Angela Judd
Angela Judd gardens in Mesa, Arizona and runs Growing in the Garden, teaching how to grow food and flowers in desert heat with raised beds and smart timing. Her planting guides are organized by month for hot climates.
Spear Head Spade presents
Top 100 Gardeners to Follow in 2026
The gardeners, growers, writers and hosts we learn from. Every one of them digs, plants and teaches in the United States, and every profile was written from what they published this season.
The list is unranked. Cards are grouped by where each person publishes and listed alphabetically within a group. Follower counts are approximate and were checked in September 2026.
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YouTube
Ben B. Seattle
Ben grows figs, dragon fruit and other unlikely fruit in Seattle and has turned much of his channel toward bonsai, from pine candling to swap meets. His videos are hands on and specific.
Brie Arthur (Brie The Plant Lady)
Brie Arthur is a horticulturist and author near Raleigh, North Carolina who champions foodscaping, mixing vegetables and grains into ornamental beds. Her monthly garden tours and container plantings show the method in a zone eight garden.
CaliKim
CaliKim gardens in Southern California and has taught beginner vegetable gardening on YouTube for years, with her own seed line and books to go with it. Her videos cover fall seedlings, strawberry runners and what to do when a season goes badly.
Cog Hill Family Farm (Jason Smith)
Jason Smith and family run Cog Hill Family Farm in central Alabama, a homestead with a vegetable garden, a flower farm and a country store. Their videos follow the seasons on the farm and the goods made from what it grows.
Cranery Gardens
Cranery Gardens grows specialty cut flowers in a suburban New Jersey cottage garden and sells mason jar bouquets from a roadside stand. The channel covers harvesting, pinching, watering and the occasional garden trip to northern Italy.
David The Good
David The Good grows food forests and survival gardens on the Alabama and Florida line and writes books on doing it cheaply. His videos cover summer garden jobs, citrus in shade and the mistakes he makes along the way.
Deep South Homestead
Danny and Wanda King homestead near the Mississippi Gulf Coast and share row crop gardening the old fashioned way, along with porch talks on the life behind it. Their viewers garden hard and keep tools that last.
Dirtpatcheaven
Dirtpatcheaven homesteads on under two acres in Idaho, growing kiwi, hotbed winter crops and seed potatoes on a tiny budget. The videos mix the garden with animals, medicinal herbs and the kind of projects a small place makes possible.
Earth, Nails & Tails
Phil turns an urban Virginia property into a productive homestead on Earth, Nails and Tails, covering gardening, do it yourself builds and backyard chickens. Recent videos cover what to grow with a month before frost and why you do not need more land.
EdibleAcres
Sean Dembrosky runs Edible Acres, a permaculture nursery and forest farm north of Trumansburg in the Finger Lakes of New York. His videos show low cost, no tech approaches to perennial plants, chicken pasture and onion drying.
Garden Moxie
Sue Libertiny tends a small Midwest garden as Garden Moxie, with videos on naturalistic borders, soil amending and plants that survive heavy clay and hard winters. Her design advice borrows from interior design principles.
Garden Sanity
Laura, an artist and self taught gardener in New Jersey, shares Garden Sanity as a place to find calm in the beds. Recent videos cover arborvitae companions, dependable late summer perennials and cutting back a limelight hydrangea tree.
Gardener in Love
Tyler and Brian garden together in Charlotte, North Carolina as Gardener in Love, with late summer resets, fall seedlings and visits to favorite garden shops. Their channel follows the garden as they build it.
Gardener Scott
Gardener Scott teaches how to garden and why it works from Colorado Springs, where heavy clay and a short season make every method count. His weekly live shows answer questions on greenhouses, harvest recipes and planning next year's garden.
Gardening with Creekside
Jenny Simpson and the Creekside Nursery team garden in Dallas, North Carolina and film daily from their own garden center, with fall plant deliveries, workshops and planting demos in red clay.
