I'll need to start pulling my tomatoes early too, not to help out the plant but so that I actually get some, since the fox gets them before me if I leave them to fully ripen.
My allotment neighbor is converting his garden to no-dig right now. He is very inspired by how well my garden is doing. I send him towards looking up no-dig and the next time I saw him he was running around with wood chip and compost and had bought books and calendar. Yay!!
Hello, following from Uruguay, making my way into no dig! Wishing and waiting to have a god place to work with! One day i will make a living out of it, no more office work please
really you are good gardeners thank you for gives as your time. GOD BLESS YOU MORE AND MORE I DONT KNOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUT now i going to learn. so that way i didn't say more.you i saw nice view garden thanks for all,
Charles you are such an inspiration to all of us gardeners all over the world. We have been gardening here in central Texas for over 30 years. This year we are in a major drought and we have had no rain on 35 days and temps are 104 to 110. We have two seasons here in Texas and the spring summer garden did not do well. You can see the video's of everything we tried to do on our channel. We are looking forward to our fall winter garden. We plant in September and harvest all the way through December. It does not get cold until January. Rochelle and I are taking a holiday for two weeks in October to the Cotswolds and are looking forward to being in England again. I'm a retire chef and looking forward to eating a good fish -n-chips. Blessings, Mike
Hey there, I'm on the shore in Md. I heard about your heat, pray you guys get some cooler temps and rain, wish I could send you some rain from here. Hope you have a good autumn harvest.
Hi! I am also in Texas but North. The heat here has been absolutely ridiculous as well. My neighbor started a garden in late Spring and it didn't do too well. I will be sure to check out your channel. Have a great day!
Good day sir. Thank you for another informative video. I appreciate the high quality of your content and the obvious passion you have for gardening. I really want to turn my 2.5 acres of land into a garden but unfortunately I have other financial obligations at the moment. Watching you gives me hope that I too will one day enjoy eating produce from my land. I have so many questions for you and I wish I could visit your garden. I look forward to your new book. Have a blessed day and thank you!
Thanks for sharing the July garden tour! It feels so good to live among the plants, vegetables and fruits. It’s so beautiful and I can imagine how much work and time you spend for your wonderful garden. ❤️
Great video as usual,thank-you. Its dry and hot here in Northern France and my no dig patch is going strong.Nothing better than watching your video with a nice cuppa, then heading pack to the Potager👍
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi I had a hobby to do such a collective farming farm but I don't have such ability if you want to do such a collective farming farm with me you can take me
Just watching this again as we’re in the equivalent time here in southern Australia. Thankyou! Our gardens line up beautifully, exactly 6 months apart. 😊
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you for the inspiration, information and your brilliance. The bounty is such a joy to see. Those beets! Everything looks amazing. A gardening lovers dream…thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing the information about the plants, you share the richness of the plants, why's and how's, to be better gardeners. Your calm passion is contagious!
Happy summer Charles, its a beautiful time of the year, really enjoyed getting to know you and your vast knowledge in recent months, as I've returned to growing my veg after many years Thank you so much for sharing
Thanks for another great tour. It really helps as I’m learning. I noticed the two IBC water tanks on the new shed and wondered if you could do a short on how you connected them? We are looking at one for our garden 😊. Or does anyone else have any advice? Thanks 🙏
Very interesting video Charles especially the part about what needs more water etc. I've always just watered everything most days! Your market garden always looks so fresh and full. I've just come back from 6 days in Cornwall during that hot spell and the garden/allotment veg look very dry in places. Back on it now, sorting it all. Thanks again for another inspiring video.
I have learned from bitter experience not to pull onions up,its better to slide a knife under them and gently cut the roots not too close to build,this allows the root and base to dry without risk of damage which can lead to rotting in storage.
I can’t pull out my alliums either. The clay is just too hard (even with years of work trying to improve it). I have to dig out the garlics which are way bigger than any onion I have ever successfully grown. Garlic grows below ground, but I do have some onions growing on the surface so I will try the knife trick on them.
