7 Tips to Keep Vegetables Growing Healthy

In this video, I give 7 tips on how to keep vegetables growing healthy for maximum food crops at home.

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The chipper/mulcher I used in this video was a Hansa 13C and it's a ripper!

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 :)

[epicgardening]

Mark aka Brussels Crowe coming in with the EPIC tips!

[austin]

Tip #8. I found when I talk to my plants with an Australian accent in the garden they tend to grow great. 🤣

I love these back to basics videos! Thanks again🙏

[berrios]

Interplanting with marigolds, garlic and members of the mint family with my crops has helped to deter pests like my nemesis, the dreaded cabbage moth from my brassicas. Thanks for all the great videos.

[alarcon]

1. Water
1a. Observation
2. Fertilizer
3. Protection from Pests
4. Protect plants from disease (good hygiene)
5. Timing
6. Weeding
7. Mulch

[lynettegreig]

You’re a smart, kind man; you’re in tune with nature.

[kca]

Mark! My girlfriend and I are homesteaders in Southern Canada and we love all your vids. Avid viewers regularly. Your personality coupled with your intellect are unparalleled.
The only thing I can ad to this video is the integration of animals. Such as ducks taking care of all your slug problems. Dogs chasing away your moles and voles, chickens eating your flats, grubs and bugs. It's the cycle of self sufficiency.
Cheers mate. Hope you're well since the floods. All the best from Canada!!! ❤🇨🇦❤

[olafgeurens]

As an army veteran myself i can only say. Great video's! I never knew gardening and growing veggies could be so good for the soul.
Thanks for being so enthousiastic and putting out so many helpfull video's. Truly love the content!

Cheers from the Netherlands.
Olaf


Thanks!

[qcwestside]

My wife and I are beginner gardeners in South Carolina in the US. This is our 2nd year and we've expanded our garden from last year. I find your videos very helpful and easy to follow. Thank you.

[southernrockiesselfreliance]

Been following this channel for years now. Finally have a good raised bed going. Thank you for all this information, I seriously appreciate it. Cheers from the top of Texas 🧙🏼

[ellieg]

OMG this guy is the best and he has the best garden tips! Love you you brighten my day!

[whatbringsmepeace]

Finally have my own place so I can go completely organic. Am loving these simple tips to make sure it's done right the first time. Many thanks!

[lc]

Another good tip: Physically support your veggie plants that need it with trellis/stakes.

[lukeecho]

Watching you for over a year now. I have changed everything I do with my gardening and to many successes. Thank you mark. Would love to show you my super huge compost pile. lol

[simplifygardening]

Fantastic tips there Mark. especially about taking the information from guides as a guide only, Great video mate

[Crucisphinx]

I spray my powdery mildew plants with a 50/50 milk and water mix 2 times a week and I find that works really well. Before I did that I plucked all moderate to heavily diseased leaves off the plants. I’ve been doing it for about a month and I’m really happy with the level of prevention. I’ve plucked maybe 2 leaves off my pumpkins since I started. Before the plant was covered with plucking only every week.

[karaamundson]

Awesome tips as usual...
Any gardener, seasoned or total beginner, needs to follow these!

My Dad, when I was a kid, had a beautiful vegetable garden, some flower beds, a grape trellis, a lawn of course (full of the native "goathead" stickers though!) & fruit trees in our yard that he'd reclaimed from a small patch of extremely alkaline sand in the Mojave Desert. He started a compost pile in one corner (I was thrilled to discover a cherry tomato plant in it...our personal snack tree as we were outside all day long!). Dad always called it "the mulch pile" and I think, in the desert, that was a pretty good description of how he used it.
Dad was well known to be a fantastic gardener, always ready to try something new. I remember Mom proudly serving cole rahbi (sp?) to our Independence Day guests. It was so crisp and sweet. Little did I know at the time that achieving such results with a cole crop in Northern Hemisphere Mojave Desert July were really unusual!

[carolinegathercole]

Love watching your vids, sitting here knitting myself a thick woolly jumper for winter, thinking about setting up my veg garden for the summer.

[MrSlavaoat]

After my recent experience I'd put a good soil above anything else. I had an old raised bed, which I fed with fertilizers bagwise as all do and I established a few new raised beds with a 50/50 mixture of top soil and mushroom compost. The difference was mindboggling.

[gretabrown]

I like your 7 tips and over the years through trial and error we have adopted most of them but it is always encouraging to hear someone else reinforce good gardening habits with their experience. The reasoning behind the practice is also most welcome.

[darkmistico]

corn grow nice when u plant it when the rain season starts.... thats how we do it here in mexico... corn sometimes can me difficult uwu.... the aztecs used to grow corn in a form called chinampas... its like an ancient form of hydroponics