@@stinksterrekerinski4450 Could not agree more. Anyway, most people with doctorates have no interest in gardening-they are too full of themselves-so this does not apply to Charles-he's too smart!!
It really is the most beautiful time of year in the veg garden. Morning mists, everything dripping with dew makes all the veg take on different hues. What a wonderful garden tour. Never the end, just the beginning of another season. Thankyou Charles for all your thoughts and positivity.
What a joy it is, touring your garden. One can really feel the passion you have for gardening, watching things grow. Keep up the wonderful work, Charles.
This man does for growing veg what Prof Brian Cox does for particle physics and astronomy; speaks in a way that you can understand and is passionate about what he knows. I have picked up so many great tips watching his videos
Thank you 🙏🏼 this has cheered up my otherwise rainy morning. I love your garden tours. It is so inspirational, so much wise guidance and insight to guide us on our own journey with nature’s garden Love and light, Karen
NEVER IN OUR EXISTENCE WOULD WE THINK THAT A HEAD OF LETTUCE COULD POSSIBLY HARBOR A "RAINBOW SPECTRUM" OF COLOR !!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE WOULD THINK WE WERE INSANE IF WE SAID THAT BUT THIS VIDEO JUST PROVES THAT IT'S TRUE !!!!!!!!!!! LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Charles, you can try what i did in my Greenhouses to grow strawberries up out of the reach of animals and crawling bugs. I hung cheap lightweight aluminum gutters on the walls of the GH and filled them with compost and a single irrigation tube lengthwise that distributes compost tea and/or Aquaculture tank effluent to feed everything that grows in the GH.
I love the calmness of his voice.You could just curl up next to him and enjoy him talking about all the beauty of the garden and don't forget a nice cup of relaxing Camille tea ,soft spa music and nice scented candles.Just relax after a stressful day.
She is Nicola Smith who also is my PA, she will smile at this! She does the tours with my phone, other videos are by different videographers including my son Edward
SO ADAM IS AN EXPERT IN TEETH MARKINGS AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT KINDS OF PUKE SLIME MOLDS !!!!!!!!!! ..............UNBELIEVABLY INTERESTING HUMAN BEING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could not believe those grew in a single season....I have seed grown plants two years old that aren't even that vigorous. I don't think mine get enough water.
Halfway through I got overwhelmed with all the veggie names & just stared but didn't process further, then at the end I was like 'how did Charles end up in that tropical garden?!' 😅 True abundance!
Greetings, Charles, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 We have seen the morning temps drop from 78°F to 75° and the humidity was in the 90's and is beginning to drop to the mid 80's. I'm just ready to begin harvest a little Japanese Giant Red Mustard Greens that I planted in August. They will give us salad for many weeks with your Cut & Come Again method. Thanks for sharing your special knowledge 👍👩🌾👍 Take care My Friend 🌿💚🌿
Yes Bermuda grass is more difficult. I've had feedback from several people who have eliminated it 100% with the No-Dig method, first laying thick cardboard and then some compost on top, and then regularly removing the regrowth until it weakens, finally stopping altogether. However you have to be persistent for about a year, to reach this beautiful state. We have similar with Convolvulus here
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I’m in my 3rd year with the no dig. I’ve been trying to use off season cover crops to smother the Bermuda to mixed success. Your information is an inspiration to many. Thanks for the reply
Danke Heidi und das ist ein nettes Angebot. Meistens habe ich hier genug Hilfe und brauche keine mehr. Wenn Sie nächstes Frühjahr immer noch interessiert sind, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail an admin@charlesdowding.co.uk
Soooo inspiring 😍 Sometimes it takes me all day to watch these videos because watching them makes me want to go out and play in my garden, or reminds me of something I want to do, too 😁💝 Thank you 🌱💖
Charles when I had hard time cleaning the chicken coop and tidying up the summer crop make me think twice why I do this??. But getting home bingo one off your video and make me feel so good and loving you for all the knowledge and keeping going attitude don’t give up when things get hard, thank you 😊
Brilliant 'slow tv'. I put it on when working sometimes, then experience an overwhelming need to go to my allotment and try something new that I've absorbed from the gentle Wisdom Of Dowding.
