Hi, my name is Carlos and I'm from Pernambuco, Brazil. I really like your videos; the time zone here is different from your country. It's nice to see your garden and know that good work is done with dedication and care. A true therapy for those who want to relax next to nature, and especially learn from it. 👍
I interplanted dwarf french beans and purple sprouting broccolli this summer. Thought that I had made a mistake as I had to net the broccoli against pigeons and butterflies. However, a little research showed that the beans are self pollinating, so now this is how I will always grow my dwarf french beans i.e. interplanted between crops that stay in the ground a long time. I got three crops from that ground this year, first early potatoes, dwarf french beans and should get broccolli over the winter time.
My favourite gardener. Thank you Charles I'm really grateful in what I've learned over the years from your videos and books. I'm on my 5th year of no dig and each year my allotment seems to get better in producing healthy crops. I will top dress the beds with whatever compost I can generate, chopped up seed weed and chopped up comfrey leaves. Any organic matter I can get my hands on for yearly top dressing can be a challenge but that's what makes gardening fun.
This year I started to do no-dig gardening. Huge tomato harvest! I've just put the garden to bed for the year, laying down compost and composted steer manure. Already looking forward to Spring!!
Uwielbiam Twoje filmy❤️. Są lekarstwem dla mej duszy. Niesamowicie mnie uspokajają. Wszystko w nich jest idealne. Muzyka, zdjęcia przepiękne 🥰. Jest Pan dla mnie inspiracją. Od trzech sezonów uprawiam metodą no-dig i nie wyobrażam sobie inaczej. Pozdrawiam Pana z Polski❤️🔥.
Que tengas un Buen Otoño-Invierno !! Saludos desde Tenerife.Espero por aquí unas buenas lluvias para empezar a plantar coles,brócolis,coliflores etc..🥦🥬🥕👏🍅🐝👏🏻👌🏻🐈
I really look forward to these videos and they always inspire and motivate me to get in the garden more often. Thank you Charles and your team for everything❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I used to watch russian-versions of your videos, but there were not so many, so I switched to enjoy the original guides (english transcription is very helpful 👍). Thank you for your efforts in conveying your knowledge to us in such a gentle manner!🙏❤🍀
I just have a patio garden and find that, if I tend to it daily, I spend only 10 mins daily on maintenance and 1x per week, will spend 30 mins. When changing things over, a few hours are needed. I take my tea or coffee to the patio on the morning and it’s a nice way to start the day, and it’s easy because I love it. When I was working outside of my home, I didn’t enjoy the extra care that I needed to devote to the garden because it took me away from my main task of getting myself together, fed, organized and out the door on time and sometimes I wouldn’t be able to water when it was needed which can harm plants in containers because they dry out more easily. I’m in love with plants and gardening, but had to create the right conditions to feed this love. This year, I put a good layer of compost on, planted densely and got a great return. One of the keys to a high yield appears be interplanting with succession plants as you do. In the spring, I’ll figure out which to do when and plan my spaces accordingly. I have five 3’x1.5’x1.5’ boxes, three berry shrubs, a slew of trough containers for herbs and flowers and all of them loved the compost layer. The flowers are still blooming and the greens are still growing and happy. I recently seeded radish, pak choi, arugula, garlic cloves and the baby plants are looking good. Thanks for all of your useful information and for reinforcing the methods.
Started my own compost system in April this year, two bays atm made from pallets. Have used no dig approach for a number of years but never have enough home made compost. Costs a small fortune buying bags from a local garden centre.
@@WithrowUrbanHomestead I just started to do "no dig" this year and am amazed at how much less work it is. And I feel like I'm cooperating with nature rather than fighting her every step of the way. I'm 60 and I'm ready to do less strenuous work. 🙂
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Hvala vama mogu nesto novo da naucim jako ste vredni i pametni.Imam mali vrt No dig druga sezona je po redu jos uvijek sam pocetnik.Hvala vas svaki video je poucan.💚❤
You better watch out Charles. Your cats wanting half the attention of your viewers. Amazing what you can grow with not a lot of space. So long as the soils healthy
he visto tus videos en español y son fantásticos.. he aprendido mucho con ellos.. actualmente me estoy obligando aprender ingles míster charly asi que hago el doble de esfuerzo! he visto como has disfrutado todo esto desde elnprincipio aun sueño que me regales a mintie pero te da mas esencia en los videos.. soy muy attenta y tu pasión por la tierra.. estoy desarrollando eso cada vez estoy inundado mi jardin en casa nunca es suficiente!
Hola Ruby, me alegra saber esto y me alegra que te hayan gustado los videos en español. Espero que encuentres más tierras, estoy segura de que cuando pienses en ello de manera positiva, sucederá.
Zone 6b. Planted beets Aug 11. Pulled some last week and are smaller than golf balls. We put a cloth over at night. Temps 40's then back up to mid 50's. on Sunday 32 temp expected.
That is now cold compared to here, but I think your summers might be hotter. 11th August is late for beets, these were sown early June and transplanted around solstice time.
Thanks for giving us that perspective of what you can grow in X space. And the names on the crops help, since we want the good ones too. Hey, how did the apples do? I'm interested in non-pesticide tree fruit growth. Apples seem like a must. And how do you compost trees?
Some compost at the base is good, and woodchip also. This year was bountiful, always with some damage from codling moth. Where I used traps, there was less damage but still some www.gardening-naturally.com/codling-moth-traps
My 1st nodig bed 5ft x 5ft 6" deep made today 🎉 smaller than hoped as i wanted deep bed to start with. All homemade compost. Going plant elephant garlic later today. These to use ( hopefully) as my others around the flowerbeds to keep moles away are now rather old and small.
