Dowding is truly the pinnacle of this type of gardening. The beauty and colour absolutely exuding itself from the screen is truly remarkable. The health of everything in this man’s garden is a true sight to behold. Thanks for sharing one of the best gardens you’ll ever find at the height of its powers
I’ve followed this man for a long while. I’ve studied on the cutting of herbs with moon phases etc Like to take cuttings of Rosemary, do it in the morning as the sun rises cause the oils in the rosemary are rising too. BUT- I check this mans advice for everything regardless to what my studies have taught. Only difference that I have to do IS- we always get an early June frost so time our planting do the tender wee things aren’t up, if lettuces are just planted I lay cardboard or newspapers over the rows and we have melting snow right through April and it’s mid May before our ground is workable So I don’t start seeds inside in middle winter as they’ll be so long and spindly, and can’t find the entrance to my greenhouse until end of March/April either. Even the ground inside is so cold then. So I’ve decided I need to move next door to Charles 😄👍. Love your channel- and love how so natural you are about all things you talk about. 🙏 for you n your family to be always happy safe and healthy
I’m so envious of your green, and rain. We are burned to a crisp! 104 temps and no rain for over 100 days! Waiting for cooler temp and some rain! Your garden are beautiful!
This has to be one of the beautiful tours I have seen Charles. Everything looks incredible. The vegetables look amazing,the grass edging is so neat, and the flowers add a beautiful pop of colour, bringing so much joy. And the sunflowers... Magnificent!!! This tour has reignited my enthusiasm after what has been a difficult year for me. Thank you!
Thank you for the tour. Aside from the wealth of knowledge, what I particularly appreciate is the unending positivity of your videos. Even in the case of problems 'this plant suffered from X but the rest grew nicely so overall it's fine' or 'we'll know better for next year'. Setbacks are an opportunity to learn, not the end of the world. Everyone has someone whose demeanor makes everything seem right as rain. You are that person for many of us. If you really like that puffy sunflower there's a dwarf multi-stemmed variety called Teddy Bear and it's as adorable as can be.
Such a nice comment Diane, thank you very much. Plants and soil all my refuge and I can channel good vibes through them! I have grown that variety and yes it's cute!
Charles, thank you so much for the beautiful videos. I am located in NE Japan. I was first inspired by a horticultural person and set up my mini-farm in a circular shape and called it Mandala garden. I like it but a bit difficult to manage. I happen to find your NoDig book in a library in US this summer and my son bought it for me! I am reading it and enjoying it. I will reshape my farm to manage it easier. My squashes are growing all over and even crawled on my tomato section. Two squashes growing amid cherry 🍅 🎃
I'm also in Somerset and haven't suffered from wasps on my plums, been a good year for them. But I've had to watch brassicas like a hawk. I ran out of net cages, so a few spare plants have been left out, relying on hand picking of cabbage white caterpillars - and there's been a lot! A daily task. Seems like yours aren't affected. Your mix of flowers in the vegetable bed works so well. Given how much time we spend in the vegetable patch, it's a shame not to make it very pleasing on the eye if you have the space. Wishing you continued excellent harvests.
Every year I try to follow your excellent advice , and it works , I have to say even with your dig and no dig trials if the results were the same with no difference in yield, who would want to spend hours digging when there’s no need. Now I must sow my last batch of spring onions while there’s still time 👍❤️
Sweetmeat is my favorite winter squash. Brilliant orange color, dry-ish flesh, huge seeds for roasting. Keeps forever. Hard skin? Think Hubbard...get out the hatchet! Charles, every video is an inspiration...I have learned so much.
I challenge anyone to name a better gardening teacher than Charles Dowding, God sent🙏🏾. Been implementing many of your teachings in my backyard garden here in Zambia and the results have been amazing not just to myself and even to my visitors. Just amazed how simple my gardening has become since I came across your channel 2 years ago
flea beetles can be such a pain and do so much damage...I tend to get them late in the spring. The grasshoppers have been really intense this summer in southwestern New Mexico, USA. It has been (and still is) so hot and dry (since about mid June). whew.
Still experimenting with the right amount of companion and interplanting here in SE Michigan USA, my garden by no means looks so tidy! That said, you are a huge influence in my garden life - composting / no dig, and "popping them in". Also love your work in the book, "Skills", but something holds me back in adding notes to "Diary" until perhaps I have it nailed down a wee bit more... or maybe I should just buy a couple more copies to keep one pristine until I have it nailed down a bit mo-better.😎 In any event, you've helped me view what once were "Dreaded Weeds" to "Look at that fodder for the compost pile" or "That Dandelion is doing wonders to penetrate the clay; maybe I'll let it be until it flowers". THANK YOU, Charles!
Your garden is like a photo from a magazine. I wish mine looked like that. It’s presently very dead. I live in the southern US and we had a hard drought and freaking high temps (105 high). Even the trees are suffering. Nice to see someone else’s garden doing so well.
As always your garden never disappoints! 😍 My garden is slowly growing! I have been buying and saving lots of seeds. I am going with metal raised garden beds and chicken wire. My yard slopes and I have to keep chickens and the neighbor’s cat out. The cat think my garden is a litter box. 😕
Such a lovely tour Charles, everything still looks so colourful! and the veg amazing. Can't wait for the new website to show and I only wish I could make it down to one of your Open days but I'm in southern Scotland. Maybe one day!!!
Bom dia sr Charles, sua horta é o jardim mais lindo que já vi, cheguei ao seu canal e já estou pegando ideias para minha horta, moro em São Lourenço da Serra-SP- Brazil. Parabéns ❤👏👏👏
Great tour as always, look forward to them Charles, next year Im making sre my plants are in the ground week after last frost date, the terrible July weather we had meant a decent fruit set but only now ripening some of them, take care all.
