NO DIG ABUNDANCE, a weedy field becomes garden in 9 months, using mulches only
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- Turning an uncultivated plot with many perennial weeds, into an abundant garden using the no-dig approach - within a few months in 2013. I describe the process in detail in "How to Create a New Vegetable Garden", pub. Green Books 2014.
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To see how the garden evolved over the next few years. we made another video in July 2016 • No dig with Charles Do... . Notice how there is no cardboard or polythene! All perennial weeds have died, including the bindweed.
And this video is Homeacres no dig garden in August 2017 • No dig garden fifth su... .
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I'm so glad you dropped the music some time in the last seven years. Your videos are so much more peaceful with just your relaxed cadence and the outdoors for noise.
I've only seriously gotten into gardening within the past 2 years, but in that short time, your channel has been a treasure. Incidentally I started learning about composting prior to gardening. With an abundance of yard waste and a lack of options for removing it, I started researching composting. During my research, I stumbled across your channel and the no dig approach. Your videos are a breath of fresh air in an environment overrun with loud and boisterous TH-camrs. Many thanks for your work and dedication to teaching the craft. I look forward to reading your books very soon!
Lovely to hear Michael and I wish you even more success 🥕
My thoughts & experience exactly! What a treasure indeed! I told my daughter that I found the video that I was searching for! 🙏🏻😇
Your videos have gone from VHS to HD in 7 years thank you
Look how happy you are , and its infecting me :)
Thankyou Mohd, I feel blessed to work with compost and plants, I am so pleased its infectious!
Charles Dowding... greetings.
Thank you for giving of yourself.
Your warmth, kindness and sincerity towards helpful others is a beautiful attribute.
I kindly put my hands out towards you.
Embrace you with brotherly love and kindness.
You're a gentleman...thank you Mr Charles Dowding.
May there be many fruitful and happy growing seasons ahead.
A friend in Australia.
And me . Hope you are all good Charles 🙏💚
That's what I noticed. Someone who looks so happy with what they are doing, and who they are.
I love gardening but certain disabilities have made growing veg very painful and exhausting. I began watching your videos last autumn after starting to work with quite a long strip of garden which had become waste ground over the past few years. It’s looking very different now! I have left areas for natural wild flowers and grasses the fruit bushes are now together in a no dig bed and I am preparing no dig manageable side beds for veg. Thank you so much these videos and your books have transformed the way I now garden into something I can manage and enjoy without being in agony.
I am happy to hear this Eliza, thanks for sharing the good news
I've never seen a happier Gardner. Nice. beautiful
I just love watching your videos Charles. Thank you.
I really like the way you garden Charles! you are a genius!
I got an allotment last year and did no dig - surrounded by people digging. Won 5 prizes in the show so may be some converts.
Lovely to hear this and it will be fascinating to see what happens next
Wow! This gives me hope!
I just took on an allotment 10 days ago
Got quite a bit of horsetail and some other weeds
I have removed what I can from 2 beds now and covered in cardboard
One of the beds is smaller and I covered in compost and planted herbs
The bigger bed hasn’t got compost yet but I wanted to plant salads in there , am I best waiting a few months though until the weeds are all dead ?? Or should I just start growing now?
Sean Dyer
If it was me I’d plant salads provided your compost is deep enough. You could make one part deeper then spread it out later.
Sean Dyer
That horsetail is a bugger though.
What a beautiful video. You have great energy I will read your books.
Your enthusiasm is contagious. What a beautiful garden you have done a superb job!
Nice, seen this video just now, i love the progress of the garden today...
Thank you for taking the time to share your method and clearly great success. Very inspiring.
what a honey of a man you are Sir,lovely advice,thankyou
it´s nice to hear you speak about plants and how to grow them
I love you Charles Dowding. You are brilliant.
Good man,Charles. Excellent video. Loved it all.
Editing in this video is flawless. Congratulations on a wonderful garden.
Thanks Charles Dowding, this video is just what I was looking for !!!!
Such a pleasure to listen, watch and learn from you.
Glad I found this. I am getting older and looking for an easier way to garden. Loved this!
“Gardening abundance” that’s the goal! Thank you Charles for educating us! Stay safe and healthy!
Thank you for posting this video! We have your book at our library and it is one of my very favorites!
