Mieszkam w Polsce ale od Pana nauczyłam się metody no dig już trzy lata mam grządki takie jak Pan i dość ładne plony bardzo się cieszę że trafiłam na filmy z których dużo się uczę dziękuję bardzo za tyle przekazanej wartościowej wiedzy o uprawie roślin pozdrawiam
10:25 Obelisks traditionally identify energy vortexes which are not nurturing and manipulate/enhance that energy. You already sit on a nurturing vortex which is why your land produces such beautiful, abundant crops. Be careful about messing around with the great energy which already exists where you are. Edit to add: Let the pond drain. Negative energy vortexes are often connected to bodies of water (usually underground). My mother was a master gardener who would put most modern gardeners to shame. Our property had a huge man-made pond which she ordered drained so neighbor kids wouldn’t drown in it. Her gardens flourished after this. When I saw your overgrown pond it made me smile because that’s what ours looked like. Even when it was full it was always trying to drain. That’s because that location was a nurturing vortex like yours.
Amazing garden.....I'd like to add, I have a pond similar to yours, not as big though at the bottom of my garden and it too fills and empties many times a year. I pump to the top of my garden into a couple tanks when the pond is full. This year was extremely good so I only needed to fill the tanks twice to get me through those dry periods but before this setup I was using water from the house costing me $100 to $150 a year, so now my foods even cheaper. Cheers and happy gardening everyone, may you all be bless with lots of sun and a good soaking of rain every 3 days.
thank you for the subtitles because English isnt my first language and with your accent it's even harder for me to understand so cc helps a lot. I would watch your videos until i fall asleep ill have it on auto play which is awesome so i think im dreaming of gardening too lol .. i would wake up at 1am and realize i still have you on and thats the only time id turn it off... you have such a calming voice i use your videos as a relaxing sleep sound❤ so i learn a lot and calms my mind👍
I have chickens, ducks, and geese for years. Have lost too many chickens to fox, have never lost a duck or goose to fox or hawk. I even love letting the ducks and geese in the garden ... at least after the tomatoes are too tall for them to reach. This year, in the autumn, I even let the cows and sheep in the garden. The ducks and geese are like freaking bug vacuum cleaners. The occasional rooster even finds his way into my garden. A small to medium sized dog would go a long way to keeping out badgers and also protecting fowl, but there is an investment in containment, and also IK you are a plant guy, not an animal guy. I would never try to change you. But I have to say it is a beautiful symbiosis. Speaking of beautiful symbiosis, the fowl and ruminants also work beautifully and naturally together, i.e. without monsanto or pharmaceutical involvement, just like the egrets and water buffalo.
Like always inspiring to watch,,and when ever you say weeding at the earliest,,it tells myself go out and better get top on weeds😀 thanks for the inspiration 👍🙏🇮🇳
@CharlesDowding1nodig yeah indeed it's like we are at optimum temperatures here in India ,,most of the time in southern part wherein temperatures dont reach that extreme
I have a Sunflower blooming down the side of my garden fence. I planted it very late, and it's survived and flowered. If we get some snow next week (was forecast here in Liverpool but now it isn't apparently) I'll get a video of it because I can't imagine there are many videos of massive Sunflowers in the snow 🌻😂
@@maninashed9367 Yes, I still have a second flush on the ones in containers, that happens every year for me, they just struggle to turn fully red. I'm going to put a video on my channel of the Sunflower next week because it 'might' snow. Keep an eye out my friend. Everyone is welcome at Scouse Farm 🌹
Dziękuję, Karolu, za twoje filmy, w których dzielisz się wiedzą, pasją, swoją pracą i badaniami. Bardzo mnie inspiruje i motywuje twój entuzjazm, za co mój ogród jest ci wdzięczny. Oglądam filmy z polskimi napisami👩🌾
Great to have subtitles. But in full honesty, I truly like your English. And I will gladly fall for the temptation and cheaply say, that your English is as beautiful to listen to, as you garden beds are neatly taken care of. No weed words, no haste, very modest portion of plugging your merch, spot on, captivating and with right amount of solemn quality. Some people are truly nice, with a Midas touch! Just keep spreading that golden compost of yours :)
The best thing I've done regarding gardening was discovering this channel & going 'no dig' a few years ago. I'm slowly getting better at 'follow on' planting too & even now have probably 70% of my beds growing something.
Just in case no one suggested it, you could "borrow" ducks and pop up electric fence around the areas you want them to feast in. The fence is super easy to move around and you could go patch by patch with them. The fox that happen to come by will not go near the electric fence. It really does help to knock back the slug population. Worth it to do a couple times a year if really bad. You will be amazed at the difference.
wow what a great thing to do. I love that Charles really does care about teaching people. His passion and kind spirit is what this world needs. A real treasure
Amazing news on the different languages of subtitles, Im fluent in english, but it's great to be able to refresh my brain with the portuguese, much appreciated. Im sure it's helpful in other countries.
For those who, like me, have deer galore which can go through a garden and wipe out half your veggies in a night, I discovered cattle panels. These consist of heavy duty welded wire panels 4 ft x 16ft. If you use 90 degree screws on your posts you can simply hang the panels on the posts then remove them to weed along the fence row. They can also be stored out of the way when you don’t need them. Haven’t had any trouble with deer since I started using them.
That's so helpful comment Yvonne, thanks. Funnily enough, we have been noticing deer hoof prints all through the grass in the last few days, but very little eating of vegetables, except for Sugarloaf chicory!
Hi Charles I keep 4 ducks to help keep the slugs down and did not loose too many sowings during the earlier part of this year when most garderners seemed to be having serious problems. There are plenty of foxes here in Wicklow the ducks will return to the pen every evening you just need to shut the pen door. A word of warning they will eat a lot of your crops if you do not fence them off. I let mine onto the beds once the crop has been cleared and sometimes onto well established plantings. It would be worth trialing for a season or 2. The eggs are an added delicious bonus.
Thanks John, that is helpful, but I don't have the time for managing that. I know I mention slugs a lot, but it's not like I'm losing more than a small amount, and something like the Chinese cabbage are famous for hosting them! Your success sounds good though, and keep it up!
I love that you show us things that haven't worked so well. One of the biggest obstacles I've found on our allotment is getting our 14 year old to come along and do something - until this time of year as he loves to wheelbarrow the manure to spread on our no-dig plot! We've cleared and covered half the plot already and will be putting cardboard and woodchip on our paths as we are still battling couch grass and spreading sorrel. This is my favourite time of year on the plot!
Hi Charles. Towards the end of the video when you were in the greenhouse, I noticed behind you, white buckets with drilled holes in them. They had mushrooms growing on the sides of the buckets. Do you happen to have a video that I can watch about that? Great video and thanks for the garden tour. You have lovely garden beds and I also adore no dig gardening.
Thanks nice to hear. They are the work of Adam and see his channel for details. @myco_ad on Instagram too The buckets are filled with rice straw and he impregnated with spores he propagates on grains.
4:46 I like your resilience for pest dammage. I have a tendency to panick a little when I see damage like that in my garden. I will have to learn to ''live with it'' as you seems to do, but i'm sure its heartbreaking for your leeks. Thank you for sharing those experiences with us, good or bad, because this is what gardening is at the end of the day...
A quick tip for bugs - take a gallon jug and place 1 cup of raw milk or organic milk, ad 3 tablespoons of mollasses, fill the rest with water. Shake to mix, use a spray bottle and spray the underside of leaves and tops and also stems. Bugs cannot digest the sugar in mollasses so it kills them or makes the plants less desirable. The milk feeds the plants and the molasses adds potassium and other minerals.
