Small Garden plantings and succession, harvests in May and June 2019 (9th in series)
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- During the spring hungry gap when harvests are scarce, I show you the spinach, kale, spring onions, lettuce, other salads, pea shoots and herbs we were picking then, as well as making new plantings. I show some interplantings too.
By June there are tasty new carrots, beetroot and garlic scapes.
Although I call the garden 'small', it is 25m2/270ft2, enough space to provide most vegetables for a family who like to eat some regularly.
See my Sowing Timeline for more ideas of what to sow next, through the summer charlesdowding.co.uk/sowing-t...
See my online course for an in-depth explanation of how to grow no dig, a method which saves so much timecharlesdowding.co.uk/product-...
. One of the course modules is a year of plantings and harvests in the small garden.
My website has updates every 2-3 weeks of advice and ideas, and you can subscribe to.
This garden will be featured monthly in 2020 Which? Gardening.
Find me on Instagram charles_dowding - and Twitter @charlesdowding
Filmed at Homeacres May 13th & June 3rd by David Adams. - Jak na to + styl
I can see from the comments that a lot of people feel as I do. These "small" garden videos are especially helpful because that is what most of us have. Please continue.
This series shows just how accessible vegetable growing is for any suburban gardener.
We can all turn a square of space into a prolific bed that feeds us, cuts down on waste and packaging, saves us some money and gives us a natural, peaceful hobby. It's the best :)
The music of those birds is superb. You live a blessed life Charles! Even if they do scatter your mulch far & wide.
I live in the city and so sad to not be on the country side. Love gardening and watching this makes me calm :-) I think i’ll go to the country side when my kids grow up. Thank you for all videos.
I wish you a successful move
i like the format of showcasing continual planting and cropping, that gives us some idea how to achieve more gardening and fewer tiring trips to boring supermarket veg.
this is my favorite part of your garden mostly because my garden is small and my plot is small too, so I love to see the progress. thank you!
Super - you're such a good presenter. Inspiring video.
I love watching your gardens. Your knowledge and wisdom are a joy. Thanks.
Charles, thank you for this series. It is very inspirational for those of us with little space.
Charles thanks for your videos as I have been showing 3 of my friends about your No Dig Gardens.
Awesome, thank you Joann!
Such a lovely garden! Thanks!🤗
Charles your gardening skills are amazing !
great charles !!! i am italian and i have garden passion... here vegetables in june are quite different we have 28 celsius during the day and 18 in the night... many thanks for your videos
FANTASTIC !
I so enjoy all your videos...they are not only educational but inspiring ...they encourage me to make the most of the small,and i mean small, raised garden bed that i built...2 ftX4ft with trellising so i can grow vertically . Thank you for sharing your knowledge of growing vegetable by the NO DIG METHOD.
You are so welcome Gale
They are collecting cardboard and some Compost in bags to plant there onions, beets, kale, and want to do more as it warms up. I'm excited to see all our gardens grow like yours. A friend bought me your book called No Dig OrganicHome & Garden what beautiful book and I so enjoy reading it.
Glad you like the book. It's an exciting time of year 🌱
As always your advice is priceless thank you
Envy is a terrible sin but everytime I watch Charles it just breaks out! :)
Wonderful bounty in such a small space! Blessings
As always a pleasure to watch and listen and learn from you. Thanks so much Charles love your little garden and thanks for sharing it, its a beauty.
I was so chuffed to learn your method of sowing peas for shoots and did so in my polytunnel this year. The peas outside are coming into their own just as the shoots are finishing. Thanks to you, I was also able to teach neighbors and friends this technique, and they were all astounded to learn they could actually eat the shoots. The best bonus, however, was seeing my kids snacking on the shoots all day long for months on end.
Lovely to hear such a great result, thanks for sharing Miq.
Beautiful garden realm, Charles. Thank ye very much for sharing.
Always feel a bit more encouraged and inspired after watching one of your videos, thank you it’s kind of you to share your love of growing vegetables
SOoooo happy I came across your videos!! Well done! You are good at this... well you are an excellent gardener but your videos are simple to the point and as for me ... they raise my enthusiasm for trying new things. Thanks so much for making these. What a gift you are!
Such remarkable productivity. Beautiful healthy vegetables. 💚🌱
A perfect video for my small garden. Thank you!
Small Garden Quest hi I visit your channel and be new subcriber, I checked your videos too...subcribe back if you want..thanks😉
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Excellent video.. the small gardens me fave....
Another great video Thanks Charles- we are coming into winter over here but my garden is going so well, I am even growing some cabbages so cross your fingers. Cheers Denise- Australia
Brilliant, Charles! I learned something new today, thanks.
Thanks so much, I’ve been following you all year and planted far too many lettuce for us to eat,of different kinds, so I’m giving bags of mixed leaves away on a regular basis! Thank you I’ve never been so successful with salad leaves before. Everything else is going really well too!
