Interplanting tips for early autumn| Gardeing Tips and Tricks| Charles Dowding
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Add weeks to your growing season! Combine the early life of one planting with the almost-finished part of another. I show you some combinations of old and new vegetables which grow well in overlap.
The essential knowledge is that new seedlings do not need much light, moisture or nutrients. They just need somewhere to start developing their roots.
This can even happen more strongly when other more mature plants are around them. In fact, it's how plants start to grow in nature!
The golden rule is to find vegetables that will finish their cropping life within four weeks approximately. Then you need to find sufficient space for new transplants, or seeds.
With the cucumbers, for example, we cut off leaves with mildew and those going yellow. This opened enough space between the cucumber stems for popping in transplants of Florence fennel in mid-August. This solved the problem of finding space!
00:00 Introduction
00:29 Interplants of chervil between lettuce, variety Maravilla de Verona - I pick some outer leaves
01:48 Pak choi and winter radish under mesh
02:08 Spinach interplanted between lettuce
02:43 Watering new plantings
03:37 Fennel planted amongst ridge cucumbers
04:20 Seedlings in the greenhouse - kale and spinach
05:13 In the Small Garden - I transplant spinach at the base of cordon tomatoes
06:44 Dealing with slugs
08:52 Using dibber to create drills for directly sowing seeds of lamb’s lettuce around strawberry plants
10:41 Watering the newly transplanted spinach
11:22 Finding information in my books
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I don’t hear much of what Charles says when the cat shows up on screen. 🥰😜😜🤣🤣
Me too! Minty is a star!❤
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That cat says, it's all about me laugh.
I love cats but mine uses the boxes as a big poop tray. Raised beds.
Can’t be a no dig cat then
I had to laugh when those three cheeky cabbage whites flew right up to the camera!
I see the new supervisor is back, making sure you know what you're talking about, no doubt ^..^
Always a pleasure spending time in the garden with you.
Minty is supervisor, foreman, and head of security.
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I sowed one of your 60 cell trays with Medania spinach on the 25th of August (yes, later than optimal...) with 30 using home saved seed from this year & 30 from last year's bough seed (which says use before end 2025).
28 of the home saved have come through & 7 of the bought seed...
The garden, kitty, and butterflies are all celebrating the warmth. Fairy tale stuff
A perfect day at Charles’s farm for sure, very nice indeed!
Thank you Sofia
They were Rama 🙂
Gardens and kitties and butterflies - oh my! 😍💚💚
Another lovely and inspiring video. 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
Thank you Michelle, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
The beautiful combination between nature and the NoDig master. Thanks for sharing Charles.
My pleasure Robert
If you have a dog that sheds their undercoat like a husky or malamute, put their fur around young plants. Slugs don't like it sticking to them and the fur keeps the soil warmer in winter too x
Thank you Charles, informative as ever 🌱🌱
Glad you enjoyed it Elaine 🙂
Thank you Charles, always inspiring..
Glad you were inspired Dot 🙂
Hi Charles, I love to see your gardens. Take care.
Nice to hear 🙂
Those 3 white dancing butterflies video bombing you looked like they were drawn in like a Cinderella scene. Gotta love nature! LOL
Thank you for all the effort in making these videos. I look forward to every one.
Thank you that is nice to hear 🙂
Beautiful garden Charles! Blessings 💕🤗 thanks for your teaching!
You are so welcome Cami
Thank you so much for the constant inspiration.
