Clicked on this without paying attention. Got me nostalgic. RIP Larry. You've given the gardening world a lot.

OMG!! I can't have a garden where I am because of a shared yard with dogs, no digging up etc, I am on a limited budget too. The Walmart bags and kiddie pool are AWESOME! I am so excited now for even just a small "garden". Some tomatoes and cucumbers, butter crisp lettuce, I wonder what else I'll plant now lol. THANK YOU!!

Buddy you hit the nail on the head, my grandfather grew everything in burlap sacks. He explained this to me 20 years ago. He also said Ruts lol he would tell ya, he farmed all his life and when he couldn't run the equipment to plow and disk his garden he went to burlap sacks. Had he known how good it worked and how much less maintenance he needed when he got "dialed in" he would have done it that way from the start. Miss that guy he taught me so many great things lol Thanks for sparking those memories.

Started gardening last year and have learned much since I started. One thing I have learned is the non woven grow bags definitely work better than solid pots or buckets. My potatoes, beans, and peas have done much better. I now am planting everything I can in grow bags.

Explaining the basics like you did well in this video allows your viewers to then run with those ideas and possibly improve on what you've already done. I enjoy your videos the most when you go over the "whys" of what you do, not just the "hows". Thanks a million, fellow Minnesotan.

RUTS look at these RUTS!

Larry, this is the best air pruning/grow bag video I've come across yet. Practical, to the point, showing stages of what you are talking about, from your own experience and what you have seen in the industry, your genuine excitement with the results with the goal of helping others. Thank you:)

That's a phenomenal difference! Thank you for sharing! I'm a beginner gardener and always looking for ways to do things better and more efficiently. I'm so grateful for knowledgeable people like yourself who are willing to share your wisdom.

I was skeptical of this at first but after I saw my plants improving I was just so thankful to you for posting it.

Great information Larry! If you are going to container garden I am sold on air pruning !

Thanks for this, Larry! My spouse and I recently got into indoor gardening(mostly flowers, and last night we planted over a dozen different kinds of beans). We have a chestnut tree we planted from a seed a couple weeks ago that has already sprouted and is about a foot tall now, and we've been worried about having a big enough pot. The air pruning seems like it will be a really good system until it is ready to be moved outside. This will also help with everything else we are growing. Again, thanks a lot!

WOW, that is so cool! thank so much for your wisdom. if you in Minnesota can succeed so can this northern Illinois southern Wisconsin resident. My fear was our hardy cold weather climate. once again thank you.❤🌿

this is the most inovative thing i have seen in a long, long time. i'll do this this year. thanks !

wow your ruts are nuts

I continue to be delighted at your expanded exploration of growing things efficiently and in high density.

Thanks Larry, Used to live in Big Lake. Appreciate this discussion that solidified my understanding of air pruning. Especially thanks for the root inspection of the corn -- I finally get!

Just when I thought I'd seen all the trends in gardening I came across your channel & subscribed. I'm just starting out with almost no budget and a real need to grow our own food, as we live in a "food desert". What money I can save on wood planters can now be rerouted to soil amendments, mulch, organic fertilizer, fencing, netting and shade fabric. Thank you for posting this! Blessings to you and yours and all who read this!

laundry basket would be good also...with the fabric

Brilliant!! And I’ve been gardening for 35 years!! And just last year I bought fabric bags!! And I happen to have a bunch of laundry plastic containers and have leftover landscaping fabric!!! And I have started to many seeds! So now I have the solution!! Thank you! I’ll just have to go grab s ton of potting soil!!

These buckets are not only effective, but they look cool too! I am doing this for sure. Great job Larry!

My grandma uses coconut husk for air pruning. It works great and plants are happy.

Now I finally understand the point of these heavy fabric "grow bags". I looked at them when I first saw them and thought: Now that's just stupid, why would anyone use these, growing stuff in them will never work because it isn't watertight. Thank you, Mr. Larry Hall, for sharing this video and your information and experience, and greetings from all the way over in south-eastern Austria, Europe.

Wow, Larry there is more to you than meets the eye.The air pruning pots are great! I do that with all my pots.

Hallo Larry. Thankyou 🙏 for sharing your experince. Be Blessed with Posperity Hapiness and a long Healthy Life. Greetings from Austria 💐💋

Hi,i just watched your video & i use milk crates & vegetable crates that my local small food stores throw out after they stock there produce. i clean them with a light bleach. water mixture because no telling what could be on them anyways i line my crates with weed berrier & plant my plants in them they absolutely love it,i just tried it on potatoes & they are growing fast & well also this is the longest my potato plant's have lived lol so im very excited. I'm in zone 9a. your plants look awesome!!

