Honestly Charles…your like a therapy session! I’m so informed and relaxed…you’re that added confidence I need sometimes to tackle certain jobs in the garden! Thank you for all your online time!…and the smile and enthusiasm I’m left with 😊
Just discovered your videos and it's transformed my life. New garden, new composters cooking away, new vegetable patch....all in the COVID days. So grateful to be outside sharing the joys of no dig gardening. Thank you SO much. I watch and learn a little bit each day!
We started no dig last year when we found your Chanel and have found it to be far superior to getting the tiller out and spending hours basically destroying the soil structure. It is a lot easier to manage the weeds as they just pull out, no digging. Every video you post gives even more ideas on how to do better, thank you.
Hi Anne, I had the same positive experience, starting with No Dig last year, albeit with just a couple of small beds after discovering Mr. Dowdings' channel. Now already lettuce, brassica, chards and beetroot plants are growing steadily on my plot while in the other vegetable gardens in the village, people are just starting to work the soil... 😉 The No Dig method proves its self already. Thank you Charles, for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I love your quiet, humble and kind demeanor. You are a gentle soul and refreshing to listen to. And inspire new ideas in my gardening. Hello from Virginia. And God bless you and keep you.
devdas Devdas If BBC ever got ahold if it, or him I should say, they'd ruin it and also make it unavailable to the public. I agree with you though, we need more shows like this!
I have heard Both Alan T and Monty mention no dig gardening. I would like like to see schools get involved, kids would love watching bare patches of earth come to life if they kept all their hedge trimmings and etc. Throw a bit of homemade compost ontop and grow pumpkins or something, sunflowers..
In these times of economic crisis and where human jobs are being taken over by robots and machines - it's the current battle in EU at the moment, stopping machines taking over cashiers, secretaries, bookkeeping, post etc. - and reduced pensions, it certainly is an ideal way of life.
It amazes me how one can relay so much knowledge ad-lib without thinking. Obviously Charles loves his work and it comes over in the videos. I have learnt so much and cannot stop watching the different videos.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge- and taking the time to give us visuals. I am having great success with compost, layering and mulching, largely due to the content you put out. 😊
Don't know what I was doing, but just discovered this channel. Must say the combination of your farm and voice makes it such a pleasure to watch. So loving binge watching your videos! Thanks!
What a beautiful gift to wake up to on a dreary sunday morning. Thank you for sharing your wisdom Charles, as a new gardener with a disability tou have helped me immensely. Blessing to you.
I just love watching you! You are so happy in your element. You have have taught me some very enlightening knowledge through your videos. I am getting so in tuned with fungi and the micro organisms below that I've discovered not only how incredibly important they are for our beautiful plants but also for our health and well being. I started taking lions mane mushroom tincture and what a difference I am experiencing in life. It helps my memory, it helps my emotions be balanced and I really think they help me remember to be happy! Cheers and thank you so much!
Watching your videos is like taking a little stroll in the Garden of Eden, Charles. Absolutely love them! Thank you for all the effort that goes into creating these treasures x
Charles your passion and enthusiasm for gardening and in particular no dig etc is very clear and infectious. Your videos are great to watch because I am learning all kinds of things that years of gardening from books and TV shows or magazines never taught me. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and experience.
Really, that is good to hear, because of your videos, my sister and I were inspired to start a garden, so far we have planted cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, coriander, peas, beans, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, ginger, garlic and egg plants, we can send you a picture if you like, please continue sharing your videos, though we live in a different continent with a different climate, we are learning a lot from you. thank you again.
Excellent report Charles thank you. I can't wait to see how our new plot works this year(we're in south Cheshire so our seasons a little later than yours). Having not grow my own veg for some thirty odd years and following the no dig principles I'm excited. I planted out some seeds in a raised planter last week and already they have germinated and bursting through😄Your free information and experiences are very educating and have given me the energy to get on with it cheers.
Great video Charles, i am very pleased to see that white material which is there in my soil and compost also saying I am in the right direction. Thanks
Thank you sir Charles. Your the best. Your garden really great. I was inspired by your method. Now im doing my own no dig garden here in our country. Applying what I've learned from your videos. And my also documenting my progress and sharing it own my own channel Agri-nihan.
Thank you so much. I love every one of your videos. You have inspired me to grow so much. Your voice and mindset is so peaceful and calm. Thank you so much.
