really you are good gardeners thank you for gives as your time. GOD BLESS YOU MORE AND MORE I DONT KNOW ENGLISH LANGUAGE BUT now i going to learn. so that way i didn't say more.you i saw nice view garden thanks for all,
My allotment neighbor is converting his garden to no-dig right now. He is very inspired by how well my garden is doing. I send him towards looking up no-dig and the next time I saw him he was running around with wood chip and compost and had bought books and calendar. Yay!!
I'll need to start pulling my tomatoes early too, not to help out the plant but so that I actually get some, since the fox gets them before me if I leave them to fully ripen.
Just watching this again as we’re in the equivalent time here in southern Australia. Thankyou! Our gardens line up beautifully, exactly 6 months apart. 😊
Charles you are such an inspiration to all of us gardeners all over the world. We have been gardening here in central Texas for over 30 years. This year we are in a major drought and we have had no rain on 35 days and temps are 104 to 110. We have two seasons here in Texas and the spring summer garden did not do well. You can see the video's of everything we tried to do on our channel. We are looking forward to our fall winter garden. We plant in September and harvest all the way through December. It does not get cold until January. Rochelle and I are taking a holiday for two weeks in October to the Cotswolds and are looking forward to being in England again. I'm a retire chef and looking forward to eating a good fish -n-chips. Blessings, Mike
Hey there, I'm on the shore in Md. I heard about your heat, pray you guys get some cooler temps and rain, wish I could send you some rain from here. Hope you have a good autumn harvest.
Hi! I am also in Texas but North. The heat here has been absolutely ridiculous as well. My neighbor started a garden in late Spring and it didn't do too well. I will be sure to check out your channel. Have a great day!
Good day sir. Thank you for another informative video. I appreciate the high quality of your content and the obvious passion you have for gardening. I really want to turn my 2.5 acres of land into a garden but unfortunately I have other financial obligations at the moment. Watching you gives me hope that I too will one day enjoy eating produce from my land. I have so many questions for you and I wish I could visit your garden. I look forward to your new book. Have a blessed day and thank you!
How are you, I am Bangladeshi, if you want to have such a collective farming farm, you can take me, insha'Allah, you will be honest and sincere, thank you.
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you for the inspiration, information and your brilliance. The bounty is such a joy to see. Those beets! Everything looks amazing. A gardening lovers dream…thanks for sharing.
Hello, following from Uruguay, making my way into no dig! Wishing and waiting to have a god place to work with! One day i will make a living out of it, no more office work please
I have learned from bitter experience not to pull onions up,its better to slide a knife under them and gently cut the roots not too close to build,this allows the root and base to dry without risk of damage which can lead to rotting in storage.
I can’t pull out my alliums either. The clay is just too hard (even with years of work trying to improve it). I have to dig out the garlics which are way bigger than any onion I have ever successfully grown. Garlic grows below ground, but I do have some onions growing on the surface so I will try the knife trick on them.
Thanks for sharing the July garden tour! It feels so good to live among the plants, vegetables and fruits. It’s so beautiful and I can imagine how much work and time you spend for your wonderful garden. ❤️
Thank you for sharing the information about the plants, you share the richness of the plants, why's and how's, to be better gardeners. Your calm passion is contagious!
Happy summer Charles, its a beautiful time of the year, really enjoyed getting to know you and your vast knowledge in recent months, as I've returned to growing my veg after many years Thank you so much for sharing
Hello Charles, a fine tour and it's splendid to see a garden with so much growth in it, the weather here in Shetland is very poor so the veg., gardens are not doing well, hopefully the weather will improve, cheers from Laurence.
Hey! Had a eureka moment! 😀 I couldn’t understand why my current produce garden space (on silty ancient Roman sequestered river flood plain, originally marshy, ground) was eating up my no-dig compost dressing compared to the clay under soil in my family home 1 acre undulating Tudor walled garden. When it rains, the current no-dig silt soil sucks up the compost top dressing. The walled garden on clay lets the worms do the work. Moreover…. The undulating clay soil in the walled garden at family home the structure of which extends out to the old orchard; seen more evidently in drone shots, especially during droughts, makes me think that underlying clay gardening in pre-Tudor built, Tudor-modernised, estate managers’ homes were originally NO-DIG! Row cropping. Chop’n drop. Mound building. I know we’ve been taught to think that undulating fields close to ancient “home farm” communities was due to ploughing techniques, but why and how could this happen within Tudor estate walled food gardens? Compost dressing on No-dig on silty, well washed, floodplain ground definitely disappears into the underworld when it rains, leaving the larger pieces of compost at the surface acting as evaporation protection; I’ve watched it happen in recent years. Whereas, on top soil covered clay, compost top dressing, is only really needed once a year:... Suppresses weeds, conserves moisture, and allows roots to collect the essential nutrients in clay. Pure eureka 💡 Is this a Stephen Hawking moment? Where one can earn a lifetime living with a theory others spend £ms to prove? 😃😃 I really do think no-dig is an ancient concept that you, Charles, have since proven is the way forward. Particularly as we’re now discovering that ancient South Americans cultivated mycorrhiza beds to add to deliberately planted food production gardens deep in the jungle. 😃
Where I live, we have a shorter season. So, last year when I grew San Marzanos, which are prolific bearers, I did start picking them when they broke color to encourage ripening of the remaining tomatoes. I still had 25 lbs. left on the vines just before we got our first frost. So, I cut the stems at ground level, put the stems in buckets of water, hung the hooks on a tall ladder, then let them ripen in my sunroom. I see this year my fruit is starting earlier than last year, so maybe they will finish sooner, too.
