Full Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Tour August 2024

[@Selfsufficientme]

G'day Everyone, yes, this is a long video, but I thought you might like a good old relaxing long walk around the garden with me... Cheers :)

[@MandyOnderwater]

These videos always seem the most popular. I personally look forward to them too!

[@Dirt-Fermer]

A large freezer/fridge can help the garlic but you probably already know that.

[@AFrayedKnotMate]

Your videos are always great, I have a couple of Birdies raised garden beds in my shed I bought using your discount code, I will end up with about a dozen of them in the end.

[@scottwilliamtoombs]

😎🤠🤔 I was going to ask you: why raised garden. 🤠less turning of soil and better control & water effectiveness, no doubt... Augh, yes & pest control... 🤌🤌🤌🤌👏👏🙌 😎😎 At your age: you need to become knowledgeable of your blood type, mate. 🤠 Eat Riight 4 Your Type ~ Handbook Title. 😎😎😎 Stages: 1 Potates; 2 sunflower; 3 Corn; 4 strawberries?.. 🔱🌈🤠🥵🥵🥵 Making an Oasis in hell, brother. ~ Honestly the Sunflower took 1st. 😎🤔🤔 Yea, see to it: you anchor every tree that can fall on house outwardly. Then you will be ready to cut down the danger in that season./!\ = Tractor tension: use dual rings & stake down 2nd with oger type ancher.??anchor.?? Thanks mate: 🤔🤔 Garlic Chives in sub for {cheat grass/fire hazard}. 🔱🔰🌈🌨 (31:52) come winter time: reverse your moving blankets, to ~ Blackening The Face Of The Earth.

[@TheWaitingforChrist]

Thanks Mark

[@Tuvy_Tuvemue]

No worries about the length of the video. Many of us love a good garden tour. ❤

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thanks for the feedback! Cheers :)

[@phyllisjorgenson8997]

What are you supporting your Marion Berry with please?

[@rkorel]

There may be a number of reasons why you don't get olives: species/, pruning method soil and cultivation/grafting methods

[@thesecretlifeofber5424]

35:35 “don’t worry so much… just like my diy crappy jobs….” 😂 i felt that in my soul. diy isn’t always the prettiest, but if it meets a need, it’s good enough. 👍

[@GM-rg8sk]

I always look forward to these videos. I appreciate when you show your experiments regardless of failure or success. It helps me feel like I can also make mistakes in my own garden and learn to experiment.

[@trishsmith2811]

I for one watched your whole video and enjoyed it very much. I don’t live in a subtropical climate so it’s interesting to see what you are growing that I can’t. We do a lot of salmon fishing and the freezer burnt or to old to eat always gets ‘planted’ in the garden. People have been doing this for hundreds if not thousands of years. Why someone would leave a negative comment is beyond me. Using everything is a good thing. Especially animals that we eat should never go to waste. We use the heads for crab bait. We use the bones of deer and elk for bone broth and making bone meal for the garden. Your garden is so beautiful! I have two gardens and I know it takes hours and hours every day to keep it going. And sometimes it fails. I just had a Vole do what your cockatoos did to my pole beans. :( oh well, next year….😊

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thank you Trish! Yes, I'm totally with you on the "return to earth" policy with excess plant materials, veggie scraps or meats - it does wonders for the garden. All the best :)

[@MargaretFinnell]

I have rabbit trouble. The little darlings cut off every branch of the blueberry plants and leave them lay there. They got under the fence and got my garden this year and well I am planning fore next year.

[@meettheworld6241]

OMG! NOT AN ANUS😮!!! I INSTANTLY FELL OUT LAUGHING!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THAT was the funniest thing all day

[@mandaAU09]

I suck at pronouncing plant names that that one had me choking on my beer 🍺 🤣

[@familyreynolds9323]

Ananas? Like the Pineapple?

