It’s so endearing hearing a gardener say how they’re happy and okay with some animals eating some of their crop. If nothing’s eating your garden then it’s not a true part of the environment ☺️
Lol I was told to let my blue curly cale get kissed by a couple frosts and it would taste better. I got out and check after we finally had a frost to see-that the deer thought it tasted better after a frost and ate it all! Lol. I'll try again next year. At least it was yummy little and it was very pretty all summer.
It’s such a relief seeing animals eating some of your veggies. I live in the middle of the woods without perimeter fencing, so deer and birds sneak in quite often for a snack. Very nice seeing someone as practiced as you not stressing out about it.
I have giant mustard, spinach, cilantro, cabbage, Swiss chard and Brussel sprouts growing. Sort of a surprise, I'm in USDA zone 5 and we just had 0 degree F weather for a week. With 50 mph winds. It's all still standing. Next year I will experiment more with Winter.
Yes the southern UK has great mild winters despite being so far north, nice greens🍀. Of course greenhouse production gets serious, nice garden, cheers🎉
@@milkweed7678 No, I haven't. I'll check it out. We occasionally make a road trip to Westfield, IN, to pick up seeds at Urban Farmer, and to get donuts at Titus Bakery. :-)
In The island of Arran, we have a mild climate, with access to seaweed and horse manure so compost is not a problem. I have been no dig for several years thanks to Charles ,hardly any weeds.
I've been using No Dig since I went to a presentation that Charles did in Norwich just over 3 years ago. I'm slowly converting some of the other plot holders on our Community Allotments. 😀
Thank you! US. N.W. And displaced. So no winter garden and not much hope for this summer. I will live vicariously through others. At least until I get my own back! And I still so enjoyed to see others ideas and ways. I always have a combo of many ideas from many people and just my own instincts. If you can remember it makes for good stories!
I recommend ordering one of Charles Dowding's books. I have my Dad's old 'Crocket's Victory Garden' book on one side of my coffee table and Charles Dowding's 'No Dig Gardening' on the other side. Both are classics in my opinion. Love to see gardening in January!
I used to watch the Victory Garden show! And I have Crocket's book as well. I had to adjust down one zone, but it was incredibly helpful. He relied very much on pesticides though. Times have changed.
I do envy you your "winter". There are a few leeks here struggling to stay green amid the snow and ice. Your videos give a lot of hope for the coming months!
I cannot think of anything so relaxing as you taking me on a tour of your amazing garden. I was just telling my spouse this morning how you had revolutionised my planting and cropping plans. I have a cornucopia of winter veg and salads. Was it Morressey that said in Jerome K Jerome’s ‘Three men in a Boat’ ‘I love work --I can watch someone else doing it all day’ or words to that effect. Thanks again Charles
Amazing results during winter! What a lovely garden, and with so much left in store, like a future pond! Just great stuff. You even have some bee hives in the back! Wow. Mr Dowding, it would be great if you could put a big stick in that water hole, so that small animals that get stuck, can climb out again. Thank you.
I have just enjoyed to see how your garden looks like in winter which for us in tropical equitorial regions don't understand. Happy you are Mr Charles and you are looking younger. Keep teaching us and God bless you for selflessness. You are an open book to be read. I want your No dig gardening book. Love from 🇰🇪
Thank you George and this is so nice to read, glad you think I'm looking younger! I'm not sure which country your flag is, maybe Panama? Such a different climate!
I enjoy seeing a productive winter garden. When we moved the garden and bees from Ohio (zone 6) to Wisconsin (zone 4b), we lost our Christmas greens and veg. I'm glad you can enjoy them.
The god of no-dig! Haha, no but seriously it’s amazing how much you have got going on there in winter. It takes a lot experience and planning to get the most out of a veg garden all year around. It’s always great to spend time in your garden and see how the master does it and get a bit of inspiration. I’m also installing a pond over winter as I have been inspired to get more wildlife and especially frogs onto my allotment plot!
Thanks and that is nice to hear. We actually have been finding a lot of toads already, and a few frogs, so I guess we just get overrun now! The pond is full already :)
Fun video! Here in central Wisconsin it's 0*F 15mph wind and 6" of snow. No winter crops are growing here, a very few can be held in a heated greenhouse but nothing will gainfully grow, there's not enough sun hours. Thanks for sharing your video, it was uplifting!
aww... go ahead and munch the pea shoots! :) Lovely to see and appreciate you give sowing and planting dates or say what was there before .. and speaking of sequences, thanks for the playlist too.
Hi Charles HAPPY NEWYEAR.I was in my communitygarden Floyd Bennett Gardens Association. FBGA in Brooklyn,NY USA.today it was 24F,I planted 95 garlic cloves.there was no wind.It is amazing that you have those vegetables growing this late in the winter.
Thanks Charlie, and that sounds amazing work you are doing, in low temperatures! At first I thought you meant 24 C 75 Fahrenheit! Then I realised 😀. We are fortunate here.
