No dig with Charles Dowding, showing his fourth summer at Homeacres
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- The result in summer 2016, of using mulches to transform 3/4 acre (0.3ha), from weeds and grass to intensively cropped vegetables for market on 1/4 acre, using organic methods, no synthetic chemicals. Plus I show you the fruit trees, flowers, compost heaps, undercover spaces and dig/no dig trials.
In South West England, 51N temperate oceanic climate, "zone 8" but summers are 5 or 6.
Camera and editing by Edward Dowding edowding.net.
For a concise written summary of this approach, see my Diary
www.charlesdowd... with strategies for no dig success, timings of associated sowings, hoeing and mulching, and beautiful photos of this garden.
My online course about no dig explains the process in depth. It includes 20 videos you will not find elsewhere: charlesdowding...
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Midsummer harvests at 6m50s • Midsummer harvests of ...
Clearing & replanting at 7m55s / watch v=PdjtNPKd6ro
Harvesting at 10m45s • When to pick and how t...
Propagation undercover at 16m10s • SPRING SOWINGS Propaga...
Hotbeds at 16m20s • Hotbeds - an old way t...
Second sowings at 15m20s • In summer, second sowi...
Salad leaves through winter at 16m40s • Salad leaves through w...
Experiments in sowing and growing at 18m15s • Experiments in sowing ...
Growing courses at Homeacres • Charles Dowding Growin...
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I was on the verge of giving up my allotment due to having multiple sclerosis it being quite a heavy clay soil, and the prospect of digging it again was daunting. Then up popped a Charles Dowding video. I now can see a future in my gardening. Thankyou Charles
How lovely to hear your optimism Martin and I wish you successful gardening
Wish best for you. 👏👏👏👍.
Милый , незнакомый друг ! Желаю вам хороших успехов в работе в саду - огороде .У вас все получится .
Martin keep on keeping on. The more you can get out there .. the more it will keep you young
❤❤❤
I’d bet my last dollar this man hasn’t been angry or upset since before 1975. I envy his energy and garden! I am constantly getting flustered with my garden or something involving the garden (pest, droughts, late shippings of needed items). I would love to see a video of his “mistakes” or “trying” times if he has any at all.
Thanks. See Problems video, and weedkiller!!
This video has my three favorite things in life- gardens, beautiful music,, and an inspirational human being. Thank you, Charles. 🌼
I find so much inspiration in your channel, there is no one thing I don't like. Fabulous images, great explanations, your positive attitude, the simple and effective way you teach your knowledge, the love for gardening and life, soil, plants, wildlife... I like a lot re-watching your videos to see things from a different perspective. I see a lot of interesting gardening channels on You Tube, but for me you're my no.1 Hope you live many healthy years ahead. Thank you a lot for sharing. Your channel is a therapy.
Lovely to hear thanks
I'm swooning over this garden. It's beautiful and well cared for!
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He is like Bob Ross of gardening, he and his creation are full of joy and beatiful tranquility as well)
What a beautiful garden you have here sir!! It's attractive,well organized and producing a lot of food. I'm so inspired by it. May God bless you and your family and grant you a long life to enjoy even more.
So nice of you Yoel 💚
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You're welcome sir!! 💚
Charles is such a precious soul!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌱
This must be one of the most well planned and designed vegetable gardens that I have come across.
😀
I grew a big patch of flowers this year and could have watched all day the fascinating insects that turned up! It's unbelievably beautiful!
Anything in particular or lots of different ones? Looking for ideas...
Time and time again, I come back to this video. It's a work of art.
Charles,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for showing me a better way to garden! I have embraced no-dig and committed to it whole-heartedly and am reaping the rewards!
Wonderful! 💚
Dear Sir Charles - I am as green as your luxurious plants. "Thou shalt not covet..." You have done an absolutely marvellous job. Your honest forthcoming way is most encouraging. Your advise is heeded and appreciated.
Thanks green Tyr!
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I love how soft spoken he is. Like a typical English gent
Thankyou
Agree with you, send love and peace from Indonesia to all of you
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Oh My God I'm the new subcribe here,so many thank for you Sir to share how great videos to us.
@@chefyota9037 Shut up you Pratt! Every single civilisation since the beginning of history has committed extreme violence against other civilisation. It's not unique to the English/British.
I need man like that ❤
Lot of patients , hard work and love for plants is need to do such a beautiful garden.
Wow ..You live in paradise Charles!!
The best and most calming video ever, I miss England in this respect. Wonderful information as I was dreading having a large garden. (I saw my mum working hard on hers) :). A huge thank you for sharing this with us!
