I know all about the healing powers of the garden! A little over 3 years ago I was an alcoholic, addict and suicidal. Yesterday I sold some of the first vegetables from my garden and I'm planting as hard as I can. November 5th will be 3 years that I have been sober and clean. I'm the happiest I've ever been
Dear Mr. Dowding, I wanted to pass you a quick message and don't expect a reply, but I wanted you to know how much I've appreciated your advice and wonderful videos. For the first time in my life, my significant other and I had a big salad tonight with everything grown from our own garden. We had kale and young chard leaves, snow pea pods, sungold tomatoes that are finally coming in now, parsley, and our own carrots. It was one of the best salads of my whole life, the taste was amazing compared to what I've ever gotten in the store. I have you to thank for a lot of the instructions on how to get there, from compost to sowing, etc. We have enjoyed things from our garden in the past, but usually only one item at a time. It's been a long road to get where we are since the property was completely wild and covered with English ivy and other weeds. It's taken almost 2 years of work (and a lot of black plastic) to have a real garden, because the soil was so poor. I've learned to amend with used coffee grounds, worm castings, wood ash and what my pet chickens leave behind as well as the compost we've made. I loved your book "How to Create a New Vegetable Garden", and tips in that really helped. Your gentle nature, thoughtful advice and wonderful garden always inspire me to get back out and continue the fight with nature until I bring it under more control. You are very much appreciated way over here on the west coast of Oregon, USA. Your videos always bring a smile, and we look forward to a future with better overall health and better food. Thank you, sir.
This is so entertaining. Your high quality video work and your gentle voice make all so much fun to watch. Also you are a wonderful teacher. It is joyful to learn from you. Thanks Charles
I love you Charles! I came across your work through your RUclips videos and it has changed mine and my husbands life forever. I thank you for your wise words on your amazing books and can't wait to one day attend to one of your courses and finally see you and your fascinating Homeacres paradise in person. Your work is inspiring. I wish you all best all the way here from Ireland!
Hi Marcie I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
The sheer beauty and personal satisfaction of taking a plot of ground and turning it into a little Garden of Eden! I believe gardeners have to be the happiest and most satisfied people on earth. I would encourage all who are just getting started in the gardening process to stay with it for a few seasons. You won't regret working the process of making great soil and growing beautiful and tasty vegetables, herbs, and flowers! Besides, the connection you will experience with your natural surroundings will truly enrich your life. If all men and women became active gardeners, there would be no inclination for greed, power, and war! Thank you Charles for these excellent and motivating gardening videos, keep them coming.
Bless you ,I am a Greek American.i am 73.i am back in Greece to spend my late years,and you give one more reason to live better.i am learning from you so many things,,from you,and THANK You.i made a roof garden,with 4 beds 3 ft by 10 ft,but I wish after I follow you I had more beds.but. Is good enough to keep me happy.thank you again.
Charles what a beautiful video. Im glad you ae enjoying your journey the healing process it gives is worth its weight in gold. I find it theraputic myself, one can loose yourself for a while. God bless you Charles and thankyou.
Dear Mr Dowding, thank you so much, for your time, inspiration and imparting so much priceless information, the help and knowledge ive received from you has been tremendous. not only that, because of your effort to share, my family is able to save money by growing our own vegetables and fruit with enough to help out the people that live on my street and the friends that drop by. I am incredibly grateful... being around so much life and reaping the rewards of my time and energy has also helped me to heal after difficult times also. thanks again for everything you do, you are truly a wonderful man and a huge inspiration. best wishes in all you do, cheers from down under!
Charles, you have quite possibly moved heaven and earth in five years! BRAVO! Congratulations, wishing you continued success and much happiness always.
I absolutely love what you are doing! I've been farming since 8 years and you continually teach me more. I know that my teachers(grandparents) would agree. You are amazing!
I've just started our first 5 metre x 1 metre no dig bed using cardboard, pond weed from our dam, lucern, homemade compost, chicken poo, straw and cow poo. It's under plastic sheeting now but we can't wait to plant more vegetables and herbs in our garden. Thank you Charles for posting these videos, they've been a great source of information.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful simply beautiful I am experimenting with her method without digging because I am a woman, I live alone, I have no helper and I am 60 years old, but I can not go without planting. I'm using a bed of leaves first, about 10cm of various dry leaves, some twigs, then a layer of organic compost and then a mulch of dried leaves. It's working very well. Thank you for your teachings.
