Leeks after potatoes in the same sacks of different composts, one of soil
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- On 18th July, I transplanted leeks into the same six sacks we had just harvested potatoes from, see previous video • 7 different composts t... . The leeks had been sown 5th April, then potted on in the greenhouse.
I did not feed the leeks nor did I add any more compost. The idea was to discover what nutrition and growth quality remained in these composts during the second half of the season.
We return 16th October for the harvest, it's really interesting!
* Please note that when introducing the trial at the start of the video (01.00), I say I am going to plant potatoes, but mean leeks!*
For the potato trial there had been seven sacks, but one was horse manure which turned out to have weedkiller, and therefore that one is not in the leek trial. I had spread the horse manure over nearby grass and then it is dissipated in sunlight.
00:00 Introduction
00:51 Planting the multisown leeks (*not potatoes!)
01:36 Mushroom compost
02:04 Homeacres soil
02:28 Homemade compost
02:54 4mm sieved wood chip, and wood chip not sieved
03:11 Potting compost, Moorland Gold
03:33 Green waste compost
04:29 3 months later, and a look at the growth in each sack
05:43 Harvesting and trimming the leeks
06:24 The harvest results
07:58 What to do with the compost now? (We spread it on one of my beds).
Harvest results:
Very woody compost - 50g
Potting compost - 265g
Soil - 290g
Sieved wood compost - 310g
Green waste compost - 370g
Mushroom compost - 425g
Homemade compost - 495g
See more videos on compost trials in this playlist: • Trials (including the ...
Filmed and edited by Alessandro Vitale @SpicyMoustache who also filmed the previous potato video.
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"They're not champion leeks... but there's a lot of food here." Charles Dowding quote of the day. Love.
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I have to say that as my eating yields have increased, my 'champion growing' results have declined. Is nature telling me something?!
I adore these comparison videos when done over a 6, 9 or 12 month period as it has information that anyone can use for improvements in their context. Great content again Charles, thank you.
You are so welcome!
Very interesting. Thanks for the comparison. Just goes to show homemade is best. I did a test myself with potatoes and I found the same. Some brought stuff wasn’t as good as I thought.
The comparison of different growing mediums combined with succession planting in sacks, is one of the best comparison and informative video I've seen in years. Keep up the good work.
Glad it was helpful!nThanks Glynis
For this Christmas, I gave myself the book "No dig" . After watching all your videos, I already have a garden with 5 beds, 3 heaps of compost waiting to be decomposed in time, in London (if you can believe it.. 🥴) It's fascinating the power you have over people, through your calmness and the confidence you convey. It's such an interesting adventure, from collecting leaves from the forest, finding manure sources in the area, to collaborating with coffee shops , fruit and vegetable stores to purchase compost materials. Have you noticed with how much love you talk about everything you do? It can be seen in your eyes, in the way you touch and handle the vegetables and flowers. I wish you good health and success to guide us for many more years!!
How lovely, what an amazing comment, really appreciate it and I hope you enjoy the book! 💚
Charles, you are my hero. I am not the type of person who says that often. Watching you for years but never had the land to work on. Now I might have the oportunity to finally start and prof your principles and spead the knowledge in the area and have fun on the way.
Many thanks for your effort to teach your principles and experiences to the worldwide (youtube) community. You are a great teacher by the way. Wish I could meet you in person.
All the best
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your writing and wish you lots of success in your new venture which sounds really exciting! I am with you in spirit.
Another great trial that is genuinely helpful to real gardeners or anyone else wanting to just grow some food. Thank you!
Ah nice thanks
Now I am hungry for Potato and Leek soup!
So good! 😂
Such a good experiment! Sacks are a great idea for people who may only have a small space or a balcony or patio. Or for anything that you may not need a large amount. I wonder how onions would do? Maybe I'll try that this year. Thanks Charles. You have made gardening really fun, because gardening is experimenting and that is really a great way to look at it!
Nice to hear, thanks, and yes, it's a superb way to interact with and understand nature, plus we get food to eat!
Gracias Charles..Ha revolucionado el huerto familiar. Nos ha conquistado con su sabiduría, su sencillez, calidez y humildad.
Larga vida para ti...
