30th June No Dig Tour of amazing cucurbits, seed saving, rabbit protection, potato harvests

[@Warrior-In-the-Garden]

One thing I absolutely love about your tours is the bits of knowledge and experience you intercrop along the way. Your honesty in sharing potential issues helps people feel as though they can actually do this. So inspiring.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So nice, thanks :)

[@walbiramurray5762]

I have never seen carrot, parsnip or beetroot flowers before, they are stunning! I enjoy watching the whole cycle of a plant if I can, so this was wonderful to me. It’s winter here in the Central Australian desert and I have cabbages, cauliflowers, pumpkin, chard, etc producing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, I believe it’s a big part of why my vegetable garden is so successful. I like the shirts.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice to hear and thanks 💚

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you for your kind words Walbira 🙂

[@lorainemcguire5795]

❤your videos I am now doing no dig in my back garden thanks for all your tips

[@lindarobinson8288]

I am thrilled that you mentioned you'll be connecting with Dr. Eric Berg. I have been following him, and doing the keto diet, for 4 years. I have been following you for 3 years, and love my nodig garden. The two of you will have so much to talk about!!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks for sharing, and yes indeed!

[@adamcook5940]

Great t-shirt, "What would Charles do?" as this is a bit of a saying in my veggie patch which I tend with my 12 yr old daughter! Our other saying is of course, "What would He do?" Keep up the good work, you have inspired both my daughter and myself and I am now three months sober and clean since starting on the kitchen garden in March of this year, thank you x

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Love that! Amazing Adam!

[@tree.....4884]

yeaaaaa Charles, whoop whoop. Its been pouring down in my hood but with no dig plants arent getting too waterlogged. All thanks to you Booooiiiiiiii. Charles is NUMBER 1

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice result, hope the rain stops soon!

[@JaiHylRubis]

My father grew salad potatoes in the 60-70's, very nobboly and not huge but the most flavourful hot or cold . . . I've not see them since. Love to you all. ☘ 💖🙏💫

[@gaynoroverton25]

Pink fur are very nobbly

[@JaiHylRubis]

@@gaynoroverton25 many thanks! 💖🙏💫

[@JaiHylRubis]

@@gaynoroverton25 many thanks! 💖🙏💫

[@joyscott374]

I enjoy reading the comments nearly as much as watching your videos. So full of little tips & inspiration to try new things. Nice to catch up what's happening in the small garden too. Thanks Charles & your team. Also not to forget grateful community. 🌞

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I agree a great community. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@Im-just-Stardust]

There's so much to learn in your videos. Cheers professor.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😀

[@auntiepam5649]

I always enjoy your garden tours. You are a wealth of information.

[@nicolasquijano2972]

Excelent

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@ambreewilliams6585]

Great video! Looking forward to seeing you with Dr Berg!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Ambree

[@lisakunish936]

I just LOVE these garden tours! I learn so much. Thank you !

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@tracyehrenberg6074]

very informative, and helpful, thank you. looking forward to the video with Gaz!!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Tracy 🙂

[@1isaM111er]

I love how tidy your garden is.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks, is not too difficult with no dig :)

[@aname5267]

Woah the carrots have a hydrangea-like look

[@amandar7719]

Don’t they just! 😍😍They’d look lovely behind a boxwood edged bed. If dense enough, the boxwood might keep out the dreaded carrot root fly. 😃

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@ebradley2306]

How interesting you are meeting with Dr Berg. Hope you two have a great time.

[@yvonnejackson1696]

I’ve only done no dig gardening for a little over a year and in spite of the fact that I’ve had to be a little stingy with my compost (I originally had no idea how much it would take) this spring’s garden was the most beautiful and robust I have ever had. - This is after all the extreme weather we’ve had this year. The trick of suspending viney plants by winding string around them is awesome-works great. Looking forward to upcoming videos.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Yvonne, great to hear

[@wildwindownorway]

I click on the videos and i just wait for your smile, your aura is one of the most beautiful i have seen. I wish I was your neighbor so you could smile to me each day, but hey, Ive got you here, thanks for being who you are for each of us.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You are so kind 💚

[@wildwindownorway]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig ♥️

[@lezleyneill]

Thanks Charles for another wonderfully inspiring and informative video. You manage to pack so much into these, I'm really inspired by the seed saving, it's something I'd like to try more of. I get so many tips and ideas for my own garden and your videos have saved me so much time, thank you so much for all that you do! No dig rocks👌😎🙏

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to hear! Especially that I save you time.

