Feast of Fresh in Winter
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Harvest your own greens in midwinter, in a temperate climate. We filmed this after frosts of -6C 21F to show what survives that small level of cold. My garden is zone 8 in SW England with 35-40 frosts from late October to mid May, 51N latitude, 30 miles or 50km from the Atlantic Ocean.
Showing what and how you can harvest outside in January. There are many green leaves. Plus in my store are the winter carbohydrates of potatoes, beetroot, carrots, squash and onions.
The garden is no dig. It's why I don't get muddy boots, the soil undisturbed and mulched/covered. It's a heavy, silt soil in a damp climate, rainfall 80mm or 3.2in most months. No sticky mud makes it easy to be out in winter, any time, and it means few weeds, few slugs as well.
Beds have no wood sides, which I explain here. See this earlier video about removing wooden sides • Wooden edges (1) - why... .
For Starting out No Dig, on many weeds and without sides, see my March 2020 video • No-Dig Gardening for B...
For learning to crop and pick as I show you here, see my online courses such as charlesdowding...
Filmed and edited January 2020 by Edward Dowding.
At Homeacres 1000sqm, quarter acre no dig market and teaching garden in Somerset UK.
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YES! A video from The Gardening Godfather to distract me from the crazy world we are living in today!!
Sad to see that its even worst just 1 year later
I love the production of your videos. I feel like I'm watching a show on BBC.
Thank you, Edward does an excellent job.
Yeah have definitely noticed this. Great job Charles and team 🤙🏼
@@CS88754 He was on a few months back. They were - in my opinion - pettily dismissive of the no dig approach. It was great to see him on there nevertheless.
Better than the British brainwashing corporation .
I agree. Always great from start to finish. I always used traditional gardening (tilling in the compost) and since switching I've had way less weeds and better harvests.
I like how you just stand in the middle of your garden and talk about the plants like old friends. It's always good to see a new video of your progress.
So nice of you Sonja
"A joyful plant to grow" is a lovely turn of phrase. I've had that feeling!
For anyone who’s interested...that bitter chicory baked with honey and orange (juice and zest) is delicious and disguises the bitterness!
Hats off to your son. The production values, color, depth of field and focus are all superb. Really like the way he's editing in titles and editing itself is more professional than ever! Even the beard looks great 😂
Couldn't agree more Robert and thanks for appreciating
Your videos have become an invaluable part of my life during trying times, and not so trying times. They are inspirational, uplifting and "chicken soup for the soul". I get lost in your garden, if only for 20 or 30 minutes. Everything is right in the world and cares of the day dissipate. I can't wait for spring. I could watch your videos everyday. 🕊️🙏💕From across the pond.
You are so welcome Robert
Hehe... I actually gasped aloud at hearing you say "hell" for the first time. You're such an absolute joy, Charles!
Whoops!!
It’s the beard. 😆 next it’ll be a leather biker jacket. 😮
The fastest growing thing this winter is your beard, Charles! Loving it!
Glad you're still enjoying your garden harvest. In the Caribbean here. No winter just a lovely 31,degrees centigrade on the plus side with night a few degrees lower.and we say the nights are cold which means an even hotter day. Lol
Oh wow!
Amazing. Im making great compost thanks to you! Just over a year without wasting any organic matter. It grows good vegs here in Mexico.
Fantastic to hear this Diego!
Charles you’re by far my FAVOURITE gardener!
How nice!
"There's no such thing as a maintenance free edge." - Truer words never was spoke!
That beard looks frost-hardy ! Always enjoy watching your great content sir
Me: calm down Nath!
Also me: Charles just put up a 20-minute video!!!!! 🤪
Haha same
Same!
Snap!
You can up the playback speed to x 1.5 or x 1.75
@@johnherberte8131 noooo, we enjoy such a long video!!! 🤣
After 35 Years of gardening and diverse trials and errors, like the ABC method of Gertrud Franck, I changed my garden to no dig with compost last year and I am glad. I am living in Lower Saxony. The soil is very sandy.
