It makes my heart light to see and listen to people around the world making lifepromoting changes. It is depressing times and one often feels lonely and what good does it do if I change. Then it is uplifting to see we are many! Now I feel connected even to Chile, the other side of the planet. Best wishes! Ann in a frozen Sweden
Just finished watching winni’s video and came over here, it’s such a beautiful sample of the kind of community that our society needs world wide, so proud of this.
Excelente colaboración! Los amigos de Wini son nuestros amigos también y bueno... Charles tu eres a su vez una gran inspiración, un fuerte abrazo desde Argentina
I'll be 70 in a few months...planting out my 6th out of 8 beds today, 4X8's, ...the last 25 years I was involved in luxury sports cars...fast paced, high style, racetrack driving etc...the satisfaction, the primal connection of growing from seed , is by far more gratifying than any machine of 0-100 in 2 seconds. THANK YOU Mr. Dowding for being my mentor...whether you knew it or not..:)
Last year my husband and I made the difficult decision for me to quit my healthcare degree and start our vegetable garden. This year he’s building me a wooden trailer to sell all the veg at the end of the road. You’re so inspiring Charles, I applied your methods and I never had any slug or other pest issues. All my vegetables organic, and taste absolutely amazing! The video of the trailer will be up on my husband’s channel in the next few weeks, search Dudley Hewett.
What a lovely lady ❤ It's amazing how no dig has spreaded all over the world I live in UK but I am Polish and I know,you,Charles ,are very popular in Poland You inspire so many people Thank you for inspiring me 🙂 My first no dig bed made after watching your video on RUclips 🙂🙂 And it is interesting to see how no dig is so universal for so many different climates
Wonderful to hear Ula and I am amazed at the interest in Poland especially, where I have more followers for a population than anywhere except the UK. All credit to you and yes it's amazing how no dig is indeed spreading worldwide
I live in a desert here in Washington State. We as a state are internationally famous for the rain of Seattle. However, the eastern part of the state where I live is a desert. I absolutely love her demonstration. I felt like a bit of a hypocrite because I too needed straw on several of my plantings to keep them moist enough to survive. Without the straw I needed to water twice or three times a day. I had to keep water in barrels so I was not adding cold water and hurting growth with the mid-day and evening waterings. Now I only need a morning watering to keep my plants healthy. Thanks for introducing Wini!
Winni said that Charles has inspired many people in Chile. He has inspired many people all over the world including me in Tennessee in the USA. I have been no-dig for about 5 years now and things just keep getting better. Love it !!! Thanks a bunch Charles !!!!
This was particularly educational for me because I’m a gardener in the south of Spain. Thank you both Charles and Wini for providing such great information to help us beginners getting started and getting it right from the get go.
Ruth was a fantastic gardener and I wish youtube had been about when I started gardening over 65 years ago. I still grow vegetables for 3 families, using hay, rotted tree mulch and compost Here in Auckland we get just over 1 metre of rain a year mostly in Winter and our usual very dry period is from December to April often to drought conditions.Under water restrictions last 2 summers
Maravilloso.... Charles mi favorito del Norte y Wini mi favorita del Sur!!! Los sigo y son mis maestros Y NO SOLO DE HUERTA!! Aprendo a mis 60 años a vivir!!
Beautiful- made me smile the whole way through - so great to see no dig gardening on the other side of the world and see how people adapt to different challenges. What a nice lady thank you this video has made my day - now out to my garden in the wind and pouring rain here in Ireland ☘️🙏🏻😘
@@WiniWalbaum Jamie follows CD and sent me your video. Think our own micro climate must be more like Punta Arenas! I’d love to grow all the veggies you have ❤️
Thankyou Charles and Wini for ... all of it..... a real happines to see your gardens and what you are doing and also to hear you swapping notes ..... inspirational ....have been smiling non-stop for the last 40 minutes..... and so much to do in my own garden here in southern Australia, plenty of droughts, plenty of slugs....
That's interesting. I didn't use to get temperatures higher than 27, which was on a really hot summer. I grew up with long dry summers. Hardly any rain. We had problems with slugs and snails, but only in spring and autumn, when it did rain a lot. Well slugs and snails was all year round, but nothing compared to what I'm experiencing here in the UK. During the summer they were only a minor irritation. I grew up in New Zealand on the coast of the southern part of the North Island. A place called Whanganui. My father was the gardener, and he used to use heavy mulches of newspaper, with pulled up weeds and grass clippings from the lawnmower on top. I don't remember that causing any real problems with slugs and snails. Mind you I never thought about it, as it just worked for what we wanted it to do. Our main concern was both keeping down weeds and retaining moisture in the soil. I wish I had some pictures of it. Of course we also had the problem of working with sandy soil, which also has its advantages. I'm pretty sure at one point the property I grew up on was on the beach front way back in the past. The sand dunes at the beach several kilometres away are still growing. I understand that slugs and snails don't like sandy soil so much. However that Ruth Stout method of mulching worked wonders for us. I'm pretty sure that is where my father got his idea for the mulch from. Sadly he was not a no dig gardener, but he was a believer in organic gardening. He is also no longer with us, but I can tell you two would have had a lot to talk about, if you had ever met. He was that type of person. Anyway I have to avoid using that mulching method here, though the summers in the UK are becoming like the ones I remember in the part of NZ I grew up in, so I might start doing that again. Though summer here was hotter in the last few years than I'm used to, funnily enough.
