No dig tour mid spring with Charles Dowding
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- čas přidán 17. 07. 2024
- I show you around in late April. There are still many plants which have grown through winter, such as the Medania spinach.
Then there are new plantings of lettuce, peas, onions and carrots.
A frost was forecast, so after the video I covered all potato leaves. It was in fact -1C 30F at 4.20am on 30th, and the thumbnail is 7am photo.
00:00 Introduction
00:36 The dig/no dig trial beds, in their 17th year
01:19 A problem in the Small Garden - carrots have not grown - and I explain possible reasons why and how I’ll try to resolve
02:58 A look in the greenhouse where I raise almost all plants - I show you the hot bed with warmth-loving plants
04:21 In the polytunnel - winter salads finishing and Sungold tomatoes for summer just transplanted - fleece draped over at night with support from garlic plants!
05:14 I show you how I use string for cordon tomatoes (as for cucumbers)
05:58 Showing compost mulch on potato bed, and Bandit leeks being left to flower for seed
06:47 A beautiful Kidds Orange Red apple tree in blossom
07:11 A look at the herb garden planted a year ago, and French tarragon
07:48 The "new area" of 300m2, with overwintered Aquadulce broad/fava beans, beetroot, overwintered garlic
08:30 More salads in the second polytunnel, and endive, lettuce and Medania spinach going to seed
09:18 Wild rocket Athena under fleece
09:51 A bed with asparagus, taking the place of broad bean plants - I show you how I clear the bean plants
10:53 Some info on events and talks I am doing in first half of May
11:33 A look at a bed mulched with wood chip, and now growing potatoes
12:29 Another bed with potatoes, and covered in black polythene, winter squash to come
12:58 Many dandelion flowers - good for insects
13:34 A bed of multisown onions, and problems with wireworm - using potatoes as decoys/traps
14:30 A bed of lettuce, under fleece until now - frost won’t damage them
15:24 Carrots and radish under fleece
16:37 A look at peas, for both shoots and pods - Alderman mostly
17:09 Multisown turnips - I show you how I harvest them: Tokyo Cross F1
17:52 A look at one of the compost heaps
18:36 Another bed of lettuce, after a first pick, and the benefits of picking not cutting
19:20 More asparagus, and how to harvest
19:59 A look at some beautiful cauliflowers, Aalsmeer
20:50 An experiment with no rotation - potatoes and broad beans
21:23 Some interplants of fennel and kohlrabi
21:58 Some info on watering, and I demonstrate watering the dig/no dig beds
Events of May:
Masterclass at Ashburnham Place - 5th May www.ashburnham.org.uk/events/...
Evening talk at Ashburnham Place - 5th May www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-dig...
Workshop to make a no dig bed with Charles at Riverford Farm, Devon - 12th May fieldkitchen.riverford.co.uk/...
Evening talk from me and an excellent supper at Riverford Field Kitchen - 12th May fieldkitchen.riverford.co.uk/...
Carey’s Secret Garden - 16th May 2022 - Master Class bookings.careyssecretgarden.c...
Carey’s Secret Garden - 16th May 2022 - Evening Talk bookings.careyssecretgarden.c...
See this video of my tour in early April, and how things have changed:
• Tour of Charles Dowdin...
Discover details for growing all plants mentioned in this video in my 'From Seed to Harvest' lessons:
charlesdowding.co.uk/product-...
Created at Homeacres no dig garden 29th April, filmed on iPhone by Nicola Smith.
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I been working so hard in the past 3 weeks to open the abandoned backyard of my new property you wouldn't believe it Charles. Full of heavy trash and chemicals left behind, all leaking in the soil... I was wondering why my trees didnt look right.
Every single inches of my body hurts right now haha, but this morning I really officially finished all preparations + cleaning. Ohhhh my... it was so much work, I can't believe how little respect for environment my previous owner had.
I feel incredibly good right now, exhausted to the point where even my anxiety which usually govern my life, have no power to manifest :) My property is extremely clean now and i'm ready to start my organic, no dig beds! Life might not have been super easy in the past years but wow the futur's looking bright now. Gardening is a great fix for anxiety.
good luck with your garden this season!