[@melissaschloneger9902]

I think he meant Anise - definitely laughed out loud

[@VEWNZ]

What a massive transformation you and your son have accomplished after all that rain. I love how you reward those determined strays & stragglers with a dose of love. TY for the garden tour

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thank you! Yes, we're very happy and proud of how the garden is looking. Cheers :)

[@Kunzangchophel0315]

I loved your phrase "Corn in the Lawn". That corn growing in off season itself shows, impossible is possible. Many love from Bhutan

[@gregryeii403]

Yes I love the resiliency of nature. Unfortunately with nothing to pollinate it, you will probably not get any ears

[@suesmyder]

​@@gregryeii403 hand pollinate it.

[@deliachitts1964]

Enjoyed the walk round thanks 😊

[@melanielinkous8746]

I always call it "accidental corn". Even wrote a song about it that I like to perform while pulling weeds. 😅

[@paddyredinger9188]

Nasturtium leaves , chewed and swallowed, kills a sore throat after only 2 or 3 tries! Truly remarkable results

[@darlingstitches]

Just wanted to say thank you for these videos. We live in SE QLD (about 2 hours west of you) and find your recommendations and experience invaluable. My partner and I were so excited to use our tax return to buy our first raised garden beds last weekend - Birdies of course, thank you for the discount. We have now upgraded from containers and one in ground bed to four 1.2 x 2.5m raised beds. We have saved so much money and gained immeasurable mental and physical benefits from gardening and would love to buy you a beer if we are ever in your neck of the woods. Never doubt the good you are putting into the world!

[@snippetsofinconvenienttruth]

The wood is beautiful from Olives. My dad went to Spain years ago and brought home Mortar and pestles made from Olive wood and I use it everyday. Stores my Himalayan salt for the table and cooking. My dad no longer on this realm, so it is a beautiful gift to remember him by.

[@chefgiovanni]

Olive trees are amazing.We use EVO every day. We use olive wood for small cheese boards.

[@missybiblio4673]

So glad I found this corner of the Internet

[@alissakristiansen8667]

Ananas (ah-nah-nah) is french for pineapple. Noir (n-wah-r) is also french for black. So black pineapple tomatoes.

[@coventrywildeheart7108]

HA! Damn you! I was just about to go to bed [1am] and you drop a long video. No worries, I'll sleep when I'm dead and watch your vid now. Many thanks for the great vids.

[@VK-qo1gm]

Lol, love your post!

[@Selfsufficientme]

LOL... Thank you for being so committed to supporting my video! I hope it was worth it... 😀👍

[@pamelacooley6457]

😂❤

[@suesmyder]

Me too

[@leeannemacarthur46]

Not an idiot, just an Aussie. We all get sunburn from time to time. Thanks Mark, your amazing ❤

[@MattySnowBall]

I love these videos because it catches me up in what I’ve missed, and what’s to come

[@banangnang]

I'm extremely invested in Corn in the Lawn. Can't wait for updates.

[@heyitsthatmoviedude1627]

I absolutely love these longer videos :) The moment i saw that it was 1 hour long, i was wrapped! Good stuff, there, mate :)

[@Echo5Mike]

i threw out some crimson giant radish seeds i had left over from a few years back and low and behold, i got one massive 2 inch beauty. the rest that grew resembled carrots in shape and i ended up letting them all go to seed, ate some of the radish peas that were in the tender stage and am now letting them finish out the season to collect seeds. the local bees LOVED them very much. i was picking pods alongside the bees gathering that nectar and pollinating and it was HARMONIOUS! Cheers!

[@Gardeningchristine]

I grew 15 alliums this year. Elephant, store bought, Canadian Meadow and perpetual garlic, garlic chives, 4 bunching onions, white yellow and red onions, shallots, leeks, and Egyptian walking onions. I even eat the wild garlic that grows in the lawn.

[@doloresreynolds8145]

That sounds wonderful! I love onions & garlic.

[@Gardeningchristine]

@@doloresreynolds8145 Thanks. I gathered the scapes from the garlic and leeks this year and roasted them like asparagus with Parmesan and they were lovely. And I made a green onion powder/flakes from the flower stalks of the walking onions. It is like you ate fresh onions, but a minute or two ago, and maybe a bit got stuck in your teeth. It’s so fun. Most of the garlic 🧄 was tiny, so some I put in a foil pack in the oven and roasted them till I could squeeze out the goo, instead of trying to unwrap a 1000 tiny cloves. I just love growing stuff.

