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Creating New No Dig Beds in the UK and California
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2020
- For World Soil Day (FAO) in December 2020, we compare no dig gardening in two very different climates and gardens. Also with different plus vigorous perennial weeds.
We worked alongside Kevin Espiritu of Epic Gardening in San Diego, southern California and here is Kevin's video • How to Make a No Dig G...
Both videos shows our video calls, and how we organised and compared our gardening.
Soil is the most important part of no dig gardening. We don’t disturb it, and encourage biodiversity through feeding the organisms in soil with compost and other organic matter placed on the surface.
We thought it would be fascinating for us both to create new no dig beds and see the effects of different materials and the different weather and light levels. We have both released our own videos about this project, see them on our respective channels.
World Soil Day 5th December is organised by The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations www.fao.org/wor...
For Starting out No Dig, see my spring video • No-Dig Gardening for B...
Filmed and edited November through December 2020 by Edward Dowding. The editing job was a big one, and on a tight deadline for World Soil Day. We almost ran out of time because of our slow internet speed delaying the up- and downloads to and from Kevin.
Edward did not have time for the final check, but did a fine job nonetheless.
Homeacres is a quarter acre, no dig market and teaching garden in Somerset UK, temperate oceanic climate zone 8, latitude 51N.
For something different, see the creation of a new no dig garden in Latvia on sandy soil with just a little compost • No Dig Vegetable Garde...
For more on laying out beds and paths, see module 3 of my online course 1 charlesdowding...
For having soil clear of weeds without any digging, see module 4 charlesdowding...
For this information in a book, I published this hardback version charlesdowding...
and it's available in North America from Chelsea Green Publishing www.chelseagre...
Thanks to @inatinygarden of Instagram for helping me to meet Kevin in December 2019.
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Honored to create my first no-dig bed with you Charles! Many more to come - Kevin
I see you got a nice new wheel barrow for the occasion Kevin.. very nice. Great vid guys love the collab🖕
Kevin. If you're doing more 4 and 8ft measurements, get a straight stick, pvc or light galvanized pipe cut.
but thanks for the video, gents. I'm in a more humid, gulf coast climate. But the rain can stop for month, then 2 or more inches in a day.
keep the knowledge coming!
@@Michael_McMillan First time I've gotten that critique, curious what makes you say that?
@@jimmyb5568 Haha, much needed :P
@@frankbarnwell____ Good call!
I really love the calmness in Charles voice, very soothing really.😁
Have you tried his meditation channel? 😇
I watch these as I go to bed.
He is the Bob Ross of Gardening.
Not to discredit the creativity that Charles brings by any means. It is the nature of the person I see. A love and passion for the art that brings a cathartic and relaxing joy to his viewers. I also see a parallel in consistent success with objectively positive, yet somehow controversial methodology. (Charles' harvests and fertility remind me of Bob's ability to nestle a cabin into the woods with what appeared to be a single brush stroke.)
I love these crossover episodes! I’m a California gardener like Kevin but I’ve learned so much from Mr. Dowding.
Thank you both for creating such excellent content.
Awesome video!
When Charles speaks it's like a reading encyklopedia of gardening 🤓 and I mean it in the most positive way possible!
Love that! 😀 Edward may agree....!
Kevin is such a cool guy. Always amazing to see gardeners sharing ideas and showing genuine interest in each others methods. I can’t wait to see the progress.
@@DirtyWiscoKid Sad
Kevin is the one that introduced me (via youtube) to Mr. Dowding and the no dig method. I am currently using it to turn my whole front yard into a garden!
That is awesome!
Me too!! Mike from self sufficient me “introduced” me to Kevin. Then Kevin to Charles. And one of them to Huw. Have since made two little no dig beds. 😁
Same here! I’m so thrilled to learn about no dig! Arthritis limits what I can do, No Dig will cut down on my work.
Me too!