Well done and you have many upvotes. Thanks for sharing and well done on finding the positives
Yep good for ya.
It wealth the body pain, because u will forget about it after a week or two of sawing seeds
Just in case you don't already know this... plant sunflowers where the land has been treated badly. They are great for being able to cleans the soil. Good luck with all the rest of it, and happy planting!
The idea of placing a leaf over the cauliflower head is ingenious!
Glad to share the knowledge!
For anyone interested in growing veg, your garden is an incredible inspiration. A real thing of beauty. Great presentation skills and camera work as well. Absolute top notch stuff.
Happy to hear this Duncan, thanks
A timely and brilliant update. Thank you for keeping it real and mentioning the problems as well. Gratitude.
A garden to look up to. Greetings from sunny Portugal where the sun is starting to really show himself with real heat. Very dry year unfortunately, we will have to manage the waters here. Got tomatoes, peppers, courgette and some potatoes under a tree, also going for dry flowers as we need to focus in heat tolerant plants i guess... Until the fall comes and a big new window of time and climate will open for the colder crops. Thank you for all the content. Obrigado and good luck with everything. Keep spreading the knowledge i think it will help many of us on the long run.
Thank you Jose and this is good to hear, except for the lack of rain. It's getting the same here but the Sun is nothing like so hot and strong here!
Just watching this again, Charles, as we come into mid spring here in Australia. Thank you!!
Thank you Charles, so enjoyable. I love that you are a real gardener and have problems like the rest of us and are not too proud to share. Clearly my problems are far worse than yours but the good news is the bindweed is starting to retreat!
You are very welcome and great!
I've been a huge fan for a long time Charles and I think it's because you're not afraid to show your failures along with your successes. Oh, and on top of that your video quality and professional editing just takes it way over the top! Well done and please just keep the great content coming..Huge thumbs up 👍 👏.
I appreciate that, nice encouragement
nice to see "problems" bed by the shed
Hi Charles! Good to see you again. You’re garden is beautiful as always. Even with the problems the garden may have you are always successful🙏
Thanks so much
I love the questioning of received wisdom that Charles mentions in his knowledgeable way. Rotation : is it important? Multiple growing? Everything EVERYTHING based on the quality of his soil. I live in a terraced house with a tiny garden but after not gardening for 4 years (wife had a stroke) I have started again and I am learning every day. Thank you Charles - I have raised beds with drystone walls & containers but I am now a soil-worshipper too!😂
So nice to see this Chris except sorry about your wife's health. Soil health helps :)
I love the way that some information is repetitive. The information is imperative. I understand Charles.
Great thanks Nathan
Quite honestly, Charles, your videos are among the most relaxing and inspiring for me. It's not even always about new ideas - it's mostly about de-stressing 😉 I love your matter-of-fact, relaxed approach to gardening.
Love the handful of tomato plants in the tunnel ❤️
Happy to hear that and thankyou
In sunny sth Lincs, we've had no rain in the past 6-8 weeks. Carrots & beetroot sown outdoors won't grow so now trying carrots sown in guttering. It's all good fun.
Yes a difficult summer looms! Good luck
It is a pleasure touring your garden with you.
Have learned so much from your approach.
Thankyou!
I'm so glad!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is my second year of gardening, first year of no dig and every tip is appreciated. You have a beautiful garden!
Great feedback thanks
Looking good, Charles!
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It all looks good, but the older part of the garden is really looking beautiful as it matures.
Thanks so much
Super progress 😊
Beautiful garden and video. Great to see you in your NoDig compost garden.
Such a well planned tour of your garden. Loved every second
Thanks Jenny. Not sure how we managed it at the end of a very long day!
Thank you for the tour, brother Charles !
It’s soooooo helpful when you kindly share the good and the failures during your tours. Much appreciated.
Thank you so much, Charles. I always continue to learn from you.
