Had enough Kalettes and Brussel Sprouts for 14 yesterday. Was super proud and rasberries for dessert. Planted 12 Sprout plants and used only 5 for Xmas dinner. The allotment has produced some fine food which was enjoyed by the family yesterday. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a super 2025 Charles. Thank you again for the constant inspiration😊
Happy Solstice season Charles! I'm delighted you've gone with Garden Planner. I have used this for several years and been mostly happy with it. Your involvement can only improve it. The great thing for your methods is the ability to specify months-in-ground and just view the situation for a particular month. Very helpful for succession planning. And making notes against a planting for those of us without your miraculous memory for planting dates. Also pleased to report that my previous years' plans and remaining subscription days have carried over to my access via your site.
Yes, I'm also delighted that my previous years' plans and journal have carried over to my access via Charles' site. Thanks Charles! @CharlesDowding1nodig I'm wondering what is different when I access the planner through your site? A quick look didn't show me any differences - e.g. where do we see your recommended spacing (I had great success last summer with 9" spacing for lettuces that you'd recommended in a video, but I don't see that in the planner?)
I harvested some Kalettes for solstice dinner and probably have some over for new year! I need inspiring to use the lovely squashes I have stored. Bon apetit and a happy and productive new year!
Get some Sirloin down you Charles, you'll love it 😅 That dish looked lovely, I found out the other day Kale used to be animal fodder, how times have changed, now we have Kale sprouts!
Wonderful meal...feast indeed! Can hardly wait to duplicate that main course and slaw. (I'm a former professional chef...) Happy Christmas and New Year. Be well!
❤🎄Frohe Weihnachten und ein Glückliches Neues Jahr wünsche ich Dir Charles🌠. Deine Videos sind einfach toll, ich durfte schon so viel lernen, Danke dafür. I found your channel through the videos that have now been translated into German. Thank you very much for that. I asked for your book No Dig for my birthday. I'm looking forward reading it.🎆❤I just had Brussels from the garden for dinner😉
My aim next year is to grow kalettes for the first time🤞& to be more successful with my brussels. Thank you for providing sowing dates + the motivation. I received your No Dig cookbook for Christmas & I can't wait to try out the recipes 😊 All the very very best Charles, you continue to be an inspiration x
Merry Christmas and a happy and successfull new Year and thank you for all your work, knowlege and enthusiasm you keep sharing with us All the best for 2025 😊
Merry Christmas Charles, and to your team. I wish you all a very happy New Year. I love your videos and all the ideas and inspiration they bring. Looking forward to learning more from you in the new year!
Ordered your seed planner last night! Loved last years planner and looking forward to the 2025 edition - will look forward to trying your digital planner too - Thank you Charles
Thank you for the video! I also had been looking for this program for so long, thank you! Nicola seems to be an amazing cook its a great idea to bring her in your video. You have surronded yourself of great people.
Thank you for posting videos even during the holidays 😊 I must try kalettes some time. They look delicious, and so does the rest of your meal. If I may be as impertinent as to say so, it's good that you're not purely vegetarian. Pork, for instance, is the best source of thiamine and it also contains other important B vitamins. The problem is the same as with vegetables - if one has to buy them: How to find food with equally high levels of various nutrients (such as trace minerals) as food produced prior to the era of industrial farming. Thanks to your efforts, you and many of your viewers at least get to taste genuine fruit and veg😊 Well done and best of luck in 2025🎉
Hi Charles ! I was just watching some of your compost videos again here in Philadelphia PA at 6:00 am with my coffee. Just a thought about your covered compost bins : you don't worry much about slots and air around the sides and emphasize the use of cardboard sides and holding in warmth. That being said I don't know why you fight with heavy planks of wood and screws on the front of the bins. Get a sheet of plywood and glue a thin sheet of waterproof wall covering to the plywood. Like they use in shower walls. Cut it to size to fit the front of the compost bin so that you can hang it on the post with heavy duty hinges and something to hold it closed on the other side. No more dealing with heavy planks or screws. With the plastic on the inside it should last longer than the rest of the sides. A bit of a project but well worth the effort for the convenience it will bring. And it will look really cool ! 😎😉😁
Thanks Robert, nice thought. However, there's a few reasons why I would not do that. Plywood in this damp climate starts to peel and go soft and I prefer to avoid the glues. The planks I have actually are Douglas fir which are light and have natural oil for longevity. Also, it's convenient to screw new planks in stages, as we build a heap, otherwise you're throwing stuff over a high door. Access to the heap is necessary also for levelling. And at any one time, we're only using about one third of the door coverings we would need if each one had a full-size door permanently. It might look cumbersome, but it's elegant!
