The best gardening & homesteading channels on Youtube
Check out Part 1 of the garlic guide if you haven’t already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rzORnBCfy4 The long-overdue part two of growing garlic is here! You’ll notice we’re more than a season out from the release of part 1, due to a TERRIBLE SKUNK that ruined my garlic crop by digging it up 3x last year at the…
Bone meal, bat guano, gypsum…what ARE all of these organic fertilizers and how do you actually know WHICH to use, and HOW to use them? Enjoy this long-overdue organic fertilizer breakdown video. SPONSOR: Espoma Organic Espoma Organic has been organic from the start and makes absolutely epic potting mixes, and organic fertilizers. They make awesome…
More edible garden guides: https://bit.ly/31kux1L Spring gardening MIGHT be my favorite season…the beginning of the entire growing season and so many options for the home gardener. Here are 6 of my favorite things to grow, add them to your spring garden planning this year. 0:00 – Intro 0:37 – Peas 1:52 – Pea Trellis Example…
Grab a signed copy of Grow Bag Gardening: http://bit.ly/3cKXucy SPRING IS HERE! Finally! Today I tour you through the entire Epic Homestead, sharing some updates on growth, a ton of gardening tips, and some special announcements along the way. 0:00 – Intro 0:58 – Lettuce Bed 1:47 – Alternative Greens 2:27 – Giant Cabbage 3:43…
Nasturtiums are a highly underrated plant that deserves a spot in everyone’s garden, whether you like them for the beautiful nasturtium flower, for edible uses, or want to use them as a trap crop to distract aphids and other pests from your veggie garden. I highly recommend learning how to grow nasturtium from seed this…
How to plant a potted tree from start to finish: https://bit.ly/3quLMHH Cameron from The Busy Gardener and I run down the pros and cons of buying bare root trees vs. potted trees. It’s an interplay between availability, budget, and time. If you have more time and less budget, bare root trees are a fantastic option,…
In my garden, weeds like bermuda grass can quickly take over a newly formed bed, ruining my harvests and starving out my plants. Here’s a three month experiment on a few different organic, low-cost strategies to reduce weed pressure in your garden. I find a HEAVY layer of woodchip mulch to be one of the…
Strawberries are an easy and delicious beginner fruit to grow. If you’re just starting out in the garden, you’ll get fruit faster and with less problems than fruit trees or larger bushes. Better yet, growing them from bare root strawberries will also save you a TON of money when getting you strawberry garden off the…
Grab some Epic 6-Cell Trays: http://bit.ly/3dfot1s – Every year I update my seed starting methods for better results, consistency, and health of my seedlings. In addition to some slight planting method adjustments, the biggest addition in 2021 are these Epic 6-Cell trays, which last dramatically longer than the cheap plastic flimsy trays sold at many…
Check out Cameron’s channel: http://bit.ly/2YYzOuM Planting citrus can be tricky, as you’re locking your citrus tree in place for decades to come. This comprehensive A-Z guide will give you everything you need to know about planting a citrus tree, including citrus tree care for the first few months to a year after planting out. 0:00…
Grab some raised beds to start your 2021 garden off right: https://shop.epicgardening.com/ – there are so many mistakes that a new gardener can make that will result in poor harvests or even NO harvests. Here are 9 of the ones I think most beginners run into at some point or another! 0:00 – Intro 0:56…
Spring gardening can be overwhelming. The garden planning that goes into it is a LOT, so here are 50 plants I’m planning to grow in MY garden. Hope this gives you some ideas and inspiration as you shop for seeds and start seeds this year! 0:00 – Intro 0:31 – Bed 1: Lettuce 1:45 -…
As you’re thumbing through your seed catalogs for the upcoming season, you might be confused by common terms for seeds. Are GMO seeds bad? What even ARE heirloom seeds. And what about hybrids…they’re not good to grow…or are they? In today’s video I explain the common misconceptions about all of these seed types to help…
THANK YOU FOR 1 MILLION! Today I look at some of the gardens YOU have created over the past year. If you like this series, I’ll do more in the future…I had a ton of fun. 0:00 – Intro 0:47 – Aaron En 1:22 – Jeremy Goldsmith 1:54 – Grant P 2:06 – Jade Hope…