Hello! I really enjoyed walking through your garden. The variety of vegetables impressed me. And when you bit off an apple, you immediately wanted the same! Thank you for your helpful advice. I wish you health and excellent mood! Dahlias are excellent👍🌻💙
Voice volume is lower on this one and as a viewer I sure like the close-up shots that you give so consider an abundant amount of those and thanks so much for such quality exposure
Really beautiful garden as always a joy to see. I think of aphids as part of a process of modulation which overall has far wider benefits for the garden that we may not notice unless we really sit and observe the entire life cycles of all of our plants and any visitors. Aphids have evolved in coexistence with plants, as have insects generally, not just for pollination. For sure since the Cotton industry coated the seeds with BTi to prevent the worm, which was very successful in eradication. However, what happened next was a previously non pest insect, the stink bug, became a new challenge for the growers of cotton, it was or is thought that the worm in fact modulated the cotton plants which upgraded the plants defense and so the stink bug could never predate the plant. I guess we might need to be more careful before we react. Thanks always
What a pleasure to spend this time being shown your gardens, as always, but especially now. The gardening season has come to a close for most gardeners. Here I see such abundance & yet more sprouts being readied for another go!
It’s always a plaisir to follow you in your garden , what a display of abondance a very healthy plants and vegetables , and i have said before your video and your explanation to share your knowledge , make me extremely happy , while progressing in my own garden ,and thank you for taking the time to make theses helpful and great videos , and sharing them with us . A bientôt , bien sûre .Josy👨🍳
Thank you for the video! Seeing aphids on Dahlias made me feel normal having the exact same situation in my garden. Also love the helichrysum, my grandma used to refer to them as the “immortal” flowers 🙌🏼🌼
How interesting, right at 11:36 when you cut into the apple, you can see the larva make an escape out through the hole it bored into and fall onto the ground
Charles, you are a gift from above to all of us desperately trying to learn and absorb all your teaching and hopefully I can do this no dig at our lawn and maybe just a few so that my husband won’t get upset me turning his green lawn into forest 😂👩🌾😂👍👍 thanks for all your unselfish knowledge in gardening 🌟🌟🌟♥️
I love strawberries in my vertical planter. I've got them all at the height that my chickens can just barely reach. Do find little beak-sized notches in them sometimes, though.
What i have realised is that on an allotment there are more weeds around from the surrounding plots even if you keep your plot completely weed free. Obviously here in Charles' garden there isn't that constant weed pressure. That being said, the weed season is quite seasonal. Keep on top on of in spring and then after that its a quick hoe around once a week to keep everything in order.
Simply amazing, you have so much mature veg to harvest and plenty still coming. Here in a zone 4b Canada I just received my first frost and just brought in almost everything the other day except for my cabbage and brussels sprouts. My pantry shelves are full, the freezer is bulging at the seams and the root cellar is full of potatoes, carrots, beets, onions and squash....a very good year here. Cheers Charles, your videos have inspired my garden greatly and this coming spring will be my best season yet I figure with my compost at peak production now, 3 bays full with 2 ready in spring to spread out. It took 3 years to get to this point and dialing in the quality of the soil.
I’m so impressed that you are growing Malbar spinach!!!! Wow that’s a heat loving green. It grows so well in Arizona. Keep it at bay or it will take over for sure, plus self seeding.
“Territorially inquisitive” brilliant 🤣 I’ll remember that description of the Malabar spinach when I want to be polite about the aggression of a vining plant!
