5 Popular Gardening Tips You Can Probably Ignore

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There are a lot of very popular gardening recommendations out there that most of us can probably ignore without any downside at all. Here are 5. If you shop on Amazon, you can support OYR simply by clicking this link (bookmark it too) before shopping: http://www.amazon.com/?tag=oneya-20 0:52 Fertilize with Epsom salts 1) “Epsom Salts: Miracle, Myth, or Marketing” by Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott https://puyallup.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/epsom-salts.pdf 2) “The Truth About Garden Remedies” by Dr. Jeff Gillman http://amzn.to/2eFB78d 2:17 Use mycorrhizal amendments 1) “Mycorrhizae: So What the Heck are They?” by Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott https://puyallup.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/mycorrhizae.pdf 2) “Decoding Gardening Advice” by Dr. Jeff Gillman http://amzn.to/2fUMAXn 3) “Mycorrhizae and Mycorrhizal Soil Amendments” (OYR Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdo3wSHVhA 3:50 Add coffee grounds, banana peels, and eggshells to planting holes 4:27 Use compost accelerators to get your compost pile cooking 1) http://www.gardenmyths.com/compost-accelerators-starters-and-activators/ 5:31 Add sand to clay soil to improve soil texture and drainage 1) “The Myth of Soil Amendments Part II:If you have a clay soil, add sand to improve its texture” by Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott https://puyallup.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/403/2015/03/soil-amendments-2.pdf 2) “Decoding Gardening Advice” by Dr. Jeff Gillman http://amzn.to/2fUMAXn One Yard Revolution is all about growing a lot of food on a little land using sustainable organic methods, while keeping costs and labor at a minimum. Emphasis is placed on improving soil quality with compost and mulch. No store-bought fertilizers, soil amendments, pesticides, compost activators, etc. are used. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oneyardrevolution Channel Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/OneYardRevolution

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I always love to see these videos! It is amazing how much time and energy we spend to try to make things better and we just make things worse.

Adding sand to clay makes: ADOBE. Unless you want to plant seeds in brick.

your garden always looks great!

Keep up the good work, Patrick. I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into your videos. My husband and I are big fans 😊

Excellent video! I completely agree with you on all 5 . I've been gardening this way (raised beds, no-dig, compost for soil improvement, mulching, wood chips on paths) on our sandy soil here in the Netherlands for over 15 years with excellent results. Fellow allontment holders often ask what my 'secret' is - but there is no secret, just respect for nature and common sense. I actually do less than most gardeners and get better results! Subscribing to your channel.

Just found your channel. Great content, keep up the good work! Subscribed.

I usually scatter my coffee grounds around the garden to help repel pest insects. I'm not sure how much it helps, but I don't use much. Is this a futile exercise in your opinion?

Love your channel. It has some of the very best gardening advise I've found. Thank you for all your assistance.

Absolutely love your videos. I learn so much. Can't wait to get in the garden after watching these videos. Thank you

A 6th practice could be tilling or double digging the soil. Instead, just add composted leaves and organic matter on top of existing ground. This could correct many of the deficiencies that exist and break up clay a bit too. Cheers!

thanks, nice video.

Sadly this video is all wrong

Thanks for the tips! One benefit of the colder weather is having more time to study and watch informative videos like yours ; ).

I cringed when I read the title of this video because I thought you'd debunk something I've been doing for years, but as it turned out I totally agree with all 5 of your tips Patrick! Thank God for that... :)

Garden centres are not going to like you at all LOL.

I started watching your videos when I decided to build 8 4X8 raised beds a few years back. My soil was horrible Kansas clay. It held no water and failed on almost every test I threw at it. I followed your videos and built up the soil. This year I grew over 3000 lbs of food with no pest or other problems. Had an affid attack but some lady bugs fixed that. Thank you so much for your knowledge and wisdom. I even got my town to chip up tree and yard waste instead of burning it because of you. The whole town uses the many piles of wood chips and there is a lot of food around. From us in Kansas, thanks again, and keep up the good work!

Love your videos, and that crazy cat. 2 quick questions if you have time. 1) Are you still using the flow through method for worms? 2) Care to share what kind of camera you use for making your videos? Thanks

Thank you so much for your videos, I always come back to the ones I've already watched to refresh my memory (and to see Oscar again). You have saved me a lot of money and wasted effort, I can't tell you how grateful I am!
Speaking of common gardening recommendations: What do you think of adding milk and baking soda to the holes I dig to plant my tomato seedlings. Do they really avoid blossom end rot? I've only been gardening for a year and 10 months, the yard is large, and I never have enough compost (heavy clay soil full of weeds that had been neglected for years).
Thank you again for your great videos!

Patrick, maybe you can make a video about sun and plastic and constant stress over opening and closing the covered beds and how you manage all that. Here we are becoming increasingly frustrated with unseasonable warmth and are resorting to opening one end and shading the rest of the bed with darker sheets and bamboo shades..even on cold nights we put a darker cover on so if we don't get out in time, everything is not burned. Windy warm days are still a horrible challenge. Would love some ideas in that dept. Thanks a bunch

Great info. One alternate view to collecting kitchen waste in composte piles....we tend to scatter bird favorites like eggshells and seeds from cantaloupes, etc and even position our bird feeders near heavy feeders because as birds eat these things, along with other critters, the remaining manure really adds a natural boost. That said, not as easy to do in the urban setting.

I fully agree with all but one of your tips Patrick (and I partially agree with it). While your way does work for the clay soil, adding compost and those wood chips right into the clay would work faster because more surface area of the new additives touch the clay and help it to mix better. That's just if you need the clay gone faster, and you can use pretty much any organic component to do it, straw for instance works really well, that's what we would use when I was working in land reclamation.