Yes! In NS, Canada with such a short season I need to pack it in as much as possible! I use a high intensity approach and really push the limits by planting lots in any spaces! By mid summer the garden looks like a jungle but such a productive jungle!! ❤
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sounds great!
@pascalxus
10 ай бұрын
i love the twig trellis for the peas at the end of the bed.
@D71219ONE
Жыл бұрын
I asked you about growing a lot in a small space in a short from last week, so I’m just going to imagine you made this video just for me! 😅 Great information!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂 🤲 Perfect
@Kittykatkw2000
Жыл бұрын
My 2nd year no dig is doing much better than the last. We're also getting good rains and it hasn't been overly hot. I'm loving it! Thanks again for sharing all you do! :)
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
this is great to hear and thank you
@kroscoe
Жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks Charles, steady away!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@bambiileanachandler4656
Жыл бұрын
Charles, I grow corn in the midwest in the states. I grow them closer together about 8-10 inches apart. The same spacing between rows. I see big farms doing it so I tried it. They're such a heavy feeder if you want nice corn. I layer old manure thickly like 3-4 inches deep.. Lots of water. Fantastic corn.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, nice tip and I shall try closer!
@ShayBayBay585
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Charles!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant info, Charles ❤ I've been picking Giant Japanese Red Mustard Greens for the past 2 months.Cut and come again, of course! And I'm picking tomatoes 🍅 Happy Gardening, My Friend 💚 ❤Peggy❤
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Peggy. No heat here!
@truth3358
Жыл бұрын
Love your work I have 1 acre in Ireland which I’m now going to change slowly into growing veg all tips welcome Great video
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, lovely to hear
@kristineflunes7024
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for another brilliant video Charles! I love watching you talk about plants, you are so animated and your passion is tremendously inspiring :D I've planted leafy kale, sown carrots, spring onions and herbs, and prepared to sow cucumber and corn today. Greetings from Norway!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Ah thanks Kristine. Nice to hear you are making the most of this special time!
@louisamccabeart418
Жыл бұрын
thank you for this helpful video. You are a very neat and organized gardener/farmer. I think you should do a video, maybe fast-motion, of you and your helpers just tending to your beds. It would certainly be helpful to me and I suspect other viewers as well. thanks again. L
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Nice thought thanks
@hotpepper7782
Жыл бұрын
Hi Charles, we seemed to have had a false start to the rainy season , and the sun is hoooottttt. Yeah that hot and gardening is not so much fun right now . But by yourhelp and God grace.. I had been enjoying continous planting and interplanting hardly been to the market for the year ... thanks and keep up the good work....
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oooh I hope the weather improves, I'm glad you are growing well
@wildscotland9506
Жыл бұрын
Top video Charlrs, lots of great strategies.
@daliacastello2608
Жыл бұрын
In the gulf coast region Texas I just planted my third and last round of potatoes before the big heated summer kicks in I’m putting in green onion and pulling up the onion every thing matured early because of the great rain showers and actually performed well now is time for the really heat tolerant stuff melons, okra, eggplant tomato and squash. Mr Dowding really teaches making the most of your space I doubled up on each onion wow iv doubled the onion harvest
@johnman559
Жыл бұрын
Stop living somewhere glorious will you?🏖 Come and live in the UK like the rest of us😢
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
‼️ yup I am fortunate
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Nice to hear and I hope the summer goes well for you, it sounds quite a challenge but at least you do have the warmth for those vegetables
@daliacastello2608
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Summer was brutal last year hoping for something better this year
@SageMamoo
Жыл бұрын
Do you mean sweet potatoes? It's too hot here for Irish
@eadjh98
Жыл бұрын
Exciting times Charles! Thanks for sharing this video I’m now looking at my seed packets to see what to sow next! Hoping it will start to get warmer as here in Suffolk feels more like November! 👍👍
@smas3256
Жыл бұрын
Should be in the 60's F but it's been hitting the 80's. I won't say more about that. 6B u.s.a.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
It looks quite cool until the end of May! But that still leaves a lot of time for growing, fingers crossed
@onceuponafarmnz
Жыл бұрын
Lots of cool ideas, thanks, I do a mash of things all growing together in my gardens but this has inspired me to plan things out a little more.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
So glad that it has inspired you 🙂
@jdschuncke
Жыл бұрын
i just wish i had enough seedlings to pack em in like you do!