Eso es tan agradable de escuchar!! Que tengas un gran 2023 💚
So lucky to have discovered you. You have shined the light on new ideas and alternative methods of gardening here in central Iowa, USA. Your love and passion for gardening sends positive, feel good vibes my way. I'm super excited to be transitioning to no dig. Hurry up Spring!!
Thank You!
Welcome Jim, how exciting!
it's not too far away now, stay strong!
Thanks for putting the effort in over time and providing the vid for us. Fascinating again!
Absolutely one of my favorite vegetables leeks and potatoes potato and leek soup yum yum yum thanks Charles
Mine too 😀
First time spreading cardboard over 10*26 ft , going to make four 4*12 beds. Filled the first of four and wood planks to hold down cardboard until I can fill the other three.. 😊. Im encouraged by you Charles thank you.
Brilliant. Thank you. I’m sitting on a wet day dreaming of spring planting…
😀 indeed!!
Hey Charles! Sacks off to you my learned friend. I am staring at my leeks in a raised bed I made myself out of left over agricultural pipe halves wired together. They are growing very slowly after potatoes and I just wonder whether they do need a feed as the compost/potting mix may be a little older than I thought. One of my favorite soups is leek and potato soup. Recently, I did halloumi cheese grilled on the BBQ and then cut into bite size pieces which I topped with a basil leaf and a cherry tomato half. A nice flavor bomb even if I do say so myself. Be careful with the halloumi...it can be salty...so make allowances. Cheers!
Hi Craig, you have a complicated method and delicious food!
It sounds like a compost problem, unless it's the Australian heat making it difficult to get the leeks enough moisture, they like damp roots, good luck!
Awesome format. A lot of work is put into making these. Love it!
This one along with the potato video were fascinating to watch. I loved the very long term look into these comparisons
I always learn something new from watching your videos. Thanks, much gratitude!
Really enjoyed this experiment, thank you for sharing! 👍😊
Hello ! It's mamiejo from France.
Interesting experiments !
Anyway, one sac was missing :
A mix of the seven containts, just to see if it is the right mixture to get the best production 😉😁😘 !
See you soon !
Thanks for sharing mamiejo. I I'm glad I did not, however, because if I had done that, the poison from the horse manure would have contaminated all of the other six parts of that mixed sack!
Thanks for a wealth of information.
Revisiting potatoes to film progress is a great help for me and many with limited experience.
My two favorite videos you produce are always the factual ones such as this one and your overviews. You make viewing enjoyable and informative.
Cheers Dwight 💚
I'm really enjoying your latest videos, Charles. Extremely fascinating! Keep up the outstanding work 🙂
Many thanks!
That was an awesome experiment!! Thanks for sharing with us. Very eye opening ❤
Thank you 🤗
Another great comparison video thanks Charles. We grew potatoes in sacks and in beds last summer and were surprised to find very little difference between harvests, we then grew savoy/cauliflower in the same compost as potatoes over the Autumn/Winter, cauliflower growth quite slow, savoy did great! Might try it with leeks this year 👌
Interesting! Thanks for your feedback :)
WOOOW!!! EL TEMA DEL COMPOST ES SIEMPRE INTERESANTE... PERO ESOS EXPERIMENTOS COMPARATIVOS ME LLENAN EL ALMA!!! GRACIAS POR TU TRABAJO QUE ES GENIAL!!!
muy bueno gracias
Very interesting experiment with two veggies which should definitely be cooked together! Potato leek soup. YUM!
Oh yes and we did 😀
Thank you for sharing information about agriculture, and very good potato plants
It's my pleasure, wish we could provide Indonesian subtitles!
Interesting, I’m glad the mushroom compost did well as I use it a lot along with my own homemade compost.. appreciate your effort to make this video 🙏.
I don't think I would call my compost mushroom compost, even though I do get Agaricus Augustus mushrooms come up in my compost from time to time (vary similar to the Portabella mushrooms I see in stores) I have scattered the spores around the yard including under the boxwood hedges... one year I got about 30 pounds that I dried for use... outside one has to spot the mushrooms before the bugs get into them... since mushrooms are good at releasing nutrients in compost, anything I cut off processing the Agarics... get scattered in with growing plant areas... inoculation if lucky.