Your videos are great. Awesome musical and clip editing comes together with a cheerful voice, clear presentation, and beautiful garden visuals. Very soothing and educational which is inspiring! Thanks!
Thank you Charles...I’m a beginner gardener and this has been so inspiring 🌈👌🏽🥦🕊
Just started this method, can't wait to fill the rest of the yard in.
I have added you to my long list of video I had the pleasure of visiting your garden it was a great da the cuttings you let me have are doing well I also do no dig with great result good gardening for 2016☺
reading your book atm, organic gardening, the natural no dig way, certainly giving me a different way to do things, keep up the good work!
Yes it is exciting, glad you like it. I remember your question about my site not loading well on iPad and it will improve soon when it upgrades to the new Drupal 7, from Drupal 6, fingers crossed.
Steph's lunches continue to amaze on my courses, it is wonderful what you can do with vegetables.
Thank you for posting this, Charles - quite inspiring! I hope to see more videos from you in the future. All the best from across the pond.
Thanks David
That was very inspiring for a novice veg gardener like myself, I'm going to start the plants off under glass like you then plant out into home made compost. thanks.
So happy to have found your channel, Mr. Dowding. What a wealth of information you have! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Cheers Berh
I had a back injury 10 months ago - decided not to dig- discovered Charles Dowding - garden now ten times the size--it works it really does! Thanks Charles Dowding.
Lovely result Charles and thanks for the feedback.
No Dig... depends on the situation. Very example you still have to initially prepare the soil: if it is clay, heavy or heavily compacted. Also if you have terrible bind weed it needs digging out, I assume.
@@simeonbanner6204 you should watch some more of Charles's videos, where he explores/explains this in greater detail. It works.
So my newly acquired plot is covered in bindweed, would this no dig method still work or do I need to try and get all the bindweed out first?
@@lucycollins If u cover it with cardboard it will be shaded out and die.
I am really happy I found this video today. I started a hay-mulch garden last year and the slugs are a major problem (I'm in Belgium). For this year I already have prepared my beds with hay and I probably won't find a big amount of compost/well rotted manure before springtime, so I'll have to go with the hay method for 2015. I will however work towards mulching with compost and rotted manure in the future and it excites me to know that there are better no dig methods for our climate than the one I currently use. I subscribed and ordered the book 'organic gardening' today. Please do make more videos cause I enjoy them alot. Thanks!
Your smile is contagious. Thank you for sharing! I will be growing US zone 5b this spring and summer! Just have to find the compost, and the plants will follow :)
I came across your latest video and was enthralled! I then looked for older ones so I can watch them all.
Thank you for teaching us how to grow smarter.
Cheers Sagir and that is my wish
Bravo! Bravo! Well done Sir! I can't wait to get started; the snow is melting as of today in Québec...:)
So enthusiastic! It shows a love for what you are doing. Incredible job and a well done video. TY for sharing.I work with wool carpets and now I have another idea for its waste. I have been saving scraps of wool carpet for shaving and adding to my compost pile, excited!
+LinnieRosa that is so good that you have plenty of wool carpet - worms adore it once half decomposed
love your garden Charles, it is inspiring me to plant lots of things next year and also to adopt a no dig approach to my gardening. thanks, Peter
Thanks again Charles, may God Bless you.
This video is well done. You do not prattle on, the message is simple and clear.
Jules Sand I like the no-prattle approach too! The message gets through much more effectively. He's very calm and serene. I'll bet he talks to his vegetables too to grow that big
I remember my father he is like you
....hardworking..... Everyday in the farm planting all that we can benefits after all.....good exercise with benefits.... More power....
Thank you so much for making this video. I'm trying to spread the word, and this will help!
Thanks Elizabeth.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful method in such an enthusiastic, modest and warm-hearted way.
Cheers Pat
Although I am more of a cottage flower gardener, I am thrilled to have found Charles great videos. This inspires me to build compost bins, use the no dig garden method AND grow some veges for a change!
Lovely comment thanks Jeri! May your veggies be good.
Thank for the video it give ideas of growing own food that save much money
I like your process! Very much like the Garden of Eden method I have been following. I'm not lazy, just getting old, this looks doable for me. Thanks for your research and for teaching from proven results.
Your garden is amazing. . thank you for sharing!!!
This is inspiring and wonderful. Thank you sir!