@rubygray7749
Жыл бұрын
That problem is easily remedied! Sow more seeds today, and tomorrow, and next week, and ...
@itsmewende
Жыл бұрын
You are such an inspiration, makes me wanta get in my garden after watching what you share. Have a wonderful weekend.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you 🙂
@stlmama7643
Жыл бұрын
Really great examples that can give us all ideas on how to best use our space. I’m trying something a little different the year, at least for me. Here in the Midwest US my peas are always pokey, and they take up a lot of real estate. I tried doing pea transplants last year to speed them along, but the ground is so cold in March and early April that they didn’t end up maturing any faster than direct sow. This year I planted my peas in the bed I was planning to also put tomatoes. The peas are currently flowering, and the tomatoes were just planted this week. The tomato supports are helping hold up the peas, which should have produced over the next few weeks and be ready to cut down before those tomatoes get too large. The nitrogen boost might also be good for the tomatoes? Will see how it works out. Last year I used some of your hints on multi-sowing onions where there was a little room here or there, and they were very happy.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Really good to see this, I think that's very enterprising and sounds promising 💚
@DemokratieErwacht
Жыл бұрын
After watching many of your videos I now see a very big difference to German Garden KZitemr. It looks to me as if you never cover the soil/compost with a layer of mulch material. Here in Germany we put mulch like cutted grass on top of the soil to prevent it from drying out. Why are you not using mulch in top? I love your videos. It's so much inspiration.
@kernfel
Жыл бұрын
In many ways, compost *is* a mulch. The top of it may dry out, but many compost types are coarse and spongy enough to easily withstand that.
@glassbackdiy3949
Жыл бұрын
Good show, cheers Charles
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you 🙂
@craigmetcalfe1749
Жыл бұрын
Hey Charles! I look forward to each and every video but this one is teasing me into confessing a few truths I have learned in my own garden. The corn that you have, I planted last season and used the North American Indian trick of planting the three sisters. Perhaps that could work for you too! I am also glad you are growing Cumin. One of my favorite receipts (Ye olde English word for recipe according to the late Jennifer Pattison) is so simple and hearty and vegetarian. Bake a potato in it's jacket (skin) after pricking a few holes to let the steam escape. After an hour remove from the oven and let cool. Then cut in half and scoop the flesh out of the potato and mash together with some steamed or BBQ'd golden squash or yellow zucchini. Add some butter and cumin powder into the mix, then add back into the half shell of the potato. If I could eat anything fresh from my garden, I would be happy for the rest of my allotted time on this earth. Cheers!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sweet recipe thanks Craig. Yes many viewers are recommending three sisters and the difficulty with it here is our summers are considerably cooler than the continental ones in America where it comes from, and also compared to yours. So there's not time for everything to mature and for the beans to dry. I believe also it was for dry mate it's not sweetcorn.
@skeletalbassman1028
Жыл бұрын
Great ideas. It’s hard not to crowd tomatoes, especially when you want many varieties.
@dianeladico1769
Жыл бұрын
I put 30 tomato and pepper plants each in a 2x30 bed-tomatoes in the back, peppers in the front. Basil goes in between the peppers and sometimes marigolds if I'm feeling it. I have a 6'x32' T-trellis of cattle panels running down the middle. My only concession is I try to alternate cherry tomatoes with beefsteaks, all indeterminate. The growth habits are different and that helps. Sometimes I prune but I usually just take the lower leaves off. By September it's a jungle but I get plenty of fruit. I weave them through the cattle panel and when they hit the top I let them run. It's mostly heirlooms which I grow for taste and some don't have hybrid-style productivity but they all grow as much as they're destined to. I'm fortunate to have good sun and air circulation.
@helenamadzia735
Жыл бұрын
Świetne rozwiązanie, przestrzeń wykorzystana do perfekcji. Bardzo mnie się podoba pełne zagospodarowanie miejsca przez cały rok, życzę obfitych plonów, pozdrawiam gorąco.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you 🙂 and you also
@doinacampean9132
Жыл бұрын
I'd plant garlic between the corn plants, and harvest green garlic. Use like you would green onion. I normally use green garlic with snacks, but there's also a delicious stew with leeks, green onions, green garlic and olives.