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)
Gary Pilarchik gardens in Maryland as The Rusted Garden and has built a large vegetable how to library on YouTube, with live classroom sessions and seasonal checklists. Recent videos cover fall crops to sow in September and planting grapes in fall.
Gary's Best Gardening \| Gardening Youtuber
Gary Matsuoka is a professional horticulturist at Laguna Hills Nursery in Southern California who explains soil, fruit tree selection and proper planting in open question and answer sessions. His advice runs against a lot of common practice.
Growfully with Jenna
Jenna grows an edible garden in zone six Ohio and brings a career in seed trials to her reviews of varieties and methods. Recent videos cover elderberry syrup, onions from seed versus starts and summer pest control.
Growing The Home Garden
Dave has turned a barren Tennessee lot into a home garden since buying the house, sharing propagation of beautyberry, hydrangea and viburnum along the way. His videos favor cuttings and patience over buying big.
Homegrown Florida
Petrina gardens and homesteads in Florida, with videos on tiny fruit trees for containers, fall seed starting and reviving old potting soil. Preserving what she grows is half the channel.
Homesteading with the Zimmermans
The Zimmermans homestead on twenty one acres in northern Iowa and share grape harvests, candied peppers and a day in the life on the farm. Their channel preserves a way of living for their children and their viewers.
HortTube (Jim Putnam)
Jim Putnam is a career horticulturist in Raleigh, North Carolina who plants, transplants and prunes on HortTube, digging holes in red clay in nearly every video. Recent uploads cover September question and answer sessions and native shrubs worth planting.
How's It Growing?
Laura gardens in southern New Jersey and shares her potager cottage garden on How's It Growing, from clematis and hydrangeas to boxwood updates and the back gate beds. Her lessons come from years of trial and error.
I AM ORGANIC GARDENING
I Am Organic Gardening grows in zone six New Jersey using fall leaves, wood chips, cover crops and worm castings, and recently planted a large sunflower field without fertilizer. Videos cover tomato ripening and beekeeping too.
It's Just Gardening
It's Just Gardening follows a suburban garden in Northern Virginia where the method is to plant it and let it grow, from jujube trees to massive tomatoes. Tool tests and pepper harvests with the kids round it out.
Jerra's Garden
Jerra grows heirloom seed in Orlando, Florida and sells it, with videos on carrots in small spaces, short day onions and fall peas timed for central Florida. Her seed subscription follows the same calendar.
Jess Sowards (Roots & Refuge Farm)
Jess Sowards and family grow a large garden on Roots and Refuge Farm in the midlands of South Carolina and share candid talks about family, faith and the future of the farm. Her books and courses teach the vegetable garden she built.
Kaye Kittrell
Kaye Kittrell hosts Late Bloomer from middle Tennessee, an organic vegetable gardening show that follows her garden from heirloom peas to monarchs and dagger moth larvae. Her videos are short and observant.
Kelly Lehman (Cranbury Fields)
Kelly Lehman grows cut flowers at Cranbury Fields, a family flower farm in Cranbury, New Jersey, and shares flower garden tips with her Flower Tribe every week. Her recent uploads mix flower advice with encouragement.
Mike's Backyard Nursery
Mike McGroarty runs Mike's Backyard Nursery in Ohio and has taught plant propagation and the backyard nursery business for decades. Recent videos cover Japanese maples, dividing ornamental grass and filling holes with a small tiller.
Misilla dela Llana
Misilla dela Llana hosts Learn to Grow from Washington state, teaching four season food gardening with a focus on flavor and fruit. Recent uploads cover dahlias from seed, blackberry sweetness and behind the scenes of the channel.
New Garden Road
New Garden Road documents a seasonal vegetable garden in central Texas, from cucumber seed saving to potatoes in grow bags and olive trees in pots. The videos stay practical and specific to Texas heat.