Watching your channel is a cross between meditation and a life affirming sermon. My garden and my spirit improve with every video.
Ah thanks Kevin nice to hear!
I learn a lot with you compost, no dig and multiculture my garden is gorgeous at this time in québec, Canada in 2 weeks we eat 450g green THANK YOU SIR CHARLES
Wow this gives me hope to start a garden and make it worth the work. I have four little 10years-5months. Keep up the great videos!😁
That is wonderful insight... thank you so much.
Dear Charles, you are a such inspiration to us. My husband and I are trying to make our own organic no dig garden here in the heart of Bosnia. It is a working progress, we are making some mistakes, but one thing is sure no quitting. Thank you for every video you make. Kind regards.
Bravo, you will succeed :)
another great video well done charles
Hello I'm your filipino silent viewer live in malaysia, I subscribe your channel last year if I'm not mistaken, I inspired by all of your videos, although some of your tips not applicable with the climate here in asia, but I'm still here to learn from you, your videos give me positive vibes, and motivate me to engaged myself with gardening activities. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
Thanks rpg I am honoured to help you in such a different climate, great that you feel motivated to garden
Charles, we were so inspired when we came to your Open Day last September - very worth while visiting if anyone is contemplating whether to go. Not only a great day with an opportunity to meet you and Stef and get first hand information but a wonderful time to sit and enjoy your beautiful garden, bursting with fruit and veg, whilst sitting on the lawn and having a picnic. We are preparing to move home and are excited to start using no-dig at our new place. (Currently only have a patio) Love your You Tube videos they are so clear and give great instruction. Thank you :)
Lovely and enjoy your new garden
Very educational, informative, and inspiring!
No reply required as CDs a busy chap but what a GOD of the multiverse !
beautiful, thank you
Loved your small summer garden video Charles! In New Zealand I am at this stage in my greenhouse and I just forgot about pea shoots. Sooo not waiting for peas anymore I will pick shoots along with mizuna wintersalad crops and rocket. Thanks again!
Fine job, thanks!
As always, an inspiring video. Because of your example, I am duplicating what you are doing and it is working for me here in Virginia zone 7b. I still have lettuce greens still coming up and will ride it until they start bolting. I’ve been collecting my arugula seeds to sow in August. Thank you for your guidance and example on how to grow in a small area.
Happy to hear this Rafa, and I would sow another batch of lettuce now, to start as the others rise up in July
Thank you, I'll look for it!
that winter purslane sure does look different from the purslane volunteers I get in the garden. I get the small nutty oval shaped dark green ones.
Yes that is summer purslane I expect, different family, summer warmth only
Great channel, thank you.
Excellent Video! 😊
Wow... your May garden is a good 2 months ahead of us here in June in Nova Scotia, Canada... we have had such a looooong wet and cold spring this year.... everything is so far behind. It’s nice to see just how much your little garden holds!
I hope you have some warmth soon - we are similar latitude!
extraordinar ...bravo
wonderful, thanks.
Can't wait for the update! There's loads to be done even if you only had space for 1 bed!
Wonderful, just shows what can be done. :)
Your garden is looking amazing. Will do an update on mine soon, but it's not as nice as yours. Have an awesome Friday, Andreas 🇸🇪
Thank so much.
Thanks. Another interesting piece. Love the close planting and I'm now using these methods at my allotment. Like many others I'm keen on getting some of the Taunton Dean.
try Pennard Plants pennardplants.com/proddetail.php?prod=Ed581
Thanks Charles, very helpful to be able to compare with my garden which is a new dig project inspired by you in February this year. My biggest problem has been the dry weather and I do find that the compost dries out very quickly. Luckily we have some big 1000l drums of stored water and I'm so thankful today that we have had some rain to replenish these. My greyhound cabbages are slow to heart up and whereas I thought they would be ready in June I think they will probably take another month to mature. Thanks again.
Nice to hear Mary, and my Greyhound are not fast this year either!
Compost dries on the surface but holds moisture below.
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I love crumbs of cabbage, and use shives a lots in my consume, or for omelet, or others receipes,I.love that!Eat local and garden style of life!
Beautiful ;)
Lovely video. I noticed that peas are complicated this year. I sow them early in April but they are only 15cm high now. I bought new seeds and tried it again. Not all are germinating. Happy my climbing beans germinated all from own seed. I love the Firebean "Feuerbohne" they got nice seeds red with black dots.
Very beautiful garden! 💝 I love watching your videos. I think I’ve seen all of them many times. And the crops look amazing like usual. My favorite crop from this video is the carrot 🥕 cz I still fail to grow it 😂 greeting from Cambodia 🇰🇭
So helpful thank you
Thank you for the small garden update, I look forward to them. I have a fenced veg area that's 12' x 12', & I wonder how I can manage it better after watching these.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful veggie garden, you are such an inspiration. I pray that one day I’ll have a beautiful veggie garden like yours. I find you vlogs full of great information that I can put in to practice in my own veggie garden 🥰🇦🇺
Australia here, too. Wish we could have Charles showing growing in the subtropics. Still love his calm demeanour. Love his honesty, Showing both successes and failures.
