Growing a NO DIG Garden from START TO FINISH - Growth and Harvests Over 5 Months

In today's video, I'll be setting up and starting a no dig garden and following along the process for several months, growing in it from start to finish, including all of the harvests we get from this garden in 5 months. In this no-dig, or no till garden, I'm growing with the 3 sisters method of interplanting corn, with beans, squash and pumpkins. This is a companion planting technique practiced by indigenous people of North America, and it's a great combination of plants to grow over the Summer. It's an excellent way to maximize space in the garden, and you can easily grow a lot of food. I've been using no dig garden methods for awhile now and have found it to be an easy way to garden with minimal effort and input, whilst having a fantastic output of vegetables that seem to thrive in this method, and build soil whilst doing so. Such a great way to garden to protect soil life.
You can layer a whole lot of organic materials like I did, which is also called a lasagna garden (as it's a whole lot of layers), or another easy method which I've also had great growing success with, is to lay cardboard onto the grass and then put a thick layer of compost over top of this, and plant directly into it. This is the no dig method that Charles Dowding also uses and advocates for and I'm definitely a huge fan of it after seeing the results first hand.
Varieties that I grew:
Sweetcorn, Long Island Cheese pumpkin, Butternut Squash, Grey Pumpkin, Small sugar pumpkin, Scarlet runner beans, Peans, Bottle gourds, Sunflower
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[@TheKiwiGrower]

If you’d like to check out part 1 of this video for some further info you can find it here 🌱

[@TimUckun]

I appreciate the effort it takes to record footage over the months and then edit them together to present a story at the end. Thanks for doing all of that us. You are a great story teller.

[@antmanthegnome]

One day when I own a house with a proper yard, this is exactly what I want to do.

[@megamanmadrid]

OMG I can't believe this, I am romanian and as a kid I always went to my family's corn plantation and it always had squash and beans growing along side each other. To see this growing technique on the other side of the planet is just mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯

[@sidleeah2593]

Greetings from Texas. I'm retired and mostly confined to an apartment after a life filled with gardening, farming and working in horticulture.

[@gnomobarbudo7630]

This is one of the most useful and interesting farming videos I've seen.

[@Neuralatrophy]

But, even though you didn't get a massive harvest from the beans, you actually did get a massive harvest BECAUSE of the beans... The nitrogen fixing from the legumes may have directly affected the health and size of your other plants, the squash in particular and you got enough back to plant beans in again next round. Would be awesome if industrial farming picked up this kind of tactic rather than fertilizing the crap out of everything.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

I've been doing no dig in my urban shared garden for 3 years now, and I learned a lot. There's a lot of mistakes people make with no dig. The first mistake is usually to NEVER dig. It works in sandy and loamy soil : you put organic matter on, and it works. But with clay soil, no. You still have to dig it once in a while, coz it compacts itself with winter rains. Or the way that I do it now, is a powerful cover crop of rye, vech, winter peas and fava beans.

[@ahabthecrab]

The stripy butternut looks to be a cross with a calabaza pumpkin and a butternut. These two types of squash can easily cross pollinate since they are very closely related.

[@thelaudd8570]

never really had an interest in gardening/growing things but saw a video on my recommended by you and ive gotta say everything ive seen so far is extremely informational and easy to understand for someone not very knowledgeable about this art. loving the high quality videos, keep up the phenomenal work!

[@michaelyciano2123]

He is soooo attractive with all his farmer knowledge.

[@dallastehuna]

Bro your video quality is 10/10. If only you had the time to pump out a video every week haha.

[@Marcus_Postma]

About a year ago I got a bit of a surprise to find a pumpkin patch growing in my back yard. Mind you I have various plants that grow wild there (mostly along my fence lines), including grapes, various peppers, black berries and a couple vegetables I don't recognize. I also have cherry trees in my front yard, and pine trees in both the front and back yards. Turns out my neighbor was disappointed because he thought he didn't grow any of the pumpkins he planted, when in reality they just all grew in my yard. But we can't see each others yards with all the vines and small trees along our fence, so he didn't know that until I mentioned there were pumpkins growing in my yard (12 of them). By the way I live in Lower Michigan, so the weather isn't the most predictable.

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[@TobyJin]

Definitely will give this a go myself when spring hits, you managed to get so much out of a patch of land with not that much effort. Hoping this technique of growing things will also help recover the health of the soil as well.

[@TheGreenBean]

Great video! I switched over to no dig also and it has been a real game changer! I pulled 18 pumpkins this year. Everything seemed to grow better with no dig.

[@dominicanwar363]

I think your show is great btw. Re. 3 sisters (squash, corn, beans). I tried it here in Malta (North African climate). Just like you, I noticed that the beans didn't do well but the squash and corn did OK. I think I know what is going on! Despite the 'hype' my experience is that beans need as much N as anything else to grow here. HOWEVER, once they have grown and start to die back, the N is released (from the root nodules) to the soil. I did an experiment this spring planting tomatoes next to peas but towards the end of the pea season (March / April here).

[@TheMissymorgie]

Cool! I got a dirty dancing vibe with all 3 butternuts when baby was carrying all the watermelons 😂✌🏼

[@MMSY]

Thank you for upload

[@kaijinzens]

I love your videos