Nice to hear of your father's methods. Sorry to only be replying now, the channel is becoming very busy, I appreciate your comment and glad you liked the video.
ooooohhh! 🤩 This video was fabulous !!! Charles was exciting to see you talk to Wini, she's one of the most famous gardeners here in Chile and promoter of the "No Dig" method, and of course I'm a faithful follower of her as well as many Chileans and Latin Americans. It was amazing because you have been our inspiration. I've been following you for 4 years and I've learned a lot from you as well as from Wini. Thank you both for the effort and I'm really excited that you can get to know a little more about this wonderful country that is Chile. Greetings from Santiago 🇨🇱
Mr Dowding, Wonderful to see your teachings spread world wide. We are all grateful to have come across you in our gardening path, much appreciated! Congratulations on your new property to continue your growing and teachings!😉❤️
Hello from the North Oregon Coast: land of rain, slugs and snails!! Our climates are almost identical. This will be my second year of no dig. I reworked my small garden last year and am making new beds this year. We have so much happening even now in our relativity small space. It's so wonderful to have you Charles, as a guide and mentor. I can't thank you enough. You are such a generous, positive and encouraging spirit! Happy SPRING!!!
Charles, nice to meet you, I met you after Wini said that you were his Sensei, his teacher, watch your videos and although I do not speak English, I have learned a lot, I am from Valdivia in southern Chile, the rainiest city in Chile and the world, for edo I loved seeing my reality as an orchard reflected in its crops.. Le envío un gran abrazo, me encanta su trabajo 🌱💖
No slugs and snails. Oh joy, I wish. Here in wet old Somerset we have more than enough. What a lovely lady. I have used cardboard and then polythene, normally old compost bags split up, or black plastic and it takes months to kill off our grass. I often still have to skim off the top or I just can’t dig holes for the plants. When you get rid of it the soil is great.
You need to put the cardboard down thick, or put compost or mulch down. First cut the grass as short as possible, though. Newspaper works better than cardboard because it conforms to the ground and sticks to itself forming almost paper maiche(?). This stops the grass from snaking up through the seams. Also, some people have quite dull shovels. It makes a huge difference. They can be sharpened, and some come dull from the factory.
Try soaking the cardboard first, then laying it down. Yes, it does take months to kill off grass. Try to prepare your new beds the year before. It took us a whole year to prepare a new bed in a certain location on our property. As poster replied to you before me, sharpen your shovel, too. Best of luck to you.
I am in SE London/Kent borders and it is extremely dry in spring and summer...I don't have too many slugs despite mulching heavily with woodchips. The slugs I do see are leopard slugs which don't harm plants, they only eat dead and rotting things like the old rotting leaves from plants, and mushrooms that sometimes grow on woodchips, and other things that compost worms eat too. They are great slugs to have in a garden in fact, because they keep down the populations of the other kinds of slugs that are harmful to garden plants. There are many varieties of slugs and very few that will eat healthy plant leaves. If you are plagued with slugs then I highly recommend encouraging your leopard slug population! They are very pretty slugs too, with a fashionable leopard print pattern, and grow enormous!
@@przybyla420 that is very true, although cardboard has a different advantage in that the compost worms absolutely adore eating, it more than newspaper. Maybe both is a good plan!
I am over the moon with this video and meeting Winnie because I'm in the south of Portugal.I've been following Charles for some years now and have adopted the no dig method, much to the objection of verybody around me! Winnie presents a new opportunity because it is much milder over here in winter and the summers are very hot. Our growing season is also somewhat different to England so I have to adapt Charles' timmings so it will be interesting to learn from Winnie... and certainly about the hay mulching, since water here is also very scarce and precious... but I also have windy conditions at least once a day which also dries the soil quite alot... I hope it won't blow the hay! A huge thank you! People are so generous with sharing their knowledge to which I'm very appreciative! ❤❤
Charles, thank you so much for sharing your “meeting” with the delightful Wini. She, like you, is an inspiration to many of us. Over the last two sunny days here in Alderney, I have constructed my sixth raised bed, and half filled it with my own “young” compost, not yet fully broken down but alive with worms. We are now promised steady rain for a couple of days, so I will have to wait to top it off with well rotted manure. Thanks for making my garden less exhausting and so much more productive.
I love it, one totally damp and one totally dry....and then there's me totally wet in the winter totally dry in the summer. I use compost and straw. A bit of advice for everyone. Hagd!
Hi ch. Just been watch your garden doing planting I've doing it for years to I started a big garden fir wedding place and did there gardens and did my just battling water and compost thank you for all the loving gardening wow one day I would love to come see all that veggies south africa
What a great video. It was nice to see that Ruth Stout has been such an influence to people all over the world. I read her books when I was in my 30’s and now I’m in my70’s. I enjoy your videos so much. We are in Spring here in Williamsburg, VA USA. Keep up the good work and I will keep on watching. Stay healthy and safe.
Thanks for this video! I Also follow you from Pirque, near to Santiago, Chile. And practice no dig. Thanks for all the knowledge you share with the wolrd!!!!
Thank you Charles and Winni for these videos I've learned so many things from you! You are a great inspiration. I'm from Argentina and of course I'm applying "no dig" methods to my food garden and feeding my family with pesticide-free veggies. Love you guys!
Dear Mr. Charles, this is, probably, the most beautiful video I saw. I'm so glad you honored Mrs. Stout. That is exactly where I started from, and I learn from both of you. It is so wonderful that people from all over the world can gather around the same principle and share the joy of gardening. Thank you.
