July tour of new no dig, harvests, pest covers, compost, watering
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- Summer no dig garden, why this method conserves moisture. Results of starting no dig, five months earlier.
When to harvest potatoes and onions, how to protect from insects, birds and rabbits.
Tips for making great compost, ways to pick tomatoes.
12th July 2022 at Homeacres, Somerset in SW England, 51st parallel, temperate climate and 30 miles from Atlantic Ocean. Filmed by Nicola Smith.
The garden is 1300 m2, one third of an acre.
It's no dig since 2013, except for one bed of a trial.
00:00 Introduction, and why no dig helps conserve moisture in the soil
00:46 A look at an area that was grassy meadow 5 month previously, now growing potatoes (Estima) and squash (Kuri, Crown Prince and butternut) through plastic cover on soil and compost.
02:38 Celeriac and rye grain - not watered so far
02:51 Potatoes close to point of harvest
03:24 Borlotti climbing plants for dry beans, not watered
04:01 Onions, not watered and I give reasons why
04:31 Beetroot, and deer damage to leaves
05:04 Cabbage, and info on Bacillus thuringiensis (see below)
05:31 Cracking soil at the edge of the bed, and another reason for not digging
06:09 Onions, how to know when they’re ready to harvest, and how to dry them
08:41 A brand new no dig bed, 3 months old
09:15 A look at one of my compost heaps, the pallet three-bay system
10:34 Salad plants example of speed of growth at this time of year
11:29 Peas (Tall Sugar) - for pods and dry beans
13:03 More lettuce, then peas and French beans, which need plenty of water
13:41 Spinach going to seed
13:55 Cucumbers in the polytunnel, also need plenty of water
14:45 The greenhouse with seedlings of chicory / endive, plus brassicas (purple sprouting), watermelon and loofah
15:56 Tomatoes, including an oxheart variety called Sgt. Pepper (see below)
16:48 Two varieties of melon - Emir and Minnesota Midget
17:37 Some tomatoes just harvested, and some info on harvesting times (Joe Lamp’l’s advice - see below))
18:53 My No Dig t-shirt from Teemill, see below
More on watering and harvesting in this online courses module from my Skills for Growing course:
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Videos on compost for propagation trials:
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Sgt. Pepper tomatoes from Tomato Revolution: tomatorevolution.co.uk
Picking tomatoes at 'breaking stage' of ripeness, see Joe Lampl th-cam.com/users/joegarde...
Sellers of Bt against caterpillar damage:
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I am forever grateful to Epic Gardening for introducing me to Charles Dowding channel
That is so nice!
My allotment neighbor is converting his garden to no-dig right now. He is very inspired by how well my garden is doing. I send him towards looking up no-dig and the next time I saw him he was running around with wood chip and compost and had bought books and calendar. Yay!!
Thanks for passing on the knowledge!
I'll need to start pulling my tomatoes early too, not to help out the plant but so that I actually get some, since the fox gets them before me if I leave them to fully ripen.
really you are good gardeners thank you for gives as your time. GOD BLESS YOU MORE AND MORE I DONT KNOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUT now i going to learn. so that way i didn't say more.you i saw nice view garden thanks for all,
I lOVE the cucumber and flower combo in the poly tunnel. Soooo beautiful!
Nice, thanks
Just watching this again as we’re in the equivalent time here in southern Australia. Thankyou! Our gardens line up beautifully, exactly 6 months apart. 😊
Wonderful to hear, in the cold and dark of out winter!
Thank You Mr Charles 😁💝
Great video Lord Charles ! We mortals appreciate them all.
Have a nice day and happy growing everybody.
Charles you are such an inspiration to all of us gardeners all over the world. We have been gardening here in central Texas for over 30 years. This year we are in a major drought and we have had no rain on 35 days and temps are 104 to 110. We have two seasons here in Texas and the spring summer garden did not do well. You can see the video's of everything we tried to do on our channel. We are looking forward to our fall winter garden. We plant in September and harvest all the way through December. It does not get cold until January. Rochelle and I are taking a holiday for two weeks in October to the Cotswolds and are looking forward to being in England again. I'm a retire chef and looking forward to eating a good fish -n-chips. Blessings, Mike
Your winter gardening sounds more worthwhile than summer! What a challenge. Maybe see you in October, bring warm clothes!