Brillant great video , getting to grips with my new no dig area , got the best japonaise onion from my no dig bed last year still eating them , and a fantastic crop of giant Stuttgart onion , and a great crop of shallots golden gourmet , got a new no dig bed ready for next year loving it , all because of you and a new hip 👨🍳🥳 merci beaucoup pour l’inspiration que vous m’avez donné avec No dig bed ☺️
This is my third year of growing on my allotment. I planted Hurst Greenshaft peas this year after seeing them on an earlier video, and was so pleased with the results. Two weeks ago, I direct sowed some beds with Autumn planting Broad Beans to pick next Spring. I am wondering about the most suitable crop cover for them.
Three of my radicchios survived the slugs and one is hearting up, finally got some carrots too! Every year I learn more about what can be planted together and what can't. Garlic and broad beans already in for next year and I'm still getting harvests, although it's slowing down. Question: I've been raising some flowers over the last month - violets, pinks and cornflowers in particular. Should I put them in the ground soon or over-winter in pots to plant out in the spring? They don't grow very fast.
Thank you Charles. 16 ft long grows 235 lb of food every year with no dig. Hubby working on new compost pile where no tree roots live. When you mentioned rock dust I was curious. Dust made at rock quarries. I'd think it is still rock in a different form and would take a long time to break down. I may be wrong. Interesting. Let us know.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles. Nice. What varieties are you growing this year? We planted Tundra and savoy as only ones that survived germination and got to anything. Might see if i can get hold of some Durham starts and have resown some Red drumhead as apparently they only take 75days.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Well yes, wasn't going to time it to my calendar but will see how it does. It has all winter. Will look those up thanks. I am always experimenting and pushing the boundaries in our garden. Don't know unless you try. Will only be my past self that will know if it does or doesn't work in the future in our garden. We are growing Michihili - Chinese cabbage. Looks more like lettuce/ pak choi to me. I just wish the temps/ weather would make it's mind up. Every time i sow coriander it gets to a certain height and then it gets warm again and i have to start over. We have had very high humidity in London past 18 months, more than the usual. This time last year, our fire alarms were being set off all of the time. So far this year, we have had digital displays not fully displaying. We have had terrible trouble with fungus gnats this year, even sticky traps and homemade apple vinegar traps have been overwhelmed so i bought some nematodes to cover all the plants indoors and all of the things we have changed the soil for, to over winter indoors. We applied the solution yesterday and are already seeing a die back of gnats. We received a 10% discount for subscribing to the newsletter, so that saved a few pennies. £14.78 inc delivery, after discount for 20sqm/10 million. Fingers crossed it will do the trick. I am also going back to baking soil for indoor sowing/planting as boiling water doesn't work in our humid climate. Will look forward to seeing how your Caraflex and Golden Acre turn out! Take care.
Hi Amy, I'm very impressed by your attention to detail. And I so agree about your comment on the humidity. It links to when I first saw massive work in the sky, by you know what. I prefer not to mention the name because of how it gets picked up by algorithms. And I've never heard of such a fungus gnat problem! Nematodes are certainly expensive, so I hope they work for you. Regarding Michihilli, I find it's a bit long, mine grew 2 feet high and with nice quality hearts.
Thank you for mentioning wood chips attracting wood lice- I’ve found wood lice eating hole in some of my larger carrots. But I’ve been using large wood chips (I make myself from fallen branches & twigs) in my paths. Maybe I need to rethink that. Or at least find a place to let the chips break down before putting them in the paths.
Inspired. Wish to stop digging veg patch and covert to no dig. Finished harvest just clearing area. When is best time to start new bed system. Live in North Devon.
Hi Charles. Concerning the sowing, planting and harvesting of leeks. I have had allium leaf miner on my leeks for the last 2 years, despite covering them with mesh. I think you said to sow around 12th April, plant out in late June? When would this crop be ready for harvesting please? I am missing having leeks so any help with me actually growing a harvest to maturity would be most appreciated. have grown leeks for years and have only had this problem for last 2 years now.Thank you so much. Happy growing. :-) Ps. I couldn't quite catch which variety you grow.
I am sorry to hear that and the variety here is Jolant. It's an early leek because my plan is to have harvests before the maggots arrive! However, this year, maybe because the soil is so healthy or the weather is different, there is so far very little damage. By contrast, this time last year we were having to trim 3/4 of the damaged leeks and we put it all on the compost heap. And I have used no mesh cover.
That’s an awesome amount of produce in one year! Two Crops of compost matter, too. Plus the older green leaf trims. Must remember to sow a line of late crop bush beans next year for fresh eating. Maybe even some fast growing Markana or Kelvedon Wonder peas, too. Do you think later sowings of peas are worth it for autumn cropping in the UK? They’ve not really got going well for me in the past. Thank you for brightening up our Storm Ashley day. 😊 I’ll be checking on the state of my garlic fleece later 😬💨🍃🌬️💨💨🌪️👀
Good luck with the cover! Summer sown peas are out of season, cropping at a time when they suffer much mildew on leaves. Terrain resists mildew, I tried it sown early July, is ok!
Thank you for this, please can you advise on your water system that you use? Not needed now so much! But would like to get a better one up and running for next year.
Received my copy of Compost yesterday, looking forward to reading. Question 🤔 I have a decent sized patch in the garden that is in shade. What veg could I grow there please? Thank you for any information 🙂
Nice to hear. All vegetables can grow in the shade, but some do less well, such as tomatoes and squash plants which benefit from the warmth of sunshine. If shade is caused by tree roots, that can be more problematic because they suck moisture. Overwintered spinach, garlic and broad beans are an option.
