100% winter is a fantastic growing time! If you listen to Charles advice you will be drowning in salad, even I am and I'm a pritty rubbish gardener. Thanks Charles 👍
It seems unfair after coming inside a few days ago from a wind chill of -20 degrees Fahrenheit here in WI, that people in warmer zones get to call what they go through "winter." Lol.
Ye that's pritty cold ok! The uk would probably stop functioning if we had it that cold 😂. I live in Scotland up a hill so my weather is all over the place. This year so far the weather's not been to bad at all however it is colder, windy and wetter than Charles! I don't mind the cold to a point but cold and rain is well depressing. Sometimes the summer are pritty short to. But lucky I can grow stuff so it's all good.
Since lockdown began almost two whole years ago now, i've harvested and eaten green leaves of some sort from my garden every day, bar just a few occasions when we had heavy snow on the ground. I have no greenhouse, so everything is pretty much growing outside. This achievement is all thanks to your techniques and tips, which for me have been revolutionary. For over 20 years i had no idea how to pick lettuce leaves! For anyone struggling to grow enough bulky green 'salad leaves' during winter, i grow radishes (for their leaves), and also field beans (for their tips). Both work well for me, and add to the variety of produce on the plate. I have struggled with the Grenoble Red seed germination this year (Seeds Of Italy), so still haven't managed to get a good harvest of that wonderful lettuce yet, but will persevere with it.
Tony I'm happy to hear this and you genius, thanks for mentioning these sowings. That company sells old seed sometimes :( but if you can raise one plant then allow it to seed, you're in
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I started growing Grenoble Red a few years ago from one of your videos, and I love it, it yields great harvests in the cool, even cold weather of spring, but I also have germination problems which I believe is the seed and not something wrong I am doing. I am in the U.S., but bought my seed from some company in the U.K. once before, I think it was Kings Seeds. Is there any other company you can recommend for lettuce seed?
@@jzak5723 I like the German seed company Bingenheimer. Also I encourage you to save your own seed from the Grenoble Red, which I have been doing for 12 years and it's very feasible under cover
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for the seed source. I really do need to start saving my own seed, it really makes sense to do it since it is the freshest you will ever get.
Charles, I love hearing about your early days as a market gardener. And wish I had known about your interplanting, succession sowing and harvesting methods in my early days as a passionate home gardener. In my opinion, these techniques are as radical as no dig.
I have been collecting radicchio leaves as well. In Italy we use radicchio for mixed salads and I just love the flavour and deep red colour. Every time I pick now salad leaves in winter your words Charles repeat in my head 😊
Ah that is nice! We put radicchio leaves in the salad mix until about the end of January. I still have some radicchio harvested in December, stored in my shed and I agree the colour is amazing and I like the bitter flavour too.
Perfect for us in zone 3! I grow a handful of them already but I really appreciate you printing the name out for us! I will be adding the rest of them this garden season. Thank you Charles!
Brilliant as always and thank you for sharing the trade secrets. I have tasted your salad leaves and cannot believe how long and fresh they last, you always inspire me with your love and respect for your soil and your endless enthusiasm to produce great vegetables. Heather Isle of Wight
Excellent. I sowed a bit late this autumn just filled all my hanging baskets & 2 troughs in the greenhouse with about 20 plants total & have enough for a salad every few days over winter. One of the best non-lettuce bagged salads I ever bought was in the US & it was kale, shredded cabbage, shredded broccoli stems, shredded brussels sprouts. It came with dried cranberries & pumpkin seeds and poppy seed dressing. I could eat that every day as well. 😄 Great work here Charles. I always learn a lot every video I watch. 👍
Your patience from gardening allows you to make remarkable videos. I like being able to see visual representation of what you talk about. Since you have the patience to wait and gather videos months apart, we get to see what you are talking about. As always, I love seeing your gardens
Właściwy człowiek na właściwym miejscu ;) dzięki Panu w Polsce rewolucja... Każdy biega po kartony i idzie na łatwiznę :D ja również. Truskawki jesienią na kartonach sadzilam. Sąsiadka nie wierzyła ,jak się przyjęły osłupiała :D
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I love watching your videos in the middle of winter - actually all year around. We are going down to 7 F tomorrow night here outside of Philly so I can't get away with what you can but I did pick some curly endive radishes and carrots last week so even here I'm still eating off the garden a little. I have spinach and arugula under poly tunnels that should come back to life in March. I do the best I can with my climate. Enjoy your winter greens!