Great upload, I'm in North Norfolk, watched this whilst prepping Sunday lunch, and now off to the garden to erect our new green house... plenty of cardboard and compost at the ready 🙂
I'm in the middle of putting my greenhouse back into use (aluminium 8x6), which has sat unglazed & unused for a decade. Base wall's in & treated timber lined up - now the wind & rain here in Cumbria's brought things to a halt...
Wini is called Roly poly bug! Thank you for sharing your garden! I lived in São Paulo Brazil and there was humid! Good luck with your garden Wini! Thanks for bringing Wini along, Charles! How fun, more land. I want to get something bigger and raise my own chickens. Over here they don't let me. God bless Hugs to you all.
Perfect timing and a super idea, thank you both. It seems I should have made my raised beds deeper and planted my crops closer together in the Mediterranean climate! Great advice and therapy, appreciated as always 👏🏼
Love the video! My wife thinks I am crazy for starting my No Dig garden. She said that as long as it's taken care of, she's letting me try. But it sounds like all over the world, people are trying no dig AND IT WORKS!! Thanks again Charles!
A very inspiring video. I enjoyed the collaboration very much. The snail part is funny. I live in the southwest of Germany and I am a beginner of no dig. Greetings
Great international collab 💗 Seeing Wini say they are experiencing drought like conditions in Chile..makes me ashamed when I complain about the British rainy weather ☔☔☔
British gardeners really shouldn't complain. With your gentle rains and mild winters, the only thing you could possibly wish for is a tiny bit more heat in summer. Meanwhile I'm trying to garden in a place that often has much too rainy springs (floods in some nearby areas), then hot, arid 40 C summers, then weird now-hot-now-cool autumns, and then freezing winters which not seldom dip below -20 C. And climate change has made all of this very unpredictable in recent decades, so all the rules are out the window - we can get late frosts, torrential rain or frost right as the fruit trees are flowering, hail storms that shred the foliage in summer, long droughts, and then prolongued summers long into autumn which trick the trees into a second attempt at flowering (which saps their energy for next season). Not to mention all the new insects and pests that have appeared in recent years because of climate change, which no one yet knows how to deal with except by drowning the land in pesticides. Be very happy with your mild and damp, is what I'm saying. Your gardening conditions are probably the best in the world. And I won't complain too much either - at least we get enough rain to refill the groundwater so we can irrigate during our dry summers, even if our rain tends to fall violently all at once. Some places get NO rain. Other places get tornadoes. Yet other places barely thaw for three months a year.
Wini I used to live Sanitago, but in an apartment. The ONLY way I could keep my houseplants from dying in the intense summer heat was sitting them in water reservoirs. Literally filling a shallow basin with water and putting the potted plant in it. I've moved to Florida, and now have a lovely plot of land to no-dig grow. So it's not an issue now. But for Chile, look up Olla pot irrigation? You'll still have to water, but maybe less? You could probably go to Palmira and if you can't find someone that makes them, as them to. :) Have fun!
What a wonderful episode. I've started trying straw mulched raised beds here in California. Already using no dig. Can confirm the better moisture retention. I also grow the seedlings up in 3" pots before planting out.
I got to Charles through @Winnie, you are two incredible people, you have accompanied me and taught me so much, always happy to see you. a dream come true. May God bless you.
Glad to see how you are starting I have a decent size area yo start preparing about 7000 squar feet and I wasn't sure how to even begin seems overwhelming at times but I want to take my time and do it right may start with less then half to start and add on as I get better 😊😀 8 am just finishing one of your books still have 3 other to read ... thank you for bringing all of this information to us 🇺🇸
You were adorable together! This was a very helpful video, i always felt I was a pretend no dig gardener as my beds are raised like Wini's. Now i know I am still doing it right! And seeing you start the beds Charles was very helpful, i was concerned about some big weeds coming through my new beds, but now know its all fine! You both encourage new gardeners like myself( its my second year!) to just get on with it and not be put off by the old school strict textbook types who make gardening seem so complicated. Thankyou!
In my opinion it seems like all permaculture. Charles, thx for the lovely course. Thing is i like noDig because it gives more freedom then permaculture.
Hi Charles!! I have a little farm in Korea and the soil is very heavy clay, and have tons of mugworts that are out of control. I tried to dig a small rain collection pond and couldn’t get more than 1 ft in the ground, so I am thrilled to try your no dig method to amend my soil! I saw other post made by people with clay soil who didn’t seem as successful in amending their soil (why they tacked the weeds and was able to grow crops on the compost). so I will try some parts with compost and others with hay and grass (mugworts) clippings !!
@@bridget4450 potato bugs around here are creepy alien looking bugs (Jerusalem crickets)... GOOGLE THEM!! AHH!...roly-polies are also called pill bugs.
What a delightful and industrious young woman Winnie is. Her gardens were enviable and clearly very productive. How great it is to see this young generation take and run with no dig garden. When I think of the years that my father double dug his garden or that my husband invested in rototillers, I give my head a shake. Thankfully, your channel has wisened up a good many of us; not only to no dig, but to the many advantages of composting. Gardening has become less laborious, more enjoyable and productive because of it. Now Charles, if you could just do something about the weather!!!!😉
Hello Wini, from West Virginia, USA. Thanks for sharing your experience, knowledge, and wisdom with us. Your home garden is amazing! Thanks Charles for the collaboration video. 🙏❤️🌱
Our dear friend Sir Charles, 40 years, and you just add on another acre!! Totally awesome. In the Ozarks, at 76, this will be my first no dig gardening with compost of my own making. Other soil amenities will include worm castings, peat moss and Monty's liquid supports. I'm challenged not to over work but to hire help for balance. Stay safe and have a wonderful time in that next new plot.