It's great to see a video from a few days ago, to get a current picture of how developed your garden is at this time of year. It really helps me to judge where I am, relative to a master grower. My biggest lesson from you last year was to understand that early multisown modules are the ideal start to a no-dig growing season. There are now only a few seeds, which I feel can't be sown early in module trays. Carrots would be the main seed that I'd still only sow directly into the ground. I went by the sowing dates on your calendar. Thanks Charles!
Watching on Feb 17, 2024. Been on another video binge! Already over watered my first seedlings. Feeling guilty! Your teaching videos are so beneficial Thank you Charles!
derek a : Hey Kentucky! Not to deflate any enthusiasm .... Aware that we've entered into a Grand Solar Minimum ("mini" ice age)? YT channel Adapt 2030: fantastic. Interviews: John L Casey, Anita Bailey PhD, Lee Wheelbarger, Robert Felix, Ice Age Farmer, Ardruino Tronic (UK), Adapt 2030. Start with Casey's interviews. He mentions the New Madrid Seismic Zone..... Video: "The Cloud Mystery" by Henrik Svensmark. Easy to understand. Excellent. Massive crop changes coming worldwide due to phenomenal climate changes ahead.... Food prices to skyrocket 2020+. Also, YT channel: Mr. Chickadee (Kentucky, built small wood house by hand, old fashioned tools...) Cheers from Massachusetts.
Your garden is always so wonderful to visit🐞 it's getting pretty hot here in Central Florida, so I'm very limited on what I can grow now until Sept. Thank you so much for sharing Charles Dowding🌻 it's always so great to see you!
I'm a total convert to no dig.I have a field which has always been weed and stone infested problem.With no dig and composting it's turned into a small vegetable garden which is fantastic.I have a small poly tunnel and following Charles videos,the results are amazing.Charles has got me interested in gardening again,as the back breaking toil has gone.
Great video Charles, thanks for sharing your knowledge and I can really see & feel your passion for your vegies and compost. Heaps me get motivated, cheers
Charles Dowding - Great inspirational video. I honestly get so well impressed with your garden. Definitely a beacon to follow, regarding production and land stewardship in one pack. Thanks for that and also for sharing basic simple techniques. That is a true "guide" to avoid tilling the soil to death altogether. The fields (not mine) in front of my window have been worked with a sequence of plough, raking, chemical fertilizer, disk arrow, huge amounts of manure than more raking and disk. Quite impressive I might say, but not in a good way. That as been going on for little more than 2 weeks. That's a huge amount of diesel, two heavy duty tractors. From dawn to sundown, some days into the night... No dig, keeping "life" in the soil, makes so much more sense. If for nothing else the expense and workload alone. Is a good excuse in our money hungry society... ;-) Once more thanks. Cheers
Your composting system is absolutely amazing. I'd love sometime to see a video detailing your composting housing there -- type of wood, construction foundation, joints, fencing, etc. Thank you for yet another wonderful video.
Cheers for the lecture in Norway! I learned lots. The Diary has been an excellent guide as well. Broad beans were planted out too early last Fall and a mild winter led to too much growth before the freeze came. Lesrned a bit there. Carrots too are still a bugger but I think fleecing is the answer over mesh. I’m sure they want the warmth not just wind protection. Don’t forget a vid on companion planting! You’re the best, thanks.
My veg journal will be here today, the diary tomorrow and the calendar and book combo are on the way from Home Acres! This is going to be an exciting year for my garden. I hope to continue to build my relationship with the soil and plant life in my care so we can benefit from them in turn. I’m learning to be a part of the cycle respectfully and not seeing it as separate from myself. Life is full of small beautiful wonders like radishes plucked from their bed in winter for my plate 💙
I thank you Sir, for your teachings and the enthusiasm in which you bring in your viewers and try to let us know that gardening is not as daunting as we sometimes we make it out to be, if we only just get in there and do something. I do Love your "Homeacres", what a Beautiful place! ;)
our gardens we always tilled and fertilized and added sand or mushroom compost, and got loads and loads of weeds. last year before growing season I convinced the others to bury the whole bed. I buried it under leaves and bits from forest floor, layered on that 3 inches of straw some of it being soaked straw inoculated with wine cap mushrooms, then buried all that with 3 inches of small wood chips. the mushrooms quickly spread through the straw and chips, and planted rows of crops in it and both mushrooms and crops grew well. at first some of the straw had grass seed that popped up but as of now theres nearly zero weeds and we largely increase our yield by getting loads of mushroom and vegetables from the same spot.
Didn't miss the music till you pointed it out - next time save the $, esp if it's going to be a hassle! Thanks for your videos - we are in full swing here using your methods and I've never had so many plants to play with. I love it!
