Are you not on TV yet? Your advice is practically invaluable and your voice so soothing! You would be watched by millions! I ordered the calendar and it's very handy! Thank you so much!
This is exactly the type of guide I've been searching for a long time on youtube! What seeds to sow each month! I love this! Thank you so much for making this!❤️
I often begin my morning with a coffee and a Charles Dowding video, as I am now. You have a soothing voice and your content gets my brain moving in the right direction. My Texas garden is thriving because of all I’m learning! Thank you!
I used to meditate with a coffee on a morning, now I do the same as you! 😄 It's basically the same and you learn some cool stuff too. I live in an apartment so I can't grow anything but either way Thanks Charles 🤙
Oh my, nothing better than waking up with a notification from Mr Dowding himself. Charles, thank you for all the questions you answered to me over the year. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. Edit after watching : What an amazing guide you just did here, thank you so much.
Charles, this video alone is enough for a novice to learn how to feed themselves year round, what an amazing resource this video, and your complete video library. You never cease to amaze me. Every time I think I have found the ultimate gardening video on your channel, you pop out another. Well done, and thank you. I love your No Dig book and Calendar and CD trays, so appreciative of what you offer.
I've already somewhat established my own sowing strategies but I'll leave a comment for the algorithm. I also want to leave a big *THANK YOU* for being one of my main inspirations to gardening for all these years. No dig has been such a huge relief for somebody dealing with physical impairments. Greetings from Germany 💚
It feels so strange watching, and knowing, the correct times for seed sowing in the UK latitude when compared to the correct times here in Thailand. I am currently harvesting carrots, Courgettes, tomatoes, kale, beetroot and sugar peas, which were sown in November and December 😅😅😅My "Thailand no dig" beds are going from strength to strength. Thanks for posting Charles.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Are you sure you need to cram the cell Charles? Are you sure more soil is better? I'm wondering if volume space for the Roots is most important. If you keep cells light and fluffy the roots can move and grow unrestricted......I've just tried this and it seems to work 👍
Funny, a couple of years back I watched all your videos and compiled every sowing and planting dates you mentioned and created myself a plan based on your dates adapting them to our climate by using the reasoning more than the dates themselves. I think that is the key to learn from your experience. And that is the difference between your videos and everyone else’s. You focus on the why, most people just dictate their dates…
As a seasoned gardener, I still need monthly reminders of sowing dates.I had one of your printed calenders previously, but I prefer this as it's succinct and time stamped.Thankyou for this Charles.
Mr Charles Dowding you are a miracle! I don't know if I ever came across anything that great quality lectures about gardening as you doing! You are massive inspiration for so many people! Thanks for all your hard job! The only problem I need more land as I got only tiny back garden 😂
Thank you for organizing my brain! I always get so overwhelmed just thinking about all the different sowing dates. Now I will just watch this video over and over again. Cheers!
WOW that's some amazing looking Chinese Napa Cabbage!!! Mine always end up looking like cheesecloth by the time they're that age! Charles, this is an AMAZING video. I have your calendar this year and I'm very impressed by it -- it's so useful, beautiful, and professionally-done! Next year I might buy 3 of them so I can have one to use as usual and 2 to pull apart and tack up each month's beautiful picture and calendar on the wall as an arrangement of 24 squares.
Wow! Thanks Charles! Explained so many of my failures, mostly head lettuces. They have confounded me for years! Hopefully this year *fingers crossed*! By the way, I say it every year and I tell everyone who toils in the garden, NO DIG, is the absolute way to go! New beds going in this year again! Thanks for everything!
Definitely noting down these dates as a rough guide and sticking it to the fridge! I always lose track of sowings, especially successive sowings so this video is a godsend, thanks Charles!
Just the info I needed! Given that I am in Denmark and thus in zone 7, without a greenhouse, I will have to delay most of my sewings with minimum 2-3 weeks, but this information is still immensly usefull! Thanks!!