Nicole Pitt
Nicole founded Flower Hill Farm in Boonville, New York, growing flowers and vegetables on twenty acres in zone four while she and her husband work full time. Recent videos cover a new ranunculus introduction, raised bed tours and bouquet making.
Northlawn Flower Farm
Danielle runs Northlawn Flower Farm in Pennsylvania as a small cut flower grower, master gardener and garden writer with a background in vegetable farm management. Her weekly garden walks cover dahlias, propagation by layering and big cleanups.
P. Allen Smith
P. Allen Smith gardens at Moss Mountain Farm near Little Rock, Arkansas and hosts public television programs on garden design and country living. His videos cover salvias, blackberry lilies and tours of the farm.
Soil and Margaritas
Soil and Margaritas covers a small urban garden in central Indiana, from hydrangeas and dahlias to saving zinnia seeds that actually germinate. Weather swings from flood to heat get documented too.
Team Benson's Desert Garden
Tiffany grows food in the Arizona desert as Team Benson's Desert Garden, feeding her family from raised beds and treating the desert fall as a natural greenhouse. Her videos cover pantry stocking, perennial peppers and when to plant.
Texas Garden Doc
Texas Garden Doc teaches beginner friendly gardening in Texas, with freeze protection experiments, tool picks and live streams on what to do when a season disappoints, and a habit of testing things in his own beds before recommending them to anyone else.
That 1870's Homestead
This Michigan farmstead channel grows organic food and shares canning season, farm stand life and the projects that fill the rest of the year, with the aim of putting the farm back in farmhouse.
The Gardening Tutor
Mary Frost is The Gardening Tutor in Sonoma County, California, with tutorials on pruning, fig tree maintenance and winter color from violas and alyssum. Her videos are calm and specific.
The Graft Man
The Graft Man experiments with fruit trees in Southern California, grafting figs, citrus and avocados and reporting what actually happens years later. His videos are experiments with results.
The Impatient Gardener (Erin Schanen)
Erin Schanen gardens in southeastern Wisconsin as The Impatient Gardener, with candid takes on perennials, raised beds and the products she actually uses. Her writing and videos favor good design and honest results over hype.
The Living Farm
Lynn Gillespie is a third generation organic farmer at The Living Farm in Paonia, Colorado, where the family grows produce and teaches gardening. Her videos cover frost protection layers and vertical garden towers.
The Seasonal Homestead
Becky grows nearly all of her family's vegetables on The Seasonal Homestead in Arkansas, moving from half an acre to a much larger property with the goal of near self sufficiency. Videos cover potato lessons, bulk canning and saving a struggling garden.
The Southerner's Northern Garden
Matthew grew up in Alabama and now gardens in southwest Ohio as The Southerner's Northern Garden, working through a downsizing of the beds, butterfly season and fall planting. His tips come from professional gardening work.
The Urban Harvest (Elise Pickett)
Elise Pickett teaches organic Florida vegetable gardening at The Urban Harvest in the Tampa Bay area, with a weekly video on what survives the heat and humidity. Recent uploads cover cucumbers and tomatoes for Florida summers and vermicomposting.
The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener
Joey and Holly host The Wisconsin Vegetable Gardener, a long running weekly show and radio program on growing food in a short season, with segments on tree care, canning and soil in containers. Product segments are a regular feature.
Tonya, with the flowers
Tonya grows cut flowers from seed on a Nashville, Tennessee farm and films it on a channel that was FRESHCUTKY until this year, with peony seed saving, hardy annuals in raised beds and watermelon experiments. The videos stay close to the beds and the seed trays.
Whispering Willow Farm
Jill Ragan runs Whispering Willow Farm in Arkansas, a small farm with a store, courses and a book, and shares how the farm stays profitable through the year. Recent videos cover fall brassicas and automation for small farms.
Wild Floridian
Wild Floridian teaches gardening in Florida, where the seasons run backwards and the plants are different, with monthly guides on what to plant for vegetables and flowers. Native plants and pollinators get their own videos.