I am over in southern Michigan, and up until a few weeks ago I was still picking beets, carrots, and turnip greens, but the beets finally froze out. I put a low poly tunnel over my carrots and turnip greens, and the spinach I planted late in the fall will make it until spring without any cover, and then produce leaves during the cool of spring along with the turnip greens. Hang in there, it won't be long until we can start planting again!
I learned to make a few nice salad dressing whilst being a chef years ago. I agree a good rich fatty dressing on a crisp salad in winter. Oh my heaven! (OH this is funny. Autocorrect tried to take fatty and make it farty 🤣so glad I remembered to spell check my posting)
Hi Charles, This video is really inspiring, in several ways. additional to growing you seem to feel so good, not the least important, is it! Thank´s for leading us up one of the good paths!
Ooo I loved listening to your principles, and that you told us something about yourself, I love your philosophy, and it is the one I try to apply. Thank you teacher!!❤️
I grew lettuce for the first time this year and sold it at the market. One rule I have is to not use any plastic packaging for my produce. I sold my lettuce mix in paper bags. A small display with the tops of the bags open so the customers could see the leaves. As they sold I would pack new bags to keep the display full and the strategy worked. It was a very popular item and people appreciated it being plastic free. Good to hear you say that there's nothing wrong with wet lettuce. The lettuce I sold was always damp and some people suggested that It was a problem. I didn't see anything wrong with it and the alternative was wilted leaves. Thanks for the knowledge
Your enthusiasm about your garden and the foods that you grow is evident in everything that you do! It is very contagious! I’m already foraging through my basket of seeds to begin my growing plans for these next few months. Love your channel ❤️ Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise with all of us who are so eager to learn from you! South Carolina, USA…
Oh how I wish I had the same climate- not only for a longer grow season but who wouldn’t want all the numbers worked out for them! Thanks for all the help. Your insight and experience is greatly appreciated from northern Minnesota USA. Cheers!
Today my Charles Dowding containerwise cd60 module trays arrived! They are sturdy, beautiful, handy and they have a nice smooth finish. Really happy with them and looking forward to using them.
I've been picking your way for about 3 years now. Even on my farm. Most of the farmers use the quick cut system, but I love the consistency and that everything is inspected and sorted before it ever makes it into the wash bin. Sure the actual harvest goes faster with a greens harvester, but I think the length of time the plants live with this method saves time (and of course money) because all the seeding, transplanting, bed prep, and sorting out bad leaves and bugs that is saved over the course of the season.
Thanks for this Brian and I'm very reassured to read this because all the publicity goes in the other direction, with those fantastic looking harvesters which you describe. I'm really glad that it's working for you, and your plants!
I use your method for salads, on a much smaler scale and had alot of harvest all winter... and looking forward to the growth spurt of the early spring 2022 season
I'm still so grateful and amazed by your generosity of explaining and showing exactly how you do things. From the sowing to the growing and then harvesting and storing. So well done and easy to follow. Just the thing you said about harvesting actually makes all the difference regarding how long you will be able to crop. Just love it.
You've really changed the way we grow our salad now. Thank you so much. Yesterday we picked 3 types of lettuce and mustard, baby spinach and chard, rocket, land cress, tatsoi, pea shoots, flat leaves parsley and fennel fronds. A fantastic winter salad, much tastier than summer offerings. All grown outside under fleece or in the greenhouse. Followed your calendar for all our sowings last year and can't wait to get started again!
My goodness! I learn something new every time I watch your videos! And, I have been gardening a long time; since I was a little girl out in the garden "helping" my daddy. (I'm 63 now) Thank you
Thank you, Mr. Dowding. Greetings (again) from Bowling Green, Kentucky. We are bracing for another round of winter weather tonight. In the last 4.5 weeks, we've had two rounds of tornadoes, and two rounds of snow fronts, to move through our city.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig It'll take years to recover from the first round of tornadoes. That set of tornadoes was about 2.5 miles away from me. Last night's winter storm has produced more ice, than anything else. I did not really get any snow. It's all ice.
Great. Endorse every word. The best piece of gardening advice I ever had - that brassicas flower in spring so sow them for salads in the autumn. Eating lots every week. Thank you CD. And I (cruelly) loved the nearly-fall-over-backwards at 9.07!