This was a great video ❤ I understand you’re referring mostly to your planting zone but I must say I laughed out loud when you said garlic could be planted as late as February as we got 4 inches of snow today and both the ground and my compost bins are frozen solid 🥶 Every year I’m amazed when my little garlic and shallot shoots make it through our pretty brutal winters (northeastern USA) My grow room is sure active right now though… thank heavens for heat mats! Thank you for all the time and energy you put into your videos Charles they are such a delight and so incredibly helpful, you’ve truly changed gardening for me in the best of ways!! ❤
Going to get my pen and paper out and take lots of notes! Really informative video, ordered a 40ft polycarbonate tunnel yesterday and getting it installed end of march, can't wait 😁
@gailthornbury291 only saw your comment. Thank you. Only get a part of it planted last year but big plans this year. It's an investment and an amazing gift from my Dad who is no longer with us 😢
Wow, that video is so rich in information! High quality as always! Also just ordered ten CD60s, I got 8 of them already in use. Very durable and perfect size.
Dear Charles, this is one of the most condensed informative videos I have seen so far on the topic of sowing. I did have my sowing dates fixed already for this year but watching this video I layed my personal sowing calender next to me to compare. I made some corrections and with other dates it felt reassuring that you suggested similar ones - and getting the reasoning behind it, even confirming some of my own observations made this even more valuable. This was so much good information in one video! This is the first time I used the "Thanks" option of UA-cam but it felt very much appropriate. Thank you!
This video is a great addition to your calendar Charles, it is a must watch especially for not so seasoned growers, but also for those, who want to improve. Watching it and noticing how the time goes by I wondered if you ever go on any holiday and if yes when do you go? You are such a busy person- tending to your garden, producing those immensely valuable videos, writing books, articles, making workshops, giving interviews and I guess many more obligations. Huge thanks for sharing your knowledge with such a passion 💐
Many thanks Aleksandra and you're right that I don't often go on holiday. It would be nice but as you observe, I am passionate about my work, which is not really work.
I've watched and enjoyed all your videos since I got into veg growing a few year ago, but this one was particularly useful. Like most enthusiastic veg growers, I have no trouble getting started with the early crops and have various types of row covers to even push the boundaries a bit. However, where I tend to struggle is with the later sowing at times, when there's so much already going in the garden. I know already that I'll be coming back to this video. I have 2 "gardens" in Switzerland one on a 3rd floor terrace with around 20 M2 of raised beds/pots, last frost date 11-20 April and a bigger open soil garden at 1000 meters, with a last frost date 21-31 May.
Hello Charles, from Plano Texas. After many years of giving up on gardening, your videos of no dig method had inspired me to start again and with full confidence. So I bought your dibber and sewing trays, I created 6 no dig beds filled with fine compost I bought from the city of Plano. I have Garlic, beet root, 2 types of Kale, 2 types of Basil, potatoes, & Minnesota Midget Cantaloupe/melon. THANK YOU and YOUR TEAM VERY MUCH INDEED!👍👍👍
This was really good, it's saved in my Charles folder, never hurts to have it as a yearly reminder. Thanks for taking the time to go month by month, you all over there have a nice weekend, mines looking wet.
Can't wait to see how my garden does this year! I'm keeping the crops to those I know and love. Also, I'm excited to see the difference made by my worm castings and other organic amendments.
Due to climate change I plant broad beans in October and I always get an excellent harvest. My grandfather planted broad beans in February in order to have a good harvest. I live on the hills of Olltrepo pavese (60 km south of Milan). I can say that my climate zone has changed from 8 to 9 in the last ten years. Thank you Charles, for yours video: there is always something to learn!
Hello Charles! Thank you for your explanations, they answered questions I had initially asked myself upon using your calendar for the first time 3 years ago. Not knowing any better, I have stuck to your sowing schedule to the letter but with smaller quantities to achieved succession planting. I feel rather silly now... Still, it worked and has helped me tremendously. My husband also loves the calendar as it solves his Christmas shopping: I get it every year!!! Cheers
I was so worried I was sowing late, getting started the second week of March, but you've completely assuaged my concerns. Thank you for this informative video!
I had a kale plant that survived four winters and an ice storm that knocked out the power in my part of the PNW for almost a week and a half, before I finally let it just go fully to seed and break down. I saved two seperate years of seeds at this point and can’t wait to see how they do. Gonna plant a bunch of them but also save the seeds from the best growers with the best taste and keep on specializing them for my little climate. ❤
My wife is a blessing, Charles. I was telling her about @All About The Garden, telling her which CD module trays I would like and some shears they offer. She put everything in the cart... then doubled my trays and added a dibber!