Dommage que vos vidéos ne soient pas traduit en français, vous faites un remarquable travail,
Bravo !!
I live in Newport, Washington and created my first no dig garden last year. I am so pleased and surprised how well everything grew. I covered one bed with hoops and plastic and have lettuce, spinach, carrots, beets, onions with snow on the ground. I didn't think it possible. Thanks!
Lovely result Cindy, thanks for sharing
I live in Rathdrum! I’m going to redo my beds to make them no dig and use hoops with plastic. Did you use your own compost?
The back to back "build" of the beds was an excellent idea...Massive fan of both channels. Still learning a lot from both of you! already waiting for the next one!
Joy. The underlying motor of your video. Joy of doing it, learning, sharing, experimenting... and a great joy for me to see. Thank you both.
Love it when my favourites team up!
Hey guys! Glad to see you both celebrated my birthday by producing this exciting collaboration day. I worked in my garden at 5:30am to escape the heat of a forecast 33 deg C and saw my neighbor who is another gardener who did not know it was World Soil Day, so I did my evangelistic best to share some of what I have learned from listening to both of you. Cheers!
Happy birthday Craig
Wow, talk about contrasting growing conditions. As a native Los Angelina who now lives in Dorset, UK. I've worked them both. All you can do with California clay is compost, compost compost, mulch and water. I didn't know what damp was til I moved here. 😆 Nor had I ever owned a winter coat. Definitely no need for sprinklers.
Lovely comment!
Chihuahua, Mexico, desert, very degraded site, top soil removed with heavy machinery, clay and caliche... ground now grows couch and Johnson grass...my almost no dig method is make a six inch/ 15 cm depth dirt well with a pick building up the sides. I dig three tree holes on the northern side of the well marked with a stick. Grasses mostly left in place. Fill well with as much compost available... about 1 or two inches directly on the grass and in the tree holes. Flood the well twice. Cover all and well walls with two layers cardboard. Wet again. Cover with six inches coarse sawdust. Flood the well. Come back in a week. Plant a peach west/north corner of the bed. Plant nitrogen fixing mezquite or jujube centre north point. Plant a plum east/north corner. To plant the trees, I remove the sawdust and cut the cardboard in a cross and dig a small hole. I then add another cardboard collar around trees when planted and replace sawdust. I plant my vegetables on the southern side of the bed by making port holes in the sawdust. I fill the port with a bit more compost and either plant seedlings or direct seeds. I cover the bed with old mezquite branches to stop the dogs digging for a cool spot. Sometimes grass invades the beds. The next year I smother it again with compost, cardboard and sawdust. By the third year the grass gives up completely. This year we have had 1 mm of rain in 15 months. We water with well water. Evaporation is our biggest issue when summer maximums are in the low 40 C.
That was great, two of my favorite gardeners. Nice to see different generations of gardeners getting together here!
Hello Mr. Dowding. I am from Chula Vista, California. I am almost 80 years old. I follow Epic Gardening as well as your channel. No dig gardening is the reason I am able to have a garden. At my age, digging and tilling will make it impossible! To prove the simplicity of it, I show my family and friends my garden with no weeds. Only an occasional one..! I explain how the structure of the soil should not be disturbed. All the things I have learned from your channel and have tried, and have had success! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I call my garden an ‘experimental lab’ because I get to try new vegetables and also my ‘therapy garden’ where I find delight and calm! I look forward to see the comparison between your gardens! I live ‘next door’ to San Diego! Thanks again!
How lovely, a great story for Christmas and I wish you many more years of garden success!
I play your films before sleeping. I admire your job an praye for you. Good job.
Awesome! Thank you Kermit, may your sleep be healthy!
Love seeing all this in the very beginning stages in 2 very different climates !!!!!
My two absolutely favorite gardeners 😌
2 legendary epic gardeners. So good to see the old bull and the young bull sharing theories around the same great idea.