Yes Charles, I wash my lettuce and give it a shake and bag it and it keeps for more than a week very fresh. I must check on the types of lettuce for next winter as I've only done Lollo Rosso in winter, love the videos.
The salad leaves I've had in late spring to mid summer have lasted in the fridge for 14 days and still had a crunch to them .. all my family members and friends absolutely love me when spring comes around . Thanks to you Charles!
Thanks to you, my 8x6 greenhouse is currently home to two varieties of lettuce, wild & cultivated rocket, coriander, mustard & spinach. Not quite big enough yet for picking (left sowing rather late) but I expect to start harvesting leaves next week & hopefully they'll keep producing until the first of the outdoor lettuce take over.
Your video presentations are like Magic. I am captivated and taken away to a wonderful reality and given this magical knowledge and then returned to the real world where I just want to grow everything!!!! How I do love your presentations. Thank you so much for sharing. Best Regards!
Soooo inspiring for a brand new year of gardening! Especially timely as I’ve just determined yesterday to spend more time in the garden in 2022. Thank you Sir Charles
Great tips Charles, I have lots of different salad leaf seeds I got free from gardening magazines, I wasn’t sure how I would use them all but you’ve given me some great ideas for when to sow, thank you!
I envy your weather , we have very good weather for our state right now ! 5-6 inch snow on the ground and our weather is 30 F ! Notting grows in our winter 🥶
It’s sunny today 40F and the snow on the greens outside my kitchen is melting. It’s amazing how perked up and full spinach looks. I must pick some for a salad with dinner tonight! I planted several varieties of greens so it should be quite a nice salad with no dressing needed. 😋
Sounds great Charlie and you are really getting the hang of this. That spinach should be sweeter as well, from being cold, it's such a good winter vegetable
Thank you really good information on the different types of salad leaves. I never know what to grow together, very useful information thank you. I'll be trying those salad box ideas this autumn now.
Hey Charles. Thank you for confirming that a salad spinner is not a must, salads are much easier in winter, as in summer time, one day you have lots of salad and the next you have lots of "small pine trees" 😀 Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
You are so right that we have had to hide the lack of flavour with sauces. I think thats why I liked rocket because of the strong flavour. You have inspired me to experiment with greens this year!
Always nice to watch your videos. After watching one of your early videos of growing winter lettuce and mustards I had a go last year /this year in the mushroom containers with 6 plants in each. Great results thanks to you. Thank you very much.
Love homegrown lettuces my favorite garden vegetable.Thanks Charles my ancestry 65 percent from 18 locations in England. I live in Kentucky. USA your the best gardener I know of.
Perfect Timing for me here in NZ. I"m just starting to think about what I need to get started from seed over the next two months for my winter garden. I love the variety of salad leaves you grow for interesting flavours (and looks) so I'll be getting the seeds I need and preparing. Its so hot and dry here at the moment, that I need to reassure myself that rain will come - sometime.
I've also found our salad mix lasts longer when we don't dry them too much. I actually just opened a cooler from last month's farmers market that I forgot, and the leftover was just in the cooler with a damp newspaper and a bit of water in the bottom. It was still good a month later and we had a nice salad.
Yes I notice much the same, and I think it's related to what we've already described that the plants are more mature and therefore have a stronger root system, which can grow the leaves firmer and probably more nutritious. At a restaurant which I supply, the head chef commented how, in his words "Your leaves stand the dressing", compared to baby leaves he bought sometimes which collapse under a bit of oil and vinegar.
We think so much alike. We had salad for dinner and I just had salad for brunch. So many varieties you can use of different plants and foods. Thanks for the video and hagd!
Thank you for another great video. As for storing slightly moist freshly picked salad leaves in a plastic bag in the fridge I found that method working very well for me. There might be a problem though using this method with lettuce bought from stores as I do not know how long the lettuce has been on the store shelf. Thank you Charles for sharing your experience.
Love the insight these videos provide and it really shows the passion you have for gardening, thank you for helping me become a better gardener Charles!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig да, конечно, я живу во Франции, регион Парижа))) открыла для себя этот метод сбора- по листочкам, поэтому салат растёт и растёт, получается. « долгоиграющий салат». Но очень много маленьких слизней, к сожалению, они тут живут всю зиму, а вот в России погибают- это небольшой плюс. Спасибо вам за ваши видео, что делитесь с нами, за ваш восхитительный огород! Здоровья и всего самого доброго🌷
I've learned a ton from your videos! I'm growing my first over-wintered garden in central NC. Mild days so far around 45-50 deg, so the chard and kale is doing great. I'm still waiting for the brussels sprouts to make sprouts..
