Deleaf Plants for Six Great Benefits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- How to keep your plants healthy and with less disease and pests, fewer weeds underneath, and under cover you can improve ventilation with this approach. It applies also to vegetables such as celery, celeriac, dwarf French beans, beetroot, kale and radicchio, to name a few.
A further benefit is that you the gardener, become more of a gardener. You stay close to and regularly involved with your plants. This maintains a strong connection to, and understanding of what they need at any time.
00:00 Reason for covering cabbage plants
00:44 Removing lower leaves - why and how
02:30 What make a good gardener?
03:05 More on removing lower leaves, of brassicas, and how it affects moisture needed
04:07 Removing leaves from lettuce and endive, both for harvest and keeping plants tidy
05:24 How many leaves can you remove, and why
06:10 Removing weeds in the process
06:32 Picking endive leaves, and I explain tip burn
08:45 Netting against rabbits
08:57 Removing lower leaves from plants under cover - tomatoes, cucumbers and melons in the polytunnel
09:43 Looking after tomato plants, including removing the truss as well as leaves
11:18 Cucumbers - which leaves to remove
12:47 De-leafing melon plants, and some info on powdery mildew
14:10 Two ways of knowing when a melon is ripe
14:39 Mildew on courgette and summer squash, and the importance of keeping plants tidy
15:36 Quick recap on the benefits of removing lower leaves
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"You might be wondering ... what the hell is he doing?" HA! I have no doubts Charles knows exactly what he' doing, and most importantly, I appreciate that he never fails to explain WHY he's doing it. That is so valuable to me because knowing why really helps me learn and retain knowledge. That he takes the time to patiently demonstrate the processes is evidence that Charles is a natural encourager as well as an experienced, confident expert. How lucky we -- and our gardens -- are to have this amazing access to his wisdom and skills.
Thankyou Sandra, I'm delighted to help
Years ago I had the dream of growing my own organic food, but it seemed impossible. Then after studying Charles for 2 years I decided to go for it, what did I have to lose anyway,
Charles even told me ''GO, YOU!''. So I had to... Well, it's my first year, and my 2 little 4x8 no dig beds are producing more food than I can eat!
Cucumbers, tomatoes, beans, lettuce, spinach, zucchinis and more, ohhh my ! My grocery bills dropped 50% for the last 5 weeks, no jokes. It's ... incredibe. Everybody should grow their own organic food, what are they waiting for. GO YOU!. You plant, you let mother nature do her thing, and you eat!
Imagine not going organic-I mean you might as well just buy what they have in the store.
That cheers me up! Thanks for sharing, I hope this encourages more Go You!
Congratulations on your great success! Charles is an outstanding teacher and a steadfast cheerleader.
I could tell more or less the same story :)
Start small and simple, and read up on the do's and don'ts, and I think almost everyone could grow their own vegetables with this method.
I've scaled up my garden to 100 m2 over the past 2-3 years, and I plan to double that for next season. I wouldn't have been able to do this without all the invaluable knowledge so generously shared on this goldmine of a channel. I'm forever grateful!
Nice to hear! This is my first year of trying more than tomatoes and peppers. I was just planning my next no dig bed for Fall crops. What a joy! My husband is very supportive and thanks me when I harvest fresh veggies to eat.
Charles is an incredible human being and a world class teacher. His teachings are a real gift to humanity 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks Mark 😀
The shadow of the gardener is the best additive for a healthy harvest!
Yes, and we say "There is no manure like the farmer's foot'
Charles, you are truly my inspiration, after a few decades away, I've recently started growing my own veg again, and boy what a wonderful experience it is, delicious organic and satisfying on so many levels, thank you so much for sharing
Wonderful to hear!
I like your daily life in farming and follow you from Thailand.
Those are beautiful and healthy looking. Very well done.
As you kind of hinted, Charles, we only really need to take off powdery mildew leaves for our own vanity or pride. And, yes they are prickly, I suffer too LOL
Great information Charles, as always. That closing shot of your poly tunnel reminds me of the hanging gardens of Babylon.
How nice thanks!
Hi Charles , i salivate and feel a little jealous everytime i watch one of your videos . You truly are the Elvis of the no dig gardening .