@Kehh71235gmail
Жыл бұрын
Hi Diona where are you from?
@thatgirlthatgrows
Жыл бұрын
I had some spare lettuce seedlings and thought I’d chuck them in with the onions just because I didn’t want to throw them 😅 and they’re doing amazing, I couldn’t believe it! I’ll definitely be doing it again next year 👍
@Olatz-f4d
Жыл бұрын
Hey Charles, how does it work with the garlic when you have to stop watering it in the end of its Season but tomatoes want to be watered?
@Lifegrowsonandon
Жыл бұрын
Garlic is plenty far away from tomatos
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
No worries because the garlic harvest is in early June! That's one reason why this combination is so successful. By the middle of June all we have there is the French marigolds
@denisebrady6858
Жыл бұрын
Hey Charles Great video once again- Our weather temps here in Brisbane Australia are just weird. I have had my Cabbage /Cauliflower/ Broccoli plus all other winter veges in for well over 6 weeks now & hardly any progress, we are nearly finished our Autumn & really cannot see any Brassicas this year at all. Very despondent with gardening here but I will keep on. Cheers Denise- Australia
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oh Denise that sounds rally difficult, you mean it has been too cool for them?
@denisebrady6858
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig No Charles far too Hot
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, can't imagine that, hope it comes good in winter
@homegrownharvest211
Жыл бұрын
I literally just opened YT to find videos on exactly this topic as I have far too many plants! I was also tempted to plant my toms closer together than 60cm (I was thinking 50) so thank you so much! My leeks in modules are so puny compared to yours, I wish I had homeacres quality compost
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
💚!
@dustyflats3832
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure about doubling onions and should have tried a few as I do have a lot and they took a lot of space at 4-6” apart enmassed. I am trying a few peppers together. Yes, more space is definitely what I need. I think we have a vole as the carrots were messed with under the burlap and we seen him late winter and thought he was cute-not anymore as he also ate spring bulbs. James Prigioni showed small tiny worm like insect in his soil eating the roots and wonder if you knew what they could be.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
It might be better for you not to lay burlap before winter. And those tiny worms, I'm not sure but I wonder if they are wireworm which is the maggot of click beetles
@MitchGrows
Жыл бұрын
very difficult year for carrots for us over at 4 acre also, thousands of carrots munched by slugs over night!!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Ah man, so disheartening, hope the resow goes well
@MartinSunderland
Жыл бұрын
Great video Charles. A couple of months ago I planted an 8'x4' raised bed with 1 year old Asparagus plants. Is thare any reason why I cant grow Spinach in between them in May June?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Martin, and I would do that
@mickaltham8202
Жыл бұрын
It's great to see what you have growing and to compare to what I have growing, I've got some carrots interplanted with garlic, parsnips in between some Broad Bean's and beetroot and planning on putting in some multi sown spring onions in between my lettuce, struggling to get courgette and cucumbers to germinate and just put in another bed for sweetcorn, I was hanging on a bit before planting out sweetcorn but there around 6-8" since I potted them on a few weeks ago, seeing yours out now think I will put mine out tomorrow and dwarf French beans just popping up that I might try between the corn, only trying them out this year 3x3 block, if there successful I'll grow more next year 😁👍
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sounds good Mick :)
@JVSwailesBoudicca
Жыл бұрын
Great ideas here, thanks.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂 🙂
@RetreatfarmFarmvilleVirginia
Жыл бұрын
It's getting very tricky here to get clean organic animal manures here in the States now because of widespread use of "Forever" chemicals that many farms are spraying on their fields to eliminate weeds and invasive grasses. Grazon being the worst chemical of all that takes over 10 years to break down. I'm in a battle now with hillside runoff from a uphill farm that was abandoned and has rotting barrels of chemicals, motor oils and anti-freeze that has forced me to dig drainage ditches to divert the rainwater contaminated runoff around my growing areas. But so far i'm seeing incredible growth from several dump truck loads of clean 10 year old composted cow manure. That should be everyone's very First question to a compost or any amendment provider..."Did you spray or treat this area or material with any chemicals?"
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sad to hear but well done for managing it
@carlgallagher6325
Жыл бұрын
My carrots have suffered from slugs and so have my marigold's. Interesting about the wood lice, never thought of it. Anyway, since I was feeling deflated I was happy to hear you're going through the same thing Charles 😃
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Best of luck! Yes it helps to share the problems!