I rushed to write notes, so was super excited when you mention that we can get an actual calendar! I’ve just ordered the signed no dig book, cookbook and calendar! 🥰🌱🥰
i planted tomato's out on passover feast last year around (april 22nd) and they didnt continue growing until 2 months later. will be starting the seeds later maybe even march 28th (New Year)
Great video Charles. I sowed escarole, and Boston lettuce first of March , tomatoes, peppers, eggplant April 14th, cucumbers and basil may 30th. Thanks again for a fantastic video.
This is amazing! SO MUCH useful information, I kept pausing to make notes. Thank you so much Charles. I have bought your calendar but this clarifies a lot.
Please consider doing a short video on the long term results of no-dig gardening practices on soil health and composition into the soil horizons. I love the yield comparisons between the dig and no-dig garden plots, but is there a substantial difference in soil health? Can you show a sample of native soil in that area versus the soil you have been adding compost materials to for a decade? Thanks for all you show and teach us!
Thanks Chris. I don't quite understand your request because to show the health of soil visually is not straightforward. Plants are doing it for us and that's why I'm concentrating on the actual growth.
Hi Christina , I live just a few miles down the road from Mr Dowding and have made visits to both his gardens . As MANY other people have already said the first thing you notice on entering the garden is how amazingly healthy all the plants look . I have not made a scientific study of this topic and am not sure quite how one defines a healthy soil or measures soil health, but all I can say is that plants obviously love this method of cultivation
Thank you for this video, Charles Dowding! Excited for 4th year no dig. Zone 6 here but have the same last frost date as you…I still go by your dates for the most part. 🌱
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I'm so glad you said that!! I did my first seed sowings yesterday - we are at north east of Scotland so I try to not to let the 'sowing panic' get the better of me!
As regards to broad beans I have taken your advice this year and planted in small shallow tray containers whereas I would normally start them off in tall pots or toilet roll inners. I have found they have grown strongly and are much easier to plant deeply 😃
Years ago when I started growing I tried your dates and few of them worked for me. I finally realised after watching a lot of your videos that you grow in full sun, I like so many others grow in partial sun or light shade and that makes a big difference. I’m always surprised that you don’t mention this. Now I’ve realised that there’s so much opportunity to go beyond your suggested dates for a much richer diet and much greater yields. That said as a start point your dates are very valuable
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I also enjoyed watching that, thanks for doing it. As per the chap above, have you ever done (or thought about) doing a test and article on growing certain veg in types of shade? I'm lucky in that my garden is South facing, but many peoples isn't. I have a shaded area up against my Polytunnel and am going to have a go with certain veggies (i've researched) this year to see how well they'll do.
My goodness you've made some helpful videos over the years but you've outdone yourself here. Even with some experience I made a lot of notes to my sowing timeline, but all the people seeing veg shortages who want to start growing their own this will be the most incredible help as sowing at the wrong time can lead to such disheartening results. Thank you so much!
18:20 - Thank you so much. I had never thought to plant Chinese cabbage in August. I will definitely give that a try this year. Funny thing is, I just sowed Chinese cabbage seeds yesterday for summer harvest.... 🙂 14:15 - I have sown Swiss Chard as early as March 5th, specifically to get them to bolt that year for seeds. Total failure. They always take for me 18 months to flower. To me, where I live, they are almost a perennial. But when they bolt and seed, I get a bucket load of seeds. Side note: 12 month old Swiss Chard root, just before they bolt, is not only very tasty but due to is ring pattern also lovely looking in a salad.... And no, mine is not woody.🙂
Your calendar is brilliant, and I love this year's addition of continued sowing opportunities. I think it would be great if you kept that but also made it visually clear which sowings are *new* and which are 'repeat opportunities', if you know what I mean. You can sow broad beans nine times, but maybe embolden the first sowing opportunity? I wade through the lists of sowings (which are very helpful) looking for the new ones amongst the sowings I've already done. But love it. Loved attending your course last year, love everything you do. Many thanks!
Thank you so much for this information 👍 I have never known when to sow my seeds to get a really successful crop 🤷♀️ I tend to either too early or too late 😳 We can always rely on you to guide us to success 👏👏🇬🇧
Thank you Charles for another excellent informative video. It certainly compliments your 2023 calendar. This year's calendar is a slight improvement on the 2022 version. By the sounds of it, 2024 calendar will be even better.
