Please, never stop making videos! I have learnt so much from you over the past few days while I was binge-watching all your stuff, so thanks from the bottom of my heart! Apart from the obviously excellent content, I have to say that I'm really impressed with the production value of your videos. Even though it's close to a storm in the back, the sound is clear and crisp. Whenever I think to myself "I wonder how these plants look in two months" - BAM - "it is now 10 weeks later...". Whenever I wonder how something looks close up - BAM - the camera zooms in or there's a cut to a different perspective. It adds so much when you don't have to look for another video in order to follow along with one specific vegetable, but it's all right there edited into one video.
Ditto. I wholly echo your comments. This is my second year and I am re-binge watching. So much content and I am happy with what I accomplished last year. But this inspires me to take another step for this season.
For those of us who never learned these skill sets from parents, we are fortunate to have you. Your clear demonstrations and explanations are so very helpful.
I absolutely agree. My parents weren't gardeners at all but I absolutely love the idea of growing my own food and Charles has really given me the knowledge and confidence to give it a try. I have turned my lawn into a raised bed garden this year and I hope to be able to grow some of my own fruits and vegetables.
I am from a small village of kerala in india.I recently came to know about ur videos and liked it alot.and currently planning to resign my job to allocate my time to farming especially no dig.god bless u sir
Such a great idea doing the whole start-to-finish in the one video, so we can see the whole process and the end result while each step is fresh in our minds. Excellent work.
You do realise your videos will be appreciated for generations to come. You're an artist. What I like the most is you show the process from beginning to the final result, not a snap shot in time. That is very thoughtful of you.
Here in Scotland my 70 year old gardening neighbour said to pre-sprout the pea seeds on wet paper on a plate then plant them into pots or multi-trays when sprouted. I got pea plants ready to plant in two weeks. My neighbour pushes the sprouted peas into the ground as they have no mice.
Charles, don't get me wrong you are the GOAT but I've just planted my fourth planting of peas in August(home garden), my third planted 6 weeks ago are just starting to crop, you can grow peas from Feb to Sept from seed, UK and we like peas!
Thanks for pointing this out, it's more that I'm looking to encourage people to get the most from every sowing, which happens from the early sowings. Nice that you are managing that.
I will never stop being amazed how something so small like a pea can become something so big and beautiful! Miracle recipe of life my dude, amazing. Love your videos, please never stop making them!
Peas are my absolutely favourite vegetable, but I've often struggled to grow them well. Hopefully, after watching this excellent video it'll be a success this year.
Love, love, love your videos! I never get tired of watching them. Your garden is so beautiful. You are very knowledgeable and so inspiring. Please continue to teach us! Thank you so much!
Possibly, you are over watering! Try getting compost, fully moist, then, sowing seeds, then leave unwatered for 3 to 5 days, depending whether they’re in full sunlight, or if it’s grey weather
Your videos have really transformed my gardening. I have tried gardening for now two years and have had no tangible success other than a few peppers and cherry tomatoes. Maybe some small handfuls of beans haha. Over fertilizing, over watering, pests. Your calm and rational approach to having multiple varieties and stages of growth has really accelerated my skill sets and success. I've stopped using excess fertilizer (almost none) incorporated worms onto cardboard between rows with coffee grounds then composted soil to act as my raised bed. The cardboard has saved so much time and frustration with the weeding and costs alone that I have been able to plant loads more. Your way of using natural and simple solutions helped me transform one area suffering from excess compost developing rot I just planted more seeds in that area and moved in more worms to alleviate or suck up the excess foods available. Your videos over the last six months have helped me bring 30 tomatoes to start fruiting, peppers, peas, beans and more. This is the first year I actually see flowers forming and a potential harvest on the way! Thank you so much dear friend. You've been an absolute refreshing beacon of hope and knowledge.
I'm so happy to read this Jordan and thank you very much for sharing your successes. I can feel the joy in your words and it's wonderful, we all need lots of good news stories 😀
Getting enough mature compost has been a problem for me. Living in a residential lot in Edmonton Alberta, space is limited, & the summer season is shorter. For my composts, I use plastic garbage bins with lids to keep pests out. For aeration, I drill a lot of 1/4" holes thru the plastic. It helps, but it's not a perfect solution. Four bins take up roughly 6' x 2', so it all fits into a small space. My garden size is 24' x 16'. My lot is 50' x 100'. Food waste, raked grass, dry leaves all get composted. I continue filling bins with food waste all winter long, but by April the ground & compost are just beginning to thaw. By early May I add water to speed up the decay. It's common to plant around Queen Victoria Day, & I like to empty my bins at least a week before. The material comes out smelling, rotten & damp, but the smell goes away within a day, & it still works quite well. The compost finishes decomposing on my vegetable beds thru the Summer growing season. I'm most proud of my strawberries & my asparagus. I started my asparagus from seed & the plants are in the 3rd year. When I started gardening on my property, the soil was so hard I couldn't dig a spade into it. I killed all the weeds by adding cedar mulch the first year. In the second year I removed the cedar & spread it around my flower beds, & started covering my garden with compost in the Spring & Fall. My soil is getting better all the time, & Each year, I'm producing bigger harvests. The plastic bins are working. For small residential lots in urban areas, I think it's the way to go.