I would like to see more on the hours put in, on daily ,weekly and monthly by season. Also the number of people involved to maintain that level of production and cleanliness. There are times when I wonder if my expectations of my help are too high.
I would have time to record all that if I were a funded research station, and were not doing so many other things. Apart from digging, the time i differences are not large. It's more that for a similar amount of inputs, except the 2hr dig, the output is 12% less.
Lovely tour. So inspiring with winter looming. ☺ I just harvested the last of the Aspabroc(broccolini) yesterday. I planted it in semi shade way back in April and it has given me a weekly harvest the whole season. While I have rocket, I think the seed isn't always the type they say it is. I like it all so it is ok to get the surprise. 😅 Our September was like summer mostly, so my Chinese cabbage bolted and some of the choys. I just harvested some seeds so it isn't a total loss. The other really great side effect is that the bees have something to eat on the sunny days. Having flowers that come through the frost is so important for them this time of year. The frost hardy mustards, leafy greens and root veg varieties really keep us out of the grocery store this time of year. They are so worth it. Our fall has been mild enough that the cilantro is still growing. As long as the snow doesn't fly, it is still gardening season. 😁
Looks so nice. The chicory is so beautiful. I grow radicchio. I love the bitter flavor. I grew Chinese cabbage and the birds made the leaves look like skeletons 😂. I covered it and they are growing back. I actually prefer regular cabbage, so I’m not going to grow again. Good luck with the cold weather coming. It’s coming my way too. Thanks for the tour. 😊
Started first no dig bed couple weeks ago, garlic planted and module broad beans ready to plant out. Bed feels wonderful. New bed made today but will need little time to finish snd that's OK. So inspired. Thank you. ❤
Także mieszkam w Polsce. Od ponad 4 lat z przyjemnością oglądam Pana filmiki, dużo się nauczyłam i nadal się uczę. Szkoda, że nie ma Pana książek w polskim wydaniu. Serdecznie pozdrawiam
5:03 I have similar in my beds, my garden is walled so no badger access without me knowing, I think it’s birds and our resident hedgehog rustling through everything! 😂🦔
It’s always fun to see all of the veg you have growing at every time. I needed to get my seed starting better so there is actually something to plant outside ! Also theses interesting greens you grow!
Always amazes me how at one you are with your garden, whether it be knowing sowing/planting dates, specific variety names or the amount of harvests you've taken from each bed. I swear Minty is following you around with cue cards!! 😆
Hello Charles, Thank you so much for this lovely and peaceful tour. In my winter garden, I have leaks with lamb lettuce, pak choi, mizuna, red kale, nero di toscana, mustards, scarole, very few carrots, parsley and coriander. Hope to do better next year and so looking forward to growing new varieties such as parsnip, purslane, roquette, sweet Florence fennel, swede, sweet potatoes. Can't wait ! About to start 3 new beds using your no dig cardboard + compost method for potatoes, onions and squash. So exciting ! Freezing in Champagne... Have a nice Sunday !
I'm happy to see this Katherine, and thank you. It's wonderful how we can always have plans to grow more without increasing growing space, and try new things. Here it's still 6C!
Good morning Charles! Thank you for sharing your garden tour with us! I found it very interesting! I purchased your compost book and I’m enjoying reading it. My next project will be my compost system.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ah! Correct. Most of the time we eat what I have stored up, canned, frozen and/or freeze dried in the summer. This coming year, 2025, goal is to grow enough to feed the animals as well. :) I spend so much time in the winter planning and plotting, researching varieties etc that when spring rolls around I am beyond excited to get to work again. 45 degrees? That is t-shirt/shorts/garden weather around here.
Rooting Tomato side shoots is a little trick i learnt years ago and a good way to keep a variety going as you said and also doing it for extra plants in the Spring!
18:07 Was my first year growing broad beans this year and I was really impressed with the flavour and texture of the tops - I'd never eaten them before. I sautéed them with a little butter. I found they tasted like pea shoots and the crunchy yet soft texture was great. A later sowing of broad beans got black aphids so I couldn't eat them unfortunately. I definitely think they are a good idea as a cover crop. I've sown some field beans for this purpose last week. Hopefully I can enjoy the tops in spring then I will cut and compost the stems. Cover crops that you can also get a harvest out of too is very appealing to me.
Thank you Charles for your inspiration, insight and ideas! I'll be taking cuttings of my tomato plants because you mentioned it! Peace and Blessings to you and everyone 🌱🌻🍂
Hi Charles. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Your gardens are so lush and look delicious. You keep me motivated. I've noticed since we have our organic garden, besides the rich flavors, I'm so satisfied and don't get the crazy food cravings and extra weight gain. I have more energy and love challenges keeping us young. In our mid 70's. Have an awesome, restful and prosperous winter.
It's such a lovely garden to tour atound... Thank you for keeping it real and sharing the root fly, badgers, slugs, and pigeons... gardening without nasty chemicals poses fun challenges but is sooo rewarding.. Late spring here and very dry, with strong sunny days... my plant babies are loving and hating it at the same time.. Mulch has gone on early, but the heat has sorted many of the slugs... and the cabbage moths are out and about.. so nets and BT are on the list for this week... I'm off to find a Charles late spring tour and see what else I've forgotten!! Thankyou!
I do so enjoy you sharing an update tour of Homeacres 🙏🏻. Really appreciate you taking the time. Hope pre-Christmas sales of your books and calendar do well.
At least you got gorgeous blue skies eventually. Once the gloom cleared we had aircraft contrail skies and haze blocking most of that sun 🔆 grrrr. Something needs to be done about aircraft persistent contrails and the homogenitus cirrus clouds they now create (where they never did 20+ya).
We have grown our leeks under enviromesh since the moment they sprouted. We limit the time we have the mesh off and so far, no leaf miner. We've lost entire crops to it in the past.
I've been pulling caterpillars off my cabbage because it's been so mild in London. Crazy to think I'm wishing cold weather 🤣 anyway, it looks like it's coming this week.
Your bed tours are such a fascinating joy Charles, and especially on a sunny late autumn day! ❤🤩 Oh BTW, I see you're into energy tools. Google the Les Brown Pyramid PDF 😮👌🏼
Your garden looks so bountiful. I need to focus on more succession planting. I did better this year than any other, and I am learning to utilize the new greenhouse too. Next year, I want to plan with more intention. Thank you for sharing your successes and problems.
Nice to hear. I find that the leaves become more pungent as plants get older, so if you want them mild, you need to keep re-sowing. However, in winter that's not practical, but the plants keep growing fortunately with less seeding in winter months.
I would put a sonic scarer at the access point where the badger comes in and another overlooking the bed with a solar light that comes on when activated asit worked in my garden.
Great tour Charles, I love all of them. Oh how I miss eating parsnips :P I'm just sowing my carrots as well as cauliflower, beetroot and peas. 4th planting of cucumbers, corn and tomatoes this year. Thanks for posting.
Thank you, Charles, for all that you do. At the risk of embarrassing myself, I've been wondering why my tomatoes from saved seed haven't been the same for a couple of years. I didn't know what the F1 hybrid meant 😳 Will try your method next year.
