Most Overrated Garden Trends of 2024: A Reality Check

[@GardeningInCanada]

GICs ❤ this is mostly for fun. If you have perfected any of these methods keep on doing them. Remember zero rules.

[@517-i9p]

One trend that I would like to see go away and that is the constant white hazy skies with no sun. SUNNY ALBERTA is what we were once called with an average of 330 sunny days a year and that was down to 95 last year and likely even lower this year. We weren't able to plant a garden until mid June this year because of the man made weather or what I refer as weather warfare. How are the skies where you are?

[@andrewmanzo8217]

It's olla....but pronounced oia or oya...double ll in Spanish is pronounced as a y type sound. Olla means pot...you're pronouncing it ola, which means wave, and ola which means hello.

[@iantalmadge3410]

I just tilled my no till garden for the fourth time, things are looking great! 😂 (If you get it you get it lol)

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’m using chaos gardening in formerly scraped-bare soil. I’m not doing it for a harvest. I’m growing multiple varieties of plants in an effort to restore the soil biodiversity. It’s putting biomass under the soil and biomass on the surface. I’m not even mowing it. I can do that in a couple years after I’ve built soil out of adobe dirt.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That is definitely the appropriate application

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

Yes, you could call it "intensive cover cropping" in that context.

[@marilynturcotte5304]

I wholeheartedly agree with you. Everyone's backyard is different from the neighbours'. So do your thing, listen to others, and yes, experiment with new things. Just try not to poison yourself!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Accurate. My front yard is different then my backyard even 😂

[@donadams2419]

Very true. Do need t poison yourself. That is a big one. We know a gardener who used all kinds of weed killer, pesticides on her lawn. Immaculate lawn and garden but she is now W in a wheel chair due to the chemicals attacking her body and joints. Happened within two years.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

Only others, got it.

[@IsraelEdenBeHereNow]

Always enjoy your content... note that a double-L in Spanish makes a Y-sound, plus, depending on accent, can have the sound of SH, or ZSH (like the G in "beige"), and even J (as in "Jack"), so "olla" can sound like: / oy ya / / oy sha / / oy zsha / / oy ja /

[@GardeningInCanada]

K ❤ THIS! I literally had a part I cut out where I was like “I have no idea how OLLA and OYA work in the sentence and I apologize” 😅 so I appreciate this! So ppl know I’m out to lunch on the name😊

[@3moirai]

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[@3moirai]

Let’s keep it simple for non-Spanish speakers and just go with the ‘y’ sound for the double L. Don’t get me started when I hear jalapeño pronounced “Ja-la-pee-no” instead of “ha-la-pe-nyo”

[@IsraelEdenBeHereNow]

@3moirai It's helpful to know what variations one may hear. Saying that a double LL sounds like a Y in Spanish is not correct. Saying it *usually* sounds like a Y is not correct. Saying it *may* sound like a Y is correct, but leaves one wondering what other common pronunciations exist. My apologies to anyone who was confused.

[@susanarojo3906]

@@3moiraiand one for Juan…

[@BalticHomesteaders]

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 😂

[@FruitsandflowersBeaumont]

If you call maximalism gardening 'a cottage gardening ' there is a trending idea. I don't overcrowding veggies, but definitely do with flowers 😂

[@dreamlovermimi9458]

I love how u break the hearts and burst the bubbles of all these social media gardeners.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Pfft it’s because I have zero motivation to be an “influencer” I’m just a human 😅

[@dr.froghopper6711]

@@GardeningInCanadathat increases your credibility!

[@ausfoodgarden]

@@GardeningInCanada Entry in "The regular persons dictionary" Influencer: See narcissist

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

A notable percentage of my time on social media is spent just hiding and blocking "garden tips" pages.

[@jeannettenapoleon2753]

Thank you for your charm and wit, Ashley!

[@susanlisson7066]

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.

[@Mark_Nadams]

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.

[@donadams2419]

I do square foot gardening but think it works well if done properly. … Harvesting on time and if planting with the same plant or good companion plants (plants that grow at the same rate. … However, for new gardeners should be encouraged to grow a test garden bed/pot with the spacing as indicated on the seed package. That will give them a good starting point. They can see how things grow and they can see what they would like to do the following year.

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

SFG is one of those things where "it just depends." Many people have had great success with it since the 80s... and it just doesn't work for other people and conditions. There is no one best way to garden. Anyone who claims there is either doesn't know what they're talking about, or they're trying to peddle you some snake oil.

