I been working so hard in the past 3 weeks to open the abandoned backyard of my new property you wouldn't believe it Charles. Full of heavy trash and chemicals left behind, all leaking in the soil... I was wondering why my trees didnt look right. Every single inches of my body hurts right now haha, but this morning I really officially finished all preparations + cleaning. Ohhhh my... it was so much work, I can't believe how little respect for environment my previous owner had. I feel incredibly good right now, exhausted to the point where even my anxiety which usually govern my life, have no power to manifest :) My property is extremely clean now and i'm ready to start my organic, no dig beds! Life might not have been super easy in the past years but wow the futur's looking bright now. Gardening is a great fix for anxiety.
Just in case you don't already know this... plant sunflowers where the land has been treated badly. They are great for being able to cleans the soil. Good luck with all the rest of it, and happy planting!
For anyone interested in growing veg, your garden is an incredible inspiration. A real thing of beauty. Great presentation skills and camera work as well. Absolute top notch stuff.
I've been a huge fan for a long time Charles and I think it's because you're not afraid to show your failures along with your successes. Oh, and on top of that your video quality and professional editing just takes it way over the top! Well done and please just keep the great content coming..Huge thumbs up 👍 👏.
A garden to look up to. Greetings from sunny Portugal where the sun is starting to really show himself with real heat. Very dry year unfortunately, we will have to manage the waters here. Got tomatoes, peppers, courgette and some potatoes under a tree, also going for dry flowers as we need to focus in heat tolerant plants i guess... Until the fall comes and a big new window of time and climate will open for the colder crops. Thank you for all the content. Obrigado and good luck with everything. Keep spreading the knowledge i think it will help many of us on the long run.
Thank you Charles, so enjoyable. I love that you are a real gardener and have problems like the rest of us and are not too proud to share. Clearly my problems are far worse than yours but the good news is the bindweed is starting to retreat!
I love the questioning of received wisdom that Charles mentions in his knowledgeable way. Rotation : is it important? Multiple growing? Everything EVERYTHING based on the quality of his soil. I live in a terraced house with a tiny garden but after not gardening for 4 years (wife had a stroke) I have started again and I am learning every day. Thank you Charles - I have raised beds with drystone walls & containers but I am now a soil-worshipper too!😂
Quite honestly, Charles, your videos are among the most relaxing and inspiring for me. It's not even always about new ideas - it's mostly about de-stressing 😉 I love your matter-of-fact, relaxed approach to gardening. Love the handful of tomato plants in the tunnel ❤️
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is my second year of gardening, first year of no dig and every tip is appreciated. You have a beautiful garden!
I so enjoy this guy. He puts my mind at ease and gives me a peaceful heart. My daddy passed in 2012 and I miss the times we use to have of walking the yard and him telling me this and that. Thanks Mr. Dowding.
Hi Charles, and so they say: “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” - you and your garden are just that! I am grateful for your sharing your great gardening work with the world! My very small no dig garden is still work in progress. Thank you Charles for all you do!
Great video as always, thanks for sharing and all you do! To help save money my family and I have started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. Thanks again for all you do, your channel definitely helps me stay motivated for my family. God bless!
Wonderful veggies you have there Charles,, beautiful apple blossom ,, such a rewarding time of the year when we have so much sowing, planting and just sheer enjoyment in our gardens,, you are an absolute treasure ,, bless you and best wishes, Lisa
Your garden and property are beautiful! I live in Vermont which is US Zone 5a; it's a very short growing season. I've been trying to extend my season with fleece tunnels. Someday I hope to have a greenhouse so I can extend my season further. I have been no dig for about 4 years. I also have a large perennial flower garden. Maybe someday I can go to England and tour gardens! Thank you!
We had trouble with carrots this last year down south in New Zealand too. Many gardeners did. We all put it down to dry conditions also. We had the best summer in years heat wise. Potatoes not as good but tomatoes. Wonderful.
So grateful to have your new video! Love your inspiration, ingenuity, and easy-going manner. I have learned so much from you, Sir! Thank you from Colorado. Last frost date here is May 9 - can’t wait!! 🫑🍅🥬🧅
Always a pleasure to watch and see and hear what you have to share in your garden, Charles. And I never am not inspired nor leave without some new insight or gem of wisdom to try or look for and be curious about. I love how you're always experimenting and not assuming things, even if they are long-standing practices/beliefs. And I appreciate your sharing what doesn't work too and exploring reasons why or even simply being in the process of trying to work that out. So much richness. Thanks so much for these videos.
