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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- To help you make good choices about what to plant, where and when, through all the season. It's easier with no dig, and when you understand parameters such as rotation.
I explain examples from my intensive cropping and intercropping at Homeacres. From May to October all beds are full , and some are double cropped with interplants.
Here is the Sowing Timeline charlesdowding...
More information on my website charlesdowding...
in my books charlesdowding...
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A year of sowing dates, plus gorgeous photos and no dig advice are in my wall calendar, good to buy even late winter & spring charlesdowding...
Filmed, inspired and edited by Edward Dowding summer 2019 at Homeacres, 1000 square metres of no dig beds mostly cropped twice every year, zone 8 south west UK, climate is temperate oceanic, mild winters and warm not hot summers.
Spanish subtitles by Maria F. Nieto Ramirez
These videos of no dig vegetable growing are warming my heart. I have grown my own food all through the years for my family, for myself. This past summer I had the worst garden ever. Injuries, lack of time, and overall aging have been limiting factors and I have seen my precious seeds and money thrown to the wind. This gives me heart. I can make compost I can do all these things and whats more, there are many young gardeners who look to me for help and inspiration. Now, I can easily see another decade of my beloved gardening in these my senior years. THANK YOU
Hello Terry and this warms my heart!
Especially that you can put your accumulated knowledge of growing vegetables to good use, by helping so many younger people. There's a lot of enthusiastic youngsters now who need this kind of help, because growing vegetables successfully is not straightforward, unless they have a clear understanding of the principles, timings, pest protection et cetera, all of which you know.
And how to make compost!
One last tip, as not to worry about a four-year rotation. Gardening suddenly become simpler 😀
I think for the beginning gardener, just giving your name to them as a Christmas present would be the best gift they would get all their life. Can not Thank you enough for sharing all you share, you look so happy when talking about gardening.!! I do hope you have a Wonderful Holiday.!!!!
Thanks Wende, and it's my pleasure
Just found this channel yesterday and have binged watched at least 20 videos. Love this man and his methods!
Thankyou
You are watching one of the best if not the best when it comes to gardening !!!
ikr?!?! he's so comforting 😊
Charles Dowding is to gardening as Bob Ross is to painting as Fred Rogers is to changing his sweater.
discovered just today and i can imagine! cant wait to get my hands dirty
I realise that this video is old and no one may read it. But I thought I would share. I am the proud owner of a beautiful patch of garden that has been growing potatoes and silver beet since at least 1949. I bought the house that my great aunty and uncle lived in all their married life. The bed in question has absolutely no attention whatsoever, no intentional watering, since the early 90s when Great Uncle Bob died. I am generously rewarded for no effort. I was even more surprised to find that the potatoes in question are a highly sought after heirloom variety that has not been available for purchase in New Zealand where I am from for many decades. Thought you may find this interesting. Thank you for the great videos. I learn so much from you.
Hi Georgina, and that is amazing.
Magic land, heirloom soil!
Thanks for your comment 😀
I had a stroke two years ago and find digging v.hard now. Discovered your channel while recovering; then came to your talk in Newtown a while ago - you have transformed gardening for me and renewed my enthusiasm for it. Thank you so much!
Makes me happy to read this! (except for your having a stroke) Thanks
And when you garden, do so barefooted. Watch 'The Earthing Movie". God bless!
I can't even describe how much I enjoy to watch your videos. It's so calming to watch them after a stressful workday in the office. Thank to you I started my own terrace garden since I have no more space, simply in wooden boxes, and it was so enjoyable to harvest this summer my own veggies and not buy the poisoned ones from the supermarket
I love seeing this in December with rain and fog outside in Northern California. Keeps me inspired for Spring. Thank you for your beautiful videos!
I’ve only been gardening for 6 months and I’ve learned so much but there’s so much more to learn. With this being my first Fall planting & I’m already thinking about Spring as well, your video was very timely. I love the ease in which you speak and teach. What an honor to learn from a legend.
Many thanks and great that you are planning ahead
An old friend of mine grew up in a 'stately home' as we used to say, as his father was a butler; the genuine article serving a proper lordship.
Needless to say, he is one of the warmest, most polite and likeable people one could hope to meet, and has a manner much like yourself, Charles.
And so fitting for role you find yourself in, nurturing a natural process; so thank you for your gentle approach to our beautiful Earth.