Jamie, if your brussels fail to head up, they’re likely to “blow” and form sprouting heads. Please don’t discard them. They are delicious. Like raab or purple sprouting but much sweeter. Tbh, I look forward to a margin of brussels failures every year. Probably my most favourite green spring delicacy! 😃😍
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100% winter is a fantastic growing time! If you listen to Charles advice you will be drowning in salad, even I am and I'm a pritty rubbish gardener. Thanks Charles 👍
Cheers Billy, and I hope you don't drown, but that is great that you have lots of leaves!
It seems unfair after coming inside a few days ago from a wind chill of -20 degrees Fahrenheit here in WI, that people in warmer zones get to call what they go through "winter." Lol.
Ye that's pritty cold ok! The uk would probably stop functioning if we had it that cold 😂. I live in Scotland up a hill so my weather is all over the place. This year so far the weather's not been to bad at all however it is colder, windy and wetter than Charles! I don't mind the cold to a point but cold and rain is well depressing. Sometimes the summer are pritty short to. But lucky I can grow stuff so it's all good.
@@tbbart6463 never new it got that cold in the west indies. Glad you stick to the imperial temperature measures.
@@sandy-rr1by H.A.A.R.P.
As always a video to feed the mind and soul! Thank you Sir Charles.
WE LOVE HOW EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, SIR CHARLES IS STILL AMAZED BY HIS UNBELIEVABLY IMMACULATE GARDENING !!!!!!!!!!!!
🌈 never arrive!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig WISE ADVICE !!!!! THANK YOU !!!!!!!
Since lockdown began almost two whole years ago now, i've harvested and eaten green leaves of some sort from my garden every day, bar just a few occasions when we had heavy snow on the ground. I have no greenhouse, so everything is pretty much growing outside. This achievement is all thanks to your techniques and tips, which for me have been revolutionary. For over 20 years i had no idea how to pick lettuce leaves!
For anyone struggling to grow enough bulky green 'salad leaves' during winter, i grow radishes (for their leaves), and also field beans (for their tips). Both work well for me, and add to the variety of produce on the plate.
I have struggled with the Grenoble Red seed germination this year (Seeds Of Italy), so still haven't managed to get a good harvest of that wonderful lettuce yet, but will persevere with it.
Tony I'm happy to hear this and you genius, thanks for mentioning these sowings.
That company sells old seed sometimes :( but if you can raise one plant then allow it to seed, you're in
@@CharlesDowding1nodig
I started growing Grenoble Red a few years ago from one of your videos, and I love it, it yields great harvests in the cool, even cold weather of spring, but I also have germination problems which I believe is the seed and not something wrong I am doing. I am in the U.S., but bought my seed from some company in the U.K. once before, I think it was Kings Seeds. Is there any other company you can recommend for lettuce seed?
@@jzak5723 I like the German seed company Bingenheimer. Also I encourage you to save your own seed from the Grenoble Red, which I have been doing for 12 years and it's very feasible under cover
@@CharlesDowding1nodig
Thanks for the seed source. I really do need to start saving my own seed, it really makes sense to do it since it is the freshest you will ever get.
@@jzak5723 Maybe try Real Seeds John, or Bingenheimer in Germany
...Another "Lectio Magistralis" from Charles!! Thank you Charles
Nice phrase!!!
Charles, you are now officially my Garden Guru! So, I am hoping that you will continue to produce these amazing videos.
That's the plan Min 🌱
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vườn rau nhìn thích quá ạ.😍😍
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Love your stuff Charles. Thanks for everything you do.
I appreciate that!
Charles, I love hearing about your early days as a market gardener. And wish I had known about your interplanting, succession sowing and harvesting methods in my early days as a passionate home gardener. In my opinion, these techniques are as radical as no dig.
Thanks Patricia and they all interlink 😊
I have been collecting radicchio leaves as well. In Italy we use radicchio for mixed salads and I just love the flavour and deep red colour. Every time I pick now salad leaves in winter your words Charles repeat in my head 😊
Ah that is nice!
