I love your videos and learn so much from everyone of them. I live in the Central Australian desert, food here is very expensive, supply chain issues and catastrophic flooding in many of Australia’s food growing areas has made it even worse. But it’s even worse for remote Aboriginal communities, where a cabbage can cost $30 or more and is stale when the community gets it. I am on a mission to encourage people to grow more food here, as I am very concerned for people already living in poverty. One of the issues though is not much organic matter to improve soil on a large scale. Another issue is feral animals, camels, donkeys, wild horses, rabbits and goats that are all in huge numbers. Trying to build fences to keep out camels is very expensive and materials are hard to access in remote communities. But despite the challenges I am still going to keep gardening and sharing what I know with others. Thanks for being part of what inspires me with to keep going.
I am so delighted to read this. I applaud you for your commitment and it sounds really rewarding. If you would like some funds to help buy any materials for this project, please send an email to admin@charlesdowding.co.uk, and say I've replied to you on UA-cam.
I know you hear this ALL the time…but thank you so much for making these videos! I put the videos on in the background as I’m in the kitchen or even while I’m starting seeds and pricking out seedlings. You help keep me motivated! You also help take the angst out of experimenting, which I’ve been doing lots of and learning so much : ) You’re a treasure!! Thanks from Virginia, USA
@@CharlesDowding1nodig how wryly fantastic - I always buy from stall and my carrots are dirty with foliage but they taste wonderful - In the coming hyperinflation and supply chain / fuel problems - it will be local farmers and gardeners that will bring salvation - I tried to get a field from our church to make allotments - to grow food and share ideas etc but they wouldn't sell. so sad
very good and calming videos please never stop making these feel like im actually at your garden more people need to see this get this guy on a tv show!!!!!
Hello Charles, loving the videos. I took an allotment on last October, dug half of it and then contracted covid 19. It knocked me off my stride for quite some time and I wasn't able to do much (let alone dig) without feeling exhausted. Thankfully, whilst I was resting; I came across your videos on UA-cam. I am now a no dig convert, and have been able to prepare about half of my plot with no dig beds. I'm really looking forward to this growing season. My multisown onions are just starting to germinate, no sign of the beetroot yet though. Thank you for all your hard work and for all the information you share. I've bought a couple of your books and have this year's calendar to help me through. Thanks again, Jim.
I highly recommend getting the calendar. It has helped me figure out what to sow at what time of year and helped me understand why previous years some things just did not work out so great. Timing can be critical.
LIKE A PROUD FATHER WE FINALLY LAYED OUR FIRST BED OF OUR OWN ORGANICALLY COMPOSTED GROWING MEDIUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH !!!!!! AND ROCK ON !!!!!!!! THANK YOU SIR CHARLES !!!!!!!!!! WE WILL FINALLY EAT THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much Charles. What a cheer up. I was about to rake over one bed full of cow manure, but then got struck down with covid, so I've been feeling poorly for the last 6 days. I cant wait to get back out there and start but just too fatigued at the moment. Thoroughly enjoyed the video and I'll be back on the no dig plot very soon!!
I love that after these many years of gardening, you too are still learning; it helps me gain confidence that I don’t have to know it all today. Thank you.
Thanks so much for the informational videos I appreciate them and hopefully will get better at my own no-dig garden!! Third year with a no-dig bed and it really did exceptionally well last year and everything from my own grown seeds. Bonus 😊
Hello Mr Dowding. Amazing! I still love when you show us the difference between the dug and not dug beds. I thank you for everything you do to share the way you garden and how things do, even when they don’t do well because that way we all learn, just like you mentioned, “as I live and learn”, indeed!😉💗
Oh! Your calendar, this is the 2nd year I purchased it. I’m not sure, but last year I found out there was a bookstore that would ship to the US. Brilliant!!😉💗
Mild climate definitely helps -- I'm in the East Kootenay BC where we still have a foot of packed snow. Even under a cover it's too cold for a couple months yet. I have a grow tent that I'm experimenting with ... soon I'll start seedlings. I must build a greenhouse this year. Thank you for all your great videos!!!
