Learn from these informative gardening YouTube channels
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With so many sources of online gardening help, advice and information to turn to, it can be difficult to know where to start. To help you sort the good from the not so good, we’ve checked out a plethora of gardening YouTube channels for the quality of their content. Here’s a selection of some of the best. Enjoy.
Kelly’s Kitchen Garden
Kelly keeps her kitchen garden flourishing with a simple sowing system
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Do you struggle to manage your sowing and successional sowing schedules? Let Kelly show you how she keeps her busy kitchen garden planting organised – her simple system is easy to replicate, helping you make the most of your garden or allotment.
A brilliant channel with heaps of handy gardening tips, green-fingered Kelly is a friendly and informative host who shows you her mistakes as well as her triumphs. She’s also a passionate baker, loves to cook over a live fire, and because she gardens in Scotland, her channel is also a must for cool climate growers.
Garden Organic
Tune into Garden Organic for green fingered tutorials from a community of gardeners
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If you’re sick of slugs and snails devouring your seedlings and garden plants, Garden Organic has some simple fixes you can try without resorting to nasty chemicals. Like leaving an upside down empty grapefruit half, baited with lettuce in a strategic location; slugs will congregate underneath ready for you to eliminate them.
Garden Organic is the UK’s biggest organic gardening charity with over 20,000 members and 60 plus years experience of promoting green growing practices. Looking for some quick tips on siting a garden pond? Look no further – stay away from hedges and tree roots and don’t forget that slope to ensure amphibians have easy access.
Gardening at 58 North
Gardening at 58 North specialises in small space and balcony gardening
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Have you ever wondered what’s going on beneath the surface when your seeds germinate? You need to take a look at Gardening at 58 North’s awesome 10 day time-lapse video of a runner bean taking root and growing shoots; you’ll be amazed.
Focusing on small space and balcony growing, this channel is a must for anyone who likes to maximise their plot’s performance. Find out just how easy it is to turn one anaemic-looking supermarket basil into multiple lush, bushy plants with nothing more than a pair of scissors, a mug or two of water and some potting compost.
Allotment Gardener
Follow Matt’s journey as he transforms a disused wasteland into a bustling allotment
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Don’t forget to keep checking your onions for flowering heads – an important job around planting-out time in May, says Allotment Gardener, Matt. These second year plants won’t get any bigger but if you leave them, they’ll throw all their energy into flowering.
Matt is informative and has that wry sense of humour all good gardeners possess – the ability to laugh at the vagaries of nature. Since taking over his plot in 2016, Matt has turned a wasteland into a working allotment. An inspiration as well as an excellent source of handy gardening hints and tips, Allotment Gardener is highly recommended viewing.
Garden Ninja
Lee gives plastic-free gardening a try with great results!
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When the Garden Ninja – professional garden designer, Lee Burkhill set himself the challenge of eliminating single use plastic from his garden, a steep learning curve ensued. Join him as he repurposes cardboard egg boxes, loo rolls and more, to prove that with just a little bit of willpower and imagination, going plastic-free is easily doable.
Winner of the BBC and RHS Feel Good Gardens Competition, Lee’s video guides help you create awesome garden designs of your own. Check out his Family Garden Design Transformation for a wealth of fun, creative ideas.
Nick’s Allotment Diary
Take on Nick’s sunflower growing challenge today!
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Try and get as much of the root as you can when you’re pricking out seedlings, says YouTuber, Nick; that way the plant has the best chance to establish itself. Potting on brassicas? Make sure you firm around the roots to make it harder for the wind to push the plants over.
Share in Nick’s journey as he grows fruit and veg on his North Wales plot. Fancy joining Nick’s 2020 sunflower challenge? He has three categories this year: tallest, largest head, and best display in a group – check out the video for info.
Sean James Cameron
Follow avid gardening vlogger Sean in his endeavours down the allotment
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Think you can remember everything you’ve sown so far this season? Organic allotmenteer and avid Vlogger, Sean thought so, but it turns out he sowed Evening Primrose twice in one month. That’s why he says it’s so vital to take an inventory of what you’ve already sown and what seeds have yet to go in the ground.
Sean has been filming his gardening adventures since 2012. Last year he walked away from his allotment of 11 years to a much bigger plot of land. Follow his YouTube adventures as he develops this new allotment to a productive vegetable and fruit garden. Later this year Sean plans to take on another allotment and run it using information supplied by the 1940’s Dig for Victory campaign. Sean James Cameron is: “The Good Life meets urban London living.”
Simplify Gardening
For seasoned growing advice, make sure to bookmark Tony’s channel
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Problems with creeping cinquefoil? This troublesome weed looks a little like a strawberry plant, only with five-bladed leaves rather than three. Just like strawberries, cinquefoil spreads by sending out runners, but each node sends down a deep taproot. The bad news, vlogger Tony says, is that if you leave even the tiniest piece of root in the ground, it will regrow. Check out his tips to get rid of it for good.
Want to grow nutrient dense organic food? Tony’s channel is the perfect place to start. Covering everything greenfingered, including beekeeping and poultry, you’ll find just the helpful advice you need to get the most from your plot. Check out Tony’s 12 tips to grow better tomatoes – give the roots plenty of room…
Yorkshire Kris
Visit Kris’ channel for advice on growing exotic plants in a colder climate
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Think you can’t grow a tropical garden in Yorkshire? Kris can – check out his video of his plot in the coldest temperature he’s ever experienced in his garden. The mercury read -5.8C, but plenty of fleece, good positioning, and the plants’ own defenses save most from the worst of the frost.
