Small Garden May 2023
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- Fascinating changes in just eight weeks of spring. See my advice for maintaining the garden weed and pest free, quite simply.
No dig, no fertilisers or slug pellets. I weed often yet very little. And cut the grass edges, the hedges
This is the video of 8 weeks earlier, planting on 20th March.
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00:00 Introduction
01:23 The weather this spring
02:15 A look at some bare ground, ready for succession planting - cauliflower now cleared, and I harvest the remaining multisown radish which has some insect damage
03:38 Multisown leeks ready to be planted, Tornado and Mammoth, and some dill
04:22 Beetroot, variable growth due to proximity of shed and slug damage
04:55 Lettuce plants, also with slug damage - I demonstrate picking outer leaves
06:17 Nettle plants surrounding the bed, soon to be cut
06:50 Multisown onions, Globo
06:55 Using fleece for spring plantings
07:18 Potatoes Charlotte and cordon tomatoes, and how to protect them from frost
09:58 Peas on a teepee
11:09 Brassicas under mesh, against insects and pigeons
11:34 Edging, and how to keep it tidy
12:48 Spinach Medania, starting to flower
14:26 Carrots, good germination
14:59 Strawberries and sorrel
15:23 Tayberry where the fig tree was, and new smaller fig tree, with figs on
15:56 Some examples of succession planting
16:54 Outro
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I don't give some away because I planted too much. I plant too much so I can give some away. 😍🌱🍅🌶️🌽🥦🥒🥔🌰 Love your channel so much Sir Charles !🤴 👍👍
Haha cool.
All about sharing the joy! ❤
This is about how much area I plant on. It's great to see someone with as much experience as CD doing something on the scale of average people.
Thank you, I am glad it helps 🙂
Also showing disappointments 👍
it's always a great day when a small garden video comes out!
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I feel the same way.
Love how you correct yourself from pest damage to bug damage. 🐛 although we are always against them in the battle of veg growing, bugs have as much right to be here as us humans 😅
Pest as a verb and not as a noun
My best carrots every year are planted between my onions. I sow the seeds in early June and by the time I pull out the onions, the carrots have plenty of space to grow. It is a very bountiful part of my garden. I plant 300 onions, then I get fresh carrots from Sept to march. I am in Pacific northwest zone 7.
Super process Thelma
I want to express how much I am enjoying using your methods of seeding and transplanting multi sown vegetables. Not everything is a great success as I need more experience but enough is successful that I will continue. It’s made more fun in gardening. Thanks!
This is great to hear Lena I am glad you are finding it fun 🙂 🌱
'the sky's been a bit hazy at times'. I know how you mean. I got up 5am one beautiful clear sky morning & then watched in anger as the 'condensation trails' spread out. By 9am all was milky white & I could almost look directly at the sun.
Crazy times Stan. Send love upwards to help.
Nothing like a smoke before harvesting radishes 😊
Cutting nettles to "Reduce the population of mollusks" lmao great word
I'm always so happy when there's a new video! Let me tell you, Charles, your no dig approach has me producing enough food for myself for a year, with very little "work"! So thankful I found your channel 5 years ago before I started gardening in my new yard! This method is so great and since there is no damage to the underlying ground, it's easy to rearrange where my gardens are and to build new ones, year after year. I have never been so successful in my gardening endeavours before. Thank you so much!
This is great to hear. So pleased 🙂
How wonderful! Thanks for your feedback
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Yes! Same for me. I'm 61 in south-central Indiana and been following your videos for several years . I never till. Been gardening on our new property for 7 years now. I'm loving it ❤
This is great 🙂 thank you for your support
For badgers... Maybe wire mesh tunnels? I secure sturdy wire panels with 2" openings over anything my local racoon likes to eat. Now he just digs the lawn for grubs, so I think we have come to a mutual arrangement 😊😮
Many thanks Sue
I just love when you show your small garden, it’s very similar in size to my small No Dig garden and I always learn so much from you! Thank you so much for sharing🪴
Thank you for your kind words🙂
Hi, Charles. In Saturday’s garden feeds... there was a very nice article about you and your Homeacres garden. It was fun reading about your early days in gardening. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/22/2023.