Gooooo Charles and company!!!! Lovely to see how things are progressing at Homeacres! Still 2 to 3 feet of snow on my no dig patch. Can't wait to get growing!
You and your garden truly set the standard Bubba, hello from Arkansas Charles. Looking forward to a great gardening year. God bless y’all. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Greetings Charles, from Windermere Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I love following you through Homeacres. Your new book, Skills, has such beautiful photography I feel like I'm taking a private tour at my leisure. Thank for sharing your special gift 👍
I don’t know what got into me….. lol you are a classic Mr Charles and I love it. Please keep up the exceptional work that you do and we appreciate your content 🙏
Your looking great and happy to see the beginning of a new year. Here in Belgium, it looks like it's time to get to work and catch up with you..... Enjoy.
Charles you make gardening so interesting. Where I live asparagus grows along the ditch bank. I remember going yrs ago to pick some and someone beat us to it, stopped by a friends house and found out it was them. They had a bushel basket full, they lay the basket on its side and fill it in layers. I thanked them for saving my back doing all that bending. Look forward to seeing how yours grows.
Happy to have found through the library your NoDig book, yellow cover. Mighty cool! They're are also a few other books of yours available here in Michigan USA. Very good to read your methods. Great utube videos! Thank you...
There are many things to love about these videos, but maybe the best and most respect-worthy is that there is no discernible effort to conceal some of the inevitable failure. I can find oodles of people that never make a mistake or run into a problem apparently, but I'm trying to learn, and prefer the entire story.
Hello Charles, thankyou for the tomato tip! We've enjoyed winter veggies, mustards, minzua, oriental cabbages, bok choi, spinach, winter purselane, and lambs' lettuce. Its' a treat to eat fresh home grown thru the winter. I did cheat a bit when the weather was 20f or lower, I covered my plants with a thicker frost blanket. It seemed to help but hey it was chilly..lol. thankyou for your infomative videos. Blessings.
Your amazing with all the vegetables you grow. I started 5 vegetables in 4 inch pots Sunday and I hope the grow as that is all I had to work with. There sitting in my south window in my livingroom. Thanks for all your videos Charles.
Hi Charles, your gardens looking great. Thank you for sharing not only your success but also your challenges. It is as inspiring to see you reason why things aren't going 100% right. We have suffered much pidgeon damage this year, its disheartening when you put so much work into crops. Best of luck for thes spring season 🤞
I was so amazed that brassicas I planted in September survived a very cold winter for us in teens and single digits Fahrenheit under only a fabric tunnel and still going.
Big Daikon Radishes are wonderful worm food if you leave them in the ground overwinter as they tend to rot, which I discovered as well. Good learning here! Love the no dig sign on the radish bed! Blessings Abound!
Bonsoir Charles, Vraiment passionnant et enrichissant le tour de votre potager avec vos réussites et vos petits échecs. C'est un régal de voir les beaux légumes d'hiver et tous les petits semis prometteurs pour une mise en place au printemps. Vos expériences sont très intéressantes à suivre et notamment le compostage de broyats avec de la matière azotée. Merci et bon jardinage.
always happy when a new video of you and your team pops up in my feed! took me a few days to chunk out the 20 min. but it's always worth it spending the time with you 🐥
Thank you Charles for this new educational video. Beautiful to see that your NoDig garden is ready to provide many people with healthy food in the coming year.
I wish I had got a polly tunnel years ago. It covered its cost and 35% over in only 1 year. Plus, now this year is 100% free, apart from seed and feed.
Приятно видеть аккуратное хозяйство и ряды новой рассады!👍👍👍Ваше видео является очень сильным мотиватором для всех садоводов и огородников мира! Удачного вам урожая в новом сезоне! Привет из России👋!
Wonderful inspiration after this perfect and thorough tour of your lovely garden and grow houses. I've often wondered the layout of your space and there it all is. Thanks for sharing it with us. - The snow has only just melted away from my very small fenced/protected growing space. Ground is still frozen down under the soil over here in the great Inland Pacific Northwest, Spokane County, Washington state, U.S.A. Happy ALMOST Spring here!