Thank you Charles for another helpfull video - just want to say that for those of us down under it is very helpfull when you refer to the season rather than the month. I bought your calender in 2021 thinking that I would be able to translate it easily, but I must admit - it didn't really work.
Glad it was helpful.. I echo your sentiments, and for that reason we created the southern hemisphere sowing guide. This link is for the 2024 version and soon we shall publish for 2025. It should be useful for you through spring. drive.google.com/file/d/13BMOD2sw2wc5pnqEY3PkJBEkV7U1_evd/view
My goodness Charles I’m going to have to watch this several times and make notes. There’s a few mistakes I’ve already made! Never mind. Plenty of time. Crazy weather here in West Norfolk. -5c today with 40mph winds and heavy snow. 12c on Sunday! Thank you very much for sharing. Pat Joyce
Are you not on TV yet? Your advice is practically invaluable and your voice so soothing! You would be watched by millions! I ordered the calendar and it's very handy! Thank you so much!
Thanks, I am happy here!
TV is now youtube. It's better.
Mr. Dowding, you are an absolute treasure. Thank you so much for teaching the world to grow over these years. Much love.
This is exactly the type of guide I've been searching for a long time on youtube! What seeds to sow each month! I love this! Thank you so much for making this!❤️
He has a calendar with a planting guide that you can get. If your zone is similar to his, it's very handy. I used mine a lot.
This is just what I wanted, fab video but also I now know to buy your calendar. Thank you
@@racheljohnson770 Thank you for telling me about it! 😊👍
I have the calendar, a gift for Christmas! Along with a copy of Huw Richards book 👍
Me too! This perfect. I’ve saved the vlog and will transcribe the dates into my notebook! Thank you!
I often begin my morning with a coffee and a Charles Dowding video, as I am now. You have a soothing voice and your content gets my brain moving in the right direction. My Texas garden is thriving because of all I’m learning! Thank you!
So nice to imagine, thanks
I usually watch Monty Don on Gardeners World each week but I think I've now found a new replacement. Brilliant Charles Thank you
I used to meditate with a coffee on a morning, now I do the same as you! 😄 It's basically the same and you learn some cool stuff too. I live in an apartment so I can't grow anything but either way Thanks Charles 🤙
Charles Dowding is the BEST gardener in the world! In my humble opinion. His no-dig approach changed my life. He's a brilliant man.
Thanks so much 💚 nice to hear
Oh my, nothing better than waking up with a notification from Mr Dowding himself. Charles, thank you for all the questions you answered to me over the year. You have no idea how much I appreciate it.
Edit after watching : What an amazing guide you just did here, thank you so much.
Our pleasure!
Charles, this video alone is enough for a novice to learn how to feed themselves year round, what an amazing resource this video, and your complete video library. You never cease to amaze me. Every time I think I have found the ultimate gardening video on your channel, you pop out another. Well done, and thank you. I love your No Dig book and Calendar and CD trays, so appreciative of what you offer.
So nice of you Ted 🍀
That's why he's the GOAT! 🐐Thank you Sir Charles Dowding!
I've already somewhat established my own sowing strategies but I'll leave a comment for the algorithm.
I also want to leave a big *THANK YOU* for being one of my main inspirations to gardening for all these years.
No dig has been such a huge relief for somebody dealing with physical impairments.
Greetings from Germany 💚
Wonderful to hear thanks 💚
A heartfelt ditto!
no dig helped me with my mental impairments, too! Also cheers from Germany. Gesunde Erde, gesunder Geist.
It feels so strange watching, and knowing, the correct times for seed sowing in the UK latitude when compared to the correct times here in Thailand. I am currently harvesting carrots, Courgettes, tomatoes, kale, beetroot and sugar peas, which were sown in November and December 😅😅😅My "Thailand no dig" beds are going from strength to strength. Thanks for posting Charles.