Hi Charles, and so they say: “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” - you and your garden are just that! I am grateful for your sharing your great gardening work with the world! My very small no dig garden is still work in progress. Thank you Charles for all you do!
Thanks so much and I wish you fine food!
Beautiful as always and inspiring. I look forward to switching my days to the garden more from my desk bound job…
Your garden is such an inspiration! Thank you, Charles.
You are very welcome
Always learning so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Everything is so beautiful. I'm loving my new green house.
Thank you for the tour Charles...
no worries at all! it's a pleasure
Magically beautiful garden..
I enjoyed the video as always, thanks for shearing.
Your work, your team and your garden continue to educate & inspire.
So nice, thanks Paul
Great video tour ! My word - the caulis! Yes, turn around and they're huge - a truly wonderful vegetable. You've grown some beauties there.
Yes I'm happy with them :)
Charles always enjoy your video all doing great
Thanks 👍
Really enjoyed that one Charles, Thank you.
Thankyou Rene
Wow the property is stunning - what a dreamy place
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Thank you for such an interesting and helpful update.
Thank you for a spring look, Charles! The newer areas appear to be progressing well. I do hope you went back through and picked up everything you picked, would make a lovely light supper lol. I'm very interested in your new experiments and testing. Blessings as always.
😀thanks
Wonderful veggies you have there Charles,, beautiful apple blossom ,, such a rewarding time of the year when we have so much sowing, planting and just sheer enjoyment in our gardens,, you are an absolute treasure ,, bless you and best wishes, Lisa
Ah cool thanks Lisa
Always a great pleasure. Thank you Charles!
So grateful to have your new video! Love your inspiration, ingenuity, and easy-going manner. I have learned so much from you, Sir! Thank you from Colorado. Last frost date here is May 9 - can’t wait!! 🫑🍅🥬🧅
Ah great and thanks!
Relaxing and charming.
Thank you Charles
Thanks Carl
Great video as always, thanks for sharing and all you do! To help save money my family and I have started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. Thanks again for all you do, your channel definitely helps me stay motivated for my family. God bless!
Exciting!! You're going in good directions
This is my 3rd year for a garden and my first year for a no dig garden. Thanks for so much inspiration. It's fun giving it a try. So far, so good.
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Always such a beautiful sight seeing your gardens. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I aspire to be a fraction as good as you! 🌻 God bless!
So nice of you
Love your wonderful and peaceful garden❤
Thank you so much 😊
Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience
Glad it was helpful!
Always a pleasure to watch and see and hear what you have to share in your garden, Charles. And I never am not inspired nor leave without some new insight or gem of wisdom to try or look for and be curious about. I love how you're always experimenting and not assuming things, even if they are long-standing practices/beliefs. And I appreciate your sharing what doesn't work too and exploring reasons why or even simply being in the process of trying to work that out. So much richness. Thanks so much for these videos.
Many thanks 💚
Your garden and property are beautiful! I live in Vermont which is US Zone 5a; it's a very short growing season. I've been trying to extend my season with fleece tunnels. Someday I hope to have a greenhouse so I can extend my season further. I have been no dig for about 4 years. I also have a large perennial flower garden. Maybe someday I can go to England and tour gardens! Thank you!
I love your tours, thank you for sharing!
You are welcome Imjetta!
Wow😮😮😮it looks amazing!!❤
I so enjoy this guy. He puts my mind at ease and gives me a peaceful heart. My daddy passed in 2012 and I miss the times we use to have of walking the yard and him telling me this and that. Thanks Mr. Dowding.
Thanks, happy to help!
Lovely video, thanks for watering tip
Thank you for watching my videos!
Love your channel! Hi from Ontario Canada! Thanks for educating others!
Welcome!
Thank you for such informative videos!!
God bless you.
Thank you
I do enjoy your tours, the tip with the cauliflower head is handy. (That's if I can ever get one to grow!) Thank you for the update.
You’re not the only one… second time trying cauliflower and at least this time they’ve not got eaten, but no heads…no idea why! Will keep trying 👍🏽
@@anaphirirussell it can be a lack of boron,a micro nutrient.