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14:07 "Harvested one hour later; Delicious!" I really enjoy the bits of humor that y'all inject into the educational information on your channel! 😁
Ah thanks!
What a super video so helpful for a rookie vegetable gardener. I have followed your tutorials since the beginning of my vegetable adventure and I never fail to be inspired ! so thank you 🙏🏼
That's nice thanks
Oh you have made me feel soooo much better! I retired at Christmas and this is my first summer with a greenhouse and 4 raised beds. I’ve 9 swedes that I stripped some lower leaves from - did instinctively and then wondered whether I’d done the right thing.
I hadn’t thought about doing the same with the lettuces though and yet it makes perfect sense … such a great way to lengthen their time in the beds whilst still enjoying a harvest. 👍🏻
Great to hear Sharron
Danke Charles, Gartenarbeit ist meine Therapie für die Seele. Ihre Ordnung im Garten inspiriert mich immer auf‘s neue.
Lg aus der Eifel
Danke schon Tara
Thank you Charles, I enjoyed the visit to your garden. You have a beautiful garden. I am letting my garden continue, the heat here is going to drop next week. Hopefully I will see some harvest. Look forward to the next visit to your garden.
Thanks Naomi, best of luck
Superb teaching. Your channel is my go to for education and entertainment, even surpassing Gardener's World.
Thanks so much
Everything's looking amazing Charles!! Props to you for all the knowledge you bestow and all the people you inspire
Thanks
As always, a great video.
Thanks for all the good advises.
Thanks again, Mr Charles 💝
Looking after some great growth this year! Cheers Charles!!
Thank you Charles for another great video!
That‘s quite impressing how much leaves you can remove without doing any harm.
Thank you for showing!!
Thanks a lot for your advices!! 👍💖❗
Perfect, just what I needed. Impeccable timing 🙏😊
good talk, cheers Charles
Gardening as a lifestyle. Backyard gardener here. Getting closer to a better understanding thru you Charles. Would be great to be able to develop my garden beds and grow some beautiful healthy plants. Another year another chance to grow!
Arriving soon!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks I'm getting more excited about this year!
Thank you for these important tips - and message about developing a close as in (just about) daily relationship with the plants 😊
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" The best thing for the soil in a garden is the farmers shadow. "
Very informative, just at the right time. Thank you.
So very helpful. Thank you.
Great tips thanksxx
NO DIG !!!!!!! …….BRINGING ESTRANGED FAMILY MEMBERS TOGETHER !!!!!!!!!
How amazing, love it. Microbe power :)
Here in the cental valley of California with our weeks of 100 plus temps I am careful about removing too many leaves as they shade the ground and protect the fruit from sun burn. I do remove the ones that show yellowing but by then there are plenty more healthy ones to leave on the plants.
Very good point Christine, thanks
Such perfection!! You are an inspiration, thank you 😊
You are so welcome!
So much eye candy, lovely!
Thankyou on adv. Super knowledge.....
Thanks for your videos. I’ve learned so much from you. I just have a little backyard garden in Vancouver BC Canada. So far this is my best year ever. I still have much to learn. I wish I had more space. I would love to visit your garden one day. It’s amazing.
Thank you for all your encouragement and step by step walk throughs Charles. Indeed, you help us to know we can do it too even though on a smaller scale. You truly are an inspiration. ❤
Lovely to hear Susan, thanks
As always totally useful..every days a schoolday!!
Best kind of school! Thanks
I learn so much from your videos, Charles! Thank you!
I especially love the reason of having a relationship with your plants! 🌱
That is nice thanks Sandi
Thank you for showing how to harvest lettuce.
Thank you, brother !
Magnifique potager bravo 👍 👍 👍 👍
What a ton of great advice. Be Attentive!
Thanks Leslie
Another excellent and informative video Charles! I was wondering about the nets btw
ATB
Woody 👍👍👍
Found this video really helpful, thank you.
So glad Andy
This is my first season growing veggies and it all turned out so well thanks to you Charles! Thanks you so much!🤞🏼🤞🏼🌿
Lovely to hear this Oskar
Charles...your videos are so helpful with gardening tips as we need them. You have helped me so much in this gardening process! I went right out and put to practice your advice. Thanks so much for all your efforts!