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Check out Richard’s channel: http://bit.ly/3gECZhl It’s no secret dragon fruit plants are one of my all-time favorites to grow, but I’ve run into my fair share of mistakes on my multi-year journey cultivating these incredible plants. Learn from mine instead of making them yourself! 0:00 – Intro 0:45 – #1 Pot Size 1:46 – #2…
I love garden tools…so much so that I probably have about 40 in my shed right now. But as a beginner, you only need about 3 – a cutting tool, digging tool, and watering tool. As you expand your garden, you may want to get into long-handled tools or specialty tools, so I’ve also included…
Grab some raised beds for your 2021 garden: https://bit.ly/3bj6OFh – I’m BACK with an update on the Epic Homestead and the progress that’s been made since I moved into my new house in late Fall 2020. Here’s a full garden tour, showing everything I’m currently growing and plan to grow in 2021. 0:00 – Intro…
Poinsettias are a quintessential holiday plant but can be finicky to care for. If you learn where they come from and what conditions they like, you can not only keep them looking amazing throughout the holidays but care for them the following year and force them to flower for NEXT Christmas as well. 0:00 -…
In celebration of World Soil Day (FAO), I collaborated with @Charles Dowding on building a new no dig garden in my climate here in San Diego. Charles built a new bet in the UK, and we compared notes and strategies. If you’d like to see Charles’ version of this video, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2aVZkjJa0 As I’ve…
Check out Nebia’s products (and upcoming deals) here: https://bit.ly/33ikpI0 In my new house, I have a TINY bathroom that I wanted to spice up with some houseplants to get a little bit of a “mad scientist meets Jumanji” feel. So I hit the nursery, grabbed some plants and wall accessories, and decked my bathroom out!…
Houseplant propagation can be tricky, especially when you spend so much time rooting your water propagations, only to transplant and have them die off in a week or so. So deflating! Here’s my foolproof method for successful transplanting. It’s worked for me every time. The most important part is the high humidity and part shade…
Where do you get your indoor plant pots? I hit up Walmart, Target, Marshalls,. and a consignment store to see what I could find…and I think you will be surprised at which stores I got the best deals! I ended up with 3 pots: 1. Marshalls – Patterned glazed pot with stand for $15 2.…
Check out Brijette’s seeds here: https://sandiegoseedcompany.com/ My friend Brijette runs San Diego Seed Company, theonly organic-certified urban seed company in the USA. I toured her farm a few years back and loved it, so wanted to give you the three-year update on her progress at the farm. You’ll learn about seed production, seed starting, growing…
Subscribe to Epic Homesteading: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgfsZHnW6-6uMLmOGu824kQ Back with another Garden With Me Episode! Today we have some transplanting, thinning, watering, and planting techniques to showcase, as well as an update on Dragonfruit Alley and…THE SHED. Put on some headphones and get out into the garden with me! IN THIS VIDEO As an Amazon Associate, I earn…
I used to struggle growing onions for a few key reasons: I was growing the wrong types, and planting at the wrong times. These mistakes are CRUCIAL to avoid with onions, which start to produce bulbs based on the day-length of your growing zone. Choose the wrong ones, and you’ll never get them to bulb…
It took me TWO YEARS to succeed growing loofah gourds, the plant with an interior fiber you use as a shower sponge. Through many trials and tribulations, I bring you my very first luffa sponge harvest, with some tips to help you avoid the mistakes I made along the way. 0:00 – Intro 0:48 -…
Grab an Urban Worm Bag: https://bit.ly/2ybjJbb I get this question A LOT: “Can I just add earthworms into my bad soil to improve it?” The answer is…not really. Worms are the consequence of good soil, not a way to fix bad soil. It makes a bit more sense to start adding organic matter (food for…
Stop growing boring varieties of plants…mix it up with some unique kale varieties that offer more color, flavor, or are better suited towards your unique growing environment. 0:00 – Intro 0:55 – Winterbor 1:13 – Redbor 2:05 – Blue CurledScotch 2:49 – Red Russian Kale 3:18 – Lacinato Kale 3:55 – Red Ursa Kale 4:20…
Sanseviera plants are often not respected…let’s change that! Here are 11 you may want to try: 0:00 – Intro 0:41 – Laurentii 1:20 – Superba 1:55 – Zeylanica 2:34 – Gold Flame 3:41 – Moonshine 4:26 – Bird’s Nest 5:10 – Emerald Star 5:47 – Black Gold 6:39 – Samurai Dwarf 7:41 – Boncel 8:43…