[@akcellr8r75]

Love your long videos like this to show what is working and not working in your garden. This way I can learn from your mistakes instead of my own. 😂

[@payne7028]

Wondering if you’ve ever grown Elderberry?? Thanks for the walk about round the garden 😊👍 Everything looks great. Sorry to see the damage the pesky critters do, but if Im honest, I did giggle since I deal with the same torture! 🤭 Little buggers I’ve never left you a comment, but since you mentioned our 3 sisters… I felt I should. Our people supposedly came up with that design and it is a great way to grow the 3 up 🎉 We found a garden clay that is sprayed onto the plants. It looks odd, but doesn’t hinder the sun doing its job for photosynthesis but it does taste yucky to the pests… including snails, slugs, squash beetles etc and the birds don’t like it either YAY!! We have been having great success for our first year using it. We had to spray the fruit trees as well and its made a huge difference. Thanks for your time and the lovely videos. Much Appreciated!! PS you can eat / drink the aloe Vera as well as using on your skin!

[@MandyOnderwater]

I just noticed; the haircut and shave are looking good!

[@Selfsufficientme]

LOL... Thanks Mandy! 👍🙂

[@lifewithrebeccaa]

I also noticed the clean cut 👍

[@brendabadih8855]

Its August here too in Houston TX. 100°, heat index 105. Yes that mustard is beautiful. When sauteed w red bells, onion, makes a great dish on a cold day. The earth is not a ball. I enjoy your vids. ✝️

[@MiniMimiThrifter]

I agree with you on the fact that your garden doesn't have to look pretty to grow great food. I don't care what others think about how my garden looks. I'm feeding my family fresh food. Thanks for the tour Mark.

[@jayduplessis7698]

"Food gardening is about what's growing, not what it's growing in"... love that! And I would add that it is also about the crop you get, not what the plants look like. Because it's so easy to get worried about the appearance of the plants (they're not green enough, or their leaves are being damaged, etc.)... but some of the best tomatoes I've ever tasted were off of plants that looked TERRIBLE! So it's really important to get out of that "house plant mentality" when you step into the veggie patch...

[@bubbles3332]

Thank you Mark for always motivating us to get out into the garden and get into it.btw i love the longer videos and kept checking the time because i didn’t want it to end.I also love how you have such a a successful garden but are still experimenting with new growing techniques and new plants. always an inspiration love from south carolina USA.

[@johnpwright7832]

Some of us need this long form video. To realy help unwind

[@mathewgafa1933]

I enjoyed your longer video and it was great to see your entire garden setup. I was also glad to see I'm not the only person with pots full of plants and trees to replant into the ground. 😂

[@daveg1640]

35 min in . Man i'm so envies' of your garden. Looking good

[@10barnaby1]

That was awesome! You are such an inspiration, and I find your vids are complete escapism from all the ills of the world. Love them so much, thanks! 😘

[@elizabethkuras2160]

Love your videos 👏🏻👍🏻

[@ginavandam735]

I had the same problems last summer but with deer...so this year I built cages over the beds...worked great...against the deer...but this year we have been invaded with snails...so they ate everything ...start over again..but with netting...the plants that did best was the ones I did not plant..old seeds in the soil...Greetings from Sweden🇸🇪

[@gardenheiress1990]

They’re called potato onions because, much like when you plant one seed potato and end up with several tubers, when you plant one potato onion, you get a mess of more onions at the end of the season. An excellent onion that I have found will bulb up nicely in short day onion areas with some nitrogen fertilizer. But they don’t keep for more than about 4 months.

[@Selfsufficientme]

Great stuff - thanks for charing that information! Cheers :)

[@Dhjh69]

Wow! You look so minuscule standing by your enormous garden! Beautiful! G’day from NE Alabama USA!

