the cauliflower :) I'm learning so much!
Love watching your videos mark,it gets me so motivated.Thanks ❤
Thanks for the update Mark, it's all looking good.
I'm having fun in my patch too, it's never been more packed with winter crops.
Hi Mark, thank you for all your great content, I have become a productive back yard gardener this year because of you. I've turned my tiny yard into a food maker with 12 small raised beds made from discarded pallets. I live in Hills district, Northwest Sydney and am totally enjoying the journey. Kim
G'day Kim, thank you and congrats on your raised beds! May you grow a ton! Cheers :)
How has your palllet garden lasted? Did you do anything at all to try to make the wood last longer? I’m thinking this is the only way we can afford to go to raised beds.
I wonder if there is a book here about this channel?
Not a gardening book - but a book about achievement, happy accidents, ups-and-downs, perseverance, progress, learning, hard work, focus, technology, and of course covid impact.
No book as such... There is a bit of info around from chats I've had online and of course, my whole channel is a bit of a diary, which I have not deleted one video (as cringy as some are to watch these days). I can say that I'm in the early stages of a book in partnership with a nutritionist so it will be about food/gardening and not what you have mentioned but a book nevertheless! As far as covid goes, my channel during the height of covid actually tripled in views - it has gone back to normal now but it was good for me professionally and also I'm glad more people decided to get into gardening and self-sufficiency in general during what was/is a bad time for many. Cheers :)
Daisies are amazing for flowers in winter too!! As well as snapdragons, lavender and violas. The bees at my place love them because they keep them going so well during winter
I'm so glad you posted this video. Now I know what I should be planting right now. Thank you Mark.
Last year I planted a lot of store bought potatoes that had gone to seed, the white ones produced quite a good crop but the red ones grew well but never had a single potato.
What a great informative video. You are a great character Mark ,with a wealth of knowledge! How lucky we are to watch these videos . All the best ,love the content!
I love the amount of effort put into these videos. SSM is the best. One of the most important channels on CZcams right now. Idk if everyone understands how crucial it is. Much Love from TX USA.
Is there a food bank that will take them? I'm in Idaho and where I live it is a farming area. The local farmers give allot of fresh produce to the food banks. Especially now.
Hey Mark, thanks for the tour of your garden. I always find it fascinating how you grow in your raised beds. Gonna have to do that at the new house. I'm sure I can grow a lot on just over 1/4 acre.
G'day from Poland in the middle of the summer. We have sunny weather and 20°C today 😎.
10:46 very cool.
Mark, haven't checked many videos lately so I'm noticing that yours are looking great! Garden is looking super inspiring too 🌞
I'm in Thailand, gaining more knowledge will be used to make changes in the garden area to be more effective. Thank you.
It got cold up there eh? What, about 20C on the cold days ? 😊
Gardens looking lush as usual. I wish my Melbourne garden looked like that.
The brassicas have all done great but legumes have struggled. I'd be lucky if I got 12 pods per plant.
Of course, we have had hail and light frosts a few weeks ago.
At least the days are getting longer and I've got tomatoes and chilli seedlings growing indoors ready for when they can finally survive outside.
Great video Mark! 👍
yes Gerry, 20 would be a cold day...a very cold day indeed.
Well, 20C is freezing here! Seriously, I put a jumper on today... :) Good to hear you have your toms and chillies on the go! All the best :)
Now youre talking my language Mark. We are almost time to plant in Texas. Summer end, and fall. yesssss
Been gardening for 46 yrs and always love a different out look on it👊🤙
Love the garden growing updates! Can't wait to see more!!!
This is so helpful! I always feel like I’m trying to figure out what winter crops actually work in our Queensland “winter”. Trial and error. Thank you
Oh I love beets. I slice them thin for salad, roast them, pickle them and I enjoy the greens either sauteed or in stir fry. 💜
Mark you property looks amazing. I know it takes continual hard work and commitment. It is always very refreshing watching your videos.
Do you have any neighbours who raise pigs? I bet they'd love your surplus pumpkins 🎃
Or if not - pumpkin seeds are always good to have.
Perfect video timing. Just moved into my new house and starting to plant a few things.
Thank you for the video
I’m in WA I have just set up a couple of wicking beds
I’m just about to start sawing some crops from seeds too.
G’day!! Hey listen - eff the whipper snipping 😂 I actually didn’t notice till you said something …. And then I had to comment 😂 we’ve had tomatoes all winter too :) also we have found a few bush bee hives in our bush 👏🏼 no wonder we had so many fruits this year :)!
LOL the weeds around his bed are really short compared to mine. I really hate weed-eating, and only bother about once a month or so. I'm planning on eventually putting mulch all around my beds so nothing can sprout up right next to them.