Good Morning ☀️. I have been watching and learning from your videos for the past few years. I want to share with you how much I appreciate your way of teaching. Thank you for sharing your gift 🌱
I just can't stop watching your videos love the garden and the way you grow the crop. Trying to mimic everything you do , thanks for everything you've shared
Just love to watch your educational garden videos and we’ve learned so much. We have two grandchildren in Perth Australia, we are in NZ, when they came for Christmas last year my husband John had grown a row of peas for each of them. You reminded me of them when you danced and ate fresh picked peas. They demolished their peas over three days and not one was cooked! They loved them. Thanks for the memories! Happy Christmas to you and yours.🤶🏻🎅🏻xx
You can copy his garden so easy. Everything he recommends work so good with so much less work and more of the fun stuff. Planting sowing growing harvesting Eating
I love your videos; I learn so much. Here in America, snow peas are harvested before seeds develop, so only the pod is eaten (for stir fries or fresh in salad). Snap, or sugar snaps, are eaten pod and seed. I am growing three varieties this year: shelling, sugar snap, and snow.
I love the way how break down into step by step and teaching us how to grow vegetables... im a first time gardener and im just research on how to grow vegetables... so thank you so much
Thank you Charles! This season I sowed my own stored pea seed and got close to 100% germination. Your videos and books have helped me create my own small no-dig garden in the inhospitable desert climate of Las Vegas, USA.
Agreed about growing peas in a dry climate. I'm in L.A., which is really not that hot, but even here they're iffy. Peas are OK in Winter, but beans are better in general.
That is brilliant. The only bad thing as you have now given me lots of work. Tomorrow I will build a raised bed and begin planting peas. Thanks for the great advice. Love it.
I always like to find people showing how they grow peas .....to me the art of growing peas is very " British"( Victorian era)......this is a variety that I have grown for 30+ years and it aways amazes me that it's a real art to discover just how these peas grow...... The start of the pea from it's first "green slip" to the last day that it gets pulled out of the fall garden..... There are very few things in the garden that can look as impressive as well grown 30ft. Row of these tall peas..... In Canada we also call them "tall telephone poles" this video is about the best I have seen....I have in the last 8 or so years have add some "sweet peas" to the row..... It adds some color and attracts the pollinators..... PS....you need to build yourself a walked garden to help with the wind.....
Thanks you, sir for sharing your extensive knowledge. It's time to plant out pea seedlings here in the high desert of central New Mexico, USA. We only plant fast-growing dwarf varieties, started indoors in February, as our springs are too short and summers too hot for the taller varieties to produce much. We're following your advice on multi sowing this year (beats, spinach, onions, and leeks as well), and are loving the space it saves under the indoor lights. We look forward to the planting out process being sped up a bit, as an extra plus. An interesting note on peas: we grew Sugar Anne snap peas (in the states we call the round edible pods snap peas, and the flat varieties snow peas) last year, planting far more than we could keep up with. Quite a few became too tough to eat and were left on the vine, only to grow into some of the best tasting shelling peas we've ever had!
Thanks JWS for these interesting comments. Each climate needs adaptation! our springs are long compared to yours. I think dry peas are underrated, having loved the flavour of my Alderman.
I love coming back to these videos again and again as an exceptional resource. Such a great quick reminder of so much good information! I'm really enjoying your "Course 1" audio book this week and eagerly awaiting your new "No Dig" audio book which I've pre-ordered for it's release next week. Thank you for your phenomenal efforts in bringing efficient and productive growing to all! 👍😁
I do grow sweet peas and snow peas here in flat arid west Texas! Mulch heavy and grow close to a structure or privacy fence to protect from prevailing winds. I use a pig fence for them to grow up! It’s sturdier than string, we eat them standing in the garden, the peas never make it into the house. I do manage to bring in snow peas for stir Fry!! I grow a spring and fall crop.
I love your videos. Wanted to share how I start my sugar snaps in late January. Soak a dark colored hand towel with water, place on my kitchen counter atop cookie sheet or plastic tray. Fill half the towel with pea seeds and fold the towel over to cover the seeds. I check them daily watering with my faucet sprayer...Plant as soon as the pea sprouts...if you wait too long they will become tangled even growing through the towel...happy gardening.
Thanks TK. Funnily enough I did this with broad beans in November, but did not notice a big difference in growth, compared to soiwng at the same time alongside non-sprouted seeds. It was fun to do though.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig , oh, was responding to your starting them in pots...I just sprout them and put them in the garden, usually around the last of Janurary...I am located in 7a, central Arkansas US. They don't really start putting on any height until the middle of Feb, tiny nubs for some time but I can get them in the ground.
