Hi Mark, I am a graduate student studying nitrogen fixation by soil microbes, and I just wanted to clarify a common misconception touched on in your video. When nodules form on the roots of legumes and nitrogen is fixed by symbiotic bacteria residing in the nodules, the plant takes up virtually 100% of the nitrogen fixed and incorporates it into biomass- it does not "leak" into the soil directly as may commonly be believed. Actually, the highest concentration of N ends up in the nutritious seeds that we enjoy eating. So growing legumes is a great way to incorporate more N into the soil, but only by way of subsequent decomposition of the plant biomass through composting or direct burial (and breakdown). Hope this helps! And I have really been enjoying your videos! You have a beautiful garden

Never imagined I find inner peace and spiritual cleansing from listening to an Aussie gardener. You are awesome.

I think you just helped create a new Edameme

I never imagined Russell Crow as a backyard gardener! Yes, I think he looks like Russell Crow!

Hit 'em with the flex, Mark.

I enjoy videos that chronicle the failures as well as the successes or a little of both, as you said. That's how we learn, so thanks for sharing this!!!

5:35 register that weapon

There is absolutely no evidence that soy makes you weak, actually there is a mountain of evidence which proves how good they are for you. Great video ❤️

I grew them last year and they were easy and plentiful!

I just love this channel! He has such great energy and is so knowledgeable. I wish more people knew about this channel

I laughed at you addressing memes. :) Just a reminder, folks, to not take the internet too seriously.

Mark just literally flexed on us AND thumbnailed it. Speechless Mark check my question on “what happens if you bury kitchen scrap” I commented about a week ago if you have time 😂

Thank you so much for not giving us a load of waffle, just friendly advice and tips for growing edamame, I have bought the variety Elena which is supposed to be good for the British climate...we’ll see!

Thank you for this entertaining and informative video. I’m going to start growing edamame and appreciate all the hard work you put into this! Aloha

Thank you for your video. Someone said Russell Crowe backyard garden. I will take that as a compliment. Even though it probably wasn’t. I also liked the way that you addressed the negative comments in the video that you knew you were going to get. It is exactly what I would do. I live in Florida USA and you educated me a good bit. I will be trying my hand with soy bean. Mostly because I love the sprouts. But I need to plant some type of bean. Nitrogen.

Five years later, this video is really useful to me! I was given a few young Edamame plants from a coworker and ended some pointers on how to keep raising them.

Love what you do and thanks to your inspiration I've finally got started on my very own small garden. Some in raised beds, some in pots and buckets, some in ground and even plastic bottles. Thanks so much mate, keep up the videos and a big thumbs up from eastern Newfoundland 👍

Mark! Your videos make me smile and feel inspired. G'day from Texas mate!

Good segment Mark. Here in Canada, we have edamame served as a side in every Sushi restaurant. They come warm in a small dish & sprinkled with salt. Delicious!

Thank-you. I am growing edamame for the first time in my veg garden in France and this video has been really helpful. I've sown mine in pots to get an early start, as although our summers are hot we can get frosts up until May.

Love edamame! Im also growing few this year and see how it goes... Thanks for the info and great videos!

Hello, i've started watching your videos a few months ago when i moved out into a house with a garden in which my family and i want to grow our own food, i find them really inspiring and on par with my views of our consumer-driven world. I wish you the best of luck in all matters and hope to someday grow my own food garden with your help. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for the inspiration, found a variety of soy beans touted to be good for edamame at Baker Creek seeds. Only planted an eight foot row but if they work, will add more next year. Seems like a nutritional snack for self sufficient times.

Great video and very helpful! Thank you! We just tried this year for the first time to grow edamame here in Switzerland in our greenhouse and they grow very well! Soon ready to harvest 😊🌞

I recently discovered your videos and you've given me so many great tips for this spring and coming summer! Thank you!

Trying for the first time this season. Great video, thanks!

You are so fantastic. Enjoy your content, your demeanor, and your channel. I learn so much. Thank you for sharing

Good day, good to see ur work as always.

Thank you so much for this. We are growing a big crop this year and I enjoyed your perspectives!