If you're anywhere near Lincolnshire/ Nottinghamshire let me know, I may be able to find you a willing volunteer or two to assist you (so long as you will trade your gardening knowledge!) 😊 X
This was lovely. I'm growing a few vegetables, and I'm a firm convert to no-dig now. Every time I feel like I need a cheering up, I now watch one of Charles' videos. Never fails to make me feel a bit more optimistic.
Definitely a labour of love and hard work culminating in a worthwhile and beautiful masterpiece garden....That provides lovely healthful crops.....Homeacres is a fascinating example of crops flowers....I enjoy the happy flow of you describing the crops....The lunch in the kitchen looked yummy marvellous.....I follow lots of gardening sites but Homeacres is the Best so abundantly lush!
What an enjoyable and informative video, thank you Charles for the tour of your lovely garden and sharing with us your knowledge and fruits of your efforts.
A new subscriber here. Will be starting from scratch in a couple of months. Blown away by your garden, productivity and positivity. Many thanks, I will be buying books of yours and Huw Richards. 🇮🇪
Excellent.. really appreciate listening to you explain your methods and thoughts. Your full-time employee must be a great guy ! As well as the rest of the crew. All so beautiful!
I didn’t know you had gone through a difficult season when you came to Home Acres. You have definitely brought beauty from ashes. I try to watch 2 to 3 of your videos every Morning. I am developing my 1/8 acre backyard into full food production, and I am considering a move that will make it easier to grow more food. Thank you for all of your good instructions and information.
I’ve only just started watching your channel. It’s amazing. I have a small garden and have back issues, so no dig is excellent for me in my raised beds. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Hi Charles ..... I liked so much watching these old fotos from your begining there . I felt so engaged with these way of doing things.... , hard work every. day.Juan from Uruguay.
Charles you are the best good advice green-thumb uncle as I continue along my gardening journey. Thank you for the wisdom of "no dig" and your laid back enthusiasm for your plants. You are wonderful!
Beautiful garden! A few years ago I used your website as a rough guide to planting a garden in France (being from New Zealand I didn't know exactly when to plant!) The locals thought I was mad not digging, but I had great results. Now back in NZ, am preparing a couch-ridden plot for spring planting in September. It's still all covered in polythene and as ugly as sin, but in a few months, I know it'll be productive and beautiful. Anyhow Charles, thanks for all the tips over years and keep up the great work! Kind regards.
Charles, Thank you for all that you do. You commitment and passion are inspiring. I stumbled across your channel a few months ago and only wish I had done so before planting my spring market garden. After four and a half months of fighting weeds, battling pest on a half acre in Louisiana, I ripped it all out five weeks ago. As someone once sad, "a thousand mile journey starts with the first step". My first step was to apply your methods, Now with ninety six permanent beds, compost, plastic and cardboard mulch, the outlook for the fall and winter garden looks fantastic. The first crops in are already stunning and have had very little weed pressure. Thank you very much for the help you never knew you provided.
Roger I am heartened to hear this, apart from the experience of your first few months. Weed pressure is the first main difference, I am sure you will notice others and wish you every success. Thanks so much for posting.
I'm happy for your success. I think one of the difference between your garden success and my garden failure is that you work in the winter and I hibernate. Sounds like I need to get over my hatred of the cold and get out lol
Although my English language are not good, I can not stop watching your videos time and time again.I am really excited to see the construction of homeacres and the fruitful results.Over the past few years, I have been working hard to transform a deserted garden into a self-sufficient vegetable garden. However, many years of hard work have not been able to get the due result until I saw your video and the book.Now I finally know how to deal with that overgrown garden.Thanks again for your generous sharing!
I cant tell you how much I enjoy listening to your experience and growing wisdom ... you have changed the way my husband and I viewed the gardening ~responsibility~ and immense failing and frustration has been turned into SUCH success and joy!!!! We only stumbled across your amazing, and calming videos just as this growing season (northeastern USA]... and have only scratched the surface of the joyful and successful side of gardening. But am OVERJOYED my 4 wee ones will be raised with this as their inspiration! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You are a blessing Charles. Every time I see how radiant you are when talking about plants, it just uplifts my spirit and makes gardening seem so easy. This will be my first year with no dig and I love learning from you, thank you so much. Greetings from Poland
Hi Anna I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
OMG love, love, and love.. what is it about getting your hands in the dirt and watching something grow that makes you feel great. Love the way dirt smells. Makes me feel at peace.
