In this video I’m breaking down the top 10 garden myths and letting you know how much truth there is to them. Let me know if I missed any!
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DIGITAL TABLE OF CONTENTS
00:29 – Epsom salts
01:57 – Pine needles make acidic soil
02:37 – Weed control fabric
04:23 – Companion planting
05:26 – Hot peppers will make sweet peppers hot
07:04 – Growing basil near tomatoes improves tomato flavor
07:59 – Moon phase planting
08:38 – Women shouldn’t plant at “that time of the month”
09:35 – Nitrogen fixing plants, beans leave nitrogen for next crop
10:50 – Sand makes clay soil better
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20 Comments
Let me know if I missed any myths that you've heard of!
Will you be sharing the results of planting eggplants or peppers deeper similar to tomatoes
Growing basil among tomatoes, PERFECT for picking together to eat! 😁
Question, since you brought up pine needles. We have lots of pine trees in our yard that drop lots of pine needles of various lengths. We do clean up twice a year of all that drop on the river rocks below the pine trees and collect lg bags and toss. What are some good uses in the yard can we use the needles for? We use a vac mulcher bc there's SO much. I'm in the process of learning if we have any trees to use for pine needle tea. Thx
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The moon effects all phases of life. Water/tides labor and delivery, lunic behavior. Think big
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awesome video variety, but I have done Moon phase planting for years and has been very successful here in Michigan.
Amending soil is the MOST difficult! I am almost devoid of Nitrogen.
Your point # 6, “there is no biological way for anything grown with anything to change the flavor, through the roots, the leaves …” I can’t comment on tomatoes and basil, though i wouldn’t imagine annuals to even have the time to really get incorporated into the soil networks, especially a routinely filled garden bed or pots, however – I worked on some farms in Hawaii, and the remarkable difference in coffee flavors was generally attributed to the various other trees grown nearby. That’s just what people said. Macadamia and cacao trees growing nearby certainly gave that coffee a broader taste – not like chocolate and nuts exactly but, enhanced.
We don’t know a great deal about the complex fungal/root networks that are at play, and nature always seems to be smarter than us in whatever we endeavor, so who knows?
I'm curious if the whole basil/tomato taste thing came from nutrient deficient soil. If supplying a plant with the nutrients it wants makes them taste better, then the opposite must be true. Perhaps it was well known that basil is a trap crop, and before the idea of crop rotation came about the soil had been deprived of those nutrients the plants wanted. It makes sense, then, that interplanting would have a significant difference on taste compared to plants that were grown separately. Conversely, home gardeners may not have increased their feeding to account for interplanting, leading to false conclusions being drawn when their tomatoes did better without the basil.
I joined your Facebook group
Great information, thank you
I hate FB 😡
😆 Oh, no! Not my baby "Moon Phase Planting"! And to think, I poked fun of my niece last year for trying electroculture. 😆 I guess we all need to believe in magic sometimes. ❤☀🌱
I bought your book and have learned so much from it that I'm reading and re-reading it so that I can incorporate it into my garden beds this year. Especially helpful was which plants to attract predator insects. Thank you for such a wonderful book!
One of the 10 tomatoes Im growing in 5 gallon buckets is releasing a putrid odor whenever I water it. The plant looks very healthy, though, and it seems to be draining well enough. Im kind of stumped. Any ideas?
last year i had sweet jalapenos because of cross pollination. it was not a disappointment because they were very very sweet! and i saved their seeds of course
Not directly related to your myth busting, but as I watch this video, I'm eating mielies (South African word for the starchy maize that Americans seem to despise so much)..
It's delicious. I strip the corn from the cob, fry it in some butter, then salt and chilli powder.
Don't knock it til you try it!
Amen 🙏. Great information brother 😊