Just started my frost hardy seeds in 4 of your seed starting trays in my living room grow shelf. The direct sow pots outside have sprouted in just 2 days- I'm so excited! It's been 80-90F in the day and 50-60F nights. BUT it is suppose to freeze this weekend - so disappointing. It's like a roller coaster ride. Your trays are so well made and a joy to plant in as they are so sturdy. Happy Spring!
Thank you for this nice garden tour. I ordered your 60cell trays a few weeks ago and I absolute love them from the first time they're arrived. So glad I found them in the Netherlands shipping to Germany! Really great stuff, thank you very much, Charles. 🍀🌸
Hello Charles, love the videos. Cheers from the USA . II'm really looking forward to future growing seasons. You inspired me to get more land. When I get a few acres I will borrow more ideas from you. For the future, I also thank you.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you could still have a portion of the program dedicated to vegetable growing . Monty is not a “classic horticulturalist” and he is doing a grand job. If you have a passion why not install it into people. Prices of food is going up and up , it is time to learn to grow our own food to become more autonomous and proud again . I love what you do and your energy .
The thing I find most impressive is that there is a clear order of planting and harvesting and obvious attention to seed selection. My garden is 1/4 the size and at times I'm overwhelmed...not in control! Hopefully, experience will lead me to the same competence
It’s been a dry winter here in SC zone 8. My no dig garden is so dry-literally dust when you pick up the soil that hasn’t been mulched. But it isn’t cracked. It’s just waiting for water. Thankfully we are having rain this week! I think I may be planting the high tunnel in a few days with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers! 🎉 My brassicas have been in the ground for two weeks and they’re looking good. I covered them all with insect netting because those cabbage moths have been here since January! Can’t wait for the bio char video.😃
I love following your videos over the past 2 years I've learned so much on no dig growing from your channel. Funny how you "you didn't know what came over you" regarding your earlier than usual planting of broad beans. I had that moment also last week when planting out small onion plugs, after planting them thought perhaps too early as it's still very cold here.Anyway we shall see, sometimes we just plant and hope for the best, they have 2 choices either grow fine or not.I did cover them with fleece after planting so just hope they will survive.
Always informative to see the types of plants you're interplanting. I need to work on my timings better this year to make the most out of my very small space. I did overwinter some spinach and parsley in my little greenhouse after the tomatoes and peppers came out and I'm just putting in some radish, beetroot and greens which I'm hoping will crop before or around the tomatoes and peppers. Seems a shame to have it empty half the year waiting on the warm weather crops. Great idea with the garlic though, I might try that next year around where my tomatoes will go. Inspiring as always.
My bees are in Rose Hives, all the boxes are the same size and I don't use queen excluders so Madam can make as many bees as she needs. I find they pretty much don't swarm if you make sure they have plenty of space, so it's as natural as you can get keeping bees.
Wow… beautiful and so inspiring as always. In the hour I was outside working today in western NY state it snowed, Rained, hailed, sun peeked out, then snowed again. 😅 Compost still frozen solid.
In Texas we could use a temperate climate. Temperate anything for that matter. Some of my lettuce is doing well, and the flower seeds I've sowed by the winter sowing clear jugs method are ready to pot up and then put directly in the garden. This method works well for those of us who don't have greenhouses. I'm a city home gardener with mostly a cutting garden. The bees and other pollinators love the flowers as much as I do.
What a beautiful day to do a tour. Your garden is such an inspiration. I have dug my allotment because of Marestail. I have one bed left undug and I'm just going to go for it and do it no dig. A subscriber shared one of your videos on my page, where you plant through plastic over bind weed. I'm going to try the same with my pumpkin patch.
Charles, I'm so appreciative of your work and your desire to help more and more people learn how to provide food for themselves in the best way possible. I did have one question, because I can't for the life of me find an answer anywhere. In a lot of your videos, you'll transplant seedlings next to mature plants that will be ready for harvest soon in order to give the seedlings a little head start on their growth. How do you know when to plant the seedlings? Do you typically plant the seedlings 3-4 weeks before the more mature plant is ready to harvest? Thank you for all you do!
Your garden always looks so full and lovely no matter ther year. I need to improve my year round growing! Every year I tent to move or whatever so even up no being able to do it!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig lol yes we had a nice bed then made it into a raised bed! Then got an allotment over the next few years we will have amazing soil!
