NO DIG Gardening Explained in 6 Minutes
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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For anyone who watches this channel, they'll know that no dig vegetable gardening is the foundation to the way that I grow food. I realised that I don't actually have a video summarising my take on what no dig is, and to talk about the history, core principles, key benefits and also the limitations no dig has to offer. One core part of no dig gardening is soil health and how much this benefits the crops in the garden, and I cover this briefly in this video but will look at it in much more detail in an upcoming episode.
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F. C. King! That name certainly stands out 😂
Was waiting for someone to comment that🤣
lol immediately jumped out at me
I saw that F.C. King "Gardening with Compost" for sale on Amazon for $120 US. And, it was an paperback book. Ouch!
Hahaha gold
I didn’t catch that until the book appeared 😂!
I can’t believe how well you explained everything in less than 7 minutes! Great video 🙏🏼🌿
Awh thank you so much!!!😊
Agreed!
its 2am and F.C.King is officially my new favourite author
Your content alone is valuable but I also really appreciate how you get straight to the point without putting in a lot of redundant verbal 'fillers'! It's great too how your presentation style has evolved to it's current practical, polished, approach. Well done and thanks Huw!!
Over the years, I've picked up tidbits here and there about no dig from your videos as well as Charles'. This is the best concise video. Well done Huw.
Thank you, I really appreciate that😊
Nice video 🌱 we are the same No Dig either in the ground and we do the same with our container gardening and we grow tons of food Easy 😊
I live in the southern hemisphere and I'm definitely doing a no dig garden and utilising my nettles and comfrey this season.
Thank you Huw. You've been a huge inspiration 😊🌱🐝
So much information packed into 6:26 minutes. You’re so good at teaching and relaying information in a clear, understandable way. I always appreciate the way you include visuals of your garden and concise text to further explain your point. Thanks Huw!
Thank you! It's the perfect video for my new garden friends wanting to assist next season. No dig is easy but with all the traditional techniques in mind it is a bit tricky to change old habits. Cheers.
My dream is to have a garden like yours. It is a dream that I am sure will come true in the nearest future thanks to your effort 🙂 I can learn and relax watching to your videos at the same time. Really nothing compares to no-dig gardening, it is so clear when one watches to your garden in the background 🙂
*_VERY SMART GARDENING STYLE, WOOOOOWW!!!!, HUW RICHARDS , You are teaching US to be patient with plants,we will not get tired of watching this video, PLEASE DON'T STOP GARDENING, continue like this, GO GO GO GOOOOOOOOOO!!!_*
Huw, as always, the information you provide us is timely and essential for continued soil health for our gardens. I implemented the 'no dig' method this year for the first time and I am amazed by the results. It may seem 'impossible' to start from scratch in your yard but it can be done some investment of time and money. Anyone interested in no dig gardening needs to follow Huw and Charle's and then adapt what is taught to your climate/zone and continue gardening with an open mind. This year was a 'try and learn' season for me and I'm excited about next year's potential as we continue to narrow our focus of what we want to grow in both our vegetable and flower gardens. Keep up the great work, Huw! (Kentucky USA)
Huw you're a legend. Just received my copy of Veg in one bed. Ive just flicked through it quickly for now, but within 10 seconds I can see why this book has been so successful. The layout and maximum use of no dig beds across an entire year. How utterly brilliant! Any great gardening book needs to be one that you can dip into every month and learn from your plot as you go along, this is me sorted for 2022, I will work through this and see how it works out in my garden.
Thank you. I am 64 with injuries. Starting second year no-dig. I can see it will get better and better. Hoping to check with city to see if they have free ground limbs to give away this year. I see some people being lucky with that. You don't want to purchase hay that has been treated with herbicides to use blessings.
One of your best videos Huw. Loved it.
I'm one who adds compost when convenient (and when any of our bays are ready) because most of our beds have something growing throughout the year.
Regarding the fungal networks, I'm currently reading Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake (great name, hey) and would encourage all and sundry to put that one on their 'must read' list.
Thanks for your great work. Stay well.
Just excellent! A friend wants to learn about No Dig and this outlays the concept and rationale beautifully. I’ll be sending it along to him promptly. Thanks, Huw!
So hardworking Young man, GOD BLESS ❤
Great video!!
But I will be looking forward to three spin off:
- Wood chip mulch, please, please, please
- You had also mentioned, Chop and Mulch
- Compost vs manure - what are the advantages of compost?