Talking about potting mix: I've done multiple trials when sowing where I use 100% store-bought in one side of the tray and a 50/50 mix of store-bought and my own compost in the other side of the ray. Every time the germination is more consistent and the growth is more vigorous in the 50/50. So coming season I will be using the 50/50 for all my sowings except lettuce because I did notice some more dampening off compared to the store-bought. I'm pondering using 75/25 store-bought and home-made, or perhaps I will use vermiculite for the lettuce sowing, even though I dislike it (it feels like I'm polluting the soil with an additive, even though I know it's just rock).
Thanks for your info Laurens. I have have used vermiculite and it works well. I bought a big sack of it from a builders suppliers (the stuff you insulate chimneys with.) I haven’t tried Perlite but Im told that perlite opens up the structure and is better for drainage while vermiculite tends to make it more water retentive which may present problems with damping off. I hope this helps. I will give perlite a trial this season if its not too expensive to buy
Thanks Sebastian and I explain a lot about them in this course lesson which you can buy from my web shop charlesdowding.co.uk/product/from-seed-to-harvest-brussels-sprouts/
Have fun that Donna. I would sow them in about the middle of September in your climate, and it will depend on the winter how much you can harvest. You have nothing to lose except a few seeds and a bit of time because they're not taking space when anything else would be growing.
Thank you Charles to keep posting even in the ''dead'' season. I wanted to ask, do you enjoy that break in winter? Are you a little bit exhausted when autumn shows up, after a full summer of gardening and youtubing, or would you rather be producing heavily all year long in a warmer climate? Thank you for inspiring younger generations to keep a greener approach.
It's a pleasure and not really, because I receive a lot of energy from the soil and plants through summer. I do like the change of energy in winter and actually it's very busy because I am writing three books, one now published (Skills) and organising a lot of new things
Wow, amazing as always. Watching this as my gardens are buried under 2.5 feet of snow ❄️ here in western NY state! Just now getting ready to start Alliums from seed, zone 6b
My Mum asked me years ago if I'd ever have a 'poly tunnel'. I gave her a resounding no, but I knew she wasn't talking about the sort you have. She was thinking about the cheap green ones that usually end up in someone else's garden after the first good storm. I always enjoy seeing what you all do with these much large, more solid structures, and if I had the space, then yes, one of those would be on my 'have' list.
I feel the same way about greenhouses. I'd never have one of these ugly monstrosities that cant take a solid gust. A decent one tbough is a different story
Grazie per i sottotitoli in italiano sei il numero 1 la nuova area e meravigliosa non vedo l’ora di vedere cosa hai in mente . Ti voglio bene alla prossima 😘🔝♥️✍🏻
Soy de Puerto Rico y he visto sus videos , el método de sembrar encima de la grama con cartón nunca lo había visto. Lo felicito por tener tan excelente programa. Aquí las temperaturas son demaciado de calidad.
Tengo una amiga que vivía en Puerto Rico y cultivaba calabazas! Suena un clima encantador y tan diferente al de aquí. Si tiene cartón de repuesto, es una excelente manera de controlar las malas hierbas, solo una vez.
We have a similar climate in southern British Columbia to yours... however, this year we had brutally freezing temperatures for a couple weeks. It will be interesting to see what survives once the snow melts.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes...it's certainly been a crazy weather year...I'm hoping the summers get warmer consistently so I can finally grow watermelons 🌞
I'm using this period to read your books (bought 4 of them before christmas) and planning the new garden It's almost one year i'm in no dig, can't wait for the new season
The ground at my house is all clay and rocks, so we need to do raised beds all the time. This year's project is to switch out some of the rotting boards and add at least 4 more beds.
Hi Charles, from a Newfoundlander with low winter light :) I suspect it’s much colder here than where you are but we are having a very mild winter as well. Lowest snowfall in 25 years, apparently. Your garden is still beautiful during winter and thanks for thinking of the birds!
Nice to hear! We are certainly less cold than you but I think not much more light, as we are 51st parallel and often gloomy, like in the last four days, zero sunshine! And the birds are calling spring, for sure 🦜
I'm so excited about your expansion, I don't even know you but I'm so happy that you were able to get the adjacent lot and put it to good use. Can't wait to buy your new books.
My sister mom and I all have gardens. I was showing them your calendar over Christmas. Their mouths were hanging open. Yep! That's the Gardening Godfather 😁
Your Garden is Year-round Amazing 👍 Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸 We had a cool front go through, 48°F Monday, 52° Tuesday and 57° today, each morning. We did rise to about 70°F. This is our winter. Love watching your channel grow and you deserve only the best in 2022!
Very impressed by your gardens, green houses, number if vegetables growing in winter months, size of your gardens, the work involved, amazing, very beautiful, inspiring and sustainable.
Thank you for showing your garden Charles, so much inspiration for what to do in the garden, recently got a poly tunnel... Looking forward to getting it into shape.
Thanks for the inspiration again Charles. Yesterday I expanded my veg garden after a huge tidy up after the two winter storms we had which caused so much damage to my crops. I have so much more room so I cant wait to get going again ! No dig will be very much to the fore. A rodent pulled all my onions and some of the garlic up, so I had to sow again in modules and will plant out in spring. Looking forward to 2022 gardening along with you. Thanks Charles.