Amazing. I always learn so much from you. I'm glad to see you using plastic, it's been a life-saver for me. I too have ventured out a bit, started using cardboard, found an unlimited free supply, and it's going great. You gave me the knowledge and courage. Thanks Charles.
Hello Charles, a fine tour and it's splendid to see a garden with so much growth in it, the weather here in Shetland is very poor so the veg., gardens are not doing well, hopefully the weather will improve, cheers from Laurence.
Goodness me, what variety of beetroots are those giants??? Thanks for sharing your July garden with us, enjoyed watching. You‘ve got some beautiful dahlias as well.
Interesting about picking the tomatoes sooner, I've always heard they're better tasting left on the vine, just another debunked garden thought, just like no dig. The new gardens, both veg and flower look amazing, also couldn't help but notice your beets, holy cow were they huge. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
How are you, I am Bangladeshi, if you want to have such a collective farming farm, you can take me, insha'Allah, you will be honest and sincere, thank you.
Those beets are giants. Do they get stringy at that size? Impressive results with the cucumbers, melons, and tomatoes. Goes to show the value of the polytunnels and greenhouse. Thanks as always. These tour videos are some of my favorites.
Thanks so much, and no their texture is tender! Thanks to having not used fertiliser but relying only on natural means of growth, which as you can see gives healthy and strong plants
Fabulous look around - thank you! I’m just back inside after planting another round of carrots in the bed I’ll put cabbage and broccoli into come end of August. Also planted out some tomato seedlings I’ve got for a second round. Succession sowing - one of the great things you taught me. Building a compost bin this week closer to the autumn garden because we need t muck out the barn loft of chicken manure and fallen hay from over winter, but want to make good use of it in the future gardens.
Oh!!! You’re so lucky having a good quantity of large ripening tomatoes at the same time as your cucumbers! In this heatwave, I’ve been craving ice cold gazpacho. 😩 Luckily, I still have enough canned tomatoes/sauce from last year to make use of this year’s Telegraph cucumbers that only last two days cleaned and chilled in the crisper drawer of the fridge. Makes one wonder what’s sprayed on store bought cucumbers that last at least a week! 😅
Thank you so much for your excellent videos. I have been converted to a no dig gardener. If nothing else it's much less work. There is a topic I don't think you have covered yet. My gardening problem is a lack of sunlight because my yard is very shady due to mature trees. Plants that grow above the ground grow well but plants growing in the ground not so much. For example potatoes, beets, carrots, etc. vs lettuce, spinach, kale, etc. that grow well. Maybe you could discuss this on a future video?
That sounds difficult Kim and I can't really discuss it because there is no such thing happening here. I shall give it some thought. It as much about the roots of those trees feeding into the soil and taking moisture in summer especially
Thank you once again for a wonderful tour of the gardens, love the onions, would like to try bunching onions one day. Lettuce in Australia is expensive due to floods and other weather events an Example would be Iceberg lettuce where $11.99, Blueberries where $19.49 for 125g. Inflation isn’t helping.
As a rule I am not a lover of plastic, but like you Charles I have been using plastic weed mat to cover (and hopefully kill) the mass of "Quack grass" or "Couch grass" I have on my 1/2 acre plot. After 6 months of cover it has done a fantastic job. So I didn't lose growing space I cut some holes in the weed mat and planted watermelons which I am now harvesting, and man they are big :) Thanks for the wonderful "Home acres" update.
Yes you can use that plastic for like 200 plus years...in may area in Southern Ontario 🇨🇦 ....it's been as dry as I can remember since being in the 22 years we have been here....plastic on our clay wouldn't do well....I only use a raised bed with wood borders and lots of composted ....I actually put down old boards to kill the grass and weeds before I expand .....your method works really well.....and the garden looks great....