Nice to hear Kate and thanks
Good morning, Charles, from Windermere, Florida 9b USA 🇺🇸
Your Garden is really productive.
We are 4-6 weeks ahead of you. Already consistent days up to 90°
Happy Gardening, My Friend
❤Peggy❤
Thank you and to you also 🙂
Small Garden! Woo!
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Thank you Charles, I enjoyed the visit. Hope your enjoying your Spring.
🙂 Thank you glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for share it, from Mar del Plata , George
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Like your shirt and the brown jacket Charles! Cheers from another gardener : )
That is a dream garden
Thank you 🙂
@6.18 Charles just casually brushes his hand over the stinging nettles,: like a true gardening warrior he shows no pain, only love for the stingy gits! Jokes aside, your videos are inspiring for improving my own garden and growing lots of food!
I have arthritis in my shoulder. I sting myself most days in the shoulder it really helps. I'm being serious incase you think I am joking
Haha thanks, they are noble plants, and I'm happy to help you 😀
The sky in south west Ireland is nearly always veiled ! Lovely to see the small garden, thankyou..I'm off the sow carrots
Thank you 🙂
It's so shocking, in plain view yet hardly known
I know, it is shocking. I've been aware of it for about 5 years now. Have you noticed it for long? I'm enjoying your lovely no knead rye bread recipe from the No Dig Cookbook.
Our beets usually are disappointing. Carrots are hit and miss. I try to keep them watered well, but wonder if it’s a boron issue. Too cheap to get soil test so will try to rig up irrigation and do a test. I believe the nutrients are covered but if they run on dry side I suppose they can’t take it up. Our springs seem to be too hot.
With in ground rows it helps to dig a 3-4” trench around edge to prevent lawn from creeping in.
Hi Charles you are an inspiration to our generation. I have learnt so much mych from you. You make farming fun. From Kenya
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
Can't wait till I will have my OWN small garden 😔... I can dream on
I sincerely hope your wait won't be too long, dreams can come true fingers crossed.
All the very best
My brassicas also flopped this year, never had so much failure with cabbage brocoli chinese leafy greens and lettuce. All got eaten by slugs. So far only my summer plants and garlic is thriving. Just have to keep resowing brassica.
Yes it's quite a mystery and I'm noticing it on money but not all brassicas
It always quite amazing to see just how much food can be had on a small plot. Have a wonderful week ahead.
It is amazing you are right and you also 🙂
I have a soft spot for dandelions because I have so few early flowers in my garden right now, so this year I kind of left some and dead-headed & thinned them like I would a garden flower. I learned man do they make excellent slug habitat! Something about the way that basal rosette hugs the ground, completely blocking out light and making it super wet underneath; I swear I found a slug under every single one I removed this year! And the slugs love to crawl up the stems at night to eat the flowers. It seems hard (especially in places where this is a native wildflower) to balance habitat vs pest harborage 😢.
Great observations, thanks
Timely! Noticed spinach putting on flowers today, and was hoping to pinch them off and still get a harvest in the coming weeks. Thanks for the confirmation.
Perfect 🙂
Thank´s Charles. You are the best, the King of No Dig! Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
@7:28 Caught you digging! Just kidding hahaha Have you ever tried seeding your carrots with onion seeds as a form or pest control actually pest prevention? If not try a small test plot and you will be amazed. I have tried 60/40 carrot to onion ratio that worked better for productivity then a 50/50 So on trial right now is a 70/30 ratio I used a mix of red onions white onion and spring onions Got a substantial crop of Carrots in an area that is nortorios for carrot fly as well as tons of pickling sized onions. We are not allowed to use any pesticides on the Farm as there are Bee Hives and its 100% Organic
It’s so interesting the see how much you can grow in a small space! Thank you for sharing!
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I feel like from 1st January I’m already looking forward to the last frost date but then the French beans and tomatoes still need to be indoors until June when it’s 10 degrees or more at night. Wish I had a greenhouse!