Such an encouraging video, makes me think my no dig winter garden's not looking too bad! I've got chard leeks fennel cabbage chicory broad beans in ~ herbs etc. Thank you for your inspiration Charles
Quite amazing for January. I have spinach still going on and I'm still waiting for cover crop to get terminated by frost (although we already had few nights with -10°C).
Interesting video. Love the idea of broadbeans in the asparagus beds - will adopt that in My three asparagus beds in March here in the southern hemisphere.
I could almost taste that pea shoot! The size of your veg is astounding. We just started our large garden last year, so compost is limited yet. Even though I am very proud of what we were able to grow, the size compared to yours just can not compare. But seeing all your green and lovely food is so encouraging. Thank you for this tour, it fills me with joy when our weather is has been so cold (NE USA) and I’m still new to gardening and learning as I go.
Always beautiful, always. My farmers almanac said my area, the Mid-Atlantic was going to be usually cold. I was about to think they really got it wrong this time, then Dec 21st rolled around. Our fall was usually warm right up until this week, 60* Sunday and 6" of snow Monday. By the way, I received my book...Skills for growing, love that it's signed, look forward to reading it now. I used some partly composted wood chips to cover a new area, I think my grandson thought I was nuts when I got really excited to see worms in there.
Thanks for another inspiring video Charles. I spent a couple of hours on my little patch today - transplanting the 7 successful gooseberry & blackcurrant cuttings I took in November 2020 to their permanent home & giving them & two more beds their share of the fruits of my composting last year(should have enough for 5-6cm across everything). All I have left outside are leeks, brussels sprouts & garlic, with lettuce, rocket & mustard in the greenhouse - looks like I'll get some leaves in a week or two. For 2021, I managed over 150kg from 7 beds, each 1.2m x 3.3m & an 8x6 greenhouse (Over 15kg of sungold tomatoes from 6 plants & almost 20kg of cucumbers off two plants! Spinach plants to go in next week, then it's see what seeds I need (definitely a different carrot - Autumn King has been disappointing). Roll on Spring...
Woah, I just noticed your beehives. I’m going to have to have a look to see what videos you have on them. I’m very excited to see the process of building a pond. We have heavy clay soil with many areas that pool and have considered installing a pond.
Gardening: it feeds the soul and the belly. I dug a hole last August to make an outhouse. I got down about three feet, then it rained. The hole filled up and water has stayed in it every since. It's now frozen over. I think I'll turn it into a pond instead. I've always wanted a pond. Great to see your winter garden. The only thing I'm harvesting in mine at this time of year is thyme for my morning eggs. It may not grow due to the cold and lack of light, but the greens are still there from fall growth.
Sir your garden is so neat hope to trasform ours same as clean you have.We have some herbs planted in our kitchen garden similar to what you planted.Looking forward to next.
No dig has been a game changer for me these past few years. I'd be confident taking on a much bigger garden now if I got the chance. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos Charles.
How did you get the huge amount of compost needed? Where i‘m from compost costs like 50 euros for 1000 liters, which means around 5 bucks for a square meter if i go for just 10 cm. I‘m making compost myself but i could never get the quantity needed
@@tschabow5608 Our local authority leaves a huge pile for anyone to take free of charge at the beginning of the year. It's made from the green waste collections. They put a notice in the local paper to say when it will be available.
@@tschabow5608 Ours does too but once a year I think that they have to give some away free. We are stunned that no one else takes any from the pile. Over the past two years I've been able to part fill five raised beds. It has saved me a small fortune.
Always interesting to see how your garden is doing compared with my own. Deer seem to have been a particular pest for me this winter to the point where we've only had a single harvest of red chard and all we're now left with is stumps of the stalks :( They also seem to like beetroot tops, and they've given the parsley quite a hammering. It's only quite recently that temperatures have dropped much below 10°C here and its definitely showing in the growth of the plants. I had purple sprouting broccoli in flower at the end of November and yesterday I noticed that at least one leek is pushing up a flower stem! Garlic is the one thing that seems to have bucked the trend with shoots only appearing this week whereas last year they were out of the ground a couple of weeks earlier despite being planted later. Perhaps that's something to do with last year's being from purchased bulbs whereas this year's are from saved ones. As long as they all come up I'll be happy. It's amazing how fast you can get through garlic when there are a few plaits hanging in the kitchen. If you have a slow ten minutes and you're interested, I wrote what was intended to be a short piece about my first year of no dig here: www.tanstaafl.co.uk/2021/11/a-year-without-digging/ though I shan't deny that it became somewhat longer than initially intended once I put fingers to keyboard :)
Thanks James and you are well organised, and I find the same thing with garlic, slow to start then it really rockets. Sorry I don't have time to read that but it's nice you are feeling enthusiastic 😀
An addendum on plant behaviour being messed up by the weather... Earlier in the week someone (on a course I'm doing on Honey Bee Behaviour, as it happens) mentioned the BSBI New Year Plant Hunt, a survey that counts the number of native/naturalised species across Britain and Ireland that are in flower at the start of the year. The "normal" number is apparently not certain, but estimated from old records to be twenty to thirty. In 2019 and 2020 the count was just over 600. Last year was just over 700. The provisional result for this year is 897. I don't know what this means for planning the winter vegetable garden, but I don't imagine it's going to make life any easier :(
Great tour! Thanks so much Charles for sharing! It is getting us through the winter. I am SO excited to see your pond. Just thinking about a tour of my garden as it’s a nice sunny day then look out the window to see snow flurries….oh well I’ll head down to the compost pile anyway. 😁
Que bueno que el video esta subtitulado 😣no se nada de ingles 🙈 Estoy comenzando un pequeño huerto en el último rincon del mundo (Chile,sur ), y dí con usted por Wini la huertera mas querida de Chile.Desde acá le sigo.Saludos.