Thank you Larry, I have a terrace garden. I have been trying different methods of gardening. Your ideas of pop bottle self watering gardening is great it will work well here in India, Rajasthan which is a desert land. Also I would be able to teach the slum dwellers how to have a chip garden since pop bottles are cheap and affordable. Thank you also for sharing about air pruning. Your ideas will greatly help improve my gardening. Anima Martins.

Man this was the most useful gardening video I’ve watched all week. Thank you!

A clear and fascinating video on the topic, I’m absolutely sold on the idea now. Great stuff sir 👍

I'm intrigued with your grow bag system (and air pruning). Have you tried to combine this system with mycorrhizae fungi in order to get even nutrition out of your potting mix? Man! I love your experimenting.

Great job Larry! My concern, for myself, is using buckets that aren't food grade plastics or bag (Walmart etc)that can leach dies. I know you lined the buckets with landscape cloth which may contain toxic plastics. Plastics with the triangle symbol and numbers 3, 6 or 7 should never be used. Numbers 1, 2, 4 or 5 are totally safe.

Awesome!!! I'm going to try this for lettuces and herbs. What great information. Thank you so much for sharing. Subscribed.

I am trying grow bags for the first time this year. Thank you for your knowledge!

Take a drink every time he says Rut! You'l be plastered!! Loved the video! Gonna try it out this summer! Ill try 3 in air pruning pots and 3 in my normal pots and see who whens. :)

I ‘m was planing on doing some cutting of a few of our patio plant. You just gave me another reason to do it. I’m going to do it both ways, reg. pot and same size air bag made of planter fabric. New to gardening. Always willing to give new ideas ago. Thank You for a great video

Larry,you are a baddass..to the bone. You have been so incredibly inspiring and I have utilized all of your teachings so far.You are a champ no BS. I have been working on my own video with my walmart bags and other ideas given so freely by you,and I really look forward to sharing with you.Thanks again Larry.

i saw a video about ancient brazilian farm fields - they discovered charcoal in large amounts in the soil - reportedly it increases production by over 1/3

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Your explanation is concise and I loved the way u simplified this process and the use of the demo

Oh thanks thanks!! that you for sharing this...i will share this with my fans and views in a video soon....I am going to try this with my new lettuce in containers

I think the holes look really cute too. :) Wondering if using laundry baskets would work out as well. Not sure about those plastic's for growing in though.

Fantastic video, lots of great tips. Question: After making holes in the bucket, what kind of material do you use to contain the soil? How do you make it or is it readily available. Thanks!

Just wanted say thanks for the ideas, especially using the reusable shopping bags as air pruning containers. I will totally try that!

did this with rectangular laundry basket, then used old long skir that I sewn then place it atound my house so beautiful unlimited flowering plants...

I've been using air pruning containers (both bought and homemade) for 13 years. I won't use regular containers anymore. Air pruning makes my plants very happy, which makes me very happy!

Great video. Good info. You say 'root' funny :D

I used your idea this year up here in B C Can. it's a great success... am planning improvements for next year ... thanks

Thank you Larry for sharing this very useful information, highly appreciated 😊

Great concept - I am going to consider growing a tomato or two in those Wal Mart bags just to see how it does! Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for the video, very nice. Did you have any concern in growing in the walmart bags, like chemicals leeching in to the soil? Might be a paranoid thought, but I do not know what they are made from, or the dye.

Viewing this in 2020. My spruce tree transplants absolutely needed this information. Thank You.

Thorough and explained everything I wanted to learn and more. Great examples, definitely going to try this, thank you

Have you tried using milk crates ? They already have the holes in them.

My question is can you do this same concept in a raised bed???

Brilliant cant wait to try this system. Your evidence is the best proof it works.

Thank you very much for this video, and for sharing this information with us all. Much appreciated!

This is good information. I have great success growing in containers but I think developing another system where the roots can be exposed to air would be great. The only problem I have it the clay pots I have (which are very porous, but allow air into the root system) crack easily. I would like something attractive, economical, while allowing air to the roots. This video has inspired me! :))

Doggone it, wish I'd found this before I planted everything 😒 but at least I'll have it next year!!