It’s a joy to see your greenhouse tomatoes. I had to harvest my remaining ones green as it rained a lot leading to some bursting. It also turned cold rather early. I still made a pretty good salsa verde out of them and canned it. Your book is on my wish list for this year’s Christmas, I’m already looking forward to reading it! Cheers from Germany
Good afternoon first time watching your garden very beautiful all your vegetables and fruits thanks for sharing the tips I have a little garden in my yard your explanation was good 👍 I love the different types of cabbage I am watching from Amelia's Ward linden town Guyana south America thanks for sharing my friend 😊
Wonderful to see your garden as always Charles! I spent the day in mine, harvesting, storing, working on compost etc. It's really been a great year in my garden. I've even taken your advice and done a fall garden as a prelude to winter gardening. Hagd and ty for the video.
I love to grow malibar spinach! The leaves in the red stem are wonderful when they're small, I find the leaves on the green stem pleasant when they're small but don't like the texture when the leaves get larger. What a lovely tour! Thank you :-)
I have such cabbage jealousy of you 😆 no matter how I try, I just cannot get mine to form hard heads/hearts. You really do have the Midas touch.. everything you grow is just perfect! You give me so much inspiration, thank you
I have very good success with bell peppers in the unheated polytunnel in north Cumbria (on the Solway), so I imagine you actually shouldn't do too badly where you are. By far the best varieties I have are Etiuda (orange), Rewia (orange), and Yolo Wonder (Red). I've yet to find a decent yellow pepper that does well up here. All 3 varieties produce very sweet, thick-walled and juicy fruit. Of the three, Etiuda has been the best - probably the sweetest bell peppers I've ever eaten, although I've noted differences depending on source of seed. I wish I could post s photo of last week's pepper harvest. I think the point of this comment is to say not to dismiss bell peppers entirely.
Thanks and you are right. You are doing well :) My concern more is how much the size of harvest justifies space and time given, compared to tomato and aubergine.
I suppose commercially it would be a stretch, but we've had around 7kg off 14-15 plants, and still more to come. Grown under tomatoes they work quite well as it helps prevent sun scald on the fruit. They've done better in 10" square pots as the ones in the ground were more susceptible to some form of stem rot (not basal rot, but higher up the plant). For an epic tomato, taste-wise and quantity-wise, I find Sakura hard to beat.
Hi Charles, I went to one of your no dig courses at Home Acres at the end of June this year, I thoroughly enjoyed it. For anyone contemplating booking on to a course with Charles I would say go for it. The whole day was just perfect, he has amazing staff, the course content is great and the lunch provided was superb.Charles is a very down to earth,friendly man. I wish I lived closer as I would have loved to volunteer with you. Anyway I’m applying all I’ve learned to my new community growing project and I’m very excited for the results to come.
Last day of September - The signed Sowing calendar & No Dig book just arrived with a precious 🍊golden textile cover. It caught my eyes that the first three words put together make ' No Dig - Nurture' this is just about the very essence of your work. Beautiful, I lock so forward to this!
Charles, another idea for strawberries may be a tall raised bed. I'm not sure how well badges climb but a tall bed might deter them. Also, an Australian company makes metal beds, some that are tall. The company is Birdies. And an American company called Vego Garden makes similar products. Thanks for the tour! Your garden is always beautiful!
I decided to dry farm my Mammoth Sunflowers this year. We’ve had 0 rain since June. They got about 6 inch heads and about 10 inches tall. 😁 definitely something you want to water.
Such a beautiful sight to behold Charles. In our 70's zone 6a USA. We were about to stop gardening in our back yard a few years back. No dig and you changed all that. A neighbors daughter and husband are calling it quits. Hope they check your channel out as I suggested.
Noticing the wonder's of growing veg and the natural world is a wonderful gift, I find it's the constant looking forward to the next season, planting, preparing keeps you looking ahead and never ending excitement.Going back to the comment about marriage mill I spoke to one of the marriage family he said that the doves farm marriage's is in fact his first cousin just thought I'd let you know thanks Paul
Fantastic tour, thankyou.Your garden looks wonderful. I picked up a great tip for growing strawberries from Steve's seaside allotment, I now grow them in hanging baskets in the tunnel. It might be a solution to keep the badgers away.