Hey there, I'm on the shore in Md. I heard about your heat, pray you guys get some cooler temps and rain, wish I could send you some rain from here. Hope you have a good autumn harvest.
@@itsmewende Thank you so much!!!!!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Will do, thanks Charles.
Hi! I am also in Texas but North. The heat here has been absolutely ridiculous as well. My neighbor started a garden in late Spring and it didn't do too well. I will be sure to check out your channel. Have a great day!
Thank you Charles for sharing your healthy food NoDig garden.
I don’t blame you at all for popping a few peas on camera. Delicious!
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Good day sir. Thank you for another informative video. I appreciate the high quality of your content and the obvious passion you have for gardening. I really want to turn my 2.5 acres of land into a garden but unfortunately I have other financial obligations at the moment. Watching you gives me hope that I too will one day enjoy eating produce from my land. I have so many questions for you and I wish I could visit your garden. I look forward to your new book. Have a blessed day and thank you!
So nice of you, best of luck in getting there
Gygyyygy
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your beautiful gardens 👍🇺🇲
Lovely tomatoes
Hello, following from Uruguay, making my way into no dig! Wishing and waiting to have a god place to work with! One day i will make a living out of it, no more office work please
hello charles what a wonderful orchard everything ordered I love it thank you very much for sharing greetings
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I have learned so much and gotten so much joy from watching your channel!
Awesome! Thank you!
Sir your garden is a little bit of paradise.....!
I'd love to buy your vegetables....
Beautiful video x
Such an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge.... all shared. Thanks so much Charles!!!
Glad it was helpful!
nothing like a charles dowding video on a sunday morning to start my day. off to the garden we go! thank you sir!
Hi Charles love your videos lv Irene 😘 xx
Thanks so much
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you for the inspiration, information and your brilliance. The bounty is such a joy to see. Those beets! Everything looks amazing. A gardening lovers dream…thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! Many thanks
WOOOOW!!! SIEMPRE VENGO A ESTE CANAL A INSPIRARME!!!
ME FASCINA VER TAAANTA VIDA Y TAN BIEN LOGRADA!!!
FELICIDADES, AMIGO!!!
So nuce to hear, gracias
Another tour of homeacres is a wonderful sight right about now.
Thanks for sharing the July garden tour! It feels so good to live among the plants, vegetables and fruits. It’s so beautiful and I can imagine how much work and time you spend for your wonderful garden. ❤️
I have learned from bitter experience not to pull onions up,its better to slide a knife under them and gently cut the roots not too close to build,this allows the root and base to dry without risk of damage which can lead to rotting in storage.
Is it the same with garlic and shallots?
@@Neenerella333 because garlic and shallots are of smaller size i think its less of a problem ,dried properly they should be OK.
I can’t pull out my alliums either. The clay is just too hard (even with years of work trying to improve it). I have to dig out the garlics which are way bigger than any onion I have ever successfully grown. Garlic grows below ground, but I do have some onions growing on the surface so I will try the knife trick on them.
I love how you mow around your beds. Maybe plant wheat in your wild field? Onions...having fun :) And bits and bobs..lovely tour.
You’ve covered so much here! Thank you, Charles!
Thank you for a wonderful tour, Charles. Always inspires me
Those beets are huge!
Thank you for another such cheery video, Charles. Great stuff
Qué limpia y organizada huerta. Es mi sueño tener un lugar así. ¡Un paraíso! Gracias por este bello vídeo. 🙌
Muy bonito y me gusta la manera de cómo siembra .. “no dig”” lo boy a ser …
How are you, I am Bangladeshi, if you want to have such a collective farming farm, you can take me, insha'Allah, you will be honest and sincere, thank you.