I have just purchased your no dig book and cookbook signed..👍. I have been following you for years and am a no dig convert, thankyou for all the great content.. Looking forward to receiving the books in Australia 👍
That is so nice Karen, thank you, and I love your name! Good luck with all your vegetables and I hope the weather is reasonable.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig the name is English, my ancestors came from Cornwall, Lands End. They came to Australia in the early 1800’s looking for gold. They were all good gardeners (they had to be), it’s in my blood one could say. 😉
@@karenkmk4035 Amazing!!
Thank you Charles for another great video. The video you have posted is very helpful for me as I struggle to grow good leeks. The video gives me an idea about different crop results using various types of soil. Thank you for your afford.
Glad it was helpful!
ThankYou
Super helpful thank you
Love your experiments!
that was a great comparison video really enjoyed and really interesting
Beautiful leeks Charles, such a wonderful vegetable and a fun experiment I'm sure for you, keeps you at the top of the your game knowing what works and doesn't. I'll be starting my leeks this month for the 2023 season. I'm still working on last years harvest, I have two large bags left in the freezer out of the three I put in there last fall so I'll probably be fine till next harvest.
Lovely job Roy and thanks
Brilliant Videos, unless you do these comparisons your just guessing so thank you. My job is sorting out community poly tunnel and biggest priority was to make compost bins and get 14 tons of mushroom compost and the same in cow manure, so delighted by your findings. Gives me hope in the slug invested wet western Irish climate. Heather
Glad to help Heather and what a project you have there!
This sack growing has been excellent information for someone who has had to move to a condo. I'm going to try this, putting the sacks in decorative baskets. I plan on trying the best of the bagged soils available in my area. It would be fun to see how grow bags work also.
Best of luck!
Not sure what part of world you are in, if United States, look up Firehouse Subs, for reusing pickle buckets as planters or perhaps some other restaurant that might get food in buckets and can not reuse the buckets, Firehouse Subs have a website that explains pickle buckets for donations program they do. Those soil bags look to be about a 5 gallon bucket size.
Succession planting in sacks. That's a concept that could very well take off for those with limited spaces! Another curious thought, Charles: have you given much thought to the "blending" of the various composts available and their various growing abilities? Might be a thought to another round of comparison growing vids. You could even reuse the sacks!
Good question! Let's see, and thanks
I'm not surprised at the crop from HomeMade C (I am presuming that you make some good stuff !!) Nor at the Mushroom C... .. I'm impressed by the GreenWaste C and amazed that the BigWoodchip C produced anything at all really ! A really interesting trial. You have fired my enthusiasm & I might find space fora couple of sacks myself next year if I can disguise them with something. Thank you .
Thanks, and I just had a really helpful comment that someone suggested turning the sacks inside out, so you have black outside, and they look much nicer! Warmer too, or too hot in sun...
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Well, that solves my problem - no disguise needed as black would be good...and in part shade.
Hi Charles it’s been very interesting your experiment into different soils loved your video lv Irene 😘 xx
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I am salivating at the thought of leeks in a cheese sauce :) I really struggle with Alliums here, I don't really know why. Thanks Charles.
You can grow other beautiful things!! 😂
very fertile plants with compost planting media, very useful information and adds inspiration to my farm, thank you
You are most welcome, thanks
Hola Charles,cómo siempre gracias por brindar tanto conocimiento , experiencia con tus videos 🌷🌷🇨🇱
Gracias 💚
Mushroom and Homemade Compost for long-term stability/amendment to existing soil in a no dig manner. In these two sack-growing videos I can see that a lot of my failures or disappointments over the years might have been related to my lack of knowledge of growing medium. As always, I observe and adjust best I can. 🙏
I'm very happy that you feel helped by what I'm showing here
I really want to plant leeks this year!
Multisow early April under cover. I sell a lesson about growing them charlesdowding.co.uk/product/from-seed-to-harvest-19-leeks/
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks so much you are amazing!!
Great video! I grow a great deal of leeks but I have never multi sown leeks. I will have to try growing them in clumps. Thank you for the much need info!💚
Glad it was helpful!
Great experiment ❤
Really interesting results. You might consider doing a mix of all as the control. Sense you isolated them. The microbes couldn’t migrate. When you made Johnson and Su were able to keep consistent moisture? my experience with compost, temperature, aeration. For any compost air is the most important. Putting it on a pallet and and using tubes from Johnson and Su produced best compost if aged soil from many old cemeteries. Microscope showed more diverse colony.