We put radicchio leaves in the salad mix until about the end of January. I still have some radicchio harvested in December, stored in my shed and I agree the colour is amazing and I like the bitter flavour too.
Perfect for us in zone 3! I grow a handful of them already but I really appreciate you printing the name out for us! I will be adding the rest of them this garden season. Thank you Charles!
Glad you like it
Great update Charles.
There’s so much that can be grown throughout the winter and always learn new ones from your content 👍
Thanks Mark. Absolutely
I have always eaten greens without dressing. Greens have excellent flavor!
💚 indeed!
Lettuce is my favorite winter crop. I grow at least 20 different varieties. Love all of your videos...
I am impressed Melinda!!
Brilliant as always and thank you for sharing the trade secrets. I have tasted your salad leaves and cannot believe how long and fresh they last, you always inspire me with your love and respect for your soil and your endless enthusiasm to produce great vegetables. Heather Isle of Wight
How lovely to hear from you Heather and I hope you are well, and thanks for your nice comment. I'm always amazed myself by the flavours!
Excellent. I sowed a bit late this autumn just filled all my hanging baskets & 2 troughs in the greenhouse with about 20 plants total & have enough for a salad every few days over winter.
One of the best non-lettuce bagged salads I ever bought was in the US & it was kale, shredded cabbage, shredded broccoli stems, shredded brussels sprouts. It came with dried cranberries & pumpkin seeds and poppy seed dressing. I could eat that every day as well. 😄
Great work here Charles. I always learn a lot every video I watch. 👍
Thank you, and that sounds an amazing salad, I reckon I could eat that every day!
Your patience from gardening allows you to make remarkable videos. I like being able to see visual representation of what you talk about. Since you have the patience to wait and gather videos months apart, we get to see what you are talking about. As always, I love seeing your gardens
Thank you very much Faith
Właściwy człowiek na właściwym miejscu ;) dzięki Panu w Polsce rewolucja... Każdy biega po kartony i idzie na łatwiznę :D ja również. Truskawki jesienią na kartonach sadzilam. Sąsiadka nie wierzyła ,jak się przyjęły osłupiała :D
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I love watching your videos in the middle of winter - actually all year around. We are going down to 7 F tomorrow night here outside of Philly so I can't get away with what you can but I did pick some curly endive radishes and carrots last week so even here I'm still eating off the garden a little. I have spinach and arugula under poly tunnels that should come back to life in March. I do the best I can with my climate. Enjoy your winter greens!
Yes your climate is different, sounds good!
I am over in southern Michigan, and up until a few weeks ago I was still picking beets, carrots, and turnip greens, but the beets finally froze out. I put a low poly tunnel over my carrots and turnip greens, and the spinach I planted late in the fall will make it until spring without any cover, and then produce leaves during the cool of spring along with the turnip greens. Hang in there, it won't be long until we can start planting again!
I can watch these videos over and over🤓
Well done, Charles. Thanks for the information.
cracking update charles
Just so much knowledge to be shared. Years and years of experience. Thank you for being here and making these videos for us Charles.
I appreciate that Pedro
They taste good, but, I believe, the garden Smells nice as well. Thank you for your videos.
Yes indeed, thanks Nicholas
Invaluable video at this time of year, always come back to it as I prepare my polytunnel for salad success over winter/spring, cheers
Glad it's helpful!
I always use high calorie, high fat content salad dressing from the refrigerated section of the store. It's delicious-I can't seem to stop!
It depends on your activity levels too. If you're fit and active you do need a good bit of calories and some fat in your diet
I learned to make a few nice salad dressing whilst being a chef years ago. I agree a good rich fatty dressing on a crisp salad in winter. Oh my heaven!
(OH this is funny. Autocorrect tried to take fatty and make it farty 🤣so glad I remembered to spell check my posting)
So right! I had similar when advising against forking the soil.
Such a beautiful display of winter greens. This whole video is eye candy
IKR I love winter for growing, always seemed like the best time of year for me. Even have tomatoes and cucumbers, just woow.
Greetings from Australia.
Amazing 🏆
That polytunnel is magnificent. Like you say, Charles, any bit of greenery in the winter is welcome.
Nice presentation very calming voice great inspiration.
Hi Charles, This video is really inspiring, in several ways. additional to growing you seem to feel so good, not the least important, is it! Thank´s for leading us up one of the good paths!