Great to see a Trug after years, indebted as usual about the information that comes soaked in love.. Much Love.
Our pleasure Sanjeev
It's always a pleasure watching
Charles - You should do some merch to support your efforts! I suggest an “I DIG NO DIG” t-shirt 🤓
Working on it Marc thanks!
In Michigan with 12 inches of snow , not sure this will work for us, but LOVE watching and learning . Thank you so much 😊🙏
I do not envy you and hope that spring comes soon! Thanks for your comment
I am so happy to say that my collard green plants are just as tall as yours--they've been going since last March! I learned from you to pick large bottom leaves to allow the plant to continue producing. The snow & ice melt right off--you are right--sweetest greens we have ever tasted. Thanks for all your gems. Hope you and son are still doing well! PS When I discovered you in March 2020, you had 273K subs--look at you now:)
This is nice to hear Kimi, and yes things are going well here!
I love wintergreens and greenhouses! awesome video... our winters are a wee bit colder here but anything below zero needs some simple technology to keep growing!
Wow - these outstanding green veggies, together with your stored potatoes, carrots, pumpkins, parsnips, garlic, frozen peas, celery, capsicums and canned tomatoes etc etc and a few pantry oils and spices, dried beans some pasta, rice and lentils would see you extremely well fed indeed! What a great feeling and personally empowering. Great video essay, this.
Thank you Alison and you are right, one can eat very well, all year round!
The flavours of winter vegetables are often amazing and are a great tonic for a sometimes difficult time of year, healthwise
This will keep me going until the weather calms down and we can finally get our polytunnel up. Inspirational as always.
I hope you are keeping well. We really appreciate the work you put in to making your videos and spreading the great advice
I appreciate that Nathan
So informative and relaxing videos from charles and i wonder about those 20 dislikes what they found bad...
I totally agree about the sprouts after a frost! They really do taste so much better. My grandad wont pick any until there has been a frost. Also if we get some really good frosts it will stimulate them to produce tons of flowers in the sring and summer for those wishing to get seeds especially if they have a heirloom or heritage type. Honey bees love the flowers too as do bumbles.
Have you tried the leaves of the sprout? Maybe an acquired taste, but I really enjoyed them. Shredded finally, mustard dressing and then added to a wrap or flatbread with other ingredients and they tasted excellent. Similarly, shredded and fermented (like cabbage) was also good.
After a long and tricky working from home and home schooling Thursday this is just the notification I needed to see! Another fantastic video Charles!
We just harvested red and white cabbage this weekend. Around 240kg (500 lbs) with the first year of no digging.
Haha a serious amount of cabbage! Have fun selling or processing it
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Our mayor asked our community to help during the pandemic. They are now iving it away to families in need and do meals for homeless people.
@@bowlchamps37 Go you!
At these times so crucial not to hibernate. Your plantings have a very pleasing artistic quality when viewed in perspective.Gratitude and thanks Charles👍🏻
So nice of you to say that.
No hibernation here!
I just bought my first seeds today!! Cant wait to get started! Thank you for inspiring me every day 🥰😁 x
Exciting, grow well, no rush to sow
Charles is such a treat 💗
As always, lovely Charles, interesting video and so much positivity and encouragement!
What an amazing harvest at New Year! Your garden looks great even in winter. I'm watching this on February 13th 2021 and we have blizzard conditions in Northern Ireland. I don't have a greenhouse or polytunnel so whilst everyone else is sowing like mad I've been doing nothing and now I'm so glad I've held my nerve. I'll begin my Spring sowing about beginning of March on my window sills and take my time putting things out. Thank you for sharing your lovely garden with us. God bless.v
cheers Vera x
I’m going to assume your incredible memory is partly attributed to your diet of home grown no dig veggies... just another motivator for me to keep gardening and growing! Thanks for the video ☺️
You are so correct 😀 for vegetables Katy!!
Chris, you have a beautiful garden! I can only imagine how sweet those veggies are😍
He is really good at a very neat, artistic garden.
