Charles Dowding is the Michael Jordan of gardening. I watch so many gardening videos and listen to so many RUclips gardeners, but none are as satisfying and enjoyable as Charles. This is the holygrail, the Mecca of gardening. Keep going Charles. Wish you all the best!
Charles, it has been a little while since we tuned in. Thank you for always being so educational. You have the most beautiful garden, your my absolute favorite gardening channel to watch. We previously lived in Zone 8 as well but just relocated to Zone 3! We will see what we can grow. Purchased a book and calender of yours early this year, thanks again for great content!
Nice to hear and gosh, what a change of climate, I wish you well in the long winters! I am planning an online course to go up late winter, all being well, and more videos.
I have beets planted first time in blocks of three this year! Thank you sir for sharing your expertise and the love for what you do really comes through. Your son does such a fine job with his video work. ❤️🌱😁
@@rohinisrs If I'm correct he plants four seeds and thins down to strongest three if all four germinate. Just pinch off weakest one if all four seeds germinate. 😁🌱👍
Thank you for teaching us so many valuable gardening lessons. Love your videos and your books! I have several, and yesterday Amazon delivered your book on ......... How to grow winters vegetables. I am just on page 45, but I love It!! So glad I purchased it! Good balance of photos and charts and written instructions. Just what I had hoped it would be. Someday I plan to grow fresh produce year round, thanks to your book on growing winter vegetables. I have learned so much from you, and am sincerely grateful for the knowledge. Our little garden is providing a bigger and better harvest since we have gone no dig. Husband and myself have lost weight by eating healthier. And we both are feeling younger, less joint pain, simply feel more alive!! What a legacy you are creating! You are a blessing to your fellow man!! A devoted fan from the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.
For someone who is just starting out my gardening journey, I’m so thankful to have found your videos. I will be using all this knowledge for many years to come. Thank you so much!
I live in Phoenix AZ, the desert. We have a rare, May rain this evening. I'm sitting here with my windows open, listening to the rain, and binging on your videos. I can only imagine sitting in your garden with a good book. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Cheers.
Well done!!! An easy and engaging style, a bit of humor, and the content is thought provoking. I'll be looking forward to upcoming videos!! Time well spent! Thank you Charles!!
Veronica Rojas wow! I feel for you. I’ve planted veggies this year, cucumber, beet, lettuce, spinach, radish, bell peppers and potatoes. I’ve been doing ‘veggie watch’ every morning which means taking a coffee out and looking at my veg beds. They literally do grow in 24 hours. But every day I’ve thanked my lucky stars that I have a lovely garden and the weather has been so kind. Think of me next time you are enjoying the joys of NCY. Say hello to the Statue of Liberty from me next time you see her.
Super video! I appreciate all of the knowledge you share in these videos. Your passion for your no-dig beautiful garden is evident. The fact that you're so willing to pass on the techniques and knowledge, to help us beginners avoid some mistakes, is wonderful. Also, if you happen to have a mistake, you are so humble, and willing to use it as a teaching moment. Thank you so much! I hope one day to visit your garden in person.
Lots of gratitude n love for Wat u r delivering us without any fees.... M a new gardener from India... It helped me alot... Hv been following ur no dig instructions since last year... It's helping.... Love from India
Your personality is just regal, I could watch your gardening videos one after another even if I never planned to plant a thing! Thankyou for sharing your amazing garden and for just being awesome 😎
This was very informative. I am living in an apartment and I grow in large container pots, sized for trees. And I have to get creative with my garden veg. Spacing is a challenge with pots. I have to provide continuous feedings of fertilizer, compost and liquid feedings with water. I've actually gotten a successful little harvest of carrots and potatoes in pots. This was helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Charles, thank you once again for the inspiration! I’m planning on planting peas for pods this time and share the harvest with my neighbors! You’re so amazing! Stay safe and healthy Charles! You’re a blessing from God.