@CharlesDowding1nodig maybe use roofing nails to fix the waterproof material to the planks instead of plywood. No glue. Maybe have the door in two sections with four hinges so you can work on open, half open or both sections closed.... Maybe I'm a little OCD...😂 But dealing with planks and screws would drive me crazy. At least with that many compost bins. I sift all of my compost through a wooden frame with a piece of wire mesh stucco screen nailed to it. It's only one 55 gallon barrel full each spring before planting. Then I mix in some perlite and some organic fertilizer to the sifted compost before mixing it well and topping off my raised beds.
Cheers Robert and I understand your drift! I think we just see things differently because I'm actually very happy using my electric drill to screw and unscrew, it's quick. Your compost sounds great.
Siempre aprendo algo 😂 es muy interesante.En estos días he estado viendo cosas de alimentación y en las coles en general,hoja verde hay mucho potasio que a veces es bueno,pero otras no lo es tanto,en caso de que nuestro riñón no pueda eliminarlo por algún problema nefrológico .Que buena cocina y estupenda ensalada .Te deseo un buen año 2025 lleno de buenos cultivos y buena salud para ti y tus seres queridos
My kalettes were started too late and only 2 feet high! Everything is stopped growing so will have to wait till spring. Something is still eating my cabbages which are also stunned in SW England..
Hello Charles, Je ne connaissais pas la Kalette Je connais et cultive du chou Kale,des choux de Bruxelles et du chou frisé Quel délicieux repas qu'a préparé Nicola Miam 😋😋 Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année 🥳🎅🤶🍾🥂
Oui, c'est une bonne cuisinière et une bonne assistante générale. Je pense que ces kalettes sont peut-être meilleures au printemps, mais elles sont difficiles à protéger contre les pigeons. J-P, je vous souhaite le meilleur pour 2025.
I loved the idea soaking the onions in lemon juice to add flavour to the coleslaw. We sometimes serve red onion soaked like that with some paprika or chili powder when eating curries. Makes a nice side. I also appreciated the openness to a bit of meat. Whilst we should generally eat less meat, it's important to brace being a flexitarian in my opinion. Meat is still an important source of goodness, is delicious, and some of the most important land management techniques for improving biodiversity involves using cows and sheep, which can be sold for meat to help pay for the conservation efforts. Some land just isn't suitable for arable farming but makes good pasture too.
Wow, great idea charles, this program- that looks really beautiful! Nice meal Nicola has created here! One of my dearest collegues is also named Nicola, therefore I really had to smile.
@ and also at several simlilar programs at American sites. But I find it helpful to see one especially with no dig beds which differ in various points concerning conventional gardening. And I suppose Charles added his special experience in there, too, that yo find documented in his book and countless bed trial- videos🌱. So I do really appreciate it😁
@@DaraRich Yes, the Charles Dowding version has extra video content from Charles included and Charles has added in multi-sown icons to go with the No Dig methods he teaches.
Thats a nice spread of delicious home grown veggies 🥕,, 🍎,,, 🌱,,, 🧅,, 🧄,,, 🧈,,etc ,,healthy platter of food ,,like always inspired by your videos sirji 👍🇮🇳,, wishing you all at Home Acres Merry Christmas 🌲🎁 and a very Happy New year 2025 🎉🎉
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yeah harvest at my terrace garden is at present harvested drumsticks means moringa tree seed pods ,,also mulberry ,,guavas,,custard apples,,Indian jujubees,,and Mango 🥭 tress are blooming with flowers,,🙏🇮🇳
A wonderful, post Christmas, video Charles, I envy your plots and produce :) I need bigger beds. I started mine as small raised beds (as my plot is so stony due to the way they raise and compact the land to build houses here) many years ago as a "Tinkerer", but as I've gotten more and more into gardening (thanks mostly to you Charles), they just don't cut it any more. My next project will be to either merge some or make some new ones. I'm getting excited already at the prospect. Happy new year.
