Same here. Love gardening but don't always see the results, then get annoyed at myself thinking "I've been doing this for a while, I should know what I'm doing by now"!. Then I watch a video by Charles Dowding, take a deep breath and tell myself its ok to make mistakes, just keep learning and trying - isn't that why we garden in the first place?!
My garden in the Central Australian is just boosting with beautiful produce, I have never grown so much food, and I know it’s because of all the knowledge I gain from you Charles. Thank you and happy No Dig Day to you!
I think one of the things that warms me most is the wonderful curiosity and openness that you display, that there is always more to learn! It's a small thing, but working as a scientist, to me its a clear indicator of someone who has a real passion for what they do, and its most infection! Keep up the inspirational work! And to one and all - Never stop learning!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I try my best! I think the world would be a very boring place if we could explain it all with today's science. And I lament the loss of the days when scientists would publish ideas and observations in order to stimulate discussion, rather than to set things in stone!
Always good to see your garden. Here in central Texas our fall garden is planted. We will be harvesting all the way through December. We don't get real cold here until January. Your garden is a sight to see, Thanks. Mike
Thanks Charles. I was listening to your book via Audible and you touched on stoney or rocky ground and boy! I never thought someone would address my issue here. I just move to an acreage that sits on a bed rock. I know it’s impossible to dig all rocks to plant. Am I going to get an excavator guy up to ruin my soil health? Of course not! We are growing on top of the rock bed 😅😅😅 I do need more water and more compost to start with. Like you say 15 cm investment of compost for my future. 🎉🎉🎉 This property has one of the best drainage and excellent soil health. I am merely co-existing with the wild life the fungi underground and bugs life. With this attitude in mind I can start my food production as quick as I unpack my boxes (as you would when you move to a new place) In summer time I have to use sugarcane mulch as it is really dry up on this mountain. I also have ducks that love slugs. They will be my co-gardeners. Xx Kelly Mid Coast NSW
At 10.34 the subtitles suggested you can add compost at any time of the year if your 'soul ' needs it! Many days my soul cries out to be up at the compost bins tending to my mix and blessing the miracle of black gold!
😂 thanks for pointing that out, and although it's funny, it's actually a really good point! So much of what we do in the garden is spiritually enriching
Successive side shoot tomato propagation through winter... just broke my brain. Why have I been starting over from seed every year like a dingus. Amazing work, and thank you as always.
Thanks. For me it is a motivational video, to do more beds around the house in a suburban area:). Maybe next year I turn my wasted space - front lawn into a vegetable production machine. Kind regards, Kamil.
Congratulations Charles on your wonderful garden. Your dedication to no till is obvious and you present it so clearly. I am amazed how you remember each crop, your plant date, transplant dates, the variety. I look forward to your videos.
Charles, I had a response to my comment supposedly from you to respond to a WhatsApp number for a gift. I didn't trust it, and just wanted you to know.
@@johndyer9232 I've been caught out on those what's app via You Tube at least 2 time's the first time I downloaded the app but then the alarm bells started to SCREAM at me and I deleted the app!!!! No more. Fool me once shame on you Fool me twice shame on me!
So sorry I missed this video on no dig day - the freebies looked great (especially re the cover crops). I've watched so many of your videos (missed this one though!) that I feel like I've been to Homeacres :)
I just want to say thank you for the new calendar. I absolutely love it. It has beautiful pictures and informative. I can just look, see what to plant each month without putting together a plan with other resources. ❤
Just got mine! Will be attempting on adapting it to zone 5a, where nothing survives winter but I hope to have at least 2 crops with seedlings sowed in modules in advance
Worried it was going to be a wash-out - rain here (Norfolk) most of the morning. Got out, harvested last of peppers, tomatoes, put plants on compost heap; raked, watered, planted out mizuna, mibuna, winter lettuce (Chiltern's mix), pak choi; sowed peas for shoots (optimistic this late?) Greenhouse now full. Happy No-Dig Day to all!
Yes! Greetings from Norfolk again. My greenhouse was planted with winter salads etc over a fortnight ago. I'm now trying to source some woodchip to make my paths nice and distinct for the next year. Compost from the left half of my very un-Dowdinglike (roofless, slow, cold) system will get spread some time in the next ten days, then I shall turn this year's additions into the empty bay and cover it. This year's wonderful carrots and parsnips will have to be lifted, then the compost spread. I'm hoping tomorrow is another nice day... @@howardchambers9679
This was my first year with a true no dig bed, having converted my double dug beds to no-dig last year. In that bed I have grown Blue Lake pole beans, black zucchini, and followed the zucchini with turnip and radish. Tried a fall planting of beets, but armadillos and feral cats dug them up while young seedlings.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Double dug the first of those beds 14 years ago and the newest 5 years ago. All before I heard of no dig or even no till. Impressed with the results in just the 2 years of no dig though.