Hope you made sauerkraut from that red cabbage… with a little corianderseeds in it. It lasts for months and is fantastic for any duck or pork! Thanks for another inspiring tour - has me going here in Denmark for third year of no dig!
25:00 with trees like this, you will get the same weight harvest but you will have smaller fruit, if there is less buds those fruit will get larger and give you about the same yield up to the threshold of the tree.
Amazing abundance. Quite pleased with my garden at the moment to. I amazed too how the Cavola nero brassica is growing without insect netting and looking so great. If I took the netting off they would be caterpillar food.
Thanks Andrew. We use soil bacteria caterpillar killer every 18 days, on eBay worldwide www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=dipel%20insecticide&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-55005-18975-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=102&keyword=dipel%20insecticide&crlp=_&MT_ID=&geo_id=&rlsatarget=kwd-81982464782090:loc-188&adpos=&device=c&mktype=&loc=69110&poi=&abcId=&cmpgn=373195863&sitelnk=&adgroupid=1311717575875343&network=o&matchtype=e&msclkid=bded594265c51233046b3db521221cb4
Always amazed to see your garden. Really wish I lived in the climate that would allow for many of the crops you grow. Being in zone 11 the summer is really to hot and humid to grow what you do. But my tropicals trees are doing very well this year trees full on mangoes and star fruit.
All the order and beautiful veg are stunning, but it is down to years of experience and super hard work. Charles, you are so effortless, but your grace and garden speak volumes. I know I need to try harder (and smarter).
It's a no brainer. Tilling is killing. It all begins with soil. Keep it covered, keep it planted. Happy soil, happy roots, happy mycelium, happy bacteria, happy harvest, happy tummy ❤.
Green and orange buttercup pumpkins grew great this year, about 30 pumpkins per 4' x 8' raised bed in a cold climate. Also they are the best tasting, not stringy or watery, more like sweet potato. 21:50. Aphids are easy, a butter knife thin strip of a sticky goo (tanglefoot) at the trunk works, applied early spring. 23:30. Put that in the incinerator not the compost.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Only in the sense that it gets hot enough to destroy weed seeds and roots, Charles!! Unlike inferior compost that never heats up.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Only in the sense that it gets hot enough to destroy weed seeds and roots, Charles!! Unlike inferior compost that never heats up.
what an inspiration, thank you! I really liked the radicchios and I was surprised to see a variety ready to eat in the summer. I m growing a couple of varieties for the winter
Just casually blow my mind with the hedges and the fruit trees, magnificent bounty and the sharing of the pear was very considerate for…. I was also drooling lol😂 thanks for sharing, have a great September
All the green! I'm green with envy!!! We had to give up watering a single thing but livestock in our area. Lake (our water source) is lower than it's been in 33 years. Praying for rain! Thanks for sharing all that beauty!
So gorgeous! Looking forward to checking out the new website on Monday. I grew butternut squash for the first time this year and they were looking beautiful with prolific numbers of squash two weeks ago. This is in a garden at our lake home where I grow things that don’t require as much oversight since we come and go for a few days at a time. I came back yesterday to find many of the squash had split. Here in SW Missouri we had some extreme heat for a week and a couple of gully-washer rain storms, so I’m guessing one or the other or both caused the splits. I plan to see if I can salvage some to peel and cube for freezing since they won’t be keepers. Thank you so much for sharing these splendid walkabouts with us. As you can see from the comments, you give joy to so many.
Thanks so much. That sounds a real pity, I'm hearing about so much weather that is disrupting food growing. So far we have been fortunate here. Please forgive the new website if it's not 100% up together, we decided to make it live anyway and the main features will work, I think you'll like it!
Thanks for the mention of tomatillo. We have (in New York State both those and) the sweet equivalent - ground cherries - which I can strongly recommend for their unique flavor. But to your point, I cultivated 6 plants this year, and have about 40 that I have left to grow (because of ‘volunteers’) and to the extent the volunteers are overwhelming they become weeds which feed the compost!
He’s shown us a huge array of veggies in this one. This time of the year has been very good and l’m envious of the plants he’s got on the go! Everything looks amazing!
Always admirable skills and growth to see and being shared thank you! We are behind you in season and weather flow i have kind of found! Nearing spring here and so greatful for your inspiration advice and knowledge! Kia ora!
Roast tomatillo, garlic, onion. Blend with cilantro, Oregano, S and P to taste. Brown some meat (Rabbit, Pork, Chicken) add sauce amd cook low until tender. You can add hominy, potatoes or eat with rice.
Looking fabulous. Love when you do a taste test and a shout out to Nicola. Close-ups are really helpful. Thanks to the both of you. We've been busy with canning Roma Tomatoes for sauce in two location planted weeks apart. Zone 6b. Hoping for bountiful fall harvest we just planted. Great advice on mixing greens and browns for compost. Ours are working. See ya in the next video.
There's a free, wild & friendly cat here that enjoys sitting in some of my pots even though I've put up a barrier. He likes to squash the sunflowers, the climbing beans, the capsicum etc & these are all young plants not long germinated. But surprisingly he leaves some untouched that I swear he sat on earlier. Lol
I started my first few no-dig beds this spring, and they were doing fantastically. Then, in July in my state of Vermont, we had a massive flood, which covered my no-dig beds in several inches of silt. I'm wondering how to continue next year. I want to do what I can to heal my soil, but I'm not quite sure what that is. Oh, I did a soil test, and there's nothing nasty in my soil, that is the good news! Love your videos, and I have been gardening for probably 6 decades, but am still learning a lot, thank you, Charles.