This is the most impressive garden I have ever seen. Extremely well designed and very healthy looking crops. Appreciate the inspiration! I got some serious work to do.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig aquí en España la agricultura ecológica está en crecimiento pero no hay mucha cultura, Y nosotros llevamos 8 años con una huerta ecológica y con vuestros vídeos aprendemos mucho gracias!!! ruclips.net/channel/UCqYQZvfJDpQbIy-QBy1b5yg
Wow thanks Charles for another lovely video. That you have gone from weedy field to such abundance in garden and in life after starting from scratch is truly inspiring...I too have to face new beginnings so it is moving to see yours and Steph's journey. To anyone who has not yet visited you at Homeacres, I'd say it really is even more beautiful than it looks on film and the day I spent with you is one I would heartily recommend others do too...keep on teaching and writing about growing and making fabulous healthy food and many, many thanks :)
Thanks Kate that is nice of you to say, glad you like the video, for those interested here is the Courses page of my website www.charlesdowding.co.uk/courses/homeacres-courses/
I love the simplicity of all this, I've been tilling beds every year and end up fighting the weeds constantly. Thank you for all the great vids, just started to take growing veg seriously and your knowledge is helping massively
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😁 you've inspired me to convert to no dig, my potatoes and garlic are doing great. Quick question, is it best to multisow carrots? I always have trouble germinating them
This is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen!! My husband and I are dreaming of having a garden like this in few years.Thank you for sharing your knowledge!😃
How beautiful! God bless you, Charles Dowding, and may your days be prolonged! If you ever start giving workshops for people abroad, we would be happy to come help and learn. Greetings from Serbia!
Thanks Predrag, one day perhaps I come to Serbia, I need to create an extra month each year! Croatian tv are interested to film here so there should be some Balkan coverage of no dig abundance.
Great to hear. Croatians seem to be always ahead of us when it comes to new discoveries, I'm ashamed to say. Anyway, it would be great to have you in Belgrade, be my guest if you come.
I am happy you find it beautiful as that is an important part of my growing, and there is no doubt that plants in healthy soil look vibrant and appealing.
Hi, I sure appreciated the visual of the asparagus, I’m preparing a place to plant some, probably next fall, and now I know how tall it can get. Thanks for helping us all be good gardeners, Charles.
How BEAUTIFUL is this Garden!? LoveLoveLove. Totally CHARMING. Oooooo I Love Raspberries & Leeks. I learned Organic Gardening from Prince Charles in 2002… he was ahead of the curve at the time here in Canada. Aha scab on fruit… now I know what it is. I love dahlias too.
Your no dig method as been an inspiration here in Quebec Canada since four years and the soil quality improving incredibly fast. Forever gratefull. This video is well appreciated including the cooking segment. Looking foward to more appetizing culinairy ideas. Kindest regards, Lucie.
Ah that is lovely feedback, thanks Lucie. Steph is writing a recipe book so do watch out for that, appearing before Christmas and available from Chelsea Green.
Outstanding! Hands off to you, your son and rest of your family! Excellent video-making by Ed and he captures and illuminates your (Charles) depth of knowledge, gentleness and love of gardening! #lifegoals #homegrown #backyardgrocerystore
Have just taken my allotment on and will be using the no-dig method. These are are wonderful series of videos, presented in a relaxed informative style.
It would have been nice to see more of the food preparation, as it helps to get an idea of how to diversify the crops and meals. Your home and garden are beautiful and my wife really loves how you mingle flowering plants with the edibles. She is English by ancestry, via V. Hugo, but was raised mostly in the U.S. She loves English gardens and yours is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing. Your happy disposition almost makes me feel tipsy; Cheers.
Thanks that is nice to hear. On the food prep, it's already a 22 min. video and we had to edit out a lot! Steph is writing a book of recipes and I hope we can get a video up about it.
Love, love, love your videos! Last fall I dumped all my compost on my raised beds and this spring I planted no-dig style. This is the first year my cucumbers and beans haven't suffered from mildew and blight. Can't wait to see how my last-summer crops do. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving us a glimpse of your beautiful life! 😊
Excellent video makes me want to get out and do more in the garden. I love the mix of garden and kitchen. I had to pause the video and study the compost bin setup. I think I might copy your setup. It looks very tidy and VERY useful with areas to hang garlic etc. Thank you so much for all your information and your new book is wonderful! Thanks for all your hard work....you are such an inspiration!