Hey! Had a eureka moment! 😀 I couldn’t understand why my current produce garden space (on silty ancient Roman sequestered river flood plain, originally marshy, ground) was eating up my no-dig compost dressing compared to the clay under soil in my family home 1 acre undulating Tudor walled garden. When it rains, the current no-dig silt soil sucks up the compost top dressing. The walled garden on clay lets the worms do the work. Moreover…. The undulating clay soil in the walled garden at family home the structure of which extends out to the old orchard; seen more evidently in drone shots, especially during droughts, makes me think that underlying clay gardening in pre-Tudor built, Tudor-modernised, estate managers’ homes were originally NO-DIG! Row cropping. Chop’n drop. Mound building. I know we’ve been taught to think that undulating fields close to ancient “home farm” communities was due to ploughing techniques, but why and how could this happen within Tudor estate walled food gardens? Compost dressing on No-dig on silty, well washed, floodplain ground definitely disappears into the underworld when it rains, leaving the larger pieces of compost at the surface acting as evaporation protection; I’ve watched it happen in recent years. Whereas, on top soil covered clay, compost top dressing, is only really needed once a year:... Suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and allows roots to collect the essential nutrients in clay. Pure eureka 💡 Is this a Stephen Hawking moment? Where one can earn a lifetime living with a theory others spend £ms to prove? 😃😃 I really do think no-dig is an ancient concept that you, Charles, have since proven is the way forward. Particularly as we’re now discovering that ancient South Americans cultivated mycorrhiza beds to add to deliberately planted food production gardens deep in the jungle. 😃
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi if you want to have such a collective farming farm then you can take me inshallah you will be honest and sincere thank you
Hi Charles, As always, really enjoyed your video. I thought I'd give you an update on my drunken Blackie. Last week because of necessity for room, I put two heaps , "small heaps", or homemade compost in little gaps in the garden where I had harvested crops. I'm only talking less than 1 M square heaps. I also put a dish of water out for the birds, as it's been so dry. Within two days, my compost was spread amongst my beetroots, onions and broad beans, courtesy of drunken blackbird manure spreading Co Ltd. The bird drinker was empty with her bathing in it, and she's still drinking the beer. She now sits on my shed roof with two of her offspring, looking at me accusingly for being in her garden. I can see the newspaper headlines. Gretna Green pensioner pecked to death by drunken blackbirds. Keep up the good work Charles, you've opened up new doors for me. Thank you.
One thing I thought I'd mention Charles. Many years ago, a guy I knew always cut the green leaves/shaws from freshly lifted onions and put the onions upside down in wire netting or similar to drip. After a day or so, he sat them normally into trays, and stored them, he said it prevented neck rot. It does and I sometimes use it. You probably manage fine as you are, but it's a handy tip to know, if the weather's not playing ball.
I am forever grateful to Epic Gardening for introducing me to Charles Dowding channel
That is so nice!
I'll need to start pulling my tomatoes early too, not to help out the plant but so that I actually get some, since the fox gets them before me if I leave them to fully ripen.
My allotment neighbor is converting his garden to no-dig right now. He is very inspired by how well my garden is doing. I send him towards looking up no-dig and the next time I saw him he was running around with wood chip and compost and had bought books and calendar. Yay!!
Thanks for passing on the knowledge!
Hello, following from Uruguay, making my way into no dig! Wishing and waiting to have a god place to work with! One day i will make a living out of it, no more office work please
really you are good gardeners thank you for gives as your time. GOD BLESS YOU MORE AND MORE I DONT KNOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUT now i going to learn. so that way i didn't say more.you i saw nice view garden thanks for all,
Thank you for a wonderful tour, Charles. Always inspires me
I don’t blame you at all for popping a few peas on camera. Delicious!
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Charles you are such an inspiration to all of us gardeners all over the world. We have been gardening here in central Texas for over 30 years. This year we are in a major drought and we have had no rain on 35 days and temps are 104 to 110. We have two seasons here in Texas and the spring summer garden did not do well. You can see the video's of everything we tried to do on our channel. We are looking forward to our fall winter garden. We plant in September and harvest all the way through December. It does not get cold until January. Rochelle and I are taking a holiday for two weeks in October to the Cotswolds and are looking forward to being in England again. I'm a retire chef and looking forward to eating a good fish -n-chips. Blessings, Mike
Your winter gardening sounds more worthwhile than summer! What a challenge. Maybe see you in October, bring warm clothes!