I'm berating myself because I see that you're planting dill as transplants. For whatever reasons, I've always believed that dill does not transplant well. Another (of many) good lessons I've learned from you. Thanks
Pill bugs have been bad this year. They ate some of my tomato seedlings. I dont think i have ever seen that before. I have been putting ground egg shell on the stems to try and help.
I had it happen once when there was too much old rotting wood nearby in the greenhouse. It definitely helps to have a bit of a spring clean before propagation starts. It's incredible how their numbers escalate very rapidly, when any wood is decomposing!
A square cloche made out of chicken wire would probably keep badgers out of the strawberries.
Here they push over structures like that
Every year my garden get's closer and closer to looking like yours! I attribute this in part to your teachings of course.
That is great 🙂
Great video Charles - I've got a freezer, jars, baskets and sacks full of beautiful veggies for winter thanks to your knowledge and videos over the years. It's the way I'll grow my own vegetables for ever 🎉
💚 ah great!
I am overloaded with spinach at the moment 😂😂😂. I need to give them away 😅😅😅
I had great success in the greenhouse over winter but slow growth outdoors now in Bolton
Badgers in the garden whoa! I thought I had issues. We have deer and groundhogs.
That's enough! Good luck
Lovely video. My next level of garden knowledge I'm looking to gain is succession planting. Planning to do a lot of testing over the next few seasons. I would love more videos on that and some different things to think about in terms of succession planting.
Charles has great videos for succession planting. He even put out a timeline. Adjust it for your growing zone. Happy gardening!
Lovely stuff we have 2 allotment and this much at home. It’s amazing how much you can grow in such a small amount of Space
Isn't it good!
You have heaven over there
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The small garden videos are my favourite as my garden is a small garden, I've started to get into the habit of putting sowing dates one the plant lables so I can get an idea of what to sow to go in when something comes out, I'm on my 4th sowing of courgette and there just not germinating I'm going to buy a different packet and brand today along with a couple of plug plants just to make sure 😁👍
Good to hear Mick and yes sounds like old seed :(
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I think it's the seed also, although has 2024 oon pack lol, but like in one of your previous videos on seed, who knows how old it is before being packaged 👍
Thank you Charles. Having problems with down pours washing beets, carrots, peas away so replanted. Zone 6B U.S.A. In the 90's few weeks back. 64F today w. heavy to light rain. We needed.
Roma withheld winds. Two things I'd like to share with you Charles.
1.) I was watching tomato site. On indeterminant varieties, depending on conditions like spacing he does not remove suckers and cuts back the top that won't get ripe tomatoes before end of season.
2.) I'm in my mid 70's and also learning how to strengthen my weak low back muscles and painful knees. No more weaknesses and pain free adventures in the garden.
Oooh sounds difficult weather.
Good luck with keeping fit, gardening helps for sure :)
It’s such a treat to follow you around in your gardens 💖
Thank You for sharing your wisdom and talents with us once again... so helpful 💝
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Don't give up on that small beet yet.
lovely video charles
Thank you 🙂
You have inspired me to make my vegetable gardens no dig. I love watching your videos even though we are 6 months out here in New Zealand. Today I've planted Suttons Dwarf Broad beans, as I'm sick of the tall ones falling everywhere, celtuce, and sugar chicory seeds too. We have torrents of rain here and the paths between the raised beds are slush. Thanks for your continual inspiration Charles
Nice to see this Jane and I'm sorry about the unnatural weather, good luck with those sowings 🌱
This is one of the best videos you’ve done! Your garden and the tasks in the garden were very similar to mine. It was great to see you covering many of the topics that need attention in a smaller garden. So helpful! Thank you for all you do to help us gardeners.
So pleased you found it helpful and thank you for your kind words
Thank you so much and it makes it feel super worthwhile for me when I have comments like this 💚
Our last frost date is suppose to be Mother's Day and we were covering for hrs last Wednesday night the 17th.... We had locations around us as low as 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Spring can be unforgiving.
Yes, nerve racking!