Thank you for this video so packed with information I needed to rewind several times to get it all. My beds total a similar area and I use them very intensively with polyculture. As you mention: I find it difficult to use any protective covers and try serendipity instead😊 I also struggle to find a moment to to put the compost on, as I try to grow and crop through the winter as well as possible. Any idea for that problem? I guess this time I will rather top dress in February/March - partly because I have loads of self seeded spring onions and purslane in the beds which I would not want to burry
Ill be growing Wheelers Imperial cabbage next season for Winter use i dont spend money on fleece as i only grow on a small scale.I'll be growing them on in pots and planting out when the cabbage white butterfly danger has passed. What month would that be Charles im in Gateshead North East England.
Hi Trevor, plant them as soon as possible, so they can establish before winter really sets in. There are as few butterflies now as ever, but there's always the odd one!
You seem to get consistent, large beetroot there - like at least one decent sized one there per sowing - so you have something to harvest for every sowing across that whole row. I seem to get the odd random large one but then lots of the sowings just grow large leaves but don't swell up and some just hardly grow in terms of foliage at all. Any thoughts on this? Patchy nutrients in the soil perhaps? I multi-sow 3 seeds and thin to 2 or 3 seedlings per module.
Sempre ansioso por um vídeo novo. Este ano, estamos sofrendo no Brasil devido as mudanças climáticas. Mas o que vejo é que o clima esta louco no mundo inteiro.
Lovely video thank you! We just prepped a small area with some cardboard and soil that we'll top with compost early next year to get the crops started. We'd start it out with garlic, onion, red beets and potatos! Is this a good approach?
Hi! I've seen nearly all of your videos and i recognize ... what is it called ... a faster cut of Charles' talk. Is it because of going with the time? I think it's important to have some talking breaks. Not only for the esthetics but also to have time to think about what he said. Would it be possible to change the cutting mode again? Thanks, Fabian PS: i love all the videos and your content! And Charles, you are amazing!! :)
Thanks Fabian! I'm intrigued that you are the first person to comment on this, because it struck me immediately when I was editing the video. I do not like it either! We tried it to meet the comments that I'm too slow! It's difficult to please everybody, let's see for the next video!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks for your answer. In my opinion it's also that human scale talking that i like when i'm sitting in front of my computer listening to you. I'm a "professional" no dig gardener and love that you are talking so conciously about what is happening in the garden. Would be very happy to listen to the good old Charles Dowding again :)
Hi there charles, any tips for a severe rainfall for no digs? And im talking about severe, my raised no dig is almost unrecognizable in the flood for 2 days now. Its holding just fine but my fleece and other crops keeps on getting blown away by strong winds even though i put enough weight on them, almost lost half of the harvest. 😢
I'm sorry to hear that, and there is a limit to my magic! At least you have not lost everything, but weather events are now so extreme, it's hard to have a plan for everything
@CharlesDowding1nodig agree, guess we earn some and lose some :) advanced happy no dig day Charles sending love from the Philippines! I hope we can motivate everyone like you did me and grow greens all over the world.
Charles, i have a question for you: do you have any problems with cats pooping in your beds? mine or neighbor's cats always tends to like to poop or pee on my pots with compost... how do you manage in such a large area with cats around?
es preciosa mintie.. le pone un toque especial.! las coles moradas sabran iguales a las que no son 🤔? pregunto porque aun no has echo algun concurso de ecribe tu mejor receta o concurso de vegetales locos echos por adultos.. los adultos también llevan a un niño interior.. juega con ello👀🤔
Merci beaucoup. J'essaye d'optimiser mes rendements en m'inspirant de vous, des maraîchers de paris du XIXeme siècle et de Joseph chauffray, nous sommes à 104 kg en 6 mois sur 22m2. Merci beaucoup
Yes, talking about them, It's a false claim the ducks do not eat any vegetables, I know from experience because I have kept ducks in the past. Furthermore, foxes eat them. And the reason I mention slugs often is because I want to inform viewers about them. Almost everybody this year has suffered terrible slug damage, much worse than here. So I'm doing very well, but I still want to inform people about how to suffer less damage.
Sorry Charles just don’t agree with you on crop rotation.You obviously don’t have problems with onion white rot club root potato nematodes etc.I don’t have problems with any of these diseases as I follow a five year rotation and wouldn’t do any other.Soil Bourne diseases are the worst and once you get it takes anything up to 6 years to get rid of it(clubroot onion rot).I inter plant and follow on but same families only.I plant leek seedlings in between onions (same family) as an example.
Yes but, why would you get these diseases? With no dig and compost mulch I never did in 40 years, except white rot in a corner here where tree roots were invading, making the soil weaker and plants were struggling. Three years later I replanted in the same spot just to see, in better weather, and onions grew healthily. And I've had allotmenteers here, saying they took over clubroot-soil but it has disappeared after 3 years no dig.
Thanks for the reply charles I am not true no dig more minimal cultivation.I am on a heavy clay soil and to harvest potatoes I have to fork them out.I then follow on with peas as they just don't seem to like no dig also carrots, everything else fine. Garnering enough material to make compost can be a challenge and I am sure the rest of the old boy allotmentiers think I am a crank.I enjoy your channel keep up the good work and yes all the graft is worth it.