Goodness me that is drastic. I would leave it there and cover with an inch or so of new compost or any organic matter to encourage soil life below. In the coming months the Lumbricus worms et al should recolonise. Still learning is great! Same.
Awesome Charles. Had 2 measurable rains since July 1st. Texas coast near Houston; 35-40c temperatures. I've well water, it's OK. But I let it aerate in on the surface in buckets before using. Glad you're getting rain.
Hey there Texas. I see your summer has been a lot like mine. I’m really loving no dig. I’m having luck with stuff I’ve never been able to grow. Good luck. ❤ Alabama.
Thanks and yes you can for sure. The drawback however especially with kale and brassicas in general is insects eating the small leaves before plants establish. Chard is much easier in that respect.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks, that’s good to know. I don’t have a green house and so space is an issue in the house to start seedlings off. However, During peak time (March/April) I create space in the house. 😊
Hello Charles! Wonderful tour. I'm glad you showed what you're doing with your spinach. I was going to ask you about them and how they transplant for you. I always start spinach in late August and September and cover for the winter so I get an early start to leafy greens in spring but I have so much difficulty getting them to germinate and keeping the insects off them until they get established. I direct sow a lot of things but decided to start some inside this year and transplant once they are somewhat established and the weather is cooling and the insects are dying off. I started some a couple weeks ago in cell packs and just started some more since I did not get a great germination rate even in the cell packs. Hopefully this batch will do better. Cheers!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Maybe but we have a late season heat wave coming next week and that's not going to help me any. I'll probably keep them inside under my lights until the heat is ver.
What a lovely tour round your life work. I had to abandon plans of coming down for at least a day course this year with Mum's passing but hopefully will make it in 2024. I'm now up to 130m² of growing space(including paths) with a 6x8 greenhouse & a 20x10 First Tunnels polytunnel & have two issues: How to make enough compost (I estimate I need 2.2m³ annually to apply 3cm to the beds - paths get year old shredded hedge clippings/pruning containing plenty of green material). What to do with everything I grow. The former is being addressed to some extent by helping people clear their overgrown gardens & the latter has meant my local food bank is currently receiving several kg a week of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, cucumber & French beans.
You are doing very well. That's a great way to increase compost volume and I see nothing wrong with buying some compost when you are exporting so much food. Or if you have space, to accept delivery of wood chips which gradually turn into lovely organic butter. We use a 12 mm sieve at 45° to take out the big pieces and then add the lovely soft brown to compost heaps.
3:30 chicory... the way it's pronounced by you equals something different in the US. Ditch weed. Also used for deer/turkey food plots. Helps them with intestinal parasites
It is radič(radicchio), known as one of the best winter salad, they are prepared just like other salad, apple vinegar(or other), pumpkin seed oil(alone or with sunflower oil), garlic and salt, it's very delicious.
Actually I think he did call it chicory also. I'm from the states and when I hear Charles call it Chicory, my first thought is of the wild, beautiful blue flowered Chicory back home!
Dear Charles. So nice to see you again. Many good vegetables to show in August and many of the species I get to know little by little. I can't cover it all at once, of course. But I'm taking notes… I'm interested in nutritious crops, transforming them into good dishes, for example parsnips as you call them. I'll try the crop and put it on the menu if I like it. Always good ideas that we tend to forget is getting the most out of the space we have, such as interspersing small vegetables during the lettuce threshing process. And I really need to render my space. I have only 50m2 of cultivation area. Compound. My passion. This year I'm getting a lot of fresh grass clippings. I'm mixing it with cardboard, earth (?), straw and all kitchen waste, mainly potato skins, which I think are “brown”. I understand in fact that decomposition is very fast. Maybe not a very aerobic stack, I'm afraid. Earth might not be a good idea. Let's see what happens. Oh! I remembered. I'm going to use "your" punctured tubes. It's just that I'm making the compost in bathtubs, that is, without side air intakes. But, the height of the stack does not exceed 30/40cms. It's easy to turn. Seeds. My second passion. In general, I still haven't managed to get my seeds to outperform the purchased seeds. Trial and error! Trial and error! Yes. I loved the tour. Like always. Best regards. PS: excuse the will
I. Convinced my husband to watch a few of your videos early last year & he said if I could get my garden to grow like yours, I could try your methods. But now, he says that you must spend all day, you & your employee(s) to keep them all so well maintained. I’m pretty sure you’ve said you only have 1 full-time employee. Would you be able to say about how many hours per day or week are spent by yourself & any employees to maintain your garden? I’ve grown a 30’x14’ garden for years and look to enlarge it, but hubby worries I won’t be able to maintain it beautifully without many hours of time or tilling/cultivating regularly,at least the paths, for weeds. But the last couple of years, my small garden has been MUCH easier to keep weeded and nice looking. If I could have some estimated time you spend to maintain yours, I’d have an idea how to refute hubby with a smaller garden for myself.
So I'm cropping 1500 m² which is around 1600 ft.² and have one full-time +2 part time plus occasional volunteer equals 110 hours per week average, which also includes mowing the grass, trimming the hedges, running the trials we do here, and a lot of marketing and delivering. Hope that helps!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes! Thank you SOOOO a much! That’s extremely helpful!!! God bless you for all you do, and share, and taking time to answer questions!
hi Charles, thank you for all your knowledge you share with us. I have a question please; I want to plant a wildflower meadow on quite a large area and I definitely want to adopt a no dig way for this, as with rest of my garden, but I wonder how, with such a wide area? The grass that is supposed to be a meadow is in between an apple orchard. Thank you.