Nice description 😀
Two of my favorites on one illuminating video! Thanks to both of you!!!!!
I think it would be so good if a zoom meeting can be arranged with you with participants from all around the world. Everybody can chat and share their own experiences in their own part of the world this way.
How could that work with so many people? Or do you mean a limited amount, a few?
Charles and Kevin! Good show! Lots of gardening knowledge!
Interesting. Kevin's area gets more light and is warmer but the Summer is very Hot and dry. No dig works anywhere as long as you adapt to the environment you're in. Thank you.
I live in NS, Canada, have been using no dig veg gardening in my front lawn for past 3 years, love it, it is the only way to go. Thank You Charles.
I use tulle from fabric shop or Walmart to cover brassicas. Can also buy online. Cheap, and very light. Also used old carpet on perimeter in aisles between beds to keep down weeds.
Relaxing here in Chicago as the winter begins, watching 2 of my favorites!
Nothing more Godly than sharing knowledge with another human. Thank you Sir. !
This was so great to watch ...legendary Charles Dowding going strong..such amazing huge gardens lovely
Made me smile to hear you both talk of an inch of rain. Here in Argyll in the west of Scotland we'll be lucky if we get less than an inch before tomorrow morning. My general rain gauge is leaving a wheel barrow out and it's quite often full over night!!
Funny! (sorry)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig really enjoyed the video and the interaction between you and Kevin. Thankyou. A question....you dug out the bramble root...the next beds we are going to make are over pasture with quite a number of what the locals call rashes, soft rushes I believe. Should I just mulch over or would it be better to try and dig the root out?
@@LadyfieldFarm I would remove all the main clumps, a fair job, suggests wet ground
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you, yes the ground is most certainly wet. We have however put our polytunnel in the same area with cardboard, 4 inches of cow manure plus 2 inches of bought in mushroom compost and the garlic planted 3 weeks ago is doing really well and the composted area is certainly not waterlogged so we shall see how we go. Thanks again.
Ladyfield Farm, I’m with you. 6” in 24 hours is not too unusual here west of Seattle. I had to laugh about someone complaining of 50% humidity. It’s rare we fall below 80%, even in summer the lowest humidity comes with freezing temps. Diversity is good though, eh?
Brilliant project, I've just passed to friends who will be starting a new garden in Scotland.
World soil day. This is also new to me.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
Oh my gosh. I've been binge watching both your channels. I come from Devon (50 miles from Charles) and am now based in Northern California and my big question re Charles no dig approach was my drier climate. Inspired by Charles, I've decided to convert my entire (1/6th acre) yard to no dig vegetable growing in a multi phase approach starting next week. This could not be more timely. I'm so excited Charles and Kevin. Bravo to the mistakes as this is how we learn.
So cool!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig yeah, building four 4x4 compost bins over this weekend. I've been collecting brown and green stuff for a couple of weeks. Then it's cardboard and wood chip over 50% of the yard to start the weeding process, while the compost develops. Simultaneously, I start propogation. So excited. Thanks so much for being my inspiration and a great teacher.
Interesting about getting the bulk compost delivered and leaving it for three months to finish decomposing.
Two of my favourite gardening youtubers come together again!
Wonderful collaboration, you two!
By far...the most exciting video and prospect I have ever seen!
I am excited for ALL of us to see the most amazing transformation of what most would deem an impossibility!
It takes courage to try something new and against all criticism.
The results WILL speak for themselves.
Can hardly wait!
Connie 🐝
Cheers Connie :)
Fantastic, please do more videos on how to prepare a bed just like you do and start growing. This is really invaluable!
You have been my constant compost motivation and inspiration this summer! Love that you guys did this collaboration!