Always enjoy a wander round your garden Charles, also I can compare my very modest plantings to see if they are growing well enough at this time of year .
Thanks for coming along!
Beautiful x
Thank you!
Hi Charles enjoyed your video very interesting lv Irene 😘 xx
Thank you for the Videos! You are my gardening hero!
Ah thanks!
Zadziwiające są sukcesy w Pana uprawach, miło popatrzeć i uczyć się , jest pięknie -gratuluję, pozdrawiam 👍♥️💚
Dzięki wielkie
Fantastic tour of your garden and learning as We follow you , Merci et à bientôt hopefully soon .
💚 merci
We had the same forecast today! Came in for supper and thought it was a good time to watch the tour. Lovely. Maybe a good idea to throw in some beneficial predatory nematodes(ie. Steinernema carpocapsae) for the wire worm issue. I do hope you can manage them soon. I love the transformation of the new area. So amazing that it can produce so much in such a short time.
Thanks Angela 💚
Thank you for sharing your failures as well as your successes.
You have a great garden !
Thankyou
Hermoso jardín, su verdor es espléndido
I have just ordered your Callander and it is fantastic, late I know, I am so but I happy to learn the succession planting, and when to start you winter sowing, this is the start of my second year, the first year I was making three beds weeding preparing one bed at a time, I now have six in total and a poly tunnel, I did not know what to plant in winter and if it would survive, I am from Stoke-on-Trent so weather similar and frost dates, thank you for all you advice and help 💋
Wonderful to hear this Denise, that sounds impressive for year two.
Here in Minnesota, all we got is rain and more rain. I am so jealous of your garden, Charles!
Oh dear! It's extremes.
Fascinating!
Thank you Simon
I've had good luck with carrot sprouting for the past two seasons. I cover the newly seeded area with "black" landscape cloth. I think it keeps the seeds cool and moist. I allow the fabric to lay directly on the seed bed too. Your garden is beautiful!
Thanks Julie and well done, although others have mentioned that it can result in slugs hiding underneath. Your timing is clearly good.
Love your sign in the Garden - Charles I am very excited I had a small part in one of my gardens & broadly sowed carrot seed, threw some black plastic over & made sure they stayed moist. Well I am currently thinning my carrot seedlings & crossing my fingers -
BIG-Time that I will get a harvest. All my own Tomato seeds that I potted are doing beautifully & I am currently preparing the big bed for them. I am out of my depression with the weather situation as there is nothing I can do but keep trying. My zucchini is just brilliant & producing beautifully. Cheers Denise- Australia
Well done on being philosophical about that, maybe we change it by being cheerful and sunny!! Sounds great progress 🥕
Hi Charles,
I have recently completed two 'no dig' bedding areas in my back garden, one for flowers the other for vegetables & flowers.
The vegetable patch is much deeper so hopefully I can get a crop of vegetables going this year and the flower patch is going great with very healthy plants, some in bloom with others all gearing up for summer.
Given what lies beneath the garden I am so grateful to have discovered this technique and it is my go to plan for the future.
Thank You & Stay Safe Always
Wonderful, thanks for sharing
Jestem pod ogromnym wrażeniem panstwa ogrodu,czerpię z tej wiedzy i nieźle to wychodzi. Pozdrawiam z Polski 😊
Dziękuję za udostępnienie i cieszę się, że to słyszę!
Such an inspiration!
Absolutely lovely.
Appreciate it Micheal!
Beautiful Garden Sir 👏
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Looks amazing 🙌🤗
Thanks
Super dziękuję bardzo
Wow, everything looks amazing. I don't have much out yet, just some hardy plants under cover, tons under grow lamps and a bunch in the greenhouse window ready to go though. -6C last night and 18C today in the sun all day, crazy to think it can change that much in just few short hours. With the food shortages everyone keeps talking about your expansion to the garden couldn't have come at a better time. Happy gardening.