Oooh tricky. Best success for a wildflower meadow comes on poor soil because otherwise plants such as grass, buttercup, dandelion etc tendto take over and smother the wildflower plants. Many people remove the topsoil which is definitely not No Dig! I really don't know.
I planted some bush beans in May, then sunflowers came up. All the beans failed, but these tall things did appear in their place, I didn't know what they were at first, then I saw the flower forming. I assume the birds planted them because I didn't. I only found out a few years ago that pears ripen after they are picked, that's why when you buy pears, you have to wait to eat them, watch them closely to see the change in colour.
Excellent tour today Charles! My squash is struggling this year, lack of sun and heat. Any that have two fruits on I've cut the growing tips off to encourage them to finish the few they have. I'm growing Alderman peas like you do and I'm wondering if you've picked yours yet? I'm picking mine now because some pods were getting moldy. I'll be drying them to store. I'll shuck them and let the peas dry out of the pod. Is that how you do it?
Thanks Mary and oh dear! If I want to keep those peas I wait until they dry on the plant. I'm afraid that if you dry them when shelled out of a green pod, they won't store, hope I'm wrong!
Nice look around your beds! Charles, is it possible to interplant asparagus after it has died back and is mulched? Or in spring with leaf lettuce, before it makes their tall stalks and leafs itself?
14:58 I love that the little worm seemed to wave at you to let you know it was there when you said that 😁
Dowding is truly the pinnacle of this type of gardening. The beauty and colour absolutely exuding itself from the screen is truly remarkable. The health of everything in this man’s garden is a true sight to behold. Thanks for sharing one of the best gardens you’ll ever find at the height of its powers
Many thanks Jarrod 💚
I am always amazed at how specific he is with sowing/planting dates of everything he has in his garden.
He is my Hero 👍
Thank you for your kindness
That is very kind, thank you
I’ve followed this man for a long while. I’ve studied on the cutting of herbs with moon phases etc Like to take cuttings of Rosemary, do it in the morning as the sun rises cause the oils in the rosemary are rising too. BUT- I check this mans advice for everything regardless to what my studies have taught. Only difference that I have to do IS- we always get an early June frost so time our planting do the tender wee things aren’t up, if lettuces are just planted I lay cardboard or newspapers over the rows and we have melting snow right through April and it’s mid May before our ground is workable So I don’t start seeds inside in middle winter as they’ll be so long and spindly, and can’t find the entrance to my greenhouse until end of March/April either. Even the ground inside is so cold then. So I’ve decided I need to move next door to Charles 😄👍. Love your channel- and love how so natural you are about all things you talk about. 🙏 for you n your family to be always happy safe and healthy
That's so nice of you Kate, thanks. And that's a very sound approach you are adopting, not to rush things in the spring.
I’m so envious of your green, and rain. We are burned to a crisp! 104 temps and no rain for over 100 days! Waiting for cooler temp and some rain! Your garden are beautiful!
Oh wow! Thanks Judy and so sorry to hear this, I pray that rain reaches you
I can't wait for these videos to come out.
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Fortunately there are hundreds more on his playlist for binge-watching purposes while we wait!
Sr charles!! Está bellisimo su homeacres!!!
Obrigado Graciela
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This has to be one of the beautiful tours I have seen Charles. Everything looks incredible. The vegetables look amazing,the grass edging is so neat, and the flowers add a beautiful pop of colour, bringing so much joy. And the sunflowers... Magnificent!!! This tour has reignited my enthusiasm after what has been a difficult year for me. Thank you!
So nice thanks Caroline, happy to help
Thank you for the tour. Aside from the wealth of knowledge, what I particularly appreciate is the unending positivity of your videos. Even in the case of problems 'this plant suffered from X but the rest grew nicely so overall it's fine' or 'we'll know better for next year'. Setbacks are an opportunity to learn, not the end of the world. Everyone has someone whose demeanor makes everything seem right as rain. You are that person for many of us.
If you really like that puffy sunflower there's a dwarf multi-stemmed variety called Teddy Bear and it's as adorable as can be.
Such a nice comment Diane, thank you very much. Plants and soil all my refuge and I can channel good vibes through them! I have grown that variety and yes it's cute!
Charles, thank you so much for the beautiful videos. I am located in NE Japan. I was first inspired by a horticultural person and set up my mini-farm in a circular shape and called it Mandala garden. I like it but a bit difficult to manage. I happen to find your NoDig book in a library in US this summer and my son bought it for me! I am reading it and enjoying it. I will reshape my farm to manage it easier. My squashes are growing all over and even crawled on my tomato section. Two squashes growing amid cherry 🍅 🎃
How interesting and I know what you mean about beautiful shapes not always being the most practical! Good luck with changing it over.
I'm also in Somerset and haven't suffered from wasps on my plums, been a good year for them.
But I've had to watch brassicas like a hawk. I ran out of net cages, so a few spare plants have been left out, relying on hand picking of cabbage white caterpillars - and there's been a lot! A daily task. Seems like yours aren't affected.
Your mix of flowers in the vegetable bed works so well. Given how much time we spend in the vegetable patch, it's a shame not to make it very pleasing on the eye if you have the space.
Wishing you continued excellent harvests.