Thank you for all the inspiration. I work in a library and yesterday I wore my 'Charles' t-shirt and set up a no-dig display with your book and others. We have a seed library in our library and lots of patrons are gardeners so it was fun to promote and talk about.
Im watching youre video's for some years now, even before that i (and my father) was doing a bit of no digging underneath my soft-fruits and in my flower garden by adding composted woodchips. My father worked as a gravedigger and he (loved to) dug the vegtable every year putting rabbitdung from a neighbour underneath! So i did also, but i could not understand that everything i put under was gone a year later althoug we had real nice soil and super crops! But then i found youre video's! Sadly my dad became sick and my parents need to move because they had a real big garden and my mum would not been able to keep it tigh! So i started no dig at my own smal garden and now on a alotment(?) To bad my dad never seen it come together but he would love it for sure!! And now the message i meant to write before i began to ramble😅 Thank you Charles!!! The passion you have for your garden and evertything around it is unbelieveble! And youre enthousiasm to teach the whole world is just wonderful and contages! So from Drachten, Fryslân in the Netherlands sorry for my probebly bad english and thank you for your knowledge!! Sinsearly Tseard-jan Struiksma And i wil try to send you some pictures of the new alotment i started on my mate his plot in the near future
Hello Tseard-Jan, Thanks so much for your very touching message. I feel privileged to be able to reach people like you and help your gardening. That's an amazing story about your father and silly me, but I would've imagined he might love no dig, as a holiday from his job! I'm sure he would be very interested. I'm so happy that you're getting a great result there and even more that you are helping your friend. It still puzzles me how this beautiful method is spreading quite slowly, and it's brilliant if everyone like you informs someone else, so the world can have better energy and people will be more healthy.
Like my dad im also love to work and specialy in the garden and to enjoy al the living creatures buzzing and crawling around! My mom told me as a teenager dont make from youre hobby youre jo and i think se is right because i realy enjoy to help someone with there garden cutting hedges mowing gras or help with there houseplants to explain stuf, mainly to not buy everything a gardencenter wants to sel to you! When i was 14 years old i looked like a metalhead, long hair and lots of skulls on my clothes but i also collected fuchsia plants, now at age 37 im bald with a long goatie but since a few years i started collecting fuchias agian only peranials this time the flower til 2/3 weeks ago!!! Mabye next year i wil make some youtube video's of my own
@@eb1684 We get to -40C in the winter and we have only 90 frost-free days in the growing season. Very challenging but the No Dig method proved very effective.
Warm wishes 🤞 to all Green thumbs from Cortez, Colorado. We are putting up some mouth watering 😋 salsa 🌶 and It's snowing 🌨 here now. I hope the habanero plants in the green house of mine ripen quickly. Temperatures🌡 in the teens in the next couple of nights. Thanks, Charles, perfect entertainment while Canning!
Timothy, we're not yet in the teens here east of ABQ, but my tomatoes took for ever to put out fruit, then the first killed the plants while the fruits were still green. 7a, 6900ft windy. Any tips?
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Hello from the Brazilian drylands! Thank you...I really appreciate that you WEIGH your produce....
you killing me,,,,, i went and bought seeds for the other radicchio you planted rossa and chichory lusia and now you planting radicchio 506tt.....i want that one now to!!! looks beautiful
Hey Leland we are fellow Oklahoma. Seminole, we had the worst here in a 100 years they say . We are still 14 inches Short for the year according to the mesonet
It's so nice to have a video that is more in depth as well as gives a visual tour of everything growing. I notice you have some sturdy beams in your greenhouse, if you suspend a plank to them you could place your rye seedlings on it and maybe keep the mice off them? 😁🌱☀️
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ya TRUE. You people encourages a lot. I grow my 70% of vegetables in my home terrace and seriously love and dream to have a self build up area as you did. I grew up in forest department as my father was scientist and still can't forget that connection and feel of being connected with soil and plant.
Hello from Penticton, Canada, thanks very much for all your videos. We have just under an acre and try to grow as much as we can. We started a 2 bay pallet compost after watching your video. Managed to spread the one bay and fill the other to the top. Just in time as it's snowing now. We tried the multiple sowing of beets and onions and were very successful. Thanks so much.