Try different varieties Mark to find one best for your location. Did that recently, and the differences were astounding. Settled on a variety that produced huge crop this year with no disease, pest, and minimal varmint damage. It will be a staple in my garden. I also loved your video on sunchokes. I grow and pickle them every year now..almost effortless crop. You must try amaranth it is grown all over the world, the serds are very high in protein every essential amino acid for human body. Super easy, drought resistant, and stunningly besutiful flowers.

Thank you for the video! I didn't know about the rust fungus stuff so that was a good tip. My edamame just sprouted! I'll be sure to keep on the lookout for any rust spots! Peace! ✌️

Edamame makes you strong🤙🏻

I love edamame Mark, might think about growing these too, thanks for the rust tip. Love the end of the video ha ha😀

Always good to binge watch your videos. Great information and lots of fun to watch. Onya big fella !

i cant believe people leave negative comments. I feel like you are always so great at what you are doing.

Thank you again for your videos! You’ve inspired me to try my hand at growing ginger!

Hi Mark, Was wondering if you've done or could do a video on storing food that you grow? I live in the Gold Coast, and if I buy supermarket potatoes I've got about a week to use them at best sometimes. This comes from watching your video on sweet potatoes. Growing food is something I'm interested in, and there are tons of videos around on what to grow, but I'm a little lost at what to do after you grow it all in order to have it last as long as possible. Thanks mate, love your work! If anyone else wants to point me in a good general direction for this that would be hugely appreciated. :)

I looooove edamame. Found them from raising my son in Hawaii and marrying a full-blood Japanese man. But that was many years ago. The literature said they wouldn't mind being near my black walnut trees but they had stunted growth last year and no beans so this year I'll plant them further away and as a companion to the purple sprouted broccoli that's going to be a new perennial in my garden. Thank you for the video. 👍

I love these containers in your garden!

I’ve been waiting so long for Aussie edamame video !!! I was wondering the other day how is edamame not easily accessible when lots of farmers grow soy for animal feeding. Fresh Edamame is dirt cheap in Hong Kong selling at supermarkets. I usually boil them in water with some soy sauce, drain and sprinkle them with chilli flakes, salt flakes and sesame seeds :)

I was Waiting for you to make a video about them . Once I saw the video I rush to click on it.Thank You Mark I'm growing some for the first time and you gave me some heads-up .

I had heard a lot of bad things about soy plants, you helped a lot! Going in my garden!!

It’s all about moderation. My boyfriend works in the soybean business here in the United States. Very versatile crop indeed.

I have seen edamame served on silver platters at a huge wedding as 'munchie' food. It was wonderful, grab a handful on the way past, type food. Each platter had a different dressing like sesame oil, soy sauce, wasabi, sweet chilli. All the sauces were well diluted and didn't overpower the joy of the edamame. You have reminded me to steam some for my next gathering.... Cheers Mark, 'you've done it again'.... :)

I too love this guy! You have taught me so much.

You are awesome! I enjoy some form of soy products every day. They are some of the world’s healthiest foods. So now I need to find a spot in the garden to grow some of my own edamame. Thank you from Massachusetts, USA

I love this video and the way you say edamame

Thanks for the informative and entertaining video. I enjoyed Edamame when I was stationed on the island of Hokkaido. I will plant some next year here in northern Wisconsin. Climate/weather is similar.

I watch all your videos; you are awesome. Keep them coming!

I recently planted seeds and they are sprouting! I will transplant them as they grow a little bigger... Thank you for the tips!

I love edamame. They are best eaten with a really cold beer as a snack. Delicious! 🍺

Learned a lot from this video. I have one in a container to see if it will grow that way.

I love edamame.. With a cold beer there's not a better snack. I started a few plants this year and they did quite well. I also planted daikon. A great plant, easy to grow, grows quick, and the whole plant is edible.

I know this is two years ago but had to watch this because I'm germinating an endamame seed ❤️ I saw tiny roots now. I'm from the Philippines by the way so I'm happy to know that they thrive in hot places

thanks for the video, Ive learned so much watching you.

Awesome video and great tips!