Hey there, I'm on the shore in Md. I heard about your heat, pray you guys get some cooler temps and rain, wish I could send you some rain from here. Hope you have a good autumn harvest.
@@itsmewende Thank you so much!!!!!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Will do, thanks Charles.
Hi! I am also in Texas but North. The heat here has been absolutely ridiculous as well. My neighbor started a garden in late Spring and it didn't do too well. I will be sure to check out your channel. Have a great day!
Great video, so inspiring & motivating! Thank you
Love these updates thanks CD
You’ve covered so much here! Thank you, Charles!
I love your no dig gardens. There so amazing. Blessings for you and your family ❤️
I love the excitement you have about all your garden !
Good day sir. Thank you for another informative video. I appreciate the high quality of your content and the obvious passion you have for gardening. I really want to turn my 2.5 acres of land into a garden but unfortunately I have other financial obligations at the moment. Watching you gives me hope that I too will one day enjoy eating produce from my land. I have so many questions for you and I wish I could visit your garden. I look forward to your new book. Have a blessed day and thank you!
So nice of you, best of luck in getting there
Gygyyygy
Lovely tour, the garden's looking amazing.
Great tour, thanks
Thank you for another such cheery video, Charles. Great stuff
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for sharing … we love it! Greetings from Colorado! 😎🌸
This is a wonderful video! Keep making more!!🥰🥰👍🏻👍🏻💙
This was so helpful. Thank you for sharing. You have an amazing garden.
All looking amazing Charles 😊
Beautiful garden! Glad I found your page
Thanks for sharing the July garden tour! It feels so good to live among the plants, vegetables and fruits. It’s so beautiful and I can imagine how much work and time you spend for your wonderful garden. ❤️
Looks great!
Thanks for the tomato tip at the end! Looks lovely this time of year.
I love your garden tours
Thank you Charles for sharing your healthy food NoDig garden.
Awesome!
Great video as usual,thank-you.
Its dry and hot here in Northern France and my no dig patch is going strong.Nothing better than watching your video with a nice cuppa, then heading pack to the Potager👍
nothing like a charles dowding video on a sunday morning to start my day. off to the garden we go! thank you sir!
Cool place . Thanks for sharing it
Love seeing your garden 🌻
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi I had a hobby to do such a collective farming farm but I don't have such ability if you want to do such a collective farming farm with me you can take me
great enjoyable video charles
The garden is beautiful as always sir
you're one of our inspiration! 😊❤
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Thank You Mr Charles 😁💝
I lOVE the cucumber and flower combo in the poly tunnel. Soooo beautiful!
Nice, thanks
Lovely
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your beautiful gardens 👍🇺🇲
I love your digressions. Such vast knowledge and joy.
Thank you!
Simply amazing! i wish i could get cucumbers and tomatoes like that!
Excelent. Thank you
Just watching this again as we’re in the equivalent time here in southern Australia. Thankyou! Our gardens line up beautifully, exactly 6 months apart. 😊
Wonderful to hear, in the cold and dark of out winter!
Thank you so much for the tour, I learned a lot from you today. You made my heart smile, keep on doing what you do, I very much enjoy your company. =)
Thank you so much!
Amazing!
Great video Lord Charles ! We mortals appreciate them all.
Have a nice day and happy growing everybody.
I love how you mow around your beds. Maybe plant wheat in your wild field? Onions...having fun :) And bits and bobs..lovely tour.
Thank you for the tour! I hope you get to have a good couple of weeks holiday soon.
V kind!
Another tour of homeacres is a wonderful sight right about now.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you for the inspiration, information and your brilliance. The bounty is such a joy to see. Those beets! Everything looks amazing. A gardening lovers dream…thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Many thanks
Dziękuję za piękny film i uśmiech
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I have learned so much and gotten so much joy from watching your channel!