I'm happy to hear of your production. The bed width I recommend it is 1.2 meter/4 feet with paths of 40 cm/16 inches. Compared to the layout of market gardeners like JM Fortier, with 75 cm beds and paths, this gives more a decent growing space
Charles I had a quick question if I may. I was very inspired by your pole beans teepees so I'm going to grow Barlotti beans on teepees next year. I was wondering how many seedlings do you plant at the base of each poles to ensure that the teepee is completely covered? I noticed yours are absolutely thick in leaves that's what i'm looking for. Thank you and happy new year in advance!
I plant just one seed or one plant per pole, but it could be two and there's six or eight poles in a teepee. Mine are eight poles, for a bed of 1.3 m wide in this case.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Appreciate it sir! Thank you for the extra informations, I wanted to ask but didnt want to end up with a long question, so thank you for everything.
Oooh thanks. My sister in law showed me these in a farmers field on our family Xmas walk. But she could not recall what they were called! Over here in Germany, there seems no consensus on the seed packets. Just "Rosenkohl" on some. But they all seem to be "Autumn Star F1". 😊. Ordered!
Thank you Charles for sharing your Kalet Brussels, I did wonder what size they need to grow before picking. Have a wonderful Christmas and I'm hoping 2025 is a very good year for you - no slugs, snails, pigeons, rabbits being so destructive!!!
Charles, I have heavy duty issues with grey looking aphids amd leave sooty looking stuff on my fall/winter grown greens. Do you encounter these? How do you minimize their impact?
I used to suffer these until I increased the organic matter in my soul through extra mulch, which keeps the plant stronger, and of less interest to aphids
Merry Christmas from Canada. Been following you for years and using the no dig approach. I’m curious about the garden planter. It looks identical to the Growveg planner I currently use and wondered if your version has any different features.
Thanks Michele and yes, it's based on that one, with my understandings - this planner has the principal features of my work, including no dig, minimal rotation, close spacings, rapid succession planting and interplanting. There are my videos relevant to every season, and I send newsletters of advice.
Mmmm! I absolutely LOVE brussels sprouts, but they always give me gas. Sorry if that's too much information, but I would love any tricks to get around that if you have any, because as I said I LOVE them!
A question to readers; we just bought a homestead with 8 acres and want to grow our own food. Our land is fertile (loads of worms when we recently planted seeds/trees/flowers in a small area. Do I need to put cardboard, compost, and wood chips down? Can I just lay down cardboard and chips over it? Compost is expensive to cover a large area which we intend to turn to garden. Thanks!
Good to hear Roger. I would use no compost, except for where you want to grow vegetables. They respond strongly to increasing fertility and that saves time by allowing you to crop a smaller area for the same amount of harvest when the soil is really fertile.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Hi Charles, Thanks for your reply. And keep providing great content and invaluable information. All the best for 2025. Cheers Roger
Bacon & Brassicas ... I don't know what these loons down here are going on about, Charles. One of the most tasty things one can put in ones mouth & one of the most nutrient dense things one can put in ones mouth. I follow this formula frequently. It is a beautiful marriage. Not to mention that bacon from a responsible grower (preferably ones self !!!) is also very healthy for different reasons (most of your brain is fat!). Sometimes people like to say that charred meat is carcinogenic ........ EVERYTHING charred is carcinogenic, even charred kale! Don't burn your food!
That looks delicious! Shame you rarely eat meat, Charles…. You have the perfect setup for escargot 🐌 or pigeon pie 🥧 😄 Hope you’re having a happy Christmas and wishing you and your team a successful 2025 jam packed with video treats. 😬😄🥂🫡
I love your work Charles and have your books and calendars here at home but a fairly expensive subscription app is awful business and I think beneath your usual ethical standards. I would 100% buy the app for a one off cost and I could also understand your company offering a trial period subscription at a lower cost. BUT as a solely subscription based money chaser it doesn't meet the mark nor is it worth it. That's just me though. All the best.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes, I'm sure also. What's the truism again? Something and something are easily parted? Or shall we just use one of the capitalists faves.. What's something worth? Answer: What someone is willing to pay for it. I wish you all the best in your commercial endeavours.