It's Charles not Chris! 😃. Such an amazing garden
Sometimes when he speaks, he sounds like Chris Martin! (Coldplay) wonder if they're from the same region 😁
Loving the beard, Charles! Cheers!
Looks great Charles... I'm picking salad leaves, kale, Chard, pea shoots and Spinach every 9 days or so in Barcelona and can't wait for tomato season to start!
Charles never has to ask to give a thumbs up, people who follow just know to hit that button!
So wonderful to see you harvesting in the winter. Something to strive for here! Thank you!
Charles - huge congratulations on 400k subscribers! Cheers with a Green juice!
not quite! thanks
Incredible !! I cant' wait to get my hands in the soil!! I have beets , swiss chard, and cabbage under a mini greenhouse right now in Michigan.
Sounds great!
Charles, one of your best videos ever, in my view! Possibly thanks to the topic: "look at all the things you could be harvesting now." I also love your new initiatives (trays, change-the-world projects, ...)
Well said! Edward thinks it's one of his best and is a bit disappointed by the viewing figures which are lower than some others. I think however that the view figures are a bit misleading because the actual minutes watched are very high. Often a view is just a click and then gone!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig That's interesting. My favourite videos of yours are this one and your small garden series, plus those showing off your garden in all its splendour. These have one thing in common: "look, this could be your life, you could be picking these delicious things for your meals" / "you could be living in something beautiful as this garden." Interestingly, these don't have the highest view counts, that seems to be reserved for "here's how to grow vegetable XYZ"-type videos. -- If Edward does a great job on a video, I'd expect more minutes watched (check!). However I wouldn't expect more views, simply because when someone decides to view (click), all they have is a title and thumbnail picture. The thumbnail of this video is okay but I wouldn't call it eye-catching. The current title is good. "Fresh greens in Winter" would be another good one, perhaps a little more telling. Or anything with "with Charles (Dowding)" although here I'm just speculating :) Hope this helps!
@@Concojone5 thanks so much for your feedback, and it gets to the root of the matter that nobody quite understands what results in some videos being viewed less, and some more. Possibly I should use my name more, we shall see. Mine are standing the test of time, keep attracting views even older ones.
Thank you from Russia! I'm very pleasure to see you, Charles, again! )
I will love to see more "how to grow..." videos, from seed to harvest. Please make more :) Good bless you!
thank you so much for the winter content you've been posting, it is very helpful to me. im in chicago zone 6 where it is definitely colder but we get more sunlight. seeing your winter garden has shown me a lot. there is no shortage of spring/summer garden content on the internet but definitely a lack of winter content ! im starting my first garden this year. i have your gardening course book, garden diary and planting calendar. i'll be doing no dig raised beds with cardboard underneath and in walkways. im looking forward to it ! thanks for being my long distance teacher💚
Great to hear! Check out Patrick Nolan in Chicago, One Yard Revolution
@@CharlesDowding1nodig i love that channel !
Even If that cabbage froze through, it still can be stuffed and made into rolls. Sometimes I do it that way myself using a freezer...it works the same as steaming or boiling the leaves and taste the same. Thanks for the vid Charles.
Ti ringrazio tantissimo per i sottotitoli in italiano!👍👍👍
Your garden looked very pretty under all that frost. We were astounded to have inches of snow last week here in Doncaster. I've been pulling different varieties of my favourite vegetable, the humble Radish, of course, and just thought that I'd mention if people don't like Swede/Turnips, as I don't, they may want to give growing Sakurajima Mammoth Radishes a go. They stay crisp, juicy, and sweet, but very mild tasting, not radish like at all. Can grow huge, depending on how much room you give them, and very versatile for cooking😃
Amazing tip Suzanne, you are wonderful at discovering such things, and in snow covered Doncaster 😀
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you 😊
Thank you for your spirit of joy in your garden in the winter, Warm regards from South New Jersey on a very cold and blustery May 29th, 2021 It's actually Memorial Day Weekend here in the US. God Bless all the men and women who have defended their county!!! God protect us all!!!
Looks so great.....fresh greens in the middle of winter !!!!