Awesome! Thank you!
Charles...its looking absolutely fabulous !!!
Thankyou 🌱
Such an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge.... all shared. Thanks so much Charles!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Those beets are huge!
Good to hear about harvesting potatoes. Mine did flop over. And some started getting flea beetles. But they were ready to pick out anyway.
Very impressive Charles! I like it 👍, no rain here in East anglia for about a month now! Great video thanks for sharing to us all.
Thanks 👍 David, hoping for rain
Thank you for sharing the information about the plants, you share the richness of the plants, why's and how's, to be better gardeners. Your calm passion is contagious!
So nice of you
Lovely tomatoes
Love ya videos.. thanks for the July tour. Always curious bout other countries July crops. It's a scorcher here in middle Tennessee this year.
Best of luck
Happy summer Charles, its a beautiful time of the year, really enjoyed getting to know you and your vast knowledge in recent months, as I've returned to growing my veg after many years
Thank you so much for sharing
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for another great tour. It really helps as I’m learning. I noticed the two IBC water tanks on the new shed and wondered if you could do a short on how you connected them? We are looking at one for our garden 😊. Or does anyone else have any advice? Thanks 🙏
Hi Charles love your videos lv Irene 😘 xx
Thanks so much
Dzięki pozdrawiam 👍💚
Sir your garden is a little bit of paradise.....!
I'd love to buy your vegetables....
Beautiful video x
Sergent peppers look amazing!! love your garden setup!😍
Thanks so much! 😊
Thanks a lot. Again sooo informative. I've panicked seeing my peas getting yellow today - no need for xanax after watching your tour 🙃
hello charles what a wonderful orchard everything ordered I love it thank you very much for sharing greetings
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Very interesting video Charles especially the part about what needs more water etc. I've always just watered everything most days! Your market garden always looks so fresh and full. I've just come back from 6 days in Cornwall during that hot spell and the garden/allotment veg look very dry in places. Back on it now, sorting it all. Thanks again for another inspiring video.
Thanks Jenny!
Es grüßt sie herzlich,
Tara aus der Eifel
Gracias Charles, como siempre un placer ver tus videos, me animan a seguir intentándolo con algunos cultivos, un gran saludos desde Chile. 💚
Gracias Cathy. Si, seguir intentándolo!
I have learned from bitter experience not to pull onions up,its better to slide a knife under them and gently cut the roots not too close to build,this allows the root and base to dry without risk of damage which can lead to rotting in storage.
Is it the same with garlic and shallots?
@@Neenerella333 because garlic and shallots are of smaller size i think its less of a problem ,dried properly they should be OK.
I can’t pull out my alliums either. The clay is just too hard (even with years of work trying to improve it). I have to dig out the garlics which are way bigger than any onion I have ever successfully grown. Garlic grows below ground, but I do have some onions growing on the surface so I will try the knife trick on them.
Outstanding. Your garden is amazing. When I grow up I want to be like you.
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Amazing. I always learn so much from you. I'm glad to see you using plastic, it's been a life-saver for me. I too have ventured out a bit, started using cardboard, found an unlimited free supply, and it's going great. You gave me the knowledge and courage. Thanks Charles.
So cool Ted, thanks for sharing
New to your videos…. Loads of fantastic Information and I’m looking forward to learning from you!
Thanks and welcome
thoroughly enjoyed this video Charles as I do all your others Sir!
very best wishes
Woody 🙂
Many thanks Woody.
Doing August soon - conditions very different!
WOOOOW!!! SIEMPRE VENGO A ESTE CANAL A INSPIRARME!!!
ME FASCINA VER TAAANTA VIDA Y TAN BIEN LOGRADA!!!
FELICIDADES, AMIGO!!!