[@SaragornGames]

SFG is not for me but do recognize it can work, just with it is you won't do well if you just let it go wild and make no plan to how the plants will grow and do want to be on time with harvesting. Example stick a tall early grow plant on south side of the area be bad as your others will get minimal sun. how many plants you put in a square will depend on the plant, something even will want 2 so have to lookup that information. Certain plants also don't work well or have to accommodated for , namely plants that vine/grow along ground.

[@donadams2419]

I agree with row gardening for the weed issue. … That being said, I have a small 4x8 foot garlic bed that i do square foot gardening. I plant one clove in each corner and one in the middle. The second square the cloves are planted in a diamond shape instead of corners and one clove in the middle. … Keep altering squares.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That's a really smart way to plant!

[@czerniana]

I do tend to push my spacing a bit with my plants, depending on what they are. I've found you can usually reduce the distance by about 20% and still be okay. Any more I have started to see major issues.

[@donadams2419]

I do too. Really do high density gardening but you are right. You need to know the plants and what they need and how they grow.

[@budgetgardeningvita]

💯about #4! Gardening should be fun, we all garden in different spaces and there's always room to learn and experiment. Happy gardening, friend! 😊🌸

[@GardeningInCanada]

Yes! Thank you! I like this group they are all so happy 😊

[@donadams2419]

True. I just love growing things. We have an indoor garden and we have way more than we can eat and we have sunflowers and purple beauty creeping phlox growing. Now we are ready to up-pot and just don’t know where we are going to put everything hahaha. A gardeners life.

[@ebby0808]

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!

[@Andrew-sanders]

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

[@Margatatials]

I am watching this whilst i make my seed tape, because planting in rows and measuring out spacing at the same time is intimidating

[@rickandmariaolson2597]

We do a 3 sisters planting to grow feed for the animals (sheep, pigs chickens and turkeys). After the main harvest, the sheep and birds go in for a couple of weeks. Then they're removed and the pigs go in to finish up. After that a quick till to dig in the waste and level it off. Ready for next year. Same with my personal gardens. For pastures through out the year, I plant deer plots and scatter different plants in the silvopasture, and use bird plot seeds there. In a nutshell, we go with what works, and watch channels like yours to learn new things to try. If they work, it goes in the toolbox. If not, it's chalked up to experience. A lot of your advice is in the toolbox

[@brianseybert192]

Asley, you are awesome! Your last segment really hit home to me. I garden the way that makes sense to me, but the thing is, I am trying to learn as much as I can to do better, that is one reason I love your channel. I challenged myself a few years ago not to add any external inputs to my garden. I suppose, if I went out and bought fertilizers, etc. I may get better yields, Hell, I give away 2/3rds of what I grow, I do not care. What I do care about is, if something worse than covid hit, I could still grow my garden and not miss a step. I do not need to go out and purchase seeds, fertilizers, potting soils Blah Blah Blah. SOooooooooo many channels out there tell you to buy this and that and everything else, KMA. Wishing you and yours, the best possible Holiday! Stay Well!!!!

[@GardeningInCanada]

I’m glad it hit home with you!

[@donadams2419]

Very true. We have a compost bin and a worm bin. We make our own worm castings. … Use up most of our food scraps, egg shells, paper towels, paper towel/toilet paper rolls, news print etc. to feed our worms which make us lots of worm castings and worm elixir

[@shadytreez]

Another on that can stay in 2024 is copper wire... What is it called? Electrogardening? Electroculture?

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

Electroculture, yeah. Hilarious stuff.

[@shadytreez]

@DogSlobberGardens-i7f Right? I was hoping at a minimum it would keep the slugs away...well nope on that too.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

@@shadytreez slugs, snails, might benefit some random plants that don’t like fungi? There have been actual studies on plants being grown with only electricity and not light but that was a lab experiment

[@donadams2419]

Agree with Ola’s. All clay pots (ola’s) break, crack in winter and over time for those we bring in in the winter and bring out in spring. … Too much effort to use them right and agree with just buying drip irrigation but new gardeners may be put off with the cost. At least that was my experience. After four years of hand watering all our beds and pots, the cost for the drip irrigation is well worth it.

[@gregbesant7084]

"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.