English cucumbers are the best in my opinion. In my climate I grow seminole pumpkins, do absolutely nothing to them, and harvest hundreds of pounds from maybe 18 plants and...they store for over a year, amazing fruit. The British Isles have such good weather for growing almost anything, cool weather, rain, mild winters. Here its either hot as Satans' armpit with too much rain, or off and on frosts in winter. Most of the things this fellow grows in summer I can only do in winter, and then only the frost resistant things. I manage :) Thanks for the vid Charles.
If you’re on the Suwannee River, as your name implies, Florida summers really are as hot as Satan’s armpit. People in the US who have never lived in the deep south have no concept of hot and humid it is down there. Happy gardening this fall/winter.
Best videos on the internet.
You Sir should have a honorary Doctorate. So much actionable intelligence. Not just book knowledge. I hope to one day be as gifted. What a blessing
Doctorate's these days and to some people have always been valued below fertilizer.
Thanks Ross, the lovely comments here are as valuable as a doctorate!
People still think that doctorate have some real values usually don't change the world.
@@stinksterrekerinski4450 Could not agree more. Anyway, most people with doctorates have no interest in gardening-they are too full of themselves-so this does not apply to Charles-he's too smart!!
Agreed!
"Territorially inquisitive" is such a great phrase for a crazy sprawling or climbing plant. 😄❤
😂
It really is the most beautiful time of year in the veg garden. Morning mists, everything dripping with dew makes all the veg take on different hues. What a wonderful garden tour. Never the end, just the beginning of another season. Thankyou Charles for all your thoughts and positivity.
Cheers Jenny. Garden riches. We are rich.
Thank you for taking the time to add the time stamps/chapters and details about the plants. I really appreciate it, it must take some time to do 🙂
Glad it was helpful! Yes it takes us time :)
What a joy it is, touring your garden. One can really feel the passion you have for gardening, watching things grow. Keep up the wonderful work, Charles.
So nice to hear, thanks 💚
This man does for growing veg what Prof Brian Cox does for particle physics and astronomy; speaks in a way that you can understand and is passionate about what he knows. I have picked up so many great tips watching his videos
Many thanks, from the prof!
Those sun flowers still looking great and the Dhalias.
Thank you 🙏🏼 this has cheered up my otherwise rainy morning. I love your garden tours. It is so inspirational, so much wise guidance and insight to guide us on our own journey with nature’s garden
Love and light, Karen
I'm so glad Karen, lovely comment 😀
NEVER IN OUR EXISTENCE WOULD WE THINK THAT A HEAD OF LETTUCE COULD POSSIBLY HARBOR A "RAINBOW SPECTRUM" OF COLOR !!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE WOULD THINK WE WERE INSANE IF WE SAID THAT BUT THIS VIDEO JUST PROVES THAT IT'S TRUE !!!!!!!!!!! LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERYDAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Chicories!!) 🌈
The Codling moth larva wriggled out of it's exit hole as you cut into the apple!
Amazing, lucky I missed it!!
You are truly a master at your profession. Thanks for sharing. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Thanks Steven 👍
You can tell a true Gardner by his hands allways a pleasure watching your videos
Charles, you can try what i did in my Greenhouses to grow strawberries up out of the reach of animals and crawling bugs. I hung cheap lightweight aluminum gutters on the walls of the GH and filled them with compost and a single irrigation tube lengthwise that distributes compost tea and/or Aquaculture tank effluent to feed everything that grows in the GH.
Thanks a great idea
I love the calmness of his voice.You could just curl up next to him and enjoy him talking about all the beauty of the garden and don't forget a nice cup of relaxing Camille tea ,soft spa music and nice scented candles.Just relax after a stressful day.
Nice to hear Christlyn!
You have the best camara man!!!! He does make you skills interesting. Feed him well and keep him healthy he is a big part of your extreme popularity!