Nice to hear. See my Pest Prevention video for ideas th-cam.com/video/Nbf7D80j5os/w-d-xo.html
Every year I try to follow your excellent advice , and it works , I have to say even with your dig and no dig trials if the results were the same with no difference in yield, who would want to spend hours digging when there’s no need. Now I must sow my last batch of spring onions while there’s still time 👍❤️
This is great to hear and I agree 🙂
Sweetmeat is my favorite winter squash. Brilliant orange color, dry-ish flesh, huge seeds for roasting. Keeps forever. Hard skin? Think Hubbard...get out the hatchet! Charles, every video is an inspiration...I have learned so much.
Thanks Patricia and great news on the Sweetmeat :)
I challenge anyone to name a better gardening teacher than Charles Dowding, God sent🙏🏾. Been implementing many of your teachings in my backyard garden here in Zambia and the results have been amazing not just to myself and even to my visitors. Just amazed how simple my gardening has become since I came across your channel 2 years ago
This is great to hear, well done on your success Mwenya 🙂
Mr. Dowding, your gardens are just incredible and beautiful!! Thank you for sharing them and your insights and knowledge with us! 🌟
My pleasure Kim
Beautiful results! Thanks for the inspiration Charles.
My pleasure Declan
Charles, you are my favorite Gardener, Thanks!
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Everything looks so neat and beautiful! Truly inspiring Charles, thank you for sharing.
My pleasure Helena
Your plants and garden look so super healthy and on my 64 inch tv everything is so huge and beautiful 😍❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you Trina
flea beetles can be such a pain and do so much damage...I tend to get them late in the spring. The grasshoppers have been really intense this summer in southwestern New Mexico, USA. It has been (and still is) so hot and dry (since about mid June). whew.
Your weather sounds difficult, hope it rains soon!
Still experimenting with the right amount of companion and interplanting here in SE Michigan USA, my garden by no means looks so tidy! That said, you are a huge influence in my garden life - composting / no dig, and "popping them in". Also love your work in the book, "Skills", but something holds me back in adding notes to "Diary" until perhaps I have it nailed down a wee bit more... or maybe I should just buy a couple more copies to keep one pristine until I have it nailed down a bit mo-better.😎 In any event, you've helped me view what once were "Dreaded Weeds" to "Look at that fodder for the compost pile" or "That Dandelion is doing wonders to penetrate the clay; maybe I'll let it be until it flowers". THANK YOU, Charles!
Thanks for your lovely comment David, and it sounds like you are on a great journey!
wonderful 😍
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Brilliant tour, I always learn so much from these walkabouts. Thanks for all that you do.
My pleasure Jeff
Ah, fruit trees, my favorite!
Your garden is like a photo from a magazine. I wish mine looked like that. It’s presently very dead. I live in the southern US and we had a hard drought and freaking high temps (105 high). Even the trees are suffering. Nice to see someone else’s garden doing so well.
I wish to send you fresher air, hope your fall garden is good 🌱
Yes, the heat from El Niño can be terrible for plants.
Charles is a master gardener.
Wow what an amazing crop of pears 🍐 everything is looking brilliant thanks for sharing
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One day, I will travel from Australia for your open day. This looks exquisite! Thanks for all you do, Charles :)
Amazing and thanks!
As always your garden never disappoints! 😍 My garden is slowly growing! I have been buying and saving lots of seeds. I am going with metal raised garden beds and chicken wire. My yard slopes and I have to keep chickens and the neighbor’s cat out. The cat think my garden is a litter box. 😕
You have much to organise there!
Wonderful tour, as always :) Thank you, dear brother Charles !
Thank you glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Such a lovely tour Charles, everything still looks so colourful! and the veg amazing. Can't wait for the new website to show and I only wish I could make it down to one of your Open days but I'm in southern Scotland. Maybe one day!!!
Thank Jenny and hopefully one day 🙂
Beautiful NoDig gardening master mr. Charles. 👍
Thank you 💚
Bom dia sr Charles, sua horta é o jardim mais lindo que já vi, cheguei ao seu canal e já estou pegando ideias para minha horta, moro em São Lourenço da Serra-SP- Brazil.
Parabéns ❤👏👏👏
Fico feliz em ouvir isso, que seu jardim prospere
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 🙏
a beautiful garden
Thanks for visiting
Great tour as always, look forward to them Charles, next year Im making sre my plants are in the ground week after last frost date, the terrible July weather we had meant a decent fruit set but only now ripening some of them, take care all.
Feeling refreshed 🐝🏞️🥬🥦🥬🌻🦋
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Hope you made sauerkraut from that red cabbage… with a little corianderseeds in it. It lasts for months and is fantastic for any duck or pork! Thanks for another inspiring tour - has me going here in Denmark for third year of no dig!
Thanks for the tip! I sold it! Shall make some soon, and great you are in year 3 :)
25:00 with trees like this, you will get the same weight harvest but you will have smaller fruit, if there is less buds those fruit will get larger and give you about the same yield up to the threshold of the tree.
Cheers Mike
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Cheers to you Charles, I am active in the garden, expanding, thanks to your encouragement and motivation.
Great to hear of your success 🙂
Amazing abundance. Quite pleased with my garden at the moment to. I amazed too how the Cavola nero brassica is growing without insect netting and looking so great. If I took the netting off they would be caterpillar food.
Thanks Andrew. We use soil bacteria caterpillar killer every 18 days, on eBay worldwide www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=dipel%20insecticide&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-55005-18975-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=102&keyword=dipel%20insecticide&crlp=_&MT_ID=&geo_id=&rlsatarget=kwd-81982464782090:loc-188&adpos=&device=c&mktype=&loc=69110&poi=&abcId=&cmpgn=373195863&sitelnk=&adgroupid=1311717575875343&network=o&matchtype=e&msclkid=bded594265c51233046b3db521221cb4
Hi Charles good seeing you. Great video. Stay close to Jesus and God bless y’all. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Thank you Steven
A wonderful tour among vegetables, fruits and flowers.