Yes sure and I have been working with them for six months. My planner is adapted for no dig, minimal rotation, my specific advice on growing and sowing dates and soil fertility, with video and other links
Sometimes yes, and the follow recommendations are a lot different, the video recommendations. Theirs is a very good planner, and that's why I'm working with them. I have also been very keen to create this one specifically tailored to no dig, which leads to differences in cropping and succession.
@@CharlesDowding1nodigHi Charles. I’ve been using theirs for 10 years. Would your version still be able to pull in the dates for my region in Canada? Any chance my past plans could be imported over?
No. Onions are my home-saved Keravel mostly. I try hybrids to compare, around 10% of what I grow. Reason is that I want worthwhile harvests. And for some vegetables like Brussels, the old varieties are now very poor from lack of seen maintenance.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks for replying Sir ! I was just thinking loudly if I may . was generally speaking about the world of farmers...Merry Christmas should I ve been said ! And a very good next year !
I accidentally grew a hybrid runner bean during 2020 (stores ran out of seeds) from my saved seeds from 2019. I still grow them every year. Sometimes they’re large white beans, sometimes speckledy brown on pink. I call them my pot lucks. 😃
Had enough Kalettes and Brussel Sprouts for 14 yesterday. Was super proud and rasberries for dessert. Planted 12 Sprout plants and used only 5 for Xmas dinner. The allotment has produced some fine food which was enjoyed by the family yesterday. Wishing you a peaceful Christmas and a super 2025 Charles. Thank you again for the constant inspiration😊
Lovely to hear of your success Ona, Wishing you a wonderful New Year 🙂
Feliz Ano Novo Charles obrigado ❤
Happy Solstice season Charles! I'm delighted you've gone with Garden Planner. I have used this for several years and been mostly happy with it. Your involvement can only improve it. The great thing for your methods is the ability to specify months-in-ground and just view the situation for a particular month. Very helpful for succession planning. And making notes against a planting for those of us without your miraculous memory for planting dates.
Also pleased to report that my previous years' plans and remaining subscription days have carried over to my access via your site.
Thanks Paul, I am happy to see all this, and hope you have a good year with it
Yes, I'm also delighted that my previous years' plans and journal have carried over to my access via Charles' site. Thanks Charles!
@CharlesDowding1nodig I'm wondering what is different when I access the planner through your site? A quick look didn't show me any differences - e.g. where do we see your recommended spacing (I had great success last summer with 9" spacing for lettuces that you'd recommended in a video, but I don't see that in the planner?)
Thanks for sharing this because 9in / 22cm for lettuce should be there! I shall ask them.
I love to watch the simple recipes made from the garden harvests. Thank you so much for the inspiration. ❤
I am glad and you are very welcome 🙂
Merci beaucoup! And thank you for providing a planner with your data in it. That will be very useful this spring!
I harvested some Kalettes for solstice dinner and probably have some over for new year! I need inspiring to use the lovely squashes I have stored. Bon apetit and a happy and productive new year!
Sounds great Tim, and see this squash cooking video, use any green leaf for spinach ruclips.net/video/HbGZoVCgdzo/видео.html
@@CharlesDowding1nodig perfick! Thank you
Get some Sirloin down you Charles, you'll love it 😅 That dish looked lovely, I found out the other day Kale used to be animal fodder, how times have changed, now we have Kale sprouts!
Wonderful meal...feast indeed! Can hardly wait to duplicate that main course and slaw. (I'm a former professional chef...) Happy Christmas and New Year. Be well!
Thanks Patricia, enjoy your meal!
❤🎄Frohe Weihnachten und ein Glückliches Neues Jahr wünsche ich Dir Charles🌠. Deine Videos sind einfach toll, ich durfte schon so viel lernen, Danke dafür. I found your channel through the videos that have now been translated into German. Thank you very much for that. I asked for your book No Dig for my birthday. I'm looking forward reading it.🎆❤I just had Brussels from the garden for dinner😉
Schön zu hören, auch dir ein frohes neues Jahr 🙂
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My aim next year is to grow kalettes for the first time🤞& to be more successful with my brussels. Thank you for providing sowing dates + the motivation. I received your No Dig cookbook for Christmas & I can't wait to try out the recipes 😊 All the very very best Charles, you continue to be an inspiration x
You are welcome Emily, thanks for sharing
Merry Christmas and a happy and successfull new Year and thank you for all your work, knowlege and enthusiasm you keep sharing with us
All the best for 2025 😊
Thank you and wishing you a successful 2025 also 🙂
Always enjoy your channel, videos and content.