My hubby is a traditional farmer where you plow, cultivate, plant and so on... well over the course of the past few years I have been introducing him to all these methods but in my garden.. it's been a process for me as well to change my thoughts process. I'm in eastern Ontario Canada so my winter is soon to arrive, but what I'm doing differently now is leaving the plants root base in the ground and just adding composted manure to the top then covering with either leaves or old hay that we are fortunate to have an abundance of (we grow that to sell.. oh and to just make mention, we do not spray our fields with ANY chemicals whatsoever!!, tha k goodness that's something here always been against for the welfare of the animals who in turn eat that then we do as well, so he's partially already there in his knowing)
Apart frim growing, your physical mobility has impressed and encouraged me to be more agile. I enjoy your peaceful nature and the beautiful garden youve created. Sharing is caring.
I struggled with my brassicas this year , 3 times i sowed each of them , but when i transplanted outside they bolted , due to the unusual temps , same with spinach , parsley and coriander , it was end of September for 4th time lucky , i covered them all with fleece or mesh now , not taking any chances , hopefully there will be something to harvest by next spring .
Spent No Dig Day with COVID positivity, but I do spread some knowledge of No Dig every chance I get to do it. Keep up the great work and thank you for the regular videos. Composting for the win!
Love your garden! Every time I watch your videos I feel energetic to work and continue. I love to watch your videos in the morning I feel excited to start my day with a smile. -keep posting please
Looking forward to the sourdough starter vlog, its my favourite type of bread! You have so many crops growing, it gives me hope for mine. Thanks Charles for all the inspiration. I just wish it would stop raining now here in southern Scotland, so I can get out and do something!!!
Hi All This Looks Like It's Going Be A Great Day Really Looking Forward To This. And Receiving The Great Help And Information Charlie's Always Gives. He Will Get His Reward From The King 👑 Soon He Would cerunly Well Deseve It. HAVE A GREAT DAY CHARLIE'S AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. HAPPY GARDENING TO YOU ALL. petesveg
Another pause to ask of the turnips are also referred to as Hakurai...? Had them for the first time from the farmers market here in northern California and immediately went and bought seeds...lol
Outstanding video, garden, tour, and info! Couldnt play in the garden yesterday because I worked...but today is a day off to get dirty! Likely putting garlic in - and admiring the zinnias which are still going absolutely mad! First year planting them and nothing has brought more visual joy to us...or the neighbors driving past! Saving as many seeds as possible, and have noticed random ones sprouting in various garden places (thanks to the squirrels and birds) even though we're down into the 30s and 40s at night already. Such an easy and stunning flower!
Celebrating No Dig Day by raking fall leaves and mulching with the lawnmower for the compost heap. This is wonderful, Charles. Long time coming but here we are! Cheers!
Your veggies / produce look amazing. I’m still picking lemon marigolds, bachelor buttons and zinnias. People still have head sized dahlias and roses are in near full bloom.
Good no dig day Charles ! My name is Charles as well , great name hahaha . In regards to your rye . We noticed a great thing this summer , I put out buckets of water with a black light clamped over it with a typical heat lamp reflector shield . We left it on over night to attract bugs to fall in water for chicken treats , but the happy little accident was we caught 1000s of the click beetles, so hope we will slow the life cycle of the wire worms this way by capturing the adult beetles and using them as chicken feed and cycling them as nutrients in our chicken compost system. Maybe something for a thought to consider, the beetle is easy to trap this way . Far easies then picking wire worms but they have a long life cycle. Some as long as 7 years as a worm I have read depends on the type . But a maintenance to slow the reproductive cycle possibly . Your fall is looking great ! Thank you for the videos I have learned so much !
Charles I planted a variety of garlic same time as you and my shop brought/china cloves have done exactly the same. They started appearing about a week after planting crazy
Thank you, Charles! Wonderful to spend half an hour in your garden on No Dig day, amazing things 👍❤ I thought I'd share a little tip regarding the wire worm problem. I have to warn you though - it involves a little bit of digging. The principle is to lure out the ww by digging a trench, ideally 6" or so deep (the original method advised around 8") at the space of a 1-1.5', then add any sprouted beans/peas into the trench and cover it with a board for a couple of days. Then come and scoop out the contents of the trench: beans/peas and the ww busy eating the treat (perhaps, feed it all to the chickens). I haven't tried this method yet and it means some digging, but if the pressure is too much, then maybe this could be an option? Thank you for your wisdom and everything you do for the gardeners in the whole world!
Thank you so much for all you do! I love that I can buy individual seed to harvest courses, just of the things I want to grow, and a few at a time for cost purposes. I have watched about 90% of your videos on this channel and never once felt like it was time wasted. For No Dig Day, I am going to plant my November seeds! You can sow seeds most months here in NE Florida.
A superb tour of the plots - fabulous to see and amazing that you did so much in just one take - amazing! - how do you remember all those dates? Your passion is infectious.