Hi Charles, I have recently completed two 'no dig' bedding areas in my back garden, one for flowers the other for vegetables & flowers. The vegetable patch is much deeper so hopefully I can get a crop of vegetables going this year and the flower patch is going great with very healthy plants, some in bloom with others all gearing up for summer. Given what lies beneath the garden I am so grateful to have discovered this technique and it is my go to plan for the future. Thank You & Stay Safe Always
I have just ordered your Callander and it is fantastic, late I know, I am so but I happy to learn the succession planting, and when to start you winter sowing, this is the start of my second year, the first year I was making three beds weeding preparing one bed at a time, I now have six in total and a poly tunnel, I did not know what to plant in winter and if it would survive, I am from Stoke-on-Trent so weather similar and frost dates, thank you for all you advice and help 💋
In sunny sth Lincs, we've had no rain in the past 6-8 weeks. Carrots & beetroot sown outdoors won't grow so now trying carrots sown in guttering. It's all good fun.
Thank you for a spring look, Charles! The newer areas appear to be progressing well. I do hope you went back through and picked up everything you picked, would make a lovely light supper lol. I'm very interested in your new experiments and testing. Blessings as always.
Glory be my carrots are lovely. I’ve given up growing them in the ground and have grown them in an upturned chicken A frame, remodelled to be a Trug. The dry weather is really inhibiting growth. Watering just doesn’t replace the rain.
Спасибо за экскурсию. Очень полезное и красивое. От проволочника помогает цитрусовая кожура. Сушу и на зиму раскидывая там где проволочник. Пищевую соду посыпаю в ямку, когда сажу картошку. Под корень капусты посыпаю немного соды пищевой. Пищевая сода раскисляет почву и отпугивает проволочника.
Спасибо и это интересно. Душа здесь не кислая, потому что в ее основе известняк. Однако мы можем немного попробовать это, чтобы посмотреть, что произойдет.
I've had the same problem with carrots not germinating. I did water at some point after the initial watering at sowing time, but I guess most of the germinated seeds dried out again. I'm also suspecting that the mesh I put over (it was getting too hot for fleece) was rubbing on the seedlings and damaged them. That or opportunist slugs taking advantage of the moist bed when I watered in late afternoon at some point. Lessons learned!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig It was 18°C in the shade, my lettuce was showing some heat stroke so I replaced *all* fleece with insect mesh. I have two long beds so I use two long pieces of fleece as appropriate, I didn't want to cut a new short piece of fleece only for the carrots. I think in hindsight it would have been better, as you suggest!
I had problems with my carrots and it turned out to be the media I covered them with. I had to just sprinkle soft fine dirt over the seeds covering them abt 1/8 to 3/16” and now they come up good.
I love overwintering cauliflower & broccoli - all of a sudden there's a harvest when a couple of weeks earlier there was nothing. Thankfully, the high water table in my garden (dig a 2' deep hole in a drought & it'll have water in the bottom...) seems to keep everything moist under the compost mulch (another plus for no dig - less evaporation). Plenty of rain forecast for overnight, so even the tiny carrots will be OK after 3 weeks of no rain here in West Cumbria.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Oddly enough, April & May are often the driest months here. I've seen pumps used several times to keep the river Ehen running from Ennerdale lake at that time of year(Mum lives in Ennerdale). They're stopping water extraction from the lake next year, so hopefully no more pumps, ever.
Love your sign in the Garden - Charles I am very excited I had a small part in one of my gardens & broadly sowed carrot seed, threw some black plastic over & made sure they stayed moist. Well I am currently thinning my carrot seedlings & crossing my fingers - BIG-Time that I will get a harvest. All my own Tomato seeds that I potted are doing beautifully & I am currently preparing the big bed for them. I am out of my depression with the weather situation as there is nothing I can do but keep trying. My zucchini is just brilliant & producing beautifully. Cheers Denise- Australia
I've had good luck with carrot sprouting for the past two seasons. I cover the newly seeded area with "black" landscape cloth. I think it keeps the seeds cool and moist. I allow the fabric to lay directly on the seed bed too. Your garden is beautiful!