[@AuroraDuLac]

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.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s a good point actually. Chaos gardening with flowers would not be as horrible

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

As a Blacksmith hobbyist I'm trying to invent a tool for spacing them veggies that grows from tiny seeds such as beets and carrots and I'm 73 don't like bending over and for long periods. Perhaps my Asian Garden Style Hoe with long handle isn't great but my left handed Asian Garden Style Hoe for left handed gardeners is my invention. Thanks

[@GardeningInCanada]

I’m left handed !

[@Skyhawk1480]

Have you considered buying a seeder? EarthWay seeders are cheap, but I found them a bit finicky and light duty. It's fine for small residential gardens though. A JANG seeder is a much better option if you have a lot of garden, and it will last forever. However the JANG costs at least 3 times more than the EarthWay.

[@Junzar56]

@@JohnJude-dp6ed there is an inexpensive way to plant with a shallow cup taped to a pvc pipe. You put the seeds on the cup and drop them them down the pvc pice. East, no bending! Sam Spencer showed us how to do it.

[@victoriafielding2478]

​@Junzar56 ooh! As a disabled gardener that sounds like a great idea, but I do wish there was something that could you sow those tiny seeds with, at arms reach all in one go in a grid or line, like a dibber block that also sows the seed in the hole. However sorting the seeds to go in such an item would probably be a challenge too.

[@JohnJude-dp6ed]

@@GardeningInCanada Your left hand works for you. I've never had seen any left hand models with so many Asian people who use the type hoe now I'm thinking they don't allow them to have their own choice but put to work before they decide what hand to use.. After my wife got her left hand Asian Garden Style Hoe then had leg and foot surgery now I made a medium length so she could sat in a chair to garden. Hopefully you'll have a Blacksmith in your area that gives a decent price and it's a tool for you and a job for the Smith. I built several of the long handle models found light ones are great but if the weeds gets out of control then drys out because of no rain I'm wanting a heavy model to cut and chop the overgrown fall weeds to..

[@victoriajankowski1197]

You're supposed to weed the chaos garden plot? That would be so frustrating for sure! My version involves over seeding to the point that pretty much everything that comes up is something I'm ok with being there! Then pluck out anything that seems to be struggling at my leisure. Also I had this idea with Ollas for our property, it has native clay soil, so my brain was like how sweet would it be to spend the winter down time making primitively crafted ollas, firepit cure them, put them in the raised beds after the last frost and leave them at the end of the season to breakdown and mineralize the raised bed soil as the break apart in the freeze thaw cycle, rinse and repeat.

[@JustSumGuy]

Question: What do you think of Self Irrigated Planters? Or SIPs? The ones Iv seen use pond liners and corrugated tubes to create a reservoir with potting soil as the medium. Cheers 🍻

[@GardeningInCanada]

I have honestly never heard of these I need to look into it!

[@donadams2419]

I love my self watering planters. Made a few DIY ones as well. … If you buy some from a box store, you should add a hole on the side to allow more air flow into the pot and also to allow the roots do have a little air to breath because 80% of the roots will be in wet soil/potting mix. … You will need to put a screen over the hole you drilled in the side of the self watering pot to keep little critter and mosquitoes out of the water of the self watering pot.

[@donadams2419]

Ashley is just so awesome. I have learned almost everything from watching her KZbin Videos.

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

@@donadams2419 My DIY "self-watering containers" are just a food-grade bottle buried in the soil within the container, with the top barely sticking out so I can refill it, and there's a rope leading from inside at the bottom of the bottle up and out through a hole near the top, to wick water out into the soil. Sorrrrrrt of a modified olla, more or less. In my experience that's at least as effective as more complicated "SIPs" with cans or sewer drainpipe or whatever on the bottom. And much less of a pain to make. You're just creating an extra reservoir to allow you more time between waterings. Don't overcomplicate it. I've done both ideas a few different ways, and I will never bother fooling around with all those extra steps of masking SIPs again. YMMV.

[@linzertorte4003]

I went Homesense/Marshalls and got some of those huge ugly hollow clay garden decorations and used those as Ollas. Not sure if they were effective but can’t complain! 😊 things grew well overall.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s probably wayyy cheaper

[@stevenhicks-pl8nq]

What would you recommend spacing for carrots and how should I fertilize them in your opinion?