So wonderfull videos! Thanks! Sinapis alba is very good idea with garlic. I foud some studies where it helped stop fusarium desease in soil, witch could damage the garlic if soil is infected. Also find study where finding was that Sinapis alba made wire worms to develop to the state that they couldn't overwinter.
The only joy left on CZcams love it
@105Jule105 it's all true 👍
Are your plasic modules for sale? Where do we buy them?
@@TakeTheRide sadly nothing sold by me
Every time I get a little tired of my garden I pull up one of your vids and I'm excited again - thanks for your work!
Me too, gives me lots of motivation.
So pleased you find this Hank, and Pam :)
Same here. Love gardening but don't always see the results, then get annoyed at myself thinking "I've been doing this for a while, I should know what I'm doing by now"!. Then I watch a video by Charles Dowding, take a deep breath and tell myself its ok to make mistakes, just keep learning and trying - isn't that why we garden in the first place?!
SHOUT OUT to you Charles for adding some modern social media slang to your proper English, lol 😂
My garden in the Central Australian is just boosting with beautiful produce, I have never grown so much food, and I know it’s because of all the knowledge I gain from you Charles. Thank you and happy No Dig Day to you!
Wonderful! May the knowledge spread from your bountiful garden
То же самое. Сибирь. Россия.
I will have to watch tomorrow as it is getting late here and I need to get up early.
Thanks for sharing, there's always something to take away from your videos.
That's what I aim for, thanks
Joint the no-dig community today, greetings from the Netherlands ❤
Welcome aboard! It's fun, and a good day to join #nodigday
Thank you. From Utah, USA
The sunlight is just magical.❤
Thank you sir for the wealth of knowledge in each video.
💚
I think one of the things that warms me most is the wonderful curiosity and openness that you display, that there is always more to learn! It's a small thing, but working as a scientist, to me its a clear indicator of someone who has a real passion for what they do, and its most infection! Keep up the inspirational work! And to one and all - Never stop learning!!
Ah thanks, and you are a true scientist with open mind about result!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I try my best! I think the world would be a very boring place if we could explain it all with today's science. And I lament the loss of the days when scientists would publish ideas and observations in order to stimulate discussion, rather than to set things in stone!
Oh, forgot to mention the camera person, great job, right at the best shots every time. Thank you!
Nicola will be happy! She's doing some filming this morning, of celeriac, and then we shall be making a dish in the kitchen, new project
Always good to see your garden. Here in central Texas our fall garden is planted. We will be harvesting all the way through December. We don't get real cold here until January. Your garden is a sight to see, Thanks. Mike
Thanks Charles. I was listening to your book via Audible and you touched on stoney or rocky ground and boy! I never thought someone would address my issue here. I just move to an acreage that sits on a bed rock. I know it’s impossible to dig all rocks to plant. Am I going to get an excavator guy up to ruin my soil health? Of course not! We are growing on top of the rock bed 😅😅😅 I do need more water and more compost to start with. Like you say 15 cm investment of compost for my future. 🎉🎉🎉
This property has one of the best drainage and excellent soil health. I am merely co-existing with the wild life the fungi underground and bugs life. With this attitude in mind I can start my food production as quick as I unpack my boxes (as you would when you move to a new place)
In summer time I have to use sugarcane mulch as it is really dry up on this mountain. I also have ducks that love slugs. They will be my co-gardeners. Xx Kelly Mid Coast NSW
Sounds fantastic Kelly and great that you feel so positive, best of luck with it all
At 10.34 the subtitles suggested you can add compost at any time of the year if your 'soul ' needs it! Many days my soul cries out to be up at the compost bins tending to my mix and blessing the miracle of black gold!
😂 thanks for pointing that out, and although it's funny, it's actually a really good point! So much of what we do in the garden is spiritually enriching
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Absolutely, my gardening nourishes my soul.
Happy No Dig Day from Australia!! (it's already the 4th here)
Morning! and thanks
Her zamanki gibi harikasın!
So nice thanks
Successive side shoot tomato propagation through winter... just broke my brain. Why have I been starting over from seed every year like a dingus. Amazing work, and thank you as always.
Cheers Sean but it does take commitment to keep plants alive in pots for 6 months
Thanks. For me it is a motivational video, to do more beds around the house in a suburban area:). Maybe next year I turn my wasted space - front lawn into a vegetable production machine. Kind regards, Kamil.
Go for it Kamil
Congratulations Charles on your wonderful garden. Your dedication to no till is obvious and you present it so clearly. I am amazed how you remember each crop, your plant date, transplant dates, the variety. I look forward to your videos.