I will be honest, I'm a little jealous of you guys.We have winters that will humble the toughest, even southern US has longer growing seasons. So in a way when I'm done with the year I'm proud to get what we get. Great video and always learn from your videos.
Well done Charles and Wini! Love it! My local library approved a request I submitted for Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Garden Diary, I can't wait to dig into that. lol. For those who don't know, you can send a request to your local library to carry Charles's Dairy! I shared this to thank you sir for sharing your wealth of knowledge and your consistency. Lots of love from Alberta, Canada.
Love, love, loved seeing this collaboration with Wini. Thank you Charles, for sharing this delightful young woman with us. What an inspiration. It makes me so happy to see that the younger generations, are still willing to learn from us old folks, the wisdom of a life lived well. The new field is an exciting addition, and I'm looking forward to seeing you transform it from the beginning, so those of us just starting out with no dig, are able to experience how things should be progressing in our own gardens. Much gratitude for all you do for us.
That really WAS fascinating, Charles. Loved seeing her amazing garden, hearing how she does things in her climate, and then spending time with you in your garden. Great to have an International Gardening Community!Thank you for all you share!
Thank you Charles you are a beautiful person yourself🌿i admire you🌷and today you invited another beautiful soul😍so grateful to meet Wini and see her garden🐞
Yey!!! I'm here from Wini's channel🙌🏻🙌🏻. Now I have another great amazing person to follow and learn more from you, I'm spanic but California resident!!! Its a great pleasure to see you sharing the experience with Wini and all of us!!! You both are a big huge example of people to look up 🙌🏻❤️
Thanks to Wini for letting us to meet you Charles, I usually watch your RUclips channel to learn how No Dig works in rainy climate as we have here in chilean patagonia
Thank you Charles for this beautiful collab!
Gracias Winiii! Eres grande!!!!!!
@Nahuel 🙏💚
You too Wini!!
Love your garden Wini ❤️
What a lovely uplifting video, fantastic to see such collaboration between you both.
I hope you know how much hope and happiness you bring to people❤
Ah so sweet thanks Jackie
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 💜💜🌱🌱🌱
Exactly 💜💜🌸🌸🌱🌱
🙏💜🙏💚🙏❤🙏💛🙏💙🙏
It makes my heart light to see and listen to people around the world making lifepromoting changes. It is depressing times and one often feels lonely and what good does it do if I change. Then it is uplifting to see we are many! Now I feel connected even to Chile, the other side of the planet. Best wishes! Ann in a frozen Sweden
I wish you a lovely garden Ann
Yes indeed🐞very uplifting to see such positive beautiful people🌳🌲☀
100% agree from an equally frozen Finland! 👍
Just finished watching winni’s video and came over here, it’s such a beautiful sample of the kind of community that our society needs world wide, so proud of this.
Excelente colaboración! Los amigos de Wini son nuestros amigos también y bueno... Charles tu eres a su vez una gran inspiración, un fuerte abrazo desde Argentina
Gracias 💚
Que bien otra familia huertera de las buenas.. Un abrazo chicos desde Chile hacia Argentina.. 😘
@permacultura.holistica 💚!
@@WiniWalbaum 🧉🧉🧉🧉🧉🧉
Aguante la Patagonia carajo jajajajaja pobre Charles lo tenemos vuelto loco ....hasta le pedía que hable castellano jejee
Are my heroes teaming up!? Greetings from Perú!💚
❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Aaaw gracias!!! ❤️
Greece loves you too !
Here I came from the Wini channel! Good to meet you, Charles!
Thanks for coming over Mariela 😀
I'll be 70 in a few months...planting out my 6th out of 8 beds today, 4X8's, ...the last 25 years I was involved in luxury sports cars...fast paced, high style, racetrack driving etc...the satisfaction, the primal connection of growing from seed , is by far more gratifying than any machine of 0-100 in 2 seconds.
THANK YOU Mr. Dowding for being my mentor...whether you knew it or not..:)
Cheers Mike and this is so funny, and gratifying too
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Nice to hear that I have given a few seconds of smile and laughter in return for the world you have helped me open.
Last year my husband and I made the difficult decision for me to quit my healthcare degree and start our vegetable garden. This year he’s building me a wooden trailer to sell all the veg at the end of the road. You’re so inspiring Charles, I applied your methods and I never had any slug or other pest issues. All my vegetables organic, and taste absolutely amazing! The video of the trailer will be up on my husband’s channel in the next few weeks, search Dudley Hewett.
I could listen to wini ALL DAY LONG! Man, that accent....
Seguimos sorprendiéndonos con Wini, la verdad es un fenómeno huerteril y que nos llena de orgullo ☮️☮️☮️☮️
Si!
All my love as a fellow gardener, love to your family and happy growing 😁❤️
Thank you 💚
What a lovely lady ❤
It's amazing how no dig has spreaded all over the world
I live in UK but I am Polish and I know,you,Charles ,are very popular in Poland
You inspire so many people
Thank you for inspiring me 🙂
My first no dig bed made after watching your video on RUclips 🙂🙂
And it is interesting to see how no dig is so universal for so many different climates
Wonderful to hear Ula and I am amazed at the interest in Poland especially, where I have more followers for a population than anywhere except the UK. All credit to you and yes it's amazing how no dig is indeed spreading worldwide
I live in a desert here in Washington State. We as a state are internationally famous for the rain of Seattle. However, the eastern part of the state where I live is a desert. I absolutely love her demonstration. I felt like a bit of a hypocrite because I too needed straw on several of my plantings to keep them moist enough to survive. Without the straw I needed to water twice or three times a day. I had to keep water in barrels so I was not adding cold water and hurting growth with the mid-day and evening waterings. Now I only need a morning watering to keep my plants healthy. Thanks for introducing Wini!