[@jodiebadger7801]

Watched whole video. I loved that you took us on a journey through your garden beds as if we were there walking around with you. Took me back to a time I would do this at my Nana's house. Love learning with you. Thanks 👍

[@oldbear6813]

I have grown Ananas for 3 seasons, they are so beautiful and have the flavor to match

[@Selfsufficientme]

Oh good! Thanks for letting me know! Cheers 🙂

[@oldbear6813]

@Selfsufficientme oh and I say it like Bananas only without the B... Probably not right either 🤣

[@KeepGrowingWithMara]

I love the long full garden tour!!

[@captainkoala5660]

Ananas is pineapple in a few different languages, so not so weird after all. Probably a sweet fruity tomato!

[@mbern4530]

And noir is black in French. The name of the tomato is Black pineapple.

[@THISISBEAR]

My husband and I love your channels. We noticed that you and your son are gaining your confidence as fishermen, which is great to see. Your garden/yard looks lovely, although we still talk about your old pups penchant for toads! We really miss him and his antics, can't imagine how your family must miss him. You have talked before about how different wildlife affects your garden and family and I wonder could you do a long video dedicated to just that? I'm very curious. Thanks 🇨🇦

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thank you! Yes, we miss old Scooter-he was such a good and faithful dog. Bella is, too, and she's loved just as much (and some of that love is because we do miss Scooter). Life is to be cherished indeed. How wildlife affects the garden is a good idea for a video! I'll see what I can do... Cheers 🙂

[@THISISBEAR]

@@Selfsufficientme Thank you so much!! We will be looking forward to watching that video and of course all of the other ones. Maybe Bella could be in it too? Thanks so much once again as I really didn't expect to hear from you!! Cheers from Alberta Canada🇨🇦

[@carolinereynolds2032]

Lovely garden Mark. Good luck to all of us on the east coast of Australia in this big rain event that is predicted this coming week.

[@jamiegentry5566]

Thank you for the full garden tour, Mark! It was nice to see and listen to your thoughts and plans 😊

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thanks Jamie! All the best 👍 🙂

[@pinkytaylor5845]

When my Aloe gets a fat leaf(?), I cut them and keep them in crisper drawer in the fridge. That way I have cool aloe for the sun burn.

[@carolynmcbride3136]

Mark, Your nasturtium leaves make a FABULOUSLY effective antibiotic!!!...Everyone I've given it to request more!

[@BlakeOvard]

No worries on the length, as I always find your garden tours and other long videos worth it. I like a couple of others am always baffled at some negative comments, like you were talking about when using the fish scraps. We try not to waste anything! One of the other things I always like about watching your videos, is that you are sub-tropical so it’s interesting to see what you grow, then I sometimes do research to see if I can somehow manage to grow some of those things here (even though many Aussie seeds are hard to find here) in the desert southwest of the U.S. Keep it up mate, highly informative!

[@aliciawilliams2503]

Love how you do all these experiments so we can learn from you! I don’t have a full veggie garden yet, but I have learnt so much from you with my front garden which is more floral. I built 2 years ago and I’ve been using mulch to improve the soil, turning it in every 6 months and adding more on top. I now have beautiful soil developing and earthworms in it! Just from using the cheap Bunnings water saving mulch. When I turn it in I add compost and add a lot of soil wetter to it. So happy with how it’s developing! Thank you!😊

[@tassiegirl1991]

Mark your garden is awe inspiring, green with envy from an oldie in Tasmania. I loved the longer video and walking with you around your veg fruit garden. I did it in two stages as watching i decided oh b………i will plant out my collards that were beaut seedlings then stalled when put out in the growing box. So that done I’m hoping as warmer and more stable no freezing nights they will take off and i have watched the rest of this terrific video. Thank you Mark

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thank you! I often forget that down south, it's still icy, and spring is your best growing season. It has been over 20 years since I visited Tassy. We'll have to do a trip down there sometime soon. It's such a beautiful State. All the best for the coming season! Cheers :)

[@tassiegirl1991]

@@Selfsufficientme thank you so much. Yes Tasmania is a great place to live.