Many thanks Mary. Yes I am committed, that helps with remembering 💚
Charles, I had a response to my comment supposedly from you to respond to a WhatsApp number for a gift. I didn't trust it, and just wanted you to know.
@@marykappesser5145 If it’s a what’sapp number it’s almost assuredly a scam.
@@marykappesser5145 Thanks Mary, not me for sure:)
@@johndyer9232 I've been caught out on those what's app via You Tube at least 2 time's the first time I downloaded the app but then the alarm bells started to SCREAM at me and I deleted the app!!!! No more.
Fool me once shame on you
Fool me twice shame on me!
So sorry I missed this video on no dig day - the freebies looked great (especially re the cover crops). I've watched so many of your videos (missed this one though!) that I feel like I've been to Homeacres :)
Ah shame, and that is nice!
looking stylish on this holiday mr dowding
😎 oh yes
I just want to say thank you for the new calendar. I absolutely love it. It has beautiful pictures and informative. I can just look, see what to plant each month without putting together a plan with other resources. ❤
Super thanks Joy 🌱
Just got mine! Will be attempting on adapting it to zone 5a, where nothing survives winter but I hope to have at least 2 crops with seedlings sowed in modules in advance
Thank you Charles for sharing this video. It’s helpful informative. give me an idea what to plant in my garden next year 😊
Salam from Pakistan, thanks Charles for inspiring me to start no dig two years ago which has improved my yields.
Hi Romana, I'm delighted to hear that and I hope you can interest others too
Hi Charles looking forward to it!👍💚🙏
Thank you for your inspiring work and sharing of knowledge. Wish I could buy a plot right next door to you!
Any time! Joking 😂 land here is rarely sold
Beautiful your NoDig gardening method Charles. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and video's.
You are very welcome Robert
Worried it was going to be a wash-out - rain here (Norfolk) most of the morning. Got out, harvested last of peppers, tomatoes, put plants on compost heap; raked, watered, planted out mizuna, mibuna, winter lettuce (Chiltern's mix), pak choi; sowed peas for shoots (optimistic this late?) Greenhouse now full. Happy No-Dig Day to all!
Great jobs Alan. We just sowed peas for shoots 🌱!
What a difference a year makes!
Yes! Greetings from Norfolk again. My greenhouse was planted with winter salads etc over a fortnight ago. I'm now trying to source some woodchip to make my paths nice and distinct for the next year. Compost from the left half of my very un-Dowdinglike (roofless, slow, cold) system will get spread some time in the next ten days, then I shall turn this year's additions into the empty bay and cover it. This year's wonderful carrots and parsnips will have to be lifted, then the compost spread. I'm hoping tomorrow is another nice day... @@howardchambers9679
This was my first year with a true no dig bed, having converted my double dug beds to no-dig last year. In that bed I have grown Blue Lake pole beans, black zucchini, and followed the zucchini with turnip and radish. Tried a fall planting of beets, but armadillos and feral cats dug them up while young seedlings.
Sounds a good year John except for the digging of others!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Double dug the first of those beds 14 years ago and the newest 5 years ago. All before I heard of no dig or even no till. Impressed with the results in just the 2 years of no dig though.
Congratulations, happy International No Dig Day!
Yay thanks, it was a happy occasion :)
Lovely to watch and see how my plants should look!! Maybe next year…….😅
You can do it Teri (not maybe)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you are kind.
Thank you for all the inspiration. I work in a library and yesterday I wore my 'Charles' t-shirt and set up a no-dig display with your book and others. We have a seed library in our library and lots of patrons are gardeners so it was fun to promote and talk about.
Oooh, this is lovely and brilliant 🌱🌱🌱
Love it!! Great way to combine work and pleasure Michele and your library sounds a step ahead, what a great idea to share seeds.
Im watching youre video's for some years now, even before that i (and my father) was doing a bit of no digging underneath my soft-fruits and in my flower garden by adding composted woodchips. My father worked as a gravedigger and he (loved to) dug the vegtable every year putting rabbitdung from a neighbour underneath! So i did also, but i could not understand that everything i put under was gone a year later althoug we had real nice soil and super crops! But then i found youre video's! Sadly my dad became sick and my parents need to move because they had a real big garden and my mum would not been able to keep it tigh!
So i started no dig at my own smal garden and now on a alotment(?)
To bad my dad never seen it come together but he would love it for sure!!
And now the message i meant to write before i began to ramble😅
Thank you Charles!!! The passion you have for your garden and evertything around it is unbelieveble! And youre enthousiasm to teach the whole world is just wonderful and contages!
So from Drachten, Fryslân in the Netherlands sorry for my probebly bad english and thank you for your knowledge!!
