Whether you’re a seasoned gardener seeking new inspiration or a novice looking to cultivate your first window box of herbs, the world of gardening YouTube has something for everyone. From urban gardening to permaculture, from succulents to heirloom vegetables, let’s explore the Top Gardening YouTube Channels You Should Follow in 2023. Each channel offers a unique bouquet of tips, tricks, and inspiration for plant enthusiasts of all levels. So, grab your gardening gloves and prepare to dig into a digital world of horticultural wonder that’s just a click away.

Benefits of Watching Gardening YouTube

Watching gardening YouTube channels offers a plethora of benefits for both novice and experienced gardeners. Here are some of the advantages:

Education and Information

Gardening YouTube channels are treasure troves of knowledge. They provide viewers with step-by-step tutorials, gardening tips, and expert advice on various gardening topics. Whether you want to learn how to start a new garden, troubleshoot plant problems, or understand gardening techniques, YouTube is the go-to educational resource.

Visual Learning

Gardening is a hands-on activity. YouTube gardening videos allow you to see gardening practices in action. Visual demonstrations can be incredibly helpful in understanding concepts like pruning, transplanting, or composting. It’s like having a gardening mentor right in your living room.

Inspiration

Gardening channels often showcase beautiful gardens and creative landscaping ideas. Watching these videos can spark your creativity and motivate you to try new things in your garden. You may discover innovative ways to design your garden, arrange plants, or incorporate new features.

Problem-Solving

If you encounter issues with your plants or garden, YouTube can be a valuable resource for troubleshooting. Many gardening YouTubers address common problems like pests, diseases, or poor soil quality and provide solutions to overcome these challenges.

Variety of Expertise

There’s a wide array of gardening channels, each specializing in different aspects of gardening. Whether you’re interested in organic gardening, container gardening, landscape design, or growing specific types of plants, you can find channels that cater to your interests.

Community and Interaction

Many gardening YouTubers foster a sense of community among their viewers. You can engage with fellow gardening enthusiasts by leaving comments, asking questions, and sharing your own experiences. This sense of belonging and interaction can enhance your gardening journey.

Cost-Efficient

Gardening YouTube videos often provide cost-effective solutions and DIY ideas. You can learn how to make your compost, build garden structures, or propagate plants without spending a fortune on gardening supplies. We’re all about that around here!

Global Perspective

YouTube connects you with gardeners from around the world, exposing you to different gardening styles, climates, and plant varieties. This broadens your perspective and offers insights into how gardening practices vary across regions.

Meditative and Soothing

Honestly, the garden videos are sometimes just nice to have on in the background as well. They’re pretty, they sometimes have nice music, and they’re relaxing.

Top 8 Gardening YouTube Channels You Should Follow in 2023

There are so many different channels to choose from, of course. Take the time to explore and find the ones that you love most. that said, here are the ones we think you might love to start with:

1. OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening

One Yard Revolution has over 260,000 followers for a reason. Anyone interested in frugal gardening will find the videos on this site helpful. More specifically, if you’re interested in staying healthy while creating a sustainable, organic fruit and vegetable garden without spending a lot of money, then this channel will be for you. There are currently enough videos on this channel that you could watch one each day for a year and never repeat.

2. Nextdoor Homestead

This one is a bit smaller but still has a strong following and more than 60 videos for you to watch. The two hosts are relatable gardeners. They specialize in urban gardening of fruits and vegetables. Follow them on their journey as they learn what works and what doesn’t.

3. Urban Gardening

We can’t mention Urban Gardening without mentioning this one. It’s got more than 1.6 million followers who learn every day about the art of urban gardening. Find playlists about herbs, flowers, succulents and so much more.

4. Suburban Homestead

If you have a suburban garden instead of an urban one, then this is a good option for videos for you. It’s separated into seasons, which is appealing if you tend to like a more traditional television viewing format. There’s a wide variety of video types including gardening hacks, garden design ideas, and masterclasses in gardening. There is also some really interesting history of gardens/plants included.

5. Goldifarms

Erin says,

“I’m on a journey to heal the earth and myself by cultivating a food forest here on the beautiful Central Coast of California in zone 9a. My intention with this YouTube channel is to inspire so that we can all create a more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible.”

If you’re interested in permaculture, healing with plants, and optimism, then this channel is for you.

6. The Scaredy Cat Gardener

Do you want to start with a small container garden? Are you interested in growing food to cook with? Do you want to watch a channel that isn’t at all intimidating? This is the channel for you. With more than 700 videos of varying lengths, you’re sure to find something that helps you out here.

7. Dig, Plant, Water, Repeat

Do you love flower gardening? Here’s a channel to excite you. Playlists include gardening for beginners, garden tours, water management, and plant profiles. There’s a wealth of information that’s all accessible.

8. Epic Gardening

This channel is committed to trying to help people all around the world learn how to garden. With more than 2.5 million subscribers, they seem to be well on their way. You can learn how to grow very specific items, from cucumbers to pineapples, cacti to potatoes. You can learn about different types of gardening such as vertical gardening, raised bed gardening, and even aquatic gardening. Moreover, you can find information on gardening tips, garden projects, and life in the garden.