All good points, thanks
Charles I think I'm going to grow 100% potatoes in my garden in the spring. I'm just a meat and potatoes kind of guy and after seeing all the different varieties in your garden that just makes me think about all the hard work I would have to do so potatoes it is Sir
😂😂 superb comment, I love your directness! Maybe a few peas!!!
So nice looking at those summer videos with 30cm to snow outside. Always wanted to run experiments like that but haven't had the time. Would be interesting to see how the same material would produce next year. I suspect some of the sacks would get (relatively) better
Haha yes.
I prefer to start afresh!
Bonjour Charles, super les poireaux, quel beau tableau sur la table avec la nappe noire à bientôt merci🙏🙏🙏
A moi le plaisir 🇫🇷
Happy new year Charles , thanks for these amazing informative videos for us mere mortal gardeners . Now , did you re use any of the same compost you used for the potatoes , or is it a fresh batch ??
Cheers Andy.
The leaks grew in the compost, which had grown potatoes, after we refilled the sacks. Now that compost is on a bed in the garden.
hi Charles- I uploaded a video yesterday about my last weekend harvest of carrots I sowed from a random packet I found in May, here in Southern Hungary. Basically, I did not expect much but they did pretty well considering I did not attend to them very much. It prompted a reply from one of my UK followers to pointed out that the terrific heat of 2022 did not help his harvest and while I suffer extreme heat here, I did manage a harvest of Nantes in September in a no dig bed. He went on to say he harvested some and re-sowed in August and now has a good harvest, like me. So, I intend to leave them in for longer as will he, and we will compare results
That's very nice collaboration Simon!
I liked the results, I have a big heap of mushroom compost waiting in the garden. We have visiting deers, using the heap as a playground at night. Fortunately I placed a cover on top and pallets to hold the cover there. But somehow the cover is torn with a lot of holes at one side and the pallets mystically arranged at the bottom of the other side. I suspect the deers running up on top and there after sledding down on the pallets. I like that picture. Happy New Year!
So funny!! Enjoy using there compost 🌱
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😄They might just think so
Do leeks really prefer to grow in clumps? I've always grown them in rows. I'd like to try clumping them! Thank you for all you do and all those you inspire!
Thanks, and no not literally! But they grow fine and prolifically quite close together, closer than often recommended. The point about clumps is that they are a quick and easy way to plant a lot of vegetables, without separation. You are transplanting the clumps you created when you sowed seeds together in each cell.
Interesting seeing the difference, so many thanks. Maybe I should try this method - I lost my entire autumn leek harvest to alium leaf miner this year, so I'm out for revenge in 2023!
Good luck! Horrible pest!
Some nice-looking leeks there, I'm jealous as my harvest was very poor last year. Some I over-fed, some the Allium leaf miner got. So, I have to buy leeks now! Just one was £1.40 the other day! I could buy a whole packet of leek seed for that.
This year I will pay closer attention to my leeks.
An interesting study. I like such experiments. I have been sieving compost for years and usually throw the big chunks back in the compost to break down and sieve again a year later.
Sorry to hear that! Incidentally, we never sieve the compost for beds, and even for the sacks I did not sieve the homemade compost, only the woody ones
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Brilliant dramatic results from your test soils! I’m inspired to keep the occasional plastic bags for growing purposes - and relieved to find a way to reuse this source of plastic. I’ve been hesitant to purchase commercial mushroom compost due to concerns for the potential presence of residual chemicals. Curious if you have insights to share about sourcing mushroom compost.
Thanks and no, I was lucky here, occasionally it can have that weedkiller :(
interesting and thanks. I'm wondering how you found your plants coped with the freezing rain we had recently ? or did you escape it in soft southern country.
My kale lost a lot of leaves and I'm waiting to see how many rosemarys are dead and if all the protection i gave artichoke was yet again in vain when the winter ends for certain. Bought seed tatws and onion sets today to augment those I've saved. The -15C frost was good for the parsnips though
We were lucky here and had nothing below -9, and no freezing rain. That does sound very difficult for leaf vegetables.
Very interesting. I use a mix of soil and HMC for potatoes but the continued use by growing leeks is a great suggestion. Did you protect the leeks from the allium leaf miner?