I'm here in the States, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and wisdom. I have learned so much from you. And over 90% of your ideas work here in the southern region of the States. Thank you again Sir.
Thank you for your kind words and good to hear your success 🙂
Lovely to hear! 💚
Thanks Charles for another wonderful video on the small garden….I’ve managed to get a small alottment this year in Philadelphia and have designed and planted with yours in mind 🌸
Nice to hear!
Thank you Charles ….😁👍🏻
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Love the small garden Charles. It's an ongoing battle with the slugs, I had most of my peas taken last night! More sowing today. Off to sow some radishes in between my garlic and onions. It's a busy but enjoyable time. Thankyou for all your tips.
Busy bee Jenny
Thank you so much! So satisfying and great information!
Thank you 🙂
I have followed you for some time now and rarely comment but I just want to say Thank you for all your advice and help :P :)
That is lovely, thankyou
We got a brutal hailstorm several days after our official last frost date. We haven't had frost in weeks, otherwise, but nights are just now hitting 50°F nightly. The hail storm mowed down any perennials in its path. The only veggies planted in early spring had cages and row covers, so they had no damage. But my beautiful irises, aliums, and huge poppy buds... decapitated! The hollyhocks were obliterated but they will come back. Half of my apple and all the peach buds were blasted away.
Most folks wait to plant from Mother's day onward, but I am glad I decided to at least wait to plant my summer veggies. Huge disappointment, but what can one do... it's mother nature. 🤷♀️
Oh wow! Best of luck.
Thanks for showing us the edging too! I added weed fabric this year but I still have to deal with the edge because I don't want the lawn mower catching the weed fabric.
I used to buy second hand saws to edge my beds but now we have an awful noisy petrol thing because I can't crawl along the ground anymore 😅 I think I might keep an eye out for those long handled biters you have and try to convince my partner to ditch the awful motorised thing. Lovely to hear all of your experience. Thank you for sharing 🪲
Shortly after we finished filming, the neighbour got out his two stroke strimmer, what a racket!
Edging shears are great and we used them at all our clients gardens after mowing for a smart finish.
However we established something like a ditch in the soil of the beds and birders next to the grass, so grass grew out kind of sideways, and you didn’t cut into soil with the edging shears. Then all we had to do was zoom round with a hoe after to lose the clippings in the soil.
We tried that but birds soon fill the 'ditch' with organic matter eg wood chips
Love the small garden video has we have limited space in our retirement park. Its amazing what you can produce if it's done correctly. ❤
it definitely is and thank you 🙂
Been telling people on our allotment site (London) today not to get too excited as I’m expecting just one more frost before we are out of the woods.
I wish I had listened to the climate predictions because for once they were correct.
There will be no more frost until Autumn 🙂
Cheers Sean and I see no more this spring
We had our last cold night towards zero three weeks ago in London.
Yayy!!! I always look forward to the small garden videos because I’m working with a small space.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Love these videos always very informative 👌
Thank you 🙂
11:33 - Have you considered or used a Wilkison Sword garden blade for edging? They are available in the UK and rather easy to use to edge. If you have used them or not, a review of your use would be a good video. Hope this helps.
thanks, never saw one yet
Ive got lots of spare sungold tomatoes. When my peas finish cropping im gonna plant them outside along a wall which gives lots of heat back when the sun goes down. Its quite shelterd and apperently more resistant to blight being outside. Although i dont think ive actually ever suffered from tomatoe blight. Im growing lots of salad leaves. My basil has been disappointing and the aphids have eating it mostly. My allotment is looking good. Im holding back planting anymore seed till ive planted all my squash curcubits out. Which i have done now. Ive sown more sunflowers and really want some january king 3 plants so need to plant some of them. I wonder if any of my all year round cauliflowers will produce and my brussels are already 2 foot high :)
That's all very organised Christian! Your basil probably has aphids because you have put it in a little early which means the plants are weak, later plantings should be fine
I've never seen you talk about corn. If you do mainly salad crops, growing baby corn would be nice...plain or pickled.
