Thank you for spending time sharing your experience Charles. After sharing tomatoes, potatoes, red peppers, green beans and Rosemary with a friend we are getting apples, pears and next week fresh caught fish. ... I mentioned we've starting carrots and beets. Some will be ready end of October. That friend is going to start a garden next year. Of course I'll be sending him your way. In our mid 70's and gardening no till keeping us strong and healthy. Blessing to you Charles, family and crew.
Greetings from Scotland 🏴! Just to say we have seven khaki Campbell‘’s ducks that patrolling our garden in regular bases. They are fantastic controlling the slug and other sort of bugs population, and they don’t scratch the soil like chickens do. They have been a great addition to our garden.
As always, fascinating to see the change of season at Home Acres. I would love to see the turnover of the Small Garden going forward. Such a helpful source of inspiration for us allotmenters! Thanks for all you do, Johnny
I love the runner beans. I grow several different varieties on cattle panel arched into tunnels. The flowers are lovely and hummingbirds love them. The dry shell beans are fabulous in soups, stews... So glad you mentioned them
This is perfect timing. I need to remove sunflowers and watermelon vines from a friends garden and tomatoes from mine and was trying to figure out the best way. Your method is so simple and straight forward.
I'm happy to see you composting your blight tomatoes - I did the same with mine. I was sad to see them go but at least they are useful on the compost heap. Thank you for a wonderful garden tour and happy no-dig autumn to you too.
I always learn so much when I watch your videos, especially on compost, I love love making compost myself too, I have many many large piles all around my property, I have chickens, so lots of manure and straw from the chicken coop. lots of weeds, and I am her is USA in Pennsylvania, and live on a few acres, so lots and lots of leaves. not one leaf ever gets wasted, I mulch and chip them all up and make lots of leave compost/ leaf mold compost. but there is no greater reward when the compost is finished and ready to use. when people come to see my gardens I take them to the compost area first, haha. but all the vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees and berry bushes all grow amazing with compost. Happy gardening and Happy Autumn 🙂
Love seeing all the different composts and organic material you use. I can get mushroom soil up the road realtively cheap. I also go to the horse farm around the corner every Autumn and and get a load of manure and bedding and let it sit for a year to mix with my compost and spread the following Autumn. I do get rewarded for my work. Thanks Charles!
Well said indeed inspiring,,,if we have problem in our gardens don't be disheartened 👍 today morning I was in my terrace garden checking out fruit trees ,my custard Apple fruits were eaten by bugs it was disappointing,,but after listening to you,,gonna head back and cover the remaining fruits with fruit protection Bags,,and think about steps to be taken for other plants as well ,,thanks for inspiring us sir ji 😊 yay saw minty guess she was checking out any residue of blight in your poly house 🍅 Tomato plants 😊😺🐈🇮🇳
I envy your compost. I don’t have any source of trustworthy compost anywhere near me. It keeps me jumping to look for compostable material. My rule is if it will rot it goes on the pile. I totally agree that there is way too much misinformation on composting.
It’s looking great Charles. I’ve tried your no dig method for the last few years, but with minimum success. I feel the only way to be successful with no dig is you need a lot of compost otherwise the soil dries up and hardens too much for veggie gardening. For a small suburban garden in Melbourne, my family isn’t producing enough compost to maintain no dig. It’s been a great learning process. Keen to hear your thoughts on this.
In your climate you could grow vegetables for much of the year, intensively on quite a small area. For that kind of return, it's worth buying some compost. You will need less for no dig than if you are digging because when soil is broken up and opened to air, carbon is lost from oxidising to CO2. I'm sure that the money you spend on compost will be more than returned by the extra produce you grow.
Charles made it clear in his no dig starter videos that there is an investment when starting. You purchase compost to make 5? Or so inches deep beds, but then as years go on, your own compost can be made and you don't need so much in your yearly top up, maybe 2-3 inches. It builds on itself. Don't give up. You have put so much into it already. See his videos on starting. God bless you!