She is Nicola Smith who also is my PA, she will smile at this! She does the tours with my phone, other videos are by different videographers including my son Edward
SO ADAM IS AN EXPERT IN TEETH MARKINGS AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT KINDS OF PUKE SLIME MOLDS !!!!!!!!!! ..............UNBELIEVABLY INTERESTING HUMAN BEING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The comparison between the asparagus crown plants and asparagus seed sown plants is incredible! Thank you for showing that!
I could not believe those grew in a single season....I have seed grown plants two years old that aren't even that vigorous. I don't think mine get enough water.
Halfway through I got overwhelmed with all the veggie names & just stared but didn't process further, then at the end I was like 'how did Charles end up in that tropical garden?!' 😅
True abundance!
Wow, and thanks Livu
Brassicas really are on a different tier of beauty
I simply love the Lectures. My Sir David Attenborough of Gardening ! Respects !
Many thanks Eliman 💚
Greetings, Charles, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
We have seen the morning temps drop from 78°F to 75° and the humidity was in the 90's and is beginning to drop to the mid 80's.
I'm just ready to begin harvest a little Japanese Giant Red Mustard Greens that I planted in August. They will give us salad for many weeks with your Cut & Come Again method. Thanks for sharing your special knowledge 👍👩🌾👍
Take care My Friend 🌿💚🌿
Thanks for sharing Peggy.
It's 41F here this morning, I am dreaming of your warmth!
Wow to have a pasture that easy to kill must be nice. Some super strain of Bermuda grass lives in my yard.
Yes Bermuda grass is more difficult.
I've had feedback from several people who have eliminated it 100% with the No-Dig method, first laying thick cardboard and then some compost on top, and then regularly removing the regrowth until it weakens, finally stopping altogether.
However you have to be persistent for about a year, to reach this beautiful state. We have similar with Convolvulus here
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I’m in my 3rd year with the no dig. I’ve been trying to use off season cover crops to smother the Bermuda to mixed success. Your information is an inspiration to many. Thanks for the reply
😍👏👏👏 Hallo Charles, das ist eine wunderschöne Gartentour. Ich würde gerne mithelfen. Liebe Grüße 🤗💜🙏🍀👋🇨🇱
Danke Heidi und das ist ein nettes Angebot. Meistens habe ich hier genug Hilfe und brauche keine mehr. Wenn Sie nächstes Frühjahr immer noch interessiert sind, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail an admin@charlesdowding.co.uk
Soooo inspiring 😍 Sometimes it takes me all day to watch these videos because watching them makes me want to go out and play in my garden, or reminds me of something I want to do, too 😁💝
Thank you 🌱💖
How amazing and cool, thanks
You are such an inspiration and fountain of knowlege....thank you for sharing your fantastic garden and ideas...
You are welcome Lorell
Charles when I had hard time cleaning the chicken coop and tidying up the summer crop make me think twice why I do this??.
But getting home bingo one off your video and make me feel so good and loving you for all the knowledge and keeping going attitude don’t give up when things get hard, thank you 😊
I'm happy to know that I am helping you! 💚
Brilliant 'slow tv'. I put it on when working sometimes, then experience an overwhelming need to go to my allotment and try something new that I've absorbed from the gentle Wisdom Of Dowding.
Haha so nice thanks, happy to slow entertain!!
You make me yearn at 69 yrs young for Land to playvwith joy also ..Thank You🤗😍😎
That's nice!!
Hello! I really enjoyed walking through your garden. The variety of vegetables impressed me. And when you bit off an apple, you immediately wanted the same! Thank you for your helpful advice. I wish you health and excellent mood! Dahlias are excellent👍🌻💙
Thanks for a lovely comment! Sorry I cannot share apple!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😄
Those Brassicas look fantastic. ❤
Ive never seen asparagus grown like that before [on individual stakes] (I’m gonna do try next year)😊
Thanks James - it's good for young asparagus. Older clumps spread out.
THANK YOU, I enjoyed the garden tour!
Great tour and loved seeing your jar of borlotti beans - appreciated seeing how you store them. Thank you!
A non-baby betroot :) I love your sense of humour.