I wonder if you did a taste test as well as thats our prime target, and trumps yield and size for me.
Nice to hear, and I did taste a few separately, and there was little difference!
Here fortunately we do not have much of that leaf miner, yet!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I'm still seething at losing my entire leek crop to it this year - FWIW, I'm in Suffolk. No problems at all last year, so just unlucky perhaps.
@@peterhughes4735 I'm in Cambridge and it's devastating here, considering not bothering with leeks anymore as they keep getting through my finest mesh.
Great comparison video, it really helps get an idea of what we should be looking for. It's an important point about potting compost only being to start things off as I assume that most people don't realise that. How did you dispose of the horse manure with suspected weed killer?
Thank you Antony, and we spread it on neighbouring grass where it will not kill the grass and sunlight will dissipate the poison, over a year or so
Thank you Charles for the testing. You think potatoes would work in bags also?
Yes, absolutely, see the previous video! Link in description
Almost unbelievable what you can get out of these small sacks, both harvests cooked together give a tasty thick cream soup! For your beloved statics Sir Charles: How many people can eat a hearty soup with the overall harvest? 😋
Thank you, and that's an interesting thought, a lot I hope!
@Charles Dowding, have you ever done (and shown) any testing on what Summer grown veg can be left in the ground for harvesting over Winter? Sprouts is an obvious one, but i've got some carrots still in which were in frozen (-7c) ground for two weeks and they're still fine. I'm glad I left them in and didn't pull them to store as they're still fresh and crisp.
Yes, we made one called Feast of Fresh two years ago, when it was -6 C. You were close to the border there with -7 on carrots and it's a risk.
This year I lost spring cabbage and spring cauliflower which was unusual. I find there's no certainty, and that's why I would not make an any kind of definitive video. I'm sure your carrots are super sweet as well!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Ok i'll watch it, thanks. I don't think it's worth the risk putting stuff outside, it's harsh enough inside. I had to use a mattock to dig the carrots out 🙄
Vaguely related question if I may - here in Australia we're having a bit of a dry spell (after a wet winter..) and I've got the same compost structure as you with a roof - have you ever felt the need to actually *water* the compost a bit? Would a bit of water help speed up the process? Not a drenching of course, but a decent spray? Thanks Charles - these two videos are outstanding.😊
Thanks Alison, and yes, I sometimes water the heaps. They dry as much under the cover us my outdoor ones with no roof, and it's just a question of keeping all materials moist, because otherwise they do not decompose. So just have a look and the ingredients need to feel moist, not dry and not soggy either!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks very much - will do.
Fantastic video, Charles ! Say, have you ever done any experiments with bokashi compost? That's what we're doing here in our tiny garden and I've a feeling that it's doing a great job, but now I'm tempted to set up a couple experiments of my own... 🤔
Greetings from Germany!
Great idea. It would just be extra work for me to make it here, but I see the sense of you doing it in an urban situation with not much space, good luck with a trial!
Thanks for all the good work you show! I've learned a lot from it over the years! Can you also add leafy soil to your tests? I am very curious about that!
I'm guessing that you mean what we call leaf mould, compost made from tree leaves, which I don't have any of the moment, shall see
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes correct! Will find it a nice addition to all your testing you do! Thanks again for everything you show!
That was pretty good Charles, imagine if somebody had little space. Do you think there was more nitrogen in the compost the better the leeks progressed, or was it a generalisation of goodness?
Thanks Amanda, and probably a selection of nutrients
It is really soothing listening to your voice.
PS...I hope I'm not being weird
Many say that, I am reassured! Thanks
I thinks it’s interesting to think about how sacks compare to planting in the conventional no dig way. I’d expect that if the same number of leeks were planted into the ground with compost as mulch that it would be more productive than in the sacks. And it would require less watering and less work overall.
Using sacks though makes sense if you have limited space.
Maybe my thought process is flawed for some reason though..
You nailed it, that's exactly right. I don't want to give the impression I am recommending to grow in sacks, which are for isolating the different composts as a trial. Growing in the ground is much easier if you have spare ground.