Omg Sir Charles, I have not checked on my really beautiful looking leeks so far, fingers crossed the leek moth did not find it😮. Have a wonderful Christmas break. ❤
Hola buenas noches, Estoy muy agradecido con este video, Es realmente bueno. Siempre tube dudas con respecto a la limpieza de las malezas, ¿como hacias para tener cada cultivo tan limpio? Hoy lo has aclarado mucho y te lo agradezco. Dios los bendiga y gracias por tan buena informacion
Me complace poder ayudarte. Con el método No Dig, crecen menos malezas y, si veo alguna, la quito cuando es muy pequeña. La mayor parte del abono que uso no tiene muchas semillas de malezas, lo que ayuda. Y nos aseguramos de tener bordes prolijos para que no entren muchas semillas.
Thanks as always Charles. One leek related question if you don't mind? I finally transplanted my leeks into my raised bed at the end of the summer and they were growing nice and well. But quite soon I noticed they were being attacked by these little black insects. Then one by one, each leek wilted and died! This has never happened before, I've always managed to grow leeks fairly well, and I was absolutely gutted as I was looking forward to harvesting them over the winter. My question is: what happened?! Was there a connection between the insects and the wilting? I can't find a satisfactory diagnosis of the problem in any book or the internet. Thank you!
Oh dear, and that sounds like the allium leaf miner, which is spreading out from its starting point in the East Midlands which was over 20 years ago. It arrived here big-time last year and it is destructive, as you notice. Especially because your leeks went in late! I would sow the seed early April and transplant June, with mesh over if you can manage that. Try Jolant variety.
Have netted my leaks all season. We usually get allium leaf minor in November. Have not harvested them yet, but they are not showing any signs of infestation yet.
Charles is the not first no dig, have been no dig for 32 years, in New Zealand. My reason only flat ground was on top of a turning bay for a old loading bay, a deep layer of shringle on top of many metres of clay. Have been composting onsite every since now make heaps 4 metres plus square, cold compost heaps, takes 2 years to make, a fw months to use it all, how make compost several different ways!
Great to hear Helen! I never claim to be the first because there were gardeners doing similar in the 1940s, and their results were brilliant. I guess I'm the first to put it out there big-time.
I fell behind with fall maitanance in my garden, and it's already too cold to weed etc 😅...it must wait till spring so I don't freeze my brain and bones off.
Charles not sure if you watch any TV but just in case you haven’t seen this I thought you and Adam may Enjoy. BBC iPlayer Fungi-The Web of Life. Just amazing 🤩
@ 😂 it may be on TH-cam 🤔it’s definitely worth a watch. In fact Merlin Sheldrake ( the Mushroom 🍄 Man) could be advocating for (no dig), thanks for replying 😊.
Thank you Charles, greetings from the Pacific Northwest of USA! A question came up for me while watching this great video. In some of our beds where we do not have a winter or cover crop, I have been leaving weeds this time of year in order to keep life/roots/cover/protection. I would then weed before spring planting when soil a bit dryer too. I am curious what your thoughts are on this?
Hi Sara and no thanks!! Weeds are weeds because they are incredibly opportunistic plants, so I reckon many of those you leave will be going to seed and by spring, there will be a high number of new weed seeds, which were not there before, causing a lot of extra time needed. That's my main thing I seek to avoid, because time is my most scarce resource.
its just nice to see the soil textures atm we have some dry weather , i hear most say at last!!! lol so ive been out tidying about too today without a coat! woo lol but yes we due a frost tuesday so took today to sort out all the fleeces for the worst days , i however dont like covering for long as the pests pretty much get a cozy hotel for winter if you do in my opinion as we tend to neglect what we cant see haha, thinking of digging up my drive in early spring, no point having room for a car if you dont drive right? haha , 4 new beds for me next year southfacing it be silly not to use up the space
Like I've said before no ways is my garden has good has yours. I grew Czar runner beans this year and shelled them a couple of days ago and got 2.6 kilos from a double row But, I tried drying them but I will loose at least half of them or more because they are going brown. Same has the Bramleys I've tried to save, they have mostly got bitter pit, that's the ones that survived the Codling moths. There are gaps in everything I try to grow, some of the attacks are from below the soil. I could carry on for ages. Previously you advised seaweed to battle mealy aphids attacking my swedes, that has worked to some extent but it's probably too late for me to get a proper crop from them. Therefore, if you have time would you say that seaweed fertilizer is the answer to my growing problems in an highly alkaline soil? Although some of the manure I get doesn't necessarily come from that type of soil or the wood chips I get either. But grass cuttings and green compost does. Sorry to bother you again.
From what you say, I think that you need to use more of the manure you can get, or mushroom compost, although that is more expensive. The seaweed is an extra and can make a huge difference, but before that, the soil needs to be in a state of strong fertility, because vegetables are such demanding plants, as you are noticing! I would spread up to 3 inches of any well, rotted animal manual this autumn, before Christmas.. By Spring, it will be much softer and you can use a fork or rake to make it nice for popping in plants.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for that Charles but I do use a lot of Horse Manure already. I have two 4' square bits for horse manure straw and wood chips and one 4' bin for green compost cardboard and wood chips. But I sometimes cannot get the temperature up to 60 deg. C especially in Winter.
Here in Namibia we had extreme heat, but getting signs of rain, though not quite. Any advise on dealing with red spider mite on mostly potatoes. They are killing plants before it flowers?
Hi Michael, I was in Zambia 1991, and remember the difficulties people were having with red spider mite which seemed to be endemic there, especially on plants stressed by dry conditions. All I can suggest is somehow to find more water, and to wet leaves as well.
I love your updates....I have veg bed envy..... Sadly my garden has reverted to clumps of moss and liverwort due to the awful weather of the past year or so.... If I covered the lungwort as the no dig, with cardboard and compost, do you think it would kill it.... I don't like the idea of poisons . Someone also suggested bicarb but I would need tonnes of it .. just at a loss.🤔🤔
Thanks, and yes, the weather has been so wet, perhaps more for you than here. Definitely that will make a huge difference because the surface compost drains more freely and does not sit soggy. You do however need around 4 inches/10 cm on the cardboard. Maybe do a small area first, according to what compost you can find.
Hi Charles, I would love to know how you go about selecting which mushroom compost or cow manure to use on your garden beds. I’ve heard that cows are wormed regularly and also mushrooms would be occasionally treated with pesticides etc. Do you find that this affects the quality of your soil? Thank you 🙂
Hi Nadine, and fortunately, not because I reckon no dig soil is full of healthy microbes, especially the fungal mycelia, working magic on inputs with some impurities. Some of any compost is good, I don't reckon it's a precise skill and much depends what you can get hold of
Have you ever trialed Nemaslug or something like that? Here in the states it's not available yet, for some reason. But I've heard some in the UK swear by it, and it sounds like it would still be considered organic, much like Bt. I imagine you could even multiply the nematodes on your own to make it go farther in your garden.
Hi Joshua, no I never used it partly because it's made by Bayer/Monsanto and it has built in obsolescence of six weeks, so it's not cheap! I prefer to figure out natural solutions based on reducing sloth populations. I know the Chinese cabbage look bad, but they always do and I'm actually happy with the result, for the amount of work they have taken
Charles I just learned about Landrace vegetables, I had no idea that existed. Quite fascinating. Did you ever have any interest in trying to find, or even developping your own landrace vegetables? I'M very new to this world I learned about it 15 min ago so my apologies if my question doesn't make sense.
Hi Charles I just wanted ask about Autumn Leaves. Should I just add them to the compost as ‘brown’ waste or store on their own in black bin bags for leaf mould’ which I presume you just use like compost. Thank you 😊
You can do either Leonore, although it depends how many there are. If they are more than 30% of your compost heap's materials, they will make the decomposition slow and are better in a heap on their own, left for 12 to 18 months, making sure they are fully moist.
