Favourite blog/Vlog

Adding My Family garden to the list - a fantastic West Yorkshire-based gardener, growing loads of great fruit and veg with his young kids helping out at times (and I suspect often behind the slightly wobbly camera). Grows loads of chillies, and I love his technique for getting coriander off to a good start. He hosts a live chat most weeks.

Then there's Simple Living Alaska which is a homesteading vlog that features a fair bit of gardening in the warmer months. They seem to be almost self-sufficient in fruit and veg. Lots of preserving and foraging in their videos. They also hunt and fish which may put some people off, but - as a vegetarian - I actually think they are very respectful and endeavour to make use of all of their kill (food for them, food for the dogs/chickens, bait for fishing, compost). I like them because they are clearly enjoying the life they have chosen and they don't whinge (to camera) when things don't entirely go to plan (unlike some vloggers) - they just get on with it and sort the problem out.

Acre Homestead has become very popular over recent months (to the extent she has just quit her job to vlog full time). She's in Washington state and has only been gardening for a couple of years. She does lots of gardening videos, preserving videos, cooking videos, and freezer meals. Lots of enthusiasm!

Grow Veg used to irritate me a lot because of the children's TV presenting style. However, they have made a conscious decision to really tone it down and now I find the videos much more watchable and informative. Maybe a bit basic for many people here, but handy to dip into. 

Grown to Cook is based in The Netherlands. Lots of good tips about smaller-scale food forests. Not the most frequent uploads but generally good content.

Garden Fundamentals is great if you are interested in evidence-based gardening and learning which popular gardening techniques and concepts are actually myths that fly in the face of science. He has a blog too which is well worth a look. 

Allotment Diary is another great Yorkshire vlogger. No nonsense, nothing fancy, but some giant veg growing in the mix. 


There's my round-up of the (gardening-related) vlogs I've added in to my rotation since my last post. I haven't been streaming any telly lately, but YouTube is definitely making up for it!