I grew it last year and was not impressed, a lot of space and work for not much harvest
Thanks Charles I was checking every day hoping for a new video.And here it is. Loved it. Make another one tomorrow please.
I wish. These are half a day's work each, including the planning, b rolls, edits, organising translations for subtitles
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I know it's a lot of work. But I love your calm voice and smooth honest approach. I live in an apartment block in Australia. I have taken over the garden. Today I planted 16 Cabbages, Zinnias and peas and beans a mandarin tree an olive tree, turmeric and spring bulbs. I try to work out your sowing dates in down under seasons. Thanks Charles love your work.💌😃✴🌟⭐
Thank you Charles my small garden has been doing well the last few years since you taught the No dig method Im just able to plant too here in the PNW Washington very similar growing conditions we share 😊
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Love to see the small garden progress, alas the slug problem here prevents me from growing certain veg outside but my NO DIG poly tunnel is now producing wonderful harvests of broad beans,peas,lettuce onions, and strawberries so thank you for all your inspiration.
Glad the polytunnel is going well and thank you 🙂
Excellent! A positive start, go you
My question about fertilizer was answered.
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Acho muito legal a busca por alimentos do povo ao norte do planeta😊
Aqui no Sul, latitude 23 pra ser mais exata, sempre faz calor, a época do ano mais fria é agora 17, 15 graus C.
Nunca vi geada na minha vida😅
É quando fazemos horta. Para não sofrer tanto com as temperaturas altas de verão. Sempre acima de 30🥵
These uploads are so helpful thankyou Charles keep them coming please.
So glad you find them helpful 🙂
Hi Charles, go to your nearby sheep farmer and ask for some fleece after they shear the sheep... take it and fluff it out a bit and circle pieces around your small starts to keep slugs away... slugs do not want to go over hairy things.... and the sheep wool is biodegradable plus you are helping your sheep farmer put excess sheeps wool to good use!
Nice to hear thanks :)
Always an inspiration, thank you Charles
thank you 🙂
Charles always tops!
thanks
thank you 🙂
I love your Channel Charles. I learn so much from you. I look forward to seeing more about succession planting.
Thank you for your kind comments 🙂 I am glad you are enjoying my content
I had to look up the definition of garden fleece (was imagining sheep fleece covering you plants 😊). We unimaginatively call it row cover here in the USA. Thank you for all you do. Just received your book!
😂 Thank you for your kind words and enjoy the book 🙂
Nice to see this Laura and yes it's a different language!!
I like Charles’s interpretation of the sky being obliterated by chemtrails ... “veiled”
Oh yeah!
Here in the grim wastelands of the North I've got actual pea pods on the plants (started in the PT in Feb), I planted a whole packet of 3yr old PSB seeds as a test in your 60 modules and every one germinated so I planted them out, 40 odd were taken by the rabbits in the first night. Oddly they left the lettuce and beetroot. Salsify are sprouting haphazardly, Cutworms have taken many plants so far, but I grew plenty to replace them, carrots doing well, as are Caulis and Kohl. First time for Cucamelons and they're very slow after germination for some reason.
Ahhh, grim wastelands, sounds like you are going well!
Hoops and bird netting held down tight with garden staples work pretty well to keep the critters out of the strawberries 🍓
Re compost , i bought a few bags of peat free New Horizon , and it's horrendous . I mulched my beds and borders with it , and they are all weed infested now , whereas before i spent a few minutes weeding , it's now pretty much full time .
Oh dear Andy, that is so poor, Westlands!
I’m sowing a second round of herbs/vegetables this week for planting out when the garlic comes out next month. How long to leave onions in that were over wintering - guess I’ll rewatch your onion videos.
I was rewatching the Small Garden playlist this week and appreciate the latest update. I love to see how everything is growing and also how you deal with any problems that arise. I learn just as much from what hasn’t been working as from the successful plantings. Your videos and books have helped me understand the rhythm of the growing season better. Today I harvested a spring variety of Korean radish and had green bean seedlings ready to plant! They were a little more spicy than the ones I harvested in the fall, probably because of the crazy blast of hot weather last week. A few had started to send up a flower stem. But still made delicious kimchi.