Wonderful! This channel is the bee's knees. I can't get enough. Keep the knowledge flowing!
Pleased to help Alexander
I agree i just found it yesturday and was up late watching videos and here i am again lol
mee too, i can't get enough
I know all about the healing powers of the garden! A little over 3 years ago I was an alcoholic, addict and suicidal. Yesterday I sold some of the first vegetables from my garden and I'm planting as hard as I can. November 5th will be 3 years that I have been sober and clean. I'm the happiest I've ever been
Goodness me what a great message.
Thanks for sharing and I wish you even more health and strength. 😀
Congratulations on your sobriety. Three years is a big achievement! Hoping your garden grows with you!
Dear Mr. Dowding, I wanted to pass you a quick message and don't expect a reply, but I wanted you to know how much I've appreciated your advice and wonderful videos. For the first time in my life, my significant other and I had a big salad tonight with everything grown from our own garden. We had kale and young chard leaves, snow pea pods, sungold tomatoes that are finally coming in now, parsley, and our own carrots. It was one of the best salads of my whole life, the taste was amazing compared to what I've ever gotten in the store. I have you to thank for a lot of the instructions on how to get there, from compost to sowing, etc. We have enjoyed things from our garden in the past, but usually only one item at a time. It's been a long road to get where we are since the property was completely wild and covered with English ivy and other weeds. It's taken almost 2 years of work (and a lot of black plastic) to have a real garden, because the soil was so poor. I've learned to amend with used coffee grounds, worm castings, wood ash and what my pet chickens leave behind as well as the compost we've made.
I loved your book "How to Create a New Vegetable Garden", and tips in that really helped.
Your gentle nature, thoughtful advice and wonderful garden always inspire me to get back out and continue the fight with nature until I bring it under more control. You are very much appreciated way over here on the west coast of Oregon, USA. Your videos always bring a smile, and we look forward to a future with better overall health and better food. Thank you, sir.
Ah Midsummer night thanks so much for the feedback, this is a fantastic result and I wish you great harvests ongoing.
What a thoughtful expressive comment. I am learning too..but I love your succinct capture of toil to enjoying the fruits of your labour!
There is nothing like this on tv or youtube. I could watch this all day.
When you heal nature, nature heals you right back! I love your work and think you're great. Watching from Sacramento, California 🛤️💗🌱
Yes thank you!
This is the best gardening channel by far. He honestly shares his wisdom and experience of 30 years. Soo glad I found this channel. Thank you 💕
I feel the garden is healing too! and your channel is so honest, real, and giving! Take Care.
This is so entertaining. Your high quality video work and your gentle voice make all so much fun to watch. Also you are a wonderful teacher. It is joyful to learn from you. Thanks Charles
Many thanks :)
Amazing results in just 5 years, Charles! Your garden is a wonderful example what can be accomplished using no-dig and compost. Beautiful!
Thanks Patrick and that is a great compliment from someone who has rich experience of growing like this.
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening Did you or Oscar the cat leave this comment? 😋
Your videos are a meditation. Thank you 🙏
I love you Charles! I came across your work through your RUclips videos and it has changed mine and my husbands life forever. I thank you for your wise words on your amazing books and can't wait to one day attend to one of your courses and finally see you and your fascinating Homeacres paradise in person. Your work is inspiring. I wish you all best all the way here from Ireland!
Hey thankyou Marcella and that is lovely to hear, look forward to meeting you
Hi Marcie I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
The sheer beauty and personal satisfaction of taking a plot of ground and turning it into
a little Garden of Eden! I believe gardeners have to be the happiest and most satisfied people on earth. I would encourage all who are just getting started in the gardening process to stay with it for a few seasons.
You won't regret working the process of making great soil and growing beautiful and tasty vegetables, herbs, and flowers! Besides, the connection you will experience with your natural surroundings will truly enrich your life.
If all men and women became active gardeners, there would be no inclination for greed, power, and war! Thank you Charles for these excellent and motivating gardening videos, keep them coming.
Thanks Eric and Paula, I love to motivate people so that is great feedback.
Yes, gardening not war! Nature has power if we can but tap into it.
Charles Dowding is the king of gardening , if he's not on television he bl oody well should be !
Thanks Tim
I am now starting gardening. It's just amazing to think that you do not need to do much to yield more. Simply revolutionary.