So glad! Thanks
Thank you kindly for sharing .Peace out fellow earthlings
This was a great share! Way cool to see the comparisons of the gardens. We used to not have slugs over here in Central Texas either. It's usually very dry and hot. And this year I saw slugs everywhere! Climate change is happening more so this year than any other. It's barely December now and I'm growing swiss chard, my lemon tree is making its first lemon. It's a dwarf Meyer. And I have cherry tomatoes! My Cilantro n parsley is thriving so far without complaint. The temps are dropping to 35°F at night for about 4 -5 hours a night and by 4am it rises to the 40°Fs-50°Fs. And it's about 60°F-70°F in the afternoon. It won't officially drop in temps over here until late January -February. My container garden is on the South side of my home on a 12'x4' concrete slab. So it warms very quickly. This is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
I'm so happy I discovered this channel! I have been binge-watching your videos the last two days.
I live in Sweden where we've had ~ -15C/-10C up until about two weeks ago and now the spring is pretty much here (but it might get cold again, the climate up here can be really unpredictable). Anyway, I recently moved from an appartment to this very cozy tiny house and I'll be starting on my first, big growing project. At first I felt a bit overwhelmed by this idea of doing it by myself, especially since it's been about eight years since I studied gardening and I've only been growing tomatoes, summer squash and herbs a few times since then.
Now that I've watched your videos I'm more motivated than ever! I promised myself to not overdo it the first year, but we'll see about that...
My main challenge is going to be to find enough cheap compost to cover all the areas where I'm planning to make beds.
I have this idea of using a bunch of raised beds (both that are already available to me and build a few more) and fill them with tree trunks and branches at the bottom to mimic a "Hugelkultur". Do you have any experience with that by any chance?
Anyhow, thank you for putting the effort into making all this content available to us. You are a real inspiration and master of your craft. Truly worthy the title "Bob Ross of gardening"!
Looking forward to garden along with you this year, and I'll make sure to have a look at Kevin's channel to follow his progress.
Peas!
Nice to hear Reggie.
I am not convinced by hugels, and that is based on my experience. If you find people proclaiming them, make sure it is based on evidence. They are not so easy to manage (eh water sloping sides), a lot of work to set up and involve digging!
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you for the advice! I'll keep on digging for more information about the method. Perhaps it's only for the better to start off with one smaller bed and see how it works.
Great idea for a tutorial video. Also, I enjoy the collaboration with you and Kevin. It will be interesting to see the results from two extremely varying climates. Thank you, sir.
Looking forward to this collaboration. Love to watch both of your channels.
I made one this year also. Scraped the weeds and grass off the top. put down cardboard and wet it thoroughly. Then put the boarder around it. 28 inches wide and 15 feet long, 6 inches high. Filled almost to the top with compost. easiest garden bed I have ever made. Found it all here... this channel. Best on YT.
😀 many thanks and good to hear
Living up in zone 2b (sub-arctic) in northern Canada, my gardeners heart just cries watching you two plant in winter! Oh if only!! I love both of your chanels so much! Im trying to learn how to extend my very short season a little bit for more fun and food! Thanks so much for your teaching!!
Your season does sound maddeningly brief, and it must be very intense once things start to grow.
Uing propagation plus row covers is so worthwhile, I wish you success
Lovely, thank you Charles and Kevin
I love you and I love Kevin. This is a perfect video.🌼
Enjoying sitting in on the discussion with these gentlemen.
Thank you both. My takeaways for a downtown backyard in West Virginia that used to be a railroad bed: 1- If compost is not finished and is put in a bed, it makes more of a tight mass that doesn’t do as well holding water, 2- a 4’x8’ bed requires about 1/2 ton of finished compost, 3- dig out woody roots, 4- cover crops in wet climates can promote slugs (I have enough of those!), and 5- “think like a Gardener”! Onward
I loved this video. Thank you for making and posting it.
This was very interesting to watch the compared beds come together. More videos like this would be nice, thanks. I did a no-dig without the boards after watching one of your vids and it is doing well after three months.
Noted!