The orderliness of your garden speaks to me on a spiritual level haha
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I couldn’t agree more haha
Same!
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I love your videos and learn so much from everyone of them. I live in the Central Australian desert, food here is very expensive, supply chain issues and catastrophic flooding in many of Australia’s food growing areas has made it even worse. But it’s even worse for remote Aboriginal communities, where a cabbage can cost $30 or more and is stale when the community gets it. I am on a mission to encourage people to grow more food here, as I am very concerned for people already living in poverty.
One of the issues though is not much organic matter to improve soil on a large scale. Another issue is feral animals, camels, donkeys, wild horses, rabbits and goats that are all in huge numbers. Trying to build fences to keep out camels is very expensive and materials are hard to access in remote communities. But despite the challenges I am still going to keep gardening and sharing what I know with others. Thanks for being part of what inspires me with to keep going.
I am so delighted to read this. I applaud you for your commitment and it sounds really rewarding. If you would like some funds to help buy any materials for this project, please send an email to admin@charlesdowding.co.uk, and say I've replied to you on UA-cam.
I know you hear this ALL the time…but thank you so much for making these videos! I put the videos on in the background as I’m in the kitchen or even while I’m starting seeds and pricking out seedlings. You help keep me motivated! You also help take the angst out of experimenting, which I’ve been doing lots of and learning so much : ) You’re a treasure!! Thanks from Virginia, USA
You are so welcome! Happy to hear this and to encourage you 😀
@@CharlesDowding1nodig your garden is HUGE
@@fullofhope2222 Market garden! grow £25k each year
@@CharlesDowding1nodig how wryly fantastic - I always buy from stall and my carrots are dirty with foliage but they taste wonderful - In the coming hyperinflation and supply chain / fuel problems - it will be local farmers and gardeners that will bring salvation - I tried to get a field from our church to make allotments - to grow food and share ideas etc but they wouldn't sell. so sad
@@fullofhope2222 how about renting? Or get the church to sponsor it themselves?
I don’t think anything else in the world will make you happy and content than having your own garden and harvesting your own vegetables
You are such a lovely person Charles. Your videos soothe the soul 🪴
Wow, thank you Diana
very good and calming videos please never stop making these feel like im actually at your garden more people need to see this get this guy on a tv show!!!!!
Cheers Blake :)
Hello Charles, loving the videos. I took an allotment on last October, dug half of it and then contracted covid 19. It knocked me off my stride for quite some time and I wasn't able to do much (let alone dig) without feeling exhausted. Thankfully, whilst I was resting; I came across your videos on UA-cam. I am now a no dig convert, and have been able to prepare about half of my plot with no dig beds. I'm really looking forward to this growing season. My multisown onions are just starting to germinate, no sign of the beetroot yet though. Thank you for all your hard work and for all the information you share. I've bought a couple of your books and have this year's calendar to help me through. Thanks again, Jim.
Cheers Jim, sorry about Covid, nice result though!
I highly recommend getting the calendar. It has helped me figure out what to sow at what time of year and helped me understand why previous years some things just did not work out so great. Timing can be critical.
I have it for the first time this year, absolutely love it!
I totally agree, the calendar is amazing!
My favourite gardener of all time we have practiced no dig in the UK and are now bringing it to our french farm house 😀 thank you Charles 👍
Wonderful! Bonne courage en France
Thank you for showing your experiments and the things that don’t work out as well as the successes.
LIKE A PROUD FATHER WE FINALLY LAYED OUR FIRST BED OF OUR OWN ORGANICALLY COMPOSTED GROWING MEDIUM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL YEAH !!!!!! AND ROCK ON !!!!!!!! THANK YOU SIR CHARLES !!!!!!!!!! WE WILL FINALLY EAT THIS YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You surely will
If there was a World's Best Gardener Award, Charles would be the undisputed champion.
Gardening is hard work and experimental. Thank you for showing us the way.
Very hype! Nice to see you are making biochar!