You can do it! All go now and thanks
Tienes una huerta preciosa, Gracias por compartirlo con nosotros, aprendo mucho para mí huerta en españa!!!!
Un saludo desde Extremadura España!!!
Gracias, lovely to read this
We had trouble with carrots this last year down south in New Zealand too. Many gardeners did. We all put it down to dry conditions also. We had the best summer in years heat wise. Potatoes not as good but tomatoes. Wonderful.
Glad you had an amazing year!
Hi charles
Nice garden
Thanks for visiting
Great plants! I like your garden, you have amazing skills)
So nice of you
😍 very good
Hi Charles, Don’t you just love this time of year. Your garden looks great. I’m always jealous, ha. Those turnips are superb. My carrot finally played out from last fall. Had to make way for tomatoes. My Okra is coming up looking good. Great tour, thanks. (Old guy from)🇺🇸
Thanks, yes it's great Steve, may you have a good Arkinsaw summer
lovely video
Thank you
I've been watching your videos and Huws as well and you've sold me on trying no dig. I'm in New Zealand, and our gardens here are sodden wet mud and slush in August. They will dry out in October. They're raised beds above the slush and mud, but can't get near them at the moment due to the sliding mud. No dig it is!
Excellent Jane, you will be pleased
Oglądam Pana z polski bardzo piękny ogród ciekawe pomysły serdecznie pozdrawiam
Jak pięknie, ciesz się swoim ogrodnictwem!
Fantastic and thank you so much 😊
My pleasure 😊
У Вас прекрасный ухоженный сад! Экскурсия понравилась! Огромное спасибо за субтитры.
Удовольствие 💚
Love it - I was going to completely cock-up my garden tommorrow if I hadn't watched this!
Phew. Timing!
Seeing your super tidy bed edges, while struggling a little bit with my own because of grass growing into the wood chip, I wonder if you could maybe talk about bed edge maintenance in one of your next videos.
Hi Carl, yes we have this in mind! Mow, cut, initial cardboard, persist!
Wow it all looks amazing Charles. I think my peas suffered the same fate as your carrots. I normally sow in the greenhouse, but I sowed straight into the ground this time....result no peas. Totally gone! Wont be doing that again. We got our first rain here last night in southern Scotland for about 3 weeks. The dryness doesn't stop the weeds but at least no dig makes them so weak and easy to pull. Thankyou for another inspirational tour!
Ah thanks Jenny. Yes peas like it moist to germinate, I have had similar previously. We had 2.5mm today so far!
All I can say to you is Respect! What beautiful garden looks like heaven, we live in rental so can really do much. But I've subscribed and use you for inspiration.
Thanks for the sub and I wish you success in whatever way you can find
Cheers bud. Just getting the first wet day in Ireland for about eight weeks. What I will say is the no dig plants seem not to suffer as much as my old dug gardens.
It sounds like you are dryer than here. Yes I notice this, plants in no dig slow down in growth, but stay healthy and strong at least.
I have an uncomfortable feeling that this dry weather will continue.
Wireworms are the bane of my existence, LOL. They are a big problem in the agricultural areas of my state--I live in the Pacific Northwest of WA state we have a climate similar to yours wireworms love moist to wet soils, and organic controls haven't worked for me, so I took note of what crops can deal with them well (broadbeans don't seem to be bothered.) Potatoes are a good trap crop as is buckwheat. It has been claimed that birds eat them, but I have a lot of birds and they seem not to be interested in the little bastards, LOL
Gah, difficult! Good tip on beans
Спасибо за экскурсию. Очень полезное и красивое. От проволочника помогает цитрусовая кожура. Сушу и на зиму раскидывая там где проволочник. Пищевую соду посыпаю в ямку, когда сажу картошку. Под корень капусты посыпаю немного соды пищевой. Пищевая сода раскисляет почву и отпугивает проволочника.
Спасибо и это интересно. Душа здесь не кислая, потому что в ее основе известняк. Однако мы можем немного попробовать это, чтобы посмотреть, что произойдет.
Very nice 😍😍
Thank you!