The UK isn’t perhaps the best place to grow tender plants, but as Kris demonstrates, it is possible. If you’d like to give it a go, this is the YouTube channel for you. That said, there are some tropical species best avoided. Check out Yorkshire Kris TV for the top 10 – sasa bamboo for one – once you plant it, it’ll spread like crazy and you’ll never get rid of it.
Tony C. Smith
On his channel, Tony shows off both the good and the bad days at the allotment
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Bad day at the allotment? Pigeons ate Tony’s brassicas, other birds feasted on his banana shallots. The red onions? Scythed. And when he went to buy replacements, he bought the wrong ones – not to worry – planting chard is just the thing to cheer Tony up.
Informative and entertaining, Tony’s YouTube channel is full of handy hints and good ideas, and he also makes a witty, warm, and energetic presenter. Thinking of growing your own? Check out what a good day in the allotment looks like – remember, a bad day in the garden beats a good day in the office.
Did we miss one of your favourite YouTube gardening channels? Head over to our Facebook page and let us know what gardening vlogs you love to watch. Alternatively, you might be interested to know we have our own YouTube channel – Thompson & Morgan TV. It’s packed full of useful info, hints and tips to help you get the most from your gardening.
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I love watching gardening videos on YouTube! It’s such a great way to learn new tips and tricks, and see beautiful gardens from all over the world.
hello sir ilove your gardening passion
There’so many out there, muddybootz, enduring gardener, middle sized garden as well as all those you mention in the comments above. I reckon this list needs expanding to the top 20.
You Can also watch my channel, Robs Allotment Plot
Thank you. This is great blog showcasing Gardening channels. I am gardening for a long time and recently started my youtube channel SeedToLife. I hope it will get featured one day.
I need advice on how to plant sweet potatoes slips. I have a bunch of them from putting the sweet potatoes in water. Plenty of roots also. Thanks for helping!
Hello
We have some advice in our handy article:
https://www.thompson-morgan.com/how-to-grow-sweet-potatoes
Hope this helps
Sue
,Ive read these comments with interest, and will apply some tips
but the main problem which has not been mentioned is damage by cats,
I go into my garden every morning to cat mess covered by scratched up
soil, should owners provide[ litter trays]it has ruined my love of gardening.
I know there is no answer to this but to all my gardening friends it is a major
problem.
Rant over thank-you.
Hello
You are certainly not alone – cats can be a real nuisance! I find that they are particularly keen on newly planted areas with exposed soil. Good ground cover can help to deter them but you may need use chicken wire or a similar barrier to keep them away until the ground cover has fully established.
I hope you mange to find a solution.
All the best
Sue
Some great ones on there! Maybe my channel (Owen Harries – The Welsh Gardener) will feature one day!
Stay safe,
Owen 🙂
I hope my channel makes this list as well.
Campbell’s Freedom Farm
George from the Small Garden Channel has closed his YouTube within the last month or so. Does anyone have information on him? I can’t remember what part of the UK he was from but I so enjoyed him and his wife Beryl.
Lincoln I think. What a shame! Any other info most appreciated.
I was searching the internet for the same and came across your post/question. I loved George and watched his videos repeatedly sometimes go so much information from them!
Would like to know as well. Thanks
I have been trying to find this out as well!! I found his videos by chance. I am worried he passed away or something 🙁
Hi I personally think you have missed out big time on a lovely couple who have a YouTube channel call Bill and Val’s allotments 2 plots of heaven , they are on the south coast and grow chaser array of flowers and vegetables
Thanks for mentioning them Jim. We will check them out!
I just follow some indian gardeners channel and blossom. But now I can try them also. Basically the way they present their contents are not enough for indian sub-continent.
I was just wondering who came up with this list, and how it was put together? Was there votes etc?
There seems to be alot of very good gardeners you have missed. Allotment diary, Muddybootz and Dave’s Allotment are also very good youtube gardeners.
Hi David,
Thanks for taking the time to comment. We’re not trying to say that these are the top ten best, but that they are ten of the ones we like best. It’s not possible to include everyone – we did review Allotment Diary in a separate post, and I think Muddybootz and Dave’s Allotment are two other great channels, which we may well feature in the future.
All the best,
Mark
Hey guys: I also have had my YouTube Gardening channel for s few years now and love Nick, Tony & Kelly,s channel. I myself do growing of fruit and veg plus some bits and bobs and blogs from my she shed as well as some blogs of the French countryside where this wee Scottish lassie had lived for the Passat 14years. Have a look , your more than welcome and well done guys
Hi Clarice,
Thanks for leaving a comment – I’ll be sure to take a look through your channel!
All the best,
Mark
Love Tony, he’s so funny think you forgot digging for dinner and what vivi did next channels though.
Hi Dawn,
Thanks for your note – right with you on Tony! It’s not so much a question of forgetting other people, but we can’t feature everyone in a single post – but looking at the comments here, we may have to look at doing another YouTube round up!
All the best,
Mark
Missing quite a few women there where is lavender and Leeks?
Hi Claire,
Thanks for your comment – we do love Katie at Lavender & Leeks, and featured her Instagram channel in a post a while ago. As I mentioned to David, it’s just not possible to feature everyone – but we’re very aware there are other, fantastic content producers around who are doing great work, and we may well feature others in the future.
All the best,
Mark