Try focusing on growing biomass like a willow hedge row of some kind as you garden, you’ll produce so much leaves and twigs in a couple years it will help give your beds more mass and water holding capacity without much work at all.
Do you think the concept of light and heavy feeders comes from the history of reliance on fertilisers, which play a role when growing in over-cultivated soil? 🤔
Interesting concept and perhaps when they introduced rotation, as well for the management of diseases. For us with small gardens and no choice to rotate, is it more important to add more organic matter and fertiliser and resort to containers for crops that previously had disease else where. Markets now have less extra foliage as they store better long term and the farmers use it on their fields to re fertilise the lands. Supermarkets require this as they are probably paying by weight at market value and say it is in the interest of the public that the produce looks "good" for mark up price, meanwhile wasting fresh food at the same time as it was the other products they made money on. Mega coop farms were introduced to buy expensive GMO seeds to mass produce, same in the Dairy industry, until the vegetian/ vegan movement moved in. Those farmers probably have solar panels on their land now and just grow rapeseed now. Robert East was my Lecturer at Kingston Uni and released a book about buyer and consumer behaviour. You had to buy his book for this subject as he spent most of the time reading from it in his lecturers... The book was great to read but not his lessons alas!
Wow, you covered so much ground in this video! Unfortunately bits of micro-plastic have now been found in every organ of the human body, including even the brain! So we've reluctantly decided not to use any plastic in our garden other than to cover the tunnels, in spite of the many benefits of using it to suppress weeds, etc. Have you ever had any chickens or pigs? They would really enjoy the fruit that's dropping onto the ground!
i think blight is a symptom(of inability to transport calcium,often due to lack of water) ,not a cause, and isnt really contagious for that reason..... much like the symptoms that get labelled as kovid
This year has been the most challenging. Such a shame the polytunnel tomatoes got blight. Got to wonder whether codling moths are more attracted to trees because of the pheromones in the traps.
Your brussels look so clean 'uncovered '. Mine covered with mesh from germination to now and infested with whitefly. Sprayed soap, water jets, neem and soap spray and all I've got a dirty black sticky leaves and still millions of whitefly. How do you do it ? Threw whole lot away last year and looks like the same again this year, it just looks really grunge.
Sorry to hear that Lesley. Maybe from soil quality, add more organic matter if you can. I don't like using all those products and don't need to, also be careful because they can kill the predators. I see a lot of ladybirds here for example
Great videos you do. I have learnt so much more about gardening! Needless to say I didnt do the "no dig". Lolol Had to dig up the ground cause it was full of rocks. Ugh! Hard work. I got the soil into the raised beds, planted carrots twice, no carrots. Planted onions, twice, NO onions....Celery grew but not nice thick celery. Lmao!! Needless to say growing veggies I am not good at. OH well, maybe next year. Practice makes perfect, or at least I hope. lmao!
Great video as always Charles. Why bother sieving the woodchip before adding to the compost heap? Won't the bigger bits add some structure to keep it open and therefore help oxygenation of the heap? 3:02
Another very interesting video Charles! By chance can you please provide me with the information to obtain the stand alone sieve that you use in your garden? Thanks in advance.
Beautiful garden. I didn't do onions this year, I grow them every two years to try and control the allium leaf miner. I did notice much fewer other leaf miners on beets and chard, as well as generally fewer insects this year. How was your experience with allium leaf miner this year?
Sounds great and they have not been too bad, but the biggest test will be leeks by the end of October, we shall see! This year there were very few leaf miners on chard and beetroot, many people are saying that.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for the reply, I'll keep an eye out for the leek reveal. Oh ya, forgot to mention, I'm down in southern Germany, we seem to be having similar observations.