Nice comment, thankyou
Your garden, sir, is a delight to the eyes ! Every thing is lush and green, and so well organized. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and experience.
Mr Dowding, I thank you for you trials and your teachings! I do appreciate it very much, I have learned so much from you and most definitely like no class or book could ever teach me. I love the way you teach, thanks again and God bless!😉❤️️
That is lovely, thanks for saying
*Sees a new video of Charles, opens it, presses 👍🏾 and then starts watching.
Thank you for these videos, Charles!
The most beautiful garden I’ve ever seen 😍😍😍 always love to repeat watching your videos 🧚🏻♀️🧚🏼♂️
Charles, you've helped me so much in developing my own garden. You've taught me so much through your videos. My garden is now looking great with very little maintenance. Thank you!
I like that you have a fine result, thanks for your feedback
I started a no dig garden in January this year. Planted carrots, potatoes, beets, onions and are growing nicely. Thank you for no dig, Planting right way is nice.
Nice to hear, I wish you success
Charles, you are an excellent teacher, and your garden is a thing of beauty.
Thankyou Jenne
Good morning to our favorite garden guru!
Charles Dowding makes me feel motivated and better equipped to maximize a gorgeous, earth friendly and bountiful garden.
Grow plants and thrive!!
Love that Claudia!
Charles, you are the man!! I don't think I've seen any other UA-camr, that has your knowledge and general understanding of growing vegies. I have recommended many friends to watch your videos. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and experimental ways. I've grow potatoes (self growing) in the same spot for years, and they still produce good tubers, subject to water. I dont do it with any other vegies, but as I get older, I seem to get a little lazier. Keep up the great work, you are certainly changing the way people grow their food, a great skill to have!! Compost, compost, compost. Cheers Dale
That is cool Dale and thanks for spreading the knowledge.
I would call it being more efficient, not lazier!
This man is adorable I’m sorry, you better stay excited about that garden my man! Binging all the videos now thank god for days off
Great 😄
I had so much loss and damage this year from woodchucks. Had I have had plants ready to go, I wouldn’t have lost so much time this season. Thanks so much for sharing this!
Sorry to hear that and good you could reduce damage :)
After having an allotment for over 15years, next year will be the first spring that I will not have to clear the plot before I plant out. I've spent this year collecting paper and card to plough on with my no-dig method. I only have small patches left to cover and to go back and recover where the weeds are showing their resilience. My best year every in respect of work or should I say lack of hard work.
Fantastic, what lovely feedback Jacqui. May your allotment neighbours notice.
It's funny how language can compromise us, you 'ploughed on with no dig'!!
Can I like 1 million times? So happy to see and learn what you have to teach! From Espirito Santo, Brazil!
@@GravefriHave Teach me how! Please!
Thanks for saying Andre
@@CharlesDowding1nodig My pleasure Charles! Hope one day my garden thrive like yours! Learning with the best!
This makes perfectly sense. Cabbage - beans is a sort of rotation. The beans provides nitrogen by bacteria nodules, the cabbage is a nutrient demanding crop. As long as you have no disease in the earth (esp. fungal diseases) this can be done for years.
Charles always seems so delighted to take us along this gardening no digg journey that it truly is making me feel excited.
Now let's watch the rest of the vdo :)
Nice to hear, I shall tell Edward who helps me to lift the tone!
Love the videos and love the knowledge you spread. I don't how in the world you get 2 dislikes, must be competition or people who are just plain miserable. I hope one day to have beautiful gardens just like yours
Thanks Robby, enjoy the quest
I think its time for us to all to grow more. Much healthier food with the fun of doing it yourself.
Absolutely brilliant! 🌟 Your video seamlessly blends entertainment with education, creating a captivating viewing experience. I'm genuinely excited about the innovative content you consistently deliver.
Your channel is a true breath of fresh air, radiating passion for the subject matter. This dedication shines through in every video, making for exceptional and enriching content. Keep up the fantastic work-I can't wait to see what captivating insights you share next! 👏
Thank you! 😃 Happy to entertain you while informing
Wonderful insight as always. Thank you so very much for opening your garden space to teach and broadcast across the globe.
Charles, I just love your videos. I learn so much each time.