Nice to hear Dwight, you have a challenging climate!
Winni said that Charles has inspired many people in Chile. He has inspired many people all over the world including me in Tennessee in the USA. I have been no-dig for about 5 years now and things just keep getting better. Love it !!! Thanks a bunch Charles !!!!
Love that Alph, thanks for sharing
This was particularly educational for me because I’m a gardener in the south of Spain. Thank you both Charles and Wini for providing such great information to help us beginners getting started and getting it right from the get go.
Ruth was a fantastic gardener and I wish youtube had been about when I started gardening over 65 years ago. I still grow vegetables for 3 families, using hay, rotted tree mulch and compost Here in Auckland we get just over 1 metre of rain a year mostly in Winter and our usual very dry period is from December to April often to drought conditions.Under water restrictions last 2 summers
Maravilloso.... Charles mi favorito del Norte y Wini mi favorita del Sur!!! Los sigo y son mis maestros Y NO SOLO DE HUERTA!! Aprendo a mis 60 años a vivir!!
🤗👍🌱🦋Hermoso, 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱❤️
Beautiful- made me smile the whole way through - so great to see no dig gardening on the other side of the world and see how people adapt to different challenges. What a nice lady thank you this video has made my day - now out to my garden in the wind and pouring rain here in Ireland ☘️🙏🏻😘
hi charles! wini made me fan of no dig method and now I`m a happy urban farmer. greetings from argentina!
Great to hear Melisa, happy farming!
Waaaaaaa, una chilena! Que agradable sorpresa!!!
Ese waaa sonó muy chileno jaja
Greetings from Poland to my favorite gardening channels on RUclips from the UK, Chile, Argentina etc. Saludos amigos 💕😄
So nice of you
Hello Wini! Following you and Charles from Scotland!
Debbie!! ❤️ So nice to see my family here! ❤️😍🙌🙌🙌
@@WiniWalbaum Jamie follows CD and sent me your video. Think our own micro climate must be more like Punta Arenas! I’d love to grow all the veggies you have ❤️
AMO VER A WINI EN ESTE CANAL!! Un sueño para ella y un lujo para nosotros ❤ gracias a los dos por tanta sabiduría!
Si y gracias
Siii que lindo!! Yo sigo a los dos!! Charles es un GENIO DE LA HUERTA!!! UN LUJAZO!!
That's interesting about Ruth Stout. She lived about 15 miles from where I live.
Thankyou Charles and Wini for ... all of it..... a real happines to see your gardens and what you are doing and also to hear you swapping notes ..... inspirational ....have been smiling non-stop for the last 40 minutes..... and so much to do in my own garden here in southern Australia, plenty of droughts, plenty of slugs....
So nice to hear except about drought and slugs!!!
That's interesting. I didn't use to get temperatures higher than 27, which was on a really hot summer. I grew up with long dry summers. Hardly any rain. We had problems with slugs and snails, but only in spring and autumn, when it did rain a lot. Well slugs and snails was all year round, but nothing compared to what I'm experiencing here in the UK. During the summer they were only a minor irritation. I grew up in New Zealand on the coast of the southern part of the North Island. A place called Whanganui. My father was the gardener, and he used to use heavy mulches of newspaper, with pulled up weeds and grass clippings from the lawnmower on top. I don't remember that causing any real problems with slugs and snails. Mind you I never thought about it, as it just worked for what we wanted it to do. Our main concern was both keeping down weeds and retaining moisture in the soil. I wish I had some pictures of it. Of course we also had the problem of working with sandy soil, which also has its advantages. I'm pretty sure at one point the property I grew up on was on the beach front way back in the past. The sand dunes at the beach several kilometres away are still growing. I understand that slugs and snails don't like sandy soil so much. However that Ruth Stout method of mulching worked wonders for us. I'm pretty sure that is where my father got his idea for the mulch from. Sadly he was not a no dig gardener, but he was a believer in organic gardening. He is also no longer with us, but I can tell you two would have had a lot to talk about, if you had ever met. He was that type of person. Anyway I have to avoid using that mulching method here, though the summers in the UK are becoming like the ones I remember in the part of NZ I grew up in, so I might start doing that again. Though summer here was hotter in the last few years than I'm used to, funnily enough.
Nice to hear of your father's methods. Sorry to only be replying now, the channel is becoming very busy, I appreciate your comment and glad you liked the video.
What a sweet lady, I am sure Gardening helps her a lot in life!
ooooohhh! 🤩 This video was fabulous !!! Charles was exciting to see you talk to Wini, she's one of the most famous gardeners here in Chile and promoter of the "No Dig" method, and of course I'm a faithful follower of her as well as many Chileans and Latin Americans. It was amazing because you have been our inspiration. I've been following you for 4 years and I've learned a lot from you as well as from Wini. Thank you both for the effort and I'm really excited that you can get to know a little more about this wonderful country that is Chile. Greetings from Santiago 🇨🇱
Lovely to read this Fabina!
