5 Tips to Start Being More Self Sufficient in Vegetables

In this video, I give you 5 tips on how to start being more self-sufficient in growing vegetables at home in your own backyard.

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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 :)

[MindBoggleTv]

Hello sir I'm 20 years old boy from North-east india.

I wanted to tell you that i have learned a lot from your videos, from last December i have started to grow veggies in our property i dont have a huge place to grow but yes i have a plenty of space.
In December 2019 i had planted sweet peas and few days ago i harvested them and it was a great experience to grow and harvest it, now i have planted 40 corn plants and amaranth, okra, corriander, mint.
Thank you alot for your helpful videos sir and i really wanted to meet you in the near future !! ☺️☺️
And lots of love from India ! 🥰🥰🙏 Namaste !

[williamliw]

when youtube tells you this was uploaded 2 seconds ago and you are already watching it

[HuwRichards]

Thank you so much Mark, I really enjoyed this collab and what fantastic tips! :)

[trockodile]

Mark I'm almost half a world away in the Highlands of Scotland but love and benefit from your work nevertheless mate. Your veggie vids and your poultry uploads were entirely inspirational in our move closer to nature and onto our own plot of land to grow and enjoy our own meat, eggs, fruit and veg. We've even started to help pay for our fabulous ever more self sufficient lifestyle by supplying local small hotels and a deli with our quail eggs and produce. Just wanted to say thanks for doing what you're doing mate, one ex-military man to another, top bloke! 👍

[Unfoldthenow]

Mark is the only Australian I know who is not panic buying at Coles and Woolworths right now. He is Self Sufficient. Onya Mate!

[dianeweeks]

Please show us some of your dehydration techniques on a vid sometime.

[plutonium]

Good video, storing potatoes etc would be a good video.

[michielvoetberg]

Thanks Mark :D
Even though we are limited to a small city garden we are growing more and more each year.
You are a great inspiration. Cheers

[yvonnevansickle]

Two of my favorite growers at once. Win...win!! Shout out from Idaho, USA. Zone 7 here, but love seeing what is being done by gardeners around the world. Thanks for sharing all your experience with us! Keep up the good grow!

[dystopiagear]

I click the like button before I even watch, because I know I can trust Mark's vids to be worthwhile.

[breeh]

I’ve watched so many of your videos and they’ve inspired me to turn an acre of our front yard into raised beds! Love from Florida!

[joanelim]

Because of lockdown, I tried planting some tomatoe seeds, onions, etc. I don't have any experience in planting or gardening, but this world situations taught me a big lessson. So, I learned to watch, how to plant, decompost, etc., thank you sir, I learned a lot...

[ausfoodgarden]

As I'm very limited with space, I don't grow anything that takes time and is cheap to buy, such as potatoes, carrots, and onions.
Instead, I grow leafy greens which we eat heaps of, herbs, tomatoes and capsicum/chilli plus a lot of items you wouldn't normally see in a supermarket.
Also lots of berries which are costly to buy.
We get lots of fresh organic produce and save money on the grocery bill to boot.
Keep spreading the word Mark

[michael]

G’day Mark, even though I’m a fairly new sub I feel like I’ve been following you for a long time. I love your channel and have learned a lot from you! Please keep doing what you do so well! You are living my dream!!!

[countrymanrandylewis]

Everybody: WE NEED TO BUY ALL THE STUFF WE NEED IN THE COVID OUTBREAK!! (PANIC BUYS)

this guy: good luck with that

[tiffany]

I could just watch a million of these videos. This is my favorite gardening youtuber!

[seandepoppe]

im well on my way, thanks to your advice. even though im in Southern California. just harvested my first tumric and garlic.

[TheGizby]

What a lovely surprise! My two fave self sufficient tubers in one vid. Please keep this rolling. May be a uk/auss comparison of same seed grown plant.

[LuciferTheBloody]

going on from growing what you eat, you can regrow a lot of supermarket veggies, I have dozens of spring onions that i regrew from the supermarket, there's also purple cabbage, sweet potato, garlic, onion, potato and rosemary. Also just had some strawberries sprout from scraps i threw around some plants.

[catalystcody]

Must say you’re the only channel on YouTube I give thumbs up on... I simply don’t care about likes & all that but want to help you out because your so genuine in what you do