You are amazing, Charles, I always look forward to your videos. I am doing areas in my garden using your method of no dig and happy to tell everyone where I got the idea from. Thanks for sharing your garden wisdom.
Always enjoy your videos, Charles and I never give up on dreaming of having a yard with the kind of space you do ~ thank you for sharing your marvellousness of garden goodness. x
Charles, those peas were so impressive! Never grown Alderman before, look chunky size pods! May try them next year in my small garden, I normally grow is it hurst green shaft which are nice and sweet but they never get to the table as my wife and myself love them raw! Lol I have now started to cover my raised beds with 2” well rotted farmyard manure to over winter ready for next season of no dig! Method. Have a great week Charles and see you next time!
The calm, teaching nature of them has given me much more knowledge than I could have ever imagined. I just recently expanded our garden from the small size of my wife's (1.2m x 1.8m) to adding a second one about 1square meter and a about another 5square meters which has compost on top, waiting to be ready for my new seeds which has just begun to germinate. Now watching this I have decided to start planting some carrots, potatoes and perhaps beetroot. (Some may fail but should be a good lesson for next year). Absolutely love and appreciate your videos. Looks like I'll have to get started into some of the books. Cheers.
Hey Charles! I just saw an interview with you on RUclips that was uploaded back in 2008 and I think we share something in common. We are both cursed with looking young for our age. When I told my wife's doctor this story, he said "That is some curse!". In my family it even affected our dog who is 11 years old and our vet said he acts like he is only 6. I put the curse down to the fact that the curser had not been cursing for very long. They may actually have failed and were expelled from Hogwarts. To our youthful good looks, eating well and gardening for fun, profit, and as an intellectual pursuit!
Your gardens are inspiring. I'm in my second season of no dig, because of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing and teaching all of us who enjoy dirt under our fingernails.
Great stuff, thank you! Those carrot thinings are just the size my little grand-daughters love to chew on: a quick rinse under the garden hose (also fun!) and into their hands. "Markofka!" shouts one, "Carrot!" shouts her cousin.:-)
Useful advice. I would love to give my peas that sort of space but the field mice dig up and eat them. I found the only way was to build a 2ft high wooden raised bed with an overhang.
Another legendary video, I'm hard at work putting everything I've learned from you into practice, hope we get another nice run of sunny weather next season!
I used your mulitsowing method with beetroot last year and had my best crop ever! We were eating them several times a week from May to October from a small bed about 6ft x 4ft. I have multisown seedlings in the greenhouse almost ready to go out again now in early March. I tried with onions as well but made the mistake of putting parsnips next to them - they completely overshadowed the onions so they were quite small. Thank you so much - you've transformed my gardening!
How serendipitous; I've been thinking a lot about moving from square foot gardening to rows and this is a very helpful video. After watching several of your videos in the past week, I've noticed you are quick to remove outer leaves with damage on them. Oddly, I've intentionally left them on thinking the bugs would eat those leaves and let the others alone--more or less.
Thank you for such useful tips and insights, Charles! I am hopeful that my 2nd year of following your no-dig method will be even more successful than my first!
20 flats & counting! Thanks so much for the seeding vs pot vid. Have 2 lovely types of potato in lg buckets going too. Fleece & hoops are ready for April. Love this vid too.
You should invest in a Jang seeder for seeding your carrots, there great for carrot, Arugula, lettuce. No more thinning, it was worth the money for my Market Garden.
Have you considered not planting in such a blatant monoculture? You could decrease your pesticide and fertilizer needs by incorporating some marigolds and other odorous herbs among your leafy veg. That said, thanks for your no-dig tips, I'm using them to convert a lawn into a veg garden and very pleased with how they preserve existing soil ecosystems.
Who else loves to watch this guy!! He is amazing and that produce looks delicious!
Cheers Stacey
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Charles Dowding is the Michael Jordan of gardening. I watch so many gardening videos and listen to so many RUclips gardeners, but none are as satisfying and enjoyable as Charles. This is the holygrail, the Mecca of gardening. Keep going Charles. Wish you all the best!