I compost everything now pretty much after watching your videos but I do have one question. Would you also compost plants with obvious club root? I have been and I leave my compost to decompose for a long time before I use it. this is the worst year I've had with it so I'm thinking it's more to do with weather than soil? Thanks for showing us so much, look forward to your videos.
Thank you for another great video full of wisdom pearls! Just wondering how do you get your cat from not doing it's business in around your compost and woodchips? I have to fence up everything here for my cat and the neighbours, they love compost and woodchip to do their number 2s. That's a health hazard in my opinion as they carry parasites.
Hey Charles! Do you make cider out of any of your apples? I love Brussel Sprouts! How do you prepare them? What follows beetroot? Here is a heart for Minty 💗.I recently found out that my potatoes love growing in Mushroom Compost. How do you propagate your Marigolds? I was told that the flowers are edible...is that true? Cheers!
Thanks, and I've had bad results from doing this and never use them on beds. Only after aging and sieving, in the compost heap to decompose further. On beds, a problem can be masses of woodlice.
I wonder, if you see a vegetable which has been a bit damaged by slugs, do you still eat it? I mean, if a leaf has holes on it, do you just wash and eat it? Greetings from Norway.
Great video, quick question… when starting a new bed with cardboard and compost on top… how many inches of compost? Sorry I couldn’t understand the British term for amount of green waste… and approximate # of inches of each compost ..if possible …would help. Thank you
Charles- I’ve been pondering over asking this or not. Would you be interested in making a video sharing your opinion over the possibility of owning a small holding/homestead here in the UK? I’m finally at the point where I slapped myself out of dreaming and I’m forcing myself to face reality. We are in no position to own much at all. Owning a house with land in the USA seems achievable from what we see on the internet. But is this an impossible concept for the average UK family? I think I need someone to be real with me (other than my husband..)
baccillus thuringiensis.there are 3 different strains for different bugs.. BT Israeliensis is for flies, often sold as mosquito killer.. not sure what bugs were attacking charles's cauliflowers.. cant remember the other 2 strains. BT can be expensive or cheap depending on where you source it,i think they make up the prices
What science is based on the * new * strategy of not mulching, but just allowing weeds to grow . I can, see agricultural colleges or farmers being not very impressed.
Great info about conifer usage for compost. Are those sunflowers placed strategically at the end of your beds for pollinators? I put a bunch of sunflower seeds in my fire pit and bees devoured them. LOL There was one a week gap for a Kodak moment and they were gone after that.
Arborists in our area will drop chips for free. It's usually quite a lot, so you need to have a place to stash any you aren't using right away (we use fresh chips for mulch on our flower beds in the fall.)
@@MyFocusVaries Well not so long back we had Aborists take a vey large tree down and also trim/tidy quite a few others and they promised to come back and give us fresh chips for mulch but once paid and gone never returned and I found that they damaged some pots too, so there are some that although do good decent work, there still some whom never can be trusted and as such soon get to be known and their business/trade will get affected.
I planted three apple cordons in 2020, Cox, Bramley & Delicious. Only the latter has ever shown blossom & sadly, this year, the birds destroyed the six apples I'd left on to grow. 🙁 Trying celeriac for the first time this year - looking good so far. £45 a tonne for green waste compost? It's more than £100 a tonne here in West Cumbria! Mind you, this year I'll need none, as I've 75m² of beds & have 2.5m³ of 'mature' compost already & should have another 1.2m³ by February/March, just in time to use it in 30l containers of potatoes. I'm with you on condensation playing a part on tomato blight in polytunnels, as the plants in the centre of my 6x3m tunnel have suffered most & also get dripped on most, this despite doors at both ends being fully 1" mesh to allow circulation. I installed seep hose irrigation this year & wonder if it's allowing too much evaporation - maybe apply compost mulch _over_ the seep hoses & extra across the beds?
May I suggest that for Christmas you make a 'look back over the year' style video, even if it is an hour long. Ideal Boxing Day watching.
Great idea Sean!
Yes
Could you do that too Sean?
