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!!
💚 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 ...... :)
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!
@@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
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!!
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
@@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 :)
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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!
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.
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 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. 🙂👍🌱🌱
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.
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.
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.
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! 😊
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.
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!
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.
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!))
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.
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 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 !!
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!
Good content here and a gorgeous garden /compost/greenhouse setup. But I want to give my thanks and compliments to Huw Richards for producing such well-done garden interviews and the video that plays under the voice-overs. Really well filmed and well edited! I've only watched 2 of your garden interviews so far but will be back for more. Thank you.
I've enjoyed many hours watching these videos and am inspired every time. Thankyou Charles. Your garden, glasshouse, compost sheds and home in the background all tell a beautiful story. You make it all look so simple and bravo for being so orderly. Your lifestyle obviously works for you. Well done.
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.
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
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
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!!
Very encouraging information, charmingly presented. I've had varied outcomes on and off over a couple of decades, from great to dismal with gardening (always organic). There's a lot I don't know and I'm self-taught from organic gardening books, magazines, and conflicting advice from others. I read an article in a magazine about an octogenarian who managed weeds, and her workload, by never rototilling but simply mulching with organic compost and straw, and so I did a double-take when I saw this no-dig organic gardening video. Just this year I started a no-till/no-dig organic garden and didn't have a lot of information to go on, just decided to have fun with it and try, making curving row shapes, using shells and rough trellises, etc. I have laid down loads and loads of organic compost over all these years, and did not use straw as I thought it would start growing straw later. I prepped it by overwintering it with cardboard to kill weeds, and that worked well. My little garden in the back corner of my backyard is kind of rangy and no showplace but the vegetables seem to like it there and it's nice to be able to disappear around corners. I'm curious to see your gardening myths video next. Congratulations on the beautiful garden and techniques, it is all gorgeous and must be wonderful to retreat to, and thanks especially for the heartening encouragement!
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.
Really enjoyed watching your video, you have a great connection with nature. Your garden and property are beautiful. Your weather is much different than in the US, so any bug and insect problems here. No wonder I always has a love for England. Look forward to watching other videos.
Huw , what a treat to find this, you really make contact with great gardeners , you love to learn, respecting your time with Charles, hes a gem of a man , his ideas are fantastic , i call him the David Attenborough of gardening. Huw i hope you enjoyed your time with Charles. Yet again another great share.
@@HuwRichards oh my word, this Irish lady will be so happy. Oh lads ye will have a great old natter the two of ye, two gents and knowledgeble lads. Have a great time. Thats so funny considering i found this video by chance.
You are a wealth of knowledge. I have enormous amount of respect for you and everything you do your videos. The way you explained things. I have been following you for quite some time. You do make things so much easier. I listen to a lot of other videos on gardening. Your name comes up all the time and other videos so many other channels but also respect you and admire you. Thank you
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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 so gentle he won't even insult garden weeds 7:00
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
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!!
'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
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.
He seems so happy just talking about his garden its amazing 😊and sweet
He's so adorable and happy that I can't stop smiling.
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.
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.
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.
This is one of the most chill dudes I’ve ever seen...
The time was 4:20
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 an American I love how he says soil in a way it sounds like soul.
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 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.
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.
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.
HE'S SO FULL OF WISDOM and PEACE! ✨
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
How wonderful to see you both do a video together! Really enjoyed this!!!
I look at his episodes over and over.. love his shows.. brilliant man
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
He said his book initially had a bad reception. I say I totally trust one who has such a wonderful garden.
Your garden is what heaven must look like
Ten times better
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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Brilliantly done, Huw! It's great to see you and Charles collaborating on a video.
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 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!
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
That was amazing. So much better than any TV programme!
I love it, he becomes so happy when he starts talking about farming
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!
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.
Huw and Charles, the very definitions of time well spent. Thank you both!
Great video. This is my fourth year gardening and I find that simpler is always better. Work with nature, rather than against it.
England must be heaven for gardeners. You have the prettiest veggie garden I have ever seen.
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!
Apart from plants liking company I am sure they liked and sensed a friend in you.. You are so loving and kind....
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. 🙂👍🌱🌱
Oh my gosh I just checked out one of his books at my local library! Love this guy!!
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 :-)
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.
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.
A gorgous garden. What a dream. Makes me want to cry. Congratulations💪🎉💖
What a charming man and such great info! Well done! Oh and such a beautiful bountiful garden!
I LOVE gardening with as little work as possible. Thank you for showing us your beautiful garden!
This is probably my favourite Charles Dowding video! All in all a great summary of what Charles does! Great work! Subscribed!