I love this ... the man is making a living farming -- without a tractor -- manually with his hands in the dirt ...... while wearing oxfords! 😁 😂 🤣 Long live no-dig! Carry On Mr. Dowding, Carry On. Beautiful, this. Ps. someone once told me they've never seen someone work so hard at manual labor while wearing Crocs as I :-D
Thank you so much for your videos. This will be my first autumn growing vegetables and watching you makes me feel so inspired! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
Charles I just brought your book to say thankyou for everything you give back to us all for free. I am going to keep you up to date with my first efforts at no dig, so I'll be hitting you up on twitter.
I grow Oregon giants every year and no other variety has beat them in my climate on Vancouver Island yet! Thank you for your informative videos. I got your newest book for Christmas and I had to limit one chapter per day so I could savour it :)
I like the techniques you used for keeping them upright. My peas got blown up by strong wind last year and they were all tangled. I struggled to separate them. This video gave me a very good ideas. Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed watching it beginning to end. 😊 x
For my peas i use 3 meter poles, put them in the ground far enough to become sturdy. Then i don't use string, but a net of plastic fibre, to be used a multitude of times. I just have planted my green beans where my peas have been. I had a lovely harvest of 3 types. It's very easy to set up and only after the green beans it's hard to remove from it as they become almost like twisted rope.
I love how beautiful the peas are, they have beautiful little blooms. Thank you again for sharing your videos. My 16 year old is interested in gardening and farming, he is going to watch some of your videos to learn how to plant things.
I tend to think of snap/sugar pod as the rounder mange tout and the flat ones as snow peas here on the west coast US. The snow peas are definitely better for cooking, they seem to get sweeter, perhaps my imagination 😄 love your videos, such good information from a kind soul!
That is interesting about snow peas, from the horse's mouth so to speak (that is a polite expression! means you should know) and thanks for writing, and your name is more than half good!
Charles Dowding thank you! I took my name from the first episode of The Good Life as it was a main contributor to my discovering a love for gardening 💕 (and yes, a very polite expression. Horses are, after all, very intelligent and elegant creatures!)
More than showing tips and tricks, you show a love of gardening which makes me want to get out there and start mine. Will try your "No Dig" method for tomatoes, squash, some peas, carrots in the raised bed (on legs to reduce bending) along with the strawberries there. My big experiment, along with the No Dig, will be Okra in the greenhouse. 100% organic always.
Sweden here! I love the Alderman peas, very tasty! I found that pregroving my peas make the birds stay away from the sprouts. When I sow them directly the birds love to pick them up from the soil but planting them at about 10-15 cm of height they don´t touch them!
I love your videos! Gets me motivated to get my young boys learning how to be a gentleman. In central Oregon we are so so dry in the summer and we are zone 3, but peas are an amazing crop here if you have irrigation. One of our best crops that don’t need a greenhouse. We have to start them way later than you but they do amazing. We love the Oregon sugar pod! Last year I sowed them thickly at the bottoms of arched cattle panels and they did amazing growing over. 💚
I really enjoy your videos that show how to grow from seed to harvest. I have also decided to try planting a lot of my veg with starts like peas. This year I will grow purple podded peas. I’m getting ready although it will be a month at least. We still have snow ! Thanks !
Around 7:00. I'm American. We call the flat ones with edible pods, frequently used in Chinese cooking, snow peas. We call the fat ones, also with edible pods, sugar snap.
Thanks so much for a great video about peas! My peas got windblown (in a hurricane! - I live in Florida) and I found that I had not given them strong enough support - but nonetheless they persisted and now are producing a wealth of pods...both for the peas and for the pods. I had taken your lead and planted them in compost - so thanks! It is so nice to see your genuine love for your plants. I would love to tour your garden one day...the peeks you provide in your videos are truly lovely.
We always use Kitchen & toilet roll holders saved over the winter months for starting pea & beans. You can just plant them straight in the soil, they're free & more ecologically sound than plastic. Great series of videos, have to get my industrial scale composting back in action.
Hooe all is well over there with you. Seeing kids are done with school they are getting excited with our big garden plan. Another month here. Cant wait. Thanks for great channel and info.
End of April 2022 and the peas are in, as a teenager in the UK we use to go pea picking for the local farmer, I'm sure that's where my love of eating peas right from the vine came from.
You’re inspirational for all of us, everything seems to match your results : method, intonations , gestures and technical/biological aspect. Following your hands at work too. Pedagogical mindfulness, thanks again from sunny Italy. Great value in your channel, as the one that surrounds you in your garden. Congratulations Charles !
Just got your book, "How to create a new Vegetable Garden" in fact; bought two. One as a gift. Loving it. I have gardened all my life. Doing it this year as if it's my first following your guidance. Thank you for your time and these videos. Fantastic....~Hippie Chick~
Thanks Charles finally I have discovered the secret of peas. Thanks to you. I had already given up on peas a few years ago but this coming spring in New Zealand I will try growing shoots and also pods. You are so good at explaining growing secrets that I feel challenged to try a new. Love your explanation of growing vegetables !!!