Q sorpresa más hermosa!¡ mis huerteros preferidos juntos
T 20:00 Rollie pollie or pill bugs I believe! I’m just impressed by this great experience, both of you have shared. In your videos.Thanks 🙏🏽
Mr Dowding, Wonderful to see your teachings spread world wide. We are all grateful to have come across you in our gardening path, much appreciated!
Congratulations on your new property to continue your growing and teachings!😉❤️
Hello from the North Oregon Coast: land of rain, slugs and snails!! Our climates are almost identical. This will be my second year of no dig. I reworked my small garden last year and am making new beds this year. We have so much happening even now in our relativity small space. It's so wonderful to have you Charles, as a guide and mentor. I can't thank you enough. You are such a generous, positive and encouraging spirit! Happy SPRING!!!
Oh great to read this! Thank you
Charles, nice to meet you, I met you after Wini said that you were his Sensei, his teacher, watch your videos and although I do not speak English, I have learned a lot, I am from Valdivia in southern Chile, the rainiest city in Chile and the world, for edo I loved seeing my reality as an orchard reflected in its crops.. Le envío un gran abrazo, me encanta su trabajo 🌱💖
Nice to read and I wish you success in all the rain!
No slugs and snails. Oh joy, I wish. Here in wet old Somerset we have more than enough. What a lovely lady.
I have used cardboard and then polythene, normally old compost bags split up, or black plastic and it takes months to kill off our grass. I often still have to skim off the top or I just can’t dig holes for the plants. When you get rid of it the soil is great.
You need to put the cardboard down thick, or put compost or mulch down. First cut the grass as short as possible, though. Newspaper works better than cardboard because it conforms to the ground and sticks to itself forming almost paper maiche(?). This stops the grass from snaking up through the seams. Also, some people have quite dull shovels. It makes a huge difference. They can be sharpened, and some come dull from the factory.
*Put cardboard down thicker, or first put down mulch/compost and then cardboard.
Try soaking the cardboard first, then laying it down. Yes, it does take months to kill off grass. Try to prepare your new beds the year before. It took us a whole year to prepare a new bed in a certain location on our property.
As poster replied to you before me, sharpen your shovel, too. Best of luck to you.
I am in SE London/Kent borders and it is extremely dry in spring and summer...I don't have too many slugs despite mulching heavily with woodchips. The slugs I do see are leopard slugs which don't harm plants, they only eat dead and rotting things like the old rotting leaves from plants, and mushrooms that sometimes grow on woodchips, and other things that compost worms eat too. They are great slugs to have in a garden in fact, because they keep down the populations of the other kinds of slugs that are harmful to garden plants. There are many varieties of slugs and very few that will eat healthy plant leaves. If you are plagued with slugs then I highly recommend encouraging your leopard slug population! They are very pretty slugs too, with a fashionable leopard print pattern, and grow enormous!
@@przybyla420 that is very true, although cardboard has a different advantage in that the compost worms absolutely adore eating, it more than newspaper. Maybe both is a good plan!
Great video! Love Winnie's garden and seeing the field started from scratch is fab!
Glad you enjoyed it and I am amazed you manage to watch it because it's not public yet! Did it just show up as a new video?!
Whoops - Lucky me!! It's at the end of the "Garden More Easily" playlist so came on automatically following a prior video in that series
Feliz feliz Charlez
Magico capitulo. Genial Wini
Saludos desde Patagonia chile
Yo en guerra con las babosas
😂😂😂😂😂👍🐧😁😷
Fantastic ollaboration - I've been looking for no dig gardeners in the southern hemisphere to follow as I live in NZ - this is perfect 😊
Wow Wini, eres lo máximo, rodeate de los mejores y atraerás lo mejor!!! Gracias por compartir sin envidia! Abrazos.
❤️
Thank You Ruth Stout and Charles Dowding.
I am really delighted with the collaboration, especially for all the knowledge they transmit I thank you both very much
I am over the moon with this video and meeting Winnie because I'm in the south of Portugal.I've been following Charles for some years now and have adopted the no dig method, much to the objection of verybody around me! Winnie presents a new opportunity because it is much milder over here in winter and the summers are very hot. Our growing season is also somewhat different to England so I have to adapt Charles' timmings so it will be interesting to learn from Winnie... and certainly about the hay mulching, since water here is also very scarce and precious... but I also have windy conditions at least once a day which also dries the soil quite alot... I hope it won't blow the hay! A huge thank you! People are so generous with sharing their knowledge to which I'm very appreciative! ❤❤
Great to see this Ana! May growth be good
Es genial ver estas interelaciones entre el Norte y el Sur!!!un placer estos videos de ambos!!!Gracias Gracias Gracias!!desde Argentina!!!
Charles, thank you so much for sharing your “meeting” with the delightful Wini. She, like you, is an inspiration to many of us. Over the last two sunny days here in Alderney, I have constructed my sixth raised bed, and half filled it with my own “young” compost, not yet fully broken down but alive with worms. We are now promised steady rain for a couple of days, so I will have to wait to top it off with well rotted manure. Thanks for making my garden less exhausting and so much more productive.
Great to hear Roger
I love it, one totally damp and one totally dry....and then there's me totally wet in the winter totally dry in the summer. I use compost and straw. A bit of advice for everyone. Hagd!
I love wini....thanks for having it on your channel
Yay !!!! now here to see this colab after seeing it on Wini's channel
🎉
What a beautiful garden Wini and btw I love the design of your house too! So lovely. Good luck with the new field Charles!
