Incredibly Productive No Dig Garden (Charles Dowding's 1/4 Acre of Abundance)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Charles Dowding's method of growing food is perhaps one of the most inspiring methods out there. He has developed his own style of no dig vegetable growing through his use of compost and the results really do speak for themselves. I decided to go and take a look at Homeacres to see what he is doing and to find out a bit more about no dig. I hope this video will inspire you to find out more, and these links will be useful for that:
Charles' RUclips Channel: / @charlesdowding1nodig
Charles' Website: www.charlesdow...
No Dig Organic Home and Garden Book: www.charlesdow...
Creating a New Vegetable Garden Book: www.charlesdowd...
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this man is so gentle he won't even insult garden weeds 7:00
Hi , I live on an Island on the west coast of Scotland. The people around me all said you cannot garden here, nothing will grow, the weather is to inclement cold wet and very windy. My daughter and I really enjoy growing our own veg, we also do no dig, we use raised boarders to keep the soil drained, plenty of natural home made compost, with a secret ingredient smiles! we add peacock manure to our compost which helps to accelerate the decay, as we have 20 peafowls.
I am 74 and the garden helps to keep us fit, we also grow apples plums cherries giant apricots, never knew they could grow so big, peaches, grapes. The list is endless. So never believe anyone if they say you cannot do it, no chemicals all natural. Nothing more satisfying than growing your own fruit and veg!!
We always enjoy your great video's plenty of good advise here.
My daughter and I do not profess to be expert gardeners, but we enjoy the fruits of our labour.
Have a great week. now that planting season is here!!
Palado
💚 Wonderful testimony of growing in cold weather to love to hear proof of gardening naturally especially using the no dig method.
Do you use wood chips under your tree's to keep in the heat?
Whoa--I bet all of those peacocks make a lot of noise! They're beautiful birds so (perhaps) it's worth the day long cawing and screeching you have to listen to.
Your garden sounds beautiful. Where there's a will there's a way when it comes to growing the type of garden that naysayers insist is impossible.
I live in the high desert of the Rocky Mountains. I was told I couldn't grow blueberries here. Just like you and your daughter when I'm told "no" it makes me want to do it. My husband built redwood boxes with a very heavy landscape cloth liner to keep the native rocky and alkaline soil out. We filled the box with a mostly peat moss (something you'd have!) soil mixture. I shaded the bushes with lettuce plants that I let grow tall and go to seed (with added bonus of volunteer lettuce that comes up from the seed the next spring). My bushes are loaded with blooms and I'm sure I'll get lots of berries. The berries are hardy to -40 F. I bought the "Top Hat" variety that is only about 14" x 14" big.
And Paladon Perry, just think of this........it is very hot here in South GA, USA, but where it is cooler you can grow cool weather plants that simply will not grow here because it is too hot......Blessings on your growing ...... :)
Thank You.
This man is living the life. Nice garden, nice coat, and beautiful stone house in the background
Yes, living while working. One can presume he is up at dawn and works till dusk.with a few meal breaks....but its also enjoyable for him. Its not a put your feet up and relax kind of life..but a rewarding one for sure!
And don’t forget the greenhouse.
@@coolwater55 He looks a lot more relaxed than most folks. Sitting on your ass with the feet up is highly over rated, it's pretty much only fun after coming home working a shitty job for 8hrs
pauluminous I once heard Stephen Fry quote Noël Coward: “Work is more fun than fun.”
@@jamianmateja5574 for sure
'The plants like this way of growing because they're with their friends' might be the cutest thing I have ever heard! ^.^
Charles Dowding is the most incredible gardener I’ve seen on RUclips. He’s so knowledgeable and he enjoys his garden. It’s so lovely to see him show his garden. He truly loves what he does. I’ve learned so much from him. Thank you Charles
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This is the sweetest person I've ever seen! 😍
@@dianac2596 There's books about this :) For example the hidden life of trees Peter Wohlleben goes in depth with how same plants connect and take care of each other benefiting from being close to one another :) He does make a lot of interpretations already but still a good read. I'm open to book-suggestions as well :)
@@goudvisbloem Same with animals. They are happier in packs, families. It's how God made us all to be. Enjoy, love and help each other.