I enjoy your videos and am amazed at how scheduled succession planting you have in your area. I was still getting tomatoes at Christmas and was finding it hard to get space for the “winter crops”. I save my seeds year to year and find they adapt to the climate from the initial bought seeds after a few years. My main problem in winter is my neighbors are very close and their trees don’t allow enough sunlight to get thru at the low angle of the sun. Still it is mild🙃.
Seeing you munching the peas : exactly what we do here. I’d have to double my pea production if i want ANY peas to make it into the house. 2 legged mice (husb and children, and me too) are an insatiable pest ;)
You have cleared up a mystery I've had for a couple years. I planted my peas and none of them came up I planted them again and still they didn't come up. So I planted them in trays and and they came up then l transplanted them to the garden. But we could never figure out why they never came up we knew something was probably eating them but didn't know what until you said mice like to eat the peas. Mystery solved I will alway grow my seeds in trays then transplant them. Thank you so much .
Lovely video Charles. I’m also binge-watching your videos to soak up all the valuable information. Who needs TV these days. I haven’t watched a single programme on TV since we moved. Our TV needs to go. I thought growing peas was time consuming, but I’ve changed my mind now.
I like a more starchy pea to be honest. John Seymour always said not to eat dried or frozen peas so you can get maximum enjoyment when they're in season but I can't commit to that.
Please, never stop making videos! I have learnt so much from you over the past few days while I was binge-watching all your stuff, so thanks from the bottom of my heart! Apart from the obviously excellent content, I have to say that I'm really impressed with the production value of your videos. Even though it's close to a storm in the back, the sound is clear and crisp. Whenever I think to myself "I wonder how these plants look in two months" - BAM - "it is now 10 weeks later...". Whenever I wonder how something looks close up - BAM - the camera zooms in or there's a cut to a different perspective. It adds so much when you don't have to look for another video in order to follow along with one specific vegetable, but it's all right there edited into one video.
Hey lovely comment and delighted to be helping so much Rachel.
Ditto. I wholly echo your comments. This is my second year and I am re-binge watching. So much content and I am happy with what I accomplished last year. But this inspires me to take another step for this season.
No one does better start to finish videos then Charles... that's commitment for you!
Thanks so much
For those of us who never learned these skill sets from parents, we are fortunate to have you. Your clear demonstrations and explanations are so very helpful.
Thanks Barb
He’s our plant father and we are his seedlings.
I absolutely agree. My parents weren't gardeners at all but I absolutely love the idea of growing my own food and Charles has really given me the knowledge and confidence to give it a try. I have turned my lawn into a raised bed garden this year and I hope to be able to grow some of my own fruits and vegetables.
What a lovely comment, too true Barb
I am from a small village of kerala in india.I recently came to know about ur videos and liked it alot.and currently planning to resign my job to allocate my time to farming especially no dig.god bless u sir
Hello Praveena, thankyou, I am excited to hear that and wish you every success
organic keral
Such a great idea doing the whole start-to-finish in the one video, so we can see the whole process and the end result while each step is fresh in our minds. Excellent work.
Thanks Vink glad you like it
I love when people get a dance when eating something healthy. Lol. I want to get there. Off to grow peas for my first time..
Thankyou and I hope they are good for you Noor
It's a wonderful thing!
You do realise your videos will be appreciated for generations to come. You're an artist. What I like the most is you show the process from beginning to the final result, not a snap shot in time. That is very thoughtful of you.
Nice of you to say that and my son Edward was a great help in these process videos
I just love watching someone who has grown peas eating them straight off the plant - they always smile and 'dance' a little. :-)
Here in Scotland my 70 year old gardening neighbour said to pre-sprout the pea seeds on wet paper on a plate then plant them into pots or multi-trays when sprouted. I got pea plants ready to plant in two weeks. My neighbour pushes the sprouted peas into the ground as they have no mice.
Nice job! And no mice, amazing :)
Charles, don't get me wrong you are the GOAT but I've just planted my fourth planting of peas in August(home garden), my third planted 6 weeks ago are just starting to crop, you can grow peas from Feb to Sept from seed, UK and we like peas!
Thanks for pointing this out, it's more that I'm looking to encourage people to get the most from every sowing, which happens from the early sowings. Nice that you are managing that.
This longer form, full lifecycle clip is brilliant. Seeing your successes really makes me inspired and excited. Thanks again.
Thanks Chris
Thank GOD for my Parents, Grand Parents and Great Grand Parents from whom I received ALL this knowledge and more.....
There is a man totally in tune with his Environment
And the changing seasons
I will never stop being amazed how something so small like a pea can become something so big and beautiful! Miracle recipe of life my dude, amazing. Love your videos, please never stop making them!
So true! And thanks
Peas are my absolutely favourite vegetable, but I've often struggled to grow them well. Hopefully, after watching this excellent video it'll be a success this year.
Best part is watching your enjoyment when you eat the peas. As always your videos are exceptional and incredibly genuinely human.
Thanks so much :)
Love, love, love your videos! I never get tired of watching them. Your garden is so beautiful. You are very knowledgeable and so inspiring. Please continue to teach us! Thank you so much!