Awesome, thank you
Merry Christmas Charles, and to your team. I wish you all a very happy New Year. I love your videos and all the ideas and inspiration they bring. Looking forward to learning more from you in the new year!
Many thanks 💚
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You're welcome!
Ordered your seed planner last night! Loved last years planner and looking forward to the 2025 edition - will look forward to trying your digital planner too - Thank you Charles
Hope you enjoy it Dora, thanks
all looks lovely
Thanks Steven
Crispus sprouts a brilliant variety to grow
Yes I like them, am growing some next year
Thank you for the video! I also had been looking for this program for so long, thank you! Nicola seems to be an amazing cook its a great idea to bring her in your video. You have surronded yourself of great people.
Glad it was helpful! Yes she is a fine cook
Try onions with orange juice, it's just yummy... And ''bon bout d'an'' as we say in Provence ✨ lovely Nicola, thanks for your smily recipes ...
Merry Christmas ! Brussels sprouts are wonderful. What a joy, I have some in the fridge.
Oh good and Happy New Year Wayne
@CharlesDowding1nodig Happy New Year also thank you very much 🙏
Thank you for posting videos even during the holidays 😊 I must try kalettes some time. They look delicious, and so does the rest of your meal. If I may be as impertinent as to say so, it's good that you're not purely vegetarian. Pork, for instance, is the best source of thiamine and it also contains other important B vitamins. The problem is the same as with vegetables - if one has to buy them: How to find food with equally high levels of various nutrients (such as trace minerals) as food produced prior to the era of industrial farming. Thanks to your efforts, you and many of your viewers at least get to taste genuine fruit and veg😊 Well done and best of luck in 2025🎉
How lovely Anna, thanks 💚
Hi Charles ! I was just watching some of your compost videos again here in Philadelphia PA at 6:00 am with my coffee. Just a thought about your covered compost bins : you don't worry much about slots and air around the sides and emphasize the use of cardboard sides and holding in warmth. That being said I don't know why you fight with heavy planks of wood and screws on the front of the bins. Get a sheet of plywood and glue a thin sheet of waterproof wall covering to the plywood. Like they use in shower walls. Cut it to size to fit the front of the compost bin so that you can hang it on the post with heavy duty hinges and something to hold it closed on the other side. No more dealing with heavy planks or screws. With the plastic on the inside it should last longer than the rest of the sides. A bit of a project but well worth the effort for the convenience it will bring. And it will look really cool ! 😎😉😁
Thanks Robert, nice thought. However, there's a few reasons why I would not do that. Plywood in this damp climate starts to peel and go soft and I prefer to avoid the glues. The planks I have actually are Douglas fir which are light and have natural oil for longevity. Also, it's convenient to screw new planks in stages, as we build a heap, otherwise you're throwing stuff over a high door. Access to the heap is necessary also for levelling. And at any one time, we're only using about one third of the door coverings we would need if each one had a full-size door permanently. It might look cumbersome, but it's elegant!
@CharlesDowding1nodig maybe use roofing nails to fix the waterproof material to the planks instead of plywood. No glue. Maybe have the door in two sections with four hinges so you can work on open, half open or both sections closed.... Maybe I'm a little OCD...😂 But dealing with planks and screws would drive me crazy. At least with that many compost bins. I sift all of my compost through a wooden frame with a piece of wire mesh stucco screen nailed to it. It's only one 55 gallon barrel full each spring before planting. Then I mix in some perlite and some organic fertilizer to the sifted compost before mixing it well and topping off my raised beds.
Cheers Robert and I understand your drift! I think we just see things differently because I'm actually very happy using my electric drill to screw and unscrew, it's quick. Your compost sounds great.