Thank you Claire! 💚
Hi ch. Just been watch your garden doing planting I've doing it for years to I started a big garden fir wedding place and did there gardens and did my just battling water and compost thank you for all the loving gardening wow one day I would love to come see all that veggies south africa
Glad that you discussed the downside of hay mulch, I was considering it recently
Que emocion ver a dos grandes huerteros compartiendo
From Canada. Thank you Winifred and Charles
Charles gracias por ésta bonita colaboración con Wini, recién me suscribí a tu canal.👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Gracias!
Great video, Charles. I loved Wini's garden too, so natural.
Son los mejores, mi huerta de Cuarentena, da frutos gracias a ustedes. Saludos desde Putaendo Chile 🤗
Que Graaaaande Wini Walbaum! Felicitaciones por contactarte con tan gran personaje!
That was a fun show! I can hardly wait to get started again. Still have snow.
What a great video. It was nice to see that Ruth Stout has been such an influence to people all over the world. I read her books when I was in my 30’s and now I’m in my70’s. I enjoy your videos so much. We are in Spring here in Williamsburg, VA USA. Keep up the good work and I will keep on watching. Stay healthy and safe.
Thanks for this video! I Also follow you from Pirque, near to Santiago, Chile. And practice no dig. Thanks for all the knowledge you share with the wolrd!!!!
Awesome, thank you Mauricio!
Fantástico felicitaciones .saludos de santiago Chile un abrazó.
Thank you Charles and Winni for these videos I've learned so many things from you! You are a great inspiration. I'm from Argentina and of course I'm applying "no dig" methods to my food garden and feeding my family with pesticide-free veggies. Love you guys!
Dear Mr. Charles, this is, probably, the most beautiful video I saw. I'm so glad you honored Mrs. Stout. That is exactly where I started from, and I learn from both of you. It is so wonderful that people from all over the world can gather around the same principle and share the joy of gardening. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great upload, I'm in North Norfolk, watched this whilst prepping Sunday lunch, and now off to the garden to erect our new green house... plenty of cardboard and compost at the ready 🙂
Sounds great!
I'm in the middle of putting my greenhouse back into use (aluminium 8x6), which has sat unglazed & unused for a decade.
Base wall's in & treated timber lined up - now the wind & rain here in Cumbria's brought things to a halt...
Wini is called Roly poly bug! Thank you for sharing your garden! I lived in São Paulo Brazil and there was humid! Good luck with your garden Wini!
Thanks for bringing Wini along, Charles! How fun, more land. I want to get something bigger and raise my own chickens. Over here they don't let me. God bless Hugs to you all.
Perfect timing and a super idea, thank you both. It seems I should have made my raised beds deeper and planted my crops closer together in the Mediterranean climate! Great advice and therapy, appreciated as always 👏🏼
Love the video! My wife thinks I am crazy for starting my No Dig garden. She said that as long as it's taken care of, she's letting me try. But it sounds like all over the world, people are trying no dig AND IT WORKS!! Thanks again Charles!
You can do it!
A very inspiring video. I enjoyed the collaboration very much. The snail part is funny. I live in the southwest of Germany and I am a beginner of no dig. Greetings
Thank you Charles for introducing us to Wini and another No Dig across the globe. I had a smile on my face the whole video.
So glad to hear that. Good energies.
Great international collab 💗
Seeing Wini say they are experiencing drought like conditions in Chile..makes me ashamed when I complain about the British rainy weather ☔☔☔
British gardeners really shouldn't complain. With your gentle rains and mild winters, the only thing you could possibly wish for is a tiny bit more heat in summer.
Meanwhile I'm trying to garden in a place that often has much too rainy springs (floods in some nearby areas), then hot, arid 40 C summers, then weird now-hot-now-cool autumns, and then freezing winters which not seldom dip below -20 C. And climate change has made all of this very unpredictable in recent decades, so all the rules are out the window - we can get late frosts, torrential rain or frost right as the fruit trees are flowering, hail storms that shred the foliage in summer, long droughts, and then prolongued summers long into autumn which trick the trees into a second attempt at flowering (which saps their energy for next season). Not to mention all the new insects and pests that have appeared in recent years because of climate change, which no one yet knows how to deal with except by drowning the land in pesticides.
Be very happy with your mild and damp, is what I'm saying. Your gardening conditions are probably the best in the world.
And I won't complain too much either - at least we get enough rain to refill the groundwater so we can irrigate during our dry summers, even if our rain tends to fall violently all at once. Some places get NO rain. Other places get tornadoes. Yet other places barely thaw for three months a year.
Excellent video Charles,Hello to everyone discovering that digging is a waste of time and energy,welcome aboard👍
Felicitaciones a ambos! Son un ejemplo a seguir 💚🌱
Wini I used to live Sanitago, but in an apartment. The ONLY way I could keep my houseplants from dying in the intense summer heat was sitting them in water reservoirs. Literally filling a shallow basin with water and putting the potted plant in it. I've moved to Florida, and now have a lovely plot of land to no-dig grow. So it's not an issue now. But for Chile, look up Olla pot irrigation? You'll still have to water, but maybe less? You could probably go to Palmira and if you can't find someone that makes them, as them to. :) Have fun!
What a wonderful episode. I've started trying straw mulched raised beds here in California. Already using no dig. Can confirm the better moisture retention. I also grow the seedlings up in 3" pots before planting out.
What a beautiful person is Wini
I did enjoy it I am in Missouri USA so an even different climate from both of you.
Thank you, we are all connected on this earth...Blessings to Wini and her family, and to you, for sharing her story, and your story.
Hello Charles, from Serbia - Europe, i admire you so much, se beautiful collaboration whit Wini, she is amazing !