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthank you for the quick reply. There will be a lot as I am collecting them off the pavements ,not from where they have fallen on the grass. 😊
to anyone who intersows mustard with the garlic like in 20:30 , at what point do you sow the mustards? do you have to wait for the garlic to shoot up a bit first?
Sow on the same day! The mustard comes up fast for sure, and like now, six weeks later, the garlic is not much visible, but one more cold night like the -4C we had last night and the mustard shrinks before it fades away, and then you see the garlic
y donde esta mintie? ssbias míster charly que el esriwrcol de vaca se deja secar y en ciertas comunidades de m pais es usado para encender fogatas de cocina. ese estanque de agua yo pondría unos peces muy populares aca llamdos tilaphia.. el agua estaria muy nutrida para tus vegetales 🤔🤔.! a mi me encata los cambios que has echo.. disfruto lis videos es español pero aqui soy tu fan numero 1
Hi Charles, I am very grateful for your educational videos and love watching you. I bought your book and would love to take one of your courses, but as I am in The Netherlands, it probable won't happen any time soon. I have a question. I heard you say something about how many plants you need to be able to harvest genetically good seed, but I can't find it back any where. I have saved some seeds from a lonely cavolo nero and a (rather small) kale plant, that I had in pots and that I put in my front garden to wait for seeds. No mates around them to be found. Can I just chuck those seeds? And so the other question is: how many plants do I need for good seeds and how crucial is it to avoid cross pollination - which is quite impossible in my garden because of size and interplanting (I can't isolate one bed of cabbages for example)? Thanks! Barbara
Hi Barbara, thanks for your nice comment and I'm giving workshops in the Netherlands next May 11 and 12th, details following soon. For Brassica vegetables, at least 10 plants is needed for successful results and in your small garden, that's difficult for kale unless you grow them really close, say at 15 cm spacing, then maybe keep a mesh cover over them once they are flowering to prevent cross pollination with other Brassica flowers. Good luck.
Do you think brassica cover crops can perpetuate pests? I’ve seen so many white butterflies visiting my patch, and we’ve had so many harlequin bugs this year. And I have found chervil seeds in the US, I got them from Select Seeds, they offer a wide variety of herbs.
That's a good observation, but as long as a cover goes on straight after transplanting, and the transplants do not have caterpillar eggs on them, all should be good. Such as my turnips, a great success this autumn and we did that. I'm happy you found chervil!
Fantastic tour and video - appreciate the timers along the bottom. Could I ask you if you have any issues with rats? I have just discovered a nest in my compost bin (wooden and on soil). Do you put anything down, as I notice you have a beautiful kitty as do I. So, just wondering how you manage that issue please. Thanks. Best Wishes.
Thanks Elaine, and Minty the cat plus other cats are discouraging rats. I did have some before and while I do not like them particularly, I'm not worried about them being there. I don't agree that they bring disease and they do a good job of aerating heaps!
It's nice to see I have a lot of the same things you still have in over here across the pond but on a much smaller scale of course. I'm very discouraged with my sprouts however as they are infested with grey aphids. Seems to happen to me every year. And they are so hard to cover due to their height. I'll have to try building a tall frame and getting a large piece of mesh for next year. I'm only growing around 8 plants so I should be able to build something. You don't have any other suggestions do you? Thanks Charles!
Nice to hear and yes, my suggestion is water. They are better in our damp climate but yours is dryer. I'm pretty sure that if you can give them extra water in any dry weather, growth will improve a lot, aphids decrease. Plus I imagine your soil has a decent amount of compost on top.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes and Yes Charles. I was on top with watering all summer/fall and there was compost added when planted and a side dressing in Sep.
Mieszkam w Polsce ale od Pana nauczyłam się metody no dig już trzy lata mam grządki takie jak Pan i dość ładne plony bardzo się cieszę że trafiłam na filmy z których dużo się uczę dziękuję bardzo za tyle przekazanej wartościowej wiedzy o uprawie roślin pozdrawiam
Cześć Maria, i cieszę się, że to widzę, gratulacje! Ponadto sprawia, że warto mi zapewnić polskie napisy.
Thanks Charles, being almost deaf I do appreciate your high quality subtitles 👏
I am glad Ian 🙂
I really appreciate the high quality subtitles. I am profoundly deaf and the subtitles make it so much easier for me to follow you. Thanks
You are welcome Dave I am glad they help you
10:25 Obelisks traditionally identify energy vortexes which are not nurturing and manipulate/enhance that energy. You already sit on a nurturing vortex which is why your land produces such beautiful, abundant crops. Be careful about messing around with the great energy which already exists where you are.
Edit to add: Let the pond drain. Negative energy vortexes are often connected to bodies of water (usually underground). My mother was a master gardener who would put most modern gardeners to shame. Our property had a huge man-made pond which she ordered drained so neighbor kids wouldn’t drown in it. Her gardens flourished after this. When I saw your overgrown pond it made me smile because that’s what ours looked like. Even when it was full it was always trying to drain. That’s because that location was a nurturing vortex like yours.
Hi Kitty
Amazing comment, thanks so much, quite unexpected. Very interesting about the pond and I feel encouraged
Amazing garden.....I'd like to add, I have a pond similar to yours, not as big though at the bottom of my garden and it too fills and empties many times a year. I pump to the top of my garden into a couple tanks when the pond is full. This year was extremely good so I only needed to fill the tanks twice to get me through those dry periods but before this setup I was using water from the house costing me $100 to $150 a year, so now my foods even cheaper. Cheers and happy gardening everyone, may you all be bless with lots of sun and a good soaking of rain every 3 days.
This is a lovely comment, Doug, and thanks for the idea.
Thank you for all you do Charles and the team! You guys are an inspiration and your videos always brighten my day!😊🥦🥕🧄🌽🍓
So glad to hear that thanks
thank you for the subtitles because English isnt my first language and with your accent it's even harder for me to understand so cc helps a lot. I would watch your videos until i fall asleep ill have it on auto play which is awesome so i think im dreaming of gardening too lol .. i would wake up at 1am and realize i still have you on and thats the only time id turn it off... you have such a calming voice i use your videos as a relaxing sleep sound❤ so i learn a lot and calms my mind👍
I am happy and amazed!! Thanks
I have Narcissus flowering now. That's unheard of. It's been a crazy growing season
Unusual!
I have chickens, ducks, and geese for years. Have lost too many chickens to fox, have never lost a duck or goose to fox or hawk. I even love letting the ducks and geese in the garden ... at least after the tomatoes are too tall for them to reach. This year, in the autumn, I even let the cows and sheep in the garden. The ducks and geese are like freaking bug vacuum cleaners. The occasional rooster even finds his way into my garden. A small to medium sized dog would go a long way to keeping out badgers and also protecting fowl, but there is an investment in containment, and also IK you are a plant guy, not an animal guy. I would never try to change you. But I have to say it is a beautiful symbiosis. Speaking of beautiful symbiosis, the fowl and ruminants also work beautifully and naturally together, i.e. without monsanto or pharmaceutical involvement, just like the egrets and water buffalo.
Cheers Ted. That's useful to know about ducks, and I think you're right, I'm more of a plant guy than animal guy. Although I love the cat!
Like always inspiring to watch,,and when ever you say weeding at the earliest,,it tells myself go out and better get top on weeds😀 thanks for the inspiration 👍🙏🇮🇳
Thanks 👍 and I I'm sure they grow fast in your climate!