Totally inspiring, Charles. Thanks you very much. :-)
Gracias Charles, gracias madre tierra.....is fantastic!!
So encouraging! Recently discovered the joy of a backyard garden.... I'm still learning, and your videos are incredibly insightful, and give me hope! I've not been at it very long, and have so much still to learn ... Thank you for sharing your passion!
You can do it Joy and It's good you see that there is much to learn, which is stimulating :)
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing. Born and raised in Iowa where the soil is dark and rich gardening was easy, but after moving to Texas a few years ago, gardening has been one disaster after another. I am going to try your approach. A home just isn't a home without a garden and yours is absolutely stunning! God Bless you.
So funny! I moved from Texas to Idaho and I’m having a hard time gardening! There’s tons of rocks here, so much so that I can’t use a tiller! Also, I’ve never in my 67 years had to start veggies from seed in the house! That’s crazy! I’m finally going to try it this year. But, the start up cost is terrible. I need shelves, heat mats, trays, heat lamps... ugh. Once you get your soil in good shape it’ll be a piece of cake down there in Texas. I was near the Dallas area almost all my life until I moved up here about ten years ago. I guess it’s just all a matter of what you’re used to.
@@Shanmammy really don't need all that I just use my garage and do seeds under the regular lamps we have in there works fine
Well done. Background music is pleasant as well.
What a wonderful video. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!
Will definitely be trying this method this year, thank you.
he sounds exactly like Barrie Trower! wow
I love you!!!!!!!you are a teacher!!!!!Thank you!!!!!!!!I wish you the best!
Hello Sir, I'm new to your channel since I started thinking about gardening for table not just for flowers. Thank you for all the tips on how to go about getting compost and all the other things with little or no cost. Saved your channel in my favorites to use as a reference guide once I get started. Thank your so much, very much appreciated!
🌱🌱🌱✨ Thank you Mr Charles. I will follow your methods in our new established garden in Podkarpacie region in Poland.
Nice to hear and I wish you well
Gracias a usted por enseñar y explicar su experiencia en el huerto. ...
Estoy feliz por colocar subtitulos.
Lo que hace es magnifico.
Saludos desde Venezuela
Muchas gracias 🍅
Thanks for all of your comments and questions too. Would this method work in different climates? Not exactly, for example Ruth Stout's version was a mulch of hay to suppress weeds and add fertility - but here in England that causes too many slugs to breed and vegetables to disappear! (I know from trying it in 1983) The principle is the same though and I am sure you can work out ways to "no dig" (is there a better word?!!) in your climate, for your soil and with whatever mulching materials are to hand; good luck.
+Charles Dowding - so glad you said that, about different specific methods for different climates. I was going to try Ruth Stout's exact method in the pacific northwest of the U.S. (very moist) but now I know I don't have to do it exactly that way. Thanks!
try mosquito net cages for the slug problem. Also try putting broken eggshells sharp side up . It will be like the slugs and snails will be crawling on broken glass. Let me know if you have success with this method. All the nest from Bulgaria
Charles Dowding In my experience in the uk if you have just fruit and veg the slugs will easily find and eat the lot, so I leave the weeds all growing and the slugs struggle to find the fruit and veg because they are slowed down by the blessid weeds.
I also coppice the weeds doing chop and drop so again the slugs take longer to find my fruit and veg giving me time to go out with my solar torch and knife and kill the slugs providing my plants more nutrients!
Charles Dowding Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
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What a kind and beautiful soul, you are!! Very helpful information, especially the “open bed” tip. Slugs are a problem here in Ft.Worth, Texas too. So I will put this to practice. Thank you for taking the time to teach. 👩🏼🌾❤️
Many thanks Joni, gah sorry you have slugs there :(
Great video, I will bookmark it to watch again on a cold, wet winter day to remind me of brighter days and to look forward to the new growing year when I can put more of your ideas into practice. I came to one of your Day Courses in April and thoroughly enjoyed it, including the lovely lunch from your homegrown produce! I look forward to more of your videos. Jeanette
I love to live in this kind of sustainable kind of living
fantastic, make a supplemental income with a quick start to salad greens. I love the hoop garden idea too. I need to find a couple 'helpers', hmm :)
I am so encouraged by this video 😘 Thank you so much😃 I will buy your books.🌿🌿
From Joanne in Cape Town. I love your passion, your soul. Fresh air, fresh organic produce, excercise, all important sunlight and the interest and involvement. Excellent.