Glad you enjoyed it and yes gardening can be so joyful
My almost 9 year old, has decided she really like your videos and wants to be a “farmer” like you!
That is awesome! Please say hello from me.
Your garden is pretty. I always wanted to plant mix (tall, short, different color) flowers in my garden. Now, I know is possible.
Your smile and passion are so lovely!
Great garden, beautiful!!!
Thanks so much
dude i'm jealous of your life. building such a garden feels like a dream.
It will always be a dream unless you actually put some effort into doing it yourself.
i would be blessed if i could get an opportunity to work and learn with him.......Everything is so beautiful, mesmerizing
I m a gardener and while I know much about garden maintenance I haven;t got a clue about crops. I have just got myself an allotment and your videos are very helpful and informative. Thanks and keep up the good work!
My name is Graça Nunes and I am not fluent in English. I'm using Google Translator. Very grateful for the information!
You are in paradise Charles.
You're living my dream.
Your garden is Heaven...
So lovely garden,I like your way how you talking about the garden -very relaxing way and this is all about 😊👏👏🌾🍃
This is a stunningly beautiful video. You have inspired me so much.. I am in the process of turning my allotment in to no dig. Am now completely obsessed with making and finding compost! Thank you for turning a bleak looking world in to one full of promise again. I only wish I'd discovered you years ago.
Wonderful! I wish you success Helen, thanks
Just seeing Charles and his incredible, glowing face makes me happy!
Thanks Riffat
I'm just about to start my journey with my own veggie patch, this fills me with so much joy - thank you so much.
Cool and good luck!
This video was so gentle, so peaceful. Imagine if each of us did a little bit of this?
The first guy who did was crucified.
Smmerset England you imagine how much will cost that kind of property :o
Kathleenie Beanie no more rainforest
@@marcsduk you dont have to do anything that big!
Can't go on vacation or visit family or friends during the summer. Have to drop other hobbies. It's not for everyone.
What a nice, positive guy you are. Your videos made my day. God bless you, Charles . :-)
Thank you
OH! so beautiful to see you all working in the garden what a lovely family! You work with so much care and love that the reason your veggies grow so well. Thank you!
Thank you so much Martha 🌺
Wow! Sustainable gardening in such a picturesque location. Beautiful!!
Your gardening techniques are amazing. I am applying those techniques to my organic gardening. Thank you!
So gentle farmer..so loving and passionate with his farm, thank you sir for this wonderful presentation! 🌸
Our pleasure!
Hello from America! I live near Yosemite National Park. Thank you for your wonderful example of good living.
I live near Yosemite also, just outside Mariposa. We have some unique challenges in this area.
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Wow, you live in a beautiful place too!
Summer 2018 and I am waiting to have a hip replacement done in September. My surgeon told me I wouldn't be able to garden this year (Due to the excessive pain I assume??) however, without being able to get out in my "Happy Place" there is no point to my life, so, I adjusted how I did things and grew a lot of my crops in shopping bags and large pots. I also have beds much like yours but am unable to get down to them so do most of my planting etc., with a long stick. Your videos have been such an inspiration to me and have helped me plan what I want to do for next year, God willing. I gave up using my rototiller several years ago and have been using the no dig and mulching method ever since. Obviously, if I was still doing things the old way I wouldn't be able to have a garden. I live in Ontario Canada so the climate is a bit different but with a bit of tweaking everything works much the same. Take care and keep safe. Sandie.
have you considered raised beds?
Have you considered getting help fro hard work and just do watering and easy jobs yourself? Like watching the flowers and sunsets. Get well soon!
Found your channel about a year ago, and started immediately. My 5 small beds in small fenced suburban backyard are brimming with lush green goodness. Already enjoying 2nd round of salads, brassicas, and first ever pea shoots - glad to have them during pandemic quarantine still active on April 26. Can't wait for the tomatoes to ripen. Zone 8a Southeast USA. A young man cuts my grass and helped me carry in and place the bags of compost/soil over cardboard. (Small gate, cannot get vehicle through fence gate to back.) He helped also put down cardboard and pinestraw for the paths. He keeps asking questions and is frankly amazed that I didn't dig anything. He's engaged, and I believe ready to start his own no dig garden as he prepares for their new marriage. He already saw how simple it was firsthand and commented, "And if you ever move, there's nothing to tear down. Just spread it out and the buyer has a fertile back lawn if he doesn't garden." Thank you for all you taught me! Gives me much pleasure just to go out and observe. Here today rewatching this video - one of my favorites along with the propagation ones -- wow, over 2.6 million views. Congratulations!