Good idea
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Thank you for spending time sharing your experience Charles.
After sharing tomatoes, potatoes, red peppers, green beans and Rosemary with a friend we are getting apples, pears and next week fresh caught fish. ... I mentioned we've starting carrots and beets. Some will be ready end of October. That friend is going to start a garden next year. Of course I'll be sending him your way. In our mid 70's and gardening no till keeping us strong and healthy. Blessing to you Charles, family and crew.
Lovely to hear of your success and lovely that your you are sharing with your friend and they are now starting a garden 🙂
Love the kitty enjoying the garden along with us. Thank you, Charles!
You are welcome 🐈
2 Charles Dowding videos in 3 days.... No complaints here!!
Great to hear and I am glad you enjoyed them 🙂
Greetings from Scotland 🏴! Just to say we have seven khaki Campbell‘’s ducks that patrolling our garden in regular bases. They are fantastic controlling the slug and other sort of bugs population, and they don’t scratch the soil like chickens do. They have been a great addition to our garden.
I love seeing the abundance even with the challenging weather you had. Im happy to see it. Beautiful garden. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for visiting
Went no dig this season after lots of thought and prep. Well worth it. I’ve got dig beds too which works well too. Love it!
Great to hear
Your garden is amazing as always, a joy to watch!
Glad you enjoy it!
I love your little cat ‘cameo’ appearances every few minutes. Great little helper I’m sure. 😸
Amazing what is possible with no-dig gardening and certain dedication! Loving part two!
As always, fascinating to see the change of season at Home Acres. I would love to see the turnover of the Small Garden going forward. Such a helpful source of inspiration for us allotmenters! Thanks for all you do, Johnny
I love the runner beans. I grow several different varieties on cattle panel arched into tunnels. The flowers are lovely and hummingbirds love them. The dry shell beans are fabulous in soups, stews... So glad you mentioned them
Great videos. Very helpful. Thank you
This is perfect timing. I need to remove sunflowers and watermelon vines from a friends garden and tomatoes from mine and was trying to figure out the best way. Your method is so simple and straight forward.
I am glad to hear this 🙂
I'm happy to see you composting your blight tomatoes - I did the same with mine. I was sad to see them go but at least they are useful on the compost heap. Thank you for a wonderful garden tour and happy no-dig autumn to you too.
I am glad you enjoyed it Julie 🙂
After working all morning in my garden it's delightful to see how yours is doing.😊
Morning! Nice to hear
I always learn so much when I watch your videos, especially on compost, I love love making compost myself too, I have many many large piles all around my property, I have chickens, so lots of manure and straw from the chicken coop. lots of weeds, and I am her is USA in Pennsylvania, and live on a few acres, so lots and lots of leaves. not one leaf ever gets wasted, I mulch and chip them all up and make lots of leave compost/ leaf mold compost. but there is no greater reward when the compost is finished and ready to use. when people come to see my gardens I take them to the compost area first, haha. but all the vegetables, flowers, and fruit trees and berry bushes all grow amazing with compost. Happy gardening and Happy Autumn 🙂
Pretty sure the cat sees you guys filming and says 'My time to shine!' 😁
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Well maintained, top quality patch, very nice indeed!
Love seeing all the different composts and organic material you use. I can get mushroom soil up the road realtively cheap. I also go to the horse farm around the corner every Autumn and and get a load of manure and bedding and let it sit for a year to mix with my compost and spread the following Autumn. I do get rewarded for my work. Thanks Charles!
Sounds great! Nice work
Well said indeed inspiring,,,if we have problem in our gardens don't be disheartened 👍 today morning I was in my terrace garden checking out fruit trees ,my custard Apple fruits were eaten by bugs it was disappointing,,but after listening to you,,gonna head back and cover the remaining fruits with fruit protection Bags,,and think about steps to be taken for other plants as well ,,thanks for inspiring us sir ji 😊
yay saw minty guess she was checking out any residue of blight in your poly house 🍅 Tomato plants 😊😺🐈🇮🇳
Sir, your garden looks better every year!