Sir Dowding, thank you for lowering my blood pressure. Gardener from Vermont, USA
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Thank you so much Charles. What a cheer up. I was about to rake over one bed full of cow manure, but then got struck down with covid, so I've been feeling poorly for the last 6 days. I cant wait to get back out there and start but just too fatigued at the moment. Thoroughly enjoyed the video and I'll be back on the no dig plot very soon!!
Ah poor you, get better soon (today!!) and enjoy spring Jenny
Thank you Charles. Its great to see what you are growing at this time of year. Kind regards Gary
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Fantastic job Charles.
Many thanks!
Charles is a gardening genuis love this guy an his methods
Thanks so much Christopher 💚
Charles, you inspired me every time. Thank you
The way you utilize all of the space you have is so efficient and beautiful. I so enjoy all of your content, thank you. Crewe Virginia USA.
Thank you so much Dawn 🌱
Lots of lovely reminders of what to do. Time to get excited about all the sowings.
Every time I learn new things from Charles
Thank you Charles 👍
So nice of you
I love that after these many years of gardening, you too are still learning; it helps me gain confidence that I don’t have to know it all today. Thank you.
Love this Jetta. The more we know, the less we know 😀 of awesome nature
Beautiful!! Thank you Charles for teaching us so much!! It's a pleasure to watch your videos.
Thanks so much for the informational videos I appreciate them and hopefully will get better at my own no-dig garden!! Third year with a no-dig bed and it really did exceptionally well last year and everything from my own grown seeds. Bonus 😊
Fantastic!
Hello Mr Dowding. Amazing! I still love when you show us the difference between the dug and not dug beds. I thank you for everything you do to share the way you garden and how things do, even when they don’t do well because that way we all learn, just like you mentioned, “as I live and learn”, indeed!😉💗
Oh! Your calendar, this is the 2nd year I purchased it. I’m not sure, but last year I found out there was a bookstore that would ship to the US. Brilliant!!😉💗
Thanks so much.
You will enjoy the video we filmed today, releasing soon, about the trial beds and cover crops!
It’s always a thrill to see what you have going on in your garden, Charles!
Mild climate definitely helps -- I'm in the East Kootenay BC where we still have a foot of packed snow. Even under a cover it's too cold for a couple months yet. I have a grow tent that I'm experimenting with ... soon I'll start seedlings. I must build a greenhouse this year.
Thank you for all your great videos!!!
Good luck, I admire your patience and resourcefulness
Your videos make my heart happy
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I checked my garden this weekend and a wooden side was split. Not only was I not upset, I was pretty excited to take it off. Thanks Charles!
😅 love this and congrats Dan!!
Splendid video Charles, as usual. I really enjoy keeping up with your gardening antics. Such a joy. Thank you so very much. ; )
Many thanks Henry
Very impressive Charles, I really enjoyed this tour. The term "you reap what you sow" is so relevant here. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks
Gooooo Charles and company!!!!
Lovely to see how things are progressing at Homeacres!
Still 2 to 3 feet of snow on my no dig patch.
Can't wait to get growing!
That would stretch my patience! May spring arrives soon for you, and thank you
So happy that I received your modules early this week here in Fort Worth, TX!
Great to hear! The system works 🏃🏽♂️
You and your garden truly set the standard Bubba, hello from Arkansas Charles. Looking forward to a great gardening year. God bless y’all. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸
Love your comments old man! That is an affectionate term here :)
hello charlis what a beautiful garden thanks for sharing I send you greetings
Thank you Bertha
Greetings Charles, from Windermere Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I love following you through Homeacres.
Your new book, Skills, has such beautiful photography I feel like I'm taking a private tour at my leisure.
Thank for sharing your special gift 👍
Awesome! Thankyou Peggy
I don’t know what got into me….. lol you are a classic Mr Charles and I love it. Please keep up the exceptional work that you do and we appreciate your content 🙏
Thank you kindly Richard
Your looking great and happy to see the beginning of a new year. Here in Belgium, it looks like it's time to get to work and catch up with you..... Enjoy.
Charles you make gardening so interesting. Where I live asparagus grows along the ditch bank. I remember going yrs ago to pick some and someone beat us to it, stopped by a friends house and found out it was them. They had a bushel basket full, they lay the basket on its side and fill it in layers. I thanked them for saving my back doing all that bending. Look forward to seeing how yours grows.