Hi Charles - I can recommend carrots and parsnips in soil blocks and you put them out at cotyledon stage. No adverse impact on the tap root at all. Especially good for the patchy germinator, parsnips. You get absolutely perfect rows!! Very nice video.
I love the amazing enthusiasm of Charles. I will follow his methods and thinking when I start building my home garden next year in Climate Zone 6b. Thanks a lot for your herculean effort and for making it easy for mere mortals like me.
Hello Charles, one thing I want to add about making your own compost. I have heard people including myself, through the years that making compost is to much work, but continue to either turn the garden over with a spade or use a gas powered tiller. Since I’ve been following you for about 3-4 years, I’ve been making my own compost and following your advice, and I really think that you and your gardening wisdom have added at least 5 or more years to this 75 y/o gardeners back, and enjoying my garden more. Thank you
I've really enjoyed using your methods this spring, as well as sharing them with my family. My garden has made me so happy and now my mom and sister are happy with their own little growing gardens as well! I love telling people about no-dig and multisown modules, etc. as well as how you harvest lettuce (my mom enjoys this). Thanks Charles keep the great content coming 👍
So inspiring. Who on Earth could give this a thumbs-down? Charles, you have become the grand-master of vegetable growing. All of your books and videos have been a pleasure to read and to watch. Obviously you plan meticulously because it is a business, but your dedication to tidiness demonstrates why this method of gardening can be so profitable for all of us - pest prevention, early cropping, etc. Thank you. R & T.
Very informative video, my thanks again. It would be really interesting if in a future video you could highlight the fungal 'biosphere' aspect, and perhaps the worm /bug contribution to 'no dig'. I hear so many talk about 'no weeds', and 'compost' (both of which are important issues of course) but it always seems to me that is the underlying health of the soil in this method that is in contrast to the 'rotate, fertilise, weed killer' approach. I also hear so many who garden on clay, that 'no dig' is not possible for them. It occurs to me that the 'no dig' approach is perhaps more applicable to them than the rest of us! I learn something great every time I watch or read your work - my thanks.
Happy Spring! And greetings from FL zone 9b! My garden (compost on sand) is really doing well, thanks in large part to your excellent advice and no-dig gardening! Once again, must say that I truly enjoyed, and are greatly benefiting from, your online course.
As always, following you and working my small garden here in Virginia, zone 7b. My lettuces, kale, and spinach have over wintered and still going. My radishes are coming up and garlic is looking good-planted back in Oct. Thanks for all your advice.
If you can't keep up with this guy's planting, buy his Diary. I am kind of smug that I have stuff in the ground and food to harvest for the first time so early, no greenhouse, just window sills and a cold frame. Big thanks Charles.
I'm in my final year of university and I was looking for a new hobby. Your videos are inspiring me to take up gardening productively! I've already started off my peas and beetroot and I can't wait to get them into the ground. Thank you for making such engaging and informative videos :)
Hello Charles, TY for this encyclopaedic review. I'd like to share you an interesting trick to accelerate carrots germination. After the sowing, I put a plastic sheet over it ; and they germinate much faster. You can also use bubble wrap just during germination time. It works very well. It's quicker than a polypropylene mesh. I tested both methods ; and under plastic, if you choose a favourable period, you can expect a seedling emergence into 7 to 10 days ! Have a nice Sunday, Sam
Natural Vegan Mom : comment is there: Purple circle on left. He's from Kentucky. We are in a Grand Solar Minimum ... read that comment! Canada is going to get utterly slammed with snow and freezing cold as is most of north of the Equator!
I had been worried for my celery starts until I saw yours. Mine are smaller, but in USDA zone 4b, it'll be a while after you before I can get them in the ground.
love your videos,. 28 April 3:30 am currently 20 degrees F. soil temp between 40 and 50 degrees F. Our average last frost date mid June and first fall frost mid September. If gardening were too easy it would not be so much fun but I do love grazing in my garden and greenhouses. :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon 4750 elevation makes for challenging growing. I use lots of season extenders and try to be patient and wait for the cooler weather to pass. Next weeks forecast is for day time highs in low 70's but still need to not get too excited more frost will come.