Nice of you to say all that JuJu. We are filming the garden abundance tomorrow.
Most of my peas sowings seem to just rot away. I’m grateful I’ve got at least some germination this year.
Possibly, you are over watering! Try getting compost, fully moist, then, sowing seeds, then leave unwatered for 3 to 5 days, depending whether they’re in full sunlight, or if it’s grey weather
Your videos have really transformed my gardening. I have tried gardening for now two years and have had no tangible success other than a few peppers and cherry tomatoes. Maybe some small handfuls of beans haha. Over fertilizing, over watering, pests. Your calm and rational approach to having multiple varieties and stages of growth has really accelerated my skill sets and success. I've stopped using excess fertilizer (almost none) incorporated worms onto cardboard between rows with coffee grounds then composted soil to act as my raised bed. The cardboard has saved so much time and frustration with the weeding and costs alone that I have been able to plant loads more. Your way of using natural and simple solutions helped me transform one area suffering from excess compost developing rot I just planted more seeds in that area and moved in more worms to alleviate or suck up the excess foods available. Your videos over the last six months have helped me bring 30 tomatoes to start fruiting, peppers, peas, beans and more. This is the first year I actually see flowers forming and a potential harvest on the way! Thank you so much dear friend. You've been an absolute refreshing beacon of hope and knowledge.
I'm so happy to read this Jordan and thank you very much for sharing your successes. I can feel the joy in your words and it's wonderful, we all need lots of good news stories 😀
Getting enough mature compost has been a problem for me. Living in a residential lot in Edmonton Alberta, space is limited, & the summer season is shorter. For my composts, I use plastic garbage bins with lids to keep pests out. For aeration, I drill a lot of 1/4" holes thru the plastic. It helps, but it's not a perfect solution. Four bins take up roughly 6' x 2', so it all fits into a small space. My garden size is 24' x 16'. My lot is 50' x 100'. Food waste, raked grass, dry leaves all get composted.
I continue filling bins with food waste all winter long, but by April the ground & compost are just beginning to thaw. By early May I add water to speed up the decay. It's common to plant around Queen Victoria Day, & I like to empty my bins at least a week before. The material comes out smelling, rotten & damp, but the smell goes away within a day, & it still works quite well. The compost finishes decomposing on my vegetable beds thru the Summer growing season.
I'm most proud of my strawberries & my asparagus. I started my asparagus from seed & the plants are in the 3rd year. When I started gardening on my property, the soil was so hard I couldn't dig a spade into it. I killed all the weeds by adding cedar mulch the first year. In the second year I removed the cedar & spread it around my flower beds, & started covering my garden with compost in the Spring & Fall. My soil is getting better all the time, & Each year, I'm producing bigger harvests.
The plastic bins are working. For small residential lots in urban areas, I think it's the way to go.
You are doing well Eric, great solutions for difficult soil and a small space, thanks for sharing your compost making method.
Charles is my ‘go to’ gardener when I need to learn about a uk food crop. Such a pleasure to watch. Thanks for making the video.
Stuart McCloud I know I get the truth when Charles speaks.
I wish I could copy-paste your garden to my yard.
You can. You copy what he does and has similaur results in 2 years.
Don't we all :)
I don’t think we know how much work he puts into his garden, or how much help he gets.
I cant believe you are not monetizing this channel; this information is worth billions in my book.
Many thanks David.
We do monetise, but perhaps this video is not considered worth advertising on.
I prefer your sense of value!
Absolutely nothing like fresh peas!!!! And picking them right out in your dooryard! Excellent!
The past 2 plantings- I have watched this video and I have come to the conclusion MY SOIL is my problem..thank you for all you do..
Best of luck
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you.
Good Morning ☀️. I have been watching and learning from your videos for the past few years. I want to share with you how much I appreciate your way of teaching. Thank you for sharing your gift 🌱
Thanks so much Barbara
I just can't stop watching your videos love the garden and the way you grow the crop. Trying to mimic everything you do , thanks for everything you've shared
Cheers Karl and I wish you fine harvests
Wonderful! And again I am amazed about the superb audio quality, amongst other things.
Our efforts are rewarded Christian, audio causes more angst than anything!
That is what I wanted to say. How do you manage such a good sound quality even in windy condition? where do you hide the mic? ;-)
Just love to watch your educational garden videos and we’ve learned so much. We have two grandchildren in Perth Australia, we are in NZ, when they came for Christmas last year my husband John had grown a row of peas for each of them. You reminded me of them when you danced and ate fresh picked peas. They demolished their peas over three days and not one was cooked! They loved them. Thanks for the memories! Happy Christmas to you and yours.🤶🏻🎅🏻xx
Lovely to hear this Angie and great that your peas were so tasty!
I looked through the video just to see Mr. Dowding dance! Found it! 17:10
You can copy his garden so easy. Everything he recommends work so good with so much less work and more of the fun stuff. Planting sowing growing harvesting Eating
Destrie that is nice of you to say!
Watching this in winter and hearing bird songs. Wonderful.