Thanks Gláucia
lovely garden tour, cheers Charles
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Beautiful garden
Thanks for visiting!
Wonderful open day, it was a lovely atmosphere, beautiful garden and a very warm welcome 💚
Glad you enjoyed it!
Always amazed to see your garden. Really wish I lived in the climate that would allow for many of the crops you grow. Being in zone 11 the summer is really to hot and humid to grow what you do. But my tropicals trees are doing very well this year trees full on mangoes and star fruit.
Thanks. Nice to hear on the fruit at least!
It ist always a pleasure to watch your Videos. Thank you for them and pleased continue with them😊👍
I must agree. Feels always good strolling around with you through your wonderful garden!😊
Thank you Suzanne 🙂
Thank you Dagmar
I really enjoyed the tour of your amazing and beautiful garden
Thank you that's nice to hear 🙂
All the order and beautiful veg are stunning, but it is down to years of experience and super hard work. Charles, you are so effortless, but your grace and garden speak volumes. I know I need to try harder (and smarter).
Thank you and very kind 🙂
fantastic garden
Thanks for visiting again Steven
Another great video. I would like to see you do one on preserving cabbage. I usually grow about ten time more than I can use fresh.
Great suggestion Yvonne, sauerkraut!
Also, I’ve discovered several recipes for water bath canning coleslaw! If you like Mayo, add it after you open the jar, shortly before eating.
@@jenbear8652 Sounds great. I love kraut but have never eaten homemade
This garden feeds your soul too!
I am glad, thank you
It's a no brainer. Tilling is killing. It all begins with soil. Keep it covered, keep it planted. Happy soil, happy roots, happy mycelium, happy bacteria, happy harvest, happy tummy ❤.
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Your garden is such a wealth of beauty Mr. Dowding, you should be Very proud of your produce.
Thanks so much and I am, but more than that I'm amazed actually, every year!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Together nature and hard work never fail to amaze !
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Anaheim chiles are the lifeblood of my part of the world. Hope you enjoy them.
Great and yes :)
Thank you for the videos. I always learn something helpful - this time about fruit trees. I should thin the plums.
Glad to help!
I love this man.
It's so refreshing to visit your garden. Thank you for sharing the plants & interplanting growing tips.
My pleasure 🙂
Green and orange buttercup pumpkins grew great this year, about 30 pumpkins per 4' x 8' raised bed in a cold climate. Also they are the best tasting, not stringy or watery, more like sweet potato. 21:50. Aphids are easy, a butter knife thin strip of a sticky goo (tanglefoot) at the trunk works, applied early spring. 23:30. Put that in the incinerator not the compost.
Thanks so much
Charles's compost is an incinerator.
Ruby!
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Only in the sense that it gets hot enough to destroy weed seeds and roots, Charles!!
Unlike inferior compost that never heats up.
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Only in the sense that it gets hot enough to destroy weed seeds and roots, Charles!!
Unlike inferior compost that never heats up.
Eres un flor más de ese bello jardín,... 😊
¡Qué lindo, gracias!
Emocionada qué vengas a Chile,..
Gracias Maria
Charles is becoming a mega superstar, the king of veggy❣👍
That is very kind Els
what an inspiration, thank you! I really liked the radicchios and I was surprised to see a variety ready to eat in the summer. I m growing a couple of varieties for the winter
Glad you liked it, the earliness is from sowing 8th June instead of early July
I did enjoy the tour ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it Dalia
You showed more bravery there with that Wasp than I would have!
It was sugar-sleepy!
Sr Charles! Está bellidimo su homeacres!!!😊
Gracias 💚
Just casually blow my mind with the hedges and the fruit trees, magnificent bounty and the sharing of the pear was very considerate for…. I was also drooling lol😂 thanks for sharing, have a great September
Glad you enjoyed it Travis and same!
Beautiful garden as always! Those neat little wood chips paths in between the rows of vegetables are very pleasing to look at! :D
Thank you Huldra
Gorgeous! Great rotation tip.
Thanks Grace
Loved the video! The cycle of El Niño with the extra water this summer seems to have made an even bigger garden ❤
All the green! I'm green with envy!!! We had to give up watering a single thing but livestock in our area. Lake (our water source) is lower than it's been in 33 years. Praying for rain! Thanks for sharing all that beauty!
Oh wow! Wishing you 💦 it's coming
This video is just what I needed today. Thank you, Charles.
I am glad Lisa 🙂
So gorgeous! Looking forward to checking out the new website on Monday. I grew butternut squash for the first time this year and they were looking beautiful with prolific numbers of squash two weeks ago. This is in a garden at our lake home where I grow things that don’t require as much oversight since we come and go for a few days at a time. I came back yesterday to find many of the squash had split. Here in SW Missouri we had some extreme heat for a week and a couple of gully-washer rain storms, so I’m guessing one or the other or both caused the splits. I plan to see if I can salvage some to peel and cube for freezing since they won’t be keepers. Thank you so much for sharing these splendid walkabouts with us. As you can see from the comments, you give joy to so many.
Thanks so much. That sounds a real pity, I'm hearing about so much weather that is disrupting food growing. So far we have been fortunate here.
Please forgive the new website if it's not 100% up together, we decided to make it live anyway and the main features will work, I think you'll like it!