Washington State just passed a law allowing human composting, so it's possible. slate.com/technology/2019/04/composting-human-bodies-recompose-washington-state-law.html
I have A big favor to ask of you, PLEASE, there is this little 4 yr old boy from another utube channel who is absolutely in love with you, and his mom has a gardening channel called ROOTS AND REFUGE, they go live every sunday night at 7 pm usa time, Please go there next sunday and say hi to the boy in the chat, his name is BEN he will remember this for the rest of his life I know it, everytime someone mentions the name charles he says is charles dowding here? he loves you so much, , so would you please go to there live channel next sunday or the next and say hi to ben or talk to him, there whole family would love this, there great people and god loving people, her gardening channel and garden beds are awesome, It would mean the world to me and his family, I love and always watch all your videos , thank you charles for what you do , your amazing...This is LORI a great FAN...
well she posts everyday on her utube, ROOTS AND REFUGE if you could leave a message in her comments for BEN that would be great tell him lori sent ya.....please, thanks..
Honestly Charles…your like a therapy session! I’m so informed and relaxed…you’re that added confidence I need sometimes to tackle certain jobs in the garden! Thank you for all your online time!…and the smile and enthusiasm I’m left with 😊
How lovely and this cheers me up!
Just discovered your videos and it's transformed my life. New garden, new composters cooking away, new vegetable patch....all in the COVID days. So grateful to be outside sharing the joys of no dig gardening. Thank you SO much. I watch and learn a little bit each day!
Heather that is wonderful good news!! Thanks
Is not only your technique, but the affection you have for the plants, that makes them even more beautiful.
Ah thanks
We started no dig last year when we found your Chanel and have found it to be far superior to getting the tiller out and spending hours basically destroying the soil structure. It is a lot easier to manage the weeds as they just pull out, no digging. Every video you post gives even more ideas on how to do better, thank you.
Good to hear this Anne!
Hi Anne, I had the same positive experience, starting with No Dig last year, albeit with just a couple of small beds after discovering Mr. Dowdings' channel. Now already lettuce, brassica, chards and beetroot plants are growing steadily on my plot while in the other vegetable gardens in the village, people are just starting to work the soil... 😉 The No Dig method proves its self already. Thank you Charles, for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Lovely to hear this Carmen
I love your quiet, humble and kind demeanor. You are a gentle soul and refreshing to listen to. And inspire new ideas in my gardening. Hello from Virginia. And God bless you and keep you.
Thankyou Richard
You are always half/smiling, half/talking, it is sooo funny!!! You seem SO happy !!!! Thank you for all the info again, very helpful. cheerio
It's the microbes :)
I absolutely love listening to you. Such a knowledgeable person. Please continue to share with us. Thank you....
They should show this on bbc and itv garden make overs instead of making decking and covering with concrete
devdas Devdas If BBC ever got ahold if it, or him I should say, they'd ruin it and also make it unavailable to the public. I agree with you though, we need more shows like this!
I would love to see more natural gardening shows like this. The audience is there and it would inspire people to start gardening too.
I have heard Both Alan T and Monty mention no dig gardening.
I would like like to see schools get involved, kids would love watching bare patches of earth come to life if they kept all their hedge trimmings and etc. Throw a bit of homemade compost ontop and grow pumpkins or something, sunflowers..
@@gwjay2022 Charles has appeared on Gardeners World, and the Scottish TV show Beechgrove Garden is converting to no-dig.
In these times of economic crisis and where human jobs are being taken over by robots and machines - it's the current battle in EU at the moment, stopping machines taking over cashiers, secretaries, bookkeeping, post etc. - and reduced pensions, it certainly is an ideal way of life.
It amazes me how one can relay so much knowledge ad-lib without thinking. Obviously Charles loves his work and it comes over in the videos. I have learnt so much and cannot stop watching the different videos.
Thanks and yes, I am very familiar with my garden!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge- and taking the time to give us visuals. I am having great success with compost, layering and mulching, largely due to the content you put out. 😊
Happy Spring! Glad you’re back. Looking forward to learning lots this new gardening season. 👩🌾🥕🥬🥒
Perfect way to start a sunny Sunday -Watching this. ☺️
Don't know what I was doing, but just discovered this channel. Must say the combination of your farm and voice makes it such a pleasure to watch. So loving binge watching your videos! Thanks!
Happy to hear this
Baby celery is adorable! Need to add it to my must grow list
What a beautiful gift to wake up to on a dreary sunday morning. Thank you for sharing your wisdom Charles, as a new gardener with a disability tou have helped me immensely. Blessing to you.
Go to Kevin
I just love watching you! You are so happy in your element. You have have taught me some very enlightening knowledge through your videos. I am getting so in tuned with fungi and the micro organisms below that I've discovered not only how incredibly important they are for our beautiful plants but also for our health and well being. I started taking lions mane mushroom tincture and what a difference I am experiencing in life. It helps my memory, it helps my emotions be balanced and I really think they help me remember to be happy! Cheers and thank you so much!