[@GardeningInCanada]

I have a video from two years ago but short and sweet of it. I row sow them, then let them grow piled up, then start eating the small ones once they are a good size and keep eating them till the ones you are leaving behind have space

[@stevenhicks-pl8nq]

What do you fertilize them with and how often

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

@@stevenhicks-pl8nq step one is to get a soil test. Nobody can answer precisely what ferts or how much of them you should use without knowing what soil you're working with. Even if you're growing in containers, fertilization will depend a great deal on what sort of "soil" mix you're using. If you don't have the time or resources to get soil testing done, just get a basic general-purpose vegetable fertilizer and follow the directions on the package. That's very seldom perfect, but it will almost always get you "close enough for rock'n'roll."

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

@@GardeningInCanada I do something similar with carrots, turnips and various other small plants. Sow them *thick* and thin them out as the season progresses. Except I don't start with rows; I sow the whole patch with seeds to start. What's prettier than a little "lawn" of tiny carrot greens? ;) I find that approach helps with weed suppression, and with many plants you're getting a mini harvest of tasty greens each time you thin. Depending on the plant, somewhere around the second to fourth thinning, I start forming the rows by just cutting down everything in between where I want the final rows to be. Then I start thinning out the rows themselves to get whatever spacing I need.

[@louise2209]

Never needed to fertilise carrots. I’ve also heard that they tend to fork in freshly fertilised beds, another reason I don’t tend to fertilise carrots. I’m also lazy and just don’t like the faff of fertilising, but I try to keep up with it with the pots at least.

[@Insta-r5f]

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

[@sunflowerhillhomesteadaust7887]

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...🤣🤣

[@gingerlily4404]

Great list! The oya trend seemed more like a sales-gimmick overall to me. Another thing to get hyped about and purchase. Personally, I would find it super annoying to fill a bunch of small containers as opposed to just watering the plants. But I love your idea of using it for your indoor Ficus, etc. That’s something I’ll actually try!

[@GardeningInCanada]

That are so pretty 🤩 but yeaaa

[@aphillips5376]

I use Orya's exclusively in 8 raised bed. It takes me 20 minutes to water every other day, sometimes every 3 days once plants are established. Harvested over 600 pounds of food this year as a 2nd year gardener doing square foot gardening. I am very happy with how the Oya's are working for me.

[@gingerlily4404]

@ that’s awesome :) I also love square foot gardening. That method has stood the test of time for me.

[@donadams2419]

We don’t have too many indoor plant (succulents) but grow food and herbs indoors and a few flowers too. We bottom water most of them. Every now and then we do water our umbrella tree from the top.

[@donadams2419]

An oya seems like too much work. Even for indoors but I guess if I had lots of indoor plants, oya’s might work very well.

[@StephanieRichardsonJ]

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.

[@karenh9674]

Love the channel very helpful. Also your eyebrows look really good!

[@GardeningInCanada]

Thank you so much!!

[@Charles-bj7qu]

Thank you. You have a great platform, you do a great job . I listen and learn every time I see your videos. One question, where is the bird? Just a big fan from WNC. Stay true to yourself. Which I know you will. Bye.( Oh I forgot to tell you 2 more days until the sun 🌞 is at full tilt. Yes the days start to longer.) Sorry that should be the Earth is at full tilt but you get the point.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Haha she is stuffed away in my bedroom where she can scream all she wants 😅. But thank you for the love ❤️

[@Charles-bj7qu]

@@GardeningInCanada always.

[@GrandmaBeth2dogs]

Agree with your worst garden trends. I need to thin my carrots, I totally over crowed.

[@darcypotterpotter6214]

I agree about the oya for sure I have seen a few gardeners use them and not have near as many as needed not close enough together . I hand water but the garden has 6 more raised beds and a new 12-24 inground space this coming year so I’m looking at Irigation I am actually thinking of Blumat system

[@GardeningInCanada]

Ooo yes! I was honestly going to go oya route but logic won out… the cracking and the sheer volume… started $$

[@marthathompson2012]

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….

[@mustardtiger9265]

what are your thoughts on bat houses, i feel like it might be a new one for 2025.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

Bat houses are nice for areas with restrictions. Laws protect the bats more than your plants in some places

[@FruitsandflowersBeaumont]

I have had one and no bats in the last 3 years 😢

[@donadams2419]

Agree that everyone is their own gardener and as they gain experience, they find out what works for them. … The caveat with that, with respect to the use of chemicals, a good knowledge of how they work (pros and cons). Then the gardener has an informed explanation/information of each chemical (organic/synthetic/herbicide/rodenticide etc.).

[@wbshappy1]

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?