Niiiiiiice...I have been doing a no-till garden for years now, and it is absolutely splendid! I call it Lazy Gardening!
When starting a new garden bed (ideally, in the Fall), I dump a bunch of kitchen scraps, grass clippings, chicken manure (I have a small flock that eat Organic feed), et cetera on the designated area, then lay scrap cardboard over it. I then cover the cardboard with straw (NOT HAY!!) and ignore the bed until Spring.
By then, the scraps have composted naturally 'in place', and the cardboard is soft enough that I can push right through it to plant seeds, or transplant sprouts.
The straw stays right where it is, and acts as mulch.
I ache for a greenhouse!
Cheers! from Manchester, CT
This gentleman Charles is so sweet! Seems like he has such a good heart! Would love to spend the day in the garden with him!
100% agree!
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Although I love gardening, but even if I didn't I could just watch this and feel better about life! Really loved this, and am very inspired to turn my sloping grassy block into something like this...wow!!
He's so adorable and happy that I can't stop smiling.
My two favourite RUclips stars have done a video together! I was hoping you guys were aware of each other because you're very in tune. What I'd love to see is a video where you talk to each other about things you do differently and why.
Dear Mr. Charles Dowding, you are like my twin soul. I am glad you are able to do all of these beautiful garden. I actually get severely criticized for gardening and told that raising plants & a garden in the city is supposedly "crazy". I get constantly criticized for my green thumb. I am supposed to keep my home as a "Resort" vs. the way I love my surroundings, I love raising & living in a garden of Eden idea, with wild areas, some very organized areas, many wild flowers & pollinators' plants....I actually hate the "resort" look since I grew up at a farm raising all sorts of plants. Thank you for this beautiful videos of your garden.
God made man to live in the garden...
But sin messed it all up.
May Christ restore us into the edenlike environment.
He seems so happy just talking about his garden its amazing 😊and sweet
This is one of the most chill dudes I’ve ever seen...
The time was 4:20
We have been growing and following Charles' no dig method for about a year and a half now, and are delighted with our production. We have watched every video we can, and anytime I plant a new crop, I first go to Charles' tutorial. His love of the land and this natural process is inspiring. He is definitely the Johnny Appleseed for our generation. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
Best part of the video when Charles says he wants to encourage people to grow their own veg.. You guys are such an inspiration!! Keep us inspired and God bless you folks.
As an American I love how he says soil in a way it sounds like soul.
Good video Hew. Too many interviewers keep interrupting and giving their views and self promote. You were the opposite here,well done. Charles is a very good talker/teacher so you let him get on with it!
The camera work and and editing were also good,again well done.
I enjoy watching both your channels.
learnsomethinguseful Amen. Kudos to you Huw.
Thanks for introducing me to Charles. I decided just today to turn my overgrown garden into a veg patch, the entire lawn. I didn't know where to start - it was hard enough finally deciding what to do with my garden. I've subbed to his channel and will be working my way through his extensive video library. No dig, organic, what's not to love.
The inspiration and drive that Charles has given me over the last four years is priceless.
I have converted my allotment into raised beds and I am a no dig gardener from now on.
This will be my third year at no dig, the results are getting better every year. I've just treated
myself to a 6m x 2m Pokytunnel, the results so far with all my seedlings is fantastic, I
would recommend to everybody to get one. Thanks again Charles, your my hero.
As a fellow edible gardening adventurer who happens to be giving it a go in the extreme Arizona desert, everything in this video is gospel to me. I love that Mr. Dowding is getting the word out on the natural simplicity of no-till gardening, and that he encourages people to understand soil ecosystems and basic botanical principles first. It's like learning to cook - once you have the hows and whys down, you can really play around with the whats and wheres. =) Excellent information.