My pleasure Jools
Wonderful garden! Charles, thank you so much 🙏 for helpful video, as every time 👍😁
Thank you and my pleasure 🙂
Thank you for all your work! In Australia we have different seasons to you and a warmer climate with frost free winters in coastal areas! Insects and evaporation are the biggest issues we have
Thanks for sharing this, so different as you say. I can't imagine frost free winters. On the other hand, I understand how that results in insect pressure, good luck with that.
what a great interplanting pair: tomatoes and spinach. BrillianT! love seeing the small garden
Glad you enjoyed it
Another amazing video Charles !! Thank You cheers Denise- Australia
Thank you Denise, I am glad that you enjoyed it 🙂
Haha UK torch and USA torch are two different things, it took me a second to realize what you were saying 😀I have used a propane torch many times as a form of organic weeding ... but I doubt the torch to which you refer would be much use in that regard 🤣Another lovely video, Charles, many continued blessings to you and all yours 🙏
I just love your videos I'm learning a lot. TY
Great to hear Elouise 🙂
Brilliant helpful info as always, Thanks. I think the cat now knows the route you take around the garden when your doing your UA-cam tours 😄
Very true! 😹
I was taught old school gardening. When I started cutting my field peas even with the ground instead of pulling them, to my surprise, they put on growth, bloomed and bore a second crop. Wow!
That is so nice!
a most enjoyable video charles
Thank you Steven
Me encanta ver tus videos,.. Muchas gracias por compartir
Gracias Maria 🙂
Love your approach to the economy of using the plot to achieve it's full potential.
Thank you Lola
Beautiful Charles with so many ideas. Thank you.
I've been buying watering cans and non shower. Driving me crazy.
95 degrees in zone 6b
Ooh that is hot, we feel it when 86F as this week
Great planigication
Thank you 😊
My pleasure Pat
Excellent video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it Jeanne
Thank you for the tips, very useful 👌👍✨🤍💕
My pleasure
Wonderfull video Mr Charles. Tranks you. Greetings from Argentina🇦🇷😊
Gracias Laura!
Egg shells around the plants worked well for me the sharp edges I think made them stay off tomatoes and other vegetables good luck trying it y’all
7:18 What a beautiful moment with the butterflies.
Thank you for the tips. Might sow another round of spinach although I’m now harvesting loads from another bed.
Hope your open day was a success.
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Good luck and thanks, it was huge, 510 really keen visitors!
Hello, recently I started watching your video. I do grow vegetable but I am learning from your video. Keep sharing for people like me thank you
Great to hear Afza
Love watching your videos ! I started growing in June and you have been a massive inspiration !!
Wonderful!
I'm the same. Started growing on mother's day, woke up and went fk it I'm growing food lol. Then boom entire kitchen filled with grow lights and seedlings. Roll on June and I had made 9 raised beds, flower beds and growing in containers. All of it taken from charles (only done raised beds as have one low bed and the kids and dog trample through it). My garden is thriving and I'm feeding the community and family with it. Trying to empty the beds to plant new stuff but that much grew and grew well I can't get through it fast enough and it's all through following his no dig method and planting beneficial flowers to attract pollinators. Since I started my garden has been buzzing with life, bats flying around at night when I only ever seen them in the woods. Yet have 3-4 bats flying around my garden catching the insects I've attracted. I've got loads of bees and loads of beneficial insects like ladybirds etc which I find all over my rose bushes and tomato plants then wonder why I don't have issues with aphids 🤣🤣. I've watched every single video and can't wait for next season
Lovely to see this and congratulations. I am very happy to have helped, and your enthusiasm is brilliant, plus all those wildlife observations.
@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you honestly. It's been an amazing summer tbh just hope the rain stays off longer than just the few days we had again (massive storm last night again, I'm in scotland) just so my tomatoes can ripen that's I've been nursing since March lol. Only thing I'm struggling with is the sever amount of slugs I get the numbers are unreal and if I don't slug hunt they will destroy a full crop overnight and also come into my house lol. Thank you so much for everything as so far I'm handing food packages out, putting food outside the house for people to take and handing food to a local church twice a week that feeds the community 2 days a week. Thank you
Great to see the strawberries going well Charles. Mine have fruited too but the fruit seems small and doesn’t taste as good as normal. I cut the fruit off most of them just to help the energy go into the crowns and hope that means a better harvest next year. Like you the birds seem to have ignored them. Must be all the blackberries and raspberries around!