Absolutely Nana. I feel fine and thanks
Ooo I loved listening to your principles, and that you told us something about yourself, I love your philosophy, and it is the one I try to apply. Thank you teacher!!❤️
You are so welcome 😀
I grew lettuce for the first time this year and sold it at the market. One rule I have is to not use any plastic packaging for my produce. I sold my lettuce mix in paper bags. A small display with the tops of the bags open so the customers could see the leaves. As they sold I would pack new bags to keep the display full and the strategy worked. It was a very popular item and people appreciated it being plastic free.
Good to hear you say that there's nothing wrong with wet lettuce. The lettuce I sold was always damp and some people suggested that It was a problem. I didn't see anything wrong with it and the alternative was wilted leaves.
Thanks for the knowledge
Good on you!.
If we sold direct, that could be managed but my shops want plastic bags
I love the little crispy gem lettuce.
Your enthusiasm about your garden and the foods that you grow is evident in everything that you do! It is very contagious! I’m already foraging through my basket of seeds to begin my growing plans for these next few months. Love your channel ❤️ Thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise with all of us who are so eager to learn from you! South Carolina, USA…
Thanks Tonie, I'm very pleased to be able to help you!
Oh how I wish I had the same climate- not only for a longer grow season but who wouldn’t want all the numbers worked out for them! Thanks for all the help. Your insight and experience is greatly appreciated from northern Minnesota USA. Cheers!
Many thanks, and I hope you are not too freezing now!
Uwielbiam Pana oglądać, jest Pan moją inspiracją. Pozdrawiam serdecznie i życzę wszystkiego dobrego w nowym roku.
ardzo miło się to czyta i bardzo dziękuję
I love all of your videos! Thank you Charles ❤️
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Thank you for this, very inspiring. It’s very easy to think that nothing will grow over winter. Need to remember come September.
Today my Charles Dowding containerwise cd60 module trays arrived! They are sturdy, beautiful, handy and they have a nice smooth finish. Really happy with them and looking forward to using them.
Great to hear Pauline
I've been picking your way for about 3 years now. Even on my farm. Most of the farmers use the quick cut system, but I love the consistency and that everything is inspected and sorted before it ever makes it into the wash bin. Sure the actual harvest goes faster with a greens harvester, but I think the length of time the plants live with this method saves time (and of course money) because all the seeding, transplanting, bed prep, and sorting out bad leaves and bugs that is saved over the course of the season.
Thanks for this Brian and I'm very reassured to read this because all the publicity goes in the other direction, with those fantastic looking harvesters which you describe.
I'm really glad that it's working for you, and your plants!
Najważniejsze są chęci, byle do wiosny, pozdrawiam 👍💚♥️
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I use your method for salads, on a much smaler scale and had alot of harvest all winter... and looking forward to the growth spurt of the early spring 2022 season
Great to hear Sascha
Lovely greens.
Dear brother Charles, I really admire the way you are doing things, very gently, kindly and with great care for the plants. You are an inspiration 🙏
Ah thanks 🌱
I'm still so grateful and amazed by your generosity of explaining and showing exactly how you do things. From the sowing to the growing and then harvesting and storing. So well done and easy to follow. Just the thing you said about harvesting actually makes all the difference regarding how long you will be able to crop. Just love it.
Thanks Ieva, happy growing!
You've really changed the way we grow our salad now. Thank you so much. Yesterday we picked 3 types of lettuce and mustard, baby spinach and chard, rocket, land cress, tatsoi, pea shoots, flat leaves parsley and fennel fronds. A fantastic winter salad, much tastier than summer offerings. All grown outside under fleece or in the greenhouse. Followed your calendar for all our sowings last year and can't wait to get started again!
Wonderful! That sounds a really delicious mix, thanks for feedback Vikki :)
Thanks Charlie😊
50 degrees F sounds like a heat wave! Lucky you. Tonight will bring -10 F here. Not much growing except snow banks!
My goodness! I learn something new every time I watch your videos! And, I have been gardening a long time; since I was a little girl out in the garden "helping" my daddy. (I'm 63 now) Thank you
You are so welcome! I'm 63 in two weeks :)
Thank you, Mr. Dowding. Greetings (again) from Bowling Green, Kentucky. We are bracing for another round of winter weather tonight. In the last 4.5 weeks, we've had two rounds of tornadoes, and two rounds of snow fronts, to move through our city.