So nice to imagine all that 💚💚
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Are you sure you need to cram the cell Charles? Are you sure more soil is better? I'm wondering if volume space for the Roots is most important. If you keep cells light and fluffy the roots can move and grow unrestricted......I've just tried this and it seems to work 👍
Funny, a couple of years back I watched all your videos and compiled every sowing and planting dates you mentioned and created myself a plan based on your dates adapting them to our climate by using the reasoning more than the dates themselves. I think that is the key to learn from your experience. And that is the difference between your videos and everyone else’s. You focus on the why, most people just dictate their dates…
Cool, thanks for sharing this
Well well well, what a gem of a video, well done and thanks Charles x.
As a seasoned gardener, I still need monthly reminders of sowing dates.I had one of your printed calenders previously, but I prefer this as it's succinct and time stamped.Thankyou for this Charles.
Mr Charles Dowding you are a miracle! I don't know if I ever came across anything that great quality lectures about gardening as you doing! You are massive inspiration for so many people! Thanks for all your hard job!
The only problem I need more land as I got only tiny back garden 😂
Thank you for organizing my brain! I always get so overwhelmed just thinking about all the different sowing dates. Now I will just watch this video over and over again. Cheers!
Best comprehensive guide I've seen. Thanks.
WOW that's some amazing looking Chinese Napa Cabbage!!! Mine always end up looking like cheesecloth by the time they're that age! Charles, this is an AMAZING video. I have your calendar this year and I'm very impressed by it -- it's so useful, beautiful, and professionally-done! Next year I might buy 3 of them so I can have one to use as usual and 2 to pull apart and tack up each month's beautiful picture and calendar on the wall as an arrangement of 24 squares.
How lovely, thanks Ted
Wow! Thanks Charles! Explained so many of my failures, mostly head lettuces. They have confounded me for years! Hopefully this year *fingers crossed*! By the way, I say it every year and I tell everyone who toils in the garden, NO DIG, is the absolute way to go! New beds going in this year again! Thanks for everything!
You can do it Sue, and thanks 🥬
Definitely noting down these dates as a rough guide and sticking it to the fridge! I always lose track of sowings, especially successive sowings so this video is a godsend, thanks Charles!
Just the info I needed! Given that I am in Denmark and thus in zone 7, without a greenhouse, I will have to delay most of my sewings with minimum 2-3 weeks, but this information is still immensly usefull! Thanks!!
😃
Thank you Charles. Very informative and much needed video.
So nice thanks
This was a great video ❤ I understand you’re referring mostly to your planting zone but I must say I laughed out loud when you said garlic could be planted as late as February as we got 4 inches of snow today and both the ground and my compost bins are frozen solid 🥶 Every year I’m amazed when my little garlic and shallot shoots make it through our pretty brutal winters (northeastern USA) My grow room is sure active right now though… thank heavens for heat mats! Thank you for all the time and energy you put into your videos Charles they are such a delight and so incredibly helpful, you’ve truly changed gardening for me in the best of ways!! ❤
I was just searching for a video like this yesterday! My prayers have been answered
Going to get my pen and paper out and take lots of notes! Really informative video, ordered a 40ft polycarbonate tunnel yesterday and getting it installed end of march, can't wait 😁
Or you can order Charles's sowing calendar , you'll be glad you did .👍
I dream of getting a large polycarbonate
polytunnel. I have a good sized plastic one but it’s never enough! Enjoy your new growing space.
@gailthornbury291 only saw your comment. Thank you. Only get a part of it planted last year but big plans this year. It's an investment and an amazing gift from my Dad who is no longer with us 😢
Always enjoy your videos. You look fantastic in that bright red jacket. You put so much work into your videos. Thank you.
Thank you so much Karina
Wow, that video is so rich in information! High quality as always! Also just ordered ten CD60s, I got 8 of them already in use. Very durable and perfect size.
Glad you like them! And thanks
Wonderful video as always, Charles. I’m listening to you as I make breakfast.
Danke!
Dear Charles, this is one of the most condensed informative videos I have seen so far on the topic of sowing. I did have my sowing dates fixed already for this year but watching this video I layed my personal sowing calender next to me to compare. I made some corrections and with other dates it felt reassuring that you suggested similar ones - and getting the reasoning behind it, even confirming some of my own observations made this even more valuable. This was so much good information in one video! This is the first time I used the "Thanks" option of UA-cam but it felt very much appropriate. Thank you!