@a-vijfje7725
Жыл бұрын
Recipy against slugs: Pull 2 bulbs of garlic till the cloves are peeled. Smash them with a knife and put them in a liter of boiling water. Let it cook for 10 minutes. Pour it then through a strainer into a bowl. Or directly into a glass bottle. Now you have a garlic extract. For using it: put 1 liter of clean water into a flowersprayer and join 2 tablespoons of the garlic extract. Spray it around the plants that de slugs like to eat. I am also trying it for de top of my swede plants where other creatures come to eat. Good luck!
@lindypatterson8585
Жыл бұрын
Can you mix root crops (swede, cabbage or Brussel sprouts) with beetroot or tomatoes before they are finished
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Yes anything goes in healthy soil, if enough moisture
@maryschrier651
Жыл бұрын
How about a bean with the corn, maybe a half runner bean.
@denisenewman1578
Жыл бұрын
Hello Charles The garlic you grow in rows outside your greenhouse; how close together do you plant the cloves please? Trying to plan for when I plant my next batch in the Autumn! Thanks in advance, best wishes, Denise
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Hi Denise, roughly 30cm rows and 10cm between garlic.
@denisenewman1578
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you so much for taking the time to reply. All helps with my planning 😀
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@dawnteskey3259
Жыл бұрын
I took your advice about multi-sowing beets a few years ago, works beautifully. Thank you!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
💚
@hisroyalblueness
Жыл бұрын
Haha Charles, I don’t think you said what you meant. As you well know, as per the famous 3 sisters planting method employed for thousands of years across the American continent, the traditional companions for sweetcorn are climbing beans and squash. The symbiotic relationship is that the climbing beans add nitrogen to the soil and climb the sweetcorn, the squash vine runs in shade beneath the sweetcorn, keeping down weeds, and then gets immediately into it’s full stride after the sweetcorn is cropped and it’s already strongly established. Oh, and thanks again for all your excellent work. Following your channel has been an education to me and inspired me to seek as much knowledge as possible relating to no dig / no till, soil biology & the symbiotic relationships between plants and soil biology. You’ve opened up a world for me 👍
@vicandvin
Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure the three sisters works in the UK. I've tried it without success and then watched numerous vids saying it's not a thing here.Probably the weather. I've had great success with sweetcorn and beans separately, I haven't had great squash success yet..but this maybe my year. hopefully!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
I agree, same
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, nice to hear, just need more heat!
@paulineivaldi6053
Жыл бұрын
Agree about the heat. Last year the three sisters method worked a treat for me here in London! It also depends on the type of climbing beans sown-and their harvesting times. French /runners -no. Borlotti/ Toledo- yes
@mikeross4
Жыл бұрын
I have also tried the three sisters method and it worked reasonably well but I found that climbing French bean do well but Runner beans do not.
@jawadad73
Жыл бұрын
great , now you got me worried about the number of tomatoes i put in this year.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oh dear - just keep them tidy, remove all suckers/sideshoots!
@VanderlyndenJengold
Жыл бұрын
My onions need to be covered against the onion fly, my carrots need to be covered against the carrot fly, my leeks need to be covered against the leek moth and the allium leafminer, my chard and lettuce needs to be covered against the pigeons and sparrows, my peas need covering against the pigeons... my sweetcorn needs to be protected, yet I haven't determind a really effective method, so I will lose half my crop. I'm trying chicken wire over the cobs this year - netting, socks (!) bottles and chilli powder failed the last few years. Rats and mice have a go at whatever they chose - I have chickens nearby so I'll always have both. My potatoes get nibbled underground by slugs and wireworm. Brassicas are prey to pigeons and cabbage whites. However, my courgettes and squash fare pretty well so not all bad!
@Karincl7
Жыл бұрын
Flowers and herbs always a good thing in a veg bed
@rubygray7749
Жыл бұрын
At least you don't have possums!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Ayee!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy, you are feeding many!
@bambiileanachandler4656
Жыл бұрын
For the corn, put electric fence at the top of garden fencing. I had deer and the worst was raccoons, also had big rabbits. Nothing touched my garden again except the baby bunnies could slip thru the 2x4 inch garden fence.
