Some common gardening tips aren’t necessary and don’t work in the garden. While many garden tips don’t harm plants, they can be a waste of time, money, and energy. Learning to garden efficiently with smart methods starts by identifying common gardening advice that isn’t accurate. (Video #177)
Watch this video too, “8 Gardening Tips to Ignore”
1:15 Compost accelerators
3:45 Epsom salt
6:00 Coffee grounds to lower pH
7:51 Milk as a fertilizer
9:37 Watering in the evening
11:49 Staking young trees
13:35 Using gravel for drainage
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Staking trees is often recommended for ball and bur-lapped trees as the ball can rotate within the hole. Bare root trees don’t have this issue!
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Could you recommend mulches/amendments to acidify an area? I want to create a grape/blueberry/raspberry patch and have alakaline clay. Was going to use coffee grounds and tea bags but that doesn’t work apparently. Looking for ways to get it acidic and keep it acidic, preferably with materials or products I can make. As always, thinks for the video! Love the use of science in your videos.
Wow! I learn so much from you, Gardener Scott! As always, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Swamp water vs tap water?
great tips!!!
So I’ve been watering evenings in Wisconsin wrong all along lol
The coffee ground myth is about the same as the "never use pine needles as mulch because it will acidify your soil" myth. It takes years and years of using nothing but pine needles to acidify your soil even a little bit, especially if you are using other organic materials in your compost and mulch. i use the lasagna method myself, that was made famous by Ruth Stout.
I watered in the evening for the reasons you mentioned. Well, I started to at first because I'm not a morning person and during the summer, it's already 70-80 degrees by 10am, so I felt like it was already too warm by the time I got out there 😅 but then it just started making more sense the more I thought about it. When most of the day is 80-90 degrees with maybe a peak in the hundreds, all the water I just gave the plants was already drying up. Plus the plants would be stressed from the heat and probably not absorbing a whole lot. So watering in the evening makes more sense so the soil is damp far longer and the plants can absorb it without being stressed. For awhile, I worried I was making a big mistake, but when nothing bad happened, I quit worrying.
Love the info.
My favorite time to water is in the evening and I seldom have any issues except for one year when the slugs were bad. In my area we get 2 months of really hot weather and if you don't water in the evening the plants are wilting by 11am. The sun evaporates morning waterings before the plants can take it all in and then you end up giving "life support" at 2pm so all your fruit doesn't drop and/or your plants don't die. Speaking of watering in the heat if the day, this is one myth I've heard all my life, "if you water in the heat of the day it will burn up your plants" but I've never found any truth in it unless you're watering overhead. Although I prefer not to water at the hottest point (unless I have to) bc its inefficient.
Amazing videos Gardener Scott I love your wisdom. What do you think of adding powdered eggshells and vinegar to provide calcium for blossom end rot in tomatoes? I'm a new gardener and have done the Epsom salts etc…this is fascinating stuff 😆…and rice water to feed the beneficial bacteria? Bokashi bran additive?
I'm hooked on your channel. I've been gardening since I was about 5 and yet I'm learning so much!
Gardener Scott,
For the used coffee grounds, is it bad for your plants if the grounds are from decaffeinated coffee? Some gardeners who swear by amending their soil with coffee grounds encourage people to get free spend coffee grounds from coffee shops, where the spent coffee grounds are all mixed together.
What if you have milk that's gone bad before you can use it? Is that safe to put in the compost pile? I hate to waste, but milk use in my household is sporadic and I'd like to minimize any potential waste.
My friend Scott, out working in the garden today, I discovered something I had not considered: I invested in those so called Key Hole beds a couple years ago. They measure 22" X44 X44 ". That equals 7.35 sq ft of growing space. So I reduced the soil depth to 11" and took 3 of the panels to extend the beds out another 44 X 11", with cutting the corners in half. This increased my growing space to 25 sq ft. (11 X 44 X89") I don't need 22" of soil depth as 11 or 12 is plenty for carrots, beets, squash and beans and even tomatoes. These "Key Hole" beds are vinyl and are guarenteed for years not to break or break down. So, it's been a productive day in the gardening plan. I can still use my trellice for early peas to climb up.
Oh my gosh! Exactly what happened to me 2 years ago! I used Epsom salts and had tomato problems all season!
The best compost accelerator is Chickens, other than that, Scott is absolutely correct. I love composting, it's fun and very rewarding.
What about boiling potatoes peels putting to the plants ?
One thing I've noticed, and it might be confirmation bias, is that coffee grounds seem to deter ants. I have a problem with ants all over my property, and they used to be all over my garden plants and building nests in the garden, damaging the roots. I started amending the soil with large amounts of used grounds (from a local coffee shop that roasts their own beans) and the ants vanished from the garden, though they're still everywhere else.
Ooooh, I bought some "compost accelerator" (mycorhizae /mycelium). I was skeptical from the start! But it was inexpensive so I thought I'd just try it. Haven't seen any difference at all, at least none that probably weren't going to happen anyway. I guess you have to ask yourself if you will have fun just trying it even if it doesn't work, and if you will have enough fun from just trying it for that alone to be worth the expense, go ahead.
I am trying to find info by You on blackberries. Is there anything out there? Thanks in advance.
You might want to go look at the studies done on adding milk.
I have a Blueberry plant and it never gave me any fruit. Then I was told that I needed another Blueberry plant so I bought another one and still no fruit. I water them and now their leaves are turning yellow and falling off. I have them in large containers. What should I feed them or what you might tell me to grow and produce.