Thanks for the mention of tomatillo. We have (in New York State both those and) the sweet equivalent - ground cherries - which I can strongly recommend for their unique flavor. But to your point, I cultivated 6 plants this year, and have about 40 that I have left to grow (because of ‘volunteers’) and to the extent the volunteers are overwhelming they become weeds which feed the compost!
Thanks for sharing Annie and I love ground cherries too :)
Your garden is looking fantastic as always
Thank you
Such productivity and abundance, great stuff Charles!
He’s shown us a huge array of veggies in this one. This time of the year has been very good and l’m envious of the plants he’s got on the go! Everything looks amazing!
Thanks so much!
your garden is just amazing, thank you so much! I really like watching your videos.
I'm so glad!
Always admirable skills and growth to see and being shared thank you! We are behind you in season and weather flow i have kind of found! Nearing spring here and so greatful for your inspiration advice and knowledge! Kia ora!
Thank you, and I hope that your spring goes well, such an exciting time
Roast tomatillo, garlic, onion. Blend with cilantro, Oregano, S and P to taste. Brown some meat (Rabbit, Pork, Chicken) add sauce amd cook low until tender. You can add hominy, potatoes or eat with rice.
Love it, without meat for me, thanks
Some roasted or grilled mushrooms would be great then.
Looking fabulous. Love when you do a taste test and a shout out to Nicola. Close-ups are really helpful. Thanks to the both of you.
We've been busy with canning Roma Tomatoes for sauce in two location planted weeks apart. Zone 6b. Hoping for bountiful fall harvest we just planted. Great advice on mixing greens and browns for compost. Ours are working. See ya in the next video.
Wishing you a bountiful harvest and great to hear that your compost is going well and thank you 🙂
There's a free, wild & friendly cat here that enjoys sitting in some of my pots even though I've put up a barrier.
He likes to squash the sunflowers, the climbing beans, the capsicum etc & these are all young plants not long germinated. But surprisingly he leaves some untouched that I swear he sat on earlier. Lol
That's great!
pears ripen after being picked one week on the ground or in a bucket also good chicken food for the bird damaged ones on the ground
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your garden is so great
Thank you Tùng
Lovely, thank you!
My pleasure
I started my first few no-dig beds this spring, and they were doing fantastically. Then, in July in my state of Vermont, we had a massive flood, which covered my no-dig beds in several inches of silt. I'm wondering how to continue next year. I want to do what I can to heal my soil, but I'm not quite sure what that is. Oh, I did a soil test, and there's nothing nasty in my soil, that is the good news! Love your videos, and I have been gardening for probably 6 decades, but am still learning a lot, thank you, Charles.
Goodness me that is drastic.
I would leave it there and cover with an inch or so of new compost or any organic matter to encourage soil life below. In the coming months the Lumbricus worms et al should recolonise.
Still learning is great! Same.
Thank you, that is encouraging, and I will carry on. Oh, I love your flowers, by the way.
my pleasure and thank you 🌻
Awesome Charles.
Had 2 measurable rains since July 1st. Texas coast near Houston; 35-40c temperatures. I've well water, it's OK. But I let it aerate in on the surface in buckets before using.
Glad you're getting rain.
Oh wow, what a challenge! I feel fortunate, and hope you have rain soon
Hey there Texas. I see your summer has been a lot like mine. I’m really loving no dig. I’m having luck with stuff I’ve never been able to grow. Good luck. ❤ Alabama.
I am glad you are loving No Dig, great to hear Yvonne and thank you and you also.
Fantastic tour. Thank you.
Can you direct sow kale and chard in the garden?
Thanks and yes you can for sure. The drawback however especially with kale and brassicas in general is insects eating the small leaves before plants establish. Chard is much easier in that respect.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thanks, that’s good to know. I don’t have a green house and so space is an issue in the house to start seedlings off. However, During peak time (March/April) I create space in the house. 😊
Love this!
The swallows have already started going up and down the south coast, ready to go home. A hard winter is on the cards.
Ah bother, I tend to agree, especially from seeing how veiled the sunlight is
Well, the swallows must be a darn site more clever than our TV weather forecasters then . They can’t predict the weather one day in advance
😂 often true
Hello Charles! Wonderful tour. I'm glad you showed what you're doing with your spinach. I was going to ask you about them and how they transplant for you. I always start spinach in late August and September and cover for the winter so I get an early start to leafy greens in spring but I have so much difficulty getting them to germinate and keeping the insects off them until they get established. I direct sow a lot of things but decided to start some inside this year and transplant once they are somewhat established and the weather is cooling and the insects are dying off. I started some a couple weeks ago in cell packs and just started some more since I did not get a great germination rate even in the cell packs. Hopefully this batch will do better. Cheers!
Nice to hear, your earlier sowing may suddenly appear in the next few days!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Maybe but we have a late season heat wave coming next week and that's not going to help me any. I'll probably keep them inside under my lights until the heat is ver.
Heatwave here too! 82F by day
@@CharlesDowding1nodig We're supposed to be mid 90's for a few days next week. ouch!
What a lovely tour round your life work.
I had to abandon plans of coming down for at least a day course this year with Mum's passing but hopefully will make it in 2024.
I'm now up to 130m² of growing space(including paths) with a 6x8 greenhouse & a 20x10 First Tunnels polytunnel & have two issues:
How to make enough compost (I estimate I need 2.2m³ annually to apply 3cm to the beds - paths get year old shredded hedge clippings/pruning containing plenty of green material).
What to do with everything I grow.
The former is being addressed to some extent by helping people clear their overgrown gardens & the latter has meant my local food bank is currently receiving several kg a week of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, cucumber & French beans.