How nice to read this. And wonderful that you are training the next generation to simpler and better ways :)
Such a great video.... feel like I got to vacation in England garden for 21 minutes!
Great comment, thanks.
What a well done video!!!! Loved it. Love your work and love your garden. Beautiful!
ChezGra k
don fairley what a wonderful garden . Happiness is growing a beauifulgarden
Dziękuję Pani Beato za napisy, bo to rzeczywiście dobry materiał edukacyjny. Pozdrawiam Panią i Pana Charlesa.
Dziękuję Miroslaw!
Thank you very much. I need someone like you that help me to begin my garden.
You don't have a garden. You have a wonderland. Respect :)
Thanks Nimantha
He is truly an amazing person. A wealth of knowledge and experience. What more could we ask for in the gardening world? I also watch other gardening channels and love them as well. Charles has been doing this forever and we can all learn from each other no matter where we live in this world. The gardening world is such a great place.
So nice of you Donna, great you learn so much from all over
“No matter what problem you look at, every ecological problem comes from this illusion that we are separate from nature.” ~ Vandana Shiva
Thank you so much for making these videos and writing your books. I am living in Hungary and we have a bit different climate but I can use your method in my garden. All of your parts of the garden is very beaufitul full of life. It is so amazing to have such a good persons as you are who is able and willing to help others to grow organic food. Thank you again and I wish you manny blessings.
Great feedback Maria and I am happy to hear of your success
An absolutely, amazingly beautiful garden! What a gift you have, Mr. Dowding!
Thank you kindly Michelle
I've started my garden in december motivated by your method, it will take me still quite a few months to get the compost ready but thanks a lot, I will keep following!
The finest vegetable garden I have ever seen !
Thankyou
This is the life I dreamed .A house holds lots of flowers. A lush green vegetable garden. Always have clean vegetables to use for cooking. The air is fresh and quiet. I love video. Thanks
So nice
one of the best people on this planet.
there is a palace in heaven for people like you charles.
Wonderfully explained...your rich experience as well as your beautiful garden has left a lasting impression on my mind.
Thanks very much.
My pleasure 😊
15:38 OH WOW. I still remember seeing my first eggplant plant. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world back then! and seeing it again just makes me happy for some reason!! thank you for the video mr. Dowding!
That is cool, thanks
Lovely. Looks so warm and comfortable there!
Love your video, your way of transmitting knowledge and your inner peace. From Argentina, the other side of the world, during this quarantine period, I started growing my own vegetables. My kids are involved in the process , they are teens, and we are sharing a really precious time in the garden . Thank you for the inspiration.
Lovely to read this Ana, go well!
Absolutely delightful
Your garden looks spectacular. Thanks for sharing your methods.
Thanks for posting this video! Great stuff! 😏 I wish I could have a garden that huge! 😍 It's fantastic to see how you change your garden throughout the year! 😁
Thank you for the great teachings, so calm and patient. You are a blessing to many people's homes keep up the wonderful work, I would love to have fresh veggies to grow and sell to my little community
Perhaps one day 💚and thanks
Que jardín y huerto hermosos!!! Gracias por enseñarnos técnicas sencillas para cultivar la tierra,pero sobre todo sin dañarla.
Admirable su trabajo y dedicación,ojalá se implementará más este tipo de cultivo y así ayudamos al planeta.
Saludos desde Barranquilla Colombia.
Gracias Miranda
It is obvious you are loving what you do :-)
I remember my Dad, he do all of this also. Farming makes him relax... He always tell me the more you plant the more you will eat... 😊
GODBLESS you Sir
So true! Thanks Yumi
I will plant in the very near future, Hehe only in a balcony because that's all I have. I will always watch your informative videos. For me to learn more. 😊
REALLY Beautiful!!!! Very good information you've provided about how you've achieved such success. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely Gorgeous! Makes me want to plant everything I can find to grow!
I think you are living in heaven on earth. I enjoyed your soft and gentle voice. This is the way human being are supposed to live. But 99.9% are pushed to do just the opposite. Thanks for sharing.
His voice is very soothing.
@@tseringlama1361 I love his voice too. I can listen to him all day every day to learn from him .
Look how happy he is! And did you know serotonin is released in our brain when we smell soil? Gardening is medicine!
Thanks and that is good to know. And food that is rich in bacteria, say from a little soil on your carrots, aids production of tryptophan which the brain converts to serotonin. Regular meals of home-grown veg, rich in fresh bacteria (!) are great for feeling good.