@@treinadensley9539 thanks, and to caz marsh too
Treina Densley have you watched“self sufficient me “ he’s in queens land
caz marsh yes, I have. I really liked him, and became a Patreon. But he got political and almost anti climate change. So, being very political, and it seems on opposite sides, I have chosen not to watch him. Which is “cutting my nose off to spite my face.” I love Morag gamble . She is great too.
More videos! I look forward to them. I live in Kansas and have a much different climate. Super hot (7 mo. growing season) and super cold. I grow tomatoes peppers onions garlic cucurbits but have still learned so much from you. Trying to figure out when I can grow greens. Working on it. Anyway, thank you!
Thanks and I love hearing from different climates
My christian love! I like spinach with.eggs,is delicious!and I had arthritis and use spinach and eggs for my cure!praise God because vegetables and all the creation!
Mr Dowding, I Love an appreciate all your videos, (because there's something to be learned in all of them) but these updates on the progression of the small garden I feel help me since mine is a small backyard garden and I am a new gardener to edibles. The crop rotation is what helps me, you always mentioning what will go next is very helpful in me knowing what to get started next.
I have a few of your books that also help me. ;) I appreciate You, your works and your efforts, thank you and God Bless.
Many thanks
Thx. You have helped me have a great spring garden. Ive already harvested a kg of tomatoes. Mid june in the Netherlands.
Ah my that is impressive! And thanks.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig no thank you.
Looks fantastic Charles, My allotment is minimal dig. I hardly dig at all only to dig out any deep rooted weeds like Doc. I find that most unwanted growth is just grass which can be lifted off in clumps. Iv started a few no dig beds as an experiment and will see how it's goes. Plants like leak I'd want deep in soil.
Thanks men great video friend.
Acabo de descubrir tu videoa. Que lindo.
I love to eat spinach spinach but I’ve had no luck with growing them ! This video makes me want to keep trying .
You can do it - sow now under cover , transplant before end March with fleece over
My garden is thriving! I've used your method and man I couldn't resist! I've planted from seed in no dig and my plants are gonna be huge! Thank you! I used my own compost that's full of mycellium and micorrhizae and manure. I also use my own Em1 that gets the microbes breaking down nutrients for me. Love it man! Thanks!
Suoer, thanks for your great feedback
Charles Dowding Thank you sir! Appreciate it!
as a small back yard gardener, I so much appreciate this small garden and your updates on it's progress. It is just lovely. And so tidy.. Can you do a video on shade tolerant veggies?
We shall see! Not a lot of shade here!
I like your garden look really nice and all vegetables grow very well, last a few days I plant my Thai long bean in allotment seem to be death now maybe still to cold for them🙁
Ah that is a pity and I'm afraid it is indeed the lack of warmth, assuming you are in the UK. All bean crops are struggling to grow just now and your long bean needs more heat than most.
I am just north of Edinburgh and yesterday aside, we have had total cloud cover and a lot of showers for about a week. At least I don't have to water and can collect some rainwater for later. Slower growth with less sun though.
That sounds a difficult climate! Glad you have growth though.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this Charles. It is looking fantastic. Where can I get some of the Taunton Dean?
Pennard Plants pennardplants.com/proddetail.php?prod=Ed581
Charles Dowding Awh they’re no longer selling that..anywhere else I can purchase from please?
Peas❤are very popular vegs in my country
Pea shoots. I'm growing for the farmers market for the first time true Leaf seeds. Com
Beautiful! But yikes thats cold. Mine temps 100 day/71 night. No rain in over 30 days. So I have the opposite problem.
Hi Sally
Sounds like summer in this part of Australia. Where are you? What are you growing? (Always after interesting suggestions. And if you are a northern hemisphere gardener it will give me a few months to find seeds for new summer crops to try)
I love your videos. very informative and you are very calming. makes me want to plant immediately! One question though, do you plant by seed into the ground in the spring, or always by transplant?
Thanks and only carrots are direct sown (plus garlic & potato), all other veg are transplants
I am wondering how much compost you will use in a years time? I believe you said your growing areas total 1/4 acre. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thank you for all that you share! I’m going to begin changing my small farm over to no dig! Very exciting!
YEAH!
My cottage garden is starting to resemble your little garden there, it's astonishing the amount of food you can get by rotating this way, and it's much more preferable for my busy working life, I use a lazy method of weeding using a hoe horizontally between the rows, it really stops the young weeds from settling and weeding the whole garden takes me 10 mins
Lovely to hear
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Hello Charles. Another inspirational Video. Thanks. I have a question for you : have you videos about treatments for your plants diseases?