Good to hear James. I think the sunshine levels at this time of year are not strong enough to make full sweetness. Good luck with your new project.
Your Kitty is lovely
Autumn strawberries are such a gift! I’ve been lucky to get two rounds of flowering from my Cambridge favourites this year (although the birds and snails managed to get at a couple of the really good looking ones!)
The garden is looking incredible. I’m starting on an allotment soon, so taking lots of inspiration every video
That's great Leo and good luck on your new allotment. That is great news 🙂
Already planted spinach, lettuce, corn salad and radish :)
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The garden is looking incredible, those outdoor tomatoes are beautiful 😍
Thank you Geraldine
7:23 the butterflies 😍
Charles your acres look like a gorgeous quilt so perfect and neat. My garden got messy because I couldn’t take the heat on the worst days in August. A few more real hot ones then next week 60s-70s Fahrenheit. Can you speak more on climate change? I just notice that the expected frost date is 6-8 weeks late in NY. It doesn’t get really cold until December now.
Thanks it's clearly an issue but the causes are debatable!
I planted some Florence strawberries a few weeks ago also…mine definitely have been discovered by birds, slugs and wood lice! I haven’t had a chance to try one yet!
Ah whoops!
Can you please explain your tomato trellis here. I love how it gives you so much more space to work with. Thank you. I love learning from you.
Cheers Sarah, it's 2x2in stakes banged in next to each tomato, then I push a 7ft bamboo in and tie that to the stake. Would not stand high wind but normal breeze is ok!
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Watching from Dubai
Stay connected! It must look green to you 😀
Thank you
Minty the cat is probably scaring the birds from eating your strawberries
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Thanks Charles, some great tips there !
What varieties of blight resistant tomato have you grown please, al of our outside tomatoes have been ruined with blight this year ?
Thanks, and Sunviva, Resigrande, Awesome Emma
Thank you Charles for making this year such a rewarding year for GYO since discovering you autumn last year and gradually building up my knowledge and tools following your book and videos. I’ve made enough pickles, chilli sauces and chutneys and now gradually clearing and prepping up my beds and greenhouse with “home compost” 🙏🏼 again. Is it still advisable to sow winter salads like lettuce and Chinese greens in an unheated greenhouse ( fluctuations 10-25°C, I’m in Surrey UK) or on a windowsill in the house? Also I’m never sure if it’s better to cover them with clear lid or not. I follow your sowing method but can’t see if you cover the trays or leave them open
That's nice, and your greenhouse is still plenty warm enough for germination now. A lid is optional and I rarely use them
Hello Minty!
Hi, about strawberries not getting eaten by the birds, probably at this time of year there are enough berries in nature for the birds to feast on. At least here in the Netherlands I have lately seen lots of birds feasting on berries. I think it were mostly elderberries.
Thanks, a good point!
Thank you for the solution to kill slugs. You made me go out now and kill humunguous slugs in my garden
Oh wow! Should make a difference
Thank you so much for sharing the status of your marvelous garden, Charles! I admire your beautiful tomatoes in the small garden at the end of the video. And it brings me to my question I have for a couple of weeks now - tomatoe plants suffering from phytophthora, can they be disposed into the compost? I cannot find that bit in your book. But I think it is there and you said it is one of those myths that it is dangerous and that disease will spread.
Thank you, and I can't be sure about that from not having experience of that disease. If it was here, I would compost them but only on a hot heap. That is likely at this time of year when heaps are hot!
I will follow your advice!
Again such an informative video, Sir Charles! How do you manage not to be distracted by this sweet cat? I started lettuce 2 weeks ago, Grenoble red, and they came up fine in 2 leaf stadium, but now they just bend over and die. All of them, is it too hot or any suggestion what might go wrong here? Thanks so much😊.
