Many garden trends promise incredible results, but not all of them deliver. This video examines the most hyped garden trends of 2024, offering a realistic perspective and helping viewers separate fact from fiction.
The Worst Garden Trends Of 2024…
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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up-and-coming gardeners.
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GICs ❤ this is mostly for fun. If you have perfected any of these methods keep on doing them. Remember zero rules.
I'm guilty of the maximalize gardening thing for our garlic. Everyone says the spacing should be 6" minimum. I use between 3" and 4 " spacing because we don't have a lot of space to grow it. I grow enough for us in a year in a space that is only 6 foot by 2 foot. I planted 119 cloves this year. Only issue I had in years past is not enough fertilizer because of the sheer number of plants in the area. The addition of a cup our compost leachate in the water on a regular basis solved that problem.
Uh.. Spanish teacher here. It's "olla", double L, and pronounced "oi-ya".
I'm shocked (ho ho) that you missed "electroculture." That was all over the social pages and YT last spring. The claim is that if you shove a copper wire or rod into the soil near your plant(s) it acts as an antenna, absorbing and transmitting electromagnetic field energy to plants for photosynthesis and cellular processes.
Spoiler alert: No. It doesn't.
Love the channel very helpful. Also your eyebrows look really good!
Oyas are great for where they was originally from. The loam of the south west desert is vastly different from the soil anywhere else in the States and probably Canada. It will absorb and hold water even with low organics longer than any soil elsewhere. Flood irrigate 1 inch a grass field in 120 degree days will still be damp enough to grow plants a month later
I gave up on ollas. Now i use sub-irrigation reservoirs with 5g capacity. Refilling ollas is a PIA. Thanks for caveats on gravity and capillary action! Plastic barriers work great for capillary containment.
Have you tried chaos gardening in a container?
Just one point of feedback, the added bits only came out of one ear on my headphones.
Chaos gardening as a beginner sounds so stressful, at least for vegetables. If you dont know what it looks like yet it is all just a pile of maybe weeds.
Ollas are Hispanic, it's pronounced "oya"
It’s fun for people who have understanding and want to play! But 😂 you’re spot on! People so love to bypass learning and understanding….
I high density plant but intentionally for cut flowers that are not come & cut again. Like sunflowers
Fewer, better, healthier plants will always result in better harvest. Cramming plants together will always result in more bugs, more disease, less optimal growth, and a lower harvest per plant.
Off topic but what are the feelings towards this guy – the pepper guru and “how to grow peppers in containers and get a huge harvest” video?
Heh i was planning on doing ollas in potted plants next summer but with 1 gallon wine jug upside down in them for visual reservoir
I bottom watered in fabric pots but my nutrients accumulated and i got salts burn so i switched to top watering
No no no that 30 cm spacing is wrong, i plant 30 per centimeter.
Nice video, I like different perspectives and LOVE questioning and moving our understandings along – that indeed is ACTUAL science…the science is never 'settled' – if it is, its not science!
Most of those have been around in permaculture circles for decades, they cycle around. I've been in the mindset of having to do things that way, but you're 100% right they look pretty but absolutely are not the best ways to produce a quantity of food.
I agree though, if it works for you use it!
I've gone from Jacki French style chaos / broadcasting / messy gardening… to individual trees looked after individually and vegies in pots and containers hand fertilized with compost / chook poo tea…🤣🤣
Just like, my kitchen my rules my garden my rules untill it doesn’t work. What about cover crops in raised beds.
The sound does just work in places in this video.
The l's are silent, double ll ( olla) sounds like oya .Spanish origin.Just saying….
My whole system is maximalist I guess although I’ve never called it that nor intensive but it does involve ignoring seed packets and planting stuff as close together as possible, gridded layouts. I’ve always found seed packet spacing to account for machinery but your explanation does make sense. Chaos gardening sounds fun, might give that a go next year 😂
I am very much a chaos gardener!
Being nice to each other…when I see another gardener, there is NO thoughts about StrangerDanger. My thoughts are Hey, a new friend. Lets go find out their name and their favourite tomato!
"Be nice to each other" – The perfectly Canadian gardening advice. And… don't stress about her prairie Spanish. Anything beyond cerveza and lo siento (sorry) is likely unnecessary for most Canadians.
Fill containers to approximately 1/2 inch from the top so there's room for water when watering.Some of the worst gardening advice ever still alive and well,along with looking at foliage to visually determine nutrient excess or lack of.
what are your thoughts on bat houses, i feel like it might be a new one for 2025.
Also wack, not making the effort to pronounce olla correctly. (oy-ya)
Did you ever do molasses video? I tried it last summer but i have nothing to compare it to. Until August i had a pretty good control of the pest pressure in my garden.
my back yard is a chaos melon garden…. we are on F2 this 2025
no sound on the right ear 2:12
Chaos gardens are how I grow compost
I wholeheartedly agree on no. 4. I’m part of a few different plant groups and I get sick of seeing people acting like superior know-it-alls in the comments as they try to tell and enforce their ideals onto someone about the “right” way to do something that is being discussed, then usually leave the laugh emoji. Ugh, just try to be a nice person in a discussion without the need to demean and humiliate others! We all live in different climates etc. so there are always environmental variables to the way plants react. It costs nothing to be polite.
Love you! 🙂 About compost tea, I like to put weeds, especially those that can grow from little pieces, I like to break them down in a bucket of water before putting them in the compost pile. I've let them sit for two or three months, and it seems to have worked. Is there a fixed time limit on how long it takes for them to become unviable?
Agree with your worst garden trends. I need to thin my carrots, I totally over crowed.
Thanks Ashley for your valuable videos.
Something strange happened with this video in particular, I recorded it with two or three videos to listen to in the weekend (when I am free) but when I played it , you were speaking Spanish, not English !! Playing the video in You Tube direct, you are talking in English, but the recorded one was in Spanish.
I recorded it one more time and indeed it replayed in Spanish !!!
Other videos were OK, they play in English whether directly on You Tube or recoded
Does anyone know is there is a glitch of some sort ??
Thank you
If you call maximalism gardening 'a cottage gardening ' there is a trending idea.
I don't overcrowding veggies, but definitely do with flowers 😂
Thank you for your charm and wit, Ashley!
Where do you garden in Canada?
I was fully expecting you to say "organic bottom-watering is EVIL" 💀💀
I am watching this whilst i make my seed tape, because planting in rows and measuring out spacing at the same time is intimidating
14:12 CHAOS GARDENING INTENSIFIES
Fun video . This year i wanted to try chaos gardening for my roots and lettuces in my raised bed. Because i usually alternate them anyway and thought the thinning would ge easier .
#4, definitely! If it works well for you, do it! But I also love hearing all about other gardeners' methods, successes and failures. I'll try the ones that make sense to me, learn from others. After decades of gardening, I've learned gardening is not a "one size fits all" process, there are far too many variables, and even what works perfectly this year, may not work as well next year.