It’s so amazing to compare your garden to mine. I run a portable air conditioner in my greenhouse/small chicken run! It’s been triple digit heat. Humidity levels below 5 percent, fire danger notices. Hasn’t rained in over 4 months. I’m sad to leave my desert home to go sell my home in Pennsylvania. When I get back to Arizona I want to start a UA-cam so you can see what it’s like here! Thanks for sharing, hope all grows big and strong, I will catch up in a week.
Ницца. Для нас это большие инвестиции, чтобы поставить эти субтитры, которые довольно дороги, поэтому они не во всех видео. Но вы найдете немало, и я рад, что они вам нравятся
Wow it all looks amazing Charles. I think my peas suffered the same fate as your carrots. I normally sow in the greenhouse, but I sowed straight into the ground this time....result no peas. Totally gone! Wont be doing that again. We got our first rain here last night in southern Scotland for about 3 weeks. The dryness doesn't stop the weeds but at least no dig makes them so weak and easy to pull. Thankyou for another inspirational tour!
Veggies are so important. I was Chronicly Anemic a couple yrs ago. I prayed for an extreme craving for Spinach. I ate a can of Spinach every day for seven days and my Chronic Anemia went away. There's medical proof of it. Now doing the same thing again these days.
Cheers bud. Just getting the first wet day in Ireland for about eight weeks. What I will say is the no dig plants seem not to suffer as much as my old dug gardens.
It sounds like you are dryer than here. Yes I notice this, plants in no dig slow down in growth, but stay healthy and strong at least. I have an uncomfortable feeling that this dry weather will continue.
Always enjoy a wander round your garden Charles, also I can compare my very modest plantings to see if they are growing well enough at this time of year .
We had the same forecast today! Came in for supper and thought it was a good time to watch the tour. Lovely. Maybe a good idea to throw in some beneficial predatory nematodes(ie. Steinernema carpocapsae) for the wire worm issue. I do hope you can manage them soon. I love the transformation of the new area. So amazing that it can produce so much in such a short time.
Be warned: our habitual "last frost" near Limoges (8b) is the end of April... except last year it was a month later, trashing numerous veg. What larks...
Relieved to see that your carrots have acted like mine. I will do as you suggest and water by hand to make sure they are getting enough. Will cover also.
Water run-off on the dug bed - is that due to more clay on the surface layer, do you think? Dry clay becomes hydrophobic and can be a bugger to rehydrate
I made a tasty “pesto” with tarragon and cashew nuts. I’ve been putting it on chicken, white fish and grain dishes. Having fresh herbs is such a luxury 🌱💚
I love wood chips. I also have a sunny windy plot that easily dries soil to 5cm almost immediately when winds starts - and it is is windy often. They are almost a must have. But maybe that is the reason too - it makes them degrade slower as they are dry, so the relative lack of nitrogen doesn't seem to happen with them. I also had exactly 3 slugs in the last 10 years. I did not even bother to remove them off the veggies they were eating, because they are such unfortunate poor little beings in my windy sunny garden, I just felt sorry for them. In my mother-in-law's garden though, any natural material that is not composted gets matched to at least 1:1 by weight in added slugs overnight, and they destroy everything, fast. So wood chips are generally hit or miss depending on the climate.
It is so interesting that your last frost is about the same time as ours in coastal 67°N Norway. I suppose it could be because the sun is only below the horizon for 4 hours by then.
Seeing your super tidy bed edges, while struggling a little bit with my own because of grass growing into the wood chip, I wonder if you could maybe talk about bed edge maintenance in one of your next videos.
Always enjoy the tours. I have the opposite here, my seeds would have drowned by now had I planted already. Rain, rain and more rain here on the shore in Maryland where I am. My mom told me years ago my Grandfather said, it's always better to over water your garden, it'll soak in, otherwise you starve the roots.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ....no there isn't, I should have added that it's been just as cloudy as rainy days. They have us with rain every day this week but Tuesday, cloudy all day instead. Hope you get some rain at night and sun all day =^)
Amazing Charles. You are my gardening hero. One question on watering... How badly does chlorinated water effect soil life? I do not have rain barrels and live in an area that can get quite dry in the summer so the hose is the only thing that makes sense most of the season for me. Thanks.
Cheers Frank, and the water we use is chlorinated and I have not noticed any problems from that over the years. In the polytunnel for example where quite a bit of tap water goes on the soil.