😂
Voice volume is lower on this one and as a viewer I sure like the close-up shots that you give so consider an abundant amount of those and thanks so much for such quality exposure
Thanks, helpful feedback
Good
I always love your garden tours in the different seasons... Lovely!
Really beautiful garden as always a joy to see.
I think of aphids as part of a process of modulation which overall has far wider benefits for the garden that we may not notice unless we really sit and observe the entire life cycles of all of our plants and any visitors.
Aphids have evolved in coexistence with plants, as have insects generally, not just for pollination.
For sure since the Cotton industry coated the seeds with BTi to prevent the worm, which was very successful in eradication. However, what happened next was a previously non pest insect, the stink bug, became a new challenge for the growers of cotton, it was or is thought that the worm in fact modulated the cotton plants which upgraded the plants defense and so the stink bug could never predate the plant. I guess we might need to be more careful before we react.
Thanks always
Fascinating
No dig day! That’s wonderful. ✅
What a pleasure to spend this time being shown your gardens, as always, but especially now. The gardening season has come to a close for most gardeners. Here I see such abundance & yet more sprouts being readied for another go!
Many thanks Cheryl
@@CharlesDowding1nodig And many more to you, sir.
Fabulous! Love your channel & learning from you. Thanks so much from Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
Lovely to hear, thanks
It’s always a plaisir to follow you in your garden , what a display of abondance a very healthy plants and vegetables , and i have said before your video and your explanation to share your knowledge , make me extremely happy , while progressing in my own garden ,and thank you for taking the time to make theses helpful and great videos , and sharing them with us . A bientôt , bien sûre .Josy👨🍳
Thankyou Josy 🌱
Thank you for the video!
Seeing aphids on Dahlias made me feel normal having the exact same situation in my garden.
Also love the helichrysum, my grandma used to refer to them as the “immortal” flowers 🙌🏼🌼
I love watching you chat about your garden and the produce you grow. I wish I could do just one tenth of what you do!
Hello Charles, you are the greatest of all time! (“The GOAT”). Thank you for being there for us! Stay safe and healthy!
That's quite a compliment, thank you
How interesting, right at 11:36 when you cut into the apple, you can see the larva make an escape out through the hole it bored into and fall onto the ground
Yup and grrr!
Inspiring!
lovely tour
Red cabbages glow at twilight in a way that I find enchanting
Yes, and many plants look amazing then :)
Watching this video of your beautiful garden and enjoying a cup of coffee. Life is good.
💚
Charles, you are a gift from above to all of us desperately trying to learn and absorb all your teaching and hopefully I can do this no dig at our lawn and maybe just a few so that my husband won’t get upset me turning his green lawn into forest 😂👩🌾😂👍👍 thanks for all your unselfish knowledge in gardening 🌟🌟🌟♥️
You can do it Emy, even one pretty bed with nice plants! Thanks so much 🌼
Being a few zones warmer I get the nudge to finish planting before it gets too cold. First frost already wow.
Yes I would keep planting now!
I love strawberries in my vertical planter. I've got them all at the height that my chickens can just barely reach. Do find little beak-sized notches in them sometimes, though.
Nice job!
What i have realised is that on an allotment there are more weeds around from the surrounding plots even if you keep your plot completely weed free. Obviously here in Charles' garden there isn't that constant weed pressure. That being said, the weed season is quite seasonal. Keep on top on of in spring and then after that its a quick hoe around once a week to keep everything in order.
Nice very stylish today
Thank you so much
Simply amazing, you have so much mature veg to harvest and plenty still coming. Here in a zone 4b Canada I just received my first frost and just brought in almost everything the other day except for my cabbage and brussels sprouts. My pantry shelves are full, the freezer is bulging at the seams and the root cellar is full of potatoes, carrots, beets, onions and squash....a very good year here. Cheers Charles, your videos have inspired my garden greatly and this coming spring will be my best season yet I figure with my compost at peak production now, 3 bays full with 2 ready in spring to spread out. It took 3 years to get to this point and dialing in the quality of the soil.