Thank you
I envy your compost. I don’t have any source of trustworthy compost anywhere near me. It keeps me jumping to look for compostable material. My rule is if it will rot it goes on the pile. I totally agree that there is way too much misinformation on composting.
It’s looking great Charles. I’ve tried your no dig method for the last few years, but with minimum success. I feel the only way to be successful with no dig is you need a lot of compost otherwise the soil dries up and hardens too much for veggie gardening. For a small suburban garden in Melbourne, my family isn’t producing enough compost to maintain no dig. It’s been a great learning process. Keen to hear your thoughts on this.
In your climate you could grow vegetables for much of the year, intensively on quite a small area. For that kind of return, it's worth buying some compost. You will need less for no dig than if you are digging because when soil is broken up and opened to air, carbon is lost from oxidising to CO2. I'm sure that the money you spend on compost will be more than returned by the extra produce you grow.
Charles made it clear in his no dig starter videos that there is an investment when starting. You purchase compost to make 5? Or so inches deep beds, but then as years go on, your own compost can be made and you don't need so much in your yearly top up, maybe 2-3 inches. It builds on itself. Don't give up. You have put so much into it already. See his videos on starting. God bless you!
Try focusing on growing biomass like a willow hedge row of some kind as you garden, you’ll produce so much leaves and twigs in a couple years it will help give your beds more mass and water holding capacity without much work at all.
Nice one Charles!
Thank you John
Thank you for the mustard green manure tip!
you are welcome Anne
another great video
Thanks again
Nice one Charles, gud vid...
I am glad you enjoyed it Ralph 🙂
Hello my lovely friend Charles!😊
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I like the sieve, silly me, never thought of putting it at an angle! Much easier! Thanks, as always! Spelled it wrong also, ha,ha, corrected.
I am glad 🙂
Do you think the concept of light and heavy feeders comes from the history of reliance on fertilisers, which play a role when growing in over-cultivated soil? 🤔
Perhaps, that makes sense
It is selective breeding of a crop that would of died out naturally if left to self seed and without human intervention
Interesting concept and perhaps when they introduced rotation, as well for the management of diseases.
For us with small gardens and no choice to rotate, is it more important to add more organic matter and fertiliser and resort to containers for crops that previously had disease else where.
Markets now have less extra foliage as they store better long term and the farmers use it on their fields to re fertilise the lands. Supermarkets require this as they are probably paying by weight at market value and say it is in the interest of the public that the produce looks "good" for mark up price, meanwhile wasting fresh food at the same time as it was the other products they made money on.
Mega coop farms were introduced to buy expensive GMO seeds to mass produce, same in the Dairy industry, until the vegetian/ vegan movement moved in. Those farmers probably have solar panels on their land now and just grow rapeseed now.
Robert East was my Lecturer at Kingston Uni and released a book about buyer and consumer behaviour. You had to buy his book for this subject as he spent most of the time reading from it in his lecturers... The book was great to read but not his lessons alas!
That carrot 🥕 looked like the one I used last night.
Wow, you covered so much ground in this video!
Unfortunately bits of micro-plastic have now been found in every organ of the human body, including even the brain! So we've reluctantly decided not to use any plastic in our garden other than to cover the tunnels, in spite of the many benefits of using it to suppress weeds, etc.
Have you ever had any chickens or pigs? They would really enjoy the fruit that's dropping onto the ground!
Thanks for the info Carole. And fair point but I don't want animals near the garden.
i think blight is a symptom(of inability to transport calcium,often due to lack of water) ,not a cause, and isnt really contagious for that reason..... much like the symptoms that get labelled as kovid
Yine nefes aldık
Don’t leave fallen infected fruit on ground cause caterpillars are now nice and handy to ground to pupate 😊
This year has been the most challenging. Such a shame the polytunnel tomatoes got blight.