Thanks and oh dear, you may be overwatering!. Lettuce roots need air, do try again and in small module cells, not loads of compost :)
Haha, we're just getting started down here in Australia. I've got multisown onions and peas ready to go after composting the beds this weekend. 🫛🧅🌦️
Amazing to imagine that 🌱
I'm sure you probably know this slug trap trick but upturned ridge tiles dotted around the bed will attract them to hideout before sunrise. Then you can dispose of them accordingly.
Yup thanks!
I just toss the slugs on the driveway using sticks, cant bear to touch them. But sure, blowtorch dissection works! Old drumsticks for the dibbers, and clothes my kid can no longer fit as crop covers.
Wonderful recycling :)
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Great update of your abundant garden. It is really beautiful. I have a question Charles. My perennial arugula is a bit out of control but the bees do love the flowers. Could I just cut it back some at the base and plant other crops around it or is the root system of the arugula too dominant.
Thanks Jayne and I would do that. asap while warmth is there
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you! Yes it’s unseasonably hot here in Southern Ontario today but should be cooling over the next week.
Did you say you leave the cucumber roots in the ground?
Yes exactly. Cut main stem at ground level
It's not the bare ground Minty loves Charles, it's your attention she's after :) She's a beautiful cat
I shall pass on the compliment!
I always find here in dry ol South Lincolnshire that strawberries tend to push out late summer fruits which the birds never touch, whereas earlier in the summer they’re avid for them.Might be to do with their breeding cycle, but the jury is still out.
North Lincolnshire here and I’ve had more trouble with slugs and wood lice than birds with my strawberries!
Very smart gardening Charles!! That interplanting is tricky stuff. You really have to know your plants and when they'll be done producing.
I've been practicing no dig for a few years now and most of my beds are in good shape with firm soil but once in a while I run into a bed where the soil seem compacted. How would you suggest correcting that problem? I was thinking of using a garden fork and loosening the soil and then just adding compost on top as usual and hope it works in and breaks up the soil. Or I could just do a one time dig and mix the soil in with a generous addition of compost. Any thoughts? Thanks.
It's difficult to give advice on this because the word compacted has so many meanings, different for every single person from what I come across. My beds are sometimes very firm in some areas and the soil feels really dense. Then in dry weather it goes rock-hard. Nonetheless plant root into it.
Firm and hard soil is not necessarily bad! so if your plants are growing okay, I would leave alone.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles. Maybe I'll get some Daikon radish seeds.
Charles I just noticed the CGM on your arm for the first time 😊 I didn’t want to make assumptions so I searched and see you mentioned your diagnosis on your website. My ten year old son is T1D and watches your videos with me sometimes. He will be excited to know that you’re in the same club and living such a rich and wonderful life! I always love pointing other T1Ds out to him so he can see that he isn’t alone and that so many adults that he admires have been living with it for years 🤍
Thanks for this and I'm happy to reassure him. I was lucky to be diagnosed age 29 so I have been quite responsible in looking after my blood sugars and suffer no adverse effects, 35 years later! He will be okay, but it is about constant vigilance and sometimes I wish not to have to count the carbohydrates or to calculate ahead, my energy output!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you ☺️ we are quite mindful of what we eat and try to strike that balance of eating in a way that’s healthy for him and easy on his body, but making sure he doesn’t feel deprived. He has celiac as well so food substitutes are a way of life for our household. It’s made gardening and producing our own food even more paramount!
Wow. My son has coeliac as well as type 1!
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Hi Charles, thanks so much for all of this info. I have a question if I may?
I got blight on my tomatoes this year, can i still keep the roots of the tomato in the ground?
Yes, for sure you can! Many people will advise against that but they do not understand how lbight spores do not survive in soil and compost. Take it from me, you are totally safe doing that and you can also put the blighted plants on your compost heap, for the same reason. You have to learn to ignore a lot of what is commonly said!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you!
hi there, great video. we moved from Surrey to the Trossachs. any idea how do we adjust sowing dates throughout the year to suit Highlands climate? happy growing
A big move!