[@stevendowden2579]

great tour charles

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers Steven

[@Hicklety]

That mid summer tour of your garden is amazingly informative. It serves to reaffirm what have donec right in my own garden, and the mistakes I need to remedy - while there is still time in the growing season. Thanks, Charles!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cool thanks, go you

[@rothkoallotmentgarden]

I saved some seed from my carrots last year. Got some great growth from my saved ones. Very uniform and tasty so far. Also so so many seeds. Thanks charles

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great, well done 🙂

[@Oktopia]

With the short season for us here in Norway, my goal is to get succession planting going this season. I'm trying to get in some spinach and salad plants for when the weather turns cooler. Next year I hope to expand it to other types of plants as well. This season is my first full season in this garden space. I have raised beds, grow bags, and one in-ground bed only. I'm so excited to see what I get. I have already harvested plenty of strawberries and just yesterday I harvested and ate my first-ever zucchini.

[@quantafitness6088]

Hei! Fellow Scandinavian grower here 😊 It is such a good feeling to eat what you have grown. I find that now after feeding and building my soil for a couple of years it is getting easier and easier to get more harvests from the same space. So if it does not work as well as you would like at first, keep improving soil health and you will be rewarded. Lycka till 💚

[@Oktopia]

@@quantafitness6088 Tusen takk! :D

[@angelad.8944]

It is really worth researching all of the cold season options that are grown in many parts of China. Many varieties can withstand up to -10C. I have really extended my season on both ends with these varieties.

[@Oktopia]

@@angelad.8944 Ooo, good suggestion! Thanks, I'll see what's available to me here.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Well done and that sounds good! No dig helps with extending the season because beds are always ready in spring, and buzzing with life in the soil.

[@robertling9872]

Your NoDig method wins Charles. Thanks for sharing your beautiful video's.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Robert

[@gunnell9817]

Nice tour in your garden as always . I've been following you for several years now, it's always interesting and I'm looking forward to your video with Dr Eric Berg - I've been following him for nearly five years now and getting healthier and healthier along with weight loss. He's great, a very good teacher just like you, so it will be great to see you two together 💕

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Awesome, thank you and I am encouraged

[@gunnell9817]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig 💖

[@Sue-ec6un]

Your love for your garden shines through in every video. I also take great joy in walking thru my garden, though its a very small and as of now, a very experimental garden as I've been taking up herbalism and using many of the "wild plants" as food and medicine. No Dig is the best!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Sue, and yours sounds fun :)

[@ahmetsayn6412]

you are a very lucky person you have a beautiful garden

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Ahmet, a lot of hard work and a love for it also 🙂

[@suemccarthy5970]

Reassuring to see your Nicola potatoes also smaller this year. We had very little rain here in London, UK and assume that is the main cause for smallness of mine. This year, I planted lettuce in between the potatoes. That worked well, helped cover the developing spuds and the potatoes helped shade the lettuce as they developed. Though, maybe there was too much competition for water. I love the “What would Charles do” tee shirt. But the thought that someone might mistake me for a royalist will probably stop me buying one!!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers Sue, and I never thought of that!!

[@dorotaguziak8838]

Jest takie powiedzenie że uczeń przerasta mistrza. Ale Pana Panie Charls nikt nie przerośnie😁 póki co, bo Twoja wiedza i praktyka zwłaszcza praktyka, jest niewyobrażalną kopalnią wiedzy. Wielki szacunek 🥰

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Dziękuję za miłe słowa Dorata

[@FarmLong]

Hello Mr. Charles, I'm from Vietnam. His method is really great and in Vietnam is probably very new. I'm coming up with ideas and learning from you to apply to the place where I live, Vietnam, hot and humid tropical climate, with 4 springs, summer, autumn and winter. Your model is sustainable, and I am working towards that sustainability. Wishing him a lot of health. I love watching your videos. ❤❤❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much and that is exciting. Just last week I had farmers from Malaysia visiting, and they were saying how well it's working for them, with compost on top protecting soil from the very heavy rain. This means that unlike their neighbours, they do not need to keep cultivating! And they have so many fewer weeds.This is on 3 acres / 12000 square metres.