Yuliya
Yuliya is a landscape designer in New Jersey with a small firm, sharing garden tours, hydrangea wreaths and walkway plantings from her own and her clients' gardens. Her training is in landscape design and it shows in the framing.
Becky
Becky shares life on a Washington homestead where the seasonal garden build outs are as big as the projects around the property. Her feed moves between raised beds, chickens, canning and the log cabin she is restoring.
Deanna Talerico
Deanna Talerico gardens on the Central Coast of California and writes Homestead and Chill, a deep organic gardening resource. Her feed and site cover raised beds, permaculture berms, berry trellises and preserving the harvest.
Jacques Lyakov
Jacques Lyakov grows for flavor and variety in San Diego, where a mild climate lets him experiment with grafted tomatoes, freestanding trellises and greenhouse builds. He shares his urban garden as the Garden Hermit alongside the Epic Gardening team.
Jessica Zander
Jess Zander is a garden coach in the Boston area who runs You Can Do It Gardening for adults who feel intimidated by their own yards. Her feed breaks big jobs into small ones and takes cues from how plants grow in the woods.
Kaleb
Kaleb Wyse gardens, preserves food and cooks on his family's farm in Iowa, sharing all of it as Wyse Guide. A fourth generation farmer and author, he keeps the tone warm and the recipes rooted in what the garden gives that week.
Kyle Hagerty
Kyle Hagerty is a firefighter who turned his Sacramento backyard into an urban farmstead with a tropical food forest, rare fruit trees and a productive summer vegetable garden. His posts cover irrigation, soil prep and the tomato lessons of two decades.
Linda Vater
Linda Vater gardens in Oklahoma City, where her potager blends edible beds with elegant design, and she writes and films the whole process. Her videos cover propagation, seasonal planting and the style that carries from the garden into the kitchen and the house.
Lisa Mason Ziegler
Lisa Mason Ziegler grows cut flowers in Virginia at The Gardener's Workshop and teaches other growers through courses, a podcast and live sessions. Her beds are planted for continuous bloom from hardy annuals through the season.
Melissa K. Norris
Melissa K. Norris is a fifth generation homesteader in the North Cascades of Washington who grows and preserves food the way her family always has. Her Pioneering Today podcast and posts cover canning, herbs, seed saving and the organic vegetable garden that feeds her household.
Nicole Johnsey Burke
Nicole Johnsey Burke founded Gardenary in Houston to teach kitchen gardening, and her feed shows raised bed design, planting plans and the before and after of gardens she has built. Her books and courses turn the method into steps anyone can follow.
Resh Gala
Resh Gala designs and grows organic food and flower gardens in Somerset County, New Jersey and shares the results with a community of vegetable gardeners. Her posts cover companion planting, allium tricks for deterring aphids and the designs she installs for clients.
Ron Finley
Ron Finley planted vegetables on a South Los Angeles parkway and turned the fight that followed into a movement for growing food where people live. His project keeps teaching that gardening is a tool for health and independence.
Tracy Crosland
Tracy Crosland gardens in Tennessee, where her cottage flower beds spill over with the seasonal color she shares as hey honeysuckle. Her posts follow the garden through bloom cycles and the trips to local nurseries that keep it fed.
TikTok
Andrew Conboy
Andrew Conboy is an urban forester in the Philadelphia area who shares all things trees and plants as Andrew the Arborist. His clips explain how trees grow, fail and can be saved, and he built a native plant garden that shows up in his feed.
Bre Ellis
Bre Ellis homesteads in a Kansas backyard, growing pumpkins, luffa and a full vegetable garden while cooking from scratch and renovating the house. Her clips move fast between harvest, kitchen and projects.
Jessica
Jessica is an Indiana master gardener who teaches beginners as From Dream to Seed, from building a first garden to loosening soil, adding compost and sowing fall carrots. Her clips are short, direct and built around one lesson at a time.