@CharlesDowding1nodig yeah indeed it's like we are at optimum temperatures here in India ,,most of the time in southern part wherein temperatures dont reach that extreme
I have a Sunflower blooming down the side of my garden fence. I planted it very late, and it's survived and flowered. If we get some snow next week (was forecast here in Liverpool but now it isn't apparently) I'll get a video of it because I can't imagine there are many videos of massive Sunflowers in the snow 🌻😂
I have 2 strawberries growing again (harvested them once back in June/July).
@@maninashed9367 Yes, I still have a second flush on the ones in containers, that happens every year for me, they just struggle to turn fully red. I'm going to put a video on my channel of the Sunflower next week because it 'might' snow. Keep an eye out my friend. Everyone is welcome at Scouse Farm 🌹
Dziękuję, Karolu, za twoje filmy, w których dzielisz się wiedzą, pasją, swoją pracą i badaniami. Bardzo mnie inspiruje i motywuje twój entuzjazm, za co mój ogród jest ci wdzięczny. Oglądam filmy z polskimi napisami👩🌾
Cieszę się, że to widzę, Anno, i dziękuję Ci
Great to have subtitles. But in full honesty, I truly like your English. And I will gladly fall for the temptation and cheaply say, that your English is as beautiful to listen to, as you garden beds are neatly taken care of. No weed words, no haste, very modest portion of plugging your merch, spot on, captivating and with right amount of solemn quality. Some people are truly nice, with a Midas touch! Just keep spreading that golden compost of yours :)
This is exactly the way I feel about Charles. What a gentleman and gentle spirit!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that, and thanks Patricia as well. 💚
The best thing I've done regarding gardening was discovering this channel & going 'no dig' a few years ago.
I'm slowly getting better at 'follow on' planting too & even now have probably 70% of my beds growing something.
So nice of you to say and 70% in November is excellent, especially as you are cooler than here
Just in case no one suggested it, you could "borrow" ducks and pop up electric fence around the areas you want them to feast in. The fence is super easy to move around and you could go patch by patch with them. The fox that happen to come by will not go near the electric fence. It really does help to knock back the slug population. Worth it to do a couple times a year if really bad. You will be amazed at the difference.
Do they not eat the veggies as well?
@@HoneyLodge1 They can but you can control where and when they are put in each area.
@@HoneyLodge1 Also, it wouldn't take them long to inhale all the yummy snails so they don't have to be in the area for too long. ☺
I find Indian runners will eat slugs first, then all the lettuce and may nibble other leaves. Khaki Campbells will munch through most things!
@angelad.8944 thank you for sharing such a great electric fence tip. I will certainly give it a try.
wow what a great thing to do. I love that Charles really does care about teaching people. His passion and kind spirit is what this world needs. A real treasure
Thanks Louise, that's nice of you
Amazing news on the different languages of subtitles, Im fluent in english, but it's great to be able to refresh my brain with the portuguese, much appreciated. Im sure it's helpful in other countries.
Nice to hear!
For those who, like me, have deer galore which can go through a garden and wipe out half your veggies in a night, I discovered cattle panels. These consist of heavy duty welded wire panels 4 ft x 16ft.
If you use 90 degree screws on your posts you can simply hang the panels on the posts then remove them to weed along the fence row. They can also be stored out of the way when you don’t need them.
Haven’t had any trouble with deer since I started using them.
That's so helpful comment Yvonne, thanks. Funnily enough, we have been noticing deer hoof prints all through the grass in the last few days, but very little eating of vegetables, except for Sugarloaf chicory!
Hi Charles I keep 4 ducks to help keep the slugs down and did not loose too many sowings during the earlier part of this year when most garderners seemed to be having serious problems. There are plenty of foxes here in Wicklow the ducks will return to the pen every evening you just need to shut the pen door. A word of warning they will eat a lot of your crops if you do not fence them off. I let mine onto the beds once the crop has been cleared and sometimes onto well established plantings. It would be worth trialing for a season or 2. The eggs are an added delicious bonus.
Thanks John, that is helpful, but I don't have the time for managing that. I know I mention slugs a lot, but it's not like I'm losing more than a small amount, and something like the Chinese cabbage are famous for hosting them! Your success sounds good though, and keep it up!
I love that you show us things that haven't worked so well. One of the biggest obstacles I've found on our allotment is getting our 14 year old to come along and do something - until this time of year as he loves to wheelbarrow the manure to spread on our no-dig plot! We've cleared and covered half the plot already and will be putting cardboard and woodchip on our paths as we are still battling couch grass and spreading sorrel. This is my favourite time of year on the plot!
I'm happy to hear that your 14-year-old is involved. Some of the good vibes, food and microbes will get him interested!
Hi Charles. Towards the end of the video when you were in the greenhouse, I noticed behind you, white buckets with drilled holes in them. They had mushrooms growing on the sides of the buckets. Do you happen to have a video that I can watch about that? Great video and thanks for the garden tour. You have lovely garden beds and I also adore no dig gardening.
Thanks nice to hear. They are the work of Adam and see his channel for details. @myco_ad on Instagram too
The buckets are filled with rice straw and he impregnated with spores he propagates on grains.
4:46 I like your resilience for pest dammage. I have a tendency to panick a little when I see damage like that in my garden. I will have to learn to ''live with it'' as you seems to do, but i'm sure its heartbreaking for your leeks. Thank you for sharing those experiences with us, good or bad, because this is what gardening is at the end of the day...
Thanks. So right.
A quick tip for bugs - take a gallon jug and place 1 cup of raw milk or organic milk, ad 3 tablespoons of mollasses, fill the rest with water. Shake to mix, use a spray bottle and spray the underside of leaves and tops and also stems. Bugs cannot digest the sugar in mollasses so it kills them or makes the plants less desirable. The milk feeds the plants and the molasses adds potassium and other minerals.
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What a beautiful garden indeed! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, you are very welcome Sue
I would like to see more on the hours put in, on daily ,weekly and monthly by season. Also the number of people involved to maintain that level of production and cleanliness. There are times when I wonder if my expectations of my help are too high.
I would have time to record all that if I were a funded research station, and were not doing so many other things. Apart from digging, the time i differences are not large.
It's more that for a similar amount of inputs, except the 2hr dig, the output is 12% less.
Lovely tour. So inspiring with winter looming. ☺ I just harvested the last of the Aspabroc(broccolini) yesterday. I planted it in semi shade way back in April and it has given me a weekly harvest the whole season. While I have rocket, I think the seed isn't always the type they say it is. I like it all so it is ok to get the surprise. 😅 Our September was like summer mostly, so my Chinese cabbage bolted and some of the choys. I just harvested some seeds so it isn't a total loss. The other really great side effect is that the bees have something to eat on the sunny days. Having flowers that come through the frost is so important for them this time of year. The frost hardy mustards, leafy greens and root veg varieties really keep us out of the grocery store this time of year. They are so worth it. Our fall has been mild enough that the cilantro is still growing. As long as the snow doesn't fly, it is still gardening season. 😁
Lovely information here, thanks. Nice to hear your enthusiasm 💚
One of your very best videos Charles, thank-you.... informal and real and just full of information and tips. Time flies when you're having fun.