I had my potatoes covered with frost blanket last 2 nights and they still got burnt and I didn't have them touching the cover either.... We had 28 F in central PA, look out Charles, this cold is coming your way. Pretty cold Spring
Hello Charles, I give you my cordial greeting from the south of Chile, I tell you that we must use the anti-frost blanket from the end of summer to the end of autumn to protect our planted vegetables, we have a lot of frost.
Wow, I did not know that and your climate sounds more difficult than here. We are blessed by warm ocean currents. However I'm worried that they are reducing in strength, which is reducing also our rainfall.
I been working so hard in the past 3 weeks to open the abandoned backyard of my new property you wouldn't believe it Charles. Full of heavy trash and chemicals left behind, all leaking in the soil... I was wondering why my trees didnt look right.
Every single inches of my body hurts right now haha, but this morning I really officially finished all preparations + cleaning. Ohhhh my... it was so much work, I can't believe how little respect for environment my previous owner had.
I feel incredibly good right now, exhausted to the point where even my anxiety which usually govern my life, have no power to manifest :) My property is extremely clean now and i'm ready to start my organic, no dig beds! Life might not have been super easy in the past years but wow the futur's looking bright now. Gardening is a great fix for anxiety.
good luck with your garden this season!
Well done and you have many upvotes. Thanks for sharing and well done on finding the positives
Yep good for ya.
It wealth the body pain, because u will forget about it after a week or two of sawing seeds
Just in case you don't already know this... plant sunflowers where the land has been treated badly. They are great for being able to cleans the soil. Good luck with all the rest of it, and happy planting!
The idea of placing a leaf over the cauliflower head is ingenious!
Glad to share the knowledge!
For anyone interested in growing veg, your garden is an incredible inspiration. A real thing of beauty. Great presentation skills and camera work as well. Absolute top notch stuff.
Happy to hear this Duncan, thanks
A timely and brilliant update. Thank you for keeping it real and mentioning the problems as well. Gratitude.
I've been a huge fan for a long time Charles and I think it's because you're not afraid to show your failures along with your successes. Oh, and on top of that your video quality and professional editing just takes it way over the top! Well done and please just keep the great content coming..Huge thumbs up 👍 👏.
I appreciate that, nice encouragement
Just watching this again, Charles, as we come into mid spring here in Australia. Thank you!!
A garden to look up to. Greetings from sunny Portugal where the sun is starting to really show himself with real heat. Very dry year unfortunately, we will have to manage the waters here. Got tomatoes, peppers, courgette and some potatoes under a tree, also going for dry flowers as we need to focus in heat tolerant plants i guess... Until the fall comes and a big new window of time and climate will open for the colder crops. Thank you for all the content. Obrigado and good luck with everything. Keep spreading the knowledge i think it will help many of us on the long run.
Thank you Jose and this is good to hear, except for the lack of rain. It's getting the same here but the Sun is nothing like so hot and strong here!
Thank you Charles, so enjoyable. I love that you are a real gardener and have problems like the rest of us and are not too proud to share. Clearly my problems are far worse than yours but the good news is the bindweed is starting to retreat!
You are very welcome and great!
I love the questioning of received wisdom that Charles mentions in his knowledgeable way. Rotation : is it important? Multiple growing? Everything EVERYTHING based on the quality of his soil. I live in a terraced house with a tiny garden but after not gardening for 4 years (wife had a stroke) I have started again and I am learning every day. Thank you Charles - I have raised beds with drystone walls & containers but I am now a soil-worshipper too!😂
So nice to see this Chris except sorry about your wife's health. Soil health helps :)
I love the way that some information is repetitive. The information is imperative. I understand Charles.
Great thanks Nathan
Hi Charles! Good to see you again. You’re garden is beautiful as always. Even with the problems the garden may have you are always successful🙏
Thanks so much
Quite honestly, Charles, your videos are among the most relaxing and inspiring for me. It's not even always about new ideas - it's mostly about de-stressing 😉 I love your matter-of-fact, relaxed approach to gardening.
Love the handful of tomato plants in the tunnel ❤️
Happy to hear that and thankyou
nice to see "problems" bed by the shed
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is my second year of gardening, first year of no dig and every tip is appreciated. You have a beautiful garden!
Great feedback thanks
It is a pleasure touring your garden with you.
