Charles Dowding's No Dig method

For the past 40 years, Charles Dowding has pioneered the No Dig method of growing flowers and vegetables. A successful market gardener, teacher and author, Charles shares the technique with Julia and me, and view the bountiful results.
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[@Cernunnos652]

I must say that I am absolutely thrilled that Charles Dowding is so awake to the insidious agenda being perpetrated against us...this guy is a legend amongst organic gardeners.I have used Charles' no dig method for years and it works ...just this morning I have harvested potatoes, broad beans,tomatoes,lettuce and runner beans....delicious !!!❤

[@Cernunnos652]

​@@jamyDodgerkzbin.info/www/bejne/fYaqgKlqhqerjNU

[@wessexjohn7031]

​@@jamyDodgeryeah look his name up he also does courses Also look up Dr Elaine ingham and the soil food web

[@Jdjhxhshjwi]

Lol!! We all have manicured lawns amongst which we grow some veg- wildlife- where would that live I ask? At the bottom of the garden where a small patch is left for wilding! Nonsense

[@Successfulgardendesign]

Ditto! I was just about to say the same. :) Wonderful interview, Richard

[@gitaryddcymraeg8816]

@@jamyDodger Over the past week I have sown seeds for autumn king carrots, beetroots, little gem lettuces, silverskin onions to pickle for Christmas and savoy cabbages. They are already growing. You should be ok to sow seeds until the second week of August I think. I could be wrong about the second week of August. But now is ok.

[@JuliaHartley]

Richard and I meet some amazing people and visit awesome places but this was an absolute wonder of a visit! Thank you so much Charles for inviting us to your fantastic garden to do this 💜

[@byjamie-hillierrubis]

When I visited him in his beautiful village I was utterly convinced with no dig, 3 years later it has saved us from 2-3+ weeks of weeding every spring, early summer! My rotor-tiller is now never used. Grass cuttings are superb mixed well with brown & green waste to heat the compost which kills weed seeds and after cooling the worms move in to feast! We compost almost everything - as Charles sais, "Riches!" lol to you both, so happy you now know Charles! 💖🙏💫

[@bertibear1300]

Hope you two get an allotment at very least.

[@b0b711]

Loving the content from you 2, hope to see more. another related subject you might find interesting/worth looking into is electroculture which increases plant growth by increasing natural electrical energy to the plants. It's a good alternative to adding chemical nutrients & pesticides

[@growsoilbiology]

Good to meet you guys there! Let us know if you want to come to our freedom fest in Leicestershire in august

[@JuliaHartley]

​@@growsoilbiologylovely to have met you two too! Yes that would be great, please do us on julia at vobes dot com

[@lisagahan6512]

As a city girl (age 55) I moved to the country 2 years ago and began the no dig and its just amazing, the produce I am growing, thanks to Charles

[@PazLeBon]

city middle aged woman then

[@Marie-yx5ie]

Good for you girl 👍😉that's amazing

[@treehouse3240]

Thank you Richard and Julia for the great interview with Charles. Lovely garden. Bravo

[@helencrystalenergy5327]

Some of my favourite people getting together. I'm a novice veg grower and learning everything I can from Charles, he's incredibly patient, taking time to answer so many questions in his video comments 😁 Unfortunately I'm not physically in the best shape and after getting away from abuse I'm extremely isolated, so I have to do most things on my own and therefore getting my garden together is taking a long time, but I'm so grateful for the resource that is everything to do with Charles, there to guide my progress 💕

[@lat1419]

Put his books on your Xmas list and hope Father Christmas visits! Glad to hear about your escape from abuse, as it will take time to mend but gardening is a great healer. I have had a lot of health issues, but just being able to sit out in the garden and watch and listen to nature has been a help. In the rain my favourite place is in the shed or in the polytunnel just looking out. I hope you find your own piece of heaven in your garden.

[@helencrystalenergy5327]

@@lat1419 thank you, unfortunately like I said I'm extremely isolated so don't receive Christmas gifts, but yes absolutely the garden and nature are great healers 💕

[@blueraven2345]

I just can’t begin to tell you how thrilled I am that you are bringing us along to meet the greatest teachers that we need and especially at this time. This visit was such a treat.

[@Marie-yx5ie]

For sure it was

[@Greenmanure62]

Love Charles Dowding. I've watched him throughout the last 3 yrs when I got my plot. I'm a no digger out of necessity. I have autoimmune arthritis, so easy! I've got a half plot. Sometimes wish I had a bit more!

