Some landscaping advice has been repeated for years…but that doesn’t mean it’s correct! We reveal several gardening myths that could be hurting your plants and holding back your landscape. Learn to separate fact from fiction, and discover the smarter way to care for your landscape.
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"Do Not Do This" is clickbait and now Ill will never watch another vid from this chan again. bozos
Thanks!
Funny, I was just thinking about tree topping half an hour ago, when I drove by a local medical complex and saw a tree with its amputated stubs lifted high. I thought to myself, "I know which landscape company they used to prune that tree."
You forgot: Don't make your tree wells round. Make them square instead.
The not-treating the fresh cuts with anything has been hard for people to take when I’ve tried to tell them.
They just really want to do something.
Ours definitely needed to be staked for the first couple years because of brutal wind. My smaller autumn serviceberry managed to be blocked enough from the wind to survive it's first year without support and I think it's going to be great! If I can keep it treated for fungus…
Hello! I literally just found your channel and the hook for me was the name! You see, I am a graduate of the University of Washington College of Forestry and my senior thesis focused on hydrology and soil. ☺
I dont agree with some of your commentary at all… as someone in the industry, I know serious wilting (as supposedly shown in the video and those leaves are going to die and drop off as they have regressed too far to recover and why isn't the chrysanthenum wilting at all??? ) is a lack of available water and the plant is under stress. Applying water will show signs of recovery in literally 30-60 mins. To suggest the heat and water combined is going to create bigger problems is absolute nonsense in the overwhelming majority of sitiations. I often hear the same thing type of commentary with lawns and the risk of summer scald from watering in intense heat but the alternative is to lose sections of your lawn completely.. As a producer I would never hesitate at any time in my career to turn on the sprinklers and get much needed water onto my product to save months of work and tens of thousands of dollars worth of product. I also put gravel in my pots at home because it does assist in stopping the holes from blocking up which I have seen many, many times also. It doesnt hurt the plant, may even be mildly beneficial as potentially they could be feeding bacteria and at minimal cost.
We just hired an arborist to consult for trimming Aleppo pines, he went over many of the same issues discussed here.
When I planted my first fruit trees, I filled the holes with rich compost. Mediocre results. Then I got lazy and planted bare root fruit trees directly into native soil and then top dressed with compost. Much better results. Almost too good, my trees grew too fast and I ended up with some graft breaks during a wind storm because I wasn’t as on top of pruning as I should have been.
Overall, a VG video about "myths". However, in much of the Southeastern quarter of the US is CLAY…amending clay with organic plant matter and permatil is almost vital for shrubs and many trees for establishing tap roots and lateral roots; if not, they either fail to thrive or die !
Great subject! thank you!! so, what is the pretty pink flower with the soft leaves at 3:11 ?
I add water when they wilt and it's fine. Chop the limbs growing up on trees.
I don’t believe at all that not using protection is a good thing, I’ve been doing bonsai for 15 years and I’ve seen what happens if you don’t cover some particular type of wounds, the problem is people cover the Cambrian layer that is supposed to grow over the wood. If you are very specific about your application and you lightly cut the Cambrian layer, you’ll see significant regrowth of that wound. People need to be more specific when they are talking about these things.
Form follows function when designing gardens, and most everything else. (Most, I think).
When living in an area with mostly clay soil I learned a trick. Make the circumference of the the hole you are planting into the same circumference as the root ball. Make your temporary watering basin that same circumference. Water will be forced into the root ball. This saves water for one thing. Equally important is that water won't slide off of the root ball and gather, sitting, in that clay hole, drowning your plant from the bottom, while the top of the root ball remains dry.
Bro, the rocks in the bottom of the pot myth was pervasive when I worked at a garden store. They even had instructions to do so on the back of the main potting soil we sold. I was fighting for my life out there telling people they should stop doing this.
In an extremely hot area, when afternoon wilt occurs, you can spray just the foilage with water to cool the plant tissue down. Don't water the soil, just cool the actual plant.
The only tree I top in my yard in the desert is the Moringa. It comes back vigorously. Like a giant carrot…
The reason why to add top soil into a hole is if the local ground has poor soil which prevents water retention or has poor nutrients. This issue with digging a hole is that the roots will spread through the softer top soil and not leave the bounds of the harder compacted ground around the hole. If you don't have enough top soil to retain the water, you will need to frequently water it for years until the roots spread out enough. The only other option I see is to loosen up the surrounding ground so the roots are less likely to just form a limited size root ball. However most trees are shipped in potting containers which already form a tight root ball.
if you try to compensate for poor soil quality using fertializers that will cause aphid infestations. I think the lesser of two is to dig a deep hole and back fill with top soil & avoid using fertializers.
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Loosely staking to prevent spindly transplants from topling over but which allows them to sway around in the wind has created sturdy plants for me for dozens of trees.
I use biochar in the bottom on my pots to help drainage. Works great.
I am always pleased when one of your new videos come out. (This one was no exception.) I'm delighted that you guys share your wisdom with us all.
I've been offered a ludicrous amount of gardening advice, but a lot of it has come from people who don't have a garden &/or seem to have read their advice somewhere online, or were perhaps given the advice by someone who thought it sounded good, without ever trying it themselves.
There is no substitute for experience.