It does not work for me. I have very alkaline soil and have to throw a load of elemental Sulphur at it to get anything to grow apart from runner beans which are brilliant. To carry on, I had Americans oak raised beds, and they rotted, I had old roof timber raised bed beds and they rotted, I have treated timber raised beds and they are rotting already. I cannot grow brussels sprouts because they get attacked by cabbage white caterpillars, mealy aphids and whitefly. In fact everything I grow gets attacked by insects even if it is kept under fine insect netting netting. My swedes were getting attacked by mealy aphids this year and I had to resort to insecticide to kill them off, and might have to give them another dose yet. This year my potato crop not only got attacked by potato blight but eel worm, which is end of story I have read. This I have read is due to no dig. Also my apple trees were severely attacked by codling moth and scab with some bitter pit and less brown rot. I've given up with the cherries because they are also sick and the birds get them anyway. I've thrown neem oil and Demetrious Earth at plants/trees but both can damage plants especially when their young. You talk about netting like it falls from heaven but it's expensive when your an OAP! And, it doesn't always work, because last week I necked 8 large Cabbage White caterpillars that were attacking my cauliflowers which are not has advanced has yours anyway. Your supposed to be able to stop aphids attacking your crops but it's hard to do it, because the various trace elements that are missing are not always easy to identify if you haven't got the full £2000 soil test kit! I could carry on, but the best cabbages I ever grew were grown with Miracle Grow, cow muck manure and the usual insecticides. If an OAP is to survive I think it's best to forget about no dig and blast everything with insecticide and fungicide, because that's what you buy in the shops veg/fruit wise. To finish, I also got bad arthritis and it was caused by gardening, shifting a load of horse muck, which zapped my shoulders, but I kept going and completely zapped myself making 4 foot square compost bins! It would be interesting to see your comments. By the way I was also subjected to sewage flooding in the past until I told the sewage company I would stick a rag up my foul water pipe to block the sewage overflow and they fitted me a return valve.
Oh dear that sounds all-round bad, including the poison-solutions. Which kill soil life and make subsequent cropping more difficult as a result, with more likelihood of problems. I agree that a £2000 test kit is the last thing one wants. Any kind of test kit for that matter! Save the money and buy compost, grow healthier plants which with every year will suffer far less of all those problems, because you are building health rather than fighting disease. Your soil will benefit from the full set of trace elements in seaweed. And you can then unburden your mind of woes and enjoy gardening again.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for your reply, but I make my own compost because of the cost of buying it. I have read that mealy aphids can't survive if the soil is right, they thrive on nitrogen apparently, so I also put in some rotted wood chips with horse manure and some straw to my compost. I've even put Epsom Salts and potash in the soil to try and improve it but it doesn't work. I could try sea weed if I can get it for free. The sea is about 40 miles from where I live.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You cannot just go and get seaweed from the sea shore. Apparently the King owns the most of it (Crown Estates) , and you have to ask permission to get it. I've actually just got some organic seaweed fertilizer, due to your advice, which I've already fed my poor swedes and cauliflowers with. Did it Friday night, but haven't had time to check because of a plumbing leak.
I love the new addtion of your kitty to your videos.
Self-add! 😀
This cat follows him around a lot, clearly knows who to get attention from.
When Charles shows the photo of the tunnels, you can spot the cat's tail in the left hole of the middle tunnel. ❤
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I love your little furry photo-bomber. Loved the final shot of him/her too. What a fab feline playground you have made. 😊
Haha thanks 😮 indeed
Very Nice of you indeedt what a cuty she is
My little dog used to come into the garden, check it out and walk all over stuff. So cute - animals just love being with their tribe.
Thank you for this! My allotment plot is 4m x 10m & information like this is like gold 😊
Wonderful!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Only drawback is, I'm a Brit living in Melbourne Australia, so I'm usually watching your videos from 6 months ago 🤣
😮 oh wow!
These small garden videos are always my favorite of yours since it is closer to the size of garden I have.
Glad you enjoyed it Dan 🙂
Hi, my name is Carlos and I'm from Pernambuco, Brazil. I really like your videos; the time zone here is different from your country. It's nice to see your garden and know that good work is done with dedication and care. A true therapy for those who want to relax next to nature, and especially learn from it. 👍
Cheers Carlos!
you too 👍
I interplanted dwarf french beans and purple sprouting broccolli this summer. Thought that I had made a mistake as I had to net the broccoli against pigeons and butterflies. However, a little research showed that the beans are self pollinating, so now this is how I will always grow my dwarf french beans i.e. interplanted between crops that stay in the ground a long time. I got three crops from that ground this year, first early potatoes, dwarf french beans and should get broccolli over the winter time.
Congrats that is great
Thanks for sharing these great growing tips, it helps me a lot with my garden.
Great to hear 🌱
My favourite gardener. Thank you Charles I'm really grateful in what I've learned over the years from your videos and books. I'm on my 5th year of no dig and each year my allotment seems to get better in producing healthy crops. I will top dress the beds with whatever compost I can generate, chopped up seed weed and chopped up comfrey leaves. Any organic matter I can get my hands on for yearly top dressing can be a challenge but that's what makes gardening fun.
Lovely positive comment, thanks for sharing
Thank you, Mr. Dowding!
My pleasure and first!
Great video. I think your cat might need her own channel soon!
Thank you 😂 🐈
Thanks for translating meters and centigrade for Americans. Meters are relatively easy but centigrade is a mystery.
This year I started to do no-dig gardening. Huge tomato harvest! I've just put the garden to bed for the year, laying down compost and composted steer manure. Already looking forward to Spring!!
Lovely to hear of your success 🙂
Inspiring, thank you. Simple is sometimes best.
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I'm constantly sowing seeds for my smallish space 🤩
Is good!
Uwielbiam Twoje filmy❤️. Są lekarstwem dla mej duszy. Niesamowicie mnie uspokajają. Wszystko w nich jest idealne. Muzyka, zdjęcia przepiękne 🥰. Jest Pan dla mnie inspiracją. Od trzech sezonów uprawiam metodą no-dig i nie wyobrażam sobie inaczej. Pozdrawiam Pana z Polski❤️🔥.
Cieszę się, że Ci się podobają. Miło słyszeć o Twoim sukcesie
Thank you so much for very useful information for planning a maximum yield balcony garden😊
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Que tengas un Buen Otoño-Invierno !! Saludos desde Tenerife.Espero por aquí unas buenas lluvias para empezar a plantar coles,brócolis,coliflores etc..🥦🥬🥕👏🍅🐝👏🏻👌🏻🐈
I really look forward to these videos and they always inspire and motivate me to get in the garden more often. Thank you Charles and your team for everything❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'm so glad Steve
Your kitty cat is such a pretty girl.