Tracey thanks for posting this and I am so happy this makes sense to you in Arizona, such a different climate to here!
Best of luck with your garden adventures.
He said his book initially had a bad reception. I say I totally trust one who has such a wonderful garden.
Apart from plants liking company I am sure they liked and sensed a friend in you.. You are so loving and kind....
HE'S SO FULL OF WISDOM and PEACE! ✨
Thanks Charles. Vital point you make about relaxing and enjoying the garden. Have seen so many keen new gardeners bashing into their plots with shiny new tools only to disappear, claiming it's agony. First advice I used to give to these 'hot new gardeners' was this; first take a comfortable chair to your garden accompanied with a nice refreshing drink. Then plan. Use your wealth of imagination, asking yourself what you and your family really like to eat, in the four seasons.Then once you've plotted your plot the work isn't really work but an expansive and exciting project.
I love his garden, its my dream garden! Some day mine will look like that, I hope.
Don't dig and don't use any store bought crap and it will
I swear, most of the gardening people I've met are always so chill and happy like they've been smoking something...
The power of plants!
Most gardening people consume what they grow, which is loaded with tons of nutrients, vitamins that make you feel like a million bucks and minerals that soothe the nervous system and relax the muscles. Quite an amazing feeling of well being. Healthy people are happy people.
My first treat listening & learning from Mr. Dowding. Such a humble, cheerful man; I wish I could visit his gardens; he feels like a new friend. Thank you......And now to watch "Gardening Myths!"
I love your way of planting vegetables and making own compost. I did this way for my narrow front yard gardening too.thank you for your video..very informative.
Your garden is what heaven must look like
Ten times better
Its recreation of the natural way. Seed and compost over the seed. Just like the forest it drops its seeds late summer early fall then the leaves fall then they become the compost the winter brings down bigger bits to insulate the seeds. And new growth happens. Beautiful video please post this to everyone. I have always thought of planting as fortifying earth then putting seeds into that earth. Why not seed the earth and then nurture it.
There are other approaches such as 'Back to Eden' which recognise the respect for the nature of soil and the eco-system that it benefits from - however 'Back to Eden' and others fail to recognise what Charles Dowding embraces and that is the need to embrace the spectrum of inputs that soil and plants require. I am rather sad that so many 'faithful' people try to base their gardening or farming on practices that limit the nutritional input to that of the decomposition of trees, or other limited sources. Charles clearly demonstrates the benefit of sourcing the widest variety of 'brown', and 'green' inputs and getting them to work in harmony with the natural processes at work in the soil. Wonderful!
Paul's garden is better, I have been there
So encouraging for gardeners like myself. I have tried many methods, including burying kitchen waste, but found it scary. I do like the way you just place the compost on the surface. I generally clean my veggies in the kitchen, now I'll clean them outside. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for publishing this brass tacks video on Charles Dowding, whom I absolutely love. I love your visits to other grower gardens as I do your own wonderful garden in Wales. I think Charles hits the nail on the head when he talks about looking to Nature. The traditionalists may not agree with him but then they're not looking at how Nature grows- she doesn't dig - she drops... vegetation and animal manures. She doesn't disturb the soil because 'there's no need to' and that, I think is Charles's strongest message - regardless of the science of soil life, why break your back digging and weeding when there's absolutely no need. I've been no dig, by chance, for almost 50 years because of impossible rock hard clay soil here in Australia - so I just grew on top and was staggered by what eventually happened to the soil beneath as a result. Thanks to Charles and his knowledge on soil life, I now understand what happened, why lies beneath our feet, and why I've been able to grow with such success ever since. I'm now into mushrooms too and love my fungi finding bushwalks with my dogs. Thanks again to you and Charles - you both provide such inspiration...and reassurance.
thanks for bringing the wonderful people who have so much to share into focus as a community. I love being able to discover new ways and perspectives on sustainable living, gardening and food production, right here on your channel. Subscribing to new gardening channels I find information about right here as well.