Oh dear that sounds traumatic Derek, I hope the damage is not great.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig It'll take years to recover from the first round of tornadoes. That set of tornadoes was about 2.5 miles away from me. Last night's winter storm has produced more ice, than anything else. I did not really get any snow. It's all ice.
Great. Endorse every word. The best piece of gardening advice I ever had - that brassicas flower in spring so sow them for salads in the autumn. Eating lots every week. Thank you CD. And I (cruelly) loved the nearly-fall-over-backwards at 9.07!
Cheers Alan!
Wow, That's an amazing harvest Charles. I need to up my game and sow more for using through the winter months.
Thank you for this nice educational video, Charles! Really interesting and useful, especially the small details and advices of picking you shared.
Yes Charles, I wash my lettuce and give it a shake and bag it and it keeps for more than a week very fresh. I must check on the types of lettuce for next winter as I've only done Lollo Rosso in winter, love the videos.
Thanks for sharing Rene
Great video Charles. Very interesting and enjoyable.
The salad leaves I've had in late spring to mid summer have lasted in the fridge for 14 days and still had a crunch to them .. all my family members and friends absolutely love me when spring comes around
. Thanks to you Charles!
How cool!
Thanks for your reply 👍👍👍👍👍👍
So much more flavourful deliciousness in winter
Thank you Charles. Your way of presenting is so simple and your voice sounds so soothing and encourages.
You are very welcome Danijela and thanks
I haven’t check out your videos for awhile. I hope for your good health sir.
😀 thanks all good
Thanks to you, my 8x6 greenhouse is currently home to two varieties of lettuce, wild & cultivated rocket, coriander, mustard & spinach.
Not quite big enough yet for picking (left sowing rather late) but I expect to start harvesting leaves next week & hopefully they'll keep producing until the first of the outdoor lettuce take over.
That sounds good and for plants still establishing in winter time, I recommend you don't pick them too much until early March
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for the advice on picking - I'll leave them be for now.
Great video and I really love how you've broken it down into selectable segments. Really educational. Cheers!
I always enjoy watching your videos.
I appreciate that John
Disfruto mucho ver tus sembrados. Gracias por. Compartir. Saludos desde Colombia.
¡Gracias Alvares, eso es muy bueno!
Your video presentations are like Magic. I am captivated and taken away to a wonderful reality and given this magical knowledge and then returned to the real world where I just want to grow everything!!!! How I do love your presentations. Thank you so much for sharing. Best Regards!
Wow, thank you Billy!
Magic, is good!
Thank you so much! for this wonderful explanation of winter salads. I can’t wait t get going this year in our no dig veg plot.
🥬 grow well!
Looks amazing. Great work as always.
Thanks Michael
This video was very helpful for me. Thank you for all the details.
Soooo inspiring for a brand new year of gardening! Especially timely as I’ve just determined yesterday to spend more time in the garden in 2022. Thank you Sir Charles
Go for it!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank u! First step today. 💪 some watering and harvesting a few young leaves 😬
Another truly inspiring and educational episode. Thank you Charles 🙏🏽
Your videos are so relaxing - just the tonic, thanks 👌🙏
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Great tips Charles, I have lots of different salad leaf seeds I got free from gardening magazines, I wasn’t sure how I would use them all but you’ve given me some great ideas for when to sow, thank you!
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I‘ve become a huge fan of rocket, tastes so nutty even in the middle of winter, and survives the harshest of conditions. I‘ll grow it every season.
I so agree
I envy your weather , we have very good weather for our state right now ! 5-6 inch snow on the ground and our weather is 30 F ! Notting grows in our winter 🥶
Oh wow, I sympathise and yes we are fortunate 😀
Great inspiring video again Charles. Always something new to learn from you. Thankyou so much!
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Charles is a treasure.
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It’s sunny today 40F and the snow on the greens outside my kitchen is melting. It’s amazing how perked up and full spinach looks. I must pick some for a salad with dinner tonight! I planted several varieties of greens so it should be quite a nice salad with no dressing needed. 😋
Sounds great Charlie and you are really getting the hang of this. That spinach should be sweeter as well, from being cold, it's such a good winter vegetable
Thank you really good information on the different types of salad leaves. I never know what to grow together, very useful information thank you. I'll be trying those salad box ideas this autumn now.
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Hey Charles.