Sinsearly Tseard-jan Struiksma
And i wil try to send you some pictures of the new alotment i started on my mate his plot in the near future
Hello Tseard-Jan,
Thanks so much for your very touching message. I feel privileged to be able to reach people like you and help your gardening.
That's an amazing story about your father and silly me, but I would've imagined he might love no dig, as a holiday from his job! I'm sure he would be very interested.
I'm so happy that you're getting a great result there and even more that you are helping your friend. It still puzzles me how this beautiful method is spreading quite slowly, and it's brilliant if everyone like you informs someone else, so the world can have better energy and people will be more healthy.
Like my dad im also love to work and specialy in the garden and to enjoy al the living creatures buzzing and crawling around! My mom told me as a teenager dont make from youre hobby youre jo and i think se is right because i realy enjoy to help someone with there garden cutting hedges mowing gras or help with there houseplants to explain stuf, mainly to not buy everything a gardencenter wants to sel to you!
When i was 14 years old i looked like a metalhead, long hair and lots of skulls on my clothes but i also collected fuchsia plants, now at age 37 im bald with a long goatie but since a few years i started collecting fuchias agian only peranials this time the flower til 2/3 weeks ago!!!
Mabye next year i wil make some youtube video's of my own
@@MrTseardjan Great history!
I started a No Dig garden this spring in Zone 3 and it worked just wonderfully. Highly recommend this practice and thanks to Mr. Dowding.
Great to hear Romy
That's pretty cold there, right?
@@eb1684 We get to -40C in the winter and we have only 90 frost-free days in the growing season. Very challenging but the No Dig method proved very effective.
@@romytittel8960 Did you know that -40C is equal to -40F?
no dig crops looks so much healthier
Hi Charles. Your home acre farm looks amazing
I bought two varieties of Polish organic garlic from my local Polish shop, and one variety shot up in a fortnight and the other is poking through. Xx
Fascinating!
Will let you know next year if it works
Warm wishes 🤞 to all Green thumbs from Cortez, Colorado. We are putting up some mouth watering 😋 salsa 🌶 and It's snowing 🌨 here now. I hope the habanero plants in the green house of mine ripen quickly. Temperatures🌡 in the teens in the next couple of nights. Thanks, Charles, perfect entertainment while Canning!
Sounds great Timothy, except the cold!
Timothy, we're not yet in the teens here east of ABQ, but my tomatoes took for ever to put out fruit, then the first killed the plants while the fruits were still green. 7a, 6900ft windy. Any tips?
Hello from the Brazilian drylands! Thank you...I really appreciate that you WEIGH your produce....
Welcome! I did not know they were drylands in Brazil!
Happy no dig day!
you killing me,,,,, i went and bought seeds for the other radicchio you planted rossa and chichory lusia and now you planting radicchio 506tt.....i want that one now to!!! looks beautiful
I have lovely Lusia too!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig i know that....that why i planted it, because i saw it from you..... and now you show me this 506tt and i want that to lol
Very impressive Charles, your not alone fighting the hot and dry. In OK, usa we had the toughest summer since 1980.
Yours is tougher Leland!
Hey Leland we are fellow Oklahoma. Seminole, we had the worst here in a 100 years they say . We are still 14 inches Short for the year according to the mesonet
Glad too your garlic from the shop is up already, same thing with my lidl "Spanish" Garlic
Nice! We hope...
great video
Glad you enjoyed it Steven
أنا أشكرك بشدة على وجود ترجمه باللغة العربية و اتمنى لك التوفيق و النجاح
شكرًا! إنها للأسف غالية الثمن، لذا لا أستطيع أن أقدمها في كل مرة
Hello,I love it.
I've been enjoying the benefits of No Dig for years, and glad to see it growing in popularity! Happy No Dig Day!
You were an early mover, yes is super to see it gaining ground
Love the no dig day! Thank you for sharing all your no dig wisdom. I wish I had discovered no dig years ago.
Cool, thanks Eve
It's so nice to have a video that is more in depth as well as gives a visual tour of everything growing. I notice you have some sturdy beams in your greenhouse, if you suspend a plank to them you could place your rye seedlings on it and maybe keep the mice off them? 😁🌱☀️
Thanks! Turns out it was a snail eating the rye!
Your work looks so satisfying. I have space and land but fear of feeling lonely there and working alone.
That's nice.
Yes it can be lonely work but offset by connection with soil and land. Others will be attracted.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ya TRUE. You people encourages a lot. I grow my 70% of vegetables in my home terrace and seriously love and dream to have a self build up area as you did. I grew up in forest department as my father was scientist and still can't forget that connection and feel of being connected with soil and plant.