Amazing story! Thanks Wende and I'm looking forward too!
A very good gardening, very beautiful products, best regards to your hands and work....
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the garden is so beautiful, i admire you so much
Thank you so much!
Really enjoyed seeing your garden at this time of year so full of promise, really inspires me .
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Happy to have found through the library your NoDig book, yellow cover. Mighty cool! They're are also a few other books of yours available here in Michigan USA. Very good to read your methods. Great utube videos! Thank you...
Cool, thanks and well done the library service
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yes indeed really perked me up!
I will always give a thumbs up to all your special videos, this way I feel like we're in touch.
Love that!
Excited for spring and planting the garden! Cheers Charles!!
There are many things to love about these videos, but maybe the best and most respect-worthy is that there is no discernible effort to conceal some of the inevitable failure. I can find oodles of people that never make a mistake or run into a problem apparently, but I'm trying to learn, and prefer the entire story.
Hello John, how nice and thanks. Many have said this, only I don't want to bore you with too many mistakes! 😀
Wood chip and spent brewing grains are a great combination too.
Thanks. Great tip!
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Thank you for all the good tips!
TY Charles for the Garden tour, very honest also very informative
Hello Charles, thankyou for the tomato tip! We've enjoyed winter veggies, mustards, minzua, oriental cabbages, bok choi, spinach, winter purselane, and lambs' lettuce. Its' a treat to eat fresh home grown thru the winter. I did cheat a bit when the weather was 20f or lower, I covered my plants with a thicker frost blanket. It seemed to help but hey it was chilly..lol. thankyou for your infomative videos. Blessings.
Lovely to hear this Linda, and covering with that blanket is sensible not cheating!
Dziękuję za inspirację jestem pod ogromnym wrażeniem, pozdrawiam 👍💚♥️
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Love how excited you are about springtime Charles. Can really see it in your face. Sheer delight. 😄👍
🌺 on their way! thanks
Hey Charles.
Good to see all the excitement around spring time. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Cheers Justus, may your autumn be good!
Your amazing with all the vegetables you grow. I started 5 vegetables in 4 inch pots Sunday and I hope the grow as that is all I had to work with. There sitting in my south window in my livingroom. Thanks for all your videos Charles.
Good luck! You could start in smaller pots too 🌱!
Hi Charles, your gardens looking great. Thank you for sharing not only your success but also your challenges. It is as inspiring to see you reason why things aren't going 100% right. We have suffered much pidgeon damage this year, its disheartening when you put so much work into crops. Best of luck for thes spring season 🤞
Many thanks Tanya, yes they have really discovered my broccoli!
Always wonderful to see everything, no matter the season.
I was so amazed that brassicas I planted in September survived a very cold winter for us in teens and single digits Fahrenheit under only a fabric tunnel and still going.
Fantastic Jeanie!
Big Daikon Radishes are wonderful worm food if you leave them in the ground overwinter as they tend to rot, which I discovered as well. Good learning here! Love the no dig sign on the radish bed! Blessings Abound!
Cool, thanks! The sign was welded by my son from scrap metal
Bonsoir Charles, Vraiment passionnant et enrichissant le tour de votre potager avec vos réussites et vos petits échecs. C'est un régal de voir les beaux légumes d'hiver et tous les petits semis prometteurs pour une mise en place au printemps. Vos expériences sont très intéressantes à suivre et notamment le compostage de broyats avec de la matière azotée. Merci et bon jardinage.
Chouette et merci bien 💚
Lovely, as it’s -12C out I’m just getting started with seeding starts inside.
Wow, and I hope they grow well
always happy when a new video of you and your team pops up in my feed! took me a few days to chunk out the 20 min. but it's always worth it spending the time with you 🐥
Thanks Anatol 🌱
Thank you Charles for this new educational video. Beautiful to see that your NoDig garden is ready to provide many people with healthy food in the coming year.
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I wish I had got a polly tunnel years ago. It covered its cost and 35% over in only 1 year. Plus, now this year is 100% free, apart from seed and feed.