[@PazLeBon]

put a fence around your half and it will be one plot :)

[@Greenmanure62]

@@PazLeBon already done! 😁

[@seanjamescameron]

It truly is a wonderful garden to visit and you can see the plants look more colourful than those grown in the old methods. This setup is exactly what I’m looking for.

[@nefraial]

For years I've been wondering why you haven't got there yet. I encourage anyone to go out and visit the people in their region who are getting results to see what they are doing. Then go back again 4 times a year, solstices and equinoxes best, to get a good feel for where your crops should be during those times.

[@PazLeBon]

lmao this is the old method obviously

[@byjamie-hillierrubis]

How wonderful, Charles is a great friend to me and so many and legend in gardening! "Homemade compost is Riches!" ☘ 💖🙏💫

[@tofty21]

Oh Richard, this is your best video to date. Charles is a real hero to me. I did a one day course with him 6 or 7 years ago and it completely changed the way I garden. He’s such a beautiful soul and I’m absolutely thrilled that he’s awake. Thank you for this gem!

[@deirdretrotman2104]

I started Charles’s no dig a few years ago - aged 77 but grow most of my own food year round (with dehydrating some of it for soups and stews in winter) - it’s absolutely brilliant!

[@user-ic2ug8ys1z]

Impressive and informative intellect from two wise men. There needs to be multiple interviews for this type of knowledge. Thank you. 😃🌱🐢

[@0skar9193]

Charles is our gardening hero. We follow the no dig principles since we went to Homeacres several years ago. We have shared this idea with many friends and more people seem to get it! Except the traditional die hards at our allotment, but more young people seem to be interested in no dig and are using it to a certain extent.

[@PazLeBon]

yes cos the young dont have the nuts to actually dig lol

[@valerieheaps3793]

I'm so pleased that Charles is awake. I am a big fan of his. It gives me comfort that people I admire are aware of what is going on and makes me feel less alone. Your videos are brilliant Richard.

[@PazLeBon]

whats ggoing on is the need to feed billion sof people and that isnt going to be done through home allotments :)

[@aina2165]

@@PazLeBon If everyone started to make use of their gardens, balconies and etc.. for growing food, there wood be less burden on the few farmers left.

[@topaz3468]

Charles is my hero. I used the no dig method to landscape my yard the last several years, since the previous owner didn't have any living trees, shrubs... everything was dead front and back unfortunately. LOL. I rarely dig out an area while preparing it for a new bed. I now have a beautiful ecosystem of plants and trees in just 4 years. It also has worked out famously for my vegetable patch. There is also less watering to do. 🌻 You picked a great guest for the show Richard!! Thank you 👍

[@uwandaroberts9897]

I am going to build a chembuster for my garden and the neighbours will have no idea I am responsible for blue skies :D

[@RidesInforests]

Bless his actual cotton socks. These people are true school golden oldies

[@johnbelcher7955]

It's really good that you got around to interviewing Charles, he has so many wonderful videos and a wealth of knowledge making it easy!

[@chrissywales6575]

That garden is huge. We just have a small garden as we live in a council house. We do the best that we can. We are moving to raised beds as we are getting old and have disabilities. In year 3 now and composting as much as we can. I sometimes go out to common land to collect horse, sheep and cow poop for the compost bin.

[@doingoutdoors875]

It’s because of Charles Dowding that I have started with no dig. His side by side comparison between dug and no dig says it all. The fact that you don’t have to dig the ground is a massive plus also the minimal weeding saves a lot of time. It all make perfect sense 👍🏻👍🏻

[@odette8905]

Two of my favourite people bringing sanity and common sense to the crazy world. Wonderful! Thank you. 😊

[@humansareus123]

What a absolute gem of a human being Charles is and how lucky for you both to spend time with him 😊🙏

[@the-english-couple]

And don't we know it! Yes, we certainly felt our luck with this one

[@ladylaois8184]

I’ve been getting a delivery weekly from Cam Valley Growers in Camerton Somerset. I was invited down to see there just under an acre. It was utterly incredible. The organic veg is actually so tasty I’d forgotten how wonderful proper grown veg is. It’s a husband and wife. He’s looking at irrigating his land with the local spring water. I highly recommend you pay them a visit. The Cam valley along the old canal path where the Titfeild thunderbolt was filmed.

[@cheeseydish]

I was wondering how long it would be before you did a Charles collaboration. I'll watch later as I want to savour this one 😊

[@michaeld7434]

Richard, thanks for always having such a pleasant personality and bringing us such wonderful guests. Your a wonderful human being. Thanks for always being a part of my day.

[@lorrainemorris6242]

This is absolutely amazing . I am going to send this to my daughter she is really into gardening . Thank you Richard one's again.