Ah wonderful to hear, and no time like the present!
The best channel for great knowledge.. I can't thank you enough
Thanks Carolyn
Another invaluable lesson. Thanks, Charles! I do that to my kale too. The garden just looks so much better and access to weeding is easier.
You bet! 💚
Charles, I nearly fell out of my seat when you said you're probably thinking wth is he doing. 🙃 Your brassica are gorgeous. For the first time mine just aren't doing great. Hopefully, with less heat they will feel better. Hagd!
Lisa 😁 hope yours recover
@@CharlesDowding1nodig aww ty so much!
The absolute expert gardening topics, thank you so much for your videos every one is a gem!
Thanks so much, happy to help
dont forget all this goes into the compost bin for next season I bravely made a 1m x 1m x 1m bin and it takes every bit of greenery you can find to fill it
Thank you, I know this will work well in my garden because I also have slug and snail issues.
Thank you! So much amazing information! I’m also no longer afraid of powdery mildew and composting those leaves. I enjoy learning from you
Ah thanks, great
Nice!
Fabulous video once again & I now realise that I need to harvest my lettuce more than I have been doing. Thanks Charles once again.
Cheers Denise- Australia
Hi! What a gorgeous picture you've on your profile 😘. Just decided to stop by and say hi!!! I hope my compliment is appreciated :-)
great video
What a lovely 15 minutes.Affirmation that I continue following your method and your love of nature..Its a steep learning curve in my first year but you have made the journey so much easier and a real pleasure.Thankyou👍
You are so welcome Jonathan and yes, that curve is steep in year one, well done for hanging in there 😀
Incredible education 👏 Thank you so much for sharing your vast knowledge🌻🦋🌺🍀
So nice of you
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Miło z twojej strony, że mówisz Maria 💚
Wow your polytunnel is like a well organised jungle! So envious. Thankyou for the explanation about leaf removal. Off to sort my lettuces out!
Thanks, you will enjoy that Jenny
This is good, thanks! As I had plenty of deciduous leaves and grass clippings for the sheet mulch/compost, I went with collecting the lower leaves of brassicas to dehydrate and break down as dried veg flakes/powder to use in various menus.
Great tip, I never heard of such a thing 😀
I heard your name a few times but never really HEARD your name. I'm now a subscriber and will be applying what I've learned. My first fall garden is on its way. I wish I'd known you for my summer garden. Using these techniques for my Food Forest and my regular beds. Thanks so much. Can't wait for more.
That's nice Sonnya and thanks
Yet another quality video from in my opinion this countries best gardening guru
Thank you Charles for your fine inspiration
My pleasure Kevin and thanks
I’ve always removed leaves like this. Was never quite sure if I was doing the right thing, so good to finally know I am.
Glad I could help! You're a good gardener.
Hi Charles love your video lv Irene 😘 xx
A wonderful video Charles. As it has been quite cool this summer here in Thailand (early 30's C), I am thinking of starting my brassicas, beetroot and radishes. I have also managed to get hold of some Swiss chard seeds so I'm going to try them too. A lot of monsoon rain here so I lost all my cucumbers and Cantaloupe :(
Best of luck with those interesting conditions. A cool summer!!
Muchas felicidades Sr. Charles
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AMAZING
Charles, Home Acres looks gorgeous! ❤
I recently saw you speak at one of the RHS shows, you were amazing, and I have become really endeared to no-dig gardening.
Thanks James, great to hear
Well said Charles, make reasons to stop and study the plants,.to just be in the moment and practice observation. Lovely garden. I heard you guys have been feeling the lack of rain in much of the UK this summer so sterling work sir
Thankyou Partida 💚
Hermosa abundancia, saludos Charles🥬🥒🥦🍅💚💚💚💚💚💚
Gracias Laura
Excelente!
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Hola Charles,que hermoso están tus cultivos ,los melones se veían maravillosos , gracias por tu enseñanza como siempre un saludo desde Chile 🇨🇱🌷
¡Es un placer Ximena, y estoy feliz de informarle!