Thanks Kashif, I am honoured to be in such company!
I walked thru my garden and showed this video to my insects and they are all drooling.
this is too funny. jack!
@@lukibenjamin741 As you were writing this reply I was in my garden squishing some of those little "Chucky Doll" beasties.
Jack Fanning thank you for this comment! It made me smile! 😁
@@bearrivermama6414 Any time I can make Bear River Mama smile it is a great day.
Hahah
You produce the best content on the internet. Thanks for all the hard work!
Stephen I appreciate your comment
His hard work is his living 😀
No, it's PewdiPie ...
Quality and information could not be better
You seem like such a lovely person. Gardeners always love other gardeners!
So true, I feel fortunate and thanks
I’ve never been so in love with a complete stranger. They way he smiles and giggles AND his body language. 😭 Be my frieeeennd.
I’m with you! Be my friendddd 😭😝
as a 50 year plus gardener i learn something from every video. very good. probably the best i have seen on youtube. thank you
Many thanks for your comment Fred, I appreciate it.
Charles, it has been a little while since we tuned in. Thank you for always being so educational. You have the most beautiful garden, your my absolute favorite gardening channel to watch. We previously lived in Zone 8 as well but just relocated to Zone 3! We will see what we can grow. Purchased a book and calender of yours early this year, thanks again for great content!
Nice to hear and gosh, what a change of climate, I wish you well in the long winters!
I am planning an online course to go up late winter, all being well, and more videos.
I planted beets this year in bunch of 3 and they were the biggest size I ever got. Thank u for this idea.
Nice to hear Ktystyna, isn't it interesting!
I have beets planted first time in blocks of three this year! Thank you sir for sharing your expertise and the love for what you do really comes through. Your son does such a fine job with his video work. ❤️🌱😁
When you say you plant 4 seeds, do you mean 4 seeds? Or one seed that then grows into 4 plants?
@@rohinisrs If I'm correct he plants four seeds and thins down to strongest three if all four germinate. Just pinch off weakest one if all four seeds germinate. 😁🌱👍
@@cpnotill9264 thank you!
I love how you can hear his smile when he talks. Great videos, even though im in Australia some great tips. ❤🥒🥬🍅
Thanks! 😃 Nice you can find value
you can tell that hes so happily excited to share this knowledge hes almost laughing at himself at times when speaking
A ray of sunshine in lockdown !
Charles Dowding = top bloke
Oh my goodness, I've never seen such a lovely garden in my life.
So nice of you
Charles, what a sensible presentation. I love your videos.
Thank you for teaching us so many valuable gardening lessons. Love your videos and your books! I have several, and yesterday Amazon delivered your book on ......... How to grow winters vegetables. I am just on page 45, but I love It!! So glad I purchased it! Good balance of photos and charts and written instructions. Just what I had hoped it would be. Someday I plan to grow fresh produce year round, thanks to your book on growing winter vegetables. I have learned so much from you, and am sincerely grateful for the knowledge.
Our little garden is providing a bigger and better harvest since we have gone no dig. Husband and myself have lost weight by eating healthier. And we both are feeling younger, less joint pain, simply feel more alive!!
What a legacy you are creating! You are a blessing to your fellow man!!
A devoted fan from the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.
Well I am blown away by your lovely comment Annette, and delighted to be helping.
Are you the Bowersox lady who sang and recorded "Up on the Mountain"?
For someone who is just starting out my gardening journey, I’m so thankful to have found your videos. I will be using all this knowledge for many years to come. Thank you so much!
Wonderful thanks
I can't understand why anyone would give thumbs down on this video. I think is great. I learn so much. Thank you
Thanks and thumbs up for your comment!
People who make their living from spades/forks and weed killer 😜
Maybe greengrocers or jealous gardeners.
I live in Phoenix AZ, the desert. We have a rare, May rain this evening. I'm sitting here with my windows open, listening to the rain, and binging on your videos. I can only imagine sitting in your garden with a good book. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Cheers.