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I recently shared with you how much I was loving Lia’s Living Almanac. It’s a Substack newsletter related to plants and gardening. However, it’s not the only one that I subscribe to. Substack has many different gardening and nature newsletters that you might want to check out. Therefore, I wanted to share some more of my favorites with you today.

What Is Substack?

If you’re not familiar with Substack, then I’ll give you a brief overview. Substack is a platform where you can easily create a newsletter. However, unlike other newsletter platforms, such as MailChimp, your newsletter also acts as a sort of blog. People who sign up for your newsletter will receive it in their email. Alternatively, they can read it on the Substack app or website. People who aren’t signed up for the newsletter can see your articles on the site or app. Then they can decide if they want to sign up or not.

Best Gardening and Nature Substacks

I shared previously about Lia’s Living Almanac which is great for people who are inspired by growing and cooking their food. Let me share some of my other favorites with you now:

Creatively Conscious

This is an intentional newsletter / digital magazine by creative / writer Claire Venus. She celebrates slow living and the well-being it brings, writes about nature in her life, and shares thoughts on motherhood and more. She recently shared her creative garden project called The Soil Web. Claire explains it’s “all about soil, making soil using worm hotels and observing the bio-diversity of soil!”

June’s Writing

June Girvin is a retired nursing professor and “Reader, writer, knitter, walker, gardener, critic.” She chats conversationally about all different types of things in her newsletter, with gardening showing up prominently. She shares photos and descriptions of what is going on in her own garden. I often find that I learn best just by hearing other people’s stories and what they’re doing to problem solve. This fits me better than “Here’s how to do things in three steps.” So that’s one of the reasons that her newsletter is appealing to me.

Also, she did a great important post on planting for pollinators. We discussed that recently here on our site. And it’s the kind of thing that will show up in good gardening/nature newsletters from time to time. As you’ll discover, most of the writers on Substack are sharing a variety of different things that overlap and it weaves gardening into that.

Garden Study

Garden Study is a subsection of a larger Substack called Culture Study. It’s authored by Anne Helen Petersen who shares many different smart thoughts about culture but wanted to create this section just to talk about the joys of gardening. As of the writing of this post, some of the recent articles in Garden Study related to container gardening, gardening mistakes,  square foot gardening, and practicing patience when gardening with kids.

Note that this is a subscription-based newsletter. Substack allows authors to offer both free and paid content. Most authors offer both. Garden Study is an opt-in optional newsletter for paying subscribers but you do get a little bit of preview content before you pay. (Also, it’s good to pay if you can; these newsletters don’t write themselves!)

Life in the Real World

This newsletter will be one of your favorites if you love nature photos. Author Karen Davis is a nature photographer as well as a writer. She shares “Drops of Beauty” regularly which are photo-rich looks at nature. They delight me every single time that I open one.

About the newsletter, Karen writes:

“This newsletter will be full of photos and reflections on what nature teaches me every day about beauty, wonder, and living in the world. I hope you will find it grounding, meditative, sometimes illuminating, and full of genuine curiosity about this strange thing we call Life.”

Neblina Wool Dye Studio Notes

I’ve previously shared with you how I’m interested in gardening plants for natural dyes to dye yarn or fabric. There’s so much great information in this newsletter that’s all about that. The newsletter is written by Sara Meinecke who calls herself a “Natural dyer, knitter, sewer, slow fashion enthusiast.” That’s right up my alley (although I crochet instead of knit.) She explains that her Substack newsletter is about “sharing natural color processes, exploring local color palettes, and connecting with sustainability.”

Recently, she shared a post about Artist Dates. These are part of Julia Cameron’s Artist’s Way practice, in which you take yourself on a weekly solo creative date. What I love about the post is that it’s a roundup of artist-date ideas specifically for natural dyers. For example, doing a dye color test of a plant local to your area or taking yourself on a nature walk. Very inspiring and creative!

The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

This is one of the most comprehensive resources on Substack related to gardening. Authored by a garden designer, it’s rich in helpful tips and information about all aspects of gardening. There are sections for small gardens, planting design, what not to do in the garden, resilient and sustainable gardening, and more. If you’re looking for just one newsletter that will help you get started with gardening information, then this is where you might want to begin.

Radicle

This is a place that shares essays and thoughts from multiple contributors about alternative gardening. If you’re interested in social justice issues and climate concerns as they relate to gardening, then this is the spot for you.

Remembering Wild by Sez Kristiansen

This is a beautifully written newsletter about a variety of different topics related to rewinding, the spirituality of nature, natural remedies, creativity, mental health, and more. In terms of gardening, Sez says that the space is for you if, among other things, you, “love the wild outdoors, gardening or being in nature.” That would be us, right? It includes a podcast and meditation. While it’s not a typical gardening newsletter, it’s one you’ll like if gardening is part of a slow-living path for you.

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