Good info! Thank you! I like your channel because you don't extend the videos unnecessarily!

great video! ive been wanting to grow these too.

Glad I stayed long enough to see the flex! Thank you for this video, I'm going to try growing soybeans this spring. Fingers crossed.

Love soy, Great video. Beans growing right now, GREAT tip about the fungicide. GOnna try that and cover a large area with SOY.

Thanks Mark, tried one plant in the interior of British Columbia, Canada and was looking for what to do with them as I too had them in a restaurant. They were super easy and so much better fresh.

Very informative and a great watch.. thankyou

taking a moment to LITERALLY flex on his viewers to keep it positive, love it :P

Love ya here in Florida! Keep up the good work.

thanks for the very informative videos. greatly appreciate all hour efforta to teach us.

Love Edamame too! Will try to grow some after winter.

Incredible story behind soybeans. And so much controversy. From meat heads accusing soy-loving vegans of malnourishment to both the genetic warfare waged by Monsanto using soy beans as their crop of choice, all the way to the Poster Soy - Blairo Maggi, the man who brought Soy to Brazil and exploited millions of people. An excellent resource is a book by Raj Patel is called Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle of the World Food System. I read this book over ten years ago and found it vastly enlightening. Probably one of my favourite chapters was about soy and the other about the development and history of supermarkets. You'll never think of them the same again.

Lol, I had never heard of derogatory terms associated with edamame. People can be cruel at times and I'm not sure why. ❤ I am interested in eating edamame for health and fat loss. Thanks for the gardening tip to prevent disease in the garden.

Hi, Mark. I have learned and enjoyed many other of your uploads. Thank you. I am from Japan living in Mexico. Edamame is a Japanese word. It is composed of two words; eda and mame. Eda part means branch. Pronunciation of eda is: "e" like an engine and "da" is like "daddy". Mame part pronunciation is: "ma" is like a machine and "me" is like "memory. So, you get "eda-mame". Americans appear to be getting used to pronouncing it right. Hispanics would have no problem in reading it, although they may put a wrong syllabus stressed as "edamáme". In fact, no syllabus is stressed in this word. Many Japanese words are no syllabus stressed. In Japan edamame, they either steam or boil and cool as soon as possible to keep the fresh green color. Edamame is an excellent companion for beer drinking. Now it is ideal for the people in Australia, right?

I got really bored of buying edamame, and wanted to grow some of my own. This was actually very helpful :)

Thank you so much, I was thinking of growing soybeans. My family loves to edmame, thinking I'll add them to my garden too.

Nice! I bought few seeds bow and hopefully I can grow it successfully this summer!

Growing well in Brisbane. thanks for the informative video.

Will plant tomorrow! Thanks Mark!!!

Helpful video!!!! , going to plant in milk cartons today

Thank you, looking forward to my first attempt.

Thanks for the video Me and my wife son loved it!

Love this channel, love your style...starting my own garden in Costa Rica :O

Well done insightful. Thanks

You bloody Aussies and your Autumn coming in spring!

Keep popping those muscles Dude! Great video.

Awesome video, just bought some for here in Florida

I love it. Everything is fine in moderation. That is why it is called a balanced diet. Keep them coming and God bless

I love you, man. You're a true legend.

Excellent video. Thank you.

great video! thanks for sharing! sorry you got rust. This is my first year trying soybeans. Neem oil will hopefully keep the rust away. cheers

Great information! I want to try some "chestnut soy beans" this season and, until I found your video, had no idea how to proceed. Thanks.

i think this channel is becoming my inspiration

Bro you have so many plants I can’t find on other popular channels your a fkn rockstar man

Dogs seem to love it.

My favourite bean!