Helps me with my depression. It makes me feel good! Take care sir, you are such a wonderful man, so authentic.
I never scrub home grown root veggies. 😁
I love Charles enthusiasm ,
Is this true also if veggies are bought from stores whether organic or not? maybe not if there is no soil on veggie? Do you mean soil in veggie from own garden needs to be left on veggie & eaten? or do you mean even if washed it will still aid production of tryptophan?
Still new to your work but just discovered you have books and courses!!!!! Time to investigate and invest. I think I’ll benefit in so many ways not just gardening. You’re a natural teacher Charles 👏👏👏
Thanks Ray 😀
Very calm,relaxing and beautiful....love it..
Charles, you are a genius gardener 👏👏
Oh, Charles, you live my dream! I also always find that people working with earth are very gentle ! You speak gently! :) thanks for share!
I hope you get there 🥬
I just LOVE your garden Mr Dowding! My husband and I are trying to start a garden with the compost and wood chips and straw. We don't have as much land as you do, but I sure wouldn't mind living where you do. It's so beautiful in Sommerset, and I just love the look of your home and the way you have your garden. It would be like a retreat!
Best of luck with your garden, you can make it beautiful.
Muchas gracias, es un regalo de la vida que yo pueda aprender se su experiencia. Había escuchado mucho hablar de Ud, pero pir el idioma sólo mirada y trataba de entender lo que decía, según lo que hacía o mostraba con sus manos. Ahora a devorarme sus videos. Muchas gracias y saludos desde Chile 🌻💜🌻Ahora sólo quiero que el día sea más largo, para hacer las cosas después de ver sus videos. Son adictivos jajaja. Se agredece su generosidad y cksridas6para enseñar. Gracias
Muchas gracias Alejandro, que tus días sean largos
What a gentleman, I discovered Charles whilst watching American videos and some folk were mentioning his name. Then I realised it’s the man my mum also talks about.
Thanks for all that you do Charles!!
That is funny! Thanks Andrew.
To have a garden like this!!! basically my dream.
I'm loving this, Wish to spend my life this way. I live in an apartment and right now m growing cherry tomatoes,numex twilight and some capsicum on my balcony. watering them every morning is what makes me happy.
Where from you?
I've been working in Horticulture for over 30 years and this just makes great sense, I will be setting up my gardens with your gardening techniques from now on, I've had to many failures over the years and that makes it to easy to just give up! digging gardens is just hard work and I'm not getting any younger, thank you Sir
Wonderful, you can do it
Charles, this is so amazing...i love your garden
Your garden looks fantastic, and you're working alongside family too (I presume). I can imagine no better way, to make a living and feed yourselves
Thank you for sharing your priceless experience for all generations👍🏾🗝
My pleasure Paul 🤠
Hi Charles, what a beautifully maintained garden. Highly inspirational to say the least.
I'd just like to make a comment on "green" waste. The green waste sold by councils here in the Uk and produced from kerbside bin collections is very likely to contain grass clippings from lawns that have been treated with a Feed and Weed type product that contains Hormonal weed killer.
I have heard of more than one occasion where sickly crops were directly attributed to the unwitting application of contaminated "green" waste. One was a farmers Wheat crop that had patches of stunted and yellow plants. The other was a Rose growing trial. In both cases, the plants just looked sickly and weren't doing very well.
Hopefully you wont have anything like this to deal with, but I just wanted to share it with you.
Keep up the good work.
Thanks for this and yes, it's that horrible hormone aminopyralid, which just should not be allowed, but it is. Fortunately our local waste facility test for it by growing tomato seedlings in all their composts before selling. Tomato, potato and beans esp fava/field beans are the most susceptible and quick to show damage.I am making more and more of my won compost.
Here Now I've even heard of this happening with manure purchased from horses that ate in pastures treated with "weed killer" and the manure killed the garden.
Doesn't surprise me the no-dig with plant/mushroom compost outperformed the strips with animal inputs. Beautiful garden Charles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_mushroom_compost - "its formulation generally consists of a combination of wheat straw, dried blood, horse manure and ground chalk, composted together"
There may or may not have been animal inputs in the organic matter that the mushrooms where grown in before it became "spent mushroom compost". Mushrooms are usually grown in a mixture of natural products, this can be many things including wheat or rye straw, hay, ground corn cobs, cottonseed hulls, canola meal, grape crushings from wineries, soybean meal, poultry manure, potash, gypsum, cocoa shells, peat moss, ammonium nitrate, lime, and other substances. Spent mushroom compost is usually pretty low in nutrients, I wouldn't waste my money no matter what was in it. There is no necessity for it just as there is no necessity for adding animal inputs to soil. Huge waste of time and money.