We had rain too after a dry spell but nothing like your climate! Thanks for sharing and I hope things now grow.
Charles will forget more about gardening than most of us will ever know.
Well done!!! An easy and engaging style, a bit of humor, and the content is thought provoking. I'll be looking forward to upcoming videos!! Time well spent! Thank you Charles!!
Sir.....your garden is my dream garden..mashaallah
Aya Talat. Me too
Ma Shaa Allah
Masaallah sooo beautiful
This man is my Gandalf.
cheers Gary!
Thank you Gary, very cool!
💖 If I could like this 1,000 times I would.
What is a Gandalf? Also, is calabrese same as broccoli? Looks like broccoli but he’s calling it calabrese
@@violaspencer5628 gandalf is a character from the fantasy books/movies The lord of the rings ;) The old wise wizard with all knowledge.
I'm in a NYC apt, cooped up in quarantine, and you sir are my therapist helping me get through this!!! Thank You!
Glad to help Veronica and I don't envy you, good luck. I hope you can find some nice fresh food to eat and walk a little, it's kind of unreal!
Veronica Rojas wow! I feel for you.
I’ve planted veggies this year, cucumber, beet, lettuce, spinach, radish, bell peppers and potatoes. I’ve been doing ‘veggie watch’ every morning which means taking a coffee out and looking at my veg beds. They literally do grow in 24 hours. But every day I’ve thanked my lucky stars that I have a lovely garden and the weather has been so kind.
Think of me next time you are enjoying the joys of NCY. Say hello to the Statue of Liberty from me next time you see her.
Super video! I appreciate all of the knowledge you share in these videos. Your passion for your no-dig beautiful garden is evident. The fact that you're so willing to pass on the techniques and knowledge, to help us beginners avoid some mistakes, is wonderful. Also, if you happen to have a mistake, you are so humble, and willing to use it as a teaching moment. Thank you so much! I hope one day to visit your garden in person.
Many thanks Laurie, may see you
Lots of gratitude n love for Wat u r delivering us without any fees.... M a new gardener from India... It helped me alot... Hv been following ur no dig instructions since last year... It's helping.... Love from India
Hello Rahel and thanks for your lovely message, I am happy to help
I have used the multi sown method this year and it has worked fantastically. I wont be going back to the old method.
Thanks Dave
Great to hear Dave
Your personality is just regal, I could watch your gardening videos one after another even if I never planned to plant a thing! Thankyou for sharing your amazing garden and for just being awesome 😎
Ah thanks JF
with regard to hand planting carrots, we add our seeds to a little sand and fill our rows. Helps with germination and spacing.
Yes good idea Dustin
Thanks to u Charles my gardening woes are going from 🤔 to 🤗 every single day. 👍
This was very informative. I am living in an apartment and I grow in large container pots, sized for trees. And I have to get creative with my garden veg. Spacing is a challenge with pots. I have to provide continuous feedings of fertilizer, compost and liquid feedings with water. I've actually gotten a successful little harvest of carrots and potatoes in pots. This was helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Thjanks Shonita and your cropping is impressive
You are a great person and and I learn from you more than taking care of vegetables
I'm in experimental mode always in garden, so just love this...out to garden now, love yur garden .inspirational
I have gotten so much information and inspiration from your videos! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain and teach!
Hi Charles, thank you once again for the inspiration! I’m planning on planting peas for pods this time and share the harvest with my neighbors! You’re so amazing! Stay safe and healthy Charles! You’re a blessing from God.
Thanks and may your harvest be good!
Watched this when it came out years ago and today went back as a refresher. Thank you for all of your advice and guidance
Thanks, and I am glad it was helpful!
You are amazing, Charles, I always look forward to your videos. I am doing areas in my garden using your method of no dig and happy to tell everyone where I got the idea from. Thanks for sharing your garden wisdom.