Lovely comment thanks Joanne
Thankyou sir. For quickly showing me where to see this. I've been fighting yellow clay for years and gave up. Been growing in pots. Been looking into hugelcultur. I like what your doing. Beautiful garden. My mind was warped when I saw what you are doing. I love your dibble. I'm in north Alabama, USA.
Thanks, and no dig is the perfect method for clay.
Clay soils hold food and moisture, so they are good, but are best left undisturbed! I am sure you will grow some great crops.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you for all of your wonderful videos! I have been learning about no dig and preparing the garden for spring planting with cardboard sheet mulch. I also have clay soil, growing in zone 5b. The only quality compost i will have access to for now is very expensive and i will have to use it sparingly. Can you please tell me, would you leave the cardboard in place and plant through it with a dribble in that case? And perhaps just add compost to the hole/around the plant? Or just a thin layer on top of or below the cardboard? Will the ground be softened enough to plant in just 2-3 months like this, starting with a lawn? Should i consider broadforking this once due to the short time before planting? Thank you so Very much for your help!!
Charles, please come save our farm!
I’ve been watching and learning from your experience. Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome
Look at the calm and the happiness of this men! Incredible!
Cheers Marco 🥬
Well done mate :)
Great work!
So simple and rewarding. I guess a critical part of this success is starting with really small plants ..can't wait to try this . Compost rules !
This approach is so simple and your garden is inspiring.
Beware simple things!!! Look good just in movies!
hahha . I thought I was the only one using carpet :))))) Im in love w your garden
this is gorgeous and inspiring!
Its pleasing to find a gardener with a vast knowlege of growing vegetables, most of the one`s i have come across at my allotment tend not too want to tell you their secrets of how to grow vegetables probably so you dont beat them in the local shows but still it is frustrating when all you want is a little guidance. Thankyou for sharing Charles i look forward to watching your other video`s witha nice brew and a note book :)
That was a very enjoyable watch, thanks for sharing.
Thank for the videos
And so, a legend is born! Great work Charles :)
Thankyou Ted
You are truly inspiring. I’m miserably waiting in frozen pa January and salivating about my dream garden in summer. Thanks for your wonderful video😊🍀🌿🌱☘️
Good luck with waiting, spring will feel good
After over a decade of severe neglect, I want to get my yard turned back into a garden this year! I have a lot of weeds and grass to kill though. It's winter, I'm doing research right now and recently discovered Charles and his no-dig method. But being very organic and wanting to be sure cardboard isn't toxic in any way, I Googled it. I've decided against using cardboard (it likely has glue in it and possibly synthetic components).
@smart viewer I couldn't possibly get enough newspaper, not clean, dye free newspaper anyway. I've been looking into hay/straw bale gardening and might try that.......or lay a tarp down and kill all the weeds and grass that way? I'm still not sure, lol. It's going to be a massive job. There's no rush with 3 feet of snow still on the ground. I'm experimenting with indoor gardening right now. Microgreens, baby greens, radishes, potatoes, lol
Fantastic ,MORE PLEASE!;]
Thanks for your hard work. Bach and the creation of beauty.
Nicely put thanks :)
Mr. Dowding, Thank you for the amazing knowledge you have passed. I will be applying your technique to my gardens in San Pedro De Los Milagros, Antioquia, Colombia, Much Gratitud.
+luis velasquez lovely to hear from you and may your garden prosper
If only gardeners ruled the world!Totally inspiring.Thank you.(Gardening in the Mediterranean where I live-Greece-is different than in 'wet' Britain but the british methodical and practical spirit make a good 'teacher' to many,I suppose.By the way,could flags be used the way you used the old blanket?).
Ugh!! I need to fly to the UK, stuff you in my backpack, and haul you back to Louisiana!! Why can't I get mine to look like this? If only I could get my neighbors to let me follow behind their cows and collect all the goodies... I did just make the decision to buy a leaf shredder/wood chipper. We'll see. Hopefully soon my garden will look like yours! Yours is just beautiful...
thesupermom1975 I'm in South MS.. What works well for us is Newspaper printer remnants (ask your local paper for them) topped with year old hay (the seeds die so you don't have weeds from it) or old oak leaves my my mom is friends with the city gardener.. so she gives me BAGS of them. Make sure when you add cow manure it isn't fresh.. or you will have a caterpillar issue.. If you can lay it out in the winter and wait till spring to plant in.. it will work better.. or compost it is best.