On my website we have a guide to sowing dates in the highlands of Scotland, written by somebody who lives there but currently the link is not working. We've just done a huge changeover of the website and I hope within a week it will be back, on the sowing timeline page.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you so much for your reply. Will check it out when back from my Holiday. Also wanted to ask. I've sown some radishes, pak choi, salad leaves and Chinese leaves on 5th of July and majority went straight to flower. Was it because of still very long day hours?
Yes mainly for that reason because July 5th is flowering season for those plants. First week of August is my best time for them.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig would that applay for the Highlands or shall I wait week or so for the days to get shorter?
It's getting late! Sow asap
A simple stick can serve as a dibber, and it is easily replaced for free.
I’ve used an old golf club, with the club head as my handle.
Tomatoes almost finished yet mine are still green 🤣🤣🤣. Also the birds and squirrels aren't messing with my strawberries ether. They should of stopped fruiting a few weeks ago but they're still going mental so they probably think they're done
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Does anyone know what the red flower all over his garden is? They are so pretty!
Thanks, Zinnia elegans
I am a follower from Iraq😅😅😅😅😅
Amazing, this must look so green compared to your country! May your garden prosper.
I have a Question about strawberries and no dig. Is it fine to cover the crowns in compost befor winter ( 1-2 inches ). Also would you cut them back ? ( I am in Sweden so winters with -20c sometime ).
For your winter, I would not cut them back but less straw over the top in early December, until March approximately, not too much straw
Was that onion seedlings in the large module trays in the greenhouse?
Yes spring onions
I saw what looks like chard and I have grown for the first year ( rainbow) but dont knownhow toneat it
Simply sautéed in oil with some garlic is very tasty, 3 to 4 minutes, or add to bean stews, see my cookbook www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/no-dig-cookbook
Hi Charles , can you offer any advice on how to deal with leaf miner disease ?? It's been plaguing my leafy greens all season , especially Chard and Beetroot , can't shift it , even after digging everything out , and replanting things more than once .
It's not a disease. It is bugs. Either spray with malathion or cover the crop with row cover from day one.
Digging out Andy?! These insects have been very common this year and my approach is to keep removing damage leaves to the compost heap. As long as soil is healthy and undisturbed, with sufficient organic matter, plant should grow through that and be mostly healthy. Just don't expect perfection!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig i cleared and destroyed a bed of overwintered spring onions , Swiss chard , Beetroots , and Black eye peas in spring /early summer . Thereafter i tried again with Beetroot and Chard 50 feet away from the effected bed , and lo and behold they got leaf miner damage . I'm really frustrated , i feel helpless .
Sounds like you need some insect cloth over that area.
Like yr videos. Not sure that I believe all of your claims, but good to watch either way.
Well I am not making anything up 😎, good you like them
Why don’t you give it a go yourself. Then you won’t have to ‘believe’ because you’ll know
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First like, than watch!
YT will then not count the like. Better to watch until the very end...then like.
So Charles , what happened to your Cabbage Tree in the small garden ?
It was killed by the deep frost last December John. Fortunately I had taken two cuttings from it in the autumn and now have two new plants in front of the house.
Me too 🍓 no one is eating any of the strawberries! I have 7 varieties all organic. What is happening? Oh well, more for us.
It worries me!
All very interesting from a different environment, pest problems! V sorry to hear of garlic loss
What make of watering can is the one you're using? looks rather better than the standard offerings.
Wish I could remember! Not easy to find good ones
@@CharlesDowding1nodig I found it. Rhino Easi-can from Stadium/Flambeau.
Still in their catalogue but emailing them regarding whether it was still available received a reply with nothing more than a list of stockists of all their products, none of whom have the watering cans listed.
Pity, as it is listed as being made in Europe.
Ho hum...
