You’ve probably been told these landscaping tips are helping your garden… but some of them may actually be destroying your soil, suffocating your plants, and weakening your trees. In this video, John, Chip, and Eddie break down 8 common gardening mistakes homeowners make and what to do instead.
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28 Comments
Show us a property that has such landscaping that isn’t huge. Your content is too often not relatable to a middle class family.
“You have to play ketchup” 😂😂😂
Another great video. Thank you John. I recently clean one small area used to be grass, I need to kill the small portion of grass. What should I use without kill the trees in the area?
Man, I just planted so many plants with soil amendments and now I see this 😫
lol I love it when you guys make a video. Always informative and good humor! Thank you!
Great information, thank you. Btw I love how you crack each other up with your jokes. Its hilarious!
Could you please dedicate an episode about jumping worms and how to combat them. Thank you🙏🙏🙏
The Asian ladybugs surprised me. Also, appreciate your balanced advice about tilling. You didn't make it sound like an evil thing, just something you shouldn't over do.
Why do farmers til every year?
Thank you for the interesting and useful tips! I hadn't heard of epsom salt in the garden. I really do season my garden, though. I've been trying spices and hot sauce to discourage squirrels from digging in my newly planted areas. It works a little but needs to be reapplied. Those darn squirrels are cute little jerks.
Please keep the good advice and bad jokes coming!
I think that tilling is problematic BECAUSE it puts organics deep down, not because it breaks up organic life in some way. There should be dirt by the roots, not organic junk.
the "bathtub effect" is mainly bad because the plant you just planted is in a bunch of organic stuff that rots in the "bathtub" no organics, no rot
Disoriented … smiling at that one on so many levels.
Thank you John. I enjoy your landscaping videos and appreciate your advice. Always nice when Eddie and Chip join too.
Over past few years I've noticed it's better to plant in native soil and put some coopyard soil on top so the worms can work in downwards. Makes my clay-rich garden soil way more healthy.
What happened with chestnut trees in this country? And can we ever get them back?
How bad is Prodiamean for the soil.
Is using Dawn Dish Soap as a surfactant bad for the soil?
Preach Brother! No TILL 🎉
have to play "ketchup" is one of the best one-liners from Eddie. Thanks John, Chip and Eddie!
Amending GA red clay is not optional, you have sand where you are, clay that is almost rock is not good for plants grown in mulchy material
Amending GA red clay is not optional, you have sand where you are, clay that is almost rock is not good for plants grown in mulchy material
I used epsom salt when troubleshooting hibiscus leaves becoming more and more veiny/yellowish through some sort of chlorosis, cleared it right up been blooming 3-4x better ever since. Interestingly I put the photo into chatgpt and it told me about epsom salt/magnesium deficiency, wild
So what do you recommend for asian ladybugs? Im not killing them if thats what you think should happen. I had to Google the difference and i have seen them. They are adorable and i love them just the same. I would feel like a terrorist if i killed one on purpose.
It's easy to become a gardening expert when you don't have to deal with red clay.
So funny we need deep roots. That's why we are such good friends lol !!!
I removed 23 Leyland cypresses from a small corner of my backyard that the previous owner planted. 😅 I put 20 arborvitaes in a staggered zig zag for a natural look.
The problem was that the previous owner put a large berm there and it was almost entirely just fill dirt. No nutrients. The Leyland cypresses I had removed had NO deep roots despite being there for a few years. No wonder they toppled over when we had snow in Seattle a few months ago.
I ended up removing a hole 2x as deep and 3x as wide, amended it with 30-40% of some top soil I got from Costco and then planted the trees in that. I did a 2-4” layer of mulch over everything after.
I hope this is a valid use case for amending the soil! I didn’t think the trees would do well planted in nutrient-lacking fill dirt. It was literally just gray and sandy. 😅
I learn something new with every video! I've been gardening for about 25 years, work in agriculture, and have been keeping up with ag and gardening news. Still, I learn something knew from you all the time. Thank you! I wish you were closer to Davis. I'm up here learning from you what we've done.