Great video, so inspiring & motivating! Thank you
I love the excitement you have about all your garden !
All looking amazing Charles 😊
Lovely tour, the garden's looking amazing.
Thanks for the tomato tip at the end! Looks lovely this time of year.
This was so helpful. Thank you for sharing. You have an amazing garden.
I love your no dig gardens. There so amazing. Blessings for you and your family ❤️
great enjoyable video charles
I love your garden tours
Love these updates thanks CD
Beautiful garden! Glad I found your page
Es grüßt sie herzlich,
Tara aus der Eifel
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you for sharing … we love it! Greetings from Colorado! 😎🌸
Thank you for sharing the information about the plants, you share the richness of the plants, why's and how's, to be better gardeners. Your calm passion is contagious!
So nice of you
thoroughly enjoyed this video Charles as I do all your others Sir!
very best wishes
Woody 🙂
Many thanks Woody.
Doing August soon - conditions very different!
Sergent peppers look amazing!! love your garden setup!😍
Thanks so much! 😊
Charles I have to say your movements remind of Keith Richard’s love you man
I am honoured!
Great video as usual,thank-you.
Its dry and hot here in Northern France and my no dig patch is going strong.Nothing better than watching your video with a nice cuppa, then heading pack to the Potager👍
Simply amazing! i wish i could get cucumbers and tomatoes like that!
The garden is beautiful as always sir
Thank you for the tour! I hope you get to have a good couple of weeks holiday soon.
V kind!
Good to hear about harvesting potatoes. Mine did flop over. And some started getting flea beetles. But they were ready to pick out anyway.
This is a wonderful video! Keep making more!!🥰🥰👍🏻👍🏻💙
I love your digressions. Such vast knowledge and joy.
Thank you!
Outstanding. Your garden is amazing. When I grow up I want to be like you.
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Charles...its looking absolutely fabulous !!!
Thankyou 🌱
Cool place . Thanks for sharing it
Thank you so much for the tour, I learned a lot from you today. You made my heart smile, keep on doing what you do, I very much enjoy your company. =)
Thank you so much!
Great tour, thanks
Love seeing your garden 🌻
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi I had a hobby to do such a collective farming farm but I don't have such ability if you want to do such a collective farming farm with me you can take me
Happy summer Charles, its a beautiful time of the year, really enjoyed getting to know you and your vast knowledge in recent months, as I've returned to growing my veg after many years
Thank you so much for sharing
Glad you enjoy it!
Dziękuję za piękny film i uśmiech
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Where I live, we have a shorter season. So, last year when I grew San Marzanos, which are prolific bearers, I did start picking them when they broke color to encourage ripening of the remaining tomatoes. I still had 25 lbs. left on the vines just before we got our first frost. So, I cut the stems at ground level, put the stems in buckets of water, hung the hooks on a tall ladder, then let them ripen in my sunroom. I see this year my fruit is starting earlier than last year, so maybe they will finish sooner, too.
May I ask, do u get blossom end rot with your San Mariano’s ? First time I’ve grown them and they need buckets of water more than other varieties so as not to develop this ? Thanks
@@Topsten1 blossom end rot is often from calcium deficiency- mix lime with water and dose up your tomatoes
Hello grandma how are you I am Bangladeshi if you want to have such a collective farming farm then you can take me inshallah you will be honest and sincere thank you
Very impressive Charles! I like it 👍, no rain here in East anglia for about a month now! Great video thanks for sharing to us all.
Thanks 👍 David, hoping for rain
Hey! Had a eureka moment! 😀
I couldn’t understand why my current produce garden space (on silty ancient Roman sequestered river flood plain, originally marshy, ground) was eating up my no-dig compost dressing compared to the clay under soil in my family home 1 acre undulating Tudor walled garden. When it rains, the current no-dig silt soil sucks up the compost top dressing. The walled garden on clay lets the worms do the work.