It’s so endearing hearing a gardener say how they’re happy and okay with some animals eating some of their crop. If nothing’s eating your garden then it’s not a true part of the environment ☺️
Lol I was told to let my blue curly cale get kissed by a couple frosts and it would taste better. I got out and check after we finally had a frost to see-that the deer thought it tasted better after a frost and ate it all! Lol. I'll try again next year.
At least it was yummy little and it was very pretty all summer.
Cheers Luke. I am lucky to have a lot here 😀
Eat the animals. I quite like bunny and pidgeon.
@@Nickle314 fresh garden fed squab roasted over some nice roasted garden veg and mashed potatoes and gravy. Yum!
@@Nickle314 Not much meat on pigeon.
It’s such a relief seeing animals eating some of your veggies. I live in the middle of the woods without perimeter fencing, so deer and birds sneak in quite often for a snack. Very nice seeing someone as practiced as you not stressing out about it.
Good luck! Yes it's relative to one's needs :)
I wish I lived in the same growing zone so I could more easily follow your advice!
I have giant mustard, spinach, cilantro, cabbage, Swiss chard and Brussel sprouts growing. Sort of a surprise, I'm in USDA zone 5 and we just had 0 degree F weather for a week. With 50 mph winds. It's all still standing. Next year I will experiment more with Winter.
Sounds great!
Yes the southern UK has great mild winters despite being so far north, nice greens🍀. Of course greenhouse production gets serious, nice garden, cheers🎉
Very true!
While we are the throes of winter, with temps in the 20's F, it is great watching gardening in such a temperate zone as yours.
Thanks, and brrrr!
Hey there OhioGardener! I'm your neighbor here in central IN. Have you ever checked out, Growfully with Jenna? She's also there in OH.
@@milkweed7678 No, I haven't. I'll check it out. We occasionally make a road trip to Westfield, IN, to pick up seeds at Urban Farmer, and to get donuts at Titus Bakery. :-)
Thank you Sir Charles for sharing with us your knowledge and hardwork. I love all leafy salads, delicious. God bless you.
Nice to hear Edison 🥬
I'm changing alot in my garden today, thru February. Hanging on every syllable....
Happy gardening 2022 all.
Wonderful and may it go well Frank
Charles' garden never disappoints 🥰
Right now in January I'm growing peas, potatoes, fenegreek, mustard and radish
Uploaded 1 minute ago and with 41 views. Thanks for helping shape the world one garden at a time.
My favas just died from a hard freeze. I needed some inspiration. Thanks Charles.
Mmm sorry to hear, we had it last year, could still happen here. You can sow again now under cover.
In The island of Arran, we have a mild climate, with access to seaweed and horse manure so compost is not a problem.
I have been no dig for several years thanks to Charles ,hardly any weeds.
That is great to hear David, and in this video out of sight because under my jacket, I am wearing an Arran sweater! Really good and warm.
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Thanks for the update.
Really looking forward to seeing the pond.
You and me both 😀
nice to see the enthousiastic face middle of the winter talking about gardening.
Thank you Charles. That's inspired us to keep going for our first season of no dig. 😊
I'm happy to hear that Sally
I've been using No Dig since I went to a presentation that Charles did in Norwich just over 3 years ago. I'm slowly converting some of the other plot holders on our Community Allotments. 😀
lovely broad beans
Photographer, you're doing a great job! I like the close-ups of some of the growth, down near the plants and the clarity. Way to go!
Thanks so much, to Nicola
got to give you credit it all looks great well done charles
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Thank you! US. N.W. And displaced. So no winter garden and not much hope for this summer. I will live vicariously through others. At least until I get my own back! And I still so enjoyed to see others ideas and ways. I always have a combo of many ideas from many people and just my own instincts. If you can remember it makes for good stories!
Good luck! You are a gardener at heart and I wish you a fine yard eventually
I recommend ordering one of Charles Dowding's books. I have my Dad's old 'Crocket's Victory Garden' book on one side of my coffee table and Charles Dowding's 'No Dig Gardening' on the other side. Both are classics in my opinion. Love to see gardening in January!