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Charles, you just made my Sunday. 😊
So glad 😮
I used to watch russian-versions of your videos, but there were not so many, so I switched to enjoy the original guides (english transcription is very helpful 👍). Thank you for your efforts in conveying your knowledge to us in such a gentle manner!🙏❤🍀
Glad you like them Olga, very interesting!
I just have a patio garden and find that, if I tend to it daily, I spend only 10 mins daily on maintenance and 1x per week, will spend 30 mins. When changing things over, a few hours are needed.
I take my tea or coffee to the patio on the morning and it’s a nice way to start the day, and it’s easy because I love it. When I was working outside of my home, I didn’t enjoy the extra care that I needed to devote to the garden because it took me away from my main task of getting myself together, fed, organized and out the door on time and sometimes I wouldn’t be able to water when it was needed which can harm plants in containers because they dry out more easily. I’m in love with plants and gardening, but had to create the right conditions to feed this love.
This year, I put a good layer of compost on, planted densely and got a great return. One of the keys to a high yield appears be interplanting with succession plants as you do. In the spring, I’ll figure out which to do when and plan my spaces accordingly.
I have five 3’x1.5’x1.5’ boxes, three berry shrubs, a slew of trough containers for herbs and flowers and all of them loved the compost layer. The flowers are still blooming and the greens are still growing and happy.
I recently seeded radish, pak choi, arugula, garlic cloves and the baby plants are looking good.
Thanks for all of your useful information and for reinforcing the methods.
Great to hear and thanks for sharing 💚
lovely crops charles
Thank you Steven
Thank you Charles. You are my inspiration.
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Started my own compost system in April this year, two bays atm made from pallets. Have used no dig approach for a number of years but never have enough home made compost. Costs a small fortune buying bags from a local garden centre.
Best of luck with that
No dig helped me keep gardening after being hit by Rheumatoid Arthritis. 13 years later I’m going strong!
Wonderful to hear! 😀
Got fibromyalgia so iv been looking into it.
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I just started to do "no dig" this year and am amazed at how much less work it is. And I feel like I'm cooperating with nature rather than fighting her every step of the way. I'm 60 and I'm ready to do less strenuous work. 🙂
That’s fantastic ❤
Volim da gledam vas vrt puno truda i ptelijepo je sve.Pozdrav iz Bosne i Hercegovine🇧🇦
Puno vam hvala, to je tako lijepo i drago mi je čuti vas
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Hvala vama mogu nesto novo da naucim jako ste vredni i pametni.Imam mali vrt No dig druga sezona je po redu jos uvijek sam pocetnik.Hvala vas svaki video je poucan.💚❤
Lijepo je čuti ovo 🌱
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 🌶🥒🥦🍅🌽🥕🍆🌿
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I'm always impressed by the size of those Beets in your garden! I hope to grow them that big one day.
Thanks, you can I am sure
Beautiful. I love the way you add in plants to never have a bare space. I’m going to try the multi-sowing. Nice shot of Minty at the end 😊
Thanks Tina
You better watch out Charles. Your cats wanting half the attention of your viewers. Amazing what you can grow with not a lot of space. So long as the soils healthy
Thanks. Yes she is popular!!
he visto tus videos en español y son fantásticos.. he aprendido mucho con ellos.. actualmente me estoy obligando aprender ingles míster charly asi que hago el doble de esfuerzo! he visto como has disfrutado todo esto desde elnprincipio aun sueño que me regales a mintie pero te da mas esencia en los videos.. soy muy attenta y tu pasión por la tierra.. estoy desarrollando eso cada vez estoy inundado mi jardin en casa nunca es suficiente!
Hola Ruby, me alegra saber esto y me alegra que te hayan gustado los videos en español. Espero que encuentres más tierras, estoy segura de que cuando pienses en ello de manera positiva, sucederá.
What is your cat's name? She is so sweet, following you everywhere. I like cats 😻😻😻
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Minty, yes she is cute, enjoys me being there for filming
Zone 6b. Planted beets Aug 11. Pulled some last week and are smaller than golf balls. We put a cloth over at night. Temps 40's then back up to mid 50's. on Sunday 32 temp expected.
That is now cold compared to here, but I think your summers might be hotter. 11th August is late for beets, these were sown early June and transplanted around solstice time.
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Miss cat is always here when the camera is on 🙂
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Great Stuff many thanks for sharing.
You are welcome 🙂
Thanks for giving us that perspective of what you can grow in X space. And the names on the crops help, since we want the good ones too.
Hey, how did the apples do? I'm interested in non-pesticide tree fruit growth. Apples seem like a must. And how do you compost trees?
Some compost at the base is good, and woodchip also. This year was bountiful, always with some damage from codling moth. Where I used traps, there was less damage but still some www.gardening-naturally.com/codling-moth-traps
Thank you for all you do and share .What a great man 🖖 👏 so simple and right ✅️ organic special 👌
Thank you for your kind words Elijah
My 1st nodig bed 5ft x 5ft 6" deep made today 🎉 smaller than hoped as i wanted deep bed to start with. All homemade compost. Going plant elephant garlic later today. These to use ( hopefully) as my others around the flowerbeds to keep moles away are now rather old and small.
Grow well Penny!
So beautiful, good food, thank you for encouraging and good information, great 😊
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Charles maravilhoso obrigado pela tradução ❤
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Brillant great video , getting to grips with my new no dig area , got the best japonaise onion from my no dig bed last year still eating them , and a fantastic crop of giant Stuttgart onion , and a great crop of shallots golden gourmet , got a new no dig bed ready for next year loving it , all because of you and a new hip 👨🍳🥳 merci beaucoup pour l’inspiration que vous m’avez donné avec No dig bed ☺️
Lovely to hear Josy! 🏆
nice intro! nice video! thnxs
I am glad you enjoyed it 🙂
This is my third year of growing on my allotment. I planted Hurst Greenshaft peas this year after seeing them on an earlier video, and was so pleased with the results. Two weeks ago, I direct sowed some beds with Autumn planting Broad Beans to pick next Spring. I am wondering about the most suitable crop cover for them.