@@Megatron995 hahaha I’d just use the bees as an excuse “they need those flowers!” Hahaha. But when there’s no flowers …. 🤔
I just scored an old rubber mat I’m thinking of using as weed matting somehow … I’m getting excited for spring!
The wrist method lol🤣😂 I love it 🥰
Our hens love pumpkin! Last time our pumpkin went crazy I cooked it all for pumpkin sauce for curries
LOVED this video! So cool to see an update on everything!!! Also love the trellis tunnel, would love to mock something up like that in one of my future gardens
I watched your video on tomato seedlings under grow lights - gave me some ideas! Cheers :)
HOLY WOW!!!! YOU ARE INSPIRING!!! I want to have more raised beds. I admire your persistance. I am in Northern Northern California and with the super hot summers, the FIRES, and very little help with gardening now... I need an easier way. You are amazing and I appreciate all the information in your videos!!
Love a good garden tour. Thanks Mark! Just got myself some Birdie's beds inspired by your setup!
Absolutely love these videos Mark. Ive spent the last few weeks getting my neglected garden up to scratch for spring. Its finally starting to look good again. Just watching this while I drink a litre of coffee and Its pumped me up to get out there and get it finished. Thanks for the inspiration mate.
Ah, great stuff! Get into mate :)
honestly you are one of the best gardening channels out there..so positive from northern ontario canada..yes i'm making a go of it even in this cold weather lol
Everything looks great 👍 I love seeing all the crops you grow
One busy man Mark envious of your produce 👍
I really like the vegetables in your Garden it look so cool I like to plant to
Mark try some of those summer squash recipes of the southern United States. We saute them with onions until both are tender and sprinkle with black pepper and they are delicious. You can do the zucchini, yellow straight neck, and the patty pan with that recipe and they are all delicious.
Great video Mark and great weather there!
Thanks Mark. Here in South Africa in the same hemisphere, and although I’m at a much higher and colder elevation, it’s really useful and inspiring to see how you do things. So lush and lovely. We’ve lost had impressive tomato yields despite the cold.
Good on ya Gail and thank you! Cheers :)
Thanks for the tip for the native bee feast with that corn! My hive is strong but I want to split it after next winter so this is a super duper idea!
Thanks for the video Mark. Here's a big growing and sowing thumbs up for ya mate.
Great video Mark! Really appreciated the tour. Looking forward to the next one. Cheers.
Hello Mark, I follow your videos even if I don't write a comment. I just like to say Darn I've been really busy since the middle of June. I put up those 50+ heads of cabbage into saurkraut. I am so tired of canning canning and more canning. Pickles, tomatoes, salsa, green beans, purple hull peas, onions, and you just name it. I'm glad things are slowing down. Jessie, Arkansas USA
Looking lush, Mark. And always exciting having beds (or trees 😳😂) being freed up for sowing upcoming seasons’ seeds or future perennials.
Wonderful tour Mark with great tips and ideas. Definitely setting up more raised beds like your garden, my hugelkultur mound is home to little moles or voles who are very appreciative of my canteloupe and watermelon. 😞😥 At 63 the raised beds are the way to go.
I always love your "dad jokes"
It's great to see what you've got planted ☺️ I've just started some beetroot, ginger, tumeric, basil, capsicum, squash, and zucchini 🤞😃 I hope they all grow!
I grow French marigolds in my raised bed for pollinators and to control root knot nematodes.Love your garden and channel.
Thanks again Mark, thoroughly enjoyed your video AGAIN 😁👍. Stay safe mate 🇦🇺🇬🇧
So exciting to see you grow stuff you've never tasted before. Pretty dope
Also, your green thumb puns are what me coming. I dig it
Mark I’m amazed you can grow cabbage, cauli and broccoli up where you are. The garden has progressed so much since I last watched your channel, it looks fab.
Go for some broad beans mate. They grow so easily and can be used in so many meals. Very underrated vegetable in Australia, but us Aussies with Maltese background love them.
On the pumpkins, look up Maltese pumpkin pie. It's basically pumpkin, rise, olives, tuna between pasty. Delicious.
i lost my deep beds when i gave the allotment up a couple of months ago. i'm happy to grow at home in containers, marc. it's a whole new world for me.................brian
Containers are great Brian and probably easier for you mate too. Take care :)
@3:42 You are going to love the romanesco!
Love your videos mark. You are an inspiration.
In enjoying how u care your plants, this year i have a lot of water spinach, sweet potatoes, and some tomatos, in living in italy and soon ill harvest lots of Cilantro SEEDS, Thanks For YOUR infos as always and im always watching your videos