@Ed19601
Жыл бұрын
I have crops pretty close together, in general i do a row of leaf veggies, next to a row of root crop. As i hardly have any weeds, i don't need much space between rows
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Cool Ed 🌱🥕
@stevewebster5729
Жыл бұрын
I grow gem squash between the sweetcorn and beans (borlotti or Faba from choice) that will climb the corn
@rosemeiresoares4945
Жыл бұрын
Saudade Charles Dawding que deus o todp poderoso te abençoe sempre engrandecido seija deus muito lindo sua horta brasil te ama voce se parece com meu irmão Emerson paz mil bjs pra voce esua família
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you for your kind words. I send good wishes to your family also.
@rhysjaggar4677
Жыл бұрын
I've been doing a different kind of set of experiments to maximise use of space, mostly to do with testing what spacings can maximise yields of various vegetables. I plant radish and spring onion clumps out in 10cm*10cm grids and they do really well. This year, I've put 250 onion sets (5 varieties, including two red ones) at 12cm in the row and 10cm between the rows (so 3sqm total area) and so far, I lost two to birds pulling them out and one or two haven't fired, so I've got 245 odd onions growing really well. I also sow stations of parsnips 15cm apart within rows and 15cm between rows, so potential for 40 plants in about 1sqm. If you use 20cm * 20cm equilateral triangle grid, the parsnips are of course bigger.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Innovative as ever Rhys, thanks for sharing
@lyndaturner6686
Жыл бұрын
I’ve chanced putting two spare tomato plants in a space in a raised onion bed , I’m amazed how fast they are growing, in fact this year because of shortages in the shops I’m growing a lot more , I’ve just planted leeks in a space next to some peas that are already in flower so fingers crossed they will be ok as I’ll just cut the peas off, also the leeks are on the sunny side of the peas not shaded. I couldn’t have done any of this without you Charles you are my gardening Guru.❤️
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sounds excellent Lynda
@samiramehmood1311
Жыл бұрын
Do you use horse manure in all your compost mix?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
No I use it mainly for undercover growing
@Sky-Child
Жыл бұрын
Love seeing your setup. I am starting a new garden this year. Got a greenhouse to build and have covered my market garden area with weed fabric to kill off the grass and persitent weeds, nettles and mint. Going to dig it over once, layer with cardboard and then get planting!
@saschathinius7082
Жыл бұрын
you don't need to dig it at all if you cover with cardboard and compost, just take out the perennial pests/weed, like cuch Gras, bindweed, dandelions as good as you can... pls don't harm/brutalize the soil with digging... my opinion
@dorotaguziak8838
Жыл бұрын
Jest Pan cudowny tyle się od Pana uczę i co nie co mi wychodzi😅 zwłaszcza zakładanie nowych grządek na kartonach. Kiedyś wyślę Panu zdjęcia mich upraw, dodam że mieszkam w bardzo trudnym górskim klimacie ale i tak jestem dumna z tego co udało mi się osiągnąć dzięki Twoim Panie Charles radom.Mam Marzenie kiedyś móc charytatywnie popracować w Twoim ogrodzie 😁Tylko jak się dogadamy?? 🤣🤣
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words. I would love to see 🙂
@markbsb7176
Жыл бұрын
Zone 4b for me. Absolutely horrible I lost everything from the last 2 days . Minus 3 and frost, plus hail….
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Ah no that is so sad. Difficult weather everywhere
@ColibrisMusicLive
Жыл бұрын
tell me your opinion: potatoes in container early early spring, on top Bok Choy which is harvested just before potatoes emerge.all covered with fleece.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sounds promising :) and potato shoots will emerge while bok choi finishes 😀
@Concojone5
8 ай бұрын
Ohhh you grew the "red" variety of catalogna (lettuce with spikey leaves). I grew the green version. How did you like it? Mine was gorgeous, but tasted slightly bitter :) p.s. if it's not clear what I'm talking about, no need to reply.... I bet you prefer to spend your time gardening and not replying to a million youtube comments ;)
@CharlesDowding1nodig
8 ай бұрын
Thanks, taste is good but it flowered more quickly than normal
@dogadakicocuk3385
Жыл бұрын
You share great information Sir🎉 I would like to internalize your experiences in your garden and work with you for many years. Greetings from Türkiye.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
💚
@spir5102
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for talking about your failures as well as successes. I also had trouble germinating carrots, but it gives me hope when a master grower like you also has failures. We keep trying!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Go you, commitment wins!