For a year or so I have been using 5 gallon buckets from a place tha sells, for a donation, of about the same price as new buckets, but recycled from shipping food to the restaurant... I drilled a large hole in the side near bottom for drainage... put the buckets with different plants in a row alongside a driveway... a barrier raised garden on pavers with raised wood sides to hide the buckets ... I was a bit surprised by the production of the raspberry plants that were a bit shaded by a huge Western Red Cedar tree... automatic watering with soaker hoses... a good variety of plants were tried... plan on moving the raised bed some this spring but thinking of going 2 buckets wide... the ability to move the raised bucket planting system has been very useful for a decorative barrier planting about 32 feet long... thinking of doubling width because of the productivity... the project has been an interesting experiment in flexible barrier planting... it is a project worth expanding I think.
That sounds brilliant, and congratulations, lovely to make use of waste products, and wasted space as well!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig the barrier replaced a barrier made with waste wooden beams from a lumbermill that were used for pile bottoms (used to stack loads of lumber on so that the loads wouldn't get rocks embedded in the bottoms of the loads, and were offered to the workers as firewood)... under where the barrier box runs is a water line to the house, the whole structure could be moved and prevents digging into the water line. The raspberries in the 5 gallon buckets were large and tasty all summer and into the fall. Did blueberries also, got some fruit from those, waiting for the strawberries there to produce. The old pile bottoms become firewood in time.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig The barrier box itself is a combination 2x8 treated wood boards slid into X shaped cement blocks about 6x6x8 inches, sides rise to 24 inches for both blocks and boards, the buckets prevent soil contact with the treated wood, I could have used western red cedar and filled box with soil, but buckets allow easy enough movement of plants in and out of the row and possibly into the floor of the little greenhouse... the donations for the used pickle buckets goes to purchase fire fighter equipment (the restaurant is Firehouse Subs) enjoying your videos. Keep experimenting.
@@lethaleefox6017 Amazing
Something to think about: the soil is the only one that contains mycorrhizal fungi. Maybe this is why it did better than you thought?
Good thought :)
Hmmm... I would have thought the Johnson/Su product would have some of that too; perhaps I'm mistaken.
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Fascinating.
What's a good leek variety for nice chunky plants?
Thanks!
Hannibal or Bandit
Are there concerns about microplastic shedding from the sacs into the compost?
I hope not!
Brilliant comparison here thanks! Are you going to do a video on growing melons undercover? Those Emir you grew looked amazing and abundant.
Thank you, and yes, we shall publish it in March, just before sowing time
@@CharlesDowding1nodig legend thanks
I have an area that has had a bark chip mulch down on paths. They’ve decomposed considerably and I have been sieving away at it. It looks lovely like soft fine peat. Probably not many nutrients though. Time to experiment. It needs removed and replaced anyway.
Yup sounds good!!
Turning the sacks inside out, black layer outside will make them last longer.
Very good idea :)
RATHER HAVE A LEEK IN OUR SACK THAN A HOLE IN OUR BUCKET !!!!!!!
😂 brilliant
I enjoy your videos. When you said you had worms in the compost, did you mean earth worms or a pest worm in the potatoes? Thanks.
I was wondering the same thing.
It's possible there are holes in the bags. Otherwise the water couldn't drain out and the worms are getting in thru those holes.
Thanks, and actually, I meant brandling worms, the little red, shiny ones you get in compost, or any organic matter which is not fully decomposed. They are part of the process and are good to see, their eggs are everywhere, so they just seem to arrive, even if there had not been holes in the sacks to let the water out.
… hi Charles … I’m getting ready to order a delivery of organic compost to start some new no dig beds … this is zone 8/9 in Texas … I can get the mushroom compost as well, so I’m wondering if it would be beneficial for me to blend the two, or just use the organic compost … thanks !
Sounds great however, I doubt that what is called organic compost is organic in the sense of being high-quality, chemical free. At least in the UK sellers are allowed to call anything organic, just because it's organic matter! So be careful of that and I should go for maybe 2/3 mushroom, 1/3 the 'organic'!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig … thank you ! … it’s produced by a group that is supposed to have high standards and quality, so hard to really know … I wasn’t expecting you to say such a larger quantity of the mushroom compost to the other … so I’m really glad I asked !
Videos two days in a row?! It's like a second Christmas! 🤩🤩🌱🌱🌱
😂 cheers Michelle
I grow carrots in troughs using compost and then dump the used compost on the main beds and start again...seems to work well.
Been a few years since I did potatoes in sacks, might try again.
