In this video, I explain why most gardeners should stop pruning plants in most cases. Too many gardeners are unnecessarily hacking their plants to pieces, wrongly believing it is beneficial to the plant. In many cases, pruning vegetables is detrimental. Pruning plants causes stress, opens wounds in the plant for disease to enter, attracts insect pests and can seriously damage or even kill the plant.

Unnecessary pruning has become an epidemic in many vegetable gardens. I've fallen for many of these pruning myths, wrongly believing that pruning prevented disease by increasing airflow to plants while increasing fruit production. My garden suffered terribly for many years as a result of believing these overpruning myths. Through years of trial and error and education, I now almost never prune plants in my annual vegetable garden, and my production and plant health has never been better. This video tries to set the record straight: do not prune plants unless you have a good reason.

I use the following products* to grow vegetables and fruit trees in my garden:
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Insect Netting (Many Sizes): [ Ссылка ]
Drip Irrigation Sprinkler Hose (Many Sizes): [ Ссылка ]
Weed Barrier (Many Sizes): [ Ссылка ]
Jobe's Organic Vegetable Fertilizer (4lbs): [ Ссылка ]
Espoma Plant Tone (36lbs): [ Ссылка ]
Jobe's Bone Meal (4lb): [ Ссылка ]
Espoma Bone Meal (10lb): [ Ссылка ]
Alaska Fish Fertilizer (Gallon): [ Ссылка ]
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Jack's Blossom Booster 10-30-20 (1.5lb): [ Ссылка ]
Jack's All Purpose 20-20-20 (1.5lb): [ Ссылка ]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:41 How Bad Pruning Technique Was Normalized
3:44 The True Cause Of Most Plant Problems
6:27 How I Created Native Conditions For My Plants
7:05 Most Pruning Advice Is Nonsense
8:02 Vertical Gardening Advice
8:40 Why Pruning Is Killing Your Plants
10:17 Why I Stopped Removing Diseased Leaves
13:01 How Pruning Attracts Insect Pests
14:48 When Pruning Is Actually Beneficial
15:41 Proof Of Concept: Growing Plants In Shade
17:56 Why Pruning Fruit Trees Is More Beneficial
19:07 The Failures Of Conventional Wisdom
22:21 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about why I stopped pruning my vegetable garden, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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EQUIPMENT I MOST OFTEN USE IN MY GARDEN*:

Southern Ag Liquid Copper Fungicide [ Ссылка ]
Southern Ag Natural Pyrethrin Concentrate [ Ссылка ]
Monterey Organic Spinosad Concentrate [ Ссылка ]
Safer Brand Caterpillar Killer (BT Concentrate) [ Ссылка ]

Organza Bags (Fig-size) [ Ссылка ]
Organza Bags (Tomato-size) [ Ссылка ]
Injection Molded Nursery Pots [ Ссылка ]
Heavy Duty Plant Grow Bags [ Ссылка ]

6.5 Inch Hand Pruner Pruning Shears [ Ссылка ]
Japanese Pruning Saw with Blade [ Ссылка ]
Double Tomato Hooks with Twine [ Ссылка ]
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ABOUT MY GARDEN
Location: Southeastern NC, Brunswick County (Wilmington area)
34.1°N Latitude
Zone 8B

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