Siempre aprendo algo 😂 es muy interesante.En estos días he estado viendo cosas de alimentación y en las coles en general,hoja verde hay mucho potasio que a veces es bueno,pero otras no lo es tanto,en caso de que nuestro riñón no pueda eliminarlo por algún problema nefrológico .Que buena cocina y estupenda ensalada .Te deseo un buen año 2025 lleno de buenos cultivos y buena salud para ti y tus seres queridos
¡Suena complicado!
Muchas gracias por tus amables deseos y que el 2025 sea un buen año para ti en tu cálida isla.
My kalettes were started too late and only 2 feet high!
Everything is stopped growing so will have to wait till spring.
Something is still eating my cabbages which are also stunned in SW England..
Oh dear, roll on 2025.
It may be pigeons if you have jagged leaf edges and they need some netting or mesh over the top gardening-naturally.link/gr8kv
We still have caterpillars in sth. Germany. It’s stunning they could resist the cold up to now.
Hope the damage on your crops would end soon!
Amazing how hardy they are. We have some after -4C
I love the combination of seeing the food grow in the garden and then cooking them 😋 I look forward to seeing the planner
Great to hear 🌱
Hello Charles,
Je ne connaissais pas la Kalette
Je connais et cultive du chou Kale,des choux de Bruxelles et du chou frisé
Quel délicieux repas qu'a préparé Nicola
Miam 😋😋
Bonnes fêtes de fin d'année
🥳🎅🤶🍾🥂
Oui, c'est une bonne cuisinière et une bonne assistante générale.
Je pense que ces kalettes sont peut-être meilleures au printemps, mais elles sont difficiles à protéger contre les pigeons.
J-P, je vous souhaite le meilleur pour 2025.
I loved the idea soaking the onions in lemon juice to add flavour to the coleslaw. We sometimes serve red onion soaked like that with some paprika or chili powder when eating curries. Makes a nice side.
I also appreciated the openness to a bit of meat. Whilst we should generally eat less meat, it's important to brace being a flexitarian in my opinion. Meat is still an important source of goodness, is delicious, and some of the most important land management techniques for improving biodiversity involves using cows and sheep, which can be sold for meat to help pay for the conservation efforts. Some land just isn't suitable for arable farming but makes good pasture too.
Thanks, and I so agree about pasture land
Thx!
Happy holidays and have a great 2025 Charles and team
Thanks so much 🌱
Wow, great idea charles, this program- that looks really beautiful!
Nice meal Nicola has created here! One of my dearest collegues is also named Nicola, therefore I really had to smile.
Program has been around since at least 2019 at Growveg
@ and also at several simlilar programs at American sites.
But I find it helpful to see one especially with no dig beds which differ in various points concerning conventional gardening.
And I suppose Charles added his special experience in there, too, that yo find documented in his book and countless bed trial- videos🌱. So I do really appreciate it😁
So good!
@@DaraRich Yes, the Charles Dowding version has extra video content from Charles included and Charles has added in multi-sown icons to go with the No Dig methods he teaches.
Thats a nice spread of delicious home grown veggies 🥕,, 🍎,,, 🌱,,, 🧅,, 🧄,,, 🧈,,etc ,,healthy platter of food ,,like always inspired by your videos sirji 👍🇮🇳,, wishing you all at Home Acres Merry Christmas 🌲🎁 and a very Happy New year 2025 🎉🎉
Thanks Azam, love your comments and may your harvests continue well
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yeah harvest at my terrace garden is at present harvested drumsticks means moringa tree seed pods ,,also mulberry ,,guavas,,custard apples,,Indian jujubees,,and Mango 🥭 tress are blooming with flowers,,🙏🇮🇳
A different world!
I never heard of kalettes. They look great!
So tasty stir fried with garlic scapes
Merry Christmas Mr Charles ❤
Thanks Abram 🌲
Greetings from Ireland Charles! Wishing you and yours health & happiness for 2025! 🥳💫
Many thanks 🍀 may the beds rise to meet you
A wonderful, post Christmas, video Charles, I envy your plots and produce :) I need bigger beds. I started mine as small raised beds (as my plot is so stony due to the way they raise and compact the land to build houses here) many years ago as a "Tinkerer", but as I've gotten more and more into gardening (thanks mostly to you Charles), they just don't cut it any more. My next project will be to either merge some or make some new ones. I'm getting excited already at the prospect. Happy new year.