Good to hear and I would cover beans with mesh rather than fleece, or no cover. They like fresh air, some wind protection
Three of my radicchios survived the slugs and one is hearting up, finally got some carrots too! Every year I learn more about what can be planted together and what can't. Garlic and broad beans already in for next year and I'm still getting harvests, although it's slowing down.
Question: I've been raising some flowers over the last month - violets, pinks and cornflowers in particular. Should I put them in the ground soon or over-winter in pots to plant out in the spring? They don't grow very fast.
Nice to hear. Violets are hardy while I would plant the others in spring
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Thank you Charles. 16 ft long grows 235 lb of food every year with no dig. Hubby working on new compost pile where no tree roots live.
When you mentioned rock dust I was curious. Dust made at rock quarries.
I'd think it is still rock in a different form and would take a long time to break down. I may be wrong. Interesting. Let us know.
Great to hear!
See this for more on basalt rockdust www.agralan.co.uk/pages/remin
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I love the succession videos Charles! Are you growing spring cabbages this year?
Yes for sure, sown 25th August and planted 30th September with mesh cover on top
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles. Nice. What varieties are you growing this year? We planted Tundra and savoy as only ones that survived germination and got to anything.
Might see if i can get hold of some Durham starts and have resown some Red drumhead as apparently they only take 75days.
Hmm 75 days in spring, not now!
I am trying Caraflex F1 just to see, and Golden Acre, not true spring cabbage 😮
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Well yes, wasn't going to time it to my calendar but will see how it does. It has all winter.
Will look those up thanks. I am always experimenting and pushing the boundaries in our garden. Don't know unless you try. Will only be my past self that will know if it does or doesn't work in the future in our garden. We are growing Michihili - Chinese cabbage. Looks more like lettuce/ pak choi to me.
I just wish the temps/ weather would make it's mind up. Every time i sow coriander it gets to a certain height and then it gets warm again and i have to start over.
We have had very high humidity in London past 18 months, more than the usual. This time last year, our fire alarms were being set off all of the time. So far this year, we have had digital displays not fully displaying.
We have had terrible trouble with fungus gnats this year, even sticky traps and homemade apple vinegar traps have been overwhelmed so i bought some nematodes to cover all the plants indoors and all of the things we have changed the soil for, to over winter indoors.
We applied the solution yesterday and are already seeing a die back of gnats. We received a 10% discount for subscribing to the newsletter, so that saved a few pennies. £14.78 inc delivery, after discount for 20sqm/10 million. Fingers crossed it will do the trick.
I am also going back to baking soil for indoor sowing/planting as boiling water doesn't work in our humid climate.
Will look forward to seeing how your Caraflex and Golden Acre turn out! Take care.
Hi Amy, I'm very impressed by your attention to detail. And I so agree about your comment on the humidity. It links to when I first saw massive work in the sky, by you know what. I prefer not to mention the name because of how it gets picked up by algorithms.
And I've never heard of such a fungus gnat problem! Nematodes are certainly expensive, so I hope they work for you.
Regarding Michihilli, I find it's a bit long, mine grew 2 feet high and with nice quality hearts.
Thank you for mentioning wood chips attracting wood lice- I’ve found wood lice eating hole in some of my larger carrots. But I’ve been using large wood chips (I make myself from fallen branches & twigs) in my paths. Maybe I need to rethink that. Or at least find a place to let the chips break down before putting them in the paths.
Yes, even you could sieve out the larger chips
I just love how minty video bombs you, & doing it quite regularly as of late.
Cheers Gary and yes she is growing more tame!
Inspired. Wish to stop digging veg patch and covert to no dig. Finished harvest just clearing area. When is best time to start new bed system. Live in North Devon.
Yesterday is the best time 😉 just go after it
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Now is great!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks. Will be ready for spring growing, may get garlic planted if not too late.
I cook from the vegetables l grow it's so good
Lovely to hear 🙂
Hi Charles. Concerning the sowing, planting and harvesting of leeks. I have had allium leaf miner on my leeks for the last 2 years, despite covering them with mesh. I think you said to sow around 12th April, plant out in late June? When would this crop be ready for harvesting please? I am missing having leeks so any help with me actually growing a harvest to maturity would be most appreciated. have grown leeks for years and have only had this problem for last 2 years now.Thank you so much. Happy growing. :-) Ps. I couldn't quite catch which variety you grow.
I am sorry to hear that and the variety here is Jolant. It's an early leek because my plan is to have harvests before the maggots arrive! However, this year, maybe because the soil is so healthy or the weather is different, there is so far very little damage.
By contrast, this time last year we were having to trim 3/4 of the damaged leeks and we put it all on the compost heap. And I have used no mesh cover.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig That's lucky indeed. Hopefuly my next year's crop will thrive
Thank you for your sharings. And to this beautifull pussycat for his video bombing 😸
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That’s an awesome amount of produce in one year! Two Crops of compost matter, too. Plus the older green leaf trims.
Must remember to sow a line of late crop bush beans next year for fresh eating. Maybe even some fast growing Markana or Kelvedon Wonder peas, too. Do you think later sowings of peas are worth it for autumn cropping in the UK? They’ve not really got going well for me in the past.
Thank you for brightening up our Storm Ashley day. 😊 I’ll be checking on the state of my garlic fleece later 😬💨🍃🌬️💨💨🌪️👀
Good luck with the cover!
Summer sown peas are out of season, cropping at a time when they suffer much mildew on leaves. Terrain resists mildew, I tried it sown early July, is ok!