Kale looks fantastic🌿 Ooo Brussels Sprouts… great idea.(plant in June)
Hey ups greetings from up north (Yorkshire) im on with the no dig this year after years of digging over, All the best
Rock on!
Nice veggies Charles.
Ohhh, Mr Dowding! Is magical your Winter garden! And beautiful your passion for It. I love so much This season with frost, brina, galaverna...The Nature embroiders with frost on leaves and fruits.
Many thanks Barbara!
Very pleasant to watch
We have had a reasonably mild winter over here in Ontario. That is coming to an end though so I brought in the last of my kale and swedes. I really need to build a winter tunnel of some kind. Just think of what I could grow. So wonderful to have a walk in your gardens. I think I will get my seeds out, plan and dream. : )
I feel like a total noob....first year gardener....when we got our first hard frost, the night before I harvested my entire garden. Only to go out the next day and find all of my brassicas (just the stalks and a few leaves I didn't harvest), leftover carrots, and a lot of left behind lettuce still doing just fine. NEXT YEAR LOL.
Same here. Now we know. The baby bok choy I left in stayed alive all winter, just didn't get bigger. And I'm in Ohio.
Twenty minutes of sheer inspiration, thank you! 💕
Charles, I so envy your climate. The wind chill is 15F today. I have two trays of multisown onions and shallots under lights in the basement. We'll be planting them out in no dig beds under 2-3 layers of row cover in late March or early April.
Thank you so much for the encouraging videos, I've learned so much from them!
Brrr and happy to help Holly
As always great content on this video sound great
On your other video it was about CD60
We watched your video on your seed trays CD60, i wass straight on the phone to Containerwise,what a fantastic company cannot do enough for you.
I ordered 12 trays CD60we had them the other week and started to sow our seeds right away
My husband Roy is over the moon with them thank you so much Containerwise also thank you Charles wedo no dig method
We love your channel as always great content from a very happy subscriber
From Wolverhampton 👍👍
Nice to hear, thanks Beverley
Hey Charles! Initially I was impressed with the sporty beard (not as long as W.G. Grace's yet) and the new trug, but the sound of each green you harvested would have been worth braving the cold for. One of the highlights of our cooking calendar each year here in the subtropics is a winter soup that includes a lot of what you are harvesting in this video. I enjoy brussel sprouts for its really deep and earthy flavor. I understand how you feel about parsley and I have made simple parsley salads in the past that include as little as parsley and halved grapes. Whenever I read the phrase snap frozen I will always remember this post. Stay safe and test negative my bearded friend!
Nice comment thanks Craig.
Edward is good on the audio at picking up those sounds, almost better on camera.
Keep well yourself!
Wonderful tour. I absolutely love picking fresh lettuce, Radish Greens and carrot greens every night. Zone 9b, Windermere, Florida 👩🌾👍
A bounty of riches! You've made me a convert from winter cover crops to year round production. Thanks for that.
Cracking video again Charles! Fingers crossed my new farm will be this productive soon! And it’ll look this good on my Vlogs ✌️
Best of luck!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig wonderful! garden. I am really inspired from the way you do your garden.
You amazing work, I put the test of only cutting only the largest leaves of lettuce and it has given incredible results. Thanks from my heart. Greetings from Cuba, here is an eternal summer with zero problems with frost.
Great job Freddy, how amazing to hear from Cuba and your climate sounds amazing, apart from the odd hurricane! May your harvests continue to grow.
G'day, from Mildura {Vic} Australia Charles. Viewing your wonderful video with the outside temp.40C ! Earlier I have spread my daughters compost under her fruit trees and watered it in. Watching you harvest your winter garden makes me feel cooler than the aircon that is going flat out ! Thank you for your inspirational guidance, delivered in your inimitable ,comforting way. Cheers and wishing you continued good health and happiness.
Thanks so much Keith and this is lovely to imagine, somebody sweltering in the heat and watering the compost! We are actually forecast snow tonight which is quite unusual, and is fine since it's January.