Always nice to see your experiments.
Thank you for this, and I'm thinking to grow some carrots like that, because it might also keep them above the flying level of the root flies!
Another great video this is!
First of all I want to say... thank you for the way you share so much knowledge about the method of growing vegetables .It is for the second season that I have a vegetable garden. And it is absolutely wonderful ! I worked in the garden with great pleasure and is truely amazing to see the wonder of it all. I have watched several videos of you now and I want to start a no-dig garden myself. It will be very helpful indeed to follow the advice you've mentioned and shared in your video’s.
I don't want to use fertilizer in the future but work with compost only. Is that posible?
For the coming season I have a question. Hopefully you will be so kind to answer me? Although it is off topic.
it concerns the compost requirement that root vegetables such as carrots need. on the packaging it says that they should not have manure / compost. how do you do that? I have the impression that you add compost to all your vegetable plants.
do you llimit the compost addition perhaps? And if you indeed are limiting this, how do you get the soil healthy and fertile?
please Charles... forgive me my poor English :-)
Hello Agnes, and your English is fine!
I'm delighted that you feel motivated and capable. It's true that no dig makes everything simpler and easier, well almost everything!
I use the same amount of compost for all my beds, whatever I grow there. The so-called information you read on the packaging is wrong. You need to learn what not to believe because gardening is full of inherited, incorrect old ideas. A lot of them come from the world of digging which damages soil and then other problems follow, such as carrots and parsnips forking, which is related to soil having been broken up.
I'm looking always to feed soil life, that is top priority, and everything else follows from that. You don't need to worry about plant nutrition when soil is well fed, that's why I use no fertilisers at all, zero! That saves money and time and makes life simpler, and is better for soil organisms.
Some garden magazines take adverts from fertiliser companies, I have a feeling this affects the information given!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig O Charles, thank you so much for this clear and understandable answer! It is very helpful indeed and I do appreciate you've answered me! Hope to watch more video's of you in the future...for sure it will help me to find my way on this natural..NO-DIG. 'garden-path' :-)
Did you get rid of the Horse Manure compost?
Yup no potatoes and we spread it on grass, where sunlight will degrade the poison, and it does not poison the grass
@@CharlesDowding1nodig can you then use the grass clippings in a compost heap? My grass clippings are a big component of compost. I hate these aminopyralids.
@@gailthornbury291 Personally i would not recommend using the grass clippings. My plot neighbour but contaminated bean plants into his compost and following year had problems. i recommend yoghurt for sorting out AP..
I grew my potatoes in the 30l buckets Tony O'Neill recommends using 50/50 cheap, bought compost & my own stuff.
Didn't think about reusing in this way (would have been great for the first earlies - the later charlotte's were stored in their compost until needed, so it wasn't available). I'll definitely give it a go this year.
Oh & the last charlotte's were absolutely perfect when emptied out on Christmas Eve.
Sounds amazing!
I grow my potatoes in the same way and have always had good results but I will definitely try growing leeks after the potatoes as we use a lot over the winter.
I grew potatoes in cardboard boxes then just put the box in the compost and the compost on the beds.
😎 perfect!
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I wonder what would have happened had you mixed all of the bags and grew a 3rd round🤔🧐
Possibilities!
It would have been useful to see the comparison of aged horse/cow manure compost without herbicides.
I so agree and wish it was possible to have found some unpoisoned manure around here
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I would send you some of my little barn's compost heap, but we might have international shipping agents more than a little bit baffled!
Hej, jestem z Polski. Mam nieduży ogród i szklarnie, od 2 lat staram się uprawiać ogród no dog. W tym roku będę sadzić ziemniaki i bataty, ma próbę. Po ziemniakach wsadzę pory, jak ty. Dziękuję
Brzmi obiecująco i dzięki za opinie, dobre zbiory w 2023 roku
Hello Charles are you sell compost and some vegetables?
I sell vegetables in Bruton, no compost
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you but is it some store?
Vegetables is mostly salad leaves, in Spar
That's too bad that the horse manure had a weed killer in it. It would have been interesting to see how it would fare against the mushroom compost.
I so agree!!
For leeks is god to trim leafs trought whole growth because they are grow bigger. My grandmother use to do that all time of growth
Could be a trial :)!
Bro snuck in and extra leek in the homemade compost