Thank you for today's video. Seeing how they should look when harvest time was very helpful. Happy Gardening! Catherine
Thank you for the clarity of your lessons and the joy of eating own-grown vegetables - perfect
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I love your videos; I learn so much. Here in America, snow peas are harvested before seeds develop, so only the pod is eaten (for stir fries or fresh in salad). Snap, or sugar snaps, are eaten pod and seed. I am growing three varieties this year: shelling, sugar snap, and snow.
Hi Virginia and thanks for clarifying that one.
What you call snow, we call mangetout.
Have a great pea season!
I love the way how break down into step by step and teaching us how to grow vegetables... im a first time gardener and im just research on how to grow vegetables... so thank you so much
Nice to hear Kenpachi and I wish you happy growing
Thank you Charles! This season I sowed my own stored pea seed and got close to 100% germination. Your videos and books have helped me create my own small no-dig garden in the inhospitable desert climate of Las Vegas, USA.
Hey Val that is lovely to hear, sounds a bit different to here
Agreed about growing peas in a dry climate. I'm in L.A., which is really not that hot, but even here they're iffy. Peas are OK in Winter, but beans are better in general.
That is brilliant. The only bad thing as you have now given me lots of work. Tomorrow I will build a raised bed and begin planting peas. Thanks for the great advice. Love it.
Great, have fun
I sometimes watch your videos 2 or 3 times to really make sure I know everything I need to know.
I always like to find people showing how they grow peas .....to me the art of growing peas is very " British"( Victorian era)......this is a variety that I have grown for 30+ years and it aways amazes me that it's a real art to discover just how these peas grow...... The start of the pea from it's first "green slip" to the last day that it gets pulled out of the fall garden..... There are very few things in the garden that can look as impressive as well grown 30ft. Row of these tall peas..... In Canada we also call them "tall telephone poles" this video is about the best I have seen....I have in the last 8 or so years have add some "sweet peas" to the row..... It adds some color and attracts the pollinators..... PS....you need to build yourself a walked garden to help with the wind.....
Thanks Jim and a good idea on sweet peas!
Yes a wall would be nice.
Thanks you, sir for sharing your extensive knowledge.
It's time to plant out pea seedlings here in the high desert of central New Mexico, USA. We only plant fast-growing dwarf varieties, started indoors in February, as our springs are too short and summers too hot for the taller varieties to produce much. We're following your advice on multi sowing this year (beats, spinach, onions, and leeks as well), and are loving the space it saves under the indoor lights. We look forward to the planting out process being sped up a bit, as an extra plus.
An interesting note on peas: we grew Sugar Anne snap peas (in the states we call the round edible pods snap peas, and the flat varieties snow peas) last year, planting far more than we could keep up with. Quite a few became too tough to eat and were left on the vine, only to grow into some of the best tasting shelling peas we've ever had!
Thanks JWS for these interesting comments.
Each climate needs adaptation! our springs are long compared to yours.
I think dry peas are underrated, having loved the flavour of my Alderman.
You’ve got a nice way of talking. I really enjoy your demeanor.
Thank you Eric
I love coming back to these videos again and again as an exceptional resource. Such a great quick reminder of so much good information!
I'm really enjoying your "Course 1" audio book this week and eagerly awaiting your new "No Dig" audio book which I've pre-ordered for it's release next week.
Thank you for your phenomenal efforts in bringing efficient and productive growing to all! 👍😁
Glad you like them JW, thanks!
I do grow sweet peas and snow peas here in flat arid west Texas! Mulch heavy and grow close to a structure or privacy fence to protect from prevailing winds. I use a pig fence for them to grow up! It’s sturdier than string, we eat them standing in the garden, the peas never make it into the house. I do manage to bring in snow peas for stir Fry!! I grow a spring and fall crop.
Nice to hear you can grow them in Texas, you sound well organised
Please continue the free education 🙏. Ive learned alot and have been thinking about the course.
I live in South Sweden, and find your videos super helpful as we are so close together climate wise. Thanks soo much!
Great to hear Leane, hope spring goes nicely, watch out for cold weather soon!!
I love your videos. Wanted to share how I start my sugar snaps in late January. Soak a dark colored hand towel with water, place on my kitchen counter atop cookie sheet or plastic tray. Fill half the towel with pea seeds and fold the towel over to cover the seeds. I check them daily watering with my faucet sprayer...Plant as soon as the pea sprouts...if you wait too long they will become tangled even growing through the towel...happy gardening.
Thanks TK.
Funnily enough I did this with broad beans in November, but did not notice a big difference in growth, compared to soiwng at the same time alongside non-sprouted seeds. It was fun to do though.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig , oh, was responding to your starting them in pots...I just sprout them and put them in the garden, usually around the last of Janurary...I am located in 7a, central Arkansas US. They don't really start putting on any height until the middle of Feb, tiny nubs for some time but I can get them in the ground.
Absolutely love your gardening style! Including the dress shoes! Nothing but the best for the garden and audience! 😊
Thanks so much Miguel! 😊
I love this ... the man is making a living farming -- without a tractor -- manually with his hands in the dirt ...... while wearing oxfords! 😁 😂 🤣 Long live no-dig! Carry On Mr. Dowding, Carry On. Beautiful, this.