I'm happy to hear of your production. The bed width I recommend it is 1.2 meter/4 feet with paths of 40 cm/16 inches.
Compared to the layout of market gardeners like JM Fortier, with 75 cm beds and paths, this gives more a decent growing space
Charles I had a quick question if I may. I was very inspired by your pole beans teepees so I'm going to grow Barlotti beans on teepees next year. I was wondering how many seedlings do you plant at the base of each poles to ensure that the teepee is completely covered? I noticed yours are absolutely thick in leaves that's what i'm looking for. Thank you and happy new year in advance!
I plant just one seed or one plant per pole, but it could be two and there's six or eight poles in a teepee. Mine are eight poles, for a bed of 1.3 m wide in this case.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Appreciate it sir! Thank you for the extra informations, I wanted to ask but didnt want to end up with a long question, so thank you for everything.
Lovely video
Thanks 🤗
I do enjoy Kalettes, but I do suffer a lot from whitefly. I need to plant the right flowers around them to attract the predators.
Wow, those dishes look phenomenal. Well done to all.
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Oooh thanks. My sister in law showed me these in a farmers field on our family Xmas walk. But she could not recall what they were called! Over here in Germany, there seems no consensus on the seed packets. Just "Rosenkohl" on some. But they all seem to be "Autumn Star F1". 😊. Ordered!
How interesting, I had no idea they are common in Germany!
Thank you Charles for sharing your Kalet Brussels, I did wonder what size they need to grow before picking. Have a wonderful Christmas and I'm hoping 2025 is a very good year for you - no slugs, snails, pigeons, rabbits being so destructive!!!
One never knows! Thanks Rebecca
In recent years... If you allow the Kalettes to grow in Spring, the young leaves are great in salads.
Good to know!
As are sliced Brussels sprouts!
Good to see you including animal fats. It’s important nutritionally, if only occasionally.
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I got some kalettes from Sainsburys 2 months ago - very, very delicious. I planted a few, but don't know if kalette plants can be grown this way?
Note to self: see planner with planting times etc at 0:18 to 0,50.
I don't think so! always fun to try
It's the cat washing up in the background 😂😂 I can't stop laughing.
She's an entertainer!
Another great video Charles, Is it possible to share the producer of the bacon? Merry Christmas
Thanks and Nicola found it at Spar in Bruton
Charles, I have heavy duty issues with grey looking aphids amd leave sooty looking stuff on my fall/winter grown greens. Do you encounter these? How do you minimize their impact?
I used to suffer these until I increased the organic matter in my soul through extra mulch, which keeps the plant stronger, and of less interest to aphids
Merry Christmas from Canada. Been following you for years and using the no dig approach. I’m curious about the garden planter. It looks identical to the Growveg planner I currently use and wondered if your version has any different features.
Thanks Michele and yes, it's based on that one, with my understandings - this planner has the principal features of my work, including no dig, minimal rotation, close spacings, rapid succession planting and interplanting.
There are my videos relevant to every season, and I send newsletters of advice.
Will this account for me living in Texas where summer drought makes it hard for my plant friends?
I'm afraid not! But no dig helps conserve moisture
Unusual ponunciation, I've only known them as 'kale-ettes', not 'kal-ettes', but hey, what do I know !
Kale-ettes sounds nice 😀
My Brussells seemed to not be as tightly wrapped this year, the sprouts were sort of loose. Did I do something wrong?
I suspect the variety, is it the same?
@@CharlesDowding1nodig No, mine were Long Island Improved from Territorial Seeds.
Possible the seed has not been grown to such a high standard, taking it from plants with blown sprouts, many older varieties suffer this and I have
Mmmm! I absolutely LOVE brussels sprouts, but they always give me gas. Sorry if that's too much information, but I would love any tricks to get around that if you have any, because as I said I LOVE them!
Oh dear. Roasting them gives less in my experience!
Sadly, that's what I've tried. Anyway, at least I do well with other veg in the cabbage family.@@CharlesDowding1nodig
Good time s too Al en your darling cat ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
It would have been the perfect dish with some roast potatoes ;)
In France, we all know it. If it's called Brigitte, it's an hybrid.