Still snow and blustery here in Ontario Canada. We'll get to green grass soon.
Приятно видеть аккуратное хозяйство и ряды новой рассады!👍👍👍Ваше видео является очень сильным мотиватором для всех садоводов и огородников мира! Удачного вам урожая в новом сезоне! Привет из России👋!
Спасибо, Ольга, очень добрая, и вам тоже желаю успехов, в наступающем году нам нужно много еды 🥕
@@CharlesDowding1nodig у меня 20 соток земли. Но всё ещё под метровым слоем снега❄❄❄❄❄😄
@@olgasmile6977 hope, that snow never melts
@@p.s.2221 Да простит вас Бог. Вы не понимаете что говорите.
Hi Charles looking forward to your compost trail love it lv Irene 😘 xx
Wonderful inspiration after this perfect and thorough tour of your lovely garden and grow houses. I've often wondered the layout of your space and there it all is. Thanks for sharing it with us. - The snow has only just melted away from my very small fenced/protected growing space. Ground is still frozen down under the soil over here in the great Inland Pacific Northwest, Spokane County, Washington state, U.S.A. Happy ALMOST Spring here!
Nice to hear Vicki and it sounds like you have a bit of waiting there, I would find it difficult! I'm glad you enjoyed the tour
Just started my frost hardy seeds in 4 of your seed starting trays in my living room grow shelf. The direct sow pots outside have sprouted in just 2 days- I'm so excited! It's been 80-90F in the day and 50-60F nights. BUT it is suppose to freeze this weekend - so disappointing. It's like a roller coaster ride. Your trays are so well made and a joy to plant in as they are so sturdy. Happy Spring!
Thanks Mary and that sounds challenging. Last year we had just ten days over 80F!
Great you like the trays, thanks
Thank you for this nice garden tour. I ordered your 60cell trays a few weeks ago and I absolute love them from the first time they're arrived. So glad I found them in the Netherlands shipping to Germany! Really great stuff, thank you very much, Charles. 🍀🌸
So good to hear this, thanks
Hi Chili Maus - I live in NL. May I know where you ordered them? Thanks
@@divyashenoy239 thefarmdream.com/product/charles-dowding-stevige-zaaitray-cd15/!
Happy early spring Charles! Happy planting! 🌿🌸
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Thank you so much for years of great advice.
How nice, thanks Dave
Hello Charles, love the videos. Cheers from the USA . II'm really looking forward to future growing seasons. You inspired me to get more land. When I get a few acres I will borrow more ideas from you. For the future, I also thank you.
Best of luck Giovanni 🥕
thank you! brocoli leaves are the best, and too hard to find in regular stores, very nutritious
Yet another advantage of growing your own vegetables!
Have you ever been approached to host Gardener’s World ? Your calendar is a must have. A beautiful productive garden. Feeding a lot of mouths.
Thanks Sandrine, I'm a vegetable specialist, glad you like the Calendar
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you could still have a portion of the program dedicated to vegetable growing . Monty is not a “classic horticulturalist” and he is doing a grand job. If you have a passion why not install it into people. Prices of food is going up and up , it is time to learn to grow our own food to become more autonomous and proud again . I love what you do and your energy .
Gotta have that spring dose of “CD no dig” to get the garden engines started!!!! We’ve been building our compost all winter…..
💚 sounds promising!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you know how it is….new year, new hope 🙏
The thing I find most impressive is that there is a clear order of planting and harvesting and obvious attention to seed selection. My garden is 1/4 the size and at times I'm overwhelmed...not in control!
Hopefully, experience will lead me to the same competence
Probably boron leaching in the wet on the winter radish. We have been getting some decent results using chitinase about 2 weeks before any frost.
It’s been a dry winter here in SC zone 8. My no dig garden is so dry-literally dust when you pick up the soil that hasn’t been mulched. But it isn’t cracked. It’s just waiting for water. Thankfully we are having rain this week! I think I may be planting the high tunnel in a few days with tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers! 🎉 My brassicas have been in the ground for two weeks and they’re looking good. I covered them all with insect netting because those cabbage moths have been here since January! Can’t wait for the bio char video.😃
SC sounds a nice winter climate! Hope your rain is good 💦, brassicas like that
Wonderful garden I use your agenda for my greenhouse in my zone 5 Quebec and it WORK SO WELL thank you 🙏
Sounds great Chantal, impressive for zone 5 😀
You’re such an inspiration Charles......thank you 🙏
I appreciate that!