Ps. someone once told me they've never seen someone work so hard at manual labor while wearing Crocs as I :-D
Thanks Ted. Have to say it's barely a living, I need revenue from teaching and writing.
Love the technical term "wush wush wush grow" :) love your video, so informative (not cynical). thank you.
How can anyone dislike these videos? Thank you Charles. Great info and well explained and presented.
Just bought some pea seeds yesterday :-) Perfectly timed instruction.
Thank you so much for your videos. This will be my first autumn growing vegetables and watching you makes me feel so inspired! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
Ah thanks Maia, may your peas grow well!
Maia Jenik Maia, soy marita! Amo a este hombre y sus videos! Q increíble casualidad 🍀🍀🍀😘😘😘
All your videos are lovely because you are kínd and generous. All my love from Argentina 🇳🇮
Who gave a thumbs down?? excellent vid thumbs up
the eating sounds.
Just posed my self this question after i liked it and saw the ratio..
Those are the people that think food come from supermarkets.
I get irritated when I see a perfectly done video and someone throws in a thumbs down.
Most of the time they are misclicks
This is a fantastic video. Again, Charles, I really appreciate your efforts and knowledge.
Charles I just brought your book to say thankyou for everything you give back to us all for free. I am going to keep you up to date with my first efforts at no dig, so I'll be hitting you up on twitter.
That is nice, and I wish you success 😀
Good evening to all. Nice 👞 ; ) Mr. Thank you for your support. Susanne
Grow well Susanne
I grow Oregon giants every year and no other variety has beat them in my climate on Vancouver Island yet! Thank you for your informative videos. I got your newest book for Christmas and I had to limit one chapter per day so I could savour it :)
Lovely how you like the book. I shall check out Oregon Giant as our climates are similar
The crowd applauds
cause there's loads of pods.
I calls this a very clean work, and it's amazing to watch that
I grew up in Queens and I can’t get enough of this stuff.
I like the techniques you used for keeping them upright. My peas got blown up by strong wind last year and they were all tangled. I struggled to separate them. This video gave me a very good ideas. Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed watching it beginning to end. 😊 x
For my peas i use 3 meter poles, put them in the ground far enough to become sturdy. Then i don't use string, but a net of plastic fibre, to be used a multitude of times. I just have planted my green beans where my peas have been. I had a lovely harvest of 3 types. It's very easy to set up and only after the green beans it's hard to remove from it as they become almost like twisted rope.
Helpful comment thanks
I love how beautiful the peas are, they have beautiful little blooms. Thank you again for sharing your videos. My 16 year old is interested in gardening and farming, he is going to watch some of your videos to learn how to plant things.
Nice to hear 🥬
I tend to think of snap/sugar pod as the rounder mange tout and the flat ones as snow peas here on the west coast US. The snow peas are definitely better for cooking, they seem to get sweeter, perhaps my imagination 😄 love your videos, such good information from a kind soul!
That is interesting about snow peas, from the horse's mouth so to speak (that is a polite expression! means you should know) and thanks for writing, and your name is more than half good!
Charles Dowding thank you! I took my name from the first episode of The Good Life as it was a main contributor to my discovering a love for gardening 💕 (and yes, a very polite expression. Horses are, after all, very intelligent and elegant creatures!)
Thanks, and funny the Good Life made it over the pond.
More than showing tips and tricks, you show a love of gardening which makes me want to get out there and start mine. Will try your "No Dig" method for tomatoes, squash, some peas, carrots in the raised bed (on legs to reduce bending) along with the strawberries there. My big experiment, along with the No Dig, will be Okra in the greenhouse. 100% organic always.
Nice to hear Jack and I plan to grow okra as well, after I was asked to review a brilliant book "The Whole Okra" by Chris Smith, pub Chelsea Green
I will be growing peas this year. A good tutorial yet again.
Thank you for such a detailed video on pea growing. Your garden is a joy to watch!
Elie Vezzoni Thankyou Elie
Sweden here! I love the Alderman peas, very tasty! I found that pregroving my peas make the birds stay away from the sprouts. When I sow them directly the birds love to pick them up from the soil but planting them at about 10-15 cm of height they don´t touch them!
Yes it makes so much sense to transplant. Nice you found Alderman
Indeed, nothing like peas fresh off the vine and you’ve got the best climate for them.
True!
Love the taste testing, something you definitely get on the back of the packet. I ordered some Sugar Ann, so pleased to hear it recommended !
I love your videos! Gets me motivated to get my young boys learning how to be a gentleman.
In central Oregon we are so so dry in the summer and we are zone 3, but peas are an amazing crop here if you have irrigation. One of our best crops that don’t need a greenhouse. We have to start them way later than you but they do amazing. We love the Oregon sugar pod! Last year I sowed them thickly at the bottoms of arched cattle panels and they did amazing growing over. 💚
That is awesome Bethany!