Thanks Ken :)
I used to watch the Victory Garden show! And I have Crocket's book as well. I had to adjust down one zone, but it was incredibly helpful. He relied very much on pesticides though. Times have changed.
Loved the camera work on this one. Felt more like walking along with him, and less like a presentation ^-^
Glad you enjoyed it! I copied this to Nicola
I do envy you your "winter". There are a few leeks here struggling to stay green amid the snow and ice. Your videos give a lot of hope for the coming months!
You have snow and ice , when it's appropriate , we have cold and wet Spring/Summer , and mild and wet Autumn/winters . I wonder which is worse .
@@andykyriakides2144 Here in the UK we have year round mild temperatures with lots of rainfall. Winter is colder, but our summers are warmer
-20 F. here this morning in WI. USA.
@@TRuth.T -3° in northeast Illinois this morning. No snow though, grateful for that. Windchill were brutal though. Had to add that.
I cannot think of anything so relaxing as you taking me on a tour of your amazing garden. I was just telling my spouse this morning how you had revolutionised my planting and cropping plans. I have a cornucopia of winter veg and salads. Was it Morressey that said in Jerome K Jerome’s ‘Three men in a Boat’ ‘I love work --I can watch someone else doing it all day’ or words to that effect. Thanks again Charles
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How wonderful to have that food and health :)
Amazing results during winter! What a lovely garden, and with so much left in store, like a future pond! Just great stuff.
You even have some bee hives in the back! Wow.
Mr Dowding, it would be great if you could put a big stick in that water hole, so that small animals that get stuck, can climb out again. Thank you.
Thanks so much 😊 and yes we shall!
Wow, Charles congratulations, how beautiful to have your own pond!
It really is Martha, already full, I can hardly believe it!
Looks like a beautiful winter day in England.
I have just enjoyed to see how your garden looks like in winter which for us in tropical equitorial regions don't understand. Happy you are Mr Charles and you are looking younger. Keep teaching us and God bless you for selflessness. You are an open book to be read.
I want your No dig gardening book. Love from 🇰🇪
Thank you George and this is so nice to read, glad you think I'm looking younger! I'm not sure which country your flag is, maybe Panama? Such a different climate!
Thank you for the look! Our temps get too low for most winter gardening. And nice haircut!
Thank you too!
63 degrees north here, so it’s lovely to see your green garden with so much happening. Thank you.
That's serious north that is & without the benefits of the Gulf Stream too...
...a mere 55º North here.😊
I enjoy seeing a productive winter garden. When we moved the garden and bees from Ohio (zone 6) to Wisconsin (zone 4b), we lost our Christmas greens and veg. I'm glad you can enjoy them.
The god of no-dig! Haha, no but seriously it’s amazing how much you have got going on there in winter. It takes a lot experience and planning to get the most out of a veg garden all year around. It’s always great to spend time in your garden and see how the master does it and get a bit of inspiration. I’m also installing a pond over winter as I have been inspired to get more wildlife and especially frogs onto my allotment plot!
Thanks and that is nice to hear.
We actually have been finding a lot of toads already, and a few frogs, so I guess we just get overrun now! The pond is full already :)
Fun video! Here in central Wisconsin it's 0*F 15mph wind and 6" of snow. No winter crops are growing here, a very few can be held in a heated greenhouse but nothing will gainfully grow, there's not enough sun hours. Thanks for sharing your video, it was uplifting!
Oh wow! I don't envy you those conditions.
We are busy with all sorts, but it's wet and grey.
Sweet times!🙂
aww... go ahead and munch the pea shoots! :) Lovely to see and appreciate you give sowing and planting dates or say what was there before .. and speaking of sequences, thanks for the playlist too.
Thanks so much! 😊
I just noticed, over 500k subs! Very mild winter here as well. Weird. No blizzards yet and only -5 most days. I can only dream of a winter garden.
Ah shucks! and thanks
Hi Charles HAPPY NEWYEAR.I was in my communitygarden Floyd Bennett Gardens Association. FBGA in Brooklyn,NY USA.today it was 24F,I planted 95 garlic cloves.there was no wind.It is amazing that you have those vegetables growing this late in the winter.
Thanks Charlie, and that sounds amazing work you are doing, in low temperatures! At first I thought you meant 24 C 75 Fahrenheit! Then I realised 😀.
We are fortunate here.
The place looks great! Such a mild winter. We had 80F last week here in South
Carolina zone 8. Now it’s in the 40’s during the day and 20’s at night.
Thanks Dawn, amazing differences in temperature compared to here.
We can go whole summers without the temperature going above 80 Fahrenheit!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig That would be a dream!
You help me get through the white cold winter. Thank you!
Your tours are very interesting & telling us about the compost ,! looking forward to your pond lv Irene 😘 xx
Thanks Irene, and it's filling!