@iaminterestedineverything
6 ай бұрын
If this helps, I now chit my carrot seeds indoors, sandwiched between damp kitchen roll, then promptly plant them into dibbed holes in the no dig bed after filling them with potting compost. Guaranteed success and at the planting density you prefer! Might not suit a market garden, but it suits an allotment.
@TheD510addict
Жыл бұрын
I live in an area with wild temp and moisture swings in the Spring time. Two weeks ago we were getting frost on the cars and now day time highs are in the 90s.....two weeks from now, we will be back to low 60s or high 50s for the high. Am I better off waiting until temps stabilize to grow things like Radish and Carrot? Or just waiting until fall? Our summers are dry and hot until September. After that it's a crap shoot.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Oooh you have a difficult climate and I would so those in April as soon as the ground has thawed and then again in July for carrots, September for radish as long as you can keep the seeds moist
@marcusprosniewski2288
Жыл бұрын
So much useful information in such a short video . Thanks you Charles.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@number7philipdavis693
Жыл бұрын
Tried checking my garlic, but after going down 2 inches could not find the bottom, so left well alone. What's up?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
All good! Sorry if I gave the impression of harvest very imminent, especially for outdoor garlic, that will be another month or five weeks and swelling starts maybe 3 to 4 weeks before harvest so in the poly tunnel, mine is swelling now but still not much, harvest in under 20 days
@Ann-qf5vk
Жыл бұрын
I was going to try no dig in my back garden but my gardener friend built boxes. My cat loves the boxes. We get full sun in the front. I have to be brave and attempt no dig minus boxes in front garden. I should go for it.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
That's a great idea!
@gerardkiff2026
Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear you had a failed carrot crop. Gives me hope when a master admits mistakes lol. Keep on planting !
@susannedeubzer8114
Жыл бұрын
What are the plants at the edge of the sweetcorn bed? Pumpkins? I plan on putting my sweetcorn in the pumpkin and melon bed this year. What spacing would you use for the pumpkins in that case? And I have another question: Can you still eat spinach once it starts going to flower? I thought I heard something about the leaves getting inedible then. Is that true? I've learned so much from you already, Charles! 🧑🌾
@robinlj5767
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely love your methods and common sense, soulful approach to growing beautiful food and flowers. Deepest thanks for all I’ve learned from you.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
So nice thanks!
@Kehh71235gmail
Жыл бұрын
Hi Robin where are you from?😊
@Joan-j1e
6 ай бұрын
Charles, do you leave your plant roots in the soil after harvest? Saw that farmers would harvest lettuce by cutting off the tops and leave the roots to discompose.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
6 ай бұрын
Yes exactly. Food for microbes
@steveo_o6707
Жыл бұрын
Hey Charles, quick question. We moved to a new home excited about the space to grow, buy I am finding out that there is about 5 inches of soil on top of solid limestone!! I was hoping to do inground no dig but is there even room for roots to grow??? Help!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Plants root into limestone! Slowly... I would add Xtra compost of any kind
@KatrinaT
Жыл бұрын
I missed harvesting 4-5 garlic plants last fall and now they have grown in clumps this year. Can I separate them out and replant? And if so, can I harvest this fall?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
You're a bit late for doing that, because the transplant shock will slow them down. Maybe try one camp and see how it goes.
@ninemoonplanet
Жыл бұрын
I can only grow in containers, so density is essential. I still have plants to "pot up" but the flowers this year are taking priority, all are edible, plus deter pests, double win. Quite a few are perennials, meaning I don't have to plant them again unless they die. I finally understand succession planting for containers, it's different than beds, but still possible.
@hotpepper7782
Жыл бұрын
Are you aware that other people are using your name to get views? I am not sure what you allow, but ......
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
It's ok! If they quote me right
@250159apg
Жыл бұрын
Sadly my seedlings either get eaten or stems go spindly and falls over! I do grow prize winning stinging nettles!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Those happenings could be related!
@truth3358
Жыл бұрын
Quick question do you spray your NO DIG potatoes while there growing??? If so what do you use Charles
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
No spray needed here. I never do
@alandeacon1988
Жыл бұрын
Very Helpful, Charles, but I wish you'd have shown some of this two months ago, or whenever you were actually sowing the turnips and spinach in amongst the potatoes!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
I post these things on IG and Twitter, FB. More inter sowing all the time as I'm suggesting.