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i can't seem to find the video that contained how to pretect aainst slug. someone can link it here?
This short ua-cam.com/users/shortstvQVUxgBbeU
Oh my god how do you still have strawberries producing this late?! 😲
plants were in cold storage!
My strawberrys this year were also strangely un-attacked
I grew strawberries for many years and my experience was that birds would get a few the first week then not bother them the rest of the season
7:14 - the butterflies… perfection 🎥
one question I see you have a cat does your cat use your garden for its bathroom? if not what do you do to stop that from happening?
Yes garden size makes it ok and soil health reduces problems
Hello. How do you get red zinnias? I plant them and other colors come out. Thank you.
This variety Zinnia Elegans, from Bingenheimer Saatgut but others should sell them
Thank you very much, Charles. Greetings from Cantabria (Spain)@@CharlesDowding1nodig
My indeterminate strawberries also don’t get eaten in autumn. I think the birds just don’ have the searchpattern for them in the Autumn.
There's also a lot more alternative food around for them in autumn. I find our summer raspberries get attacked by the blackbirds but the autumn ones barely get a nibble. We have a bumper crop of hedgerow fruits this year so there's plenty for the birds to eat.
Good point
hello charles
Is it problem for vegetable or for soil if cat leaves her excrement in the soil?
Opinions vary. If I see one, I remove to compost.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig ok, I see only holes after dibbing.. and I know what is next to the hole.. :-) I heard only 1 opinion, that this is no good for vegetable and also some worms it can brings. So I am little bit worried about that.
Well, that's an opinion and what is the reason? It's too easy just to say something!
All I can say is that I have not observed any problems and as I say, if I find it before planting I remove to compost, and I observe no problem from doing that
Followed the link to the site , wanted the calender and diary, added to basket, couldn't find the basket to purchase, very frustrating in this heat 😢
Hi Mike, sorry you couldn't see it, it is on the top dark purple border with a picture of a shopping trolley and it is named cart.
Not to be seen on the phone , irritating but not unusual apparently, partner has it up on her laptop and ordering as I type, I hate tech 😊
Sometimes
Glad you got it sorted 🙂
@@CharlesDowding1nodig unfortunately not, close but after arriving at the payment cleared 25,50 with the bank ,it asked for £3 in taxes and £5 regular shipping, does this mean it's not coming, very confused
What do you do with all your produce?
Darlene, Charles has a market garden.
Sell it locally. Big orders today, Spar and restaurants
QUESTION: Do you have a suggesstion for those of us with hard packed clay? Maybe just dig a "little?"
I would not but some do. Roots find their way in if 10cm compost on top
Thank you!@Disabled.Megatron
Actually, this is something I’m planning as an experiment, for a portion of my outer garden, for next year.
I’ve laid down compost over the surface, with a thick layer of grass cuttings for mulch on top, in a small rectangular plot, about 4 x 20ft.
I’ve heard that certain crops laid down as a sacrificial crop, will naturally work their way into the clay claggy soil and leaving the crop in to naturally break down, will help and encourage the ingress of our friendly organisms, as well as giving them a good feed.
I’ll be trying sunflowers for the first year, but I’ve heard Craidon radishes perform a similar function.
This is an area I’ve put aside and hopefully I’ll have a better understanding by the end of next year.
Thank you!@@TransdermalCelebrate
Thank you!@@CharlesDowding1nodig
Enjoying the small garden but my friend put raised beds in and my cat loves them. Is that because the compost is loose and not compacted? I'm thinking of doing away with boxes.
It could be, plus they dry out a little more, best of luck
I’m surprised you don’t forget where you’ve seeded and then pick them out as weeds.
Indeed but there are few new weeds so that makes it a lot easier
It's likely the birds you are missing are moulting Charles, they lose their appetite when that is happening.
Do rats or mice ever nibble your leafy greens
Occasionally. Cat helps!
this guy is the grampa from stardew vally