[@FarmLong]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig That was amazing. When we don't have to work the soil and weed, we have a lot of time for other things and the work efficiency will be much higher. I can be more confident about the future when I apply this method. Wishing you all the best and lots of health to pass on this wonderful knowledge to everyone.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you and wishing you lots of health also 🙂

Culinary videos? YES!!! This one is very ineresting!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂 thank you

[@farmstrong5434]

Love from Morocco 🇲🇦

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thankyou :)

[@annrenee3265]

Just great.. You always give me hope!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I am glad I give you hope 🙂

[@lsmith1695]

I just bought your Skills for Growing book. I'm so glad that I got it. It's so wonderful to have your growing wisdom in print and with pictures.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great to hear 🙂

[@sarahamernik4819]

Enjoing the tour! Thanks for de small garden too! From Buenos Aires, Argentina!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's good to hear and my pleasure 🙂

[@drewblack749]

Charles is King-of no till. Thank you. Lovely gardens. Love your work.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Drew

[@Spetaelsk]

Looking forward to Gaz Oakley visiting your channel. With your lovely vegetables and his cooking skill, I think you're looking at a delicious meal. Hopefully more than one for you 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much

[@EventHorizon34]

Your winter squash is looking amazing!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I love the exuberance!

[@EventHorizon34]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you Mr. Dowding, I’ve grown fond of winter squash the last few years because I’ve finally had some success growing them. So many wonderful things to grow in the garden! What kind did you say they were again?

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Uchiki Kuri and Crown Prince, well done

[@EventHorizon34]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you.

[@steves7271]

Great video as always. Lots packed into such a short tour. Thanks to your videos and books, Im able to diversify what I plant, because my tiny garden plot is now growing more than I can eat. Harvest is now my most time consuming task. Im still working out the best process for compost but its getting there, and I love the cycle of food to compost and back to food. Its a very healthy mindset. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

This is great Steve and my pleasure 🙂

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to hear Steve! 🏆

[@sofiamiliaressis5403]

Hi Charles. Another chill presentation from a very clever & chillaxed gardening dude! Seed savings the go, awesome! Thank you, you teach me sooooo much! Can’t wait to see Dr Berg. Cheers Sofia 🌱

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much Sofia!

[@sherriekemper1828]

So tempting to make a bouquet from the beet, carrot and parsnip flowers--who knew how lovely they are? Thanks for this.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

My pleasure 🙂

[@lisabevans8107]

Your garden still looks fantastic with all the crazy weather Charles. I had a bounty of carrots and my turnips are the best I've had. My peas are sad and i lost half of my peppers and tomatoes. Weve had 14 plus inches of rain,so i am grateful for what i get this year. Thx for the videos.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Oh Lisa, what mad weather. Most plants do better in dry so we are lucky by comparison

[@patjoyce7247]

I haven't read all the comments but what I have read say it all. But you certainly deserve my personal thank you as always Charles. Sharing your extensive knowledge generously and freely, and somehow most importantly for me, not in some intellectually snobbish way. Please keep doing what you do. Ps when you save up enough get yourself a new jacket! (Just kidding) Thank you, Pat Joyce

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you for your kind words they are appreciated Pat

[@andravlogofficial]

30th June No Dig Tour of amazing cucurbits, seed saving, rabbit protection, potato harvests

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

People who grow vertical watermelons often recommend "hammocking" the fruit using stretchy netting like pantyhose attached to the vertical support. That supports the fruit until it can ripen and prevents falls.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Makes sense - the stem is thinner than the Charentais

[@Edgeofthecontinent]

Thank you Charles for showing and explaining about your dry beans. That’s how I prefer them and I haven’t seen much video information about that topic. Cheers from California.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Good to hear Cynthia

[@utopiai-long-for6519]

Absolutely beautiful work. Love to arrange a visit to your garden and volunteer work for the day. Also -LOVE fellow vegan Gaz Oakley, he is inspirational too, so will look forward to that video.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Please do, and he is here today, despite rain forecast!