Got to wonder whether codling moths are more attracted to trees because of the pheromones in the traps.
Interesting point, but it's supposed to be only the males which are attracted and they don't cause damage themselves
Your brussels look so clean 'uncovered '. Mine covered with mesh from germination to now and infested with whitefly. Sprayed soap, water jets, neem and soap spray and all I've got a dirty black sticky leaves and still millions of whitefly. How do you do it ? Threw whole lot away last year and looks like the same again this year, it just looks really grunge.
Sorry to hear that Lesley. Maybe from soil quality, add more organic matter if you can. I don't like using all those products and don't need to, also be careful because they can kill the predators. I see a lot of ladybirds here for example
Great videos you do. I have learnt so much more about gardening! Needless to say I didnt do the "no dig". Lolol Had to dig up the ground cause it was full of rocks. Ugh! Hard work. I got the soil into the raised beds, planted carrots twice, no carrots. Planted onions, twice, NO onions....Celery grew but not nice thick celery. Lmao!! Needless to say growing veggies I am not good at. OH well, maybe next year. Practice makes perfect, or at least I hope. lmao!
Great video as always Charles. Why bother sieving the woodchip before adding to the compost heap? Won't the bigger bits add some structure to keep it open and therefore help oxygenation of the heap? 3:02
Another very interesting video Charles! By chance can you please provide me with the information to obtain the stand alone sieve that you use in your garden? Thanks in advance.
What are those bell shaped flowers that you're stood next to ? They are so so beautiful ❤❤❤
Beautiful garden. I didn't do onions this year, I grow them every two years to try and control the allium leaf miner. I did notice much fewer other leaf miners on beets and chard, as well as generally fewer insects this year.
How was your experience with allium leaf miner this year?
Sounds great and they have not been too bad, but the biggest test will be leeks by the end of October, we shall see! This year there were very few leaf miners on chard and beetroot, many people are saying that.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for the reply, I'll keep an eye out for the leek reveal. Oh ya, forgot to mention, I'm down in southern Germany, we seem to be having similar observations.
I compost everything now pretty much after watching your videos but I do have one question. Would you also compost plants with obvious club root? I have been and I leave my compost to decompose for a long time before I use it. this is the worst year I've had with it so I'm thinking it's more to do with weather than soil? Thanks for showing us so much, look forward to your videos.
Thanks, and that's a good question, I have no direct experience but would prefer to compose those stems and roots hot
Awsome video have you here of parc carreg they have a good compost vido a new way too make compost good video
Not yet, thanks
Thank you for another great video full of wisdom pearls! Just wondering how do you get your cat from not doing it's business in around your compost and woodchips? I have to fence up everything here for my cat and the neighbours, they love compost and woodchip to do their number 2s. That's a health hazard in my opinion as they carry parasites.
Hey Charles! Do you make cider out of any of your apples? I love Brussel Sprouts! How do you prepare them? What follows beetroot? Here is a heart for Minty 💗.I recently found out that my potatoes love growing in Mushroom Compost. How do you propagate your Marigolds? I was told that the flowers are edible...is that true? Cheers!
Even this difficult year your garden is beautiful and so amazingly fall still, great job
Thanks
Great video. Can fresh wood chips be used as mulch on a bed or should it be left longer for this purpose?
Thanks, and I've had bad results from doing this and never use them on beds. Only after aging and sieving, in the compost heap to decompose further. On beds, a problem can be masses of woodlice.
I wonder, if you see a vegetable which has been a bit damaged by slugs, do you still eat it? I mean, if a leaf has holes on it, do you just wash and eat it? Greetings from Norway.
Great video, quick question… when starting a new bed with cardboard and compost on top… how many inches of compost? Sorry I couldn’t understand the British term for amount of green waste… and approximate # of inches of each compost ..if possible …would help. Thank you
What is you're bed width again charles? 1.3 meters, was it?