Brilliant video!! I am 16 and I have just left school due to Covid as I have a couple of autoimmune conditions and doing A-Levels from home proved to be extremely difficult 😞 so I decided to step back from this year and I have a place in next year’s class if I decide to go back and re-start my A-Levels. I was doing Geography, Chemistry and Business Studies and found them all extremely interesting, especially physical Geography and Chemistry! I only found your channel yesterday and I think I have found exactly what I want to do; help others become as self sustainable as possible! I’ve recently been clearing out my garden and have really been enjoying being out in nature and planning for this year! I’m so happy that I’ve stumbled upon your videos and I’m not usually one for fate but I believe this happened for a reason! Thank you so much Charles! You are an inspiration to me and many others, thank you 🥰🪴 xx
Hello Aimee, I am very happy to read this, you must have good life awareness to be making these decisions so early. Brilliant. The A-levels I studied were maths, further maths, chemistry and geography! I wish you success on your new path.
Thank you so much! The was fantastic to watch!
You made my day!
I'm looking forward to making my first bed this spring. This has been so helpful, thank you! :D I always look forward to your videos! Cheers from America!
Awesome! Thank you!
Loved this video - my two favourite gardeners collaborating 👍👍
So glad!
The vid of ruths lead me to her book which lead me to you Charles . Fantastic path. I have been using old hay with compost in the fall for seven or so years now . I love to garden this way. thank you for bring it to the world. Cheers
Wonderful!!
Excellent idea comparing different climates. I love learning from Charles, but my climate is NOT like his climate, so this is super helpful.
Another great video Charles. This experiment will answer a lot of questions to those in climates similar to Kevin’s! Great collab
I am going to buy compost to mulch my beds next fall. I am convinced :)
We started renovating a derelict small market garden this year. We used the hand -edged beds throughout the first out door garden area and inside the first polytunnel. We found the polytunnel beds without the edging were very flexible as we grew and cleared the different crops undercover. The cardboard was put down for the initial bed areas, but we used ground fabric for the areas between because of the very heavy weed load of the ground. We were delighted to find a new gardener had moved in to help with pests- Mr Toad! We just love this approach to growing our food especially as I have bad arthritis, I can enjoy growing without huge amounts of digging, and the vegetables are so easy to lift.
Cool, lovely work
Hello Mr. Dowding! Love how you used the wooden boards to help mound up the compost and keep the bed shape while firming the compost along with extending the cardboard out further past the bed borders to keep the grass at bay! I will make sure to do this. Thank you!!
Nice work Debbie 👍
What a lovely surprise finding this video tonight - big fan of both you - true professionals, I hope there are more vids to come in 2021! 👌🤩
Very interesting Charles, I wish that I had come across you year’s ago. I have managed to convert a couple of my mates on our site to no dig this year.
It's good to see the differences and similarities, gardening in two parts of the world
What a great comparison video for two completely different climates. I love watching all your videos Charles and it’s so nice to see Kevin try this method out in California. I can’t wait to see the follow up video!
Nice one guys, can’t wait for comparisons over the next few months, with the lovely weather in Santiago and the dreadful wet ,cold weather of the UK! Could be interesting! 👍🇬🇧🇺🇸
Thanks Charles you and Adam from Allotment Grow How channel are the best.
We get gully washer rain here on the east coast US so I’ve learned to put down ten inches of wood chip over the cardboard and keep it wet. Then I make rows into or blobs, depending on the bed design and put the compost directly into the rows. Just pull the chips away and use compost in the rows. Otherwise the compost would all wash away!
Also, the weight of the wet chips over the cardboard keeps the Bermuda out.