Talking about potting mix: I've done multiple trials when sowing where I use 100% store-bought in one side of the tray and a 50/50 mix of store-bought and my own compost in the other side of the ray. Every time the germination is more consistent and the growth is more vigorous in the 50/50. So coming season I will be using the 50/50 for all my sowings except lettuce because I did notice some more dampening off compared to the store-bought. I'm pondering using 75/25 store-bought and home-made, or perhaps I will use vermiculite for the lettuce sowing, even though I dislike it (it feels like I'm polluting the soil with an additive, even though I know it's just rock).
Brilliant you share this Laurens
Thanks for your info Laurens. I have have used vermiculite and it works well. I bought a big sack of it from a builders suppliers (the stuff you insulate chimneys with.) I haven’t tried Perlite but Im told that perlite opens up the structure and is better for drainage while vermiculite tends to make it more water retentive which may present problems with damping off. I hope this helps. I will give perlite a trial this season if its not too expensive to buy
it's been soo mild!!
Could you explain more about brussel sprouts, planting, pruning, cover, pests, storage... They look very strong and healthy, its a pleasure to see.
Thanks Sebastian and I explain a lot about them in this course lesson which you can buy from my web shop charlesdowding.co.uk/product/from-seed-to-harvest-brussels-sprouts/
That's it, I'm getting winter purslane seeds - so pretty, and also worth a try in early Toronto winter (43 degrees North)!!!
Have fun that Donna. I would sow them in about the middle of September in your climate, and it will depend on the winter how much you can harvest. You have nothing to lose except a few seeds and a bit of time because they're not taking space when anything else would be growing.
Thank you Charles to keep posting even in the ''dead'' season.
I wanted to ask, do you enjoy that break in winter? Are you a little bit exhausted when autumn shows up, after a full summer of gardening and youtubing, or would you rather be producing heavily all year long in a warmer climate?
Thank you for inspiring younger generations to keep a greener approach.
It's a pleasure and not really, because I receive a lot of energy from the soil and plants through summer.
I do like the change of energy in winter and actually it's very busy because I am writing three books, one now published (Skills) and organising a lot of new things
Wow, amazing as always. Watching this as my gardens are buried under 2.5 feet of snow ❄️ here in western NY state! Just now getting ready to start Alliums from seed, zone 6b
Oh wow! I have not sown onions yet, good luck
Let animals eat whatever they want..they deserve it even though it hasn't been a harsh winter yet (In Ireland)...Sow extra to one side with no cover..
EAT THE PEA!
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Ok Justus! 😅
My Mum asked me years ago if I'd ever have a 'poly tunnel'. I gave her a resounding no, but I knew she wasn't talking about the sort you have. She was thinking about the cheap green ones that usually end up in someone else's garden after the first good storm. I always enjoy seeing what you all do with these much large, more solid structures, and if I had the space, then yes, one of those would be on my 'have' list.
You describe the difference well!
I feel the same way about greenhouses. I'd never have one of these ugly monstrosities that cant take a solid gust. A decent one tbough is a different story
I have really enjoyed the no dig process and have converted all my beds to this. thanks for sharing this videos I enjoy your garden tours.
Glad to help Toney
Thank you
Thank you!!
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Grazie per i sottotitoli in italiano sei il numero 1 la nuova area e meravigliosa non vedo l’ora di vedere cosa hai in mente . Ti voglio bene alla prossima 😘🔝♥️✍🏻
Grazie Antonino e sono felice che apprezziate i sottotitoli, sono costosi per noi quindi spero che molti italiani stiano guardando!
Absolutely lovely
Soy de Puerto Rico y he visto sus videos , el método de sembrar encima de la grama con cartón nunca lo había visto. Lo felicito por tener tan excelente programa. Aquí las temperaturas son demaciado de calidad.
Tengo una amiga que vivía en Puerto Rico y cultivaba calabazas! Suena un clima encantador y tan diferente al de aquí. Si tiene cartón de repuesto, es una excelente manera de controlar las malas hierbas, solo una vez.
We have a similar climate in southern British Columbia to yours... however, this year we had brutally freezing temperatures for a couple weeks. It will be interesting to see what survives once the snow melts.
Your weather sounds extreme, ever since that heat time in June and I don't know how you are coping with it!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes...it's certainly been a crazy weather year...I'm hoping the summers get warmer consistently so I can finally grow watermelons 🌞
Thanks Charles :) most enjoyable & informative as always :)
We should all have a bit o land this size on which to do what we will. Thanks Charles for a brilliantly inspiring and educational walkaround.
I'm using this period to read your books (bought 4 of them before christmas) and planning the new garden
It's almost one year i'm in no dig, can't wait for the new season
How fantastic and thanks for the book buying.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig You're welcome, learning a lot reading them
Nice to have a look around thanks for sharing 🙂
Looking great!
You are such a joy to watch. Its such a treat to see you in your gardens. The enthusiasm is infectious. Very best Charles! 😊☀️
Thanks so much Jameelah 😀
Love your haircut. Guys are so lucky; they can get away with the shorn look.
Ah thanks, it is easier!