Wow! Awesome advice! Thanks so much.
thesupermom1975 you could check out my online course, goes live on 13th July! th-cam.com/video/oJlgphnFfBg/w-d-xo.html
Why won’t they let you follow the cows?
Thank you for clip .l’m seen everyday and lerning about it.
From watching your videos, I have learned as much about diff things a person can grow, as much as how to grow them!😃 I plan to try a few things next year that I had never thought to grow.😊
Wonderful! It's fun
Thanks Mr Dowding for an inspiring video. I used this method just before leaving our home land of Australia to come to the UK 17 years ago. I used purely organic mushroom compost, about 3 cubic metres, to create a test plot. Hay as mulch and then began making my own compost using near by horse manure and waste from a near by commercial flower garden.
Well, as you say, the abundance was amazing. I was sold on no dig completely. Do you use any Aerated Compost Teas to help the soil? I like the way you do successional planting. This is something I've never really understood or worked into a system.
Do I understand it correctly, that you sell some of your produce too?
I ask as your web site mentions a market gardening course. Do you do this on your current home site? I might pay you a visit to do that weekend market gardening course before we return as when sell our home in Manchester we are returning to Australia and we want to move completely toward being self sufficient for our produce and meat. Is there any way to find out if a spot becomes available for the March 29th course as I notice it's free.
Thanks so much again for a really nicely made video Sir. Cheers David
David Trees Google Lacto, it's made from rice sugar and salt. Dilute with molasses.1/2 and 1/2. Use 1 T in gallon of water and water plants. It's like EM. Brings good bacteria for soil. Also good for health your gi, and cleaning with...etc
I love this video, although it's a bit too violent for my taste.
+S Morris LOL!!!
Thank you so much for sharing it has inspired me to try this way of lifestyle. Really inspiring cant wait to start.
Good to see the weedy field transformed in fertile garden.Mulching the ground is certainly the best way to take care of many problems.
Thanks for sharing your video.
Cheers Ravindra and yes, mulching ticks all boxes
Thank you for the interesting video, we are moving in a year`s time into our new house, where there is grass and woodland, and I will try your method for sure. Only one thing about the video: I wish you would either turn down the volume of the music or skip the music. I found it to be competing with your voice and it made it hard to concentrate on what you are saying. Your video, your voice is just fine! Greetings from Sweden.
Thanks Ellie and good luck with the move and new garden.
Yes we learnt that about music. This was my first video and they are quieter now :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you for the answer, and your good wishes!
I don't even use compost any more. I have a lot of grass and weeds (dandelion, clover, you name it) that grow side by side with my vegetables. I use my grass and weeds to fix carbon to increase organic matters in my garden so that when I cut them back and throw them onto the soil, the microorganisms, worms, and finally my vegetables are all benefited. I do random planting, rotation, perennial + biennials + annuals, with many many varieties. I use wood poles (to section my garden) to attract slugs so that I can pick them up in the morning to feed my chickens. We DO NOT need a "clean" garden, we need an efficient and healthy ecosystem in our garden. BTW, this is my second year as a serious gardener. I was inspired by Fukuoka's natural farming philosophy.
I like the idea of your description, how do you control the height of the grass to stop it shading out the veg? My grass reaches 4 feet if left alone, but I can't mow through veggies? Dandelions are a herb/root veg, you can make tea/salad with the leaves, and use the roots like spring onions :). My free range chickens turned up their beaks completely at slugs, though they loved worms. Sadly lost to a fox a month ago, my garden is very quiet now...
You may not need compost, but adding compost to depleted soil will bring it into production way faster. Charles shows us this when he imported lots of compost. Unless you are planting into already fertile soil you will have to wait a while chopping and dropping as you are doing. I used lots of leaves to beef up my soil and now am importing free compost into the vegetable plot.
Watching you 8 years ago is a treat. But a huge heap of respect overwhels me.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
So nice, thanks Justus
Thank you so much for your video. I’m excited to start my garden in San Diego California.