Love the comparison gardens idea. After all, we watchers are all different, and have different soils, also. When I made my first no dig last March, I laid cardboard on the walkways, also. Then covered them with 8" of hay flakes, Inside the boards (5-6") I put composted wood mulch which had 10% manure in it then my grandson (4yo) and I stomped all over the new beds. My SIL thought I was crazy not to dig up the grass and weeds, but I did pull the strong tall perennial weeds up by the roots which was only about 9-10 in total. Once the composted mulch was stomped, I was able to again cover the beds with more mulch, stomp again, and repeat again. Then I planted. It worked like a charm, I rarely see any weeds so don't 'weed' but just pull up any little ones that may grow. I bet I haven't spent more than 1 hour since March in pulling weeds. I added more mulch once the beans and cukes were done in July but didn't fertilize or anything since. Getting ready this week to pull all the sweet potatoes and plant my garlic. Then I'll get busy planting the spinach and lettuce. (Florida) One good thing about planting in this compost wood mulch is that it does drain quickly. I watered almost every night during the summer unless it rained which it did ALL the time. I'm totally sold on this no-dig system with my little 3 long beds and 1 long row of fabric pots. LOVE it!
Amazing step by step Mary! happy you had and are having a wonderful result. Hope the SIL is happier now!
I'm glad your at the forefront of this Charles.
I follow you both although your climates are both different from Colorado. I did my first no dig garden last year and had the best veggie garden I ever had.🙂❤
Lovely to hear this Lisa!
5.12.2020 👍🏻🙏🏻 thank you for such interesting comparison!❤️❤️
The way I got rid of a terrible Bermuda Grass (in California) was to 1. Dig out and pull what was possible, then 2. planted very thickly with red cowpeas mixed with a cover crop. That got rid of a massive Bermuda batch. For a couple years, I would occasionally pull out some stragglers, but eventually it was mostly gone. A little edge that still came through, I smothered it out with Lippia, a lovely California Native groundcover. The one problem I still have is where the roots of the Bermuda grass are under the concrete, but we just remove it periodically.
Another method!
This is such a cool thing you two are doing!
Amazing as always mr dowding
Fantastic idea Charles and Kevin. The video and audio quality are superb by the way. I felt like I was at the cinema (movies) when I went 'full screen' except, of course, it was far more interesting watching you two and learning about 'no-dig' :-) Anyway, 'hats off' to the cameraman and the technical production team! (PS. I've still got the Cauliflower Christmas card from a few years back Charles - thank you, it meant a lot).
Awesome, thank you pg and at my end, Edward will love your feedback, he puts a lot of time into the quality aspects, many invisible, but noticeable if not done
Charles, your compost is always so beautiful! I have compost envy...bad. Motivated by you, I started a new bin with the chicken wire I had on hand and organic materials I have in plenty....tree leaves, lots of coffee grounds from a nearby shop and wood ash. I made the pile 6 ft diameter by 5 ft high. I'm in zone 5B. I plan on tending it this winter... Hoping to have some compost by late spring. Thanks for sharing!
You can do it Julie but in winter it will decompose slowly, good luck
Best regards from Sardinia Italy! 😜
Great video, throughly enjoyed watching you both.
another fine video
Charles I just loved this video- I have been in my garden since 5am this morning as it is 34C here in Brisbane Australia & needed to get some seedlings I had grown in- Thank Goodness I have a large sail over my garden otherwise I don't think I could grow in our Summer here. Would love to see Zoom meetings with others around the world as that would be so interesting. Cheers Denise - Australia
Good luck with the heat Denise!
Great video guys! I hope you will make some follow up. I’m currently working on some compost (homemade)to great a few beds with Charles’ method of no dig but in a tropical climate
Best of luck Bruno
Muchas Gracias por los subtitulos en Español!!!
Great video gents! I am in the North of England in Manchester and we get even more rain than Charles does!
I am putting the majority of my effort and time into the soil at the moment as I am starting out ready for spring. Already got garlic on the go in my raised beds. Definitely come to the conclusion that no dig is the best option.
Good luck Owen
Wow, what a treat that was!
