Why Good Gardening Advice Is Not Good For You

Good gardening information is everywhere, but some good gardening advice might not be good for you. Every gardener's garden is unique. When a gardener says that there is one, best way of gardening, that information fails to account for differences. Learning how to garden is important, but learning why a method works may be more important. Gardener Scott discusses why good gardening info may not be good for you and why you need to learn more to benefit your own garden. (Video #119)

The channels mentioned in this video:
Alberta Urban Garden
UK Here We Grow
Self-Sufficient Me

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[lindapertusati]

I view alot of youtube gardening channels but a few of my favorites are MIGardener, The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni, Gary Pilarchik The Rusted Garden, The Millenium Gardener, Roots and Refuge and of course yours. These are the ones that I am subscribed to because there is always something new to learn even if it doesn't directly apply to my gardening.

[AndrewSemprebon]

This is one of the best garden videos I've seen in a while. Honestly, the idea that one expert doesn't have the answers to every issue could apply to most things we deal with in this modern world. And kudos to you, Scott. It is only be understanding our own limitations that we can overcome them. As a community (in this case, of gardening you-tubers), we can be more powerful than you can possibly imagine. Thanks.

[McDonaldPlantFarm]

Gary from the rusted garden. He’s a fantastic teacher.

[abgovani]

Shout-out to Nature's Always Right for talking to lots of gardeners in different areas and learning how they adapt.

[concert]

I love Gardening in Canada (Canada) and Epic Gardener (California). I'm zone 8b Texas but the way they talk about plants and soil. They, like yourself, explain the why. Love your videos.

[lumps]

I appreciate people who own up to their mistakes, more so that try to correct them.

[orchidjewels]

I have a friend who was adding lime to her soil every year because the Yanke Gardner told her to. But, we live in Idaho which is a high desert and very alkaline soil. I think she finally believed me.

[floydgraves]

This attitude is why you are the person I most recommend to people who are starting gardening or want to improve. I tell them what I’ve learned from you “Experiment in your garden and see what works for you”. Thank you for sound advice and not acting like a “know-it-all.

[mmascpdm]

Besides your channel, I also subscribe to MIGardener, The Rusted Gardener, CaliKim, James Prigioni, Hoss Tools, Jeff Bernhard, OldAlabamaGardener, P. Allen Smith, Scott Head, and the Millennial Gardener. Even though a few of these channels originate from different zones than mine, I always enjoy hearing about and learning different techniques and processes.

[nataliecartier]

That's probably the best gardening advice I've heard from any YouTube gardener. I also enjoy Self Sufficient Me, as well as Charles Dowding, Living Traditions, Cog Hill Family Farm, Geoff Lawton, Huw Richards, MIgardener, Nature's Always Right, Suburban Homestead, and Urban Farmer Curtis Stone.... and many more. With all of the snow that we have here in southern Quebec right now, this is the closest that I can get to actually getting in the garden. LOL

[tnmtnmorning]

Great video! This is so important. There is no one size fits all when it comes to gardening. Even within the same zone. I watch your content regularly and learn so much valuable information, but I'm in the foothills of the smoky mountains in zone 7. It's incredibly hot and humid here. Not to mention wet! We're in a temperate rainforest after all. My conditions are just about opposite of yours in most ways, but I still learn and apply your information when i can, or adjust it to my situation. Square foot gardening is very popular, but not a good idea here because the close quarters and hot humid air are a perfect recipe for fungus. I had to learn that the hard way, but that's the process. I've learned the value of clay and how to amend it. Clay is quite nutritious and isn't the villan it's been made to be. Just needs some love, but doesn't most backyard soil? I agree with you, Scott. Know your conditions and exercise discernment (which also comes with time...and failures). Always so very much to learn. Love your confident and humble attitude. Blessings.

[patrickwalsh]

I’ve watched all all the gardening channels that Linda listed and they all have useful information. As someone with a physics background, I always appreciate an instructor who emphasizes the “why” you should do something, especially in terms of the spectrum of personal (gardening) circumstances. Though I’ve just recently been watching gardener Scott videos, he’s my overall favorite now because of his scientific and common sense emphasis. Good luck to all you gardeners in 2023!

[SmallGardenQuest]

Am really sad that Alberta Urban Garden is not posting videos anymore. His videos were quite good and inspirational. Like yours!

[Iloveorganicgardening]

You are so right. We need to figure out what is right for our area. I grew up gardening in Pennsylvania in a garden that my family had added organic matter to for years and years. You could put a seed in the ground and it would grow. It was so easy. When I tried to garden in other areas, it took me a long time figure out the secret. I think there are Universal truths to be found in square foot gardening, Back to Eden, and Ruth Stout methods. But adapting the methods for your location is imperative. I don't like telling people what to do so I pretty much show them what I'm doing and let them make up their mind what will work for them.
PS...compost is a universal truth too!

[violetofthevalley]

And you’ve nailed the reason why I followed you even though your garden was a giant bare patch of dirt when I started watching your videos. I’m so sick of needing to look at five or six or seven or eight sources just to try to glean why people are doing things and why they can’t agree with each other because so few gardeners explain why or how many “right ways” there are to solve garden problems. ;)

[kphillips]

David the Good. His book Compost Everything, has changed the way I view soil.

[carolynsteele]

I'm obsessed with gardening videos (yours being a favorite), and suscribe to at least 40. But before YouTube I had only one season per year to improve and try new ideas. Now I feel like I get 20 yrs experience every year just watching everyone else. My friends who don't watch YouTube are stuck in old tried and true ways, and still haven't learned practices like how to make good compost, pruning and trellising tomatoes, no-till, mulching, succession planting...etc.

[afghanbunny]

The first YouTube gardener I found was Sean's Kitchen Garden in the UK. Yes, I knew I had to translate to my growing conditions, but I learned a lot from him and enjoyed his videos. I also like several other UK gardening channels like Charles Dowding, Huw Richards, Muddy Boots, and of course, Cliff at Castle Hill Garden! YouTube gardeners that I follow here in the States are Roots and Refuge, OYR, Susan's in tbe Garden and you!

[freedomflyer]

I've been gardening since I was a little boy with my Grandfather and here I am 57+ yrs later and every yr brings new information and experiences. I've had too adapt from a small plot in NYC, to the mountains of Northeast PA and now down here in Georgia .

[blacksmithden]

Oh my lord. This was the best gardening video I've watched in the past year !!! I've been gardening forever, and I know what works well...FOR ME. Even after all these years, I'm still picking up a thing or two here and there and that's the reason I still watch new videos that come out. What I absolutely 100% of the time do, is take everything with a grain of salt. People who say "you absolutely MUST do this", and they're sitting in California (I'm in northern Canada (in the same city as Alberta Urban Garden is in fact) and I'm in zone 3, which every 10 years or so turns into zone 2 for a week or so. I do my own composting and EVERYTHING goes in my compost pile from 50 year old manure from beside my buddy's barn to apples from my neighbor's tree, to the leftover Christmas turkey. My compost pile just looks like pile of soil, and I grind and bury almost anything organic in it. A lot of it gets chopped up with my lawnmower before I throw it in there. I then grind (not top dress) that into my 2ft high raised beds on a fairly regular basis. Does ANYBODY think they'll get that recipe exactly the same ? Hell, I can't even get it exactly the same every time. Often, what works for you often won't work for me, and what works for me, often won't work for you.