[@shineyrocks390]

Charles I live in Custer South Dakota, USA. I live in grow zone 4B. I'm not sure what zone you are in but everything you have shown me works fantastic here in the Black Hills mountains. It can be sunshine one hour and then rain and hail the next or snowing and negative 22 degrees F* . Our four season climate can change faster than Mr Rogers changed his shoes in one day. I've heard it said by a wise permaculturalist that we think we are growing the garden all the time but it is the garden who is growing us. I'm not bragging on you I'm telling you how much of a blessing you have been in my life. You have definitely been well grown and knowledge is the fruits of our labor. We get back what we put in. In all things considered the ant. You've shown me how much food can be grown in smaller spaces and taught me how to build my hot beds inside my greenhouse. In my cooler climate it is necessary to have heat sometimes even in July. Those hotbeds will keep the greenhouse a steady 53* F when it's zer0 degrees outside. This has totally changed my way of thinking and growing fresh delicious nutritious organically safe and free from cancer and dementia causing chemicals all year round. This was impossible until your video jumped up into my shorts and I clicked on it. Thank you God ❤ thanks Charles it's really changed my wife and I for the better. We are healthier and more conscious about the food we eat now. It just tastes better and that's the best thing ever 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks for sharing this, what a lovely comment, and I'm so happy to help you. Here officially we are zone 8B, but that's to do with last frost date in the middle of May. Our summers are not warm, typically low 70s is already quite warm for us! So maybe that's why it correlates with zone 4B. I hope you have no frost for a while yet.

[@ireneconstant913]

You should keep your elder! The berries are strong winter medicine to keep flu at bay. Tastes lovely on porridge too.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's the plan because there are loads of bushes with flowers etc in other Homeacres hedges

[@LakeCityPulse]

Nice video and I love your chill presentation. High five from Florida good Sir!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Derek 🙂

[@heatherbower5539]

I let my carrot and beet go to seed as well this year. They were attracting so many insects , many ladybirds. Very cool how it became an insect social hangout

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That is great Heather sounds lovely 🙂

[@lew381]

Thanks Charles for your generous and giving nature. Composting is so addictive and I dont know why. I made compost this year in 3 Wheelie bins with bottoms cut off and had a steady 50c in one of them for 2 months! I included all my kitchen scraps I even used chicken bones cooked from a chicken stock in a slow cooker so they were broken down in this process and crumbly already) it's the best compost I've ever made but I'm not putting it on my beds for next year because it's basically a risotto for foxes😂. I'm putting my less broken down stuff.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Sounds amazing, and sorry about the foxes

[@lew381]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig 🤣

[@jmuth890]

Can’t wait for all those interviews. Love learning from you. Thank you.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Jill

[@jasonhatfield4747]

Wow, looking incredible

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Jason

[@precioustraveler]

I was today years old when I finally fully understood what “go to seed” means! Thank you for the lovely visual explanation. Also agreed, the unexpected flowers are worth it even if you don't harvest the seeds.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Wonderful!

[@joshuahoyer1279]

Just amazing! Everything is so vibrant and full there. Our growing season started around the same time, but our level of growth seems to be half of yours in comparison! Our lettuce is about the only thing that came in quickly, and now needs replacing due to our summer heat kicking in. This is my first year going no-dig though, so I'm sure it will only get better from here!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Oh wow, and i'm sure that heat will help growth. Here it's now colder!

[@deanwatt]

Fantastic! So much info, best tour I’ve seen yet 👍 Would be awesome if you could flash up on the screen some pics from the previous tour when looking at the various crops. I remember the pumpkin patch from the last one, there was nothing like that there! Yes, a bit of extra editing but just a few screenshots from the previous tour would be brilliant! Cheers!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers Dean. I agree but we are too short of time, shall see, yes they are fast!

[@deanwatt]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig that’s understandable! Cheers 👍

[@francinedaime1784]

Merci Charles pour toutes vos vidéos, je n'en manque pas une miette. A bientôt

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Ah c'est chouette, merci 💚

[@nickupton2123]

Great tour, thank you. Inspiring!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Nick

[@carolynhoff7668]

What a lovely treat - thank you! Beautiful plants and acreage and tremendous knowledge and skill. Please continue, it’s great!! 😍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Carolyn

[@laurencejohnson4106]

A very interesting and enjoyable tour!👍👍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Many thanks!

[@MaLuisa_Peinado_Vallejo.]