Yes Collins it is liberating
You're a legend.
This guy and what he has done is restoring my faith in humanity, keep inspiring sir.
Ah that is nice!
Bless you ,I am a Greek American.i am 73.i am back in Greece to spend my late years,and you give one more reason to live better.i am learning from you so many things,,from you,and THANK You.i made a roof garden,with 4 beds 3 ft by 10 ft,but I wish after I follow you I had more beds.but. Is good enough to keep me happy.thank you again.
How lovely to hear from you and your roof garden sounds lovely
Wow ..... vegetable garden or Paradise?...... Paradise!!!
omg, even she has a calming voice! This is becoming also a bit of a therapeutic channel for me
I shall pass on the compliment!
Apart from everything you do beautifully you also have the most relaxing voice. I'm happy I found these videos.
Thank you so much :)
Charles what a beautiful video. Im glad you ae enjoying your journey the healing process it gives is worth its weight in gold. I find it theraputic myself, one can loose yourself for a while. God bless you Charles and thankyou.
Cheers Lorraine, yes gardens are so healing
Your home-sourced meals not only look beautiful but, my mouth is watering, I can easily imagine are delicious. Thanks.
They are indeed, and thanks!
Dear Mr Dowding,
thank you so much, for your time, inspiration and imparting so much priceless information, the help and knowledge ive received from you has been tremendous. not only that, because of your effort to share, my family is able to save money by growing our own vegetables and fruit with enough to help out the people that live on my street and the friends that drop by. I am incredibly grateful... being around so much life and reaping the rewards of my time and energy has also helped me to heal after difficult times also. thanks again for everything you do, you are truly a wonderful man and a huge inspiration. best wishes in all you do, cheers from down under!
Dear Lacky, this is a moving message and lovely to hear, I feel grateful to have helped and to hear of others benefitting.
I love this person ❤️ he creates harmony around and I feel just wonderful watching the video. Don't stop please and good luck.
So nice thanks 💚
What an envy! Through the video I could see how happy you are with your job & life. You and your wife have lovely shine in your eyes. Bless you
Many thanks Xavi :)
Charles, you have quite possibly moved heaven and earth in five years! BRAVO! Congratulations, wishing you continued success and much happiness always.
Hey thanks Farmer Jones. I move what I can... except the soil!
please do an updated full tour. found this particular series so informative and helped understand how a garden develops and evolves over time.
Thanks Luke and we have but in different formats, such as winter garden, and autumn abundance, even the Harvests video.
I absolutely love what you are doing! I've been farming since 8 years and you continually teach me more. I know that my teachers(grandparents) would agree. You are amazing!
Thanks Lucas
I've just started our first 5 metre x 1 metre no dig bed using cardboard, pond weed from our dam, lucern, homemade compost, chicken poo, straw and cow poo. It's under plastic sheeting now but we can't wait to plant more vegetables and herbs in our garden. Thank you Charles for posting these videos, they've been a great source of information.
Thanks for writing Richard, nice you are using my advice to be creative in your garden
Beautiful beautiful beautiful simply beautiful
I am experimenting with her method without digging because I am a woman, I live alone, I have no helper and I am 60 years old, but I can not go without planting. I'm using a bed of leaves first, about 10cm of various dry leaves, some twigs, then a layer of organic compost and then a mulch of dried leaves. It's working very well. Thank you for your teachings.
I think you could dispense with the twigs, which, from experience, take years to decompose.
If you're anywhere near Lincolnshire/ Nottinghamshire let me know, I may be able to find you a willing volunteer or two to assist you (so long as you will trade your gardening knowledge!) 😊 X
Homeacres is such an inspiration. Whenever we feel doubts about our future farm, watching your videos brings us back in track. Thank you!
Hey thanks, I wish you well for the future becoming present
So inspiring. The ultimate happy watch after a long day at work
Thanks Emily
This was lovely. I'm growing a few vegetables, and I'm a firm convert to no-dig now. Every time I feel like I need a cheering up, I now watch one of Charles' videos. Never fails to make me feel a bit more optimistic.
Than ks Vishal and I am happy to cheer you up!
Your garden is lovely, peaceful, and doable. Thanks for the encouragement.
You are so welcome Suzy
“Hell of a crop here!” 😄 Charles is the best!
Haha thanks
Just in time for my 30 minute lunch break. Thank you!
Cheers from Oregon!