Moreover…. The undulating clay soil in the walled garden at family home the structure of which extends out to the old orchard; seen more evidently in drone shots, especially during droughts, makes me think that underlying clay gardening in pre-Tudor built, Tudor-modernised, estate managers’ homes were originally NO-DIG!
Row cropping. Chop’n drop. Mound building.
I know we’ve been taught to think that undulating fields close to ancient “home farm” communities was due to ploughing techniques, but why and how could this happen within Tudor estate walled food gardens?
Compost dressing on No-dig on silty, well washed, floodplain ground definitely disappears into the underworld when it rains, leaving the larger pieces of compost at the surface acting as evaporation protection; I’ve watched it happen in recent years.
Whereas, on top soil covered clay, compost top dressing, is only really needed once a year:... Suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and allows roots to collect the essential nutrients in clay.
Pure eureka 💡
Is this a Stephen Hawking moment? Where one can earn a lifetime living with a theory others spend £ms to prove? 😃😃
I really do think no-dig is an ancient concept that you, Charles, have since proven is the way forward. Particularly as we’re now discovering that ancient South Americans cultivated mycorrhiza beds to add to deliberately planted food production gardens deep in the jungle.
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That is cool! Thanks Amanda
Lovely
Hello Charles, a fine tour and it's splendid to see a garden with so much growth in it, the weather here in Shetland is very poor so the veg., gardens are not doing well, hopefully the weather will improve, cheers from Laurence.
Thanks Laurence, I wish I could share some of our warmth with you, your climate is difficult for many vegetables
Very interesting video Charles especially the part about what needs more water etc. I've always just watered everything most days! Your market garden always looks so fresh and full. I've just come back from 6 days in Cornwall during that hot spell and the garden/allotment veg look very dry in places. Back on it now, sorting it all. Thanks again for another inspiring video.
Thanks Jenny!
Looks great!
Sir, Your garden inspire me .......
How nice!
Amazing!
Awesome!
Excelent. Thank you
Amazing. I always learn so much from you. I'm glad to see you using plastic, it's been a life-saver for me. I too have ventured out a bit, started using cardboard, found an unlimited free supply, and it's going great. You gave me the knowledge and courage. Thanks Charles.
So cool Ted, thanks for sharing
Gracias Charles, como siempre un placer ver tus videos, me animan a seguir intentándolo con algunos cultivos, un gran saludos desde Chile. 💚
Gracias Cathy. Si, seguir intentándolo!
caption: "Charles crunching" LOL
Thanks for another great tour. It really helps as I’m learning. I noticed the two IBC water tanks on the new shed and wondered if you could do a short on how you connected them? We are looking at one for our garden 😊. Or does anyone else have any advice? Thanks 🙏
Love ya videos.. thanks for the July tour. Always curious bout other countries July crops. It's a scorcher here in middle Tennessee this year.
Best of luck
Thanks a lot. Again sooo informative. I've panicked seeing my peas getting yellow today - no need for xanax after watching your tour 🙃
Dzięki pozdrawiam 👍💚
Que encantador vídeo lleno de vida ,hermoso color verde , gracias Charles desde Santiago de Chile con mucho frío y nieve 🌷🇨🇱
Good luck with your winter! and gracias
you're one of our inspiration! 😊❤
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Merveilleux jardin !! Petit bonjour de France, près de Bordeaux !!
Merci.
J'habitais Asataffort aux 1990's!
As a rule I am not a lover of plastic, but like you Charles I have been using plastic weed mat to cover (and hopefully kill) the mass of "Quack grass" or "Couch grass" I have on my 1/2 acre plot. After 6 months of cover it has done a fantastic job. So I didn't lose growing space I cut some holes in the weed mat and planted watermelons which I am now harvesting, and man they are big :) Thanks for the wonderful "Home acres" update.
Wow watermelons!! Lovely to hear
Interesting about picking the tomatoes sooner, I've always heard they're better tasting left on the vine, just another debunked garden thought, just like no dig. The new gardens, both veg and flower look amazing, also couldn't help but notice your beets, holy cow were they huge. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks Wende 💚
Adam taking the hits.