Hello Charles, I have followed your no dig method for four years now and am amazed how great it is .my biggest problem has been when to sow and plant follow on crops so this vid is very useful.to make sure for this season I have bought your veg journal and I’m looking forward to a good season.many thanks
Thanks for your feedback Dave, may your successions succeed 😃
It all looks overwhelming but you've done all the work. Just ordered a couple of your books for my birthday present, then I can get going.
Ah great, thanks and yes once those weeds are well mulched and fertility added, it's easy
Everyone advocates your method of planting. I have been growing vegetables for four years by digging up the soil but I would like to try your method this year. I’m not certain if I should compact the soil and then put compost on top or just put compost on top but I’m going to give it a go. Thank you for posting your videos. They are helping to teach an old dog new methods.
This is nice to know, and just spread compost on top, it's as simple as that. For clarity it's best not to use the word compact, because strictly speaking that is a condition of damaged soil. The best word to use is firm!
But it's rare that we need to firm soil, only if we have loosened it ourselves.
Again, Thank you Charles! love listening to you and cant wait to get all your books!
Much love and appreciation from Panhandle of Tx!
Blessings
Every-time I watch one of your videos I feel like I have visited the Gardening Guru. Fantastic advice supported by your amazing garden.
Thanks so much
Fantastic, informative video as always. I look forward to the notification of a new video posted. Myself and my dad have an allotment together and we’re moving towards no dig more and more, next step is planning and having food all hear round! Thanks Charles
So yea I'm finding ur vids so useful, especially the succession planting and knowing what to plant and when to plant it, thanks charles
Glad you like them Shane
Thank you, inspiring and motivating as always!
I could listen to you talk about gardening all day. I love your channel. Your knowledge, experience, and lovely manner make learning about gardening a pleasure. Thank you so very much!
-Corwin
So nice Corwin, thanks
Lots of good information and inspiration Charles. Thanks.
Just wow! Thank you so much for sharing all this wonderful knowledge with us. Can’t stop watching your videos.
Thanks Martha
For me this is one of the best gardening UA-cam channels. gets me pumped up 💪🏾
Ah good!
Charles, Started watching you this morning and have learnt so much already x
My warm weather garden is over in NY (a foot of snow a couple of weeks ago). We were just talking about all the fresh vegetables we already miss and enjoyed watching this video. I decided to do a small indoor garden this winter to get some fresh food while dreaming of spring. Thank You!
Gosh snow already, we are blessed here and good luck with the indoor garden
Last week I harvested 28.6kg off beetroot.. variety was Detroit red globe, planted a few stages 147 total. I have raised garden beds 1.5 x 3 metres long. When the beetroot came out I had capsicums and chillies to go in. Thanks for all your videos.
Well done and isn't beetroot a wonderful staple
Charles Dowding yes it sure is. Hopefully we have enough for the year
Thank you so much for this video. It’s really helpful. Thanks for all you informative videos
By the way, I'm always happy and grateful after watching you!! 🙏🏽
Greetings from Duesseldorf, Germany. Thx for all the stuff you do Charles. Much appreciated.
Wolfgang
Nice :)
Thanks for all you’ve taught me about no dig. It has been a godsend for me as well as my garden! Happy Holidays while we all recharge for spring. 🎄
Thank you Charles Dowding for sharing your incredible knowledge with us! It is so useful and doable in comparison to so many gardeners who make it so complicated and expensive. I'm very grateful that I found your channel and am eager to improve my gardening skills. Thank you.
Thanks Nora.
It seems to be a human trait, the over-complication, perhaps to empower the teacher :(
Thanks Charles great video. Started doing no-dig this year after watching you on UA-cam. I thought I was doing the no-dig method, I would spread my compost on my beds then forked it in, in springtime. Now I’m doing it your way, what a difference thanks again.
That's interesting Mike, glad you found the easier way :)
I will save this info for March and move it to March in my Pages planner. I love to be in the garden and smell fennel. It is also a host plant for the Swallowtail Butterfly. Repeating crops is fine. I keep my nitrogen high by planting Starbucks filters, coffee beans, and rabbit manure. I am going to plant a lot of potato seeds again this year. I love discovering them:-)
So very inspiring! Getting to be the older guy here too. Turned a second compost pile the other day, it's looking good to. First year NoDig. Keeping the beds full of growing vegetables and flowers sounds so much better than full of weeds. So I will be spreading the compost this spring, one bed at a time. Charles i feel like this will be a good year for changing some of the habits to tilling and digging. Gonna be trying more NoDig methods. Sure do have enough seeds in packets for propagation with grow lights in the house! Thank you much and looking forward to your next video! I'm on another binge watching!