Katie
Katie runs an organic market garden and farm cafe in Michigan and shares the growing side as kt burdett. Her clips cover bed prep, harvest days and the reality of farming for a living, with the cafe kitchen close behind and the fields changing week by week.
Marcus Bridgewater
Marcus Bridgewater gardens in Houston and shares lessons from the garden as Garden Marcus, pairing plant care with the patience and positivity it teaches. He has written books for adults and children on the same idea.
Meagan Lloyd
Meagan Lloyd grows, preserves and cooks her own food in a Charlotte, North Carolina backyard and shares it as Meg Grows Plants, with a podcast on the side. Her recent clips cover perennials to plant now, September crops for a fall harvest and natural dyes from garden flowers.
Michael Fiore
Michael Fiore runs Smith's Gardentown, his family's fourth generation garden center in Wichita Falls, Texas, and films tree planting and plant care from the nursery floor. His clips explain what survives north Texas heat and wind.
Sandra
Sandra grows food in a Southern California backyard and shares potato harvests, pomegranate season and container setups as sandra urbangarden. She has written on the subject and works with garden brands she uses herself.
Blogs and newsletters
Bailey Van Tassel
Bailey Van Tassel writes Tended from an heirloom kitchen garden in Southern California, where she designs estate gardens and runs the Kitchen Garden Society. Her letters move between what to sow this month, greenhouse seed starting and the quieter reasons people garden at all.
Benjamin Vogt
Benjamin Vogt designs prairie inspired gardens from Lincoln, Nebraska through his firm Monarch Gardens and writes the Prairie Up newsletter. His work replaces lawn with native plant communities and explains the ecology behind every choice.
Carol J. Michel
Carol J. Michel gardens in Indiana and writes about it with a light touch on her May Dreams Gardens blog and her Substack, In the Garden. She co hosts The Gardenangelists podcast and has a shelf of gardening humor books to her name.
Elizabeth Licata
Elizabeth Licata gardens in Buffalo, New York and is one of the voices behind GardenRant, the long running opinion blog that argues about how we garden and why. Her posts cover bulbs, city gardens and the garden world's sacred cows.
Ellen Ecker Ogden
Ellen Ecker Ogden writes Art of Growing Food from Vermont, drawing on decades of kitchen garden design and her books on the subject. She teaches how to lay out a productive garden that is also beautiful, from edible flowers to the geometry of beds.
Jan Johnsen
Jan Johnsen is a landscape designer and author in New York's Hudson Valley who writes Serenity in the Garden and teaches the design principles that make a space feel calm. Her posts and clips show how structure, color and flow set the mood of a bed.
Jessica Walliser
Jessica Walliser is a horticulturist and author in Pennsylvania and a co founder of Savvy Gardening, where she covers vegetables, pollinators and pest control without the guesswork. Recent pieces walk through harvesting sweet potatoes, fall lettuce and succession planting.
Julie Witmer
Julie Witmer writes a garden newsletter about making gardens, the generosity of plants and what she notices outdoors, from her home in Pennsylvania. She also keeps the directory of garden writers on Substack and interviews authors about their books.
Kevin Lee Jacobs
Kevin Lee Jacobs gardens and cooks in New York's Hudson Valley and shares both on A Garden for the House, where newspaper mulching, onion harvests and fireside dinners get equal billing. His videos move from the perennial beds to the kitchen in one afternoon.
Linda Ly
Linda Ly writes Garden Betty from Oregon, where she has grown hundreds of vegetable varieties and thousands of pounds of food in a backyard that moved from the city to the country. Her posts cover rooting cuttings, plants she is giving up on and what works in a rainy climate.
Margaret Roach
Margaret Roach gardens in the Hudson Valley of New York and has written A Way to Garden for years, alongside a public radio show and podcast of the same name. Her interviews with breeders, naturalists and growers dig into how plants make it into our gardens.