Thanks for that Marcus! Great info as usual! ;D

I have one homemade fertilizer for maybe you can try. You only need 1 bottle of yakult milk and two egg. Mix two egg and yakult milk in bottle and close the bottle but make sure to press the bottle while closing the lips and set aside for three to seven day. When ready mix 20ml of mixture with 10liters of rain or well water and spray to any fruit tree you have. For example adamame,

*Hybridization* *and* *Mycorrhizae* : You'll find the seeds of the plants that suffered from rust will produce more antibodies to deal with the rust. Keep getting seeds from the plants that suffer the least and eventually you'll have a variety that can handle it. I often find the 2nd or 3rd generation of plants are better than the original seeds I purchased as they adjust to the soil, weather and pests in the area. You can also add some Mycorrhizae to the soil to help the plants coordinate their efforts when dealing with pests and infestations. Fungi(as Mycorrhizae) seems to function like an internet for plants where they can advise each other of incoming threats and this allows them to produce antibodies to deter the incoming threat - well before it reaches them. This research was originally performed on Tomatoes that were in different locations but communicated through the fungi about an incoming pest which had reached one patch of Tomatoes. The other tomatoes immediately responded by producing chemicals to make the leaves taste more bitter and thereby deter that particular pest. May or may not work for rust but apparently Apples would normally produce antibodies to deal with fungi and yet because we spray them to remove the fungi, the apples produce less antibodies. Some of those antibodies kill certain types of cancers and so by spraying the plants we remove their opportunity to become medicinal. From my own personal experience - hybridization / genetic survival of the fittest is the best way to overcome infestations but it takes a few years to do as you need to get seeds from the plants that were near the sickest plant but suffered the least from the infestation/infection. *Soy* *and* *Hormone* *Levels* : In regards to Soy - it doesn't make you weak or skinny, it contains a significant amount of a chemical that the body interprets as female hormone and so for a male that doesn't produce much testosterone (perhaps due to age or auto-immune disease) it means your hormone levels would become modified. Drinking from water that has been stored in warm plastic will also do the same thing. Some pesticides and herbicides will also do the same thing. *Genetically* *Modified* *Soy* : About 90%+ of the world's Soy production is genetically modified and there is research performed by Aprad Pusztai, Ph.D., Rowett Research Institute, 1968 - 1998. In the documentary: "The World According to Monsanto": the key part to what I am referring to starts at 51 minutes into the video. They took non-toxic potatoes and non-toxic bacteria from wheat and it should be neutral however "the immune system recognized the GMO potatoes as alien" (approx 52m 55s) This research proved that any DNA that is made with current GM technology (spliced together) is recognized as alien matter by the immune system and this causes the immune system to believe it is under attack and it hyper reacts because it believes this GMO is a new threat and so it goes all out to defend itself. As a result, auto-immune disease can occur in individuals with low T-Reg cell counts (the cells that protect your cells from your immune system). So even if you have two neutral organisms (food or bacteria) and you mix the DNA, due to the nature of the technology, again the body will not reject the individual organisms but when they are combined through GMO technology the immune system then treats them as alien matter and this causes the immune system to hyper react. Diabetes type 1 occurs mostly in 20-25 year old humans and the reason it occurs is due to the immune system having a hyper reaction against an allergen. Eating a poor diet will NOT give you Diabetes type 1 however if you have GM food or substances that causes allergic reactions then you have a risk of developing Diabetes type 1 if you are already under stress. I've spoken Japanese since 1999 and my wife is Japanese. The *Mame* in Edamame means bean. For the pronunciation of Edamame: *E* as in Edible *Da* as in *Du* for Duck. *Ma* as in *Mu* for Mum. *Me* is pronounced like *me* in Merry Christmas.

Nice video. Soy...high protein bean and (apparently) easy to grow. Never realised this was the tasty snack I was served in a Japanese restaurant. What's not to like. Packet of heirloom seeds on order!

Beloved Mark! We live in a dangerous time and age, and seeds today are GMO and advertised as natural organic! Where can I get hold of fresh organic soya bean seeds that really are organic! I love watching your videos and I can't barley keep my eyes off your videos! I hate to say it, don't get me wrong but I love you! I think you both have style and good sense of humor!

Great video! I am trying to grow soybeans for the first time this year. Midori giant soybeans. I hope they grow well. Thank you. Be well.

Great information as alway thanks.

Great video Mark, the end had me laughing! Your son looks just like a mini you!

Almost bought some purple variety at the local greenhouse but I had a bunch of other beans already maybe next year like you eh! They indeed look smaller so it might be a better option in windy areas