I am glad you enjoyed it Lucy 🙂
Looks so nice. The chicory is so beautiful. I grow radicchio. I love the bitter flavor. I grew Chinese cabbage and the birds made the leaves look like skeletons 😂. I covered it and they are growing back. I actually prefer regular cabbage, so I’m not going to grow again. Good luck with the cold weather coming. It’s coming my way too. Thanks for the tour. 😊
Good to hear and thanks Tina, glad you enjoyed it
Started first no dig bed couple weeks ago, garlic planted and module broad beans ready to plant out. Bed feels wonderful. New bed made today but will need little time to finish snd that's OK. So inspired. Thank you. ❤
This is lovely to hear Penny, I look forward to hearing of how you get on 🙂
thanks for the subtitles.kisses from Argentina
You are welcome Naty
Nice to see you have SUN. Rainy in Oregon. Am busy covering the garden beds with leaves. So far no killer frost here.
We caught it!! Then back to dull. I hope you see it soon
Także mieszkam w Polsce. Od ponad 4 lat z przyjemnością oglądam Pana filmiki, dużo się nauczyłam i nadal się uczę. Szkoda, że nie ma Pana książek w polskim wydaniu. Serdecznie pozdrawiam
Dziękuję bardzo i mam nadzieję, że kiedyś pojawi się wersja polska!
garden still looks great well done charles
Cheers Steven!
5:03 I have similar in my beds, my garden is walled so no badger access without me knowing, I think it’s birds and our resident hedgehog rustling through everything! 😂🦔
Great you have a wall!
Thanks for the subtitles, it was a sin to miss your videos with my poor English. Greetings from Argentina
Glad you like them, thanks
I just had my final harvest of the season and now I'm growing indoors.
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Thanks Charles for a great season! You're a great inspiration to all of us learning to garden one year at a time!
You are welcome and thank you, I am glad you have enjoyed the content and you are inspired Alexander.
It’s always fun to see all of the veg you have growing at every time. I needed to get my seed starting better so there is actually something to plant outside ! Also theses interesting greens you grow!
Great to hear!
Always amazes me how at one you are with your garden, whether it be knowing sowing/planting dates, specific variety names or the amount of harvests you've taken from each bed.
I swear Minty is following you around with cue cards!! 😆
Thanks and haha she thinks of food.
I repeat these details a lot!
Hello Charles,
Thank you so much for this lovely and peaceful tour. In my winter garden, I have leaks with lamb lettuce, pak choi, mizuna, red kale, nero di toscana, mustards, scarole, very few carrots, parsley and coriander. Hope to do better next year and so looking forward to growing new varieties such as parsnip, purslane, roquette, sweet Florence fennel, swede, sweet potatoes. Can't wait ! About to start 3 new beds using your no dig cardboard + compost method for potatoes, onions and squash. So exciting ! Freezing in Champagne... Have a nice Sunday !
I'm happy to see this Katherine, and thank you. It's wonderful how we can always have plans to grow more without increasing growing space, and try new things. Here it's still 6C!
Książkę ,,No Dig” kupiłam za szybko 😂, właśnie przyszła! 🥴. Pozdrawiam z Polski
Miło to słyszeć, Agniesz, i przepraszam za to!
Hi Charles, I’m so jealous. Looks great. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Thank you Steven
Chervil is chervil in the US. Seed sources and cook books. I never heard of French parsley. Lovely tour Charles!
Cool, thanks!
Bows low No Diiggitty no doubt thanks for sharing
You bet 😂
Just harvested some small poratoes before the rain & winter
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Good morning Charles! Thank you for sharing your garden tour with us! I found it very interesting! I purchased your compost book and I’m enjoying reading it. My next project will be my compost system.
Great to hear this, thank you
@suzannelallen You wont be disappointed :) Get a worm bin going too :)
Every year I watch you and every year I think man I need to grow more for winter
Do you? I am always happy that I am indoors doing house maintenance and things in the winter.
Each to their own! But it does not take long to pop out and harvest some leaves, and much of what we eat in winter is from store
@@CharlesDowding1nodig
ah! Correct. Most of the time we eat what I have stored up, canned, frozen and/or freeze dried in the summer. This coming year, 2025, goal is to grow enough to feed the animals as well. :)
I spend so much time in the winter planning and plotting, researching varieties etc that when spring rolls around I am beyond excited to get to work again. 45 degrees? That is t-shirt/shorts/garden weather around here.
so excited to see your compost book at an independent bookstore in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
Oh great! Thanks for sharing
Rooting Tomato side shoots is a little trick i learnt years ago and a good way to keep a variety going as you said and also doing it for extra plants in the Spring!
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What an excellent idea! Build a fox-proof, slug-friendly cage on top of the Chinese cabbage and enjoy the show! The ducks' show.
Charles obrigado duas vezes pelo vídeo e pela tradução ❤
de nada Luisa
Thanks for the tour.
You are very welcome Barbara 🙂
18:07 Was my first year growing broad beans this year and I was really impressed with the flavour and texture of the tops - I'd never eaten them before. I sautéed them with a little butter. I found they tasted like pea shoots and the crunchy yet soft texture was great.
A later sowing of broad beans got black aphids so I couldn't eat them unfortunately. I definitely think they are a good idea as a cover crop. I've sown some field beans for this purpose last week. Hopefully I can enjoy the tops in spring then I will cut and compost the stems. Cover crops that you can also get a harvest out of too is very appealing to me.
Great description. I'm going to pick some right now.
Thank you Charles for your inspiration, insight and ideas! I'll be taking cuttings of my tomato plants because you mentioned it! Peace and Blessings to you and everyone 🌱🌻🍂
You are welcome and great to hear 🙂
Charles. I'm loving your ponds. They are worth the effort. Beautiful.
Thanks so much!
Thank you, so much for translated in polish.
you are welcome 🙂
Hi Charles. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Your gardens are so lush and look delicious. You keep me motivated. I've noticed since we have our organic garden, besides the rich flavors, I'm so satisfied and don't get the crazy food cravings and extra weight gain. I have more energy and love challenges keeping us young. In our mid 70's. Have an awesome, restful and prosperous winter.
Wonderful to hear! I so agree, you are growing health
It's such a lovely garden to tour atound... Thank you for keeping it real and sharing the root fly, badgers, slugs, and pigeons... gardening without nasty chemicals poses fun challenges but is sooo rewarding..
Late spring here and very dry, with strong sunny days... my plant babies are loving and hating it at the same time..
Mulch has gone on early, but the heat has sorted many of the slugs... and the cabbage moths are out and about.. so nets and BT are on the list for this week...
I'm off to find a Charles late spring tour and see what else I've forgotten!!
Thankyou!
Thanks so much Rose, that's great to hear as well, your enthusiasm at a lovely time of year
Full of useful information , thanks very much .
I am glad 🙂
I do so enjoy you sharing an update tour of Homeacres 🙏🏻. Really appreciate you taking the time. Hope pre-Christmas sales of your books and calendar do well.
Glad you enjoyed it Amanda and thank you 🙂
Thank you for this Charles, always interesting and Inspirational! Have a good Winter.
Thank you Graham
At least you got gorgeous blue skies eventually. Once the gloom cleared we had aircraft contrail skies and haze blocking most of that sun 🔆 grrrr. Something needs to be done about aircraft persistent contrails and the homogenitus cirrus clouds they now create (where they never did 20+ya).
One hour after we filmed this, the trails appeared! And I agree about homogenates cirrus, it's prevalent
We have grown our leeks under enviromesh since the moment they sprouted. We limit the time we have the mesh off and so far, no leaf miner. We've lost entire crops to it in the past.