In trials we have done with plants in pots of different composts, the mushroom compost often starts slowly (growth hesitant) then plants pick up and, without any feeds, grow strong, healthy and to a good size. All composts have different qualities, I am fortunate to have choices, and am happy to use different ones sometimes.
Vegan Gardener
Sorry, but there is no such thing as a 'vegan gardener'. All terrestrial life depends on the 'soil food web' which is made up of many animals, as well as protozoa, bacteria, and fungi.
No ecosystem anywhere on Earth developed without animals. We humans can choose to restore the natural relationships between the soil, plants, and larger animals and reap the bounty of surplus that the natural world provides, or we can take living ecosystems apart and isolate the living things from their community. Almost no ecosystem on Earth currently has the number of animals on it that it had 1,000 years ago. Or 500. Or even 150 years ago. This is one of the reasons, along with other human disruptions, that so many ecosystems are in decline
The plants in these ecosystems need the animals as much as the animals need the plants. A study of acacia trees in Africa showed that they did not grow as well without the giraffes that eat them. Grasslands suffer badly without herds of grazing animals - and oxidize massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere when the grazing and trampling they evolved with is absent, which brings the plant matter into contact with the soil so the soil food web can be fed, along with the benefits of manure, urine (a critical water source for plants in arid climates), innoculants from the mouths of grazers, and beneficial hoof action. Of course, this does not mean CAFOs!
It is said that humans can't be carnivores because we don't have teeth like canines and felines - but we also don't have teeth like herbivores. Nearly every large herbivore has no upper incisors (front teeth), except the equines. And nearly all of them regurgitate (throw up) their food and chew it again before swallowing it again. Some, like rabbits, eat their 'night droppings' in order to digest the vegetation adequately to meet their nutritional needs.
I personally don't care what other people choose, or choose not, to eat. Dietary choices don't make one person superior over another, any more than other choices of belief systems do. :) My teeth tear meat very well. And chew certain plant foods well, too. But we now avoid grains and most all starchy foods. To each their own!
Charles, you posted the most inspiring thumbnail for this video with the full vibrance of your crops as well as the richness of your soil. Looking at your crops I am beginning to feel nervous as I planted after my last frost date but sowed indoors months prior but have not bloomed as you have. That isn’t a question, I’m trusting the process. It was an observation.
Anddddd…. This was in 2016 but just up on my feed. Sorry.
I wish your plants success John!
Watching from Russia... so beautiful, it’s hard to understand the work behind unless you worked in the garden yourself! Reminds me of my parents’ summer house, all green and plenty of crops. Perhaps a tad more organized as everything British:) thank you for sharing!
Many thanks and lovely to hear from a distant land, hope your summer is good
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I love how your garden looks like!!!!
💛 What a lovely little farm and a lovely man. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this
Thanks so much
This garden is absolutely beautiful.
The reason this man is so happy is because he hasn't dug anything since 1976.
You make it look so easy! With the advice you have been giving, you have done wonders for helping me improve my veg growing skills... thank you so much!
Glad to help Jill and well done 🥕
verry good video . you are giving healthy veg for people thx for shearing
beautiful place. you are very blessed
Thankyou Charles, a joy and inspiration to watch your passion in action!
I just start to try at my place..hope someting come well..i love what you do with your garden.
I wish you well
Thank you very much.
Makes me miss having a garden so much!
You look really happy, very relaxing watching your video.
Thankyou
Участок большой, но такой ухоженный...с такой любовью Вы рассказываете. Сразу видно что любите своё занятие...жаль что ничего не понимаю
Спасибо и извините 💚
I like this garden. building such a garden feels like a dream. Thank you for share😍
Thanks Charles for sharing these marvellous ideas to improve our methos of gardening. It has been a great inspiration for me !
You are very welcome Annie
I love your garden 🤗 It looks like a little Eden ...
Absolutely gorgeous!! I hope to have a farm and garden
as big as that one day.! Thank you for sharing!
May your dream come true
Thank you! I really appreciate you saying that!! I'm working so hard to make my dream come true!
@@StaceyHerewegrowagain did ur dream come true?
Bahçe hayranlığınız çok etkiledi beni. Çok mutlusunuz bu güzel. 👍🏻
Teşekkürler Benim, bunu ilettiğim için mutluyum
I just wanna live there. Looks exactly like the farm I daydream about. :)
Thanks Pixie Love!