And thanks for your work and your garden is inspiring !!!
this is such a brilliant explanation thank you, what I do is let hay bales rot over 12 months outside and they turn into wonderful potting compost to add to the beds. Hay is good because it has all the nutrition from the whole grass including the highly nutritious seed head.
Absolutely brilliant mate you are a wholesome inspiration to me!
Hi Huw, I just got my first allotment plot, finding your videos very helpful!
Gracias por subtitular los vídeos, eres de gran motivación. 😊👍💪
We are just starting the no dig method on our new allotment - thank you for this information it is very useful
Just starting out on allotment someone told me about no dig found this video now subscribed thankyou
Great stuff! Huw, I'd like to thank you for your book Veg in One Bed. I'm following it since the beginning of the year with great success. It would be really great if you write an accompanying book with recipes utilising harvested vegetables and herbs.
Well Done. SOIL MICROBES is a great understand to the real truth of soil.
You bet!😊
I am glad I hung on to the end of the video to get a glimpse of the future of gardening and no dig. What type of beetroot did you harvest in the video? I grew the Italian Chioggia variety and the family and friends loved them. Thanks Huw!
Starting my garden / farm and this will be my first year. Not sure I'll be able to build the infrastructure on time, but JADAM / KNF is something I'm pretty dead set on, so I'm glad you mentioned that at the end of the video. I would think no dig plus JADAM methods would really make a great garden / farm. Only one way to find out!
Es maravillosa tu huerta, muchas gracias por los subtítulos en español. Abrazo grande desde Argentina
I loved watching this video, Huw! Awesome that you included cool sciency bits too! Hope you’re well?!😁
Im converting to no dig this was a well explained video for me
Love no dig saves so much time 💚
Months ago I said I was going to trial growing squash in stable clearings (mostly wood chip with poo) and you said there probably wouldn't be enough nutrients and you were right. However I also planted straight into the earth in the same area after noticing how good it looked. This area used to have a lot of trees and still has several tall ones over hanging to the north. The squash in the ground went bananas and I think that's due to the two stumps turning into compost and years of leaf mould naturally building up. The courgettes produced better than the ones in my planned, properly setup bed.
Next year I'm just going to dump compost on the ground and grow straight into it again as it's the perfect 'waste ground' for squash to spread out. One day I'll get a greenhouse there but don't have time at the minute to sort out leveling the ground properly etc so 10 squash plants + 1 courgette (Never grow more than one courgette plant is an important lesson...haha) can call it home instead.
I have a mixed blessing when it comes to making my own compost. The near edge of the farmers field behind me has more nettles/green alkanet/cleavers than I can ever need for compost so I don't struggle like some others. However I also I end up with a tonne of baby nettle plants because I would feel very awkward clear cutting someone else's field edge and also butterflies living in it would be harmed.
That´s why I leave one ore more perennial in every bed! Soil life, giving it a home that stays for more than one season.
This is the content I wish I known before I started my raised beds. Previous season I have put half compost half top soil to my raised beds and now I am adding extra layer of compost on top. I don't want to discard the mix will just keep adding nutrients and more compost. I hope that would work.
I keep track of my work, I get a good understanding and I keep working.
Awesome update Huw thank you for sharing with us
Excellent info Huw! I learned a lot
Concise and fantastic video.much appreciated sir
Bellísimo huerto 🙌🙌 explicación magnífica muchas gracias ,abrazo grande desde 🇦🇷 muchas bendiciones
Greting from Romania.(Transylvania) God jobs Richard!👍🙂
Thank you so much!! :)
Very informative. More please!
Muchas gracias por compartir tus conocimientos y tus opiniones sobre como trabajar la huerta.
Me pregunto si has publicado algún vídeo sobre como planificar un huerto familiar.
Awesome video, thank you!
Thanks for explaining this so clearly.
Your welcome!:)
I realy like the video
Your garden is amazing 🌹
Marvelous! Thanks Huw. I'm wondering if we have any mushroom farms local to you and me here. I thought about it a while back, but your video has jarred my memory. It is my first year no dig, and I'm having to get peat free delivered at the mo, but I'm also making loads. I'm having onion sets delivered soon, and have a bed ready, I also have twigs, branches, and some green that I have shredded. Could I put that on the onion bed before I plant the sets next month? Or would it not be suitable for onions? I haven't grown large onions before, only spring onions and garlic. Thanks so much again for such a precise yet uplifting video.