Watching your videos is like taking a little stroll in the Garden of Eden, Charles. Absolutely love them! Thank you for all the effort that goes into creating these treasures x
Best garden videos on the internet!😎👍
And "...Echoes of Winter and the promise of Summer..." @ 1:25 is the best poetry on the internet :)
This guy is the Bob Ross of gardening!
Bahahaha this made me laugh... But it's soo true!!
He has "happy plants".
Yes that's Perfect! lol
You are so right! Can I steal your title for Charles?!
@@adriennescott6831 Steal away to your heart's content!
I just love this channel.
Beautiful Charles! Everything always looks so amazing!
Great weekend inspiration!
Thank you Mr Dowding for your wonderful knowledge you continue to share
Love watching and learning so much.
Another excellent video. Your enthusiasm for expressing no dig just keeps giving. Thank you!
Charles your passion and enthusiasm for gardening and in particular no dig etc is very clear and infectious. Your videos are great to watch because I am learning all kinds of things that years of gardening from books and TV shows or magazines never taught me. Thank you for sharing your skills, knowledge and experience.
Nice to hear Vera
Your passion is, as always, infectious. Please keep inspiring me and others with these wonderful videos. Thank you.
Hi Charles. Thank you for a transformed way of gardening. I could save much time and work less
I can watch your videos all day, so interesting, greetings from Zambia Africa.
Thanks Monica, I gardened in Zambia for a few weeks in 1992, such a different climate
Really, that is good to hear, because of your videos, my sister and I were inspired to start a garden, so far we have planted cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, broccoli, coriander, peas, beans, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, ginger, garlic and egg plants, we can send you a picture if you like, please continue sharing your videos, though we live in a different continent with a different climate, we are learning a lot from you. thank you again.
ah brilliant, thanks and you could send a photo via the Contact page on my website
Thank-you for all you share! It’s such a blessing to us all!!
I’ve watched so many of these videos over and over again and they never get boring. Keep up the good work Charles👍
Thankyou
I just love your work and mostly how fabulously you teach it in your books and videos. fantastic! thank you!
Truly an inspiration, Charles. The best gardening channel on UA-cam by far without doubt.
thankyou
Thank you, Charles. I always learn from your videos. Your garden is so beautiful. Happy Spring.
Beautiful. My husband has taken to saying “Because Charles does it that way” when asked about process. Just love your videos~Heather
Thanks Heather
Excellent report Charles thank you. I can't wait to see how our new plot works this year(we're in south Cheshire so our seasons a little later than yours). Having not grow my own veg for some thirty odd years and following the no dig principles I'm excited. I planted out some seeds in a raised planter last week and already they have germinated and bursting through😄Your free information and experiences are very educating and have given me the energy to get on with it cheers.
Great video Charles, i am very pleased to see that white material which is there in my soil and compost also saying I am in the right direction. Thanks
Thank you sir Charles. Your the best. Your garden really great. I was inspired by your method. Now im doing my own no dig garden here in our country. Applying what I've learned from your videos. And my also documenting my progress and sharing it own my own channel Agri-nihan.
Thank you so much. I love every one of your videos. You have inspired me to grow so much. Your voice and mindset is so peaceful and calm. Thank you so much.
Always exciting when a new video is up :) Garden looks fabulous. I look, listen and learn. Thank you Charles.
It's great to see a video from a few days ago, to get a current picture of how developed your garden is at this time of year. It really helps me to judge where I am, relative to a master grower.
My biggest lesson from you last year was to understand that early multisown modules are the ideal start to a no-dig growing season.
There are now only a few seeds, which I feel can't be sown early in module trays. Carrots would be the main seed that I'd still only sow directly into the ground.
I went by the sowing dates on your calendar. Thanks Charles!
Watching on Feb 17, 2024. Been on another video binge! Already over watered my first seedlings. Feeling guilty! Your teaching videos are so beneficial Thank you Charles!
Cheers Wayne!
@@CharlesDowding1nodigwatching again thanks!
A lot of information, all in an 19 minute video! Great quality! Greetings from Kentucky.
Thanks Derek
derek a : Hey Kentucky! Not to deflate any enthusiasm ....
Aware that we've entered into a Grand Solar Minimum ("mini" ice age)? YT channel Adapt 2030: fantastic.
Interviews: John L Casey, Anita Bailey PhD, Lee Wheelbarger, Robert Felix, Ice Age Farmer, Ardruino Tronic (UK), Adapt 2030. Start with Casey's interviews. He mentions the New Madrid Seismic Zone.....