Thank you for this, please can you advise on your water system that you use? Not needed now so much! But would like to get a better one up and running for next year.
Hand water allows you to water some plants less, that need little eg beetroot
❤Just planted 6 beds of garlic for ver winter. When they come out in June the tomatoes will go in with basil in between. 😊
Nice plan Samantha
8:15 cat be like 'HANG ON, piece to camera!'
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Received my copy of Compost yesterday, looking forward to reading. Question 🤔
I have a decent sized patch in the garden that is in shade. What veg could I grow there please? Thank you for any information 🙂
Nice to hear.
All vegetables can grow in the shade, but some do less well, such as tomatoes and squash plants which benefit from the warmth of sunshine.
If shade is caused by tree roots, that can be more problematic because they suck moisture. Overwintered spinach, garlic and broad beans are an option.
@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you so much, I will set about clearing everything off there and adding compost.
Thank you for this video so packed with information I needed to rewind several times to get it all. My beds total a similar area and I use them very intensively with polyculture. As you mention: I find it difficult to use any protective covers and try serendipity instead😊
I also struggle to find a moment to to put the compost on, as I try to grow and crop through the winter as well as possible. Any idea for that problem? I guess this time I will rather top dress in February/March - partly because I have loads of self seeded spring onions and purslane in the beds which I would not want to burry
Nice job and yes apply when and wherever you can, in gas as they happen
Ill be growing Wheelers Imperial cabbage next season for Winter use i dont spend money on fleece as i only grow on a small scale.I'll be growing them on in pots and planting out when the cabbage white butterfly danger has passed. What month would that be Charles im in Gateshead North East England.
Hi Trevor, plant them as soon as possible, so they can establish before winter really sets in. There are as few butterflies now as ever, but there's always the odd one!
You seem to get consistent, large beetroot there - like at least one decent sized one there per sowing - so you have something to harvest for every sowing across that whole row. I seem to get the odd random large one but then lots of the sowings just grow large leaves but don't swell up and some just hardly grow in terms of foliage at all.
Any thoughts on this? Patchy nutrients in the soil perhaps? I multi-sow 3 seeds and thin to 2 or 3 seedlings per module.
Sorry to hear that, maybe spread some dried seaweed which would sort trace element imbalances. Or fresh seaweed if near the sea :)
Sempre ansioso por um vídeo novo. Este ano, estamos sofrendo no Brasil devido as mudanças climáticas. Mas o que vejo é que o clima esta louco no mundo inteiro.
Lamento ouvir isso. Seja qual for o motivo, concordo que o clima tem sido difícil e cultivar alimentos está menos fácil! Boa sorte.
Lovely video thank you! We just prepped a small area with some cardboard and soil that we'll top with compost early next year to get the crops started.
We'd start it out with garlic, onion, red beets and potatos! Is this a good approach?
Yes that can work. I would add some compost now to encourage soil life
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Great, will try that. Would you cover the beds over winter then?
I’ve planted tomatoes in the same location 6 years in a row. Year 6…great crop…
Makes you think!
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Good afternoon..I'm from Brazil, it's very hot here, what should I do in the flowerbeds to eliminate the intense heat on the vegetables..

I am not sure, partly it depends what vegetables. Some kind of shade cloth over them is probably worthwhile, on a wooden support
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was that your cats tail poking out the hole in the fleeces hahah
sometimes yes!
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Observe nature and learn from it.
How do you tackle weeds like docks and burdock
If large, I use a spade to lever out the main taproot, say 15 cm long. Then sometimes there is weak regrowth and it's easily removed.
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My kale is going so strong at the moment, what should I do? Keep them n over winter or cut n br8ng it in? Thank you.
Depends on weather but they don't make many new leaves here after end November
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I've seen nearly all of your videos and i recognize ... what is it called ... a faster cut of Charles' talk. Is it because of going with the time? I think it's important to have some talking breaks. Not only for the esthetics but also to have time to think about what he said. Would it be possible to change the cutting mode again?
Thanks, Fabian
PS: i love all the videos and your content! And Charles, you are amazing!! :)
Thanks Fabian! I'm intrigued that you are the first person to comment on this, because it struck me immediately when I was editing the video. I do not like it either!
We tried it to meet the comments that I'm too slow! It's difficult to please everybody, let's see for the next video!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks for your answer. In my opinion it's also that human scale talking that i like when i'm sitting in front of my computer listening to you. I'm a "professional" no dig gardener and love that you are talking so conciously about what is happening in the garden. Would be very happy to listen to the good old Charles Dowding again :)
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Hi there charles, any tips for a severe rainfall for no digs? And im talking about severe, my raised no dig is almost unrecognizable in the flood for 2 days now. Its holding just fine but my fleece and other crops keeps on getting blown away by strong winds even though i put enough weight on them, almost lost half of the harvest. 😢
I'm sorry to hear that, and there is a limit to my magic! At least you have not lost everything, but weather events are now so extreme, it's hard to have a plan for everything
@CharlesDowding1nodig agree, guess we earn some and lose some :) advanced happy no dig day Charles sending love from the Philippines! I hope we can motivate everyone like you did me and grow greens all over the world.
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Charles, i have a question for you: do you have any problems with cats pooping in your beds? mine or neighbor's cats always tends to like to poop or pee on my pots with compost... how do you manage in such a large area with cats around?
I cannot stop them for sure, put the poops in the middle of a compost heap, but bird netting over bare soil is an effective deterrent
es preciosa mintie.. le pone un toque especial.! las coles moradas sabran iguales a las que no son 🤔? pregunto porque aun no has echo algun concurso de ecribe tu mejor receta o concurso de vegetales locos echos por adultos.. los adultos también llevan a un niño interior.. juega con ello👀🤔
Jaja, sí que es especial. Tienen un sabor similar, quizás una textura más firme.