+Katelyn Lord No problem at all! I am glad this is helping you to show you different methods of growing food:D
I started a deep litter compost method with chickens. I add a lot of woodchips, scraps, grass etc into the coop and let them turn it and add to it also.
Charles explains Why, not just What or How. He helps you understand, in simplistic ways, exactly what the meaning and science is behind useful gardening methods. So helpful! Very glad I was able to find him in the heap of confusing information on this platform.
This video is absolutely brilliant! I love to see how you smile and talk at the same time your enthusiasm and passion for gardening really shines through it makes me inspired to grow with no dig compost method. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
What the whole world should be like. Thank you for sharing🌱
I think with everything in life there are those people out there who like to make things look difficult and seem complicated - it's all about ego - they like to make themselves look important !!
Love Charles ♥️ he is a incredible teacher. In this short video he taught almost everything from preparing soil for beginners to a bit of pest control. Wonderful video.
+VOTE4TAJ I very much agree, a huge wealth of knowledge!
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I like the no dig principle & Charles explains it so well. I will attempt to apply it as much as I can in my new allotment. The secret is in the soil. Thanks again for all those lovely videos. 🙂👍🌱🌱
That was amazing. So much better than any TV programme!
I look at his episodes over and over.. love his shows.. brilliant man
This is brilliant! My top two favourite channels together. I feel like a proud parent watching this... totally ridiculous thing to say but meh, i'm not going to delete anything!
"getting to have some fun and engaging with our plants" is the point, i am so glade you made this video thank you!! stay safe jk
Oh my gosh I just checked out one of his books at my local library! Love this guy!!
Great video. This is my fourth year gardening and I find that simpler is always better. Work with nature, rather than against it.
Masha'Allah very nice garden you done very heard work I will try God bless you
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This garden is wonderful! I discovered this no dig garden about two years ago. I implemented it last season and compared to my neighbor's garden, he digs so heavily, I had much more growth. This year I'm going for year two of "no dig" and I'm so excited to see the outcome.
I love it, he becomes so happy when he starts talking about farming
I live in the south western desert of Nevada, and the soil is atrocious. I have been composting for years. It is the main thing I use in my soil to feed my garden. It is the best for planting seeds and I use compost on my straw bales for that extra fertile jump for my tomatoes. They grow so fast and so many tomatoes. My spinach gets so big and marvelous flavor.
How wonderful to see you both do a video together! Really enjoyed this!!!
He's a happy soul, optimistic guy
Amazing garden look so green. I planted different kind of vegetables last year,I cannot eat it all , I gave to a friend and neighbors.
Look at that amazing garden! I agree, experiment with what works for you, and be adaptable.
I agree with excess complicated advice often occurring on this topic....particularly with composting--I simply have 2 or 3 piles on the ground, 1 well cured to draw from, 2nd curing and 3rd fresh and adding to.
this is amazing I finally found someone it did a side by side comparison of dig and no dig which helps all of us who were skeptical if it was the same your time and effort means the world to us newbies and even people that have been doing for a little bit.
It made difference for soil that been added with many compost or with genuine compost layer. For other parts of world with other soil type like sandy or clay, you might need to add compost and dig/mix with base soil for couple of growing cycles in order to create a living soil.
Thank-you for responding so quickly. I live in New Hampshire, USA and have had many gardens all previously established and no problems. Have moved to old farm and started new gardens but want to use your no dig method, but many voles. Will try your suggestion. Thanks so much!
I'm from Russia, Far East. I have a garden too. I think, the weather is very important for growing. Most of the time, especially in spring, spreading fog where I live. That's why its very interesting to see youre experience. Thanks a lot!))
Brilliantly done, Huw! It's great to see you and Charles collaborating on a video.