Video: "The Cloud Mystery" by Henrik Svensmark. Easy to understand. Excellent.
Massive crop changes coming worldwide due to phenomenal climate changes ahead.... Food prices to skyrocket 2020+.
Also, YT channel: Mr. Chickadee (Kentucky, built small wood house by hand, old fashioned tools...)
Cheers from Massachusetts.
Your garden is always so wonderful to visit🐞 it's getting pretty hot here in Central Florida, so I'm very limited on what I can grow now until Sept. Thank you so much for sharing Charles Dowding🌻 it's always so great to see you!
Thankyou Stacey, I can't imagine a heat problem!
I'm a total convert to no dig.I have a field which has always been weed and stone infested problem.With no dig and composting it's turned into a small vegetable garden which is fantastic.I have a small poly tunnel and following Charles videos,the results are amazing.Charles has got me interested in gardening again,as the back breaking toil has gone.
So nice to hear this John, you are going well!
Awesome video Mr. Charles.
Please keep doing what you are doing. It is invaluable knowledge to me.
God bless you 🤗
Another brilliant video Charles thanks for sharing it 💝
Terrific video. Thank you for sharing your experience and describing the compost bin, too.
Cheers from damp, chilly Massachusetts.
I love your videos Charles, so relaxing to watch and so informative. Can't wait to see you on tv soon :)
Great video Charles, thanks for sharing your knowledge and I can really see & feel your passion for your vegies and compost. Heaps me get motivated, cheers
Cheers Dale
Thank you Charles. Wishing you a bountiful 2019 gardening season.
Charles Dowding
- Great inspirational video. I honestly get so well impressed with your garden.
Definitely a beacon to follow, regarding production and land stewardship in one pack.
Thanks for that and also for sharing basic simple techniques. That is a true "guide" to avoid tilling the soil to death altogether.
The fields (not mine) in front of my window have been worked with a sequence of plough, raking, chemical fertilizer, disk arrow, huge amounts of manure than more raking and disk.
Quite impressive I might say, but not in a good way. That as been going on for little more than 2 weeks. That's a huge amount of diesel, two heavy duty tractors. From dawn to sundown, some days into the night...
No dig, keeping "life" in the soil, makes so much more sense. If for nothing else the expense and workload alone. Is a good excuse in our money hungry society... ;-)
Once more thanks.
Cheers
Yes it's odd what they do, and killing soil, some farmers are realising it at last, needs to change fast
Your composting system is absolutely amazing. I'd love sometime to see a video detailing your composting housing there -- type of wood, construction foundation, joints, fencing, etc. Thank you for yet another wonderful video.
Cheers for the lecture in Norway! I learned lots. The Diary has been an excellent guide as well. Broad beans were planted out too early last Fall and a mild winter led to too much growth before the freeze came. Lesrned a bit there. Carrots too are still a bugger but I think fleecing is the answer over mesh. I’m sure they want the warmth not just wind protection. Don’t forget a vid on companion planting! You’re the best, thanks.
Nice to hear Dawide and yes fleece for warmth first 6-8 weeks for carrots
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Could I possibly use a repurposed fleece blanket (literally a blanket, like for a bed)? Or does it need to be much thinner?
@@adriennescott6831 Way way thinner, to let 70% or more light through
Been looking forward to seeing you this spring!
Marvellous. Those beautiful seedlings in the greenhouse look so healthy.
Cheers Jane
Thanks yet more great information and inspiration you set such a good yardstick for us to try to reach.
My veg journal will be here today, the diary tomorrow and the calendar and book combo are on the way from Home Acres! This is going to be an exciting year for my garden. I hope to continue to build my relationship with the soil and plant life in my care so we can benefit from them in turn. I’m learning to be a part of the cycle respectfully and not seeing it as separate from myself. Life is full of small beautiful wonders like radishes plucked from their bed in winter for my plate 💙
Hey Nikki this is a wonderful comment and how exciting to read about your new enthusiasm! And food :)
Spectacular garden!, I am in the process of transforming to no dig this year. Thank you for wonderful videos!