Thank you 😀👍
Informative. Thank you
You're welcome Howard
Hello from Penticton, Canada, thanks very much for all your videos. We have just under an acre and try to grow as much as we can. We started a 2 bay pallet compost after watching your video. Managed to spread the one bay and fill the other to the top. Just in time as it's snowing now. We tried the multiple sowing of beets and onions and were very successful. Thanks so much.
So nice to hear Jo, hope winter is ok
Really looking forward to it - will book the house computer!!
Celeriac is delicious with mash potato, butter and walnut
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My hubby is a traditional farmer where you plow, cultivate, plant and so on... well over the course of the past few years I have been introducing him to all these methods but in my garden.. it's been a process for me as well to change my thoughts process. I'm in eastern Ontario Canada so my winter is soon to arrive, but what I'm doing differently now is leaving the plants root base in the ground and just adding composted manure to the top then covering with either leaves or old hay that we are fortunate to have an abundance of (we grow that to sell.. oh and to just make mention, we do not spray our fields with ANY chemicals whatsoever!!, tha k goodness that's something here always been against for the welfare of the animals who in turn eat that then we do as well, so he's partially already there in his knowing)
Good to read this and well done, say hello to your husband!
Good on ya. Youre an inspiration
Oh thank you
Apart frim growing, your physical mobility has impressed and encouraged me to be more agile.
I enjoy your peaceful nature and the beautiful garden youve created.
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I always love you video they are so chill!
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I struggled with my brassicas this year , 3 times i sowed each of them , but when i transplanted outside they bolted , due to the unusual temps , same with spinach , parsley and coriander , it was end of September for 4th time lucky , i covered them all with fleece or mesh now , not taking any chances , hopefully there will be something to harvest by next spring .
If sown late spring to midsummer, those veg always bolt Andy. Early August is best for sowing them, good luck
THE HALF LIFE OF THOSE TURNIPS IS 50 YEARS INCASE ANYONE WAS WONDERING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You, Mr Charles 💝 These tours are always soooo inspiring 💖 I love the ending photo of you smiling, too 💝
So glad, thanks 💚
Happy No Dig Sir Charles and all gardeners
Such a great walk around, you always inspire me. Thank you 🙏🏻
Endlich mal jemand der das super erklärt, ich weiß das zwar alles schon, aber einigen ist das bestimmt eine große hilfe.🤠🙏
Danke, das weiß ich zu schätzen
Great video and thank you for sharing. Happy 'No dig day' Charles. Best wishes Jason from Melbourne Australia..
Thanks, you too Jason
Spent No Dig Day with COVID positivity, but I do spread some knowledge of No Dig every chance I get to do it. Keep up the great work and thank you for the regular videos. Composting for the win!
Cheers Jordan!
Dziękuję za.możliwoßć oglądania z tłumaczeniem na Polski.Jestem.heppy.!!
Konkurs no-dig mnie zaskoczył.Ma drogi rok się wysłać zdjęcia
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There is no garden more beautiful than yours. My eyes and my soul enjoy all your videos.Warm greetings from Austria Vienna 🌷
So nice thanks
Love your garden! Every time I watch your videos I feel energetic to work and continue. I love to watch your videos in the morning I feel excited to start my day with a smile. -keep posting please
Thanks I love that!
Looks Great Charles great job and thank you for all the information and your work.
Thanks 👍
Amazing #nodigday, so much to celebrate 🎉abundance, health, respect for the environment ❤. Thank you so much for all that you do 🙏🏼🙌🏽🌍☀️
Thanks Muriel 💚
Siempre es un gusto escucharte, gracias Charles
Gracias Berbania 💚
Looking forward to the sourdough starter vlog, its my favourite type of bread! You have so many crops growing, it gives me hope for mine. Thanks Charles for all the inspiration. I just wish it would stop raining now here in southern Scotland, so I can get out and do something!!!
Cheers Jenny and yes the weather has turned! Looks drier for you after midweek :)
Happy No Dig Day!!!!
Rock on!
Lovely video and congrats on No Dig Day!!! Irony one of the ads was for mucky d’s…..
No way! Thanks
What a wonderful, joyful garden tour. I always learn something new with your information Charles. Thank you
My pleasure!
Hi All This Looks Like It's Going Be A Great Day Really Looking Forward To This. And Receiving The Great Help And Information Charlie's Always Gives. He Will Get His Reward From The King 👑 Soon He Would cerunly Well Deseve It.
HAVE A GREAT DAY CHARLIE'S AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. HAPPY GARDENING TO YOU ALL.