Have learned so much from your approach.
Thankyou!
I'm so glad!
I so enjoy this guy. He puts my mind at ease and gives me a peaceful heart. My daddy passed in 2012 and I miss the times we use to have of walking the yard and him telling me this and that. Thanks Mr. Dowding.
Thanks, happy to help!
Looking good, Charles!
😀
Jestem pod ogromnym wrażeniem panstwa ogrodu,czerpię z tej wiedzy i nieźle to wychodzi. Pozdrawiam z Polski 😊
Dziękuję za udostępnienie i cieszę się, że to słyszę!
Hi Charles, and so they say: “a thing of beauty is a joy forever” - you and your garden are just that! I am grateful for your sharing your great gardening work with the world! My very small no dig garden is still work in progress. Thank you Charles for all you do!
Thanks so much and I wish you fine food!
Beautiful garden and video. Great to see you in your NoDig compost garden.
It’s soooooo helpful when you kindly share the good and the failures during your tours. Much appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience
Glad it was helpful!
It all looks good, but the older part of the garden is really looking beautiful as it matures.
Thanks so much
Thank you for the tour, brother Charles !
I enjoyed the video as always, thanks for shearing.
Tienes una huerta preciosa, Gracias por compartirlo con nosotros, aprendo mucho para mí huerta en españa!!!!
Un saludo desde Extremadura España!!!
Gracias, lovely to read this
Great video as always, thanks for sharing and all you do! To help save money my family and I have started a small backyard garden. We're learning how to homecan, seed save, make compost, and preserve what we grow. Less than 2 years in our new home and we've completely transformed the backyard. We are beginner gardeners, growing and learning along the way. Recently I started a gardening channel to help encourage others to begin growing as well. No time better than now to learn self sufficiency. Thanks again for all you do, your channel definitely helps me stay motivated for my family. God bless!
Exciting!! You're going in good directions
Wonderful veggies you have there Charles,, beautiful apple blossom ,, such a rewarding time of the year when we have so much sowing, planting and just sheer enjoyment in our gardens,, you are an absolute treasure ,, bless you and best wishes, Lisa
Ah cool thanks Lisa
Your garden and property are beautiful! I live in Vermont which is US Zone 5a; it's a very short growing season. I've been trying to extend my season with fleece tunnels. Someday I hope to have a greenhouse so I can extend my season further. I have been no dig for about 4 years. I also have a large perennial flower garden. Maybe someday I can go to England and tour gardens! Thank you!
Always a great pleasure. Thank you Charles!
We had trouble with carrots this last year down south in New Zealand too. Many gardeners did. We all put it down to dry conditions also. We had the best summer in years heat wise. Potatoes not as good but tomatoes. Wonderful.
Glad you had an amazing year!
So grateful to have your new video! Love your inspiration, ingenuity, and easy-going manner. I have learned so much from you, Sir! Thank you from Colorado. Last frost date here is May 9 - can’t wait!! 🫑🍅🥬🧅
Ah great and thanks!
Thank you for the tour Charles...
no worries at all! it's a pleasure
Wow the property is stunning - what a dreamy place
😊
Your work, your team and your garden continue to educate & inspire.
So nice, thanks Paul
Always a pleasure to watch and see and hear what you have to share in your garden, Charles. And I never am not inspired nor leave without some new insight or gem of wisdom to try or look for and be curious about. I love how you're always experimenting and not assuming things, even if they are long-standing practices/beliefs. And I appreciate your sharing what doesn't work too and exploring reasons why or even simply being in the process of trying to work that out. So much richness. Thanks so much for these videos.
Many thanks 💚
This is my 3rd year for a garden and my first year for a no dig garden. Thanks for so much inspiration. It's fun giving it a try. So far, so good.
💚
Relaxing and charming.
Thank you Charles
Thanks Carl
Lovely video, thanks for watering tip
Thank you for watching my videos!
Thank you so much, Charles. I always continue to learn from you.
Hi Charles,
I have recently completed two 'no dig' bedding areas in my back garden, one for flowers the other for vegetables & flowers.
The vegetable patch is much deeper so hopefully I can get a crop of vegetables going this year and the flower patch is going great with very healthy plants, some in bloom with others all gearing up for summer.
Given what lies beneath the garden I am so grateful to have discovered this technique and it is my go to plan for the future.