Thank you Roy for this lovely feedback and I'm really pleased you're having such success. That's a good feeling ahead of winter, and spring!
I’m so impressed that you are growing Malbar spinach!!!! Wow that’s a heat loving green. It grows so well in Arizona. Keep it at bay or it will take over for sure, plus self seeding.
Thanks so much, and we had a warm summer!
It never ceases to amaze me how nice the garden looks. Excellent job. The apples look delicious!
My grandmother always called the straw flowers "everlastings" which sounds so lovely to me.
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“Territorially inquisitive” brilliant 🤣 I’ll remember that description of the Malabar spinach when I want to be polite about the aggression of a vining plant!
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It’s a joy to see your greenhouse tomatoes. I had to harvest my remaining ones green as it rained a lot leading to some bursting. It also turned cold rather early.
I still made a pretty good salsa verde out of them and canned it.
Your book is on my wish list for this year’s Christmas, I’m already looking forward to reading it! Cheers from Germany
Thanks Corey, and I hear of your cold September, not nice!
Saludos señor dowding me encantan sus flores ♥️
Such a lovely harvest of pumpkins.
Good afternoon first time watching your garden very beautiful all your vegetables and fruits thanks for sharing the tips I have a little garden in my yard your explanation was good 👍 I love the different types of cabbage I am watching from Amelia's Ward linden town Guyana south America thanks for sharing my friend 😊
Thanks and welcome!
Wonderful to see your garden as always Charles! I spent the day in mine, harvesting, storing, working on compost etc. It's really been a great year in my garden. I've even taken your advice and done a fall garden as a prelude to winter gardening. Hagd and ty for the video.
So nice to hear Lisa!
I love to grow malibar spinach! The leaves in the red stem are wonderful when they're small, I find the leaves on the green stem pleasant when they're small but don't like the texture when the leaves get larger.
What a lovely tour! Thank you :-)
Thanks for the tips, I did not pick fast enough!
I have such cabbage jealousy of you 😆 no matter how I try, I just cannot get mine to form hard heads/hearts. You really do have the Midas touch.. everything you grow is just perfect! You give me so much inspiration, thank you
Thanks - no dig and good varieties help. Try Cabbice next spring.
I have very good success with bell peppers in the unheated polytunnel in north Cumbria (on the Solway), so I imagine you actually shouldn't do too badly where you are. By far the best varieties I have are Etiuda (orange), Rewia (orange), and Yolo Wonder (Red). I've yet to find a decent yellow pepper that does well up here. All 3 varieties produce very sweet, thick-walled and juicy fruit. Of the three, Etiuda has been the best - probably the sweetest bell peppers I've ever eaten, although I've noted differences depending on source of seed. I wish I could post s photo of last week's pepper harvest. I think the point of this comment is to say not to dismiss bell peppers entirely.
All of my Romano peppers were attacked by pepper moths. Grown outside in buckets in south east England. 😔
Thanks and you are right. You are doing well :)
My concern more is how much the size of harvest justifies space and time given, compared to tomato and aubergine.
I suppose commercially it would be a stretch, but we've had around 7kg off 14-15 plants, and still more to come. Grown under tomatoes they work quite well as it helps prevent sun scald on the fruit. They've done better in 10" square pots as the ones in the ground were more susceptible to some form of stem rot (not basal rot, but higher up the plant). For an epic tomato, taste-wise and quantity-wise, I find Sakura hard to beat.
Nice comment and that is true about sun scald, congrats. Yes I like Sakira, could not get seed this year!
"I don't talk much about strawberries because we have badgers here".
Wise, you don't want them to know. 😉
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Bu çok hoş!
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. Your garden is so amazing.
Very interesting with the asparagus…
Good 👍
Hi Charles, I went to one of your no dig courses at Home Acres at the end of June this year, I thoroughly enjoyed it. For anyone contemplating booking on to a course with Charles I would say go for it. The whole day was just perfect, he has amazing staff, the course content is great and the lunch provided was superb.Charles is a very down to earth,friendly man. I wish I lived closer as I would have loved to volunteer with you. Anyway I’m applying all I’ve learned to my new community growing project and I’m very excited for the results to come.
