Channel: Charles Dowding

Category: Howto & Style

Description: New no dig area in June, big changes in 8 weeks. I show you the many exciting developments since April. Not all of them planned, or desirable! For a background to this, see the preceding video youtube.com/watch?v=rA66WaH6Cu0 00:00 Welcome back to the new area 01:13 Herb Garden 02:12 Using black plastic against the bindweed and growing potatoes through holes in the plastic 04:09 New polytunnel 05:32 Rabbit dammage to beetroot 05:56 Broccoli growing well 06:27 Cropped spinach and on to cabbage covered with mesh to keep rabbits and insects off 07:23 Fennel leaves eaten by rabbits 07:39 New planting of asparagus 07:57 Peas and raspberries eaten by rabbits 08:13 Rhubarb doing well 08:36 Woodchip piles and green waste compost 09:23 Grass growth in the rest of the field 10.01 Rabbit dammage to pea plants and onions 11:16 Winter squash and courgette 13:10 Planning for lettuce 13:25 New pond and shed 14:04 Comparison of composts Many things I show here are part of my own learning experience. It's all exciting, including the woodchip/compost trial beds. I want to learn more about nature's processes, how soil works, how plants grow and how to diminish weeds. Then share the understandings. Filmed at Homeacres SW England by Edward Dowding edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio For more about cleaning soil of weeds by mulching, without any soil disturbance, see this video youtube.com/watch?v=NhKxC7oZQuo. I have written an online course about this and other easy aspects of no dig charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening. We have published it in book form charlesdowding.co.uk/product/charles-dowdings-no-dig-gardening-course-1-signed You can buy the online courses in sections too, such as this module on mulching to clear weeds charlesdowding.co.uk/product/online-course-1-no-dig-gardening-module-4 In SW England, buy green waste compost Wally Watson 07989 580872. Mushroom compost from Woodland Horticulture woodlandhp.co.uk/composts-manures MORE FROM CHARLES To buy one of my online courses charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/online-courses To buy a book charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/books To join my channel as a member, use this link youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join As a member, you can watch a new video each month, which is exclusively for members. Your payments support my promotion and teaching of better, easier gardening. I can offer bursaries for day courses and online courses, through individuals in charge of community gardens/allotments and school gardens. Contact us through my website to enquire about bursaries charlesdowding.co.uk/contact-us To buy the module trays I designed with Containerwise, use this link containerwise.co.uk/product/charles-dowding-60-cell The Refill Room also hold stock of the module trays, refillroom.com/product-category/garden The Farm Dream sell these trays in Europe thefarmdream.com/product-category/propagation-trays