Thank You & Stay Safe Always
Wonderful, thanks for sharing
Excelente!! Muchas gracias. Saludos 💚🇨🇱
Gracias Alejandra!
Bardzo dziękuję za ciekawe filmy oraz za napisy w języku polskim!
Cała przyjemność po mojej stronie
Thank you for sharing your failures as well as your successes.
I have just ordered your Callander and it is fantastic, late I know, I am so but I happy to learn the succession planting, and when to start you winter sowing, this is the start of my second year, the first year I was making three beds weeding preparing one bed at a time, I now have six in total and a poly tunnel, I did not know what to plant in winter and if it would survive, I am from Stoke-on-Trent so weather similar and frost dates, thank you for all you advice and help 💋
Wonderful to hear this Denise, that sounds impressive for year two.
Oglądam Pana z polski bardzo piękny ogród ciekawe pomysły serdecznie pozdrawiam
Jak pięknie, ciesz się swoim ogrodnictwem!
Everything is so beautiful. I'm loving my new green house.
Zadziwiające są sukcesy w Pana uprawach, miło popatrzeć i uczyć się , jest pięknie -gratuluję, pozdrawiam 👍♥️💚
Dzięki wielkie
Your garden is such an inspiration! Thank you, Charles.
You are very welcome
Really enjoyed that one Charles, Thank you.
Thankyou Rene
Always such a beautiful sight seeing your gardens. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I aspire to be a fraction as good as you! 🌻 God bless!
So nice of you
In sunny sth Lincs, we've had no rain in the past 6-8 weeks. Carrots & beetroot sown outdoors won't grow so now trying carrots sown in guttering. It's all good fun.
Yes a difficult summer looms! Good luck
Thank you for a spring look, Charles! The newer areas appear to be progressing well. I do hope you went back through and picked up everything you picked, would make a lovely light supper lol. I'm very interested in your new experiments and testing. Blessings as always.
😀thanks
Charles always enjoy your video all doing great
Thanks 👍
Glory be my carrots are lovely. I’ve given up growing them in the ground and have grown them in an upturned chicken A frame, remodelled to be a Trug. The dry weather is really inhibiting growth. Watering just doesn’t replace the rain.
Wonderful! Fingers crossed for rain
Спасибо за экскурсию. Очень полезное и красивое. От проволочника помогает цитрусовая кожура. Сушу и на зиму раскидывая там где проволочник. Пищевую соду посыпаю в ямку, когда сажу картошку. Под корень капусты посыпаю немного соды пищевой. Пищевая сода раскисляет почву и отпугивает проволочника.
Спасибо и это интересно. Душа здесь не кислая, потому что в ее основе известняк. Однако мы можем немного попробовать это, чтобы посмотреть, что произойдет.
I've had the same problem with carrots not germinating. I did water at some point after the initial watering at sowing time, but I guess most of the germinated seeds dried out again. I'm also suspecting that the mesh I put over (it was getting too hot for fleece) was rubbing on the seedlings and damaged them. That or opportunist slugs taking advantage of the moist bed when I watered in late afternoon at some point. Lessons learned!
I had a fleece cover lying flat on some other ones and they came up fine. I think that fleece works better than mesh for early sowings
@@CharlesDowding1nodig It was 18°C in the shade, my lettuce was showing some heat stroke so I replaced *all* fleece with insect mesh. I have two long beds so I use two long pieces of fleece as appropriate, I didn't want to cut a new short piece of fleece only for the carrots. I think in hindsight it would have been better, as you suggest!
I had problems with my carrots and it turned out to be the media I covered them with. I had to just sprinkle soft fine dirt over the seeds covering them abt 1/8 to 3/16” and now they come up good.
Great!
I love overwintering cauliflower & broccoli - all of a sudden there's a harvest when a couple of weeks earlier there was nothing.
Thankfully, the high water table in my garden (dig a 2' deep hole in a drought & it'll have water in the bottom...) seems to keep everything moist under the compost mulch (another plus for no dig - less evaporation).
Plenty of rain forecast for overnight, so even the tiny carrots will be OK after 3 weeks of no rain here in West Cumbria.
3 weeks!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Oddly enough, April & May are often the driest months here. I've seen pumps used several times to keep the river Ehen running from Ennerdale lake at that time of year(Mum lives in Ennerdale).
