Home Gardening India – 6 brilliant channels for Home and Kitchen Gardeners

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Home Gardening India – the best youtube channels for you to follow!

Whether you are an avid kitchen gardener or home gardener or you are a gardening enthusiast, this post is going to change your world! Read on…

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We all know that gardening is an exercise in patience. Easy to say but so frustrating to practise. We’ve had a lime plant in our garden for the last 5 years, with a productivity of a grand total of 2 limes. For limes or any other fruiting plant / tree to fruit, it must flower first (DUH) and I realised how there was a complete dearth of flowers on the bush.

Same frustration was experienced with the mogra (Arabic jasmine) vines. I have lovingly bought at least 3-4 of these plants over the years. Come summer (their peak flowering season) and all the plants twiddled their thumbs and buckled under the invasion of the most horrible white pests. I cannot tell you how disappointing this was.

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lemon blossom

Some days creativity is at a low ebb and you want to watch / read other things for inspiration. To regain some gardening mojo and more specifically do a turnaround of my lemon and mogra plants, I took to Home Gardening India videos on Youtube.

To sound like one of those clickbait websites, you cannot imagine what happened next.

For the next few days, I watched more and more Home Gardening India videos from the Indian subcontinent mainly. It was like Ali Baba stumbling into a cave full of treasures. 

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Mogra plant is full of buds

I have watched and favourited a whole bunch of channels featuring Home gardening in India. They are real, shot mostly on phone, some even self shot, holding the mobile with one hand. You can tell because the host is only using one hand to mix etc and never showing his / her face.

These are not the TASTY kind of plastic, perfectly packaged videos but the real deal. Even if you don’t actively garden, you will be hooked. These channels are insanely popular they are because in the span of less than a year, some of these channels have over a 1,00,000 subscribers. As a youtuber myself, I can tell you that is a huge achievement.

Also, because these home gardening videos are from the Indian subcontinent where jugaad rules, most of these videos have easy, DIY methods employing easily available ingredients and equipment.

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limes finally taking off

And if you must know, after watching at least 5 different videos each on reviving the mogra and lemon plants, I’m elated to announce that they started showing big signs of improvement within a week itself. The mogra plant has lots of buds (see pic above) and the lime bush is flowering well. At this rate, I can expect to have a lime harvest 4-5 months down the line. (Didn’t I say this was an exercise in patience?)

So now, let me introduce to my favourite gardening gurus….

6 best Youtube channels on HOME GARDENING INDIA

1. GARDENING IS MY PASSION

My favourite gardening channel, hands down is Gardening is my Passion. The person behind this channel is Dr. Surja Prakash Agarwala, principal of a college West Bengal. His attention to detail reflects his passion and his inclination to teach his viewers everything he knows about gardening. I tried his method of harvesting seeds from a store bought red bell pepper and 10 days down, I have the cutest little seedlings growing in paper cups. We have at least 15 seedlings coming up for future transplanting.

I absolutely loved his video on converting a sprouting sweet potato into a beautiful indoor hanging plant.

This video will convince you that if you have an old battered bucked and a few sprouting potatoes, you can have a bumper potato harvest right in your balcony or the corner of your apartment.

Some of my other favourite videos:

Growing capsicum, chillies, tomatoes free of cost

Growing coriander and spinach

2. MANJU HANDA

Manju Handa’s channel does not give any details about her location. But she speaks Hindi with a delightful Punjabi accent. It’s a motherly gyaan and a friendly tone of voice has has given some of her videos over a million views. Using snack packets as grow bags is the ultimate Indian mum recycling tip! I immediately remembered the old road side nurseries in Bombay selling small saplings in milk bags

3. URBAN GARDENING

 Another gardening channel which I presume is from India (no details in About section) is from this friendly gentleman who guides the audience with detailed videos and a voice over. It’s tips like ‘growing tomatoes from tomatoes’ that have my complete curiosity. He also has videos on growing chillies from chillies and capsicum from capsicum. This way, when life gives you a really juicy, flavourful tomato, and there’s nothing stopping you from growing your own batch of tomatoes from these seeds.

4. HOME GARDEN

I landed here thanks to the video on Mogra care and I have successfully implemented some of his tips, as you can see in my pics. Funnily, the video on his channel that seems to have the most number of views (a whopping 7 million++) is one on palmistry! The video that I found very useful in this channel is ‘How to prune tomato plants’ 

5. CONTAINER GARDENING

 The thing that makes his channel stand out are the innovative (sometimes, clickbaity) captions in hindi. ऐसा करने से मोगरा/Jasmine पर आऐंगे इतने फ़ूल कि सारा मोहल्ला महक उठेगा {if you do this, your mogra plant will have so many flowers that your neighbourhood will smell amazing} and so on. But captions aside, his channels gives some solid useful tips for a city based gardener. 

6. CRAZY FOR INDIAN FOOD

 Not exactly gardening videos, but Nikunj Vasoya’s farm cooking videos are the most relaxing thing on the internet. No talk, the sound of birds, an old well and cooking with utterly basic equipment and ingredients is something that I love about these videos. “World’s 1st Food Network which located and operated from a small village” is what the description of this channel says. You need a lot of patience to watch these videos as they go on at their own meandering pace for around 20 minutes. But that is one of the reasons I love them and I find them so calming. In this video, he cuts off a cabbage from its leaves, plucks some chillies, unearths a fresh garlic bunch and proceeds to cook a meal that will make your mouth water. I have tried the sev tameta subzi from his videos and it came out tasting exceptionally good.

BONUS : KITCHEN GARDENING

I’m including Izhar Ahmed’s channel from Pakistan as a bonus in this list. While the language here is Urdu, if you understand Hindi, you can very well understand his videos. The content is relevant for Indian home gardeners. His videos are very practical and useful. I watched a video on growing ginger and loved how he took us through the 6-8 month process only to show us in the end that the weather and soil was not conducive for ginger after all. There had been hardly any growth. This honesty, and keeping it real, makes such channels really endearing.

I hope you have loved my detailed list on the best Youtube channels to follow for Home Gardening India – lots and lots of tips, DIY, organic pest control and more!

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