Nice to hear Wayne!
@@CharlesDowding1nodigthank you thank you! The compost bin got up to 100 degrees for a few days today it is 85. Air temp is 34.. also started another bin this morning! Looking good feeling good!
I absolutely love your videos. I’m always so happy when I get a notification. Greetings from East Tennessee!
Always love your videos. Can’t wait till the next one!
This is making me so happy to watch. My garden is under a foot of snow right now. ~Heather
Bear Bottom Acres some needs a greenhouse
Really useful video, thanks, I m planning for next year at the moment and this is really helpful.
Oh i agree Thank you I so loved seeing this video
really inspired with your beautyful garden.i find your garden soo much beautiful.now i always want my work as a veggies gardener in my free time.i also wanting my viggies garden like yours. keep it up man.love all the way from NEPAL...
Gosh such a long way from here, exciting and I wish you success in your garden. These methods can help a lot to extend growing seasons in summers which may be brief perhaps, in the mountains.
brilliant you are mr dowding thank you im in south wales and can see my kg go up
Nicely put!
This is my first year gardening. Still learning through the process. Planting some veggies, no problem. But I've got big failure in planting melon & watermelon
They are difficult unless your summer is hot
I just found this channel, and wow I’m hooked! Binging all your videos so I’m ready for spring ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Tina 😀
I have been watching your films for a long time. Lots of information that I will use in the upcoming season. This will be my first garden. Thank you for the huge amount of useful knowledge!
I was browsing your store. I'm thinking of buying a book or diary. Are there any promotional codes currently available?
Thanks Kuba and no codes, but we do an offer on the Diary plus calendar at £16.50 for example
Thank you as always. A note on rotation.... Japanese farmers plant 4-5 years of rice then 1 year of wheat. Sometimes they burn off the tops... sometimes they don't. I thought this might be a good example to highlight your no rotation philosophy.
Thanks for sharing, yes some linkage there 🏆
The lesson from this and your other videos is that as long one keeps replenishing the soil again and again and sow in the right season, then not much attention needs to be paid for succession planting.
I can only dream of growing a garden in your climate. I'm in Manitoba, Canada.
Yikes, good luck Larry
Thank you again Charles your videos are always so informative and as a newbie gardener much appreciated 😻
Thank you for your channel. I have learnt alot from you that many others would never have done. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden, how you work your greenhouse and your continuous practices for starting seeds.
Personal note, you resemble a love one that has passed and it is nice to be reminded of him. Thank you again.
Sorry to hear that and many thanks for your comment Wanda
I just ordered his2020 calendar off amazon!! I was so pleased to see the price, less than $15. I have several of his books . I truly love them all! Lots of great information, with pictures explaining. Not any long pages of dry reading. I garden in zone 6 in the Ozark Mountains i will just add 2 weeks in the spring and it will be perfect. Look on amazon if you live in the US.
Thanks Annette.
Sowing starts no earlier than mid February so the Calendar is good to buy even into spring, loads of sowings through summer and autumn
Mid June and you're there with a jumper and bodywarmer on, 2023 as I write and in June you'd be in shorts and not much else. But in the rest of the year in a raincoat!
So different!
Thank you for all this great information. Loving your videos
Que genio,maravilloso!!!gracias por compartir sus experiencias, estoy aprendiendo,,,me sirve de guía,,,gracias
Wow I didn't realize you could transplant french beans (green beans). I've always direct sown them. Nice to know.
I'll be doing square foot gardening in 2020 and hopefully i'll do pretty well.
Beans are a great crop for testing the non-rotation-ability of the no dig method. After about 4 years of beans, you will get more leaves/less pods for a few years as the beans switch into "Use up the excess nitrogen" mode.
If you have managed 7 years of beans without a problem, it is probably safe to say that rotation is unnecessary with the no dig method
Thanks to you I love gardening much more,than before.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. It is unbelievable how pretty and healthy your plants are. And I like your videos, especially for showing sowing and planting out dates,it is very helpful for me, always have a notebook watching you🙂
Great work Ula, nice you are enjoying it more
This was super helpful and confidence boosting. Loving growing our own ! Thank you
Wonderful video once again. Planning is my big failing. We have such a short growing season here in central Minnesota it seems like I no more than get started and it's over. Better planning would probably do wonders.