I love following your videos over the past 2 years I've learned so much on no dig growing from your channel. Funny how you "you didn't know what came over you" regarding your earlier than usual planting of broad beans. I had that moment also last week when planting out small onion plugs, after planting them thought perhaps too early as it's still very cold here.Anyway we shall see, sometimes we just plant and hope for the best, they have 2 choices either grow fine or not.I did cover them with fleece after planting so just hope they will survive.
How funny Gabby! Thanks for sharing 💚
Always informative to see the types of plants you're interplanting. I need to work on my timings better this year to make the most out of my very small space. I did overwinter some spinach and parsley in my little greenhouse after the tomatoes and peppers came out and I'm just putting in some radish, beetroot and greens which I'm hoping will crop before or around the tomatoes and peppers. Seems a shame to have it empty half the year waiting on the warm weather crops. Great idea with the garlic though, I might try that next year around where my tomatoes will go. Inspiring as always.
Thanks, I hope you can grow more next winter 🌱
Thank you very much.
Thank you for the support!
Aspettavo con ansia il tuo nuovo video . Ti voglio bene e ogni volta per me è una gioia vederti ✍🏻
Gracias!
Can't wait for that biochar film!
I love your garden thank you
Makes me realise how disorganised I am. Good inspiration, waiting to see how the bees got on over winter!
You can do it! They're ok 🐝
My bees are in Rose Hives, all the boxes are the same size and I don't use queen excluders so Madam can make as many bees as she needs. I find they pretty much don't swarm if you make sure they have plenty of space, so it's as natural as you can get keeping bees.
Good video. The Charles Dowding seed trays are worth every penny
Thanks, happy to hear that
You're amazing Charles :) love watching your videos :) thank you so much for all that you share :)
Cheers Mary
Thanks MASTER year by year always great!!Thank you SIR!
Happy new season to you, thanks
How exciting 😊🙏
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT X
Wow… beautiful and so inspiring as always. In the hour I was outside working today in western NY state it snowed, Rained, hailed, sun peeked out, then snowed again. 😅 Compost still frozen solid.
My word! However it will warm very soon, be ready!!!!! and thankyou
How lovely to be under glass and micro climate gardening
In Texas we could use a temperate climate. Temperate anything for that matter. Some of my lettuce is doing well, and the flower seeds I've sowed by the winter sowing clear jugs method are ready to pot up and then put directly in the garden. This method works well for those of us who don't have greenhouses. I'm a city home gardener with mostly a cutting garden. The bees and other pollinators love the flowers as much as I do.
Sounds great Kathryn, love that Texas becomes temperate 😀
What a beautiful day to do a tour. Your garden is such an inspiration. I have dug my allotment because of Marestail. I have one bed left undug and I'm just going to go for it and do it no dig. A subscriber shared one of your videos on my page, where you plant through plastic over bind weed. I'm going to try the same with my pumpkin patch.
Yay good luck, nice you have the comparison bed
Charles, I'm so appreciative of your work and your desire to help more and more people learn how to provide food for themselves in the best way possible. I did have one question, because I can't for the life of me find an answer anywhere. In a lot of your videos, you'll transplant seedlings next to mature plants that will be ready for harvest soon in order to give the seedlings a little head start on their growth. How do you know when to plant the seedlings? Do you typically plant the seedlings 3-4 weeks before the more mature plant is ready to harvest? Thank you for all you do!
Cheers Josh, and you worked it out precisely :)
Nice garden
Thanks for visiting
Your garden always looks so full and lovely no matter ther year. I need to improve my year round growing! Every year I tent to move or whatever so even up no being able to do it!!
You can do it when you stay put, best of luck
@@CharlesDowding1nodig lol yes we had a nice bed then made it into a raised bed! Then got an allotment over the next few years we will have amazing soil!