Thanks Charles for answering my burning question about the health of the leaves for compost. I have definitely wasted too much great compostable materials. So hot here in Northern California now, I have so many plans for extending my no dig gardens, too little (cool enough) time. Lol.
Glad to help and good luck with early morning gardening!
Beautiful, specially inside of the tunnel. I spoil myself growing small variety of melon just for joy .
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Yeşil tırtıklı marul cinsinden bendede var 😁bahçenizi görünce içim ferahlıyor 🍀🌿🌱🍀☘️
Duymak güzel!
How beautiful are those leaves as they are ashy purple-blueish but as the Sun catches them from the side they go translucent green in waves 🤩
Yes, you are right and lovely you noticed that
Direct sun does wonder on the melon fruit itself, even if the fruit gets very hot, the taste after that is epic. This year I had some on the ground supported by wood planks. Next year I will try vertical...
Beautiful cabbage. I have groundhog lately. They love brassica family😭I can’t catch it.
Me too, tricky little creatures
Sorry to hear that
Ja liście z brukselki i z brokuła gałązkowego wykorzystalam do bigosu, mąż sie trochę zdziwił i skrzywił ale zjadł choć jest wybredny. To znaczy, że liście te świetnie się nadają do różnych potraw, a to znaczy, że to wszystko dzięki Panu, panie Charles. Dziękuję za świetne filmiki. Tyle się od Pana nauczyłam
Miło słyszeć Dorota, i proszę przywitaj się ze swoim mężem!
You're garden is so beautiful, Charles. Mine is looking like a bomb site at the moment. It's being raided constantly by the swamp hens and my chickens, so I've given up on it. My goal, however, is to get it fully caged this spring, so I can enjoy all the summer veggies. With a bit of luck, it might look something like yours in six months.
Haha good luck with the project! And thanks
Great advice as always Charles. I'm in my 2nd year of no dig now and surely the best thing is no weeds! I do remove lower leaves on courgettes because i grow them up stakes to save room. As they grow you just remove lower leaves and tie up the top as it grows(Midnight variety, absolutely superb)
Rock on Ian, glad you love the no-weeds-means-time-for-creative-gardening!
great vid i have tons of tomatoes in my tunnell but a lot of the fruit is soft
it was inspiring me
Nice
Hi Charles, we’ve had a lot of rain the last couple of weeks,our tomatoes are starting to split from to much water. That’s ok though. Corn is coming on peppers are well. Your garden looks great. Lots of cucumbers here we love them. No melons though. Yours look good. God bless y’all. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
No weather is perfect! Nice to hear Steven
Such beautiful gardens. I am going to do that today to cabbage and broccoli…. The dying leaves will go to my chickens/turkeys and I will ferment or dry the rest.
Thanks, and good!
Great video Charles, we do the same with most of our plants. Here in Texas the insects can get very aggressive especially when the weather is hot and dry. Here in central Texas we are at 57 days no rain and temps 102 to 108. We've been gardening for over 30 years and is is the worst drought we have seen. We are taking a holiday this September to the Cotswolds and very much looking forward to it. There are a few botanical gardens we will visit and as a retired chef over 28 years we are looking forward to the food. We love your channel and are always learning. Blessings, Mike
Cheers Mike, sounds bad.
Nice trip project! Use Contact on my site to arrange a visit here if you like.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Will do, thanks!
Well worth a visit, Mike if you can do it. I took my husband for a day course in 2020 and we got so much from it. Also Charles’ garden is a beautiful thing to see, an inspiration to any veg grower.
@@annedoyle9640 Thanks Anne.
Que belleza su huerto es mi sueño😋
Gracias 💚
Just so you know, Charles. It's because of you that I invested in a really good pair of knee pads. A lot of what you teach requires me to be real choose to the soil. And that, for me, involves a lot of kneeling!
Good point and it's often surprising what one sees down there, mostly good!
Thank you, that's a very helpful summary. That might help with our aphid problems we have in winter. We can't grow lettuce in winter because we have a big aphid problem, but only in January, February and March.