🏆 I really appreciate your comment thanks
This video is a great addition to your calendar Charles, it is a must watch especially for not so seasoned growers, but also for those, who want to improve. Watching it and noticing how the time goes by I wondered if you ever go on any holiday and if yes when do you go? You are such a busy person- tending to your garden, producing those immensely valuable videos, writing books, articles, making workshops, giving interviews and I guess many more obligations.
Huge thanks for sharing your knowledge with such a passion 💐
Many thanks Aleksandra and you're right that I don't often go on holiday. It would be nice but as you observe, I am passionate about my work, which is not really work.
@@CharlesDowding1nodigYou are so right. My life's work was never work, and who needs a vacation from that?
I love being in such a close zone to Charles despite being across the ocean, zone 8a from Washington state here in the USA
Wow, this video is PACKED with information! Thank you.
Oh, thank you so very very much!
You are so generous with your knowledge I actually get moved.
You are truly special! 🌱💚
You are so welcome Anna
I've watched and enjoyed all your videos since I got into veg growing a few year ago, but this one was particularly useful. Like most enthusiastic veg growers, I have no trouble getting started with the early crops and have various types of row covers to even push the boundaries a bit. However, where I tend to struggle is with the later sowing at times, when there's so much already going in the garden. I know already that I'll be coming back to this video. I have 2 "gardens" in Switzerland one on a 3rd floor terrace with around 20 M2 of raised beds/pots, last frost date 11-20 April and a bigger open soil garden at 1000 meters, with a last frost date 21-31 May.
Thank you, this is nice to hear and that is two amazingly different gardens, good luck with successions this year
I love to see your videos! Would like to see your garden with my own eyes!
Greatings and happy new year from Switzerland! 🇨🇭
Happy New Year to you also and thank you
Happy new year to you Maria, maybe one day!
Hello Charles, from Plano Texas. After many years of giving up on gardening, your videos of no dig method had inspired me to start again and with full confidence. So I bought your dibber and sewing trays, I created 6 no dig beds filled with fine compost I bought from the city of Plano. I have Garlic, beet root, 2 types of Kale, 2 types of Basil, potatoes, & Minnesota Midget Cantaloupe/melon. THANK YOU and YOUR TEAM VERY MUCH INDEED!👍👍👍
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing, may your plants grow well.
THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS SHARING!!! IVE LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU!!!
I'm so glad! 💚💚
Amazing and wonderful
That is my dream greenhouse! 😍 It was so cool seeing it in person (even though the weather was so hot last summer!)
Thanks Steven - maybe one day you have one!
This was really good, it's saved in my Charles folder, never hurts to have it as a yearly reminder. Thanks for taking the time to go month by month, you all over there have a nice weekend, mines looking wet.
Cheers Wende!
If your in Australia, the diggers club has posters with sowing times for your region. You can see them at diggers club gardens.
Can't wait to see how my garden does this year! I'm keeping the crops to those I know and love. Also, I'm excited to see the difference made by my worm castings and other organic amendments.
Perfect. All the information i needed in one Video. Thank you Charles!
Great information and just what I was looking for.
Thank you Charles!
This is very important and thank you we are understood now 🎉
Due to climate change I plant broad beans in October and I always get an excellent harvest. My grandfather planted broad beans in February in order to have a good harvest. I live on the hills of Olltrepo pavese (60 km south of Milan). I can say that my climate zone has changed from 8 to 9 in the last ten years. Thank you Charles, for yours video: there is always something to learn!
Amazing. And thanks
Hello Charles! Thank you for your explanations, they answered questions I had initially asked myself upon using your calendar for the first time 3 years ago. Not knowing any better, I have stuck to your sowing schedule to the letter but with smaller quantities to achieved succession planting. I feel rather silly now... Still, it worked and has helped me tremendously. My husband also loves the calendar as it solves his Christmas shopping: I get it every year!!! Cheers
So nice thanks!
Wonderful! Just in time Sir Charles , Dankeschön.
This video is the most helpful for me.
THANK YOU 😇
Thanks and you're welcome 😊
Thank you Charles.
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻
I watch most (if not all) of your videos but this particular one is absolutely packed with information and is brilliant. Many many thanks.
Another very useful video which will will work alongside your calendar, thank you for doing this.
These youtube videos are so helpful :)
Really helpful video Charles 👍
Thank you
Thank´s Charles for everything you do for us!