I really enjoy your videos that show how to grow from seed to harvest. I have also decided to try planting a lot of my veg with starts like peas. This year I will grow purple podded peas. I’m getting ready although it will be a month at least. We still have snow ! Thanks !
Great and may your plants grow well
Wonderfully clear explanation of the various pea types and varieties. Thanks so much for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
I am indulging in small peas, seasoned with sea salt, at this very moment. Thank you for the lovely video.
Sounds lovely!
Thanks for all the great information and entertainment. From Littlefield Arizona, USA
"Catchy Bits" very cute Charles 🤗
Around 7:00. I'm American. We call the flat ones with edible pods, frequently used in Chinese cooking, snow peas. We call the fat ones, also with edible pods, sugar snap.
Useful feedback
Thanks so much for a great video about peas! My peas got windblown (in a hurricane! - I live in Florida) and I found that I had not given them strong enough support - but nonetheless they persisted and now are producing a wealth of pods...both for the peas and for the pods. I had taken your lead and planted them in compost - so thanks! It is so nice to see your genuine love for your plants. I would love to tour your garden one day...the peeks you provide in your videos are truly lovely.
Great to hear and thanks Ann
A little teaser video a few days ago and now the big one. Excellent information as usual. atb
Those are the nicest gardening shoes I've seen! ☺️
Asked and received you diary (book) for Xmas looking forward to another simple growing year with no dig, twice a week watering and lots of harvest.
Sounds very good Stephen
Great video Charles, thanks for sharing your wisdom!
We always use Kitchen & toilet roll holders saved over the winter months for starting pea & beans. You can just plant them straight in the soil, they're free & more ecologically sound than plastic. Great series of videos, have to get my industrial scale composting back in action.
Thanks and yes great method
Hooe all is well over there with you. Seeing kids are done with school they are getting excited with our big garden plan. Another month here. Cant wait. Thanks for great channel and info.
Thankyou it's quiet but ok here and that is a nice silver lining!
End of April 2022 and the peas are in, as a teenager in the UK we use to go pea picking for the local farmer, I'm sure that's where my love of eating peas right from the vine came from.
Very few things get my kids into the garden in the morning as well as fresh peas
You’re inspirational for all of us, everything seems to match your results : method, intonations , gestures and technical/biological aspect. Following your hands at work too. Pedagogical mindfulness, thanks again from sunny Italy. Great value in your channel, as the one that surrounds you in your garden. Congratulations Charles !
My pleasure and thanks, I hope all is well for you in these very strange times :)
Just got your book, "How to create a new Vegetable Garden" in fact; bought two. One as a gift. Loving it. I have gardened all my life. Doing it this year as if it's my first following your guidance. Thank you for your time and these videos. Fantastic....~Hippie Chick~
Many thanks Hippie Chick and I hope herb sales are good, enjoy the easier methods I give.
Charles, always, always thoroughly enjoy your videos and learn a lot. Thank you for putting out the content you do!
Nice to hear, thanks
Thanks Charles finally I have discovered the secret of peas. Thanks to you. I had already given up on peas a few years ago but this coming spring in New Zealand I will try growing shoots and also pods. You are so good at explaining growing secrets that I feel challenged to try a new. Love your explanation of growing vegetables !!!
Thankyou Maud. No secrets any more, it's all clear!
I enjoy your videos and am amazed at how scheduled succession planting you have in your area. I was still getting tomatoes at Christmas and was finding it hard to get space for the “winter crops”. I save my seeds year to year and find they adapt to the climate from the initial bought seeds after a few years. My main problem in winter is my neighbors are very close and their trees don’t allow enough sunlight to get thru at the low angle of the sun. Still it is mild🙃.
How super-organised you are Barbara, and that sounds a lovely climate.
Seeing you munching the peas : exactly what we do here. I’d have to double my pea production if i want ANY peas to make it into the house. 2 legged mice (husb and children, and me too) are an insatiable pest ;)
Hi Charles. Tammy here. New viewer. Love your content. I am from the US across the pond 😊. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks and welcome Tammy 🌱
You have cleared up a mystery I've had for a couple years. I planted my peas and none of them came up I planted them again and still they didn't come up. So I planted them in trays and and they came up then l transplanted them to the garden. But we could never figure out why they never came up we knew something was probably eating them but didn't know what until you said mice like to eat the peas. Mystery solved I will alway grow my seeds in trays then transplant them. Thank you so much .
Well done and thanks
Your obviously at home in your garden. Where life began!
Great video, thank you. Sugar snap peas are my favorite. They are my sweet treat to eat while I'm in the garden. ❤
I agree Debbie, and so tasty fresh.
Lovely video Charles. I’m also binge-watching your videos to soak up all the valuable information. Who needs TV these days. I haven’t watched a single programme on TV since we moved. Our TV needs to go. I thought growing peas was time consuming, but I’ve changed my mind now.
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I like a more starchy pea to be honest. John Seymour always said not to eat dried or frozen peas so you can get maximum enjoyment when they're in season but I can't commit to that.