Thanks for the video. ❤❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

My pleasure Maria

[@albertbell7120]

Sunflower is a beautiful colour 🇬🇧

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🌻 🙂

[@Maria-maduixa]

A fantastic tour! Great plants! Thanks Mr. Charles for let us see your wonderful garden.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@anitahaywood9827]

Your garden just amazes me every time I see it!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Anita

[@baganthekerannaghor8161]

Amazing gardening.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@shirleyfyfe]

I have often left some of my heirloom carrots in the garden to go to seed but I've never thought to replant some of my best carrots for the purposes of letting them flower to then save a more high quality seed . . . Yesterday I harvested about 4kg of Purple Dragon carrots and chose some of the best looking ones to replant to see if I can get them to flower and whether I'll get some viable seed from them. Thanks for your inspiration and sharing this simple tip Charles!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Hi Shirley. Just be sure they are not a hybrid variety, seed would bot grow true. And you can't plant them for seed growing until next March :)

[@marymcandrew7667]

I'm glad you explained that Charles, an episode just about that would explain it all more. I'd like to build up my saved seeds to be the best for my conditions.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

See this one Mary kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHmpmGmQetiAedk

[@corkion]

great vid

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Con

[@stevenbp101]

Hey Charles, we just had a big 4 inch rain and some of my tomatoes started splitting from to much water. We’ve had good rains all summer. Having to give away veggies to friends and relatives. I love that. Your garden is the standard I go by. God bless you brother. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Wow, that is a big rainfall and I hope everything is alright around you. Thank you Steven

[@cheryldavis9912]

Hi Mr Dowding 🤝 have been watching and listening for a few weeks now to your tutorials and am enthused by your knowledge of soil, seeds/plants and dare I say ‘pests’; of which we fight off all the time in our humble garden ☹️ …but with the help of Neem oil we are coping. I just wanted to say that I am enthralled with knowing that you are going to speak with Eric Berg. 👏🏻He has ‘greatly helped myself specifically in my own health but also my extended family members. 🌹

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Cheryl and that is great to hear

[@camicri4263]

Just beautiful and abundant! I know Dr Eric Berg for a few years now, very knowledgeable in his field! Have a great week, thank you for the tips and all your garden teachings! ❤️🤗🙏

[@pennypiper5857]

Thanks for sharing:)

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂 my pleasure

[@marybarton5651]

Beautiful gardens 😊

[@pplusbthrust]

Epic, same here right smack-dab in the middle north-south, east-west of California. Nice cool spring of course no rain. It never rains in California in the summer.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Fascinating!

[@linaboutin5569]

Wonderful tour yet again, Thank you Charles and team! Just continuous fantastic sharing of knowledge, much appreciated. Cheers 🌱❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it 🌱

[@sonayozden4814]

In Turkey, we make pickles from peppers, eggplants, green hot peppers, unripe green tomatoes, watermelons and melons. Be sure to add celery leaves and garlic as well. Our tastes are different, but it is very good.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks for the tips! Sounds delicious

[@josysteinbach4097]

Brillant tour of your wonderful garden as usual , so many useful tips to put in to practice and improve our own vegetables garden .Merci for sharing et à bientôt .

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

💚

[@DemokratieErwacht]

I love your garden.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😎 thanks

[@GordonjSmith1]

Wonderful tour - healthy looking plants! Really looking forward to the cooking vlogs.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers Gordon

[@gaylegutierrez3864]

Hi Charles, I love your information. I have shared you with so many gardeners. I’m 75, have a huge garden, maybe 3/4 acre and a very large veggie garden. Without no dig it would be impossible for me to keep up with the weeds. Thank you, thank you, Gayle

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So nice to hear Gayle and thank you

[@canadian-gardening-6A]

Thumbs up for the T-shirt!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

👍

[@blissmama3134]

Loving the t-shirt - you should add your face on it too 😉😁. Your videos and your excitement always bring me to a happy place ❣️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Working on it! not really, and thanks so much

[@blissmama3134]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig 💓

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂

[@nicolasquijano2972]

Good job. Excelent

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Nicolas

[@rrw00]

I like the 'no nonsense' approach and advice. I took on an allotment last year and we have a few rabbits. I lost a number of my beetroots to them, too! I found just sticking a square barrier of plastic/wood at either end of the row of beets seemed to deter them a little. I didn't have to completely fence them off.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice to hear, smart!