For sure Mark and sow early too, like in your house, plus use row covers to increase your brief spring
I just love your lessons. Soo inspirational, informative and you make it sound so easy. As a long time gardener of vegetables, I know it's not as easy as you make it out to be but heck, you make us think we can conquer the art of growing our own food. It is New Year's eve 2021 in South Africa and I'm planting. Thank you so much
Thanks Pinky, you can do it for sure, I shall check up as long as my trip to SA works, early March 😀 Organised by SA Permaculture Research Institute.
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Im so excited to hear you will be coming to South Africa. Please keep us updated. If you have speaking events or gardening lessons when here, I would love to attend. Keep up the good work
You make me anxious to get into the garden and start planting. But here, in Nova Scotia, Canada, we woke to -13 this morning, and it will only get colder from here on. And then there will be snow. I'm growing lettuce on my window sill, and I'll order seeds for spring. That's about all I can do this time of year. Thanks for making it feel 'warm' with your videos.
Greetings from Bowling Green, Kentucky!
I am trying my first no dig. I will redouble my composting efforts and see what I can do in my backyard plot. Thanks for the reinspiration. Just fantastic information. You make it seem easy and accessible.
Best of luck!
Thank you for this lovely video.
Amazing video as always. Greetings from Bavaria. ☺
Un hombre satisfecho, un hombre feliz jejeje un saludo desde Galicia
Gracias 💚
@Kevin Pereiraso pola costume dos galegos de falarlles os de fora en castelan.
What a great garden!
🎉Finalmente un video con attivi i sottotitoli in italiano 🙏grazie
We are getting there 😀
Your the man charles. great content
Thank you for yet another wonderful video.
I'm wishing for your tutorial for Christmas and am excited to see what else I can learn from you. Have a wonderful festive season!
Thanks and have a wonderful Christmas
Just what I wanted- thank you
Thank for good video clip.
Beautiful!! As always.
O wow, finally somebody who makes sense. Thank you for showing me (us) an out of the ingrained box!
I just got a fresh piece of community garden, and was ploughing through all the different charts and schemes, and didn't find any logic in those. Since when I look at nature, it's a 'little' different than in those schedules.
I'm starting to binge watch your channel, since I want to know it all! And apply as soon as possible in our garden, since it's already March... ;)
Blessings,
Diana, from The Netherlands/Holland
Nice to read this Diana and I wish you fine harvests 😀
What a wonderful farm you have! I love the joy you seem to receive from growing. I enjoy watching my garden grow as well. Your advice is so helpful. I would love to know in your whole season videos the weather at planting, weather at sowing, weather when the plant is taken out. I'm in Northern California and we have such funny weather here. This year we had colder temperatures (55* F at the high) into May and then we had 85-115* F temps for the rest of the summer (zone 9b). Thanks for sharing your knowledge!! I appreciate it very much. :)
Cheers Sandi.
Sounds challenging weather!
See this page here for my weather www.charlesdowding.co.uk/weather/index.htm and in the This Year tab at top, you can see weather on any day! From a Davis weather station in the garden :)
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Oh wow! I love that you've included the weather! Thank you so much. And of course you've thought of everything. :)
Greetings from Indonesia, I love your way to plant...thanks for the inspiring vidios
Lovely to hear
This was excellent, thank you, and congratulations on your successes!
Happy Holidays Charles! Thank you for a great informative gardening year.
A pleasure, and same to you
brilliant video....blows away so many gardening myths....great watch and learning tool
Glad you enjoyed it
really enjoying watching all of your videos! my garden is in South Africa, and a lot of your lessons have helped me tremendously! Thank you very much for taking the time to share your knowledge
Happy to read this Robert, I love the internet for its wide reach :)
Hi, Charles! Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and your brilliant garden with us. I always enjoy watching. Actually the only things I am looking forward to watch are Avatar II and your videos.😄
I made four pages of notes from the last video and will write down more from this one. I probably won't need much from the supermarkets next year.
Warm greetings from Berlin and wish you a joyful holiday season!🎄
I am impressed, you are a conscientious student :) and thanks for writing Chen
Thanks so much! Such a helpful video. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Just want to add too that the video production is great, and the music is lovely 😊
Ah good, and kudos to Edward