Looks great ! Motivates me to do something about my own vegetable garden this week 😅
Feels like I'm reading a gardening textbook!
Lots of love from India.🙏
Thank you for saying the sowing and transplanting dates. Will try it this year and will see how long I can keep brassicas producing in zone 6. It’s incredible to be able to grow things through winter.
Great video, great 👍🏻 garden.
I'm very happy every time whenever watching your videos because I'm get idea for mygaden in Thailand.
Love the Ariel shot of the garden 👌 chuffed with my sprouts, even tho I don’t actually like sprouts much 😂 I grow them mainly for the big leaves & tops for my giant tortoise.🐢
Definitely have red cabbage envy ......the pesky slugs got every one of mine 🙄
Stay warm Charles 😁
We have half a meter snow in january and february :) Cant wait to plant something :)
Beautiful Winter Greens🥬 Thank you for sharing.
What a lovely video.
How nice must it be to have acces to so many greens like that in the winter. All these colours are missing from this long and very cold canadien winter we have here. We eat heavy food, but this looks so refreshing.
I started studying agro-ecology last september. Our classes are for the most part on the computer. Hard to learn on how to care for soil and plants like that, but we make it work. Now, in the middle of winter, it is very alienating to study agriculture, when everything is frozen and we need to stay inside. But for real, seeing you and your garden always reminde me why I am doing what I am doing and what good it brings me.
So for all of that, thank you.
Thanks Gagnon and I do sympathise with you, I would find that frustrating!
I like how you say when you sowed/transplanted them, that really helps beginning gardeners like myself!
Grand Master Charles, we all are lucky to follow you and to learn from your experience and teachings. That is what will live on forever! Thank you!
Che bellezza il tuo orto e uno spettacolo da vedere . Sei un grande 👍🏻
Gracias
Spectacular as always Charles! Your CZcams channel is a master class in veggie gardening! Just bought your diary. Love it! Great space to keep track of everything & so many wonderful tips!
Thanks charles for the reminder that we can still grow certain things in winter. I have a 7x 5 greenhouse which does my tomatoes etc in summer but i never thought of planting salad stuff in the autumn in it for winter. This has gave me ideas of making the most out of what would be an empty greenhouse in winter.
Good stuff
You are a Master of your domain. Beautiful harvest!
Beautiful, love your garden, your idea, it makes me to try everything you grow. I can’t wait to finish Canada’s weather
I have learned so much about gardening..
Great video again charles. Im further down south from you in Cornwall
Love it! I am so inspired to get out there and grow some food🥦🥬🍲! 🤗 We have started faith gardens in our area to get people into gardening and learning😁👍. Thank you so much!
Sounds great Danielle, I hope they are good for people
Magnífico vídeo.Con tus años de experiencia sigues sorprendido por lo que te pueden dar tus plantas en Invierno.Imagínate los que estamos empezando en la agricultura ecológica.Como se disfruta de todos los procesos de cultivo.Saludos from Tenerife ! 👏🏻👏🏻
Encantador de escuchar!
I hit the thumbs up before the video has even started ,love them all ,can't wait for spring .
Yay! Thank you Rachel!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😁
Love the Beard! You are so awesome, thanks for all your work.☺
Thanks Patricia
What a joy!
Love your videos, love your garden and now I love your calendar! It arrived yesterday. Thank you ☘🌿🌱🙏
Yay! Thank you!
Charles, you are such a delightful inspiration!
Gracias, es un gusto saludarlo desde, Costa Rica, mi huerto de casi 4 metros produce de una manera maravillosa, gracias a todo lo aprendido en su canal
This makes me so happy! Gracias Berbania
Great videos as always
Looking like quite the silver fox with that beard! Thanks so much for the inspiration as I look out over the blanket of 3ft. snow here in Upstate New York. It’s getting me motivated to get my seeds in order and start planning for the spring when I can actually see the ground again.
Haha thanks, and may spring be on time
Thank you.
I always enjoy your videos, thank you! 🌹
Always good to watch , your enthusiasm is infectious Charles - thank you
Looking amazing