Gary 7th generation 1st fleet convict from Australia 🇦🇺
1.2m Gary, mostly
Ever thought having Indian running ducks to control the slugs (yeah, you then have to protect them from foxes, weasels and other predators) ?
13:45 Will you take the cover off those leeks at some point or will you keep it on until harvest time?
I'm keeping it on! Just need to loosen those screws
Charles- I’ve been pondering over asking this or not. Would you be interested in making a video sharing your opinion over the possibility of owning a small holding/homestead here in the UK? I’m finally at the point where I slapped myself out of dreaming and I’m forcing myself to face reality. We are in no position to own much at all. Owning a house with land in the USA seems achievable from what we see on the internet. But is this an impossible concept for the average UK family? I think I need someone to be real with me (other than my husband..)
Sorry, what is the name of the product sprayed on the cauliflower? I can't quite hear it on the video.
BT
baccillus thuringiensis.there are 3 different strains for different bugs.. BT Israeliensis is for flies, often sold as mosquito killer.. not sure what bugs were attacking charles's cauliflowers.. cant remember the other 2 strains. BT can be expensive or cheap depending on where you source it,i think they make up the prices
It's BTK, (bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki), which is used on brassicas to protect them from cabbage worms.
What science is based on the * new * strategy of not mulching, but just allowing weeds to grow . I can, see agricultural colleges or farmers being not very impressed.
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Aunque todo el montón fuese coníferas no pasaría nada ?
What was the spray he was using for the cauliflowers? Thanks
Bacillus thuringiensis. Search Box Hedge Caterpillar killer
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles. Much appreciated!
Great info about conifer usage for compost. Are those sunflowers placed strategically at the end of your beds for pollinators? I put a bunch of sunflower seeds in my fire pit and bees devoured them. LOL There was one a week gap for a Kodak moment and they were gone after that.
Thanks, and they are for looking lovely! Sorry to her that
What ate your perennial kale?
Caterpillars!
Do you pay for the big pile of wood chips Charles? Or will Arborists give it for free?
Often it's free, but I pay because I like to specify the type of woodchip and he brings it especially
Arborists in our area will drop chips for free. It's usually quite a lot, so you need to have a place to stash any you aren't using right away (we use fresh chips for mulch on our flower beds in the fall.)
@@MyFocusVaries Well not so long back we had Aborists take a vey large tree down and also trim/tidy quite a few others and they promised to come back and give us fresh chips for mulch but once paid and gone never returned and I found that they damaged some pots too, so there are some that although do good decent work, there still some whom never can be trusted and as such soon get to be known and their business/trade will get affected.
Polish language 😂thank you
3rd!!!
Anyone know where to get Bacillus Thuring.. err… BT, in the UK?
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That chewing...
I planted three apple cordons in 2020, Cox, Bramley & Delicious.
Only the latter has ever shown blossom & sadly, this year, the birds destroyed the six apples I'd left on to grow. 🙁
Trying celeriac for the first time this year - looking good so far.
£45 a tonne for green waste compost? It's more than £100 a tonne here in West Cumbria!
Mind you, this year I'll need none, as I've 75m² of beds & have 2.5m³ of 'mature' compost already & should have another 1.2m³ by February/March, just in time to use it in 30l containers of potatoes.
I'm with you on condensation playing a part on tomato blight in polytunnels, as the plants in the centre of my 6x3m tunnel have suffered most & also get dripped on most, this despite doors at both ends being fully 1" mesh to allow circulation.
I installed seep hose irrigation this year & wonder if it's allowing too much evaporation - maybe apply compost mulch _over_ the seep hoses & extra across the beds?
Nice that you are so organised on compost, and need to be! I don't know the answer to that question about seep hose
I’m so sorry but I absolutely hate the noise of chewing! Maybe avoid eating with a microphone attached to your chest please?