[@FloridaGrowing]

Thank you for the tour❤. I loved it

[@manosalatierraconPaty]

I love garden tours and I don't care about the length of the video, in fact, I hate the one minute videos, it's just no my thing, they are good for small things but I will always prefer a complete video. You garden looks amazing and its wonderful that you can have tomato plants in your winter. Happy gardening.

[@mrscaldwell3147]

Thanks for sharing...your garden sings! God blessing your way you and all your loved ones!

[@Dirt-Fermer]

My garden tour is usually “here’s where I tried growing X but Y and Z are doing well”

[@preschoolhomestead]

Loved the full tour!

[@JaniceSatterwhite-cz2yn]

I love a nice long walk through the garden.

[@HongJosephine]

When planting Mint please teach dill Rosemary Thyme Oregano 👌 Thanks l think Balconies can grow these in pots

[@sheilakuri8387]

Nasturtium’s are also one of the strongest anti-biotic plants. You can dry the leaves and flowers and do a tea if you have an infection, or make a tincture.

[@joanl2057]

Thank you, I didn't know.

[@mary-annedoon8317]

Love your videos!!! I have grown the same garlic chives for 30 years in pot and now in the ground in Australia.. the snow doesn't hurt eigher! Your lucky you can grow vegies all year round

[@variyasalo2581]

Mark- Your videos are a breath of fresh air! Here in the States its all politics and saving democracy. Its good to get a break and relax a while! Thank you for showing us all your work. It really inspires me. We are starting to get into fall in south central Texas. That means no more 100 degree days, only upper 80s low 90s for a while. I'm going to wait to put in my winter garden. We have another 6 months until the heat comes back again. Enjoy your spring!😃

[@thericoestrico]

Always a pleasure to see the progress of your self sufficiency! Excellent work, Mark!

[@anaschilling2668]

Love the way you think and work in the garden, thanks for a great video 😊🌿

[@rarsberry]

Thank you for the garden tour, your garden is amazing and I'm jealous of the space you have available to try growing anything you like. The weather is slowly starting to warm up here (South Island of NZ) so I'm thinking about what seeds I want to buy, and where to plant things for Spring and Summer. Looking forward to watching more of your videos so I can learn more.

[@amandapittar9398]

I do the same as you,if something self seeds or is “volunteer “. I nurture it. It deserves a chance! I have a much smaller veggie garden in the BOP in NZ. We start at the end of this month or so. I love planting different veggies together so they have new “friends”, I also plant flowers around the edges for the bees and for me. Lots of marigold and calendula, lobelia and nasturtiums. Good to know I’m on the right path. We’ve also got our first compost this year… wish us luck, we don’t know what we will find when we take the side off! 🐦‍🔥

[@Gardeningchristine]

You’re able to grow so much in what for me would be February, but I’d have up to-20 nights. So I enjoy my window garden in the cold months. Started 12 orange hat tomato plants to grow in the south facing windows this year. Tiny plants with a large yield.

[@jodifinnegan8660]

Love these vids… who doesn’t love a good garden tour!

[@scallywags12]

Form follows function and as long it works, you are good to go! Good tour! Thanks!

[@CS-lk2ys]

Thanks for making videos and sharing your knowledge. I’m a complete beginner (living in central QLD) and your channel is the first I’ve found that seems to have a similar climate to mine which has been immensely helpful. Loved the garden tour, it was like having a chat with a friend while I tidied up.

[@NPC2_4_U]

I always grow my volunteers.

[@TonyMcCartney]

Those black pipes look also,e! Also nice trellis on top. You are such a great source of inspiration and knowledge! thanks for sharing!

