When is the best time to water your garden?

In this video, I explain when is the best time to water your garden?



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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 :) #garden #gardening #water

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[bigbyron]

Hey mark I am 13 years old and I am starting up my vegi garden your videos are a great help and I wait every week for your next video to come out.

[claireskrine]

Hi Mark, I'd love to see something on the biggest mistakes you made starting out? You're always pretty honest anyway, would love to know what the main things to avoid are.

[aworldapartfilms]

I learned something interesting with my cucumbers during the summer. The cucumbers would wilt in the hot day and I did some research and discovered that plants will wilt their leaves to decrease the surface area exposed to the sun

[timhowe]

This guy has the most powerful "thumbs up" on the tubes.

[ludicer]

Another brilliant video from Russell Crowe's gardening cousin!

[sandy]

I woke up this morning here in michigan to our first snow and then see you out there in the your channel ty for all you do!

[solzimm]

I use drip irrigation, put a .5-1 gph dripper at every plant location and set it for 20 minutes every 12 hours. Love it, it's a perfect amount where I don't worry about turning it off when it rains (unless it's an unseasonable event). Sure it requires a bit of work installing it every season but once you get the fundamentals down it's cheap and effective. The water penetrates nicely so evaporation is a very low impact, if you have a sun shade or mulch it's nearly non existent

[dasweetspot_her_me]

A couple months ago I had no choice but to water three times a day, it was so hot in Houston my plants were fainting

[Falconlibrary]

I really love Russell Crowe's gardening tips.

[compiticny]

In the summer dad would have me put holes in the bottom of plastic milk jugs (needed screw tops for this), fill them with water and place them out in the garden. As the day heated up the water would warm up and push out through the holes water the plants without getting the leaves wet.

As a side note dad would always talk about the time he spent in Australia fondly. Have a great day and keep the videos coming.

[paulsgreenspace]

I love watering by hand
I have an irrigation system setup in my backyard but I almost never use it
Just so relaxing watering the garden
Love the video mate

[SM-pkpg]

Really learning a lot from your videos Mark, they've given me awesome tips on tending to my newly planted herbs and greens etc. This ol' gardening newbie...is grateful

[stephenhope]

Very good, I like this. On my raised beds I have drip irrigation and I can do the finger test and set each bed for length of time and # of days per week. So much easier than running a hose out. I get my exercise by walking and finger testing anyway.:) I also think the drip (along with good mulch) reduces weeds and the amount of water I use and I can tell you here in 9b Sacramento we are in a deep drought with an El Nino winter coming (El Nino means much less rainfall than usual) Thanks Mark, great vids.

[fadista]

Going out to water now! Watching from south florida where it is 8 am 🌴

[patrickstarnes]

Thanks 🙏 for sharing your paradise with all of us that live life in the cities of concrete jungle 👍🏼

[therusticranchgarden]

hello, there, my friend. Hand watering is good therapy for sure. Thanks for this very good information. I enjoyed it. Take care. Bertha in TEXAS

[billclinton]

As a northern hemispherer who just came out of the hot, hot summer (Zone 9), your summer reminds me of mine as you head into yours, haha. I have found the secret to successful gardening in my climate is 1) pick heat loving plants e.g. I have a butternut squash that thrives in our summers along with eggplant, peppers, pineapple, watermelon, etc. 2) use hugelculture beds to help out with plants' water needs 3) try to create some shade for your plants during the afternoon like planting a garden on the east side of a fence line, tree line, structure, etc. and 4) just understand that plants will look sad in the hottest part of the day only to rebound once the sun goes down.

[joshdavis]

I live in Costa Rica and november marks the beginning of the windy/dry/sunny season so this helped me a lot. We normally don’t have any rain until April

[calcifur]

Love checking in on Russel Crowe for agriculture advice.

[thomasknight-wagener]

the thing i like most about the clockwork of it all is how it is precise it is.