Nature don't dig. I'm happy to learn alot from your channel! I'm new to gardening. Thank you for all your teachings!
Best wishes from Portugal
Thank you for the tour of such a beautifully loved and maintained garden! I’ve taken your tips and will be putting them to use this spring in our new homes garden!
Bless you and yours!
A gorgous garden. What a dream. Makes me want to cry. Congratulations💪🎉💖
Dear Charles., This is fantastic, the rythmn of life working in time/ thyme.
Such an abundance. Looking amazing and as I have only three raised beds for vege.. my excitement watching those cropping is always brilliant, but being lost amongst your sprawling heaven i think would send me over the edge. 👍👍👍🌏👍👍👍 ( nz) 👍❤️👍 Your care and attention and knowledge just makes the visuals so lush, the colours so wonderous.
I love this man personality 🤣 he keeps laughing and can't get serious...he could be a good person to be around
England must be heaven for gardeners. You have the prettiest veggie garden I have ever seen.
What a quirk! Love him. Inspirational. I need to beef up my efforts this coming season!!
Huw and Charles, the very definitions of time well spent. Thank you both!
He is the man. !
Love gardening, we grow our own here in Poland. Cool jacket.
SUBSCRIBED . 👍
I am head over heals in love with no dig organic cottage gardening! This will be my second year. Hopefully each year will improve the soil and production. I always thought gardening was simply till, plant, water, feed and weed. Until I discovered RUclips and was bombarded with terribly complicated methods to grow veg. EEEEK! Cannot tell you how delighted I am to learn this no dig method! Massive amounts of work first year with poor results. However I am totally convinced this is the best way to garden and shall not quit until success is mine at last!
Started with cardboard, mowed grass and leaves. Then composted manure and organic topsoil. Last Fall put the garden to bed with mowed grass and leaves. This Spring plan to top off with organic garden soil, composted manure with worm castings and blood meal. Fingers crossed that SOMETHING will finally grow! 😊
I live on Southern California Mexico border where the desert valley was flooded in the early 1900s by Colorado river resulting in 850,000 acres of top silt soil for farming wheat, lettuce, alfalfa, sudan grass, red beets, cotton, broccoli, cauliflower, and many more veggies. Thank you Mr Dowding.
9:58 "...they're [the plants] more with their friends..." Mr. Dowding grabbed my heart with this! I am so excited to find out about No Dig now. You see, I have a grass back yard and I want to prepare veggie beds for next year. Digging was the first thing I thought I'd have to do! I am new to all of this, but so eager to learn.
With a garden of those dimensions, I’d opt for no-dig as well! Amazing crops are the proof anyone would need to agree with trying this method at least once.
So cool to see you guys together. Top quality content Huw!
+The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni Thank you very much, James!
The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni thanks for the recommendation James. You've added to my massive amount of channels to subscribe to. Lol
great channel, his food forest is overgrown with great food and great enthusiasm, already subbed to all 3 with alerts :-)
You guys are both brilliant!
Gardening should definitely be kept simple. In my experience SOME (not all) people try to tell you everything they know, and this can put a lot of newbies off. Share not scare ☯️✌👍
I LOVED what he said roundabout 10min, re the trays, "I think they like growing this way, they're with their friends." I couldn't agree more... and more and more research is coming up to prove so!
My seeds from this year, I've been storing them separately (so say a bean pod, each bean pod/beans gets it's own bag).... supposedly family's grow better together, so that's next years experiment, mixed seed groups vs family seed groups.
+Amanda F Yes it was something so different but made so much sense I just had to include it in the video! Good luck with the experiment, I'd love to hear how it goes!
Amanda F I too loved the sound of that. I'm not going to thin now what is about to go into the fall garden. God bless you.
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So how did it go.
Were you able to try Charles method?
This guy is really connected with nature. I learned so much watching this
Practiced gardening and research at my child hood 8-15 yr of age left my village but have a wish to do again now I am 46. What I learned one of them I found here. What an amazing practice you are doing here!. Excellent. Million dollar practice.
