Discover and enjoy these quicker and easier ways of growing and harvesting vegetables, based on my 39 years of growing experience. My speciality is the no dig method, suitable for all soils. It results in fewer weeds, and vegetables plus flowers grow as well if not better than when soil is tilled or dug. And it's good for climate change because no soil carbon is lost in tillage. Decades of trialling methods and sowing dates have led me to a fine knowledge of best practice, in time-saving ways. My advice in these videos brings you harvests and pleasure in equal measure. I wish you success in growing and want these tips to be more widely available, so that everyone who wants to grow great food can do so, without unnecessary work.
Please advise, I did not harvest my potatoes the previous season and see that they are resprouting should I trust the potatoes will grow back or it will be just plants without potatoes this season?
Lawn looking very lush & n ice edging too Guv! Looks exactly like my edges! I love my lawn as much as I love growing my vegetables. Makes it a welcoming site to forage in. Gary 7th generation 1st fleet convict from Australia 🇦🇺
@Charles Hi 😊 I'm currently building the compost area (2 bins around 1.5sqm each). It is built with concrete blocks, has a grass roof, and will have a dirty base, so the floor of the compost is around 30cm above the garden floor. I would like to ask your advice about the base. I want to keep it a dirt floor and the compost goes straight on top, but should I put in a layer of plastic sheet or cardboard initially? My reason for keeping it a dirt base is so worms can burrow up into the compost. What do you think? Oh, I'm living in northern Thailand, just coming out of rainy season, which is the main reason for raising the floor... 😅
If needs must! It will save you much time. Lay then just enough compost to keep the card down, and lay on path weeds too with just a little chip on top
Il bello del canale originale non è solo il suo contenuto ma anche come questo contenuto è proposto, la voce di Charles, il suo modo leggero e piacevole di pproporre le sue conoscenza ecc. nella traduzione tutto questo si perde e fa una grande differenza. Inoltre la traduzione (parlo di quella italiana) è spesso imperfetta e a volte fa degli errori ridicoli: per es funghi al posto di cavoli…Qundi ricapitolando: mille volte meglio ascoltare direttamente la voce di Charles nel suo dolce inglese. Anche se non so molto l’inglese aiutandomi con i sottotitoli inglesi lo capisco molto meglio che quelle fredde meccaniche è spesso sbagliate traduzioni. E mi mette di buon umore la tua voce Charles, grazie!
afternoon charles from far northern calif. back up to 97 degrees here.. and staying warm for another week. kepe that full beard. and you guys enjoy the rest of your week. im prepping a new flower bed for bulds..
Hi Charles, i want to cover my garlic this year, when should i cover them please? As soon as plsnt them or next year?thank you. Lovely to see your garden florish, i think i did well this year despite the bad weather! Still picking the tomatoes.
Oh sorry. Red (or Uchiki) Kuri trails and makes red fruits of excellent flavour, which manage to ripen in damp summers. Crown Prince‘s blue-grey fruits are of superb flavour, ripening a little later. Butternut’s tasty fruits are hard to ripen unless summer is hot. Their skins need to be brown and hard if you want best flavour, and to keep them through winter. If your summers are not hot, I would go for Kuri. Marina di Chioggia is big and super tasty. Also Tromba d’Albenga from Seeds of Italy. They happily ramble amongst climbing beans and sweetcorn, or fruit bushes. From my webpage www.charlesdowding.co.uk/resources/seeds-varieties
He recibido muy buenos comentarios de muchos climas cálidos, así que sí, es bueno. Incluso cuando la superficie se seca, la vida sigue estando en el suelo debajo y los microbios se reactivan cuando llueve nuevamente.
There are so many variables all the time that it's hard to say. What I see is wonderful healthy growth, but there's a lot of other great things I'm doing! The most I can say at the moment is that it feels worthwhile
2/3 of what are use here as mulch on all beds is my own compost. About 1/2 of the rest is green waste compost, which I can buy quite cheaply, and then also some mushroom compost which has more value but is more expensive, and then animal manure from horse, and cow
Hello Charles, Superbe vidéo et quel magnifique potager avec les réussites et les échecs 😉 Idem pour mes tomates,elles ont fini par avoir le mildiou la semaine où les températures sont tombées et l'humidité était présente ( semaine du 11 au 18 septembre) J'étais parti à Alicante ( Espagne) pour le mariage de mon neveu qui habite justement à Londres,il y avait des Colombiens ( famille de la mariée) ,des Espagnols,des Anglais et bien sûr des Français ( notre famille) 😁 J'ai remarqué aussi que pour faire germer plus facilement les laitues,on devrait les recouvrir légèrement ou pas du tout comme tu le fais ,idem pour le basilic😉 Cette année,jaiis des courges sucrine du Berry,sur 2 plants j'en ai récolté 29 entre 900 grammes et 3,760 kilogrammes 😲 Bonne semaine 👍
Tricky!! It sounds like you would need to use a mattock or equivalent tool to scrape the surface of any weeds. If dry, they could be left in place or otherwise removed to a compost heap, although I'm guessing the termites might eat that as well! The cardboard is only a weed suppressant.
Hello Charles, J'avais déjà remarqué qu'il y avait tes vidéos en français et ce n'était pas ta voix bien sûr,je pensais que c'était une personne qui te volait tes vidéos et quil faisait sa pub pour sa chaîne youtube 😂 Mais je préfère garder l'original et mettre les sous-titres en français, personnellement je préfère 😉 Bonne semaine
I never add fertiliser. Synthetic fertilisers can damage soil microbes, plus are extra cost and time needed. Life is simpler and better without them, when soil is healthy. Scientists now are looking at this www.rothamsted.ac.uk/article/kicking-habit-fertilisers.
❤ I picked my first 3 apples ever home grown 2 weeks ago - Honey Crisp. SO GOOD! In USA people can make a request for CHIP DROP online from arborists for free or a donation to get wood chips & logs. I’ve been doing it for 4 years building up soil on paths for less weeds and the soil underneath is so rich after all this time! 😊