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I see what you did there. 🤣🤣🤣
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A question to readers; we just bought a homestead with 8 acres and want to grow our own food. Our land is fertile (loads of worms when we recently planted seeds/trees/flowers in a small area. Do I need to put cardboard, compost, and wood chips down? Can I just lay down cardboard and chips over it? Compost is expensive to cover a large area which we intend to turn to garden. Thanks!
Good to hear Roger.
I would use no compost, except for where you want to grow vegetables. They respond strongly to increasing fertility and that saves time by allowing you to crop a smaller area for the same amount of harvest when the soil is really fertile.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Hi Charles, Thanks for your reply. And keep providing great content and invaluable information. All the best for 2025. Cheers Roger
and to you Roger 🌱
Bacon & Brassicas ... I don't know what these loons down here are going on about, Charles. One of the most tasty things one can put in ones mouth & one of the most nutrient dense things one can put in ones mouth. I follow this formula frequently. It is a beautiful marriage. Not to mention that bacon from a responsible grower (preferably ones self !!!) is also very healthy for different reasons (most of your brain is fat!). Sometimes people like to say that charred meat is carcinogenic ........ EVERYTHING charred is carcinogenic, even charred kale! Don't burn your food!
Thanks Ted, nice perspective!
The bacon could be substituted with baked homegrown chickpeas or another homegrown pea for a complete selfsufficient/plant based option
That looks delicious!
Shame you rarely eat meat, Charles…. You have the perfect setup for escargot 🐌 or pigeon pie 🥧 😄
Hope you’re having a happy Christmas and wishing you and your team a successful 2025 jam packed with video treats. 😬😄🥂🫡
Haha thanks Amandar.
I would eat pigeon pie!!
Wishing you the best for 2025
I love your work Charles and have your books and calendars here at home but a fairly expensive subscription app is awful business and I think beneath your usual ethical standards. I would 100% buy the app for a one off cost and I could also understand your company offering a trial period subscription at a lower cost. BUT as a solely subscription based money chaser it doesn't meet the mark nor is it worth it. That's just me though. All the best.
Thanks, and there is a free 7 day trial. Some will value it I am sure
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes, I'm sure also. What's the truism again? Something and something are easily parted? Or shall we just use one of the capitalists faves.. What's something worth? Answer: What someone is willing to pay for it. I wish you all the best in your commercial endeavours.
Program has been around since at least 2019 at Growveg
Yes sure and I have been working with them for six months. My planner is adapted for no dig, minimal rotation, my specific advice on growing and sowing dates and soil fertility, with video and other links
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Okay, So you mean that the input from the crop you choose is different than Growvegs?
@@wictorsson thats what it sounds like. i guess a little cross-pollination wont harm anyone.
Sometimes yes, and the follow recommendations are a lot different, the video recommendations.
Theirs is a very good planner, and that's why I'm working with them. I have also been very keen to create this one specifically tailored to no dig, which leads to differences in cropping and succession.
@@CharlesDowding1nodigHi Charles. I’ve been using theirs for 10 years. Would your version still be able to pull in the dates for my region in Canada? Any chance my past plans could be imported over?
Some ethical bacon 😢😢😢
But why use hybrid seeds/plants ? everythings hybrid a.t.m. , even carrots , onions , where we are going...really sad , to be honest
No. Onions are my home-saved Keravel mostly. I try hybrids to compare, around 10% of what I grow.
Reason is that I want worthwhile harvests.
And for some vegetables like Brussels, the old varieties are now very poor from lack of seen maintenance.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks for replying Sir ! I was just thinking loudly if I may . was generally speaking about the world of farmers...Merry Christmas should I ve been said ! And a very good next year !
That is nice thanks
I accidentally grew a hybrid runner bean during 2020 (stores ran out of seeds) from my saved seeds from 2019. I still grow them every year. Sometimes they’re large white beans, sometimes speckledy brown on pink. I call them my pot lucks. 😃
@amandar7719 The "joy" of F1 LOL I know your journey fully!
It's disappointing to see dead pigs' body parts mentioned in the beautiful looking plant food.
At least the white fly bug proteins were washed out. 😄
So sad to see a pig lost its life for a meal that was wonderful without it. 🥲
Oh for goodness sake, I knew there’d be one triggered Karen in the comments worried about the tiniest bit of bacon in a meal that’s 95% vegetarian.