[@Teawisher]

I love maximalist permaculture chaos gardening but also agree about it not being the best thing to recommend to a new person. I like to watch my plants anyway when studying by listening books, lectures etc. so I don't mind the weeding. I'm a gardening obsessed ADHD person who hates planning and following instructions so I like to just slowly fill the the world around me with paradise nature. Be it guerilla gardening city commons or filling my apartment with a "food forest" and random DIY light setups. Gotta have replacement therapy for an addict when Finland goes frozen and dark for half of the year. For me it's so chill to just go with the flow and use my artist instincts and nerd theory to constantly wing it a little better. I love burying nuts to get trees and all that good stuff that hits hunter gathering instincts just right. I'm too stubborn so I need to usually make the mistakes myself before listening others. Like recognizing the destructive power of weeds. Man I HATE rhizomatous perennial grasses :D Weeding those from clay is hell.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I love the Max in a raised bed with hanging plants. I think it’s so beautiful.

[@Teawisher]

@@GardeningInCanada Something about hanging plants is really nice. Like a "waterfall of life".

[@Tippler0611]

Ollas are a very romantic watering method, however I've discovered burying a simple plastic pot next to the plant to be a very accessible reservoir, especially for me as a chronic underwaterer, I can assess how "thirsty" the soil is based on relative speed of absorption. Also, minimal soil disturbance with a fast hose is nice

[@KarlLew]

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.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

Clue: ollas is pronounced “oyas”. Two ll’s together sounds like a y in Spanish, which is what the word is. Otherwise, you nailed it girl! Keep up the excellent work!

[@GardeningInCanada]

🙈🙈

[@evanopenshaw8452]

Last summer I used 1.5L plastic gin bottles with a bunch of holes poked as ollas. Not sure it helped much 🤣

[@carolhartley5982]

Evan, "Whole lotta drinkin' goin' on" (Elvis, I think) I tried that, too.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Genuis!

[@wayneessar7489]

Perched water tables can be good but most often are evil, for water and roots.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Omph that’s a video on its own 😅

[@laughinggiraffe9176]

What’s a perched water table?

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Table Meaning Perched Water Table: A perched water table is a localized body of unconfined groundwater that is above and separated from the main body of groundwater by a groundwater barrier. Formation: It is usually formed when there is an impermeable layer of rock above the main water table, but it lies below the land surface, causing the water to accumulate and form a lens of saturated material in the unsaturated zone. Characteristics: A perched water table is generally insufficient to supply domestic groundwater needs and often runs dry after being drilled. It can create a spring at the point where the flow of water intersects the surface, often seen in a valley wall. Occurrence: Perched water tables can occur in various settings, including container gardening, where it is referred to as the saturation point where capillary action in the soil is canceled out by the force of gravity. Definition: It is also defined as a water table usually of limited area maintained above the normal free water elevation by the presence of an intervening relatively impervious confining stratum, or as groundwater separated from an underlying body of groundwater by unsaturated soil or rock, usually located at a higher elevation than the groundwater table

[@wayneessar7489]

@@laughinggiraffe9176 Some are made on golf greens, the soil above the different density soil gets completely soaked before the lower soil allows drainage. A plant example might be a planting hole in heavy clay that causes roots to stay in the excavation and not venture out into the native soil.

[@wayneessar7489]

@@laughinggiraffe9176 The way to avoid it when you add a lot of soil to make the native soil rough and loose, add some new soil, chop it in then fill to your required depth. Adding with wheel barrows and people or using a "stone slinger " will not smooth and firm the under native soil and drainage and root penetration will be enhanced.

[@bobbun9630]

Tomatoes at 20-30cm? Interesting. That's more the spacing I would use for corn. Tomatoes in my garden have normally gotten twice that, mostly because I need to have some above ground space for those huge vines. Of course, determinate tomatoes probably tolerate closer spacing than the indeterminate varieties I usually grow.

[@GardeningInCanada]

I was looking for the dang paper last night and I could not find it back to save my life!

[@donadams2419]

Depends how one grows the tomato’s. Letting the tomato’s grow and run is cool. If one has the space (we do not), I would love to use the correct spacing but we trellis out indeterminate tomato’s on a single or double leader. … Next year we may let a few just vine. … This was a good video. Only been gardening for four years coming up to our fifth year.

[@joemachismo6594]

20-30 cm is probably for the people that are willing to prune them down to 1 or 2 main stems.