May I ask, do u get blossom end rot with your San Mariano’s ? First time I’ve grown them and they need buckets of water more than other varieties so as not to develop this ? Thanks
Hello grandma how are you I am Bangladeshi if you want to have such a collective farming farm then you can take me inshallah you will be honest and sincere thank you
As a rule I am not a lover of plastic, but like you Charles I have been using plastic weed mat to cover (and hopefully kill) the mass of "Quack grass" or "Couch grass" I have on my 1/2 acre plot. After 6 months of cover it has done a fantastic job. So I didn't lose growing space I cut some holes in the weed mat and planted watermelons which I am now harvesting, and man they are big :) Thanks for the wonderful "Home acres" update.
Great video as usual,thank-you. Its dry and hot here in Northern France and my no dig patch is going strong.Nothing better than watching your video with a nice cuppa, then heading pack to the Potager👍
Hello how are you I am Bangladeshi I had a hobby to do such a collective farming farm but I don't have such ability if you want to do such a collective farming farm with me you can take me
Very interesting video Charles especially the part about what needs more water etc. I've always just watered everything most days! Your market garden always looks so fresh and full. I've just come back from 6 days in Cornwall during that hot spell and the garden/allotment veg look very dry in places. Back on it now, sorting it all. Thanks again for another inspiring video.
Amazing. I always learn so much from you. I'm glad to see you using plastic, it's been a life-saver for me. I too have ventured out a bit, started using cardboard, found an unlimited free supply, and it's going great. You gave me the knowledge and courage. Thanks Charles.
Yes you can use that plastic for like 200 plus years...in may area in Southern Ontario 🇨🇦 ....it's been as dry as I can remember since being in the 22 years we have been here....plastic on our clay wouldn't do well....I only use a raised bed with wood borders and lots of composted ....I actually put down old boards to kill the grass and weeds before I expand .....your method works really well.....and the garden looks great....
Hi Charles, As always, really enjoyed your video. I thought I'd give you an update on my drunken Blackie. Last week because of necessity for room, I put two heaps , "small heaps", or homemade compost in little gaps in the garden where I had harvested crops. I'm only talking less than 1 M square heaps. I also put a dish of water out for the birds, as it's been so dry. Within two days, my compost was spread amongst my beetroots, onions and broad beans, courtesy of drunken blackbird manure spreading Co Ltd. The bird drinker was empty with her bathing in it, and she's still drinking the beer. She now sits on my shed roof with two of her offspring, looking at me accusingly for being in her garden. I can see the newspaper headlines. Gretna Green pensioner pecked to death by drunken blackbirds. Keep up the good work Charles, you've opened up new doors for me. Thank you.
One thing I thought I'd mention Charles. Many years ago, a guy I knew always cut the green leaves/shaws from freshly lifted onions and put the onions upside down in wire netting or similar to drip. After a day or so, he sat them normally into trays, and stored them, he said it prevented neck rot. It does and I sometimes use it. You probably manage fine as you are, but it's a handy tip to know, if the weather's not playing ball.
Ha, all this time, and I didn't know you're a fellow Greek! I take my tomatoes before fully ripe on the vine too. Since they ripen from the inside out, and I grow all mine outdoors, in a terribly Blight prone area, it also helps to hedge my bets against losing an entire crop. The other thing is the watering. Either I still need to water the plants, or I have no control over the rain, so this helps prevent splitting, and diluting of taste. It's especially helpful with the Cherry types, especially when freezing them. I like the look of the Sargent Pepper one you have, and look forward to seeing how that develops.
@@nygardenguru Oh, perhaps I should explain this. I am Greek, and also hard of hearing, so I have captions on. Where Charles is talking about the Tomatoes, and Joe saying that taking them early doesn't impact the taste, Charles says that he agrees, but the captions says that he's a Greek. I found it rather amusing. In fact, the captions get it wrong quite a lot, and are often funny.
Thank you once again for a wonderful tour of the gardens, love the onions, would like to try bunching onions one day. Lettuce in Australia is expensive due to floods and other weather events an Example would be Iceberg lettuce where $11.99, Blueberries where $19.49 for 125g. Inflation isn’t helping.
Oh!!! You’re so lucky having a good quantity of large ripening tomatoes at the same time as your cucumbers! In this heatwave, I’ve been craving ice cold gazpacho. 😩 Luckily, I still have enough canned tomatoes/sauce from last year to make use of this year’s Telegraph cucumbers that only last two days cleaned and chilled in the crisper drawer of the fridge. Makes one wonder what’s sprayed on store bought cucumbers that last at least a week! 😅
Interesting about picking the tomatoes sooner, I've always heard they're better tasting left on the vine, just another debunked garden thought, just like no dig. The new gardens, both veg and flower look amazing, also couldn't help but notice your beets, holy cow were they huge. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.
Fabulous look around - thank you! I’m just back inside after planting another round of carrots in the bed I’ll put cabbage and broccoli into come end of August. Also planted out some tomato seedlings I’ve got for a second round. Succession sowing - one of the great things you taught me. Building a compost bin this week closer to the autumn garden because we need t muck out the barn loft of chicken manure and fallen hay from over winter, but want to make good use of it in the future gardens.
thank you for this. I am in California, good place for tomatoes, but the blossoms will fall off if it gets too hot. I also pick tomatoes before they are overly ripe, because the rats will eat a bite out of each one if they get completely ripe.
Goodness me, what variety of beetroots are those giants??? Thanks for sharing your July garden with us, enjoyed watching. You‘ve got some beautiful dahlias as well.
Those beets are giants. Do they get stringy at that size? Impressive results with the cucumbers, melons, and tomatoes. Goes to show the value of the polytunnels and greenhouse. Thanks as always. These tour videos are some of my favorites.
Thanks so much, and no their texture is tender! Thanks to having not used fertiliser but relying only on natural means of growth, which as you can see gives healthy and strong plants