That's the perfect video for sowing that everyone was looking for Charles. Thank you very much.
Perfect timing!!! 😀 Thanks!!! Just super excited to be starting!! Spring let's go! 💕
I was so worried I was sowing late, getting started the second week of March, but you've completely assuaged my concerns. Thank you for this informative video!
Best of luck! Nice to hear Katy
Another great video, thanks Charles.
I had a kale plant that survived four winters and an ice storm that knocked out the power in my part of the PNW for almost a week and a half, before I finally let it just go fully to seed and break down.
I saved two seperate years of seeds at this point and can’t wait to see how they do. Gonna plant a bunch of them but also save the seeds from the best growers with the best taste and keep on specializing them for my little climate. ❤
That is impressive and best of luck with your new PNW kale 🌱
Mr. Dowding, I'm fascinated watching your videos.
Cool
What a superb video.
The most useful gardening video ever! Thankyou Master!
Wow, thanks Vic
excellent Charles 👍🙏
perfect info everyone needed
My wife is a blessing, Charles. I was telling her about @All About The Garden, telling her which CD module trays I would like and some shears they offer. She put everything in the cart... then doubled my trays and added a dibber!
Amazing!! 💚
I rushed to write notes, so was super excited when you mention that we can get an actual calendar! I’ve just ordered the signed no dig book, cookbook and calendar! 🥰🌱🥰
Ah wonderful thanks
i planted tomato's out on passover feast last year around (april 22nd) and they didnt continue growing until 2 months later.
will be starting the seeds later maybe even march 28th (New Year)
Great video Charles. I sowed escarole, and Boston lettuce first of March , tomatoes, peppers, eggplant April 14th, cucumbers and basil may 30th. Thanks again for a fantastic video.
Thanks! This is so helpful!! Your advice means a whole lot to me.
Cool thanks
This is amazing! SO MUCH useful information, I kept pausing to make notes. Thank you so much Charles. I have bought your calendar but this clarifies a lot.
Wonderful!
Please consider doing a short video on the long term results of no-dig gardening practices on soil health and composition into the soil horizons. I love the yield comparisons between the dig and no-dig garden plots, but is there a substantial difference in soil health? Can you show a sample of native soil in that area versus the soil you have been adding compost materials to for a decade? Thanks for all you show and teach us!
Thanks Chris. I don't quite understand your request because to show the health of soil visually is not straightforward. Plants are doing it for us and that's why I'm concentrating on the actual growth.
Hi Christina , I live just a few miles down the road from Mr Dowding and have made visits to both his gardens . As MANY other people have already said the first thing you notice on entering the garden is how amazingly healthy all the plants look . I have not made a scientific study of this topic and am not sure quite how one defines a healthy soil or measures soil health, but all I can say is that plants obviously love this method of cultivation
Thank you for this video, Charles Dowding! Excited for 4th year no dig. Zone 6 here but have the same last frost date as you…I still go by your dates for the most part. 🌱
Great!
Thank you! This is very helpful! And I agree with other posts below, you are indeed a treasure!
Glad it was helpful! And thanks :)
You put them over the hot compost bin thats genieous , I never thought of that , or saw that with anyone, your amazing dude..
Cheers
unreal your blowing my mind and ive been growing 35 yrs omg and plant earlier than im supose to ... light bulb moment today ...thank you
You way smarter than usa gardeners.. what went wrong with us, were dumb.
That's nice :)
Great video. The growing season has just started and I feel behind already!
You and me both! Seriously. And it's ok :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I'm so glad you said that!! I did my first seed sowings yesterday - we are at north east of Scotland so I try to not to let the 'sowing panic' get the better of me!
As regards to broad beans I have taken your advice this year and planted in small shallow tray containers whereas I would normally start them off in tall pots or toilet roll inners.
I have found they have grown strongly and are much easier to plant deeply 😃
Nice to hear Andrew
Years ago when I started growing I tried your dates and few of them worked for me. I finally realised after watching a lot of your videos that you grow in full sun, I like so many others grow in partial sun or light shade and that makes a big difference. I’m always surprised that you don’t mention this. Now I’ve realised that there’s so much opportunity to go beyond your suggested dates for a much richer diet and much greater yields. That said as a start point your dates are very valuable
Cheers Steve, yes they are a start point. Thanks for your suggestion
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I also enjoyed watching that, thanks for doing it. As per the chap above, have you ever done (or thought about) doing a test and article on growing certain veg in types of shade? I'm lucky in that my garden is South facing, but many peoples isn't. I have a shaded area up against my Polytunnel and am going to have a go with certain veggies (i've researched) this year to see how well they'll do.