You are doing very well. That's a great way to increase compost volume and I see nothing wrong with buying some compost when you are exporting so much food. Or if you have space, to accept delivery of wood chips which gradually turn into lovely organic butter. We use a 12 mm sieve at 45° to take out the big pieces and then add the lovely soft brown to compost heaps.
3:30 chicory... the way it's pronounced by you equals something different in the US. Ditch weed. Also used for deer/turkey food plots. Helps them with intestinal parasites
It is radič(radicchio), known as one of the best winter salad, they are prepared just like other salad, apple vinegar(or other), pumpkin seed oil(alone or with sunflower oil), garlic and salt, it's very delicious.
Thats interesting thanks
Oooh thanks
@@ketko24 ahhh, the "ra" was too soft for my American ears. Thanks!
Actually I think he did call it chicory also. I'm from the states and when I hear Charles call it Chicory, my first thought is of the wild, beautiful blue flowered Chicory back home!
Maybe next year I really hope can visit your garden if you still have an open day.
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Sunflowers are great along sweetcorn & French beans ive had good results
Dear Charles. So nice to see you again.
Many good vegetables to show in August and many of the species I get to know little by little. I can't cover it all at once, of course.
But I'm taking notes… I'm interested in nutritious crops, transforming them into good dishes, for example parsnips as you call them. I'll try the crop and put it on the menu if I like it.
Always good ideas that we tend to forget is getting the most out of the space we have, such as interspersing small vegetables during the lettuce threshing process. And I really need to render my space. I have only 50m2 of cultivation area.
Compound. My passion. This year I'm getting a lot of fresh grass clippings. I'm mixing it with cardboard, earth (?), straw and all kitchen waste, mainly potato skins, which I think are “brown”. I understand in fact that decomposition is very fast. Maybe not a very aerobic stack, I'm afraid. Earth might not be a good idea. Let's see what happens. Oh! I remembered. I'm going to use "your" punctured tubes. It's just that I'm making the compost in bathtubs, that is, without side air intakes. But, the height of the stack does not exceed 30/40cms. It's easy to turn.
Seeds. My second passion. In general, I still haven't managed to get my seeds to outperform the purchased seeds. Trial and error! Trial and error!
Yes. I loved the tour. Like always.
Best regards.
PS: excuse the will
Nice to hear you are so busy Claudia
Sweet meat is a wonderful winter squash, for me its always consistent, long storing and great tasting!
Thanks, good to hear
I. Convinced my husband to watch a few of your videos early last year & he said if I could get my garden to grow like yours, I could try your methods. But now, he says that you must spend all day, you & your employee(s) to keep them all so well maintained.
I’m pretty sure you’ve said you only have 1 full-time employee. Would you be able to say about how many hours per day or week are spent by yourself & any employees to maintain your garden?
I’ve grown a 30’x14’ garden for years and look to enlarge it, but hubby worries I won’t be able to maintain it beautifully without many hours of time or tilling/cultivating regularly,at least the paths, for weeds. But the last couple of years, my small garden has been MUCH easier to keep weeded and nice looking. If I could have some estimated time you spend to maintain yours, I’d have an idea how to refute hubby with a smaller garden for myself.
So I'm cropping 1500 m² which is around 1600 ft.² and have one full-time +2 part time plus occasional volunteer equals 110 hours per week average, which also includes mowing the grass, trimming the hedges, running the trials we do here, and a lot of marketing and delivering. Hope that helps!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes! Thank you SOOOO a much! That’s extremely helpful!!! God bless you for all you do, and share, and taking time to answer questions!
hi Charles, thank you for all your knowledge you share with us. I have a question please; I want to plant a wildflower meadow on quite a large area and I definitely want to adopt a no dig way for this, as with rest of my garden, but I wonder how, with such a wide area? The grass that is supposed to be a meadow is in between an apple orchard. Thank you.
Oooh tricky. Best success for a wildflower meadow comes on poor soil because otherwise plants such as grass, buttercup, dandelion etc tendto take over and smother the wildflower plants. Many people remove the topsoil which is definitely not No Dig! I really don't know.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig caught you there 😄 okay, thank you so much though, I guess I have a tough job ahead of me!
I'm wondering .. about 7:56 in, did you have to go get some twine? I was feeling that 'Must stop everything to tie up plant" vibe 😁😁
Haha yes, later that day :)
Like your bracelet!
Thanks, she makes lovely things joodaboo.com
I grow my sunflowers with my corn
I planted some bush beans in May, then sunflowers came up. All the beans failed, but these tall things did appear in their place, I didn't know what they were at first, then I saw the flower forming. I assume the birds planted them because I didn't.
I only found out a few years ago that pears ripen after they are picked, that's why when you buy pears, you have to wait to eat them, watch them closely to see the change in colour.
Always learning!
Always sooo interesting!!
I am glad Rose, thank you
Excellent tour today Charles! My squash is struggling this year, lack of sun and heat. Any that have two fruits on I've cut the growing tips off to encourage them to finish the few they have. I'm growing Alderman peas like you do and I'm wondering if you've picked yours yet? I'm picking mine now because some pods were getting moldy. I'll be drying them to store. I'll shuck them and let the peas dry out of the pod. Is that how you do it?
Thanks Mary and oh dear! If I want to keep those peas I wait until they dry on the plant. I'm afraid that if you dry them when shelled out of a green pod, they won't store, hope I'm wrong!
Nice look around your beds!
Charles, is it possible to interplant asparagus after it has died back and is mulched?
Or in spring with leaf lettuce, before it makes their tall stalks and leafs itself?
Thanks Daniela and yes. Or spring onions, spinach transplanted before winter