[@siamstation]

It was great to walk around your garden. Love to see another tour, at the height of your growing season. I have just bought 2 birdie beds. Very eggciting to have spuds growing in the first bed. Blessings from South Australia 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤

[@clairewright8153]

Great video, lots of information. Nicola potatoes are my favourite. Woolies used to sell them but discontinued them and went to Dutch creams. Every now and then I see them at farmers markets and road side stalls and always get a bag. Yummmm

[@annacassisa9151]

HI MARK, I ALWAYS LIKE WATCHING YOU EXPLAIN THINGS ABOUT YOUR PLANTING METHODS. YOU GO GUY. FROM CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA😊

[@TruthCompassInc]

Thanks for sharing! We were just enduring Hurricane Milton. Fortunately our home, garage, stable and GARDEN SURVIVED!!! Needed some inspiration to do clean up now of all the tree debris! Thanks again for sharing video! 🙏🏼💞🫶🏻

[@geraldinemcguire1698]

It is encouraging to see an imperfect garden. My garden is always imperfect and to see an absolutely perfect garden can be a little off putting. Am starting some behrens raised tanks for planting this fall. Have cut down ornamental shade trees and find my bananas are loving the better sun and air circulating as a result. With instant fruiting on very young transplants. Thank you for the walkabout😊

[@marykarinacarmagnola3325]

Always a pleasure to see you growing along and trying new things in the garden.

[@jacquelineclauson4891]

You always keep it interesting Matk

[@WendyHannan-pt7ez]

I’ve never heard of potato onions. I love garlic chives but I have trouble growing them. I’ve only recently had success with coriander, I found growing them from seeds easier, than buying seedlings 🌱 I’m about to try growing garlic for the first time. Thanks Mark, I’ve really enjoyed this video.

[@grandmothergoose]

It took me a couple of days to find the time to watch this video, but I'm glad I took the time to see it all the way through.

[@margaretaspin6881]

Thanks Mark. Very useful for us in Dayboro. Hoping the upcoming rain will get our asparagus starting. I’ve been so well behaved and not harvested for 2 years since buying the 2 year old plants but this is their year.

[@CatnapperAdventures]

I definitely enjoyed the long garden tour. You always give me ideas and inspiration, and I appreciate your work. Thanks for sharing and take care.

[@rachalnocchi5600]

That Japanese collard is just beautiful! I'd have it in my garden too, just because it is so pretty. I don't ever eat up all the herbs and plants I grow either, sometimes I like them just for the aesthetic aspect they give to my garden!

[@joshlovegood9392]

Maaate this video was amazing!!! Love watching and listening to you walk through the garden in deep thought / analysis. Would love to see one of these every season. It's inspiring but also makes me slightly jealous as i'm in Victoria haha. Keep it up mate

[@MarigoldsintheGarden]

Greetings from the Sunshine Coast. Thanks for another super interesting video, Mark. After seeing this video I now know that it is not too late to plant my sprouting potatoes, and an asparagus tuber start. It is warming up too fast this year. Hard to believe that it is still winter.

[@kathleensmith6200]

Love your videos! I've always had bad luck with peppers. No matter whether I buy plants or seeds I rarely get a good harvest. This year the orange bell peppers I planted from seed all died before I even got them in the garden. So, I happened to buy a red bell pepper from the store and decided to start some seedlings from those seeds. I now have ten huge plants with more than 10 peppers on them.

[@wildhorses414]

Thanks for the garden tour! Love the ideas and prolific growth that you have with your garden. I am more a desert environment, but get lots of ideas from what you share. 😀

[@natholloway9147]

I love mustard greens. They're packed with nutrients. I will pick them and sautee them with butter, spices and eat with eggs in the morning. I like the Japanese variety. I need to get some seeds for that. Thanks for sharing, Mark.

[@rebeccakiely38]

Thanks for this. What spices do you use with mustard greens?

[@natholloway9147]

@@rebeccakiely38 I use Kirkland's no salt seasonings (pepper, onion, garlic, etc) and some pepper paste my wife made from cayenne, jalapeno, Thai chilies, and what other pepper we were able to scrounge from the garden.

[@katespencer4038]

As an older person i like your raised beds unfortunatly i dont have room for them

[@pamelacooley6457]

I have some winter squash that popped up all by itself in one of our compost piles and got a bunch of beautiful winter squashes.can’t wait to eat them. I love experimenting in the garden. If I had cockatoos….omg how amazing that would be(except for eating my garden for fun)

[@kathleenmorabito4477]

Great show. I live in FL. The most difficult place to grow anything. The bugs, dry season, wet season, heat and cold all make it a challenge. You always have great ideas!