They're stopping water extraction from the lake next year, so hopefully no more pumps, ever.
I'm Thai and I'm also a big fan of yours. I'll try growing it in Thailand. It works best.
Lovely to hear, thanks
Thank you for the Videos! You are my gardening hero!
Ah thanks!
Love your sign in the Garden - Charles I am very excited I had a small part in one of my gardens & broadly sowed carrot seed, threw some black plastic over & made sure they stayed moist. Well I am currently thinning my carrot seedlings & crossing my fingers -
BIG-Time that I will get a harvest. All my own Tomato seeds that I potted are doing beautifully & I am currently preparing the big bed for them. I am out of my depression with the weather situation as there is nothing I can do but keep trying. My zucchini is just brilliant & producing beautifully. Cheers Denise- Australia
Well done on being philosophical about that, maybe we change it by being cheerful and sunny!! Sounds great progress 🥕
Thank you for such an interesting and helpful update.
I've had good luck with carrot sprouting for the past two seasons. I cover the newly seeded area with "black" landscape cloth. I think it keeps the seeds cool and moist. I allow the fabric to lay directly on the seed bed too. Your garden is beautiful!
Thanks Julie and well done, although others have mentioned that it can result in slugs hiding underneath. Your timing is clearly good.
Magically beautiful garden..
Beautiful as always and inspiring. I look forward to switching my days to the garden more from my desk bound job…
У Вас прекрасный ухоженный сад! Экскурсия понравилась! Огромное спасибо за субтитры.
Удовольствие 💚
It’s so amazing to compare your garden to mine. I run a portable air conditioner in my greenhouse/small chicken run! It’s been triple digit heat. Humidity levels below 5 percent, fire danger notices. Hasn’t rained in over 4 months. I’m sad to leave my desert home to go sell my home in Pennsylvania. When I get back to Arizona I want to start a UA-cam so you can see what it’s like here!
Thanks for sharing, hope all grows big and strong, I will catch up in a week.
Best of luck Sally!!
О боже...русские субтитры...Благодарю..теперь внимательно пересмотрю все видео...огромных урожаев вам ..с благодарностью из России❤
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Для нас это большие инвестиции, чтобы поставить эти субтитры, которые довольно дороги, поэтому они не во всех видео. Но вы найдете немало, и я рад, что они вам нравятся
Your UA-cam audio is much better!! You changed something and it made a big improvement. Thanks!!
Different phone!
Love your wonderful and peaceful garden❤
Thank you so much 😊
Always learning so much from you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
God bless you.
Thank you
Hermoso jardín, su verdor es espléndido
lovely video
Thank you
Wow it all looks amazing Charles. I think my peas suffered the same fate as your carrots. I normally sow in the greenhouse, but I sowed straight into the ground this time....result no peas. Totally gone! Wont be doing that again. We got our first rain here last night in southern Scotland for about 3 weeks. The dryness doesn't stop the weeds but at least no dig makes them so weak and easy to pull. Thankyou for another inspirational tour!
Ah thanks Jenny. Yes peas like it moist to germinate, I have had similar previously. We had 2.5mm today so far!
Veggies are so important. I was Chronicly Anemic a couple yrs ago. I prayed for an extreme craving for Spinach. I ate a can of Spinach every day for seven days and my Chronic Anemia went away. There's medical proof of it. Now doing the same thing again these days.
Fantastic Sarah!!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig 😊
Cheers bud. Just getting the first wet day in Ireland for about eight weeks. What I will say is the no dig plants seem not to suffer as much as my old dug gardens.
It sounds like you are dryer than here. Yes I notice this, plants in no dig slow down in growth, but stay healthy and strong at least.
I have an uncomfortable feeling that this dry weather will continue.
Great video tour ! My word - the caulis! Yes, turn around and they're huge - a truly wonderful vegetable. You've grown some beauties there.
Yes I'm happy with them :)
Super dziękuję bardzo
I do enjoy your tours, the tip with the cauliflower head is handy. (That's if I can ever get one to grow!) Thank you for the update.
You’re not the only one… second time trying cauliflower and at least this time they’ve not got eaten, but no heads…no idea why! Will keep trying 👍🏽
@@anaphirirussell it can be a lack of boron,a micro nutrient.
Always enjoy a wander round your garden Charles, also I can compare my very modest plantings to see if they are growing well enough at this time of year .
