Pro Gardeners React to Viral Farming "Hacks"

I started my tomato seedlings this year by showing the seeds in banana slices, bottom watering them with dr pepper and rubbing aloe gel on a shovel where I tied a bunch of knives and forks and garbage with zip ties to make the planting holes. I covered them with toilet paper rolls filled with bubble wrap and then did a jump cut where the seeds were replaced with storebought transplants.

I have tears in my eyes laughing so hard at Jacq's reaction to the start of the banana hack! Omg - thank you! I needed that laugh!!! 😂😂😂

I have a cherry tree that about 12 years back was getting way too upright and not spreading out... looked up a bunch of different ways to get the branches more parallel to the ground, simplest method was take a stone, tie a piece of string to it, then tie it to the branch you need horizontal. Only took one growing season (plus I left it rigged up over the winter) and the next spring it had a MUCH better shape. I've learned to not overthink it with gardening, the easiest and cheapest ways to do things are the best ways a more often than I expected.

I think the light over the dragon fruit might be to attract the moth pollinators to help fertilise more flowers as dragon fruit flowers open at night. Otherwise the people would need the light to manually fertilise them at night too.

Respect for all the farmers and people who work the fields to get food to our tables. It's hard work. And they deserve good pay and our gratitude.

I have learned the hard way; Dragon Fruit is easy to germinate, but takes patience to grow a decent plant...still waiting for a decent plant...

Thank you for throwing the last one in because that's what I was expecting when I saw the title 😆

Very interesting but that Banana hack had me going what...what...what?! Jacque laughing was perfect.

I feel like that last one is what everyone in my life watches and tells me is a great idea every time I see them😂

You can always recognize a 5-minute craft vid (last hacks) because they're always the most insane stuff you'd never think to do -- because it's either totally unnecessary or completely nonfunctional.