Thank you. You are amazing😘❤
Thanks Barb I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
I have moved to the square foot gardening idea of whenever you harvest a crop, you add compost just before you replant, I have 30 inch (75cm) wide beds X 16ft (4.8mts) and plant a full width but in 1 foot length sections. So rather than growing 4 ft of carrots together, to reduce any potential pest or disease issues, I'll sow 1 ft in 4 different beds or parts of the same beds. Whenever I harvest that 1 foot section, I add 1 5 litre bucket of homemade compost, giving back to the soil anything that was taken. It makes how much compost I need to make per bed an easy calculation. 2 crops per year on average x16 sections. So 5 litres X2 x16 so 160 litres per bed per season. This equates to a 2 inch layer over the season but gives the new plants energy when it's needed and not start them off in semi depleted compost, giving them the best start they could get.
It is really good that gardeners are moving beyond what is or has become the "norm", many times even on my small allotment site I hear the oft quoted comment, "It's how my Father did it, and his Father too and if it was good enough for him it is good enough for me." This thought leaves everything the same with no improvements or changes that help both the gardener and the environment at large. And in these troubled times for the environment, change is for the better. But better still is gardeners willing to change, that is the most important change of all. Great informational videos like this one are in my belief, the cornerstone of such future revolutions. Having an open mind is the cement on that cornerstone...Steve...😃
thanks for the tutorial
Thank you a lot Huw for your channel. I learned a lot of gardening and.. English :)
You are very welcome! Glad its useful for you :)
I will never understand how people thumb down videos such as this!
Awesome video!
Hi Hugh, marvellous video, short and to the point. Compost is getting very expensive to buy in, so trying hard to make lots of my own but interested to see your take on using wood chips? Monty in My Family Garden is a great exponent and he is a fantastic grower!
So interesting, thank you!
Love this so much .. how do you keep your boards from rotting very fast
Thanks, will try :)
Nice, this is a great place. Congratulations.
Awesome share 💚
Thank you!:)
Wood chips definitely, and leaf mulch/mold. If animals digging in your garden is not a problem, I would experiment with putting compostable materials directly on the soil surface and covering them up with some type of mulch(wood chips, leaves, straw, composted manures etc). If you just don't have enough time, space or allowance for a compost bin/ pile this may be option coupled with chop and drop to feed the soil microbes, worms, and ultimately you.
Great stuff
Thanks Huw
Very very cool ... 👌👌 Success ... ⚘⚘ !!!
Hey Hew, love you channel. I started no dig last year and loved it!
I have a slight issue tho with mice now under the hay - do you suffer with this and if so what’s your plan of action? Thank you
yes i’m a no digger .. love Ur channel Huw🙏😎♥️🍃
follow Nature’s way ,)
Thank you x
excelent video
Awesome explanation 👍
Thank you!! :)
HUW RICHARDS SUPER NO DIG GARDENING TIPS ROCK HARDCORE !!!!!!!
Great vid
Love your channel and videos. I’m battling nutsedge weed. It’s making gardening a challenge, I’m failing at every turn. The only thing I haven’t done is sprayed herbicide. It grows through everything and even 3 ft of raised soil. Any suggestions?
Hi Huw, the ‘No Dig method’ with minimal soil disturbance in theory sounds excellent. However, what composition of soil and compost is in your raised beds? Surely growing into a raised bed with only compost as the growing medium will not work for ever plants to great success. Any feedback would be appreciated. Cheers
I certainly have no argument against no dig or other things mentioned (chop and drop, etc.), but most of my gardening years have been spent trying to deal with space issues (used nothing but grow bags one year - no lawn, but a big porch), and two really common problems: lack of decent sun and thus, lack of a good space for a hot compost pile. Long intro to say that I have found that spot "composting" directly into the soil (there's probably some fancy word for burying my veg/tea/coffee scraps in the dirt, but I don't know it) actually works really well, and amazingly fast in respect to attracting worms and building up the soil really well, and letting me compost materials all year.
I've been in a house now for 5 growing seasons, and the grassy area is getting smaller as the "garden" is getting larger (won't the landlord be surprised - ha), and I condition the new areas with buried matter: a deep hole with a spade, dump my bucket of material, bury, and make a new hole; the next season, the area is pretty prime garden soil and ready to go. Granted, eventually I'll run out of new space, and no, I don't believe that disturbing the soil once conditioned/turned into garden to bury more veg/etc. matter would be good. BUT, once I get enough garden space to have some fallow spot, I have an idea of converting one area each season into a quasi-raised bed by laying out veg material on top, and covering with saved leaves or other matter - sort of a roaming compost area. We'll see how that works, and if I can keep the critters from moving into the bed as a winter home.