So nuce to hear, gracias
As usual, all your plant is flourishing. Oh, I have to use plastic too (after cardboard) because the weeds are crazy
Que encantador vídeo lleno de vida ,hermoso color verde , gracias Charles desde Santiago de Chile con mucho frío y nieve 🌷🇨🇱
Good luck with your winter! and gracias
Hello Charles, a fine tour and it's splendid to see a garden with so much growth in it, the weather here in Shetland is very poor so the veg., gardens are not doing well, hopefully the weather will improve, cheers from Laurence.
Thanks Laurence, I wish I could share some of our warmth with you, your climate is difficult for many vegetables
Sir, Your garden inspire me .......
How nice!
Goodness me, what variety of beetroots are those giants??? Thanks for sharing your July garden with us, enjoyed watching. You‘ve got some beautiful dahlias as well.
Thanks for visiting and yes the dahlias are incredible. Those beetroot are Boltardy, home-saved seed
Merveilleux jardin !! Petit bonjour de France, près de Bordeaux !!
Merci.
J'habitais Asataffort aux 1990's!
Charles I have to say your movements remind of Keith Richard’s love you man
I am honoured!
Interesting about picking the tomatoes sooner, I've always heard they're better tasting left on the vine, just another debunked garden thought, just like no dig. The new gardens, both veg and flower look amazing, also couldn't help but notice your beets, holy cow were they huge. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks Wende 💚
Qué limpia y organizada huerta. Es mi sueño tener un lugar así. ¡Un paraíso! Gracias por este bello vídeo. 🙌
Muy bonito y me gusta la manera de cómo siembra .. “no dig”” lo boy a ser …
How are you, I am Bangladeshi, if you want to have such a collective farming farm, you can take me, insha'Allah, you will be honest and sincere, thank you.
Those beets are giants. Do they get stringy at that size? Impressive results with the cucumbers, melons, and tomatoes. Goes to show the value of the polytunnels and greenhouse. Thanks as always. These tour videos are some of my favorites.
Thanks so much, and no their texture is tender! Thanks to having not used fertiliser but relying only on natural means of growth, which as you can see gives healthy and strong plants
Beautiful...and yummy! : - D
Fabulous look around - thank you! I’m just back inside after planting another round of carrots in the bed I’ll put cabbage and broccoli into come end of August. Also planted out some tomato seedlings I’ve got for a second round. Succession sowing - one of the great things you taught me. Building a compost bin this week closer to the autumn garden because we need t muck out the barn loft of chicken manure and fallen hay from over winter, but want to make good use of it in the future gardens.
Go you Charlie 💚
Oh!!! You’re so lucky having a good quantity of large ripening tomatoes at the same time as your cucumbers! In this heatwave, I’ve been craving ice cold gazpacho. 😩
Luckily, I still have enough canned tomatoes/sauce from last year to make use of this year’s Telegraph cucumbers that only last two days cleaned and chilled in the crisper drawer of the fridge.
Makes one wonder what’s sprayed on store bought cucumbers that last at least a week! 😅
Mine last a week, but soften
wow-you did breahtaking ~😌
Thank you so much for your excellent videos. I have been converted to a no dig gardener. If nothing else it's much less work. There is a topic I don't think you have covered yet. My gardening problem is a lack of sunlight because my yard is very shady due to mature trees. Plants that grow above the ground grow well but plants growing in the ground not so much. For example potatoes, beets, carrots, etc. vs lettuce, spinach, kale, etc. that grow well. Maybe you could discuss this on a future video?
That sounds difficult Kim and I can't really discuss it because there is no such thing happening here. I shall give it some thought. It as much about the roots of those trees feeding into the soil and taking moisture in summer especially
Thank you once again for a wonderful tour of the gardens, love the onions, would like to try bunching onions one day.
Lettuce in Australia is expensive due to floods and other weather events an Example would be Iceberg lettuce where $11.99, Blueberries where $19.49 for 125g. Inflation isn’t helping.
