5 Veggies That Grow FASTER Than GRASS!

In this video, I give you 5 vegetables that grow fast so you can have food from your garden quick smart in no time at all!

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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 :)

[MWPdx]

12:40 Happy Australian guy: You can just eat the leaves right off your pea plant
Pea plant in my window: *sweats nervously*

[bradf.]

“You can eat the carrot leaves by chopping them up”
-chews off huge chunk

Lol I like this dude

[tuyl]

His enthusiasm is infectious....in a nice way.

[canadiannavywife]

I love and agree to your top 5. A cute story is that 18 years ago, when our oldest was just 2, we were growing our little garden in the back yard. I was getting concerned when she wasn't eating dinner... so the next day, I watched her... she was 'Gardening' and 'Weeding' by going to the garden, picking every other bok choy and just ate or radishes, or carrots and green onions. So I was not worried about it then. Then when I showed her that when they get to her hand sized bok choy, we would pick, rinse, dip them in Italian dressing and put them on the BBQ. To this day, she still loves garden to mouth! I appreciate all you do. Thank you so much. Hugs from Esquimalt!

[musicextraordinaire]

I feel like Mark is the Australian Bob Ross, only he is actually growing the happy little plants instead of painting them!

[rishavpaul]

Lettuce: Grows by accident
Mark: There are no accidents.

[mralanakoako]

I just love this guy, such an interesting character lol he could be anyone’s uncle

[merindahthornton]

I always let my parsley go to seed and scatter the seeds in the grass too 😃
I’d much rather have a parsley lawn than a grass one!

[TheSimmpleTruth]

He just reminded me of Irwin, not the accent, but the way he moves, acts (the passion) and even the shorts and boots.

[magnetiktrax]

I love hearing and seeing the birds in the background.

[kingbernard_]

Mark: "Let's..."
Me: "wait for it..."
Mark: "...get into it!"
Me: "That's my boy!"

[davidboland]

Sunflower sprouts are pretty easy to get a heap of while growing sunflower seeds if you just scatter them in the garden. They're full of the good stuff and once you have established sunflowers it's super easy to get a surplus of seeds and grow your own sproutlings in a take away container or something of the sort.

[slimblues]

0:58 Lettuce
4:15 Mustard
5:18 Sorrel
7:06 Bok Choi
9:15 Baby greens over sowing

[ismailniyaz]

Honestly, I tried growing greens on my own and recently realised that I've wasted so much money my entire life buying them from the supermarket.

[janinedelange]

I absolutely love Mark, such a cool human being. I have learned more useful stuff from his vids than from school. So humble as well. Love the way he presents, I can literally spend hours upon hours watching his videos. Well, the hours that I don't spend in my gorgeous garden.

[seigisama]

I have so many edible plants just growing wild in my yard I could go out with a bowl and come back with a salad. Wild onion, dandelion, garlic mustard, chickweed, wild violet, ramps, wood sorrel and purslane. People literally kill these plants as weeds, that's bonkers.

[Diesel-gqot]

Just had to comment finally. This channel has taken me from wanting to plant a few tomatoes to wanting to be as self sufficient as possible. I have kept chickens and ducks for a while but now that I'm building a new home on a little over 3 acres, I feel this will be the time to do it. Thank you for the videos. They are full of knowledge, humor, and a bit of inspiration. Keep up the great work and I will keep watching all the way from South Carolina USA. Btw, this was the first video of yours my wife has seen and she said, when you were laying on the ground with your face right next to the lettuce, that you were the "Steve Irwin of gardening". Couldn't agree more. Cheers

[Handles-R-Lame]

When he said I _assure_ you there is nothing buried here, the first thing that came to mind was that _kangaroo_ but alas he is now *bananas*

[jasong]

I just love this guys knowledge, character, family friendly demeanor and humor. I've learned much from him. Thank you Mark.

[TheMagpie]

My husband is redesigning our garden with raised beds as I’m in a wheelchair and miss gardening greatly-growing in pots just doesn’t work with the heat where I am but the raised beds are awesome. Thanks for giving me itchy fingers!