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Just had to pause the video and say how much I love the notion of the broccoli "just celebrating life" with an secondary productive stalk. 😄❤
Another pause to ask of the turnips are also referred to as Hakurai...? Had them for the first time from the farmers market here in northern California and immediately went and bought seeds...lol
Outstanding video, garden, tour, and info! Couldnt play in the garden yesterday because I worked...but today is a day off to get dirty! Likely putting garlic in - and admiring the zinnias which are still going absolutely mad! First year planting them and nothing has brought more visual joy to us...or the neighbors driving past! Saving as many seeds as possible, and have noticed random ones sprouting in various garden places (thanks to the squirrels and birds) even though we're down into the 30s and 40s at night already. Such an easy and stunning flower!
Yes, Michelle and Hakurei is the generic type, with the one here being the variety Tokyo Cross F1 hybrid - so fast, so tasty
So good to hear Michelle and thanks, have fun today
Celebrating No Dig Day by raking fall leaves and mulching with the lawnmower for the compost heap. This is wonderful, Charles. Long time coming but here we are! Cheers!
😀thanks
Your veggies / produce look amazing. I’m still picking lemon marigolds, bachelor buttons and zinnias. People still have head sized dahlias and roses are in near full bloom.
Sounds great, and thanks
Lovely camera work Nicola - thank you.
Thanks Kenneth, I will pass that on to her, she will be very pleased!
Good no dig day Charles ! My name is Charles as well , great name hahaha . In regards to your rye . We noticed a great thing this summer , I put out buckets of water with a black light clamped over it with a typical heat lamp reflector shield . We left it on over night to attract bugs to fall in water for chicken treats , but the happy little accident was we caught 1000s of the click beetles, so hope we will slow the life cycle of the wire worms this way by capturing the adult beetles and using them as chicken feed and cycling them as nutrients in our chicken compost system. Maybe something for a thought to consider, the beetle is easy to trap this way . Far easies then picking wire worms but they have a long life cycle. Some as long as 7 years as a worm I have read depends on the type . But a maintenance to slow the reproductive cycle possibly .
Your fall is looking great ! Thank you for the videos I have learned so much !
Wow this is to cool
How amazing Charles! Thanks for that idea. Horrible pest!
Charles I planted a variety of garlic same time as you and my shop brought/china cloves have done exactly the same. They started appearing about a week after planting crazy
Hi Nikki, how interesting!
I love that the calabrese is just celebrating life! 🎉 I’m going to use that saying
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Love it!
Happy no dig day Charles 👌
Seleria my favourite, great idea to use white mustard as cover crop
Thank you, Charles! Wonderful to spend half an hour in your garden on No Dig day, amazing things 👍❤
I thought I'd share a little tip regarding the wire worm problem. I have to warn you though - it involves a little bit of digging. The principle is to lure out the ww by digging a trench, ideally 6" or so deep (the original method advised around 8") at the space of a 1-1.5', then add any sprouted beans/peas into the trench and cover it with a board for a couple of days. Then come and scoop out the contents of the trench: beans/peas and the ww busy eating the treat (perhaps, feed it all to the chickens).
I haven't tried this method yet and it means some digging, but if the pressure is too much, then maybe this could be an option?
Thank you for your wisdom and everything you do for the gardeners in the whole world!
Wow digging!! 😂 Thanks so much Inna - I think we now have dew, also sowed mustard seeds, hopefully not too late
Thank you so much for all you do! I love that I can buy individual seed to harvest courses, just of the things I want to grow, and a few at a time for cost purposes. I have watched about 90% of your videos on this channel and never once felt like it was time wasted. For No Dig Day, I am going to plant my November seeds! You can sow seeds most months here in NE Florida.
Lovely to hear, happy winter gardening, nice climate for it
No dig gives me so much joy thanks to Charles 😊😊
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La qualité de vos images est magnifique. Merci.
Super! merci
Happy No Dig Day to everyone. 🤗
Greetings from Germany :-)
Beautiful garden Charles! Enjoy the nice weather while it lasts! Great video! 🤗
Thanks so much Cami
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You are very welcome! Have a great weekend!
Well done. Very useful and time saving method.
A superb tour of the plots - fabulous to see and amazing that you did so much in just one take - amazing! - how do you remember all those dates? Your passion is infectious.
Glad you enjoyed it Nick. Crazy what is in my head! And I am delighted to inspire 🌱
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So wonderfull videos! Thanks! Sinapis alba is very good idea with garlic. I foud some studies where it helped stop fusarium desease in soil, witch could damage the garlic if soil is infected. Also find study where finding was that Sinapis alba made wire worms to develop to the state that they couldn't overwinter.
Thanks for sharing! Good information
Happy No Dig Day 💚
Aha, woodlice! Thanks for the ID! Happy No Dig Day!