I love the idea of no dig, and would love to incorporate it, but I've gone huglekulture and my beds are 3 sleepers high. I have autumn and spring planting and add compost each time, but I'm finding the bed sinks, and the soil compacts hard in the middle and makes it harder for the roots to go down so I'm digging compost in once a year just to losen the compacting. Have you heard of anyone combining huglekulture and no dig and getting good results?
He took a simple technique and did his best to make it sound complicated some people have a need for that
Happy new year to you too
Very informative. Would you use the same no dig system for trees and shrubs? I like to give them A layer of compost in the spring. Thanks!
Thanks man
I just had an idea. The AC guy gives us all of his wooden pallets. What about removing all of the inner boards from those pallets and just leaving the frame intact and using that frame to make sections of no dig bordered gardens wherever in your yard that you choose!? That's a good idea if you are not a carpenter like individual. 😂
Great video! :) I'm wondering how to grow potatoes without the need to fork them up? Maybe it's not a problem if you have a sufficiently loose soil?
Over 150kg so far from my 13.4m x 3.3m growing area (includes 8x6 greenhouse) this year using no dig. I expect to come close to 200kg by year's end.
Believe me, it works.
I see the benefits of no dig but what about in the case of people with heavy clay soil ?? Does this apply to raised bed only ?
Thanks so much for your videos ! You do a great job 😊
Hi Hue, Can you advise me where and what type of compost you buy in and use for your raised beds, please?
Daamn,son! Impressive!
Awesome
Thanks👍
What are your thoughts on cover crop/green manure?.. I am using for first time but i will not dig in the spring, rather I'll cover and let it decompose.
Hi. Living in the north of Spain here and it is getting colder. Wondering what is best to do with garden. Take out all plants and thrown them away or leave them ? I have been working of making compost but it is not ready yet so can't put a layer of it on garden at the moment. Basically wondering what is best to do at this time for soil in order to plant again come spring. Thanks
From what material are the walls of the beds? I want to sorround my beds here in Austria, some snow, lot of rain and heat in summer, what should I take?
Bokashi waste composting is a good way to add soil to your garden too.
Amazing! Do chop and drop materials need to be dried out before dropping? In there any danger of things going anerobic if tjeyre just dropped on top? Thanks!
Dr Elaine Ingham(soil scientist)teaches how to study and analyse your own soil,ammend it and teaches why how to have the right soil biology benefits soil structure and improves food nutrition. Fascinating!
Yes she's awesome!! Thanks for watching
Mr. Richards,
Thanks so much for a concise overview. I have been trying to convince my dad to switch from a double dig to a no dig technique but he is definitely set in his ways. I would send him your videos but he doesnt have a computer, TV, or smart phone. Do you have any books to recommend to convince someone to make the switch? He lives in the midwest United States if that matters tor your recommendation. Thanks so much and keep up the great work!!
So, the beds I have I double dig years ago because of the rocks in SW Missouri, but now I dig very little (also at the time I had never heard of No Dig). The rocks (more like small boulders) I dug up became the walls for the beds.
I'm thinking that if you could find someone who lives near your dad and has a no dig garden, I'd be encouraging a visit to that garden. Nothing beats seeing it with your own eyes, putting your hands in the soil and asking questions of someone who's already doing it. Especially if they swapped from a digging method.
Best of luck!
Literally thought you'd gone and got a sleeve tattoo from the thumbnail there for a second! 😂
Can you also use coconut husk mulch as the base
Just tried the no dig method for switching the summer crops out to fall crops after watching your video. But the summer crops keep growing back among my new seedlings. My raised beds look pretty crazy now. What should I do
Huw, very educational video as always! One quick question - When you add compost in mid late- autumn, does it have to be finished compost or is it ok to add compost that is still breaking down? I am trying to figure out if I can use the raised beds during winter months for compost to build rather than sit empty.
Okay to use compost that is still breaking down. Some will say no but I wouldn't worry - I've done it before with great success. I have a suspicion it might actually be the better option
@@HuwRichards Thank you, Huw! In that case, that’s what I will try out this season. Look forward to learning more from you - thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Please make a complete video how to do no dig dargening from starting..
I've been doing this for years in my tiny garden. I love no dig
Do you buy any prepackaged soil at all? my soil is hard red clay horrible. LOL I have every spot possible covered in cardboard waiting for leaves and pine needles to fall. sorry to bother you, I liked your comment and want to make garden friends!
Most of my soil is from bags, but I make my own compost and once a year get some composted goat poo from my friend's farm