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There are so many gardening myths out there, waiting to trip up the unwary gardener. It’s sometimes hard to separate the truth from the nonsense, but don’t worry – we’re here to help.
From fallacies about feeding plants to suspect ways to improve soil, garden ‘wisdom’ isn’t always as reliable as you might think.
In this short video we’ll dispel seven commonly-held gardening myths, so you can save yourself a lot of time, money and unnecessary effort!
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I doubt most of these are common myths. I've only heard two of them (using pine needles to acidify and keeping leaves dry) advocated by anybody. I've never heard someone advocate mixing sand with clay (except to make cob), and it certainly isn't trendy to plant in rows.
Oh what an alliterative start!
Hey! I just got the farmer’s almanac online garden planner and I love it. I can’t wait for spring!
Not sure you're correct about the droplets not burning your plants, maybe it depends from country to country. Here in NZ with very little ozone layer, I have asked a group of over 3000 hardeners what's happened to my plants, and the majority answer was that I'd burned them. And yes, I had been watering in the middle of the day.
Ok, so if pine needles won't acidify my soil for blueberries, what will?
I wish once in a while you did a garden tour…
Can't wait to get cracking on my allotment in Hertfordshire in the spring, very informative video thanks
Thanks for the information.
Merry Christmas, wishing everyone a great harvest in the new year.
Woww
y'all call em "pot plants"? you ca go to prison for that here…
Hi Ben another great video, what about adding grit to clay does that help ,thanks G , from Central Scotland ,Just got my lean to greenhouse finished in January ,seeds sown snow gone started preparing raised beds ,thanks again ,G.
I worked as a gardener for a summer and we were doing some tree pruning. I learned that when cutting branches especially big ones from the trunk leave an inch or two sticking out to avoid the big doughnut callouses.
Just been reading about Compost Myths. Here are a few:
– Compost isn't a fertilizer. It does contain the 3 main nutrients (nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium), but only a small amount. It does, however, allow for beneficial micro-organisms to thrive and create more nutrients in the soil, it also increases 'Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)' which is the transfer of nutrients through the membranes of plant root cells.
– “There’s no such thing as too much compost.” Yes maybe for potatoes and other veg, but for lawns, for example, only about 1/4 inch in depth. And tree planting, as compost is still decomposing it may subside so best not to add to areas where you will be planting big shrubs or tree saplings.
– “Compost = Humus”
It’s amazing how many sources still define compost as humus. It’s not. Compost
contains humus, which is one reason for its remarkable traits. But if it were
entirely humus, our gardening lives would be much easier because we would only
need to add it every hundred years or so, instead of once or twice a season.
Harvested from a huge deposit of decomposed plant life from millions of years
ago.
*Note – This is taken from a few different sources including university papers.
Experienced gardeners are still perpetuating the sun scorch myth and it drives me mad
We had a crop of particularly sweet watermelons last summer. I told some of our garden visitors it was due to a large pile of palm mulch that had been sitting for some time next to the watermelons ; as the mulch breaks down it leaches sugar into the soil … ? I might have been mistaken, but they sure were nice water melons !
one i learned a while ago is blood and bone, its not a good thing to put on your imdoor plants, it stinks really bad lol
Thank you for making this video!
How about gardening by the moon? I have a friend that will not plant anything, if it's the "wrong moon phase".
What about adding used tea leaves to compost? Don't they count as a green?
At 5:03, what type of bush is that? It looks so familiar…
Was thinking just today I need to put sand in my clay soil… thanks for saving me time and money.
The funny part was when you said "left over tea"… what left over? But in all seriousness, some nice tips/myths busted.