Thanks!
I got to Charles through @Winnie, you are two incredible people, you have accompanied me and taught me so much, always happy to see you. a dream come true. May God bless you.
Glad to see how you are starting I have a decent size area yo start preparing about 7000 squar feet and I wasn't sure how to even begin seems overwhelming at times but I want to take my time and do it right may start with less then half to start and add on as I get better 😊😀 8 am just finishing one of your books still have 3 other to read ... thank you for bringing all of this information to us 🇺🇸
You were adorable together! This was a very helpful video, i always felt I was a pretend no dig gardener as my beds are raised like Wini's. Now i know I am still doing it right! And seeing you start the beds Charles was very helpful, i was concerned about some big weeds coming through my new beds, but now know its all fine! You both encourage new gardeners like myself( its my second year!) to just get on with it and not be put off by the old school strict textbook types who make gardening seem so complicated. Thankyou!
Happy to read this Peter!
In my opinion it seems like all permaculture. Charles, thx for the lovely course. Thing is i like noDig because it gives more freedom then permaculture.
Hi Charles!! I have a little farm in Korea and the soil is very heavy clay, and have tons of mugworts that are out of control. I tried to dig a small rain collection pond and couldn’t get more than 1 ft in the ground, so I am thrilled to try your no dig method to amend my soil! I saw other post made by people with clay soil who didn’t seem as successful in amending their soil (why they tacked the weeds and was able to grow crops on the compost). so I will try some parts with compost and others with hay and grass (mugworts) clippings !!
That does sound a challenge Agnes, but No-Dig will surely help you more than any other method on that difficult clay and with those weeds, good luck!
Called roly-polies here in the States!
Thank you! Hahaha couldn't find the word! 😅
@@bridget4450 potato bugs around here are creepy alien looking bugs (Jerusalem crickets)... GOOGLE THEM!! AHH!...roly-polies are also called pill bugs.
And sow bugs.
What a delightful and industrious young woman Winnie is. Her gardens were enviable and clearly very productive. How great it is to see this young generation take and run with no dig garden. When I think of the years that my father double dug his garden or that my husband invested in rototillers, I give my head a shake.
Thankfully, your channel has wisened up a good many of us; not only to no dig, but to the many advantages of composting. Gardening has become less laborious, more enjoyable and productive because of it.
Now Charles, if you could just do something about the weather!!!!😉
Nice to read.
I wonder!
Hello Wini, from West Virginia, USA. Thanks for sharing your experience, knowledge, and wisdom with us. Your home garden is amazing! Thanks Charles for the collaboration video. 🙏❤️🌱
Hermoso que lindo los nenitos chiquitos como crecieron que lindo ese señor me encantó 😗😗
Our dear friend Sir Charles, 40 years, and you just add on another acre!! Totally awesome. In the Ozarks, at 76, this will be my first no dig gardening with compost of my own making. Other soil amenities will include worm castings, peat moss and Monty's liquid supports. I'm challenged not to over work but to hire help for balance. Stay safe and have a wonderful time in that next new plot.
Sounds great! And yes I have more help now, partly because I am doing so much computer work!
We don't get muddy boots - loved this
Wini; I think you have a lot of admirers in the United States!
Hola wini te felicito por haberte visto con Charly me encantan 😍 maravilloso 🙌🏻♾️🌻🍀😊❤️🙏🙏🙏
I will be honest, I'm a little jealous of you guys.We have winters that will humble the toughest, even southern US has longer growing seasons. So in a way when I'm done with the year I'm proud to get what we get. Great video and always learn from your videos.
Glad to hear from someone who gardens in a fry climate. I will start using a mulch over my compost so it doesn’t dry out so badly.
Nice to meet Wini. Thanks.
Well done Charles and Wini! Love it! My local library approved a request I submitted for Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Garden Diary, I can't wait to dig into that. lol. For those who don't know, you can send a request to your local library to carry Charles's Dairy! I shared this to thank you sir for sharing your wealth of knowledge and your consistency. Lots of love from Alberta, Canada.
Awesome! Thank you and I am honoured to be in Alberta's library 🥕
Love, love, loved seeing this collaboration with Wini. Thank you Charles, for sharing this delightful young woman with us. What an inspiration.
It makes me so happy to see that the younger generations, are still willing to learn from us old folks, the wisdom of a life lived well.
The new field is an exciting addition, and I'm looking forward to seeing you transform it from the beginning, so those of us just starting out with no dig, are able to experience how things should be progressing in our own gardens.
Much gratitude for all you do for us.
Thankyou :)
That really WAS fascinating, Charles. Loved seeing her amazing garden, hearing how she does things in her climate, and then spending time with you in your garden. Great to have an International Gardening Community!Thank you for all you share!
Glad you enjoyed it Jar
Thank you Charles you are a beautiful person yourself🌿i admire you🌷and today you invited another beautiful soul😍so grateful to meet Wini and see her garden🐞
You are so welcome
Yey!!! I'm here from Wini's channel🙌🏻🙌🏻. Now I have another great amazing person to follow and learn more from you, I'm spanic but California resident!!! Its a great pleasure to see you sharing the experience with Wini and all of us!!! You both are a big huge example of people to look up 🙌🏻❤️
Yay! Thank you!
In the US those bugs are rolly-pollys 😊 Beautiful garden Wini!!!
Thanks to Wini for letting us to meet you Charles, I usually watch your RUclips channel to learn how No Dig works in rainy climate as we have here in chilean patagonia