@alandeacon1988
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks for replying :) Fair enough... maybe I need to access more social media, though, at the moment, I'm actually trying to get away from all that! At least I'll know for next year, and guess I can get a bit more creative myself too...
@heidiquayle5054
Жыл бұрын
Charles I’m really nervous because my cardboard has not decomposed or weakened to the degree I think I needed. I put decomposed leaves and straw next and then I only seem to have 3” of compost above it. Can I grow successfully?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Your cardboard will decompose as long as it is damp, so that's worth checking and maybe giving some water. 3 inches compost is probably the minimum for this timing and situation, and I would plant, from now!
@heidiquayle5054
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig should i stick to things in these beds that don't need deep roots? celery, short carrots, peas beans cucumber on trellis? What about tomatoes?
@pumpernikulus
Жыл бұрын
i love it, thank you. this is what i need: more propositions :) please!
@Earthy-Artist
Жыл бұрын
Your style of gardening is a like a graceful beautiful dance, it's all in the timing and steps, everything working together in harmony.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Ah thanks 💚
@frkifrk
Жыл бұрын
dude, you love garlic :) ...outside, inside...
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@blessildajoy
Жыл бұрын
If it works, it works, but I'm weary of planting amongst plants I'm pulling up and greatly disturbing the soil. Potatoes and Garlic in particular.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Fairpoint, and that's why timings are important. Also we use a sharp trowel to cut around the garlic roots when harvesting them, in about three weeks, between the developing tomato plants.
@karlastrebel1909
Жыл бұрын
I needed this tidbit of information. 💚 Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You have been an invaluable resource for me!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped 🙂
@cliveburgess4128
Жыл бұрын
Funny, I heard the rain and for a split second, thought it was here, no such luck, no rain in ages!
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
‼️ wish you some
@JoMU0511
Жыл бұрын
Hi Charles, how deep is your “weed free capping” of mushroom compost over the top of the horse manure in the poly tunnel please?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
About 1cm / half inch. It's not a weed-free capping as such because the horse manure heap was hot enough at 55-60C, to kill weed seeds.
@JoMU0511
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Charles :)
@woodsiastudio
Жыл бұрын
Charles I bought some horticultural fleece. Do I use it as a single thickness? Seems awfully thin. .9oz per yard2
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
That's interesting because what are I use, in imperial measure, is I reckon 1 ounce per yard. It is incredibly light stuff and I hope that I am misunderstanding your numbers! You can use it double, but I've only ever used only in single thickness
@woodsiastudio
Жыл бұрын
Well I wish I could send a photo of the package. The part that said yard2 I interpreted as yard squared.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Sounds misleading! Good luck
@jeshurunfarm
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Charles. Enjoyed your video again. Like the enthusiasm. Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@jeshurunfarm
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig you are an inspiration.
@annemcguire7792
Жыл бұрын
I'm always guilty of not giving my tomatoes enough room; hopefully I can exercise some restraint this year
@bhalliwell2191
Жыл бұрын
You give the tomatoes a bit more room and they, not having to compete as hard with their fellow tomatoes, will give you more abundant harvests. Sounds like a more than fair exchange, no?
@stevendowden2579
Жыл бұрын
great video most enjoyable
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
thank you
@smas3256
Жыл бұрын
I've been considering putting carrots between my garlic. Charles. Do you amend the garlic w. fertilizer or only use your compost?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Only compost!