Thank you for the info, I started using collapsible fabric storage containers to see how my plants do, but I’ll try this method as well and run with it. Dollar tree also have storage containers with holes too, not sure about the durability, but doesn’t hurt to try those, especially for small plants.

Great - makes sense - thanks for sharing -winter here at the moment but I'll be collecting all those grow bags for next year

Your half right and half wrong..... Fabric bags allow more oxygen to the root structure, good for the plant. However the air does not prune the roots, it's the uv light that trims the roots, when the roots get near of poking threw the bag the uv light kills the tips of the roots before it can poke all the way threw, so it's light pruning...…..

God I love how you say ruts

It's a good idea right now for people who just started container gardening due to this pandemic. Thank you for the video.

I'm father south(closer to the cities) and this was a terrific review. I'm going to start do that for my fledgling vegetable garden!

Hello Larry, I understand that this is an older video but recently I have watched kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ap2hnNqisLjJlmQ.html (yes, it is in French but it has English subtitles which are very well written). The cell from that video sends it's "roots" to search the surroundings for the available food sources and later thickens the connections which bring "food". The plants have multiple types of roots. The thin ones develop first and search for food. I think that the air pruning works because in contact with air the thin roots discover the boundaries of the container due to the difference in humidity and after the mapping is complete the plant goes into "reproduction mode" (flowers/fruits) with the available resources. If this supposition is correct your technique makes a lot of sense because that's what we do as humans as well. As soon as we find what we need, even if it is not much, we try to settle and make it work with what we have the best we can.

This method is true but you have to water them everyday sometimes multiple waterings daily.

I love learning new tips! Thank you for sharing, I will definetly try it!

Wow, thank you for the idea! I know grow bags are better than containers but never thought of using reusable shopping bags for it.

I believe it is more about aeration than root pruning. Roots need oxygen for respiration, period. But your bags will leak moisture too, so you end up using more water. A better solution is to use a bigger pot.

I wear buts on my feet!

I use fabric pots, they really surprised me, they are so good, Super healthy roots.

You’re like me constantly improving things I like the way you thought of this too I’m gonna do it I was thinking of using in Mill Creek they have a few of those around but I also have some buckets and a few parts that need some holes in the sides now I also saw some lady is a laundry basket and I have for some reason an abundance of those as well

I am going to give it a try also this season. I have a small yard and have had poor results growing anything. You make it look easy Larry :)

Im so glad i came across this video. Im trying grow bags for the first time. Im gardening for the first time because of grow bags. I didnt want to dig up the dirt around my home to plant.

Yes, there is always rooms 4 improvement. Air pruning is the most up to date science in gardening. Thanks 4 sharing

Congrats on 20K subscribers, Larry. Keep it up, man !!!! I can't get enough Larry !

Thank you Larry I'm going to try it!

Thank you for sharing, I will definitely try it.

Hi. thank you for sharing your experiences

Thank you for sharing, I am trying this!!

Revolutionary yet obvious. Thanks a ton!!

I am definitely trying this

This is great. I've been getting into gardening & reading a lot about air pruning & how nurseries tend to have these non correctable root issues with trees & shrubs due to the plastic pots. I love the Walmart reusable bags idea, much cheaper than the fabric grow bags. Thanks!

Never seen the wading pool idea. The bad thing about fabric pots is that the soil dries out quickly. Looks like you solved that issue 😊

Thank you so much sir. Your educational video will help me tremendously. I will give it a try. God bless.

Very, very helpful. Thank you for sharing Larry!

Thank you for the information about "Air Pruning" heard about this for the first time.

Great job. Now I shall try in my garden.Thanks.

Thanks Larry love the info I am still learning, I think I will try like a laundry basket :) put some landscaping down in it...

Thank you for the idea's thank you didn't want to grow in my tainted soil so needed idea's like this to grow everything I wanted.

Fantastic information. I am learning from you, Larry !! Thanks for sharing.

WOW! Can’t wait to do this. Thank you!

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Amazing. Definitely will try!

Yup. I live in So. Cali. a mile high and I've tried everything.... OG5280 ... pure air and pure water here. I these Bags work great!

Im going to try this,sound just right!! Thank you for sharing!!

Wow ,I'm definitely going to give it a try ,thanks

Thanks so much. Your shared experiments are brilliant. I'm going to run the same test.

air pruning and worm castings om gosh I bet I will have awesome veggies

Great video on air pruning pots.