Over the years on this channel I’ve shared a lot of gardening advice. But the longer you garden, the more your thinking evolves.
In this video I’m revisiting 8 pieces of gardening advice I gave in the past that I wouldn’t recommend the same way today. Some of these tips sounded good at the time, but experience in the garden has a way of teaching you what really works.
We’ll cover common gardening myths and advice about things like Epsom salt, soil pH testing, clay soil, pepper pruning, tomato planting, compost use, and crop rotation for home gardeners.
Gardening is always a learning process, and sometimes the best lessons come from looking back at what we used to believe and refining it with real experience.
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CHAPTERS
1:04 Epsom Salt in Containers
3:00 DIY Soil pH Test (Baking Soda & Vinegar)
4:36 Adding Sand to Clay Soil
6:46 Pinching Pepper Plants
7:56 Tomato Stem Hairs Myth
9:35 Planting Tomatoes Deep
10:54 Compost Can Burn Plants
12:32 What Gardening Really Teaches You
13:18 8 Crops I Would Never Grow Again