Wow, hope you can grow
As a rule I am not a lover of plastic, but like you Charles I have been using plastic weed mat to cover (and hopefully kill) the mass of "Quack grass" or "Couch grass" I have on my 1/2 acre plot. After 6 months of cover it has done a fantastic job. So I didn't lose growing space I cut some holes in the weed mat and planted watermelons which I am now harvesting, and man they are big :) Thanks for the wonderful "Home acres" update.
Wow watermelons!! Lovely to hear
Yes you can use that plastic for like 200 plus years...in may area in Southern Ontario 🇨🇦 ....it's been as dry as I can remember since being in the 22 years we have been here....plastic on our clay wouldn't do well....I only use a raised bed with wood borders and lots of composted ....I actually put down old boards to kill the grass and weeds before I expand .....your method works really well.....and the garden looks great....
Thanks Jim. The dry theme is worrying.
Hey! Had a eureka moment! 😀
I couldn’t understand why my current produce garden space (on silty ancient Roman sequestered river flood plain, originally marshy, ground) was eating up my no-dig compost dressing compared to the clay under soil in my family home 1 acre undulating Tudor walled garden. When it rains, the current no-dig silt soil sucks up the compost top dressing. The walled garden on clay lets the worms do the work.
Moreover…. The undulating clay soil in the walled garden at family home the structure of which extends out to the old orchard; seen more evidently in drone shots, especially during droughts, makes me think that underlying clay gardening in pre-Tudor built, Tudor-modernised, estate managers’ homes were originally NO-DIG!
Row cropping. Chop’n drop. Mound building.
I know we’ve been taught to think that undulating fields close to ancient “home farm” communities was due to ploughing techniques, but why and how could this happen within Tudor estate walled food gardens?
Compost dressing on No-dig on silty, well washed, floodplain ground definitely disappears into the underworld when it rains, leaving the larger pieces of compost at the surface acting as evaporation protection; I’ve watched it happen in recent years.
Whereas, on top soil covered clay, compost top dressing, is only really needed once a year:... Suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and allows roots to collect the essential nutrients in clay.
Pure eureka 💡
Is this a Stephen Hawking moment? Where one can earn a lifetime living with a theory others spend £ms to prove? 😃😃
I really do think no-dig is an ancient concept that you, Charles, have since proven is the way forward. Particularly as we’re now discovering that ancient South Americans cultivated mycorrhiza beds to add to deliberately planted food production gardens deep in the jungle.
😃
That is cool! Thanks Amanda
Caramba, nunca vi beterraba grande assim.Tudo lindo demais.
Gracias!
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi if you want to have such a collective farming farm then you can take me inshallah you will be honest and sincere thank you
However do you keep your farm and those pathways so tidy, I really enjoy how peaceful it appears
With my no dig methods, it's not too difficult - very occasional pulling of very small weeds! And lots of replanting once harvests are taken
We do that with tomatoes because we have a short season it produces more for me that way
Hi Charles, As always, really enjoyed your video. I thought I'd give you an update on my drunken Blackie. Last week because of necessity for room, I put two heaps , "small heaps", or homemade compost in little gaps in the garden where I had harvested crops. I'm only talking less than 1 M square heaps. I also put a dish of water out for the birds, as it's been so dry. Within two days, my compost was spread amongst my beetroots, onions and broad beans, courtesy of drunken blackbird manure spreading Co Ltd. The bird drinker was empty with her bathing in it, and she's still drinking the beer. She now sits on my shed roof with two of her offspring, looking at me accusingly for being in her garden. I can see the newspaper headlines. Gretna Green pensioner pecked to death by drunken blackbirds.
Keep up the good work Charles, you've opened up new doors for me. Thank you.
One thing I thought I'd mention Charles. Many years ago, a guy I knew always cut the green leaves/shaws from freshly lifted onions and put the onions upside down in wire netting or similar to drip. After a day or so, he sat them normally into trays, and stored them, he said it prevented neck rot. It does and I sometimes use it. You probably manage fine as you are, but it's a handy tip to know, if the weather's not playing ball.
Nice tips Ian thanks.
Lucky blackbirds!!