Nice to hear and thanks Mary
Always enjoy your videos, Charles and I never give up on dreaming of having a yard with the kind of space you do ~ thank you for sharing your marvellousness of garden goodness. x
Cheers Rebecca you will surely find space
@@CharlesDowding1nodig :-) cheers 👍
Good morning Charles ❤️🌞
Charles, those peas were so impressive! Never grown Alderman before, look chunky size pods! May try them next year in my small garden, I normally grow is it hurst green shaft which are nice and sweet but they never get to the table as my wife and myself love them raw! Lol
I have now started to cover my raised beds with 2” well rotted farmyard manure to over winter ready for next season of no dig! Method.
Have a great week Charles and see you next time!
Thanks David, nice to hear.
Alderman peas date from the late 19th Century and, in my opinion, have never been bettered.
The calm, teaching nature of them has given me much more knowledge than I could have ever imagined. I just recently expanded our garden from the small size of my wife's (1.2m x 1.8m) to adding a second one about 1square meter and a about another 5square meters which has compost on top, waiting to be ready for my new seeds which has just begun to germinate. Now watching this I have decided to start planting some carrots, potatoes and perhaps beetroot. (Some may fail but should be a good lesson for next year).
Absolutely love and appreciate your videos. Looks like I'll have to get started into some of the books.
Cheers.
Hello Jonno, thanks for your comments and I am delighted you are feeling confident about growing, wish you well
What a breath of fresh air your channel is, kindest regards 🌻
Thank you so much
Thank you, I use the square foot gardening method and found it much like what you are doing with great results. Beautiful garden...
I really like your style of teaching. Thank you
This channel makes me want to cry - how big are those peas? WHAT the actual? The best advert for his methodologies ever.
Hey Charles! I just saw an interview with you on RUclips that was uploaded back in 2008 and I think we share something in common. We are both cursed with looking young for our age. When I told my wife's doctor this story, he said "That is some curse!". In my family it even affected our dog who is 11 years old and our vet said he acts like he is only 6. I put the curse down to the fact that the curser had not been cursing for very long. They may actually have failed and were expelled from Hogwarts. To our youthful good looks, eating well and gardening for fun, profit, and as an intellectual pursuit!
Excellent video as always!!
Your gardens are inspiring. I'm in my second season of no dig, because of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing and teaching all of us who enjoy dirt under our fingernails.
Many thanks
A huge thank You for taking the time to show all. First year for me here.
Wish you well
2020 goal? Watch all Charles Dowding videos!
Candice Martinez me toooo!
I think that makes some good sense. I showed some beets
thickly and will have to thin down.
Great stuff, thank you! Those carrot thinings are just the size my little grand-daughters love to chew on: a quick rinse under the garden hose (also fun!) and into their hands. "Markofka!" shouts one, "Carrot!" shouts her cousin.:-)
Oh wow!
So much great information ...thank you👏👏👍👍
Wow great potato harvest sir!
Thanks Sonia
Lots of great info. Plants are producing beautifully.
Thank you for your videos, so insightful I could watch them all day.
Your garden is amazing, love watching :)
Thankyou!
Thank you for the clarification Charles
Your videos are not just extremely informative but so beautifully made. Keep up the good work. This is therapy to watch! Cheers!
Thanks so much Mike
Useful advice.
I would love to give my peas that sort of space but the field mice dig up and eat them. I found the only way was to build a 2ft high wooden raised bed with an overhang.
Charles Nodig!! is the best
Another legendary video, I'm hard at work putting everything I've learned from you into practice, hope we get another
nice run of sunny weather next season!
Good!
He is a wealth of wisdom...for someone with no green thumb like me.
Maybe it can become green :) and thanks
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Really..thank you. I will keep watching your videos for guidance.
M. Aurora Charvat keep trying, one day everything will work out and you’ll get your first harvest, even if it’s only radish.