Thanks for coming along!
We had the same forecast today! Came in for supper and thought it was a good time to watch the tour. Lovely. Maybe a good idea to throw in some beneficial predatory nematodes(ie. Steinernema carpocapsae) for the wire worm issue. I do hope you can manage them soon. I love the transformation of the new area. So amazing that it can produce so much in such a short time.
Thanks Angela 💚
Fantastic tour of your garden and learning as We follow you , Merci et à bientôt hopefully soon .
💚 merci
Beautiful x
Thank you!
Be warned: our habitual "last frost" near Limoges (8b) is the end of April... except last year it was a month later, trashing numerous veg. What larks...
O la la, pas rigolo
Relieved to see that your carrots have acted like mine. I will do as you suggest and water by hand to make sure they are getting enough. Will cover also.
Water run-off on the dug bed - is that due to more clay on the surface layer, do you think? Dry clay becomes hydrophobic and can be a bugger to rehydrate
Yes. It was less dramatic in this video because I'd forgotten that one of my helpers had waterted on Tuesday!
I made a tasty “pesto” with tarragon and cashew nuts. I’ve been putting it on chicken, white fish and grain dishes. Having fresh herbs is such a luxury 🌱💚
That is awesome!
I love wood chips. I also have a sunny windy plot that easily dries soil to 5cm almost immediately when winds starts - and it is is windy often. They are almost a must have. But maybe that is the reason too - it makes them degrade slower as they are dry, so the relative lack of nitrogen doesn't seem to happen with them. I also had exactly 3 slugs in the last 10 years. I did not even bother to remove them off the veggies they were eating, because they are such unfortunate poor little beings in my windy sunny garden, I just felt sorry for them. In my mother-in-law's garden though, any natural material that is not composted gets matched to at least 1:1 by weight in added slugs overnight, and they destroy everything, fast. So wood chips are generally hit or miss depending on the climate.
A brilliant summary Barbara.
Funny how you pity the slugs!
Hope the wind slackens a little.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig The wind should improve by summer. But then the sun is so strong the slugs still dont stand a chance :)
It is so interesting that your last frost is about the same time as ours in coastal 67°N Norway. I suppose it could be because the sun is only below the horizon for 4 hours by then.
Hmm amazing!
Also here in midwest USA
Super progress 😊
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Seeing your super tidy bed edges, while struggling a little bit with my own because of grass growing into the wood chip, I wonder if you could maybe talk about bed edge maintenance in one of your next videos.
Hi Carl, yes we have this in mind! Mow, cut, initial cardboard, persist!
Such a well planned tour of your garden. Loved every second
Thanks Jenny. Not sure how we managed it at the end of a very long day!
Always enjoy the tours. I have the opposite here, my seeds would have drowned by now had I planted already. Rain, rain and more rain here on the shore in Maryland where I am. My mom told me years ago my Grandfather said, it's always better to over water your garden, it'll soak in, otherwise you starve the roots.
I'm sorry to hear that Wende. On the other hand, when it's raining there is a lack of sunlight, and here on the 51st parallel that is not good
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ....no there isn't, I should have added that it's been just as cloudy as rainy days. They have us with rain every day this week but Tuesday, cloudy all day instead. Hope you get some rain at night and sun all day =^)
Amazing Charles. You are my gardening hero. One question on watering... How badly does chlorinated water effect soil life? I do not have rain barrels and live in an area that can get quite dry in the summer so the hose is the only thing that makes sense most of the season for me. Thanks.
Cheers Frank, and the water we use is chlorinated and I have not noticed any problems from that over the years. In the polytunnel for example where quite a bit of tap water goes on the soil.
I had my potatoes covered with frost blanket last 2 nights and they still got burnt and I didn't have them touching the cover either.... We had 28 F in central PA, look out Charles, this cold is coming your way. Pretty cold Spring
It was 30F and they are ok! Best of luck
Hello Charles, I give you my cordial greeting from the south of Chile, I tell you that we must use the anti-frost blanket from the end of summer to the end of autumn to protect our planted vegetables, we have a lot of frost.
Wow, I did not know that and your climate sounds more difficult than here.
We are blessed by warm ocean currents. However I'm worried that they are reducing in strength, which is reducing also our rainfall.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I think about how much I would love to be your neighbor.
Amazing, thanks