You are very welcome and yes that will help because it removes the burden of growth on the plant. Keep them watered but not over watered and above all, spread a little compost before transplanting the lettuce.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you for the tips. This season, we will add new compost in autumn.
Your cabbages looking a lot better than my Sunderland Kale and the Swiss Chard has bolted.
Try sowing new kale, just time! Chard too
I only grow a few plants , and I've already taken bottom leaves from sprouts, cabbage and broccolli, however I am doing this so I can eat them , if a leaf was discoloured or too damaged by slugs/beetles then I would compost it.
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Just saw a cabbage moth fly by you Charles whilst taking of the leaves of the cabbages 😉
The garden is looking superb Charles😀
Hope the worms are well, I’m sure the compost bins are producing good compost as usual 😀
Thanks 👍 Rick, yes so many butterflies! And we have amazing compost, shall do another video
One of the drawbacks of removing the larger outer leaves of cabbage is that the Cabbage White butterflies will then be concentrated on the younger leaves. Of course not a problem if you can effectively exclude the butterflies - which is not easy in the average garden.
Fair point - or there are less leaves to survey and check for caterpillars, quicker job
Benefit seven - free food for your chickens. Chickens love their greens especially brassicas.
Great point Sam
Grande
Your salad cut and come again is the best greens advice I’ve ever gotten. Worked wonders for us.
I know you grow produce for sale so a bunch of celery is how you harvest it, but have you ever tried cut and come again with celery?
It works well.
Thanks and yes, you can!
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This video is great. You're an inspiration Charles. Besides your excellent gardening knowledge, you are well-spoken which is rare, and physically fit which is equally rare in a sedentary world of so many cheap unhealthy calories.
I understand your situation, it having been so dry in your area this year. We use drip irrigation which, while it uses plastic drip tubing which isn't ideal because of environmental drawbacks, is very efficient at delivering water directly to the base of the plant, which it soaks in to the root zone and keeps it from evaporating as much as it would if it were sprayed.
We run a small farm on just less than 1 acre, in a high desert, at 4300 feet above sea level in Northern Utah. We get very little rain all summer. This region derives water from the Wasatch Mountain range (Ute and Wasatch are tribal names), which cools and squeezes rain and snow from the clouds that arrive from the west from California and Nevada. When the Mormon settlers first arrived they dammed streams in the canyons to create reservoirs and dug irrigation canals to direct the mountain water to their fields. These are still in use and still the basis of our municipal and agricultural water systems. This region has very fertile lands which are the lakebed soils of Lake Bonneville- the remnant of which is the Great Salt Lake, a few miles from Salt Lake City. The lake gets its salt from these same mountain waters, which disolve naturally occuring minerals as they flow from the mountains to the Great Salt Lake. Since the lake has no where to drain, the water slowly evaporates leaving behind the mineral salts to become more and more concentrated over time.
Interestingly to me because I was raised in New York where there's no shortage of rain, here in Utah every drop of water is actually owned before it hits the ground, and a type of deeded real property called a 'water right' is needed to collect and use any of it. Cities have to own water rights to use wells or take water from reservoirs and distribute it to homes, and any water in any stream, and all groundwater, and even rain water falling on your house and land is owned not owned by you, the land-owner, but by owners of water rights for surface and ground water that would otherwise be yours. To collect rain water from your roof, by law you must get a permit and are limited to 2500 gallons maximum per home.
Best wishes from Utah!
Thanks Merrill!
This is such an insightful comment and I'm amazed by what you say, which compares so differently to our world here. Normally out water is almost too plentiful! So the difficulty this year is that we are not kitted out for it in the way that you are, from dryness being so common.
My reservation with drip lines is that they are not watering much soil volume. Therefore, soil life is not activated in the same way. I hope I'm wrong!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you are not wrong. That has been my experience as well. Spray, but especially Rainwater seems to activate our plants with more vigor than drip alone. It also tends to activate weed seeds which is another benefit of drip. We compost very heavily to compensate and the the lower levels of soil tend to stay moist. Our drip tubes have emiters 12" apart which helps as well.
I'm looking forward to the next video, and maybe a trip out to the UK next year.
@@merrillballantyne Great comment and thanks, hope to meet you :)