[@allisonmacey6819]

There’s a gardener on epic gardening that lives in Florida. Check her out!

[@yunielperez5569]

There’s a lot a garden channel in Florida Check out @fruitful tree He does gardens tours around Florida and has given me many ideas for my garden

[@yunielperez5569]

youtube.com/@fruitfultrees?si=sD_Yn08Q1ieMaZoq

[@erikahuxley]

I learned to garden while living near Miami. It was tough but I learned a lot and became successful. Root knot nematode is a big problem so I grow in containers with fresh potting mix and raised above the ground soil. Overtime I discovered Earthbox container which is excellent for that situation because it has wheels so it's separate from the ground. The other alternative is grow bags with 50/50 mix of potting mix and compost. My growing season was October to April. I stopped growing vegetables between May and October because its too hot and trying to do so would just invite pests which stays around until next season because there is no freezing temp. The summer months are reserved for banana and tropical fruit trees. You have to look for plants that are adapted to that climate, I guess a lot of people want to grow cucumber, tomato and lettuce year round and that simply will not work. South Asian vegetables do well such as gourd, chayote, winged beans, taro, yam. A lot of them are similar to what Mark here is growing actually. The other key is understanding the intense direct sun are stressful for vegetables, which means they are more susceptible to diseases. When people say to grow something in full sun, it is not necessarily true for Florida and Arizona. So shade cloth is key. You also need bt spray to kill caterpillars and some sort of fungicide. If you have the space, you may want to grow muscadine grape there, but they require slightly stronger support than normal grapes.

[@albertac]

I loved this video, it’s so helpful to see what you’re growing by month in the subtropics and how far along everything is. The first year I tried to grow stuff in the subtropics I followed the conventional growing times and almost everything failed! Please make more of these!

[@WillWootenArtStudio]

Loved this. The length was easy to watch in chunks over time. You have so many plants that I wish I could grow here in the Southwestern US!

[@mcbeed2770]

Love to you Mark & Family! Not been here for awhile, sorry. Wow ,the tour was great you Always inspire me. Love the walk arounds.Many Blessings. 😇

[@beckypeterson7522]

the Anaise Noir is a great tomato! beautiful color and nice sized! (sorry about the spelling)

[@Elizabeth-And-Her-FL-Garden]

I love the long videos ~ and I know the work involved in creating them. Thank you from the sunshine state - Florida (and a subtropical gardener)!

[@shelleygoetchius231]

I enjoy your experiments, It saves me the time and space trying in my small garden if it’s not going to work.

[@ShortbusMooner]

Great thing about our 'non-frost' locations (I'm FL), year-round gardening is a thing. My strawberries only fruit in December thru March, though.. Thank you for sharing! ☺👍

[@garrischutte7943]

Thank you so much for all your help. We are in the United States ( Arizona) We grow year round here except 2 months in the extreme heat. I'm in Yuma, one of the grow capitals of the world. Self sufficient me has been a blessing! Thanks again!

[@MandyOnderwater]

That's amazing! Have you gardened before? If you were willing, Mark has a forum and we're always interested in how people grow food and what techniques they may use. It's called Self Sufficient Culture, and can be found in this video's description box. You can click below if preferred too. We hope to see you there ;) www.selfsufficientculture.com/

[@robynhansen8775]

Just love your garden ,got some great inspo ,I'm going to grow strawberries this year❤

[@MsKpuff]

my favorite type of videos!! I also love watching what varieties you are planting and watching the sowing of the plants and harvest videos!

[@wellmet7407]

I absolutely love the garden walk through.

[@Gardeningchristine]

I did a similar experiment this year with my potatoes. I popped off the 2 to 3 inch eyes and only planted those. Some did better than others but I did get potatoes from just the eyes. I hope it works for you!

[@lisamclaughlin662]

Thanks Mark, that was awesome. Are you OK? You sounded a bit tired. I now have 5 birdies beds - 2 large and 3 square and 2 little wooden birdies for my herbs. You are very inspirational. Thanks