¡Falta tiempo para eso!
Never heard about wood chips and wood lice before. Maybe that’s something to address in another video.
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If you don’t put another plant in a bare spot mother nature will pop up a weed she can’t cope with bare soil😅😅
what kind of monster ignores a kitty wanting pets sitting right in front of him
That's the one who's conveying information on a video, and does not want to waste the viewers time!
Merci beaucoup. J'essaye d'optimiser mes rendements en m'inspirant de vous, des maraîchers de paris du XIXeme siècle et de Joseph chauffray, nous sommes à 104 kg en 6 mois sur 22m2. Merci beaucoup
Quand meme, bon résultat! 👍
@@CharlesDowding1nodig venant de vous je suis fière, merci, et comme c'est passionnant
Love the videos Charles but please consider a new microphone. It sounds as though you’re under water.
Hmm thanks
Charles, you're talking about slugs so often that I can't help thinking that you could benefit from a duck or two.
Yes, talking about them,
It's a false claim the ducks do not eat any vegetables, I know from experience because I have kept ducks in the past. Furthermore, foxes eat them.
And the reason I mention slugs often is because I want to inform viewers about them. Almost everybody this year has suffered terrible slug damage, much worse than here. So I'm doing very well, but I still want to inform people about how to suffer less damage.
Everything I grow gets eaten by slugs and snails 🤔
Maddening. See it you can reduce their hiding places, free info here www.charlesdowding.co.uk/resources/slug-reduction
Sorry Charles just don’t agree with you on crop rotation.You obviously don’t have problems with onion white rot club root potato nematodes etc.I don’t have problems with any of these diseases as I follow a five year rotation and wouldn’t do any other.Soil Bourne diseases are the worst and once you get it takes anything up to 6 years to get rid of it(clubroot onion rot).I inter plant and follow on but same families only.I plant leek seedlings in between onions (same family) as an example.
Yes but, why would you get these diseases?
With no dig and compost mulch I never did in 40 years, except white rot in a corner here where tree roots were invading, making the soil weaker and plants were struggling. Three years later I replanted in the same spot just to see, in better weather, and onions grew healthily.
And I've had allotmenteers here, saying they took over clubroot-soil but it has disappeared after 3 years no dig.
Thanks for the reply charles I am not true no dig more minimal cultivation.I am on a heavy clay soil and to harvest potatoes I have to fork them out.I then follow on with peas as they just don't seem to like no dig also carrots, everything else fine. Garnering enough material to make compost can be a challenge and I am sure the rest of the old boy allotmentiers think I am a crank.I enjoy your channel keep up the good work and yes all the graft is worth it.
It does not work for me. I have very alkaline soil and have to throw a load of elemental Sulphur at it to get anything to grow apart from runner beans which are brilliant. To carry on, I had Americans oak raised beds, and they rotted, I had old roof timber raised bed beds and they rotted, I have treated timber raised beds and they are rotting already. I cannot grow brussels sprouts because they get attacked by cabbage white caterpillars, mealy aphids and whitefly. In fact everything I grow gets attacked by insects even if it is kept under fine insect netting netting. My swedes were getting attacked by mealy aphids this year and I had to resort to insecticide to kill them off, and might have to give them another dose yet.
This year my potato crop not only got attacked by potato blight but eel worm, which is end of story I have read. This I have read is due to no dig.
Also my apple trees were severely attacked by codling moth and scab with some bitter pit and less brown rot. I've given up with the cherries because they are also sick and the birds get them anyway.
I've thrown neem oil and Demetrious Earth at plants/trees but both can damage plants especially when their young.
You talk about netting like it falls from heaven but it's expensive when your an OAP! And, it doesn't always work, because last week I necked 8 large Cabbage White caterpillars that were attacking my cauliflowers which are not has advanced has yours anyway. Your supposed to be able to stop aphids attacking your crops but it's hard to do it, because the various trace elements that are missing are not always easy to identify if you haven't got the full £2000 soil test kit!
I could carry on, but the best cabbages I ever grew were grown with Miracle Grow, cow muck manure and the usual insecticides. If an OAP is to survive I think it's best to forget about no dig and blast everything with insecticide and fungicide, because that's what you buy in the shops veg/fruit wise.
To finish, I also got bad arthritis and it was caused by gardening, shifting a load of horse muck, which zapped my shoulders, but I kept going and completely zapped myself making 4 foot square compost bins! It would be interesting to see your comments. By the way I was also subjected to sewage flooding in the past until I told the sewage company I would stick a rag up my foul water pipe to block the sewage overflow and they fitted me a return valve.
Oh dear that sounds all-round bad, including the poison-solutions. Which kill soil life and make subsequent cropping more difficult as a result, with more likelihood of problems.
I agree that a £2000 test kit is the last thing one wants. Any kind of test kit for that matter! Save the money and buy compost, grow healthier plants which with every year will suffer far less of all those problems, because you are building health rather than fighting disease. Your soil will benefit from the full set of trace elements in seaweed.
And you can then unburden your mind of woes and enjoy gardening again.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for your reply, but I make my own compost because of the cost of buying it. I have read that mealy aphids can't survive if the soil is right, they thrive on nitrogen apparently, so I also put in some rotted wood chips with horse manure and some straw to my compost. I've even put Epsom Salts and potash in the soil to try and improve it but it doesn't work. I could try sea weed if I can get it for free. The sea is about 40 miles from where I live.
Sounds promising apart from seaweed!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You cannot just go and get seaweed from the sea shore. Apparently the King owns the most of it (Crown Estates) , and you have to ask permission to get it. I've actually just got some organic seaweed fertilizer, due to your advice, which I've already fed my poor swedes and cauliflowers with. Did it Friday night, but haven't had time to check because of a plumbing leak.