I thank you Sir, for your teachings and the enthusiasm in which you bring in your viewers and try to let us know that gardening is not as daunting as we sometimes we make it out to be, if we only just get in there and do something. I do Love your "Homeacres", what a Beautiful place! ;)
Nice you say this, gardening is indeed easy when you understand a little
My spring lasts a few days. I'm very jealous of your long springs.
our gardens we always tilled and fertilized and added sand or mushroom compost, and got loads and loads of weeds. last year before growing season I convinced the others to bury the whole bed. I buried it under leaves and bits from forest floor, layered on that 3 inches of straw some of it being soaked straw inoculated with wine cap mushrooms, then buried all that with 3 inches of small wood chips. the mushrooms quickly spread through the straw and chips, and planted rows of crops in it and both mushrooms and crops grew well. at first some of the straw had grass seed that popped up but as of now theres nearly zero weeds and we largely increase our yield by getting loads of mushroom and vegetables from the same spot.
Hey Nymeria that is lovely to hear and a fine double act, you should make a video.
Great video (again!) Charles! I am so desperate to get on my new allotment plot and practice No Dig properly from scratch!
Steve
Love your enthusiasm Charles, such an inspiration 😁🌱🌱🌱🌱
Didn't miss the music till you pointed it out - next time save the $, esp if it's going to be a hassle! Thanks for your videos - we are in full swing here using your methods and I've never had so many plants to play with. I love it!
Hooray and thanks Alison
Hi Charles - I can recommend carrots and parsnips in soil blocks and you put them out at cotyledon stage. No adverse impact on the tap root at all. Especially good for the patchy germinator, parsnips. You get absolutely perfect rows!! Very nice video.
Thanks Smith.
I love how early on a sunday you uploaded this and with lots of comments already. Hardcore gardeners on here :) Nice video BTW.
Another great video! So much knowledge coming from this channel. Love the no dig method and what it has done for my garden!
I love the amazing enthusiasm of Charles. I will follow his methods and thinking when I start building my home garden next year in Climate Zone 6b. Thanks a lot for your herculean effort and for making it easy for mere mortals like me.
Thanks. You can do it!
Hello Charles, one thing I want to add about making your own compost. I have heard people including myself, through the years that making compost is to much work, but continue to either turn the garden over with a spade or use a gas powered tiller. Since I’ve been following you for about 3-4 years, I’ve been making my own compost and following your advice, and I really think that you and your gardening wisdom have added at least 5 or more years to this 75 y/o gardeners back, and enjoying my garden more. Thank you
Thanks for your feedback John and I am happy to help!
Stunning!
Nice work! My No-Dig dreams went out the window when Bermuda grass runners began popping up in my beds haha
Peopl manage it no dig, by mulching
Amazing Charlie I'm just starting a no dig bed thanks to yourself
Very beautiful...
Yay! Love this channel
Brilliant; filing away for next year the tip to keep topping up a hotbed with fresh manure.
I've really enjoyed using your methods this spring, as well as sharing them with my family. My garden has made me so happy and now my mom and sister are happy with their own little growing gardens as well! I love telling people about no-dig and multisown modules, etc. as well as how you harvest lettuce (my mom enjoys this). Thanks Charles keep the great content coming 👍
Timothy this is so heartwarming, thanks for sharing your lovely sharing!
So inspiring. Who on Earth could give this a thumbs-down? Charles, you have become the grand-master of vegetable growing. All of your books and videos have been a pleasure to read and to watch. Obviously you plan meticulously because it is a business, but your dedication to tidiness demonstrates why this method of gardening can be so profitable for all of us - pest prevention, early cropping, etc. Thank you. R & T.
Thankyou
I love watching your videos on the channel! I've learned a lot from you. Thanks for sharing your experience in such a nice and synthesized manner.
Ohhhhh horsey,,,,did you guy steal Charley vegetables some time ....😁😂😂😂😂💜love them horses
Very informative video, my thanks again. It would be really interesting if in a future video you could highlight the fungal 'biosphere' aspect, and perhaps the worm /bug contribution to 'no dig'. I hear so many talk about 'no weeds', and 'compost' (both of which are important issues of course) but it always seems to me that is the underlying health of the soil in this method that is in contrast to the 'rotate, fertilise, weed killer' approach. I also hear so many who garden on clay, that 'no dig' is not possible for them. It occurs to me that the 'no dig' approach is perhaps more applicable to them than the rest of us! I learn something great every time I watch or read your work - my thanks.
Interesting points and yes, for clay soils no dig is absolutely the way to go, they have not understood how it works
Learned so much from you Dr.Greenthumb ;-)
Looks so easy . My first year so look forward to seeing if mine is the same
Happy Spring! And greetings from FL zone 9b! My garden (compost on sand) is really doing well, thanks in large part to your excellent advice and no-dig gardening! Once again, must say that I truly enjoyed, and are greatly benefiting from, your online course.