Megan Cain
Megan Cain grows a big vegetable garden in Madison, Wisconsin and teaches The Creative Vegetable Gardener, focused on getting more food with less time. Her recent posts cover extending the harvest into fall, stocking a pantry from the garden and prepping beds for planting.
Nancy Ondra
Nancy Ondra gardens at Hayefield in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and writes about the plants she grows there, sells seed from her beds and has authored a long list of gardening books. Her site pairs plant profiles with the reality of a working garden.
Old World Garden Farms (Jim & Mary Competti)
Jim and Mary Competti write Old World Garden Farms from their farm in Ohio, covering gardening, do it yourself projects and recipes from what they grow. Recent posts walk through dividing perennials in fall, cover crops for September and ripening the last green tomatoes.
Pam Penick
Pam Penick writes Digging from Austin, Texas, where she designs gardens and photographs the ones she visits. Her plant recommendations for the Southwest appear in Fine Gardening magazine and her posts cover drought tolerant design, garden tours and lawn alternatives.
Rebecca McMackin
Rebecca McMackin is an ecological horticulturist and garden designer in New York who ran the horticulture program at Brooklyn Bridge Park and now writes the Grow Like Wild newsletter. Her work shows how a beautiful garden can also be habitat for birds, butterflies and bees.
Podcasts
Amy Fagan
Amy Fagan hosts Grounded in Maine, a podcast about showing up for the world through gardening, preserving, composting and the small choices that add up. Her conversations bring in growers and makers from across the state.
Christy Wilhelmi
Christy Wilhelmi runs Gardenerd from Los Angeles, with an organic gardening blog, a Tip of the Week podcast and videos on everything from lima beans to solar food dryers. She teaches urban farming in small spaces and consults on garden design.
Dee Nash
Dee Nash gardens in central Oklahoma and writes Red Dirt Ramblings, where spicebush, greenhouse tours and ice storm recovery all get their turn. She co hosts The Gardenangelists podcast with Carol J. Michel.
Felder Rushing
Felder Rushing hosts The Gestalt Gardener on Mississippi public radio each week, mixing stories, listener questions and plainspoken horticulture with a bad joke or two. His writing keeps the same voice.
Fred Hoffman
Fred Hoffman hosts Garden Basics with Farmer Fred from Sacramento, with new episodes every Friday and a companion newsletter, Beyond the Garden Basics. A longtime master gardener and newspaper columnist, he covers pruning blackberries, tomato seed saving and heat tolerant roses.
Greg Peterson
Greg Peterson grows food on an urban farm in Phoenix and hosts The Urban Farm podcast, interviewing growers, seed savers and soil people from across the country. His courses cover fruit trees and desert gardening.
Jennifer Ebeling
Jennifer Ebeling hosts The Daily Gardener from Indiana, a podcast about garden history and literature that marks the botanists, writers and plant stories tied to each day. Her earlier show, Still Growing, covered practical gardening.
Jill McSheehy (Journey with Jill)
Jill McSheehy hosts The Beginner's Garden podcast from Arkansas and runs Journey with Jill, teaching new vegetable gardeners how to plan, plant and keep going. Recent episodes cover greenhouse use, cover crops and flipping a raised bed for fall.
Joe Lamp'l
Joe Lamp'l hosts The joe gardener Show and created the public television series Growing a Greener World from his farm outside Atlanta. His podcast, courses and videos teach organic gardening with a focus on soil, compost and doing less harm.
Karin Velez
Karin Velez hosts Just Grow Something from Missouri, teaching home gardeners to grow their own food with evidence based methods. Recent episodes cover onion systems, garlic variety selection and knowing when winter squash is ready.
Marianne Willburn
Marianne Willburn gardens in Virginia and writes as The Small Town Gardener, co hosts The Garden Mixer podcast and contributes to GardenRant. Her recent pieces cover drying seed heads, overwintering tender plants and judging a healthy plant before you buy it.