Such a time difference (I was in bed!), and thanks
So beautiful. You have created your own little piece of heaven there.
Thanks Tracy
Loved the cooking scene!
ENJOY VERY MUCH. I live in the big valley of Arizona mostly desert. I enjoy the green.
I can imagine!
Your wife's food looks fantastic make me want to grow veg
Great!
Definitely a labour of love and hard work culminating in a worthwhile and beautiful masterpiece garden....That provides lovely healthful crops.....Homeacres is a fascinating example of crops flowers....I enjoy the happy flow of you describing the crops....The lunch in the kitchen looked yummy marvellous.....I follow lots of gardening sites but Homeacres is the Best so abundantly lush!
Many thanks Eve, glad you enjoyed it
What an enjoyable and informative video, thank you Charles for the tour of your lovely garden and sharing with us your knowledge and fruits of your efforts.
Great thanks Mimi
Cheers Mimi
An absolute genius of a man thank you Charles
😀
A new subscriber here. Will be starting from scratch in a couple of months. Blown away by your garden, productivity and positivity. Many thanks, I will be buying books of yours and Huw Richards. 🇮🇪
Welcome and thankyou, happy gardening
Excellent.. really appreciate listening to you explain your methods and thoughts. Your full-time employee must be a great guy ! As well as the rest of the crew. All so beautiful!
Charles your the man iv been promoting you and your channel
thanks Harvey
I didn’t know you had gone through a difficult season when you came to Home Acres. You have definitely brought beauty from ashes. I try to watch 2 to 3 of your videos every Morning. I am developing my 1/8 acre backyard into full food production, and I am considering a move that will make it easier to grow more food. Thank you for all of your good instructions and information.
Thank you so much! Yes difficulties are powerful motivators, and I wish you a successful move!
your garden is something we aspire to. We are convinced no-dig is the way to go! thank you for sharing your experiences
Good and thanks, I wish you success Gina.
You are an inspiration, Charles. Thank you! Been enjoying your videos for a year, you are my fav channel on RUclips.
Thanks, I am happy you like the videos Patricia
I’ve only just started watching your channel. It’s amazing. I have a small garden and have back issues, so no dig is excellent for me in my raised beds. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Stand out gardening video of the season! Sean is right "better than TV" Loved it :)
It's a garden Oscar! and thanks
Just discovered this channel and absolutely love it! Sending these videos to my gardening Dad, he's gonna love it!
Cheers Celia!
You are a credit to your country sir.
Hi Charles ..... I liked so much watching these old fotos from your begining there . I felt so engaged with these way of doing things.... , hard work every. day.Juan from Uruguay.
Thanks Juan, the work is less hard now, was intense at first! I hope your crops are good.
Great video and beautiful garden. Sean is right...it's better than TV!
Plants looks so happy at your place sir
Thanks Chetana
Charles you are the best good advice green-thumb uncle as I continue along my gardening journey. Thank you for the wisdom of "no dig" and your laid back enthusiasm for your plants. You are wonderful!
Thank you Kai-Anne
Beautiful garden! A few years ago I used your website as a rough guide to planting a garden in France (being from New Zealand I didn't know exactly when to plant!) The locals thought I was mad not digging, but I had great results.
Now back in NZ, am preparing a couch-ridden plot for spring planting in September. It's still all covered in polythene and as ugly as sin, but in a few months, I know it'll be productive and beautiful.
Anyhow Charles, thanks for all the tips over years and keep up the great work!
Kind regards.
Thanks for the feedback Sam, I am sure your new garden will be wonderful too, no dig makes so much possible that would otherwise be difficult
Charles, Thank you for all that you do. You commitment and passion are inspiring. I stumbled across your channel a few months ago and only wish I had done so before planting my spring market garden. After four and a half months of fighting weeds, battling pest on a half acre in Louisiana, I ripped it all out five weeks ago. As someone once sad, "a thousand mile journey starts with the first step". My first step was to apply your methods, Now with ninety six permanent beds, compost, plastic and cardboard mulch, the outlook for the fall and winter garden looks fantastic. The first crops in are already stunning and have had very little weed pressure. Thank you very much for the help you never knew you provided.
Roger I am heartened to hear this, apart from the experience of your first few months.
Weed pressure is the first main difference, I am sure you will notice others and wish you every success.
Thanks so much for posting.