I like the variations in women's hair, the differences it makes to faces
The ground at my house is all clay and rocks, so we need to do raised beds all the time. This year's project is to switch out some of the rotting boards and add at least 4 more beds.
Sounds excellent. When you don't have boards, that gains space :)
19:00 that looks/sounds like a good home for magic mushrooms, if you are so inclined c:
Hi Charles, from a Newfoundlander with low winter light :) I suspect it’s much colder here than where you are but we are having a very mild winter as well. Lowest snowfall in 25 years, apparently. Your garden is still beautiful during winter and thanks for thinking of the birds!
Nice to hear!
We are certainly less cold than you but I think not much more light, as we are 51st parallel and often gloomy, like in the last four days, zero sunshine!
And the birds are calling spring, for sure 🦜
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I hear you on those consecutive gloomy days 🤣
I like the way you so casually wipe your hands from different places! Eve this looks professional ^^
Thank you so much 😀
I'm so excited about your expansion, I don't even know you but I'm so happy that you were able to get the adjacent lot and put it to good use. Can't wait to buy your new books.
Me too Ted and thanks
Gracias, Charles siempre es un gusto, ver tu maravilloso lugar, feliz año,
😀 feliz ano nuevo
My sister mom and I all have gardens. I was showing them your calendar over Christmas. Their mouths were hanging open. Yep! That's the Gardening Godfather 😁
How lovely and thanks 💚
Your Garden is Year-round Amazing 👍
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
We had a cool front go through,
48°F Monday, 52° Tuesday and 57° today, each morning. We did rise to about 70°F. This is our winter.
Love watching your channel grow and you deserve only the best in 2022!
Oh wow! Cold front gives 48F! Is low for you though, and thanks Peggy, happy 2022
Very impressed by your gardens, green houses, number if vegetables growing in winter months, size of your gardens, the work involved, amazing, very beautiful, inspiring and sustainable.
Thank you very much Jane
Happy new year Charles 😊 thanks for another uplifting vid 🙏🏻
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Thank you for showing your garden Charles, so much inspiration for what to do in the garden, recently got a poly tunnel... Looking forward to getting it into shape.
Sounds great William, extend your season :)
Great to catch up with all that is going on. Always find your videos spur me on to get thinking, planning, ordering and mort of all they inspire me.
Wonderful!
Thanks for the inspiration again Charles. Yesterday I expanded my veg garden after a huge tidy up after the two winter storms we had which caused so much damage to my crops. I have so much more room so I cant wait to get going again ! No dig will be very much to the fore. A rodent pulled all my onions and some of the garlic up, so I had to sow again in modules and will plant out in spring. Looking forward to 2022 gardening along with you. Thanks Charles.
It's lovely to read this jenni, and good luck with the new garden, I'm sure it will be really good fun and productive
Such an encouraging video, makes me think my no dig winter garden's not looking too bad! I've got chard leeks fennel cabbage chicory broad beans in ~ herbs etc. Thank you for your inspiration Charles
Sounds great Ann!
Love it!! You are my God, all hail Charles 😜😃
How amazing 😀
Quite amazing for January. I have spinach still going on and I'm still waiting for cover crop to get terminated by frost (although we already had few nights with -10°C).
Yes it's like spring here, while -10C sounds cold to me but I guess you are colder normally :)
Interesting video. Love the idea of broadbeans in the asparagus beds - will adopt that in My three asparagus beds in March here in the southern hemisphere.
Best of luck!
I could almost taste that pea shoot! The size of your veg is astounding. We just started our large garden last year, so compost is limited yet. Even though I am very proud of what we were able to grow, the size compared to yours just can not compare. But seeing all your green and lovely food is so encouraging. Thank you for this tour, it fills me with joy when our weather is has been so cold (NE USA) and I’m still new to gardening and learning as I go.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Your plants will grow larger as soil improves 💚
Always beautiful, always. My farmers almanac said my area, the Mid-Atlantic was going to be usually cold. I was about to think they really got it wrong this time, then Dec 21st rolled around. Our fall was usually warm right up until this week, 60* Sunday and 6" of snow Monday. By the way, I received my book...Skills for growing, love that it's signed, look forward to reading it now. I used some partly composted wood chips to cover a new area, I think my grandson thought I was nuts when I got really excited to see worms in there.
Thanks Wende.
Being excited about worms is the sign of a good gardener!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ...He was really interested in how in the world wood chips end up as soil.
Thanks for another inspiring video Charles.
I spent a couple of hours on my little patch today - transplanting the 7 successful gooseberry & blackcurrant cuttings I took in November 2020 to their permanent home & giving them & two more beds their share of the fruits of my composting last year(should have enough for 5-6cm across everything).
All I have left outside are leeks, brussels sprouts & garlic, with lettuce, rocket & mustard in the greenhouse - looks like I'll get some leaves in a week or two.
For 2021, I managed over 150kg from 7 beds, each 1.2m x 3.3m & an 8x6 greenhouse (Over 15kg of sungold tomatoes from 6 plants & almost 20kg of cucumbers off two plants!