This is encouraging! Thanks for sharing
Thank you Charles 💚
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I've been pulling caterpillars off my cabbage because it's been so mild in London. Crazy to think I'm wishing cold weather 🤣 anyway, it looks like it's coming this week.
Yes it's coming!
Your bed tours are such a fascinating joy Charles, and especially on a sunny late autumn day! ❤🤩
Oh BTW, I see you're into energy tools. Google the Les Brown Pyramid PDF 😮👌🏼
I am and thanks, seems to be growing on a house roof?
@CharlesDowding1nodig He constructed a 25 ft slant length pyramid using wood and polythene sheeting and gained huge veg.
Your garden looks so bountiful. I need to focus on more succession planting. I did better this year than any other, and I am learning to utilize the new greenhouse too. Next year, I want to plan with more intention. Thank you for sharing your successes and problems.
Thank you and you are very welcome and lovely to hear of your progress 🙂
I love mustard greens very flavorful!.. any tips about keeping rocket from getting to hot and spicy? is it the light or the temp that causes it?
Nice to hear. I find that the leaves become more pungent as plants get older, so if you want them mild, you need to keep re-sowing.
However, in winter that's not practical, but the plants keep growing fortunately with less seeding in winter months.
I would put a sonic scarer at the access point where the badger comes in and another overlooking the bed with a solar light that comes on when activated asit worked in my garden.
Thanks,
Although here there are many access points!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Maybe put a No dig sign as the Badger might read it 😉.
I would call your leaky pond a scrape. A seasonal pond. Still useful for wildlife.
Yes indeed. It's now full!
Thank you from Australia!
you are welcome Nicholas
A joyful positive visit to end the year X
Cheers John
Great tour Charles, I love all of them. Oh how I miss eating parsnips :P
I'm just sowing my carrots as well as cauliflower, beetroot and peas. 4th planting of cucumbers, corn and tomatoes this year. Thanks for posting.
Nice to hear, it sounds like you have parsnip compensations!
Thank you, Charles, for all that you do. At the risk of embarrassing myself, I've been wondering why my tomatoes from saved seed haven't been the same for a couple of years. I didn't know what the F1 hybrid meant 😳 Will try your method next year.
Nice to see this, and that's not embarrassing, now, I am glad you realise it!
Omg Sir Charles, I have not checked on my really beautiful looking leeks so far, fingers crossed the leek moth did not find it😮. Have a wonderful Christmas break. ❤
Thanks and I hope so too, and Frohe Weihnachten 🌲
Definitely appreciate the CC in English, the automated ones are often mistaken, and sometimes just give up.
Hola buenas noches, Estoy muy agradecido con este video, Es realmente bueno. Siempre tube dudas con respecto a la limpieza de las malezas, ¿como hacias para tener cada cultivo tan limpio? Hoy lo has aclarado mucho y te lo agradezco. Dios los bendiga y gracias por tan buena informacion
Me complace poder ayudarte. Con el método No Dig, crecen menos malezas y, si veo alguna, la quito cuando es muy pequeña. La mayor parte del abono que uso no tiene muchas semillas de malezas, lo que ayuda. Y nos aseguramos de tener bordes prolijos para que no entren muchas semillas.
Thanks as always Charles.
One leek related question if you don't mind? I finally transplanted my leeks into my raised bed at the end of the summer and they were growing nice and well. But quite soon I noticed they were being attacked by these little black insects. Then one by one, each leek wilted and died! This has never happened before, I've always managed to grow leeks fairly well, and I was absolutely gutted as I was looking forward to harvesting them over the winter. My question is: what happened?! Was there a connection between the insects and the wilting? I can't find a satisfactory diagnosis of the problem in any book or the internet. Thank you!
Oh dear, and that sounds like the allium leaf miner, which is spreading out from its starting point in the East Midlands which was over 20 years ago. It arrived here big-time last year and it is destructive, as you notice.
Especially because your leeks went in late! I would sow the seed early April and transplant June, with mesh over if you can manage that. Try Jolant variety.
@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks Charles, that's really helpful.
Have netted my leaks all season. We usually get allium leaf minor in November. Have not harvested them yet, but they are not showing any signs of infestation yet.
Oh good!
Charles is the not first no dig, have been no dig for 32 years, in New Zealand. My reason only flat ground was on top of a turning bay for a old loading bay, a deep layer of shringle on top of many metres of clay. Have been composting onsite every since now make heaps 4 metres plus square, cold compost heaps, takes 2 years to make, a fw months to use it all, how make compost several different ways!
Great to hear Helen!
I never claim to be the first because there were gardeners doing similar in the 1940s, and their results were brilliant. I guess I'm the first to put it out there big-time.
Mảnh vườn thật đẹp.cháu thật sự thích nó❤
Cảm ơn
I fell behind with fall maitanance in my garden, and it's already too cold to weed etc 😅...it must wait till spring so I don't freeze my brain and bones off.
Oh dear. We are freezing here for s few days!
Charles not sure if you watch any TV but just in case you haven’t seen this I thought you and Adam may Enjoy.
BBC iPlayer Fungi-The Web of Life. Just amazing 🤩
Thank you, I shall mention it to him, but I don't know if he has television, and I certainly do not!
@ 😂 it may be on TH-cam 🤔it’s definitely worth a watch. In fact Merlin Sheldrake ( the Mushroom 🍄 Man) could be advocating for (no dig), thanks for replying 😊.
Thank you Charles, greetings from the Pacific Northwest of USA! A question came up for me while watching this great video. In some of our beds where we do not have a winter or cover crop, I have been leaving weeds this time of year in order to keep life/roots/cover/protection. I would then weed before spring planting when soil a bit dryer too. I am curious what your thoughts are on this?
Hi Sara and no thanks!! Weeds are weeds because they are incredibly opportunistic plants, so I reckon many of those you leave will be going to seed and by spring, there will be a high number of new weed seeds, which were not there before, causing a lot of extra time needed. That's my main thing I seek to avoid, because time is my most scarce resource.
its just nice to see the soil textures atm we have some dry weather , i hear most say at last!!! lol so ive been out tidying about too today without a coat! woo lol but yes we due a frost tuesday so took today to sort out all the fleeces for the worst days , i however dont like covering for long as the pests pretty much get a cozy hotel for winter if you do in my opinion as we tend to neglect what we cant see haha, thinking of digging up my drive in early spring, no point having room for a car if you dont drive right? haha , 4 new beds for me next year southfacing it be silly not to use up the space
All sounds good 😀
Like I've said before no ways is my garden has good has yours. I grew Czar runner beans this year and shelled them a couple of days ago and got 2.6 kilos from a double row But, I tried drying them but I will loose at least half of them or more because they are going brown. Same has the Bramleys I've tried to save, they have mostly got bitter pit, that's the ones that survived the Codling moths. There are gaps in everything I try to grow, some of the attacks are from below the soil. I could carry on for ages. Previously you advised seaweed to battle mealy aphids attacking my swedes, that has worked to some extent but it's probably too late for me to get a proper crop from them. Therefore, if you have time would you say that seaweed fertilizer is the answer to my growing problems in an highly alkaline soil? Although some of the manure I get doesn't necessarily come from that type of soil or the wood chips I get either. But grass cuttings and green compost does. Sorry to bother you again.
From what you say, I think that you need to use more of the manure you can get, or mushroom compost, although that is more expensive. The seaweed is an extra and can make a huge difference, but before that, the soil needs to be in a state of strong fertility, because vegetables are such demanding plants, as you are noticing!