I'm happy for your success. I think one of the difference between your garden success and my garden failure is that you work in the winter and I hibernate. Sounds like I need to get over my hatred of the cold and get out lol
I love your way of growing vegetables
Although my English language are not good, I can not stop watching your videos time and time again.I am really excited to see the construction of homeacres and the fruitful results.Over the past few years, I have been working hard to transform a deserted garden into a self-sufficient vegetable garden. However, many years of hard work have not been able to get the due result until I saw your video and the book.Now I finally know how to deal with that overgrown garden.Thanks again for your generous sharing!
Your English is good, and I hope you enjoy making the garden productive
Such a beautiful property. We're just starting our homestead journey on RUclips, and we hope to one day have something just as beautiful!
May that go well for you
Im working towards the same lifestyle ☺
Brilliant method of gardening and astounded by the number of plants you raise from seed! Of course the results are what count too - yummy veggie grub!
Yes for sure and thanks
I cant tell you how much I enjoy listening to your experience and growing wisdom ... you have changed the way my husband and I viewed the gardening ~responsibility~ and immense failing and frustration has been turned into SUCH success and joy!!!! We only stumbled across your amazing, and calming videos just as this growing season (northeastern USA]... and have only scratched the surface of the joyful and successful side of gardening. But am OVERJOYED my 4 wee ones will be raised with this as their inspiration! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Ah wow thanks for your heartwarming comment, happy growing
You are a blessing Charles. Every time I see how radiant you are when talking about plants, it just uplifts my spirit and makes gardening seem so easy. This will be my first year with no dig and I love learning from you, thank you so much. Greetings from Poland
Wow, thank you Anna :)
Hi Anna I hope my comment didn't sound as a form of privacy invasion your comment tells of a wonderful woman with a beautiful heart which led me to comment I don't normally write in the comment section but I think you deserve this complement. If you don’t mind can we be friends? Thanks God bless you….🌹🌹
OMG love, love, and love.. what is it about getting your hands in the dirt and watching something grow that makes you feel great. Love the way dirt smells. Makes me feel at peace.
Oh yes!
This is the most impressive garden I have ever seen. Extremely well designed and very healthy looking crops. Appreciate the inspiration! I got some serious work to do.
Thanks Stephen, go to!
Your videos are so restorative. Thank you!
Increíble precioso!!!!
Gracias por compartir esta experiencia!!!
Saludos desde Extremadura España!!!!
Estoy muy feliz de que te guste el video. ¡Y es bueno ver un comentario de alguien en España! Muchos de los comentarios en español son de Sudamérica 😀
@@CharlesDowding1nodig aquí en España la agricultura ecológica está en crecimiento pero no hay mucha cultura,
Y nosotros llevamos 8 años con una huerta ecológica y con vuestros vídeos aprendemos mucho gracias!!!
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Wow thanks Charles for another lovely video. That you have gone from weedy field to such abundance in garden and in life after starting from scratch is truly inspiring...I too have to face new beginnings so it is moving to see yours and Steph's journey. To anyone who has not yet visited you at Homeacres, I'd say it really is even more beautiful than it looks on film and the day I spent with you is one I would heartily recommend others do too...keep on teaching and writing about growing and making fabulous healthy food and many, many thanks :)
Thanks Kate that is nice of you to say, glad you like the video, for those interested here is the Courses page of my website www.charlesdowding.co.uk/courses/homeacres-courses/
Your videos are very informative, and I love to see the beautiful abundant produce
Thankyou Heather
Who is giving this a thumbs down? Wonderful stuff!
I give you a thumbs up Daniel! thanks
I love the simplicity of all this, I've been tilling beds every year and end up fighting the weeds constantly. Thank you for all the great vids, just started to take growing veg seriously and your knowledge is helping massively
That is great to hear Phife.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😁 you've inspired me to convert to no dig, my potatoes and garlic are doing great. Quick question, is it best to multisow carrots? I always have trouble germinating them
@@phifediggy9659 I sow direct. They emerge better when sown in the surface compost
Just watched the whole video and I was so encouraged. My sincere thanks.
Beautifully shot film, as well as interesting
This is the most beautiful garden I have ever seen!!
My husband and I are dreaming of having a garden like this in few years.Thank you for sharing your knowledge!😃
Great dream and go for it
Thank you Charles. you have changed my mind on no till gardening.
Nice to hear and best of luck with no till
How beautiful! God bless you, Charles Dowding, and may your days be prolonged!
