20 Garden Myths That Will Save You Time and Money 🧙🧙🧙

Garden Myths everyone should know - they will make gardening easier.

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[chesterhobbs]

You are truly an inspiration by bringing reality to gardening. Only regret is that I did not find your channel until about 3 months ago. Thank you so much for your efforts.

[thehermitmonk]

This video is straight up a goldmine. Valuable and uncommon information, no bullshit, and finally a gardener who knows chemistry and doesn't treat plant growing like it's a magical process.

[lisasylvester]

People think It's odd that I can throw a plant on the ground and it grows spectacularly, you sound like my kind of gardener.

[wdking]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you. Luckily, I rarely buy anything for my garden except the plants or trees. My grandpa was a farmer for years and still had an acre or so garden until he left us. He always taught me, "Watch nature. She knows what she's doing. Copy her and adjust just enough to have what you want in your garden in the amounts you want". He fed 7 year round and up to 13 when my aunt's family stayed with him between my uncle's deployments with that acre. I have followed his advice in my own gardens for over 40 years now. I always have beautiful, bountiful harvests. When I moved to my present home, our soil was hard, red clay and had never been used for growing things. After three years here, almost all of it was beautiful dark soil. I'm older now so my garden is smaller, but we still grow most of our veggies (for two) and have plenty to share and sell (my driveway is quite popular on summer Saturdays.. smile). Absolutely no chemicals, just Mother Nature's tutelage. I rarely even have pests unless you count the slugs, but i watched your video on that and am going on the offensive, lol. Oh, and our herd of deer who wiped out all of my poor strawberries in one night two years ago, greedy buggers. My stcik-and-vine wall took care of that problem, but I do plant a few goodies for them on THEIR side of the fence.

[lalaland]

Thank you for the fresh breath of common sense!

[bethboppt]

Could you do a video (if you haven’t already) about gardening tips that AREN’T myths and actually make a difference?

[robertferraro]

I love these mythbuster videos when you have an expert who can really tell you what is nonsense and what isn't.

[MissMolly]

I am making a garden area in my yard, and I thought I had a lot of thatch, and I really didn’t, the ground below is bone dry and we had a very good rain storm two days ago, so I am so glad I watched this video.

[denisef]

Thank You. I just learned so much. No more listening to the others, who probably don’t know myth from truth themselves so are inadvertently spreading false information.
This video needs to be shared all over the world.

[Lvaladez]

Gee I've been doing it all wrong all this time. This makes perfect sense. I'll start doing it correctly. Maybe bare root trees will make it easier to plant it correctly. Thanks for these valuable tips. $$$

[tbluemel]

This has to be one of the all-time BEST gardening videos EVER!! Very well explained! All this confirms my gardening experience and it was so good to hear someone say chemistry doen't know the difference between an organic and synthetic molecule. Honest and good info. Thank you!

[Aswaguespack]

Very entertaining and factual gardening info based upon science and not common presumptions, speculations, conjecture, fabrications, and plain bs. Since I started doing less in my vegetable gardening my vegetable production is more bountiful.

As a result, I have more time to read Robert’s excellent books! 👍🏻

[KamiKomplex]

21:15 ohhhh you mentioned this before and I didn't think much of it cause no reason was given. So no stakes for strong roots. I also just saw a video about that biospere experiment and their trees would fall over because the trunks were not forming stress patterns in the trunks from wind so they had to add fans.

[subwlf]

10/10 video! I salute you and thank you for the information.

[dill]

Awesome video! Just discovered this channel, and it is amazing! One thing I want to highlight is sand, and peat moss soil types typically “do” need significant soil amendments due to their significant lack of nutrients at baseline.

[SpeakTruthBeKind]

Lol, I loved the comment that you tell your neighbours to buy ladybugs and then enjoy them in your garden. 😆 Hibernation stage when shipped? Didn't know that. I've never bought ladybugs either and there seems to be enough in the neighborhood. My neighbour had a gazillion on the tree in their front yard 6 weeks ago! At least 5 per leaf and they were bitting some too. I was told only the females bite...🤔 thank you for the informative video. Loved it!

[lanipowell]

Thank you, thank you for the great advice! You have saved me a lot of money, time and frustration. I'm going out tomorrow morning to unbury my trees.

[Plantalogy]

Thank you so much for discuss about the differences between organic and inorganic fertilizer. ❤

[dmitrimikrioukov]

The staircase in the apartment building where we live has some houseplants, and those houseplants are infested with spider mites. So last summer I brought a ladybug from outside and put it on the most seriously infested plant. What was interesting was that almost immediately the ladybug laid some eggs, and after a few days I saw baby ladybugs crawling around. However, the ladybug would always sit on the window, not the plants. Some days later the babies got trapped in the spider mite web and died. The spider mite infestation maybe decreased a tiny bit, but it did not go away.

[georgiameier]

WOW WOW WOW ! You're insights are mind blowing, and I'm your new number 1 fan.