My goodness you've made some helpful videos over the years but you've outdone yourself here. Even with some experience I made a lot of notes to my sowing timeline, but all the people seeing veg shortages who want to start growing their own this will be the most incredible help as sowing at the wrong time can lead to such disheartening results. Thank you so much!
Great thanks
New CD video...what a birthday present
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Good addition to the book thanks.
18:20 - Thank you so much. I had never thought to plant Chinese cabbage in August. I will definitely give that a try this year. Funny thing is, I just sowed Chinese cabbage seeds yesterday for summer harvest.... 🙂
14:15 - I have sown Swiss Chard as early as March 5th, specifically to get them to bolt that year for seeds. Total failure. They always take for me 18 months to flower. To me, where I live, they are almost a perennial. But when they bolt and seed, I get a bucket load of seeds. Side note: 12 month old Swiss Chard root, just before they bolt, is not only very tasty but due to is ring pattern also lovely looking in a salad.... And no, mine is not woody.🙂
😂 thanks for sharing!
Good talk, jam packed! cheers Charles
Interesting advice on waiting until Spring Solstice to plant Onion Sets. Makes total sense. Thanks!
Clear, concise and brilliant. Thank you for all the wonderful information. You make it look so easy…🌞👏🌱
You are so welcome!
Your calendar is brilliant, and I love this year's addition of continued sowing opportunities. I think it would be great if you kept that but also made it visually clear which sowings are *new* and which are 'repeat opportunities', if you know what I mean. You can sow broad beans nine times, but maybe embolden the first sowing opportunity? I wade through the lists of sowings (which are very helpful) looking for the new ones amongst the sowings I've already done.
But love it. Loved attending your course last year, love everything you do. Many thanks!
Thanks so much Peter, and that's a brilliant idea!
And come to think of it, highlighting last sowings as well as first sowings
Thank you for this!
I've ordered your calender for 2024 hoping it will bring some order to my chaotic sowing schedule!
Thank you so much for this information 👍 I have never known when to sow my seeds to get a really successful crop 🤷♀️ I tend to either too early or too late 😳 We can always rely on you to guide us to success 👏👏🇬🇧
Great 😎
I always check your sowing guides, quite invaluable, thanks for all your good advice from your many years of experience Charles
Thanks Lynda 🥦
Beautiful video! Thanks
Thanks Charles
Fantastic Charles … this is simply the best video ever! Tu es le meilleur 🌸😎🌸
Glad you think so!
Every video of yours is great, but this might be the best. I'll be coming back to this one many times, thanks so much for all the information!
Loved this video, it was a great reminder not to get my seed collection out and sow everything😂. Thank you so much 😊
So glad Bethan!
Thank you Charles for another excellent informative video. It certainly compliments your 2023 calendar. This year's calendar is a slight improvement on the 2022 version. By the sounds of it, 2024 calendar will be even better.
Thank you Charles for another helpfull video - just want to say that for those of us down under it is very helpfull when you refer to the season rather than the month. I bought your calender in 2021 thinking that I would be able to translate it easily, but I must admit - it didn't really work.
Glad it was helpful..
I echo your sentiments, and for that reason we created the southern hemisphere sowing guide. This link is for the 2024 version and soon we shall publish for 2025. It should be useful for you through spring. drive.google.com/file/d/13BMOD2sw2wc5pnqEY3PkJBEkV7U1_evd/view
Many thanks for a wonderful yearly growing guide, 🌱🍅🥦🥕
My goodness Charles I’m going to have to watch this several times and make notes. There’s a few mistakes I’ve already made! Never mind. Plenty of time. Crazy weather here in West Norfolk. -5c today with 40mph winds and heavy snow. 12c on Sunday!
Thank you very much for sharing. Pat Joyce
Cheers Pat
Thank you for all the valuable information you give.
I have your book & gifted your children's book to our first grandchild.
So nice, thanks Louise