New to your videos…. Loads of fantastic Information and I’m looking forward to learning from you!
Thanks and welcome
As usual, all your plant is flourishing. Oh, I have to use plastic too (after cardboard) because the weeds are crazy
Hi Charles, As always, really enjoyed your video. I thought I'd give you an update on my drunken Blackie. Last week because of necessity for room, I put two heaps , "small heaps", or homemade compost in little gaps in the garden where I had harvested crops. I'm only talking less than 1 M square heaps. I also put a dish of water out for the birds, as it's been so dry. Within two days, my compost was spread amongst my beetroots, onions and broad beans, courtesy of drunken blackbird manure spreading Co Ltd. The bird drinker was empty with her bathing in it, and she's still drinking the beer. She now sits on my shed roof with two of her offspring, looking at me accusingly for being in her garden. I can see the newspaper headlines. Gretna Green pensioner pecked to death by drunken blackbirds.
Keep up the good work Charles, you've opened up new doors for me. Thank you.
One thing I thought I'd mention Charles. Many years ago, a guy I knew always cut the green leaves/shaws from freshly lifted onions and put the onions upside down in wire netting or similar to drip. After a day or so, he sat them normally into trays, and stored them, he said it prevented neck rot. It does and I sometimes use it. You probably manage fine as you are, but it's a handy tip to know, if the weather's not playing ball.
Nice tips Ian thanks.
Lucky blackbirds!!
Oh!!! You’re so lucky having a good quantity of large ripening tomatoes at the same time as your cucumbers! In this heatwave, I’ve been craving ice cold gazpacho. 😩
Luckily, I still have enough canned tomatoes/sauce from last year to make use of this year’s Telegraph cucumbers that only last two days cleaned and chilled in the crisper drawer of the fridge.
Makes one wonder what’s sprayed on store bought cucumbers that last at least a week! 😅
Mine last a week, but soften
However do you keep your farm and those pathways so tidy, I really enjoy how peaceful it appears
With my no dig methods, it's not too difficult - very occasional pulling of very small weeds! And lots of replanting once harvests are taken
Thank you once again for a wonderful tour of the gardens, love the onions, would like to try bunching onions one day.
Lettuce in Australia is expensive due to floods and other weather events an Example would be Iceberg lettuce where $11.99, Blueberries where $19.49 for 125g. Inflation isn’t helping.
Wow, hope you can grow
thank you for this. I am in California, good place for tomatoes, but the blossoms will fall off if it gets too hot. I also pick tomatoes before they are overly ripe, because the rats will eat a bite out of each one if they get completely ripe.
Wow, different challenges!
Yes you can use that plastic for like 200 plus years...in may area in Southern Ontario 🇨🇦 ....it's been as dry as I can remember since being in the 22 years we have been here....plastic on our clay wouldn't do well....I only use a raised bed with wood borders and lots of composted ....I actually put down old boards to kill the grass and weeds before I expand .....your method works really well.....and the garden looks great....
Thanks Jim. The dry theme is worrying.
wow-you did breahtaking ~😌
Thank you so much for your excellent videos. I have been converted to a no dig gardener. If nothing else it's much less work. There is a topic I don't think you have covered yet. My gardening problem is a lack of sunlight because my yard is very shady due to mature trees. Plants that grow above the ground grow well but plants growing in the ground not so much. For example potatoes, beets, carrots, etc. vs lettuce, spinach, kale, etc. that grow well. Maybe you could discuss this on a future video?
That sounds difficult Kim and I can't really discuss it because there is no such thing happening here. I shall give it some thought. It as much about the roots of those trees feeding into the soil and taking moisture in summer especially
Goodness me, what variety of beetroots are those giants??? Thanks for sharing your July garden with us, enjoyed watching. You‘ve got some beautiful dahlias as well.
Thanks for visiting and yes the dahlias are incredible. Those beetroot are Boltardy, home-saved seed
Beautiful...and yummy! : - D