[@SaragornGames]

I was thinking I even do more than that and generally go closer than package suggestions on seeds, possibly it was inches not cm as that sound more akin to what is recommended. With regards to indet and det, it can be opposite. The growth on an indetermine will be mostly upward if you stake and prune while a det be more bushy but ultimately variety and whether you clip suckers or not and spacing is not just about above ground so overall growth of plant would matter as well and indet would tend to be larger given enough time. Plant size potential and thus spacing is going to be somewhat variety dependent with larger the fruit the larger the plant going to tend to be. I grow a both indet and det varieties of a medium size fruit and indet given more time can get a little wider but mostly it can get taller if given adequate time though it usually doesn't have enough time to get more than a foot or so taller. My cherry tomato that grow mainly is a dwarf variety in addition to being determine so he quite small plant and so actually grow him in pots and might get away with only 30cm but that be pushing it even there. I have grown a indet variety of a cherry once and he was maybe 10% wider but 4 times as taller than my dwarf one.

[@YanickaQuilt]

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.

[@kittiew260]

I high density plant but intentionally for cut flowers that are not come & cut again. Like sunflowers

[@sharonhaddy4112]

The sound does just work in places in this video.

[@jeffersonmonticello640]

Aahhh a new unit of measure: 'square meter foot'. I'm so glad I found this redhead's channel. Good work! By the way, that's a title of a book by E.F Schumacher, "Good Work".

[@MichaelMotyer]

Can you do a video on leafy Gaul? Soil bacteria issues ?

[@GardeningInCanada]

Added it to the list!

[@lostpony4885]

I bottom watered in fabric pots but my nutrients accumulated and i got salts burn so i switched to top watering

[@Ash-fd8ww]

I was fully expecting you to say "organic bottom-watering is EVIL" 💀💀

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Just like, my kitchen my rules my garden my rules untill it doesn’t work. What about cover crops in raised beds.

[@joemachismo6594]

I watched a video a couple days ago in which the person was doing square foot gardening. They had an 8 foot long bed. They were putting 2 pepper plants side by side, 2 tomato plants side by side, 2 pepper plants side by side, 2 tomato plants side by side. Basically alternating pepper plants and tomato plants for the length of the bed allowing only 1 square foot per plant. None of these were dwarf plants and the tomatoes were indeterminate beefsteak type tomatoes. Even pruning heavily, I think those plants are way too close together considering the type of plants they are.

[@victoriafielding2478]

Was two plants per square foot? As one tomato/pepper plant in the centre of a square foot leads to 30 cm apart for tomatoes and pepper which is the same distance that she mentioned?

[@lostpony4885]

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

[@prozdrowotny]

no sound on the right ear 2:12

[@woofpuppy]

my back yard is a chaos melon garden.... we are on F2 this 2025

[@chrispalynchuk5951]

Where do you garden in Canada?

[@NevadaGoats]

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.

[@ethernetgirl2001]

good video but there are some audio mixing issues

[@dhaval4570]

some is an understatement

[@vWiewioR]

I wonder in context of competing for light and nutrients how is miyawaki forests good for trees that are planted that way

[@madrabbitwoman]

So I just discovered I have been chaos gardening in small scale lol. Works well for me though

[@raydel5732]

Looks like you (plural) are FINALLY getting rid of Trudeau.

[@justinarnold7725]

Wait for 2025 when using drones for seeding and fertilizing becomes a TikTok/Instagram trend

[@GardeningInCanada]

It’s actually how farmers apply pesticide now 😅

[@justinarnold7725]

@GardeningInCanada Yeah buts it's not a trend if it ain't on TikTok

[@justinarnold7725]

@GardeningInCanada You wait TikTokers are gunna start using drones to spray the garden with compost tea in 2025

[@kburkes4245]

Uh.. Spanish teacher here. It's "olla", double L, and pronounced "oi-ya".

[@Dirt-Fermer]

Chaos gardens are how I grow compost

[@jdawg1835]

I always appreciate a good pun.

[@brianramsey3824]

I can't fathom the argument Ashley could be wrong...o and sharing is not always caring Canadians..wrap it up folks.

[@MeowMeowMarshmallow]

I am very much a chaos gardener!

