Outlier data · updated September 21, 2026
Gardening YouTube outliers
8,503 Gardening videos from 24 channels are scored in this snapshot, and 306 of them cleared the leaderboard filter. These are the 10 that beat their own channel's median views by the widest margin.
Channels scored
24
Videos scored
8,503
Reach 2x or more
26.4%
5x or more 9.1% · 10x or more 3.7%
Leaderboard pool
306
Videos clearing every eligibility floor
Gardening runs on an annual clock that nothing can hurry. Demand for sowing, pruning, pests and harvest arrives in the same order every year, and viewers search at the moment a problem appears in their own garden, which gives channels an evergreen catalog and a median built from years of returning traffic. Outliers therefore rarely come from timing alone. They come from a result that can be photographed — a harvest, a rescue, a comparison between two methods — or from a claim that contradicts what everybody repeats. Climate matters more than in most niches, since advice that works in one region is useless in another, and the strongest rows often say so in the title. Read this list for what each video promised to prove.
| Rank | Video | Channel | Views | Channel median | Multiplier | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planted in the Garden | 16M | 50.2K | 299x | ||
| 2 | Turf Mechanic | 257K | 5.1K | 50x | ||
| 3 | Anne of All Trades | 5.3M | 122K | 45x | ||
| 4 | The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni | 4.4M | 104K | 43x | ||
| 5 | Planted in the Garden | 2M | 50.2K | 37x | ||
| 6 | North To Alaska | 6.2M | 181K | 35x | ||
| 7 | Huw Richards | 1.3M | 50K | 27x | ||
| 8 | Redleaf Ranch | 5.9M | 201K | 26x | ||
| 9 | Gardening In Canada | 158K | 8.7K | 24x | ||
| 10 | Turf Mechanic | 118K | 5.1K | 23x |
Showing the top 10 of 306 outliers in Gardening (at least 2x, uploaded in the past 12 months, at most 2 per channel). The full list, every filter, and daily refreshes are in the free Outlier Database.
Open the free Outlier DatabaseHow the Gardening ranking is built
- Every Gardening video is scored against its own channel: its views divided by the median views of that channel's other mature long-form uploads. 8,503 videos from 24 channels are scored in this snapshot.
- A row reaches this table only when it clears four floors — a multiplier of at least 2x, uploaded within the past 365 days, at least 10,000 views, and a channel median of at least 1,000 views. 306 Gardening videos clear all four.
- At most 2 videos per channel appear, so one Gardening channel having a remarkable year cannot take the whole table.
- 26.4% of scored Gardening videos reach 2x or more, 9.1% reach 5x and 3.7% reach 10x — which is what a large multiplier is worth in this niche specifically.
Read the full methodology on the outliers hub, including why the baseline is a median, why Shorts are pooled separately, and which channels are excluded.
Common questions
Why do method comparisons outperform general advice?
Because they end in evidence. Two beds, two treatments and one photograph at harvest settle a question that a hundred advice videos leave open, and the result is visible in a thumbnail. General advice is useful and gets searched for, but it gives a viewer nothing they want to see.
Does the growing season make these rankings seasonal?
Strongly. Demand for each task appears at the same point every year, so an upload published at the right moment is compared against a median built across all twelve. Read the date on every row and treat the calendar as part of the explanation for why it broke out.
How much does region limit what I can copy from this list?
Enough to check first. Climate, soil and pests change the answer, and audiences notice immediately when advice does not apply to them. The transferable part is the format — the trial, the rescue, the cost comparison. Name your region in the video and the constraint becomes a credential.
How many Gardening videos are behind this leaderboard?
8,503 scored Gardening videos from 24 channels in the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. 306 of them clear the leaderboard filter, and this page publishes the strongest 10.
How often does this Gardening leaderboard change?
It is rebuilt from each dataset publish and the page revalidates hourly, so the ranking you are reading belongs to the snapshot dated September 21, 2026. Ranks move between refreshes as views accumulate and as videos age past the 12-month eligibility window.
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Public YouTube statistics, snapshot September 21, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or the channels shown.
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