I would spread up to 3 inches of any well, rotted animal manual this autumn, before Christmas.. By Spring, it will be much softer and you can use a fork or rake to make it nice for popping in plants.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for that Charles but I do use a lot of Horse Manure already. I have two 4' square bits for horse manure straw and wood chips and one 4' bin for green compost cardboard and wood chips. But I sometimes cannot get the temperature up to 60 deg. C especially in Winter.
Here in Namibia we had extreme heat, but getting signs of rain, though not quite. Any advise on dealing with red spider mite on mostly potatoes. They are killing plants before it flowers?
Hi Michael, I was in Zambia 1991, and remember the difficulties people were having with red spider mite which seemed to be endemic there, especially on plants stressed by dry conditions. All I can suggest is somehow to find more water, and to wet leaves as well.
I love your updates....I have veg bed envy..... Sadly my garden has reverted to clumps of moss and liverwort due to the awful weather of the past year or so.... If I covered the lungwort as the no dig, with cardboard and compost, do you think it would kill it.... I don't like the idea of poisons . Someone also suggested bicarb but I would need tonnes of it .. just at a loss.🤔🤔
Thanks, and yes, the weather has been so wet, perhaps more for you than here. Definitely that will make a huge difference because the surface compost drains more freely and does not sit soggy. You do however need around 4 inches/10 cm on the cardboard. Maybe do a small area first, according to what compost you can find.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you for taking the time to respond.. I think I will try a patch.
Hi Charles, I would love to know how you go about selecting which mushroom compost or cow manure to use on your garden beds. I’ve heard that cows are wormed regularly and also mushrooms would be occasionally treated with pesticides etc. Do you find that this affects the quality of your soil? Thank you 🙂
Hi Nadine, and fortunately, not because I reckon no dig soil is full of healthy microbes, especially the fungal mycelia, working magic on inputs with some impurities. Some of any compost is good, I don't reckon it's a precise skill and much depends what you can get hold of
Have you ever trialed Nemaslug or something like that? Here in the states it's not available yet, for some reason. But I've heard some in the UK swear by it, and it sounds like it would still be considered organic, much like Bt. I imagine you could even multiply the nematodes on your own to make it go farther in your garden.
Hi Joshua, no I never used it partly because it's made by Bayer/Monsanto and it has built in obsolescence of six weeks, so it's not cheap! I prefer to figure out natural solutions based on reducing sloth populations. I know the Chinese cabbage look bad, but they always do and I'm actually happy with the result, for the amount of work they have taken
Oh wow I was not aware of that, thank you!
Charles I just learned about Landrace vegetables, I had no idea that existed. Quite fascinating. Did you ever have any interest in trying to find, or even developping your own landrace vegetables?
I'M very new to this world I learned about it 15 min ago so my apologies if my question doesn't make sense.
Yes, I should do more with them! But my gardening life has become restricted by so many other commitments, and it's something that needs time
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you!
Hi Charles I just wanted ask about Autumn Leaves. Should I just add them to the compost as ‘brown’ waste or store on their own in black bin bags for leaf mould’ which I presume you just use like compost. Thank you 😊
You can do either Leonore, although it depends how many there are.
If they are more than 30% of your compost heap's materials, they will make the decomposition slow and are better in a heap on their own, left for 12 to 18 months, making sure they are fully moist.
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthank you for the quick reply. There will be a lot as I am collecting them off the pavements ,not from where they have fallen on the grass. 😊
to anyone who intersows mustard with the garlic like in 20:30 , at what point do you sow the mustards? do you have to wait for the garlic to shoot up a bit first?
Sow on the same day! The mustard comes up fast for sure, and like now, six weeks later, the garlic is not much visible, but one more cold night like the -4C we had last night and the mustard shrinks before it fades away, and then you see the garlic
@@CharlesDowding1nodig oh ok, thanks!
THANK YOU FOR NOT USING THAT AI JUNK! I notice.
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y donde esta mintie? ssbias míster charly que el esriwrcol de vaca se deja secar y en ciertas comunidades de m pais es usado para encender fogatas de cocina. ese estanque de agua yo pondría unos peces muy populares aca llamdos tilaphia.. el agua estaria muy nutrida para tus vegetales 🤔🤔.! a mi me encata los cambios que has echo.. disfruto lis videos es español pero aqui soy tu fan numero 1
Gracias Robi. ¡Estaba digiriendo algo de comida! Agradezco tus comentarios, pero no soy partidaria de tener peces.
Hi Charles,
I am very grateful for your educational videos and love watching you. I bought your book and would love to take one of your courses, but as I am in The Netherlands, it probable won't happen any time soon.
I have a question. I heard you say something about how many plants you need to be able to harvest genetically good seed, but I can't find it back any where. I have saved some seeds from a lonely cavolo nero and a (rather small) kale plant, that I had in pots and that I put in my front garden to wait for seeds. No mates around them to be found. Can I just chuck those seeds? And so the other question is: how many plants do I need for good seeds and how crucial is it to avoid cross pollination - which is quite impossible in my garden because of size and interplanting (I can't isolate one bed of cabbages for example)?
Thanks!
Barbara
Hi Barbara, thanks for your nice comment and I'm giving workshops in the Netherlands next May 11 and 12th, details following soon.
For Brassica vegetables, at least 10 plants is needed for successful results and in your small garden, that's difficult for kale unless you grow them really close, say at 15 cm spacing, then maybe keep a mesh cover over them once they are flowering to prevent cross pollination with other Brassica flowers. Good luck.
Do you think brassica cover crops can perpetuate pests? I’ve seen so many white butterflies visiting my patch, and we’ve had so many harlequin bugs this year.
And I have found chervil seeds in the US, I got them from Select Seeds, they offer a wide variety of herbs.
That's a good observation, but as long as a cover goes on straight after transplanting, and the transplants do not have caterpillar eggs on them, all should be good. Such as my turnips, a great success this autumn and we did that.
I'm happy you found chervil!
@ so does the insect not overwinter in some stage near the host plants?
Anywhere in fact I reckon
Fantastic tour and video - appreciate the timers along the bottom. Could I ask you if you have any issues with rats? I have just discovered a nest in my compost bin (wooden and on soil). Do you put anything down, as I notice you have a beautiful kitty as do I. So, just wondering how you manage that issue please. Thanks. Best Wishes.
Thanks Elaine, and Minty the cat plus other cats are discouraging rats. I did have some before and while I do not like them particularly, I'm not worried about them being there. I don't agree that they bring disease and they do a good job of aerating heaps!
It's nice to see I have a lot of the same things you still have in over here across the pond but on a much smaller scale of course. I'm very discouraged with my sprouts however as they are infested with grey aphids. Seems to happen to me every year. And they are so hard to cover due to their height. I'll have to try building a tall frame and getting a large piece of mesh for next year. I'm only growing around 8 plants so I should be able to build something. You don't have any other suggestions do you? Thanks Charles!
Nice to hear and yes, my suggestion is water. They are better in our damp climate but yours is dryer. I'm pretty sure that if you can give them extra water in any dry weather, growth will improve a lot, aphids decrease. Plus I imagine your soil has a decent amount of compost on top.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Yes and Yes Charles. I was on top with watering all summer/fall and there was compost added when planted and a side dressing in Sep.
Hi Charles, if you don't mind is it ok if I ask you about your beautiful bracelets? Are they made of Jade or Acquire marine? 😁
Yes fine! And the main white one is jade, made by Julia who works here joodaboo.com
Would you transplant small salads from outside to the Greenhouse in a small Garden (10-20 salads)?
If small and young that can work