Thanks and no, main thing to say is grow plants in their best season, but we could do something time permitting
I do SOOOO wish you were in Australia as it would be so much easier to follow your daily activity step by step if you did. 😂😂
I would love to visit Australia, who knows, one day.
Charles Dowding Yes I’ve said that about visiting UK since I saw the new Queen in Australia when I was 5 - a long time ago. Dreams are free. But if you come I would attend any talks you give. Just give plenty of notice. Got a lot of cardboard from the tip today so will spread it out tomorrow and start to create rows with 20 bags of compost I’ve just purchased. It’s been very cold and raining for at least 5weeks but still want to plant some seeds. Beans started to shoot but something ate most of them so I purchased Yates Nature’s Way Caterpillar Killer for the next lot of beans that are just starting to shoot in a pot I found. I’ve put slug pellets around so it’s all I can do. It could be so exciting if I knew what I was doing. I’m having your 2020 calendar mailed to me so I’ll rearrange the months to fit my seasons. That should help. Ya gotta start some time! 🤪🥴
Such a useful video and so good to grow your own veg. I'm growing peas carrots and potatoes in my tiny garden.
I had rust on my hollyhocks and dug them all out after Googling what to do. Would it have been ok to leave them in? I was gutted as they were a lovely dark maroon colour.
I leave mine Michael, they are still rusty but give flowers
Hello 👋 Charles... Is the Perennial Kale the same as a Tree Collard ?
Really enjoy your channel, and love how you challenge misguided traditions in gardening. Your garlic looks great, not much rust at all, is that a function of culture or location, weather or luck?
Thanks and all of those + hardnecks suffer rust a bit less
I love watching vege patch videos from around the world. Here in tropical far north Queensland australia our lowest mid winter temp was 9°C. We didn't even need a jumper.
Ah cute, I should like that bit not perhaps your summers. Today is a hot 30C here (unusual)
Hello Charles, I like the idea of using Spinach as a cover crop. Can I ask where you got that module tray you had the leeks in?
I was given it ages ago
Do you have a planting schedule/book that I could reference when to start the seed, when to plant our? I love this small garden, so productive!
I'm sure he has a book called "diary" that focuses on planting schedule.
Thanks both and Andrew is right, it's my Diary www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/charles-dowdings-vegetable-garden-diary/ may be cheaper on Amazon, hope you like it
Fantastic video. Any tips on delaying coriander going to bolt? Whenever I've grown it outdoors it goes to flower withing days of emerging from seed.
Thanks!
Sow February modules in warmth to plant March, or August as here
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I see. Many thanks
Hi Charles , Amongst the garlic ...are those dwarf French beans you've slipped in there ?
Yes
Hello Mr. Dowding, thank you for such helpful videos. I saw you used bird netting and wonder what kind it is. The ones I find here in Southern CA are very flimsy and tangle and rip when adjusting them. Yours seems stronger and less likely to rip.
Thanks Magdalena and the link describes what I use, I hope you can find similar - check that it's uv treated
Mr. Dowding, I'm sorry to bother you, but I don't see the link you mentioned.
Ah sorry I forgot to add it! Now my website is down but later you can find the link under Learn - Links - Bird netting
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I'd like to see how you transform the garden from harvest to following plantings. Just pull up all the old vegetation and replant, or do you work the no-dig garden before planting the 2d or 3d plantings? Curious.
No I never work the soil. I would mention that if I did.
You can see in this video czcams.com/video/iGL1Lh1cusw/video.html
how I simply pop in plants, underneath or between existing plants to get them started. You can gain a lot of time, and save a lot of effort with no dig
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you, Charles. I'd seen that video, but I guess it didn't stick in my head. Now I got it..thanks.
Hi Charles, thank you your video on a small garden. Most useful to me & probably others, as I only have a small garden. What a rich variety of veg. you have there, excellent.
I wonder whether you could offer some advice please. I sowed several veg. seeds a couple of months ago indoors (I live is Colchester) & planted out the lettuce & onion seedlings when they were about 3" high. They all disappeared within just a few days even though I put an old chicken run over them to protect the seedlings from birds. Could you tell me what I have done wrong as it's most frustrating. Strangely enough, the carrots, tomato, broad beans & kale seedlings seem to have done well. I have watered them all well after I planted them all out & then twice weekly. Something seems to be having my lettuce & onion seedlings though. I have repeatedly checked for snails & slugs & none found as yet. Help !!!
Thank you in anticipation of your kind assistance. JohnnyK.
John Kay v strange Johnny esp as carrots are ok otherwise I would say rabbits but am not sure.
I may have missed it, what is the type of Spinach that you have grown now for 10 months. Thank you love the videos.
Thanks and Medania