Thank you for confirming that a salad spinner is not a must, salads are much easier in winter, as in summer time, one day you have lots of salad and the next you have lots of "small pine trees" 😀
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
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Thanks to Charles! I've learnt such a lot here, and some new ideas take on too :-)
I keep my salad leaves in the fridge wrapped in a damp tea towel, lasts ages. My ol granny told me about that one.
Thanks for everything you do, wish you all the best😍😍😍😍
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You are so right that we have had to hide the lack of flavour with sauces. I think thats why I liked rocket because of the strong flavour. You have inspired me to experiment with greens this year!
Ah cool!
Always nice to watch your videos. After watching one of your early videos of growing winter lettuce and mustards I had a go last year /this year in the mushroom containers with 6 plants in each. Great results thanks to you. Thank you very much.
Good to hear Alan!
Verei o vídeo mais tarde. Seus vídeos são meus favoritos. 😊💖
Muito obrigado
Love homegrown lettuces my favorite garden vegetable.Thanks Charles my ancestry 65 percent from 18 locations in England. I live in Kentucky. USA your the best gardener I know of.
That is awesome pedigree Sherree (!) and thanks
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Sir Charles,, you are an inspiration 🇮🇳👍🌟
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Perfect Timing for me here in NZ. I"m just starting to think about what I need to get started from seed over the next two months for my winter garden. I love the variety of salad leaves you grow for interesting flavours (and looks) so I'll be getting the seeds I need and preparing. Its so hot and dry here at the moment, that I need to reassure myself that rain will come - sometime.
Ha ha I'm sure the rain is coming Annie! Good luck with your winter harvests and you're right to think about them in the summer
Soy de Chile y hace poco guerreando, seguiré tus consejos , muchas gracias
Muchas gracias 🥬
I've also found our salad mix lasts longer when we don't dry them too much. I actually just opened a cooler from last month's farmers market that I forgot, and the leftover was just in the cooler with a damp newspaper and a bit of water in the bottom. It was still good a month later and we had a nice salad.
Yes I notice much the same, and I think it's related to what we've already described that the plants are more mature and therefore have a stronger root system, which can grow the leaves firmer and probably more nutritious. At a restaurant which I supply, the head chef commented how, in his words "Your leaves stand the dressing", compared to baby leaves he bought sometimes which collapse under a bit of oil and vinegar.
We think so much alike. We had salad for dinner and I just had salad for brunch. So many varieties you can use of different plants and foods. Thanks for the video and hagd!
Love that!
Спасибо за рассказ!
My pleasure!
Brilliant gardening tips 👍
Wished i had a big space to plant like that! Your living the dream! 😅 i only have a small garden
you're---you are.
Wonderful!
Thank you for another great video. As for storing slightly moist freshly picked salad leaves in a plastic bag in the fridge I found that method working very well for me. There might be a problem though using this method with lettuce bought from stores as I do not know how long the lettuce has been on the store shelf. Thank you Charles for sharing your experience.
Love the insight these videos provide and it really shows the passion you have for gardening, thank you for helping me become a better gardener Charles!
You are very welcome Will
Спасибо! Точно также собираю салат всю зиму.
Я действительно впечатлен, потому что вы говорите по-русски, но, может быть, вы находитесь в более теплой части России или где-то еще!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig да, конечно, я живу во Франции, регион Парижа))) открыла для себя этот метод сбора- по листочкам, поэтому салат растёт и растёт, получается. « долгоиграющий салат». Но очень много маленьких слизней, к сожалению, они тут живут всю зиму, а вот в России погибают- это небольшой плюс.
Спасибо вам за ваши видео, что делитесь с нами, за ваш восхитительный огород! Здоровья и всего самого доброго🌷
Thankyou! Понятно, что в России слизни представляют меньшую проблему из-за холодных зим!
I've learned a ton from your videos! I'm growing my first over-wintered garden in central NC. Mild days so far around 45-50 deg, so the chard and kale is doing great. I'm still waiting for the brussels sprouts to make sprouts..
Sounds great Jamie, Brussels should be there, sow before end May
Jamie, if your brussels fail to head up, they’re likely to “blow” and form sprouting heads. Please don’t discard them. They are delicious. Like raab or purple sprouting but much sweeter. Tbh, I look forward to a margin of brussels failures every year. Probably my most favourite green spring delicacy! 😃😍