I’m starting my no-dig beds in Los Angeles this week. It’s a very weedy area, I was just gonna push the current scrub down, then thickly layer the compost and peat over some cardboard. The amendments should give the water a chance to penetrate. After that I’ll pull whatever makes it’s way up as the beds mature. It can be very dry and during the summer it gets dry and hard. I’ve seen a lot of gardening videos but yours are my favorite. I’ve got a very small plot but your videos are so helpful.
Hey Huw, One thing I really appreciate about your channel and why I'm a Patreon sponsor (if you're reading this and aren't, please become one) is the fact that you present various approaches to gardening. There is your own family farm, but you promote permaculture and other methods, like Charles's. Thank you!
+Timothy O'Brien Thank you so much Timothy, it is so amazing to have your support! I have some more exciting places to visit and film so stay tuned:D Best wishes
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Here here. Sry open minded. Good on you Huw. Keep em coming.
So beautiful!! Ohh! would I love to visit your garden!! We plant a summer garden, but have now learn what vegetables grow in the state in winter. Thank you so much also for the tips, will be checking your "garden myths" video!!
I LOVE gardening with as little work as possible. Thank you for showing us your beautiful garden!
My two favourite gardening gurus in the whole world, Charles and Huw, awesome
I applied the no dig method in my garden. And I'm so glad ☺ such abundance and no weeds
Fantastic! Keep up the good work :)
Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video guys, really well received! Just love Charles's Smile, so infectious!
Keep it up, revolutionary videos!
Hi Alexander, I am so glad you enjoyed it! :)
What a charming man and such great info! Well done! Oh and such a beautiful bountiful garden!
Oh awesome! A seasoned word of encouragement that made a real difference to my morning, considering today's project is re-establishing my garden after winter :D
You are supposed to feed it in the fall and just take the mulch off and plant
Now that’s a garden a perfect example of hard work paying off
Sir, I love you. I can watch these for hours. Some of my best friends are plants. Unfortunately I never have enough compost.
I agree totally with everything you say Charles, your garden really is the proof. My only observation as an allotment holder is that I simply can't generate the volume of compost required to mulch my growing area to that depth, and I don't want to spend money buying it in.
Two of the finest gentlemen gardeners in a video.
This man is so wholesome. Makes everything in the world seem jolly. Can't wait to try this.
One of the most beautiful veg gardens I've ever seen. And a wonderful gardener in totally in touch with the earth. Amazing!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this and letting us see Charles garden.
+Greg Wade No problem at all Greg!
"In Gardening there is no shortage of people who like to make it more complicated..."
Agreed. I have not planted yet, but my weeds seem to have no trouble growing with no care.
That's true for pretty much everything.
This is probably my favourite Charles Dowding video! All in all a great summary of what Charles does! Great work! Subscribed!
I consulted Mr. Webster as to the meaning of humble. To no surprise, there was but a picture of Mr. Charles Dowding.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your beautiful garden
You are a genius ! I love horticulture and i think that the Eden might look like your plot!
I absolutely loved this video ! Just beautiful and I know it took a great amount of work , At almost 67 I now have a small yard and gardening for the first time . I started pole bean's called Rattlesnake beans inside . Living in WA state for the first time too and shorter growing season . I put the plants outside to get used to it a little each day before I planted them . Looked good and yesterday I saw something had eaten holes of all sizes in my bean plants ! I dug around to see what it might be . Any idea's what might do this and what I can do to resolve this problem ? I am hoping the plants will come back .
Across a few feet in my garden I planted my Contender bush beans I also had started inside and no sign of anything eating them .
Thank you for any tips you may have for me . Have a blessed day , Linda
Here in Georgia USA we grow rattlesnake beans too! They are yummy and very productive! It's an 'Old Timers' green bean and not many here have heard of them