If you ever start giving workshops for people abroad, we would be happy to come help and learn. Greetings from Serbia!
Thanks Predrag, one day perhaps I come to Serbia, I need to create an extra month each year!
Croatian tv are interested to film here so there should be some Balkan coverage of no dig abundance.
Great to hear. Croatians seem to be always ahead of us when it comes to new discoveries, I'm ashamed to say. Anyway, it would be great to have you in Belgrade, be my guest if you come.
That is kind thanks
Yummy!!!!
A beautiful meal...
Soo satisfying.
You have the most amazing and beautiful garden I have seen this year UK. My four year old and I are learning so much from you thank you.
I am happy you find it beautiful as that is an important part of my growing, and there is no doubt that plants in healthy soil look vibrant and appealing.
Hi, I sure appreciated the visual of the asparagus, I’m preparing a place to plant some, probably next fall, and now I know how tall it can get. Thanks for helping us all be good gardeners, Charles.
So nice of you and go well Gitta
The stuffed squash looked yummy...compliments to the chef!
What an amazing story, thanks for sharing, you are a blessed man!
You are my favourite person on RUclips.
Ah that's nice thanks
How BEAUTIFUL is this Garden!? LoveLoveLove. Totally CHARMING. Oooooo I Love Raspberries & Leeks. I learned Organic Gardening from Prince Charles in 2002… he was ahead of the curve at the time here in Canada. Aha scab on fruit… now I know what it is. I love dahlias too.
Thanks so much 💚
24:08 rose campion around a pear tree. Didn't know you could do something like that. Ideas for my future garden. :)
Beautiful, спасибо сэр за чудесное видео, вы просто волшебник! 👍♥️Вы создали прекрасный, сказочный сад и у вас прекрасная супруга!!! 💞
Спасибо большое
Thank you so much for sharing! I've watched your videos for a few years now. Love your channel.
You are so welcome
Your no dig method as been an inspiration here in Quebec Canada since four years and the soil quality improving incredibly fast. Forever gratefull. This video is well appreciated including the cooking segment. Looking foward to more appetizing culinairy ideas. Kindest regards, Lucie.
Ah that is lovely feedback, thanks Lucie.
Steph is writing a recipe book so do watch out for that, appearing before Christmas and available from Chelsea Green.
Nice touch to show some cooking and eating.
It's very calm and soothing to watch ur videos.
Outstanding! Hands off to you, your son and rest of your family! Excellent video-making by Ed and he captures and illuminates your (Charles) depth of knowledge, gentleness and love of gardening! #lifegoals #homegrown #backyardgrocerystore
Have just taken my allotment on and will be using the no-dig method. These are are wonderful series of videos, presented in a relaxed informative style.
Cheers Rick and may it go well
Sir, Its being good to see you and your garden
It would have been nice to see more of the food preparation, as it helps to get an idea of how to diversify the crops and meals. Your home and garden are beautiful and my wife really loves how you mingle flowering plants with the edibles. She is English by ancestry, via V. Hugo, but was raised mostly in the U.S. She loves English gardens and yours is phenomenal. Thank you for sharing. Your happy disposition almost makes me feel tipsy; Cheers.
Thanks that is nice to hear.
On the food prep, it's already a 22 min. video and we had to edit out a lot!
Steph is writing a book of recipes and I hope we can get a video up about it.
I would love a garden like this Charles. I adore your channel and garden.
Thanks Amberhane, hey buy some compost and start with a bed or two!
Charles Dowding I have already started I am onto No dig bed number five , it is no Homeacres but I love my little garden.
Love, love, love your videos! Last fall I dumped all my compost on my raised beds and this spring I planted no-dig style. This is the first year my cucumbers and beans haven't suffered from mildew and blight. Can't wait to see how my last-summer crops do. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and giving us a glimpse of your beautiful life! 😊
Wonderful to hear Amanda and thanks for sharing
How i do look forward to watching your new video's . keep them coming my friend!
Had to comment again on that feast at the end, looked delicious 😁
Thank you 😋
Excellent video makes me want to get out and do more in the garden. I love the mix of garden and kitchen. I had to pause the video and study the compost bin setup. I think I might copy your setup. It looks very tidy and VERY useful with areas to hang garlic etc. Thank you so much for all your information and your new book is wonderful! Thanks for all your hard work....you are such an inspiration!
Thanks Dorothy, nice to hear all that and the composting area is working really well, one year on.