🥰👏🏽💫👨🌾
I’m in San Diego too, and I revitalized some land in my yard. All I did was throw compost and mulch on top and kept it watered. Amazing how the ground changed and became loamy and lighter. And I can’t believe how many worms I have now
How lovely to hear this, congratulations
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you! I’ve learned a lot from you.
Brilliant.
In south of France, I have the same kind if soil than you Kevin. When I put the first layers of cardboard, I water this to make it stick to the soil, and because I don't want it dryes my compost first. 🌱💚🌱
So appriciate your information
Last year I created a new method from your insightful garden methods. I took all my frames out of my garden beds. Now I am for this first year using your method in my whole garden yet I feel so encouraged to try more experimented beds and am grateful to having such success to share my abundance of fresh vegetables
Nice work Melanie!
Kevin, I would have soaked the cardboard layers before covering them with compost, given the dryness of San Diego.
Yup that was a tip I missed!
Great look forward to the results. If I was Kevin I would be growing Avocados, the one thing that really doesn't grow in even mild conditions
I'll be planting 2 varieties soon!
Pomegranates, I was thinking.
I really liked this comparison. I really liked watching you both learn from each other. Oregon here. And I have champion sized slugs!
We do know how to breed them!
Charles, I just wanted to say that I spent this past year making do dig flower and veg beds and it’s been transformative. My garden and home were abandoned for 20 years and by suppressing the weeds with cardboard and many tons of compost everything was thriving despite many plants being young plugs and seedlings. My perennials put on so much growth. It truly is worth the investment in compost! thank you for your videos!
Wonderful to read this Sullivan.
As you say, the investment is worthwhile, and keeps on giving.
Would love to see a followup on both beds!
Wow Espiritu, what a cool name, mine is Smith, LOL
Smith is lovely 💚
I'm in North Carolina in America. We I planted over Bermuda grass using this cardboard then compost. I planted right away and although some grass comes up in the pathway it is easily pulled out. When I see it I throw more cardboard down my beds have been clear though. Charles I just got your book and calendar, amazing! Thank you! Kevin I think you'll be converted to in ground no dig soon.
Super feedback, thanks and well done
This collaboration video is GREAT!! Will be rewatching this!
Slugs and snails are relatively less prevalent in the US northeast due to the rather harsh winters which helps control their populations. Still a potential concern, but not omnipresent.
I'm in Ohio and we started having major problems in the garden right behind our house when we added wood mulch. Our garden in the back of our property hasn't had issues yet. Maybe it's because the micro climate is cold enough... Technically we're not the North East, but we're very close.
Mulches don’t help with slugs. To me, mulches only belong around annual crops when slugs aren’t an issue. A bed of tomatoes or peppers can be mulched. Straw, leaves or moss is my favorite mulch for this context because fine stuff like chips are very hard to collect if you want to rake it up later.
I think the California guy should invest in a drip irrigation system. Saves water and gives better results in dry climates.
he has one actually 😌
Drip irrigation are not very good for the soil, it gives water to plants but it creates dry spot where roots of your vegetables won't go, same for bacterias, worms, etc... I think with clay it's good to water not too often but with big amount of water at once.
Loved this video, followed Kevin since he visited you last year. Great combination of styles and skills., the Jedi Master and the Padawan , both very passionate about their craft. Would love to see more of you guys working together
Glad you enjoyed it! Let's see :)
Master Charles, always a major source of inspiration. Im all fallow now 1100 sq ft ready for planting, good soil, my plot was undisturbed for 10 years. Now it time for red chidori, bluescotch, spigareello liscia, toscanno, winter red, white Russian, red Russian, red ursa. That was almost off the top of my head. As much as humanly possible, im set for a few thousand. Just because. Its really opened my eyes to the importance of compost for fertilizer. I am going to start composting professionally, i want to learn all i can about it and im setting up a community project to feed green waste to me. Im going to be the compoting machine. Imagine, if all the household across the uk put their waste back into their gardens, wow.
That sounds really good and I wish you every success. Yes that is amazing to imagine