I used your mulitsowing method with beetroot last year and had my best crop ever! We were eating them several times a week from May to October from a small bed about 6ft x 4ft. I have multisown seedlings in the greenhouse almost ready to go out again now in early March. I tried with onions as well but made the mistake of putting parsnips next to them - they completely overshadowed the onions so they were quite small. Thank you so much - you've transformed my gardening!
Thanks for sharing this Keith and your wonderful results, makes me happy to hear
Such a helpful video. Thank you. Marty
This year I will be trying for the first time to plant red and white beets. Thank u for ur advice. I will follow the block plant system...from Germany
How wonderful you are! Love your garden. I wish to work in it to see the plants grow daily 😅
🌱
Excellent effort Dear
Excellent video! You have such a kind personality and voice. Good information too. Thank you
Cheers Murphy's
Health to you! The garden is just a miracle! You are very hardworking!
You covered great details. Thanks for all your wonderful videos. I’m in the United States, but zone 8b.. so I’m always watching your videos.
many thanks
Just wonderful watching the master explaining the tricks of the trade! 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it
Wow! Best educational video!!!
As always, great info! Thank you Charles for sharing your knowledge :)
greatest vblogger on earth...(thanks for metric's added value)
Appreciate that Delio
Thanks for your lessons, from a new, excited raised bed gardener!!!
Excited is good, makes energy, thanks
I packed 10 lettuces in a tote in my greenhouse using my sheep manure and wild harvested forest mulch and they are HUGE! No more than 5 inches apart.
Lovely!!
Lovely video. Thank you so much sharing.
Wonderful video! Beautiful veg😀
This is the first garden on RUclips that I see it's well organized. The rest just look like they are growing weeds instead.
Mr Attenborough of the garden..!!!absolutely love the videos!!
Thankyou Sunny
Thanku. Congratulations for your successful gardening! Or farming
How serendipitous; I've been thinking a lot about moving from square foot gardening to rows and this is a very helpful video. After watching several of your videos in the past week, I've noticed you are quick to remove outer leaves with damage on them. Oddly, I've intentionally left them on thinking the bugs would eat those leaves and let the others alone--more or less.
Good thoughts although I reckon you are attracting bugs. Here all leaves are pretty clean.
Such a well done video and garden.
Thankyou JC
Charles I absolutely love your videos (especially the how to grow ones). So informative and inspiring. Thank you
Thanks Dave nice to hear
I like your way to explain....I love your way of teaching...always by experience!!!!
Thanks Paolo, yes based on experience is good!
I like this topic. Very interesting. Thank you.
Thank you for such useful tips and insights, Charles! I am hopeful that my 2nd year of following your no-dig method will be even more successful than my first!
Best of luck Kim!
My favourite youtube.
One of mine too!
All these cool season plants and we have very little cool season....they would burn up and bolt in my garden
20 flats & counting! Thanks so much for the seeding vs pot vid. Have 2 lovely types of potato in lg buckets going too. Fleece & hoops are ready for April. Love this vid too.
Sounds great Susan!
90 slugs don’t like your video Charles. Time for slug be gone :). Many more of us love your videos!
Heidi 😀
You should invest in a Jang seeder for seeding your carrots, there great for carrot, Arugula, lettuce. No more thinning, it was worth the money for my Market Garden.
Good to know thanks
ME ENCANTA COMO DISFRUTA CON EL HUERTO, CON CADA PLANTA. FELICITACIONES.
Gracias
One of the best edited videos.
Thanks Nathan I shall tell Edward
Have you considered not planting in such a blatant monoculture? You could decrease your pesticide and fertilizer needs by incorporating some marigolds and other odorous herbs among your leafy veg. That said, thanks for your no-dig tips, I'm using them to convert a lawn into a veg garden and very pleased with how they preserve existing soil ecosystems.
Thanks for the tip :) I love marigolds
The potato demo was pretty impressive
Love it, thanx Charles. Great info.
Glad it was helpful
Love the video and the garden sounds in the background
Lovely results. Thank you for the great information!
Thankyou Gayla.