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.
What a quirk! Love him. Inspirational. I need to beef up my efforts this coming season!!
What the whole world should be like. Thank you for sharing🌱
My two favourite gardening gurus in the whole world, Charles and Huw, awesome
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! 😊
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.
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! :)
One of the most beautiful veg gardens I've ever seen. And a wonderful gardener in totally in touch with the earth. Amazing!
This man is so wholesome. Makes everything in the world seem jolly. Can't wait to try this.
He is the man. !
Love gardening, we grow our own here in Poland. Cool jacket.
SUBSCRIBED . 👍
So kind of him to share so much in your vid...God bless him more!
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.
This guy is really connected with nature. I learned so much watching this
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!))
I love this man personality 🤣 he keeps laughing and can't get serious...he could be a good person to be around
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.
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.
"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
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.
Two of the finest gentlemen gardeners in a video.
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 !!
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
Good content here and a gorgeous garden /compost/greenhouse setup. But I want to give my thanks and compliments to Huw Richards for producing such well-done garden interviews and the video that plays under the voice-overs. Really well filmed and well edited! I've only watched 2 of your garden interviews so far but will be back for more. Thank you.
Look at that amazing garden! I agree, experiment with what works for you, and be adaptable.
I've enjoyed many hours watching these videos and am inspired every time. Thankyou Charles. Your garden, glasshouse, compost sheds and home in the background all tell a beautiful story. You make it all look so simple and bravo for being so orderly. Your lifestyle obviously works for you. Well done.
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.
Thanks for sharing. Loved the way how peaceful you look and the way you deliver information.
Masha'Allah very nice garden you done very heard work I will try God bless you
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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.
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
He's a happy soul, optimistic guy
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 can listen to Charles Dowding all day. So much knowledge! Thank you for sharing this video x
Glorious garden. Admirable man. Wonderful information. Thank you for the video.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing this and letting us see Charles garden.
+Greg Wade No problem at all Greg!
Very encouraging information, charmingly presented. I've had varied outcomes on and off over a couple of decades, from great to dismal with gardening (always organic). There's a lot I don't know and I'm self-taught from organic gardening books, magazines, and conflicting advice from others. I read an article in a magazine about an octogenarian who managed weeds, and her workload, by never rototilling but simply mulching with organic compost and straw, and so I did a double-take when I saw this no-dig organic gardening video. Just this year I started a no-till/no-dig organic garden and didn't have a lot of information to go on, just decided to have fun with it and try, making curving row shapes, using shells and rough trellises, etc. I have laid down loads and loads of organic compost over all these years, and did not use straw as I thought it would start growing straw later. I prepped it by overwintering it with cardboard to kill weeds, and that worked well. My little garden in the back corner of my backyard is kind of rangy and no showplace but the vegetables seem to like it there and it's nice to be able to disappear around corners. I'm curious to see your gardening myths video next. Congratulations on the beautiful garden and techniques, it is all gorgeous and must be wonderful to retreat to, and thanks especially for the heartening encouragement!
Sir, I love you. I can watch these for hours. Some of my best friends are plants. Unfortunately I never have enough compost.
No dig has changed my life! Have been able to add more garden spots and have a more beautiful back yard than I ever thought possible! 😃
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.
Love this guy. What a great teacher!
Really enjoyed watching your video, you have a great connection with nature. Your garden and property are beautiful. Your weather is much different than in the US, so any bug and insect problems here. No wonder I always has a love for England. Look forward to watching other videos.
Beautiful peaceful garden.it is a treasured shared. thank you for sharing.Blessings
Huw , what a treat to find this, you really make contact with great gardeners , you love to learn, respecting your time with Charles, hes a gem of a man , his ideas are fantastic , i call him the David Attenborough of gardening. Huw i hope you enjoyed your time with Charles. Yet again another great share.
Hehe thank you!:) Guess who's filming all day tomorrow again with Charles? So stay tuned for some more videos with him:)
@@HuwRichards oh my word, this Irish lady will be so happy. Oh lads ye will have a great old natter the two of ye, two gents and knowledgeble lads. Have a great time. Thats so funny considering i found this video by chance.
You are a wealth of knowledge. I have enormous amount of respect for you and everything you do your videos. The way you explained things. I have been following you for quite some time. You do make things so much easier. I listen to a lot of other videos on gardening. Your name comes up all the time and other videos so many other channels but also respect you and admire you. Thank you
My two favorite gardening channels! Perfect collaboration.
What a fantastic video. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and Charles is a great teacher. I've learned so much.
+The Z-Family Thank you very much I'm glad you enjoyed it! Great:D