Spinach plants to go in next week, then it's see what seeds I need (definitely a different carrot - Autumn King has been disappointing).
Roll on Spring...
Fantastic harvests, and well done on making compost
Buongiorno e buon anno, grazie della traduzione
You're having a mild Winter and we're having a mild Summer in South Australia, certainly shows with bigger crop! 👍
Sounds great!
Woah, I just noticed your beehives. I’m going to have to have a look to see what videos you have on them. I’m very excited to see the process of building a pond. We have heavy clay soil with many areas that pool and have considered installing a pond.
Just one video :) and do make a pond, it's easier than you may imagine if clay is there
Gardening: it feeds the soul and the belly. I dug a hole last August to make an outhouse. I got down about three feet, then it rained. The hole filled up and water has stayed in it every since. It's now frozen over. I think I'll turn it into a pond instead. I've always wanted a pond. Great to see your winter garden. The only thing I'm harvesting in mine at this time of year is thyme for my morning eggs. It may not grow due to the cold and lack of light, but the greens are still there from fall growth.
Winter thyme for garden philosophy!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig, love that. It made me smile.
Sir your garden is so neat hope to trasform ours same as clean you have.We have some herbs planted in our kitchen garden similar to what you planted.Looking forward to next.
looks like a bit of wool in your not-quite-ready compost.
You are so right and I forgot that we had added wool, in June!
Buongiorno, grazie della traduzione, 🥳
No dig has been a game changer for me these past few years. I'd be confident taking on a much bigger garden now if I got the chance. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos Charles.
Good stuff Cherie, hope you have the chance!
How did you get the huge amount of compost needed? Where i‘m from compost costs like 50 euros for 1000 liters, which means around 5 bucks for a square meter if i go for just 10 cm. I‘m making compost myself but i could never get the quantity needed
@@tschabow5608 Our local authority leaves a huge pile for anyone to take free of charge at the beginning of the year. It's made from the green waste collections. They put a notice in the local paper to say when it will be available.
@@Cheriesgardenvegplot that‘s amazing, ours gives all of the towns clippings and green waste to a compost maker who sells it later as compost
@@tschabow5608 Ours does too but once a year I think that they have to give some away free. We are stunned that no one else takes any from the pile. Over the past two years I've been able to part fill five raised beds. It has saved me a small fortune.
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Thats a rather close hair cut Mr Dowding 😁
Always interesting to see how your garden is doing compared with my own.
Deer seem to have been a particular pest for me this winter to the point where we've only had a single harvest of red chard and all we're now left with is stumps of the stalks :( They also seem to like beetroot tops, and they've given the parsley quite a hammering.
It's only quite recently that temperatures have dropped much below 10°C here and its definitely showing in the growth of the plants. I had purple sprouting broccoli in flower at the end of November and yesterday I noticed that at least one leek is pushing up a flower stem! Garlic is the one thing that seems to have bucked the trend with shoots only appearing this week whereas last year they were out of the ground a couple of weeks earlier despite being planted later. Perhaps that's something to do with last year's being from purchased bulbs whereas this year's are from saved ones. As long as they all come up I'll be happy. It's amazing how fast you can get through garlic when there are a few plaits hanging in the kitchen.
If you have a slow ten minutes and you're interested, I wrote what was intended to be a short piece about my first year of no dig here: www.tanstaafl.co.uk/2021/11/a-year-without-digging/ though I shan't deny that it became somewhat longer than initially intended once I put fingers to keyboard :)
Thanks James and you are well organised, and I find the same thing with garlic, slow to start then it really rockets. Sorry I don't have time to read that but it's nice you are feeling enthusiastic 😀
An addendum on plant behaviour being messed up by the weather...
Earlier in the week someone (on a course I'm doing on Honey Bee Behaviour, as it happens) mentioned the BSBI New Year Plant Hunt, a survey that counts the number of native/naturalised species across Britain and Ireland that are in flower at the start of the year. The "normal" number is apparently not certain, but estimated from old records to be twenty to thirty. In 2019 and 2020 the count was just over 600. Last year was just over 700. The provisional result for this year is 897.
I don't know what this means for planning the winter vegetable garden, but I don't imagine it's going to make life any easier :(
I know you are very flexible in your garden planning, but as someone currently making garden plans, I would love to learn more about your process.
Erin, see this video th-cam.com/video/wcgYHjfIDE0/w-d-xo.html
Great tour! Thanks so much Charles for sharing! It is getting us through the winter. I am SO excited to see your pond. Just thinking about a tour of my garden as it’s a nice sunny day then look out the window to see snow flurries….oh well I’ll head down to the compost pile anyway. 😁
Compost heaps are a great place to hang out!
Que bueno que el video esta subtitulado 😣no se nada de ingles 🙈 Estoy comenzando un pequeño huerto en el último rincon del mundo (Chile,sur ), y dí con usted por Wini la huertera mas querida de Chile.Desde acá le sigo.Saludos.
¡Gracias, suena como un gran proyecto y les deseo un huerto exitoso!
thank you!
My Nasturtiums are still flowering 😳