Thanks Ann, lovely feedback
As always, following you and working my small garden here in Virginia, zone 7b. My lettuces, kale, and spinach have over wintered and still going. My radishes are coming up and garlic is looking good-planted back in Oct. Thanks for all your advice.
Super results Rafa!
We must be neighbors.
Patti Day I am in northern Va, outside of DC.
@@rafa106900 Central here.
Patti Day beautiful part of the state.
Very awesome and inspiring, thanks!
If you can't keep up with this guy's planting, buy his Diary. I am kind of smug that I have stuff in the ground and food to harvest for the first time so early, no greenhouse, just window sills and a cold frame. Big thanks Charles.
Hi Steve I am happy to hear this, should appreciate a review on the seller's site please?
Thank you for teaching.
Thank you! Your videos are very inspirational and give me great ideas for my new allotment plot.
I'm in my final year of university and I was looking for a new hobby. Your videos are inspiring me to take up gardening productively! I've already started off my peas and beetroot and I can't wait to get them into the ground.
Thank you for making such engaging and informative videos :)
Wonderful! A hobby you will love, and eat well from too
Hello Charles,
TY for this encyclopaedic review. I'd like to share you an interesting trick to accelerate carrots germination. After the sowing, I put a plastic sheet over it ; and they germinate much faster.
You can also use bubble wrap just during germination time. It works very well.
It's quicker than a polypropylene mesh. I tested both methods ; and under plastic, if you choose a favourable period, you can expect a seedling emergence into 7 to 10 days !
Have a nice Sunday,
Sam
Cheers Sam and a good idea
I absolutely love your channel and wonderful garden
Thanks Jay!
I'm up in zone 4, in Canada and it snowed as late as early April. 😅🙈 can't wait for spring to kick in!
Natural Vegan Mom : Much more snow coming in the next few years. See my comment to Derek A above......
Natural Vegan Mom : comment is there: Purple circle on left. He's from Kentucky. We are in a Grand Solar Minimum ... read that comment! Canada is going to get utterly slammed with snow and freezing cold as is most of north of the Equator!
Natural Vegan Mom : find that comment! Canada is going to go offline.....
I'm zone 4 from north central Montana! Winter sowing gives us a jump start!
I like your video.
He's so cute!
Excellent as usual. I have used so many of your ideas. My gardens are the envy of the neighborhood.
Nice to hear Mark!
I had been worried for my celery starts until I saw yours. Mine are smaller, but in USDA zone 4b, it'll be a while after you before I can get them in the ground.
I’m in 6b over here in idaho. So I’m behind him too.
love your videos,. 28 April 3:30 am currently 20 degrees F. soil temp between 40 and 50 degrees F. Our average last frost date mid June and first fall frost mid September. If gardening were too easy it would not be so much fun but I do love grazing in my garden and greenhouses. :)
Ah bother you are cool
@@CharlesDowding1nodig located on the east side of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon 4750 elevation makes for challenging growing. I use lots of season extenders and try to be patient and wait for the cooler weather to pass. Next weeks forecast is for day time highs in low 70's but still need to not get too excited more frost will come.
When I die I want to be composted into your garden please
Washington State just passed a law allowing human composting, so it's possible.
slate.com/technology/2019/04/composting-human-bodies-recompose-washington-state-law.html
Ha ha that is funny. Though I wouldn't mind too. Being part of such beauty is spiritual as it gets.
@@MattShanahan wow. Thanks for that article. Sounds interesting 👍
lol
Get burned and spread my ashes in my garden is my idea of a life after death.
Super video , dziękuję 👍😊
I have A big favor to ask of you, PLEASE, there is this little 4 yr old boy from another utube channel who is absolutely in love with you, and his mom has a gardening channel called ROOTS AND REFUGE, they go live every sunday night at 7 pm usa time, Please go there next sunday and say hi to the boy in the chat, his name is BEN he will remember this for the rest of his life I know it, everytime someone mentions the name charles he says is charles dowding here? he loves you so much, , so would you please go to there live channel next sunday or the next and say hi to ben or talk to him, there whole family would love this, there great people and god loving people, her gardening channel and garden beds are awesome, It would mean the world to me and his family, I love and always watch all your videos , thank you charles for what you do , your amazing...This is LORI a great FAN...
Hi Lori, very touching.
7pm there is after midnight here and I am in bed then, otherwise happy to do it.
well she posts everyday on her utube, ROOTS AND REFUGE if you could leave a message in her comments for BEN that would be great tell him lori sent ya.....please, thanks..
Fabulous as usual.
thank you wise and sweet man