@HighWealder
Жыл бұрын
Charles, you mentioned possible problems with a cabbage variety. I often seem to end up buying vegetable varieties promoted by the seed companies. Please would it be possible for you to make a video about vegetable varieties that you have found to be reliable.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
It's also problems with viability of seed. That could be a difficult video because it depends what characteristics you'd like, which parts you like to eat and what climates you have. I shall think about it. I give many details on this page of my site charlesdowding.co.uk/seeds-and-varieties/
@HighWealder
Жыл бұрын
@CharlesDowding1nodig Many thanks Charles.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
🙂
@carolinegathercole8473
Жыл бұрын
Having a lifelong back problem I cannot bend easily or without much discomfort, so decided to grow my veggies in raised beds surrounded by lawn, no more trampling around in mud which I cannot STAND sticky messy stuff. Thank you for content CHARLES ❤
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Caroline, nice to hear
@doncooper298
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the inspiring video Charles. Will Bonsall always plants Edamame interplanted with sweetcorn. Though his between row spacing is much larger than yours, within row about the same. He points out that both crops once mature need regular harvests.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Cheers Don good to hear
@NoctilucentArts
Жыл бұрын
My question is - why harvesting the garlic so early? There's no heads yet, right?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
The heads at this time of year as we approach solstice, are starting to swell quite quickly and in the polytunnel, we harvest in the second week of June, every year. Full-size bulbs which then store really well. If you leave them any longer than that, the outer skin starts to decay and no more swelling happens. Outdoor garlic here is the last week of June usually. Garlic growth is very governed by day length.
@NoctilucentArts
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig Interesting. I live in Portland, Oregon, so it's basically the same climate. I always plant in fall and harvest around August when they die back. The current crop definitely has nothing close to a head yet, still more like green onions. I will have to try them in my greenhouse this winter.
@cherylanon5791
Жыл бұрын
how would you harvest that garlic without disturbing the baby chard/beets?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Use a sharp trowel. There is some root disturbance for them, not too much.
@cherylanon5791
Жыл бұрын
@@CharlesDowding1nodig will have to try it-- my garlic is looking great so far but I certainly could tuck in some lettuce or even spinach!
@proplockfistanterlis
Жыл бұрын
Another great video, thank you. You briefly mentioned woodlice, can they be an issue ? Many of people on allotment Facebook sites constantly say the only eat damaged plants so I was wondering what your experience of them would be please.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, and that is not true because woodlice eat the low and tender leaves of many new plantings such as spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers and marigolds. Mainly when a surface compost is full of wood
@lelandshanks3590
Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed Charles those methods work. More people should try them.
@xiaoqiaoxie
Жыл бұрын
I do have a question about watering when garlic is interplanted with other crops. I was told that I needed to stop watering my garlic for a couple weeks before harvesting to prolong the storage time. But if I do how do I keep the plants between them happy? Do you spot water, or do you water the whole bed normally before garlic harvesting?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
That's not vital for good storage, just water the interplant with what it needs. Some people overthink and make rules ...1
@ninglight4433
Жыл бұрын
My sweet corns works well with beans, at least when the corn has advantage (The beans climb faster). The beans climb up the corn has more nitrogen. They don't need it necessarily, but they don't complain, since if corn grows, you can nearly see it growing
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see this
@dilrubaakhter2608
Жыл бұрын
My garden soil became hard because of rain. Though we rack before now we need to do again.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
It definitely needs some organic matter on the surface for more protection
@dilrubaakhter2608
Жыл бұрын
I will put compost after racking. Perhaps that will change.
@MadAsBagOfMonkeys
Жыл бұрын
Yep, must shoehorn some strawberries into my greenhouse 😊
@mattwilson9585
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been no dig for prob 6 or 7 years now and I love it Gods Amazing earth He has left us is a great precursor to the perfect earth after the tribulation….
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
That is nice Matt
@tonyr7393
Жыл бұрын
For once my garlic has grown really strongly this year (the elephant garlic less so though for some reason), and there's no sign of any rust anywhere in the garden - i'm guessing this is down to the more favourable weather we're getting this year. Time now for me to go and interplant a few salad leaves. Thanks for the reminder.
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
That is great Tony. I am just seeing some rust!
@Hanhumphries
Жыл бұрын
I really love the idea of no dig but I’m struggling with the cost of compost, any ideas for cheaper options for my first year please?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
There is no obligation to use a huge amount but for sure it does give best results long-term, and I would just crop a smaller area. Also use no wooden sides to save money, or temporary ones you can move around.
@divinelight144
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing this! I was just thinking today how it would be best to plant my seeds as it is time and this gave me clarity on that 🙏🏼🌿🌸
@CharlesDowding1nodig
Жыл бұрын
Perfect timing 🙂
@tawnyagarrison8311
5 ай бұрын
Where do I find mushroom compost?
@CharlesDowding1nodig
5 ай бұрын
Put the two words in search, depends where you are, Woodland Horticulture in SW England
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