[@theclotshotdidit3115]

Thanks for another great video Charles, love learning from an expert like yourself. Really appreciate you showing when it's not perfect, it's great to know it's not just me I only have 1 raised bed about 5' square and 8" high, went no dig, thankfully I watched your video's before starting. Used your cardboard method, soaked with molasses first, then garden centre organic manure, it's worm city compared to the rest of the garden. Only second year, redid with cardboard and compost with loads of leaf mulch, as a disabled person im loving the lack of weeding. Going much better this year, got smashed by the heat and aphids, on bug patrol more often now, live and learn Following Tony from simplify gardening for spuds in buckets, going well.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Fantastic to read of your success! 💚

[@homegardens7682]

All looking good Charles. Liking the carrots and cucumbers.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cool!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@danfarkas5375]

Thanks for the seed saving tips! I'll let the salads go to seed instead of taking them out.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂

[@johnmorgan5495]

All gives one hope X

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

💚

[@amandar7719]

Central UK. I’m about a month behind you except French beans are like yours and my onions are about ready to harvest! Sturon are mixed. Bed Champ poor. Walla Walla HUGE. My runner beans (typical kidney bean colour) cross pollinated with Gigantes a few years ago. They were fairly close to each other (unless they cross pollinated with the white Blue Lake climbing French). And I saved the white seeds from them which I’m growing this year. #SeeWhatHappens. Saved some parsnip seeds a few years ago. I now have parsnips popping up all over the garden every year. Yes I do eat them despite being advised not to by those who say they can become poisonous if cross pollinated with wild parsnip. Never tried saving carrot seed but will soooo do so now. Those carrot flowers are stunning! Wonderful Homeacres tour, Sir. Thank you. Do you enjoy touring other people’s vegetable gardens as much as we enjoy yours? 💚

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You are doing great. Yes I always learn by comparison, just short of time!

[@pavana2810]

Thanks for reminding to sow in earnest now, especially direct sowing.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

my pleasure 🙂

[@NannaCarlstedt2]

Thank´s Charles!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

my pleasure 🙂

[@lyndaturner6686]

Love the tours I can compare how my crops are doing and understand any issues that have arisen through the climate , I’m in Cornwall so not too different from you, I have learned everything from you over six years and I feel this year my no dig beds have been really healthy, just the drought to contend with caused some smaller harvests but still loads coming on. So once again thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.❤️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to read this Lynda and your growing sounds good :)

[@angelad.8944]

I always find it amazing how plants rebound from such a difficult spring. I think we all just get so giddy when we see everything is finally growing like crazy even though just a couple weeks ago, we were wondering if there would be any harvest to be had at all, come the time. 😁 I just thinned my parsnip plants and kept the three nicest. I planted them too late last year and was quite surprised to see that they survived our -34C this past winter. The snow cover came as an early blessing. At the moment they stand 6 feet tall! I didn't even know they could do that here, lol. I am sure to get a pound of seed I think. 😁 Luffa eludes me. Mine is about 5 cm right now. I thought it would take off like an invasive vine but alas, no. I will keep trying though. I did get a chuckle out of the rabbit beet browse. One year I went to harvest my beautifully lush beet planting only to discover that every single beet looked like a crescent moon! The tops looked amazing and untouched. Little devils they are. At least we were able to harvest the beet greens. I plant them in a different area now, haha. ☺

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Amazing to hear of the parsnip survival!

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Beautiful abundance, sir.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you

[@adamredden2007]

It has been pretty sweet where we are in the states as well. Still not no dig yet, although we've made SOME strides. Living what you do, thanks Charles.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice to hear Adam!

[@tedbastwock3810]

Charles I enjoy your monthly tours so much I wish months were weeks. Always cant wait for the next one, they are always so great! p.s. your shed is weathering VERY nicely, looks beautiful that wood!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Ted that is great to hear 🙂

[@stanleyjohnson3219]

Charles the way you test watermelons is to tap it with your knuckle, if it sounds hollow then you know its ready, if its a dull thud then you know its not ready. I know this works for the ones that are red inside, I think its different for other types of watermelons, according to my wife she's from Kazakhstan.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

thanks for the reminder Stanley!

[@HighWealder]

Looks great, I am weeks behind due to late start with various excuses.

[@rabyaahmed3092]

Hey, the flowering veg are amazing. Could you please use 2 people with cameras so the camera is not swivelling so much? I ask as watching the videos triggers migraines for me. Thank you for sharing your delightful space.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks, and I don't have enough people available

[@jfparker60]

Eric Berg is my go to nutritionist. I lost 30 lbs following his intermittent fasting direction ❣️

[@catemc2323]

Dr. Berg and Gaz Oakley ✨💫 So looking forward to your video with the pair of them 💚🍀

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Coming soon, and Chantelle Nicholson is good too, she is next

[@catemc2323]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thanks Charles. I’m not aware of Chantelle…yet. Looking forward to being introduced to her 🙏🏻

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