[@carolhartley5982]

You don't show my garden type, i can't call it soil; even tho I happily use exaggeration, I don't lie. Further down my hill lie the remains of the old gravel quarry. Im near the top, but it's the same geologically. I should really dig out my beds and replace the growing medium 2x a year. In summer, it's hot and dry, so i need all the additives i can dig in that will slow down the water flow and hold humidity. In winter, we have rain; next week there are 2 days forecast with 3cms, and we have only rwo rain-free days between now (18th) & 2025. So, in the winter, i need to add quantities of sand & perlite, tho the ideal would be to roof the beds & have downpipes to bypass the beds altogether. If any fellow readers can suggest other ways i might proceed with this basic gardening challenge, id be grateful. I like to grow stuff i can eat, & other stuff that looks &/or smells good.

[@prestoneage]

Hey. Future info… Olla is pronounced like Oyuh. My body rejected the ola pronunciation

[@lostpony4885]

No no no that 30 cm spacing is wrong, i plant 30 per centimeter.

[@raydel5732]

ASHLEY -- You really need to do something about your microphone. You sound like you are talking, under the water in a fish bowl. Ray Delbury Sussex County NJ USA

[@GardeningInCanada]

I have no idea wtf is going on. Some people are having issues others aren’t. On my end my iPhone, iPad and desktop all come across fine. I have no idea what the cause would be. 😢

[@Junzar56]

Please pronounce Olla the right way. Like Oi-ya. Lola’s are great if you live in the desert.

[@GardeningInCanada]

Sorry about that. I have had very little exposure to any Spanish. 🫠

[@Junzar56]

@ no problem! I just noticed Ollas auto corrected to Lola’s. I live in Arizona where the Hohokom people used Ollas to water their crops. A lot of tribal people still don’t have plumbing, so they don’t have running water and have to haul in water. Ollas make sense when that’s how you have to water your crops. (By the way, the way pronounced Olla is pretty close to how you would say the word “Hola” meaning hello!

[@ForsakenCrimmy]

I am not gic crew. Ive been following for awhile and adapting my own stlye and I have a question I wonder if you are willing to address. How does someone garden on a $0 budget? I was a frontline worker during the andemic. Some of the crap I saw helped me acquire a PTSD powerup and I dont leave my home anymore. I lost a lot but I acquired a serious love and passion for gardening. I accidentally corss bred a purple and blue delphinium and am literally wiggling in my seat with excitement to see my bastard children next year. But when it came to food crops my worm castings and leaf mold compost seemed like it fell short. I want to find the best ways to feed myself without ever going to a store. Not for fertilizers, not for seeds, nto for peat moss, nothing. How does someone garden on a 0 dollar budget? So far ive learned a lot but I killed everybody and produced the best tasting food everyone has tasted but...not enough to sustain.

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

Unfortunately, it's impossible to really answer that without knowing your soil and climate conditions. The short, incomplete answer is, A) grow whatever works in your soil and climate. and B) scrounge handtools and organic materials to add to the soil.

[@GardeningInCanada]

GIC is literally just hitting the subscribe button ☺️ free is always funner! As for zero dollars, there are sometimes seed exchanges locally where you can generally get some free stuff.

[@Guylangloisartist]

Cool

[@christieharrison9542]

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?

[@kenblakeley9940]

The l's are silent, double ll ( olla) sounds like oya .Spanish origin.Just saying....

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

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.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That was last year ahahah

[@DogSlobberGardens-i7f]

@@GardeningInCanada oh. I guess I was late to the Bullshit Party lol

[@kendravoracek3636]

💚💚

[@GardeningInCanada]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Greek5425]

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.

[@thecunningkrugereffect]

Ollas are Hispanic, it's pronounced "oya"

[@ct2136]

I had such fun blindly broadcasting wildflower seeds, and now I have no idea what's a weed or a pretty flower 😂😂

[@GardeningInCanada]

That is a classic struggle 😅 exactly what I did

[@486068286]

Girl you lost Audio around 2:05 2:06

[@JJamiah]

The sound works for me.

[@GardeningInCanada]

That’s so odd. Some people are having issues others aren’t. I had a comment like this on the last video as well…

[@Chromaburn]

@@GardeningInCanada Mines switching to Spanish... and I can't flip it back to English... Will try my cell..

[@MizzCatlady]

It happened to me, I kept thinking it was my head phones and restarted my phone and was still like what the hell, reversed and heard sound again 😂 oh the joys of technology 😸 thanks for your content🫶

[@sqeekable]

I get so disappointed when I find a new gardener to check out who seems to know their stuff, but then they jump on the same new trend as other social media gardeners. I should know better. At least I get my science based information here!

[@erntaku]

Also wack, not making the effort to pronounce olla correctly. (oy-ya)