Thank you Sanab for your lovely feedback and I wish you success in your project 🌱
Absolutely wonderful again Charles, Thankyou so much. 🇦🇺
Last day of September - The signed Sowing calendar & No Dig book just arrived with a precious 🍊golden textile cover. It caught my eyes that the first three words put together make ' No Dig - Nurture' this is just about the very essence of your work. Beautiful, I lock so forward to this!
Such a nice comment, thankyou 💚
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You are very welcome!
That crispy orange flower looks like our Australian Native Paper Daisy
Interesting! Maybe the same, Leonotis
As always, very nice autumn crops. We love your videos.
So nice to hear
THANK YOU 👍
Welcome 😊
All looking brilliant, those cabbages of yours are beautiful!
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Extremely useful technique clearing field. It's effective and fast. Nicely done.
Glad you like it!
Very informative tour. Thank you.
Always an inspiration and joy from you and much appreciated. Blessings from Oregon.
Thank you so much Susan
Charles, another idea for strawberries may be a tall raised bed. I'm not sure how well badges climb but a tall bed might deter them. Also, an Australian company makes metal beds, some that are tall. The company is Birdies. And an American company called Vego Garden makes similar products. Thanks for the tour! Your garden is always beautiful!
Cheers David
I decided to dry farm my Mammoth Sunflowers this year. We’ve had 0 rain since June. They got about 6 inch heads and about 10 inches tall. 😁 definitely something you want to water.
😂 I like your sense of humour, understated! There are limits to dry farming.
I always enjoy your garden tours!!!
Such a beautiful sight to behold Charles. In our 70's zone 6a USA. We were about to stop gardening in our back yard a few years back. No dig and you changed all that. A neighbors daughter and husband are calling it quits. Hope they check your channel out as I suggested.
Wonderful to hear, thanks for sharing and I hope they are inspired to try this :)
WONDERFUL garden compliments!!!!
So nice vegetables lots of it
Beautiful garden.
Thanks for the tour
👍 nice
Thanks for the visit
Noticing the wonder's of growing veg and the natural world is a wonderful gift, I find it's the constant looking forward to the next season, planting, preparing keeps you looking ahead and never ending excitement.Going back to the comment about marriage mill I spoke to one of the marriage family he said that the doves farm marriage's is in fact his first cousin just thought I'd let you know thanks Paul
Well said Paul.
Thanks for sharing that about the Marriages :)
Fantastic tour, thankyou.Your garden looks wonderful. I picked up a great tip for growing strawberries from Steve's seaside allotment, I now grow them in hanging baskets in the tunnel. It might be a solution to keep the badgers away.
Yes I have done that, shall probably do it again 😀
English cucumbers are the best in my opinion. In my climate I grow seminole pumpkins, do absolutely nothing to them, and harvest hundreds of pounds from maybe 18 plants and...they store for over a year, amazing fruit. The British Isles have such good weather for growing almost anything, cool weather, rain, mild winters. Here its either hot as Satans' armpit with too much rain, or off and on frosts in winter. Most of the things this fellow grows in summer I can only do in winter, and then only the frost resistant things. I manage :) Thanks for the vid Charles.
How intriguing! Yes we are fortunate
If you’re on the Suwannee River, as your name implies, Florida summers really are as hot as Satan’s armpit. People in the US who have never lived in the deep south have no concept of hot and humid it is down there. Happy gardening this fall/winter.
Another good tour.. I’m always saying sow now for winter into next year…might as well be growing year round..
You and me both 🌱
It’s so lovely 🥰
Thanks
Vida. Amor.Abundancia. 😊🙏💚
Si si, gracias 💚
You take a side shoot of a hybrid and make a new plant?
That's nice 😊Thank you
Stunning as always! God bless you and your family 💖