Lovely to see this and I can imagine they were spicy! Nice you had the succession ready
Gracias maestro... Es un 17:32 privilegio ver tus vídeos... 👏👏
Gracias 🙂
A battery powered weed eater would make quick work of the edges. Unless you don't like things that make noise. Or you could use garden sheep shears.
I like doing it by hand 😀
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Me, too. I use the shears.
Merci monsieur je vous remercie pour votre partage c'est vraiment un régal de vous écouter vous êtes si généreux , pour moi c'est grâce à vos conseils avisés que j'ai tout appris à comprendre comment jardiner. C'est vraiment sympathique d'avoir créé un petit potager pour les débutants sachant que vous êtes un professionnel dans le domaine, ainsi votre temps est précieux pour votre entreprise , mais vous avez car même fait un petit coin pour nous démontrer que le potager est accessible à tous et surtout bien plus facile avec le no dig way,pour tout cela très cher monsieur je vous remercie infiniment 🙏 from 🇫🇷❤❤❤.
Merci Marie, je vous souhaite de bonnes récoltes!
I live in Rochester NY, across the pond and through the woods from you. I have a squirrel problem, there are way to many of them and the very second i leave lettuce out and uncovered, its gone within hours. They will eat it all. so far my solution is to either always cover all lettuce in mesh, or to kill the squirrels. I will probably do both, someone has to help balance the ecosystem. I wonder what animal pest issue you get over there on the island.
I am grateful not to have squirrels! We have badgers however which love to eat sweetcorn and strawberries! Too big to fit a fence, in a worthwhile way
I’ve noticed quite a few rolly pollies, aka pillbugs, too. In VA, USA. They seem to like the roots of my seedlings in the cellar.
Couch grass control doesn't work like that. I had to install 6" deep metal borders to keep it out of my beds. Couch grass is really easy to identify, if you dig up a clump and you see young healthy side shoots in the roots, that's it. Normal grass isn't like that, it's just a little clump of roots. If you create a barrier against it you can stop it. It doesn't have to cost money, if you dig a 6" ditch around your beds, the suckers from the grass cannot grow.
Yes sure, and it's easier plus cheaper to have weed free paths and any keep mown/cut short any edges with couch, vigour thus reduced, v feasible to keep removing the few new entrants
My allotment is my sanctuary and I have now filled it up with a lot of different things, thanks to your calendar. I am learning all the time and managing to keep on top of the slugs and birds! Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge so generously Charles and one day I will come to Home Acres and take one of your courses.
That is lovely to hear Victoria!
Small is relative!
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❤Always waiting for your tips 🌼🌿👍
Glad you find them helpful 🙂
Thank you
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My problem is sourcing enough 'topping'. i use our own horse muck which i collect but the huge problem is they are fed on a lot of hay & I get lots of weeds.
thinking about your fig... I have always heard that if you let a fig run its roots under your foundation that it will do well... your fig seems to be a good example.
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Figs would be nice.
Love all your videos I learn something new every time thanks x
Good to hear 🙂 Thank you for your support
I kept wondering what wood lice is- for US Midwesterners they are rollie pollies. I didnt know they harmed anything in the garden-We have a lot of them....
Often they do little harm but be careful!
Good job Mr.Dowding. You have been such a blessing to me. Because of your videos i have now converted 90% of my garden to No-dig raised beds. I too put alot of time,thought ,an effort into my composting. U are a great teacher an talented grower. Also, I had an idea.I purchased your 2023 calendar it was a Christmas gift for my girlfriend. I live in Virginia,USA. Maybe you could have an adapted USA version of the calender ( it would include our holidays,an days of significance). Also i have a question. Are all the British calenders set up with Monday being the first day on the far left side? In America Sundays take up that spot. Take care keep up the work.
Thanks for your lovely comment and that's interesting about the calendar. My business is not big enough to justify a separate American printing, yet you have got me wondering!
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos it’s so informative and inspiring!
Thank you for your support 🙂