[@kychemclass5850]

Lovely guy. So positive. Not surprised his plants are like him. Great video.R&J.

[@SuperCidermonkey]

Thank you very much for this great interview Richard and Julia. Charles is a leader in the permaculture/no dig gardens movement and has produced numerous excellent videos and books on the subject. Mick Poultney is the 'King of Compost' and a lovely chap, another KZbinr who has made his knowledge and expertise available for free on KZbin. Can I recommend you also meet and interview KZbinr Huw Richards, another in the field of growing food naturally and without chemicals. Road trip to Wales! Thank you again.

[@stormdavies250]

I never get tired of seeing and hearing about his gardens.

[@truthseeker3013]

What a joy to watch. Charles is a wonderful man, the love for what he does comes shinning through him ❤

[@user-cm7kt9xp8k]

We grow our own vegetables, fruits and also keep chickens in London. Noticed that most people today have concreted or not maintained their back or front gardens (using them more as car ports.

[@ponypetedm]

Well done Richard, Charles is an exceptional gardener and someone who’s channel I have watched for a few years. ❤

[@PrimalAdventure1]

I bought Charles’s organic gardening book last year, we have used the no dig method on our new allotment, it’s going great already. It’s a Joy to see that Charles is aware of what’s going on, and watching Richard’s awakening over the last 18 months has been a joy.

[@PazLeBon]

allotments have been going raised beds for deacdes which are no dig of course

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

This is very complimentary to what we are doing now. We have just obtained an allotment. It was like a rubbish tip. Broken Glass/: plastic/hose/metals/upvc/mesh/ and paint waste ; painted rotting wood rotting green houses and a burnt out hut with the fire damaged contents all in one big heap. I've just finished clearing it this week after 14 weeks. Nearly all unfortunately gone to landfill except the massive woodpile which I will burn in November due to regulatory restrictions. If this is how people are treating their allotments they should be fined. Anyway we have got produce growing and have heard about the no dig process. I think we might have a problem with that in places due to a bramble forest also inherited. But great advice for the coming months.😊

[@Vienna1902]

Oh, Richard, it was such a fabulous surprise, seeing you two together! I've been visiting your channel a lot recently since just stumbling upon it, but today you got a new subscriber. I love Charles and learned so much from him, he is absolutely my first and most trusted source when it comes to gardening. Thank you for great work you do!

[@grahamcole1539]

Charles is a top man, a great organic pioneer for decades. Thanks Richard for this and all you do in such a fine unique way.

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

Ahhh Charles Dowding!! Such a good chap. 🥳🌞🌻

[@ivormectin.3046]

I've followed Charles for years.. my garden is totally no dig.. still learning though.. 👍

[@joyatkinson6529]

Well done Julia ! Not an easy job and you smashed it! Thank you all and everyone.

[@fieryflowergirl5095]

This is such a beautiful video of how to do it with so many great tips! I'm not that far from Charles Dowding and it's good to see both him and Oliver awake and aware. I ran a plant nursery for 10 years in Somerset, followed by a cut flower business for 6 years. I have moved 2 miles away from Somerset to Dorset and first thing was polytunnel alongside improving ground with homemade compost that I actually brought with me! Be inspired to save your own seed at the very least. Store it at cool temperatures. Thank you Richard!

[@jujemcgregor1734]

‘Wonderfuel’!!!! Thank you Richard, Julia and Charles … this has been SO inspiring 💜💜💜

[@ebradley2306]

Great interview. Have been following Charles for a few years. I have a garden in my backyard that is working its way to supplying most of our fruit and vegetables. It is such an positive experience growing your own food. Of course there are ups and downs but then there is always next season. Onward and upward. 😊

[@PhDGoldVee]

I love Charles’ channel, grew peas and lettuce this year using no dig method, the carrots failed but was great to experience - lettuce still growing but peas fell in the strong winds and haven’t recovered. I started small and looking forward to spring already! Thank you Richard for getting these simple and effective messages out 💚

[@123gillam]

Charles Dowding and Richard Vobes - Two true British legends. Superb !!

[@propertygeek]

The content on this channel is outstanding Richard thank you for everything your doing ❤

[@sherlockstu]

Our controllers don’t eat veggies or fruits. They eat us. In many ways. Good to see Charles is awake. I’ve followed him for years.

[@DavidMartin-ym2te]

Very pleased to see confirmation that Charles is awake. I feel a bit grubby sharing this sort of info in the real world as I know the sleepyheads hate me for it. You three have given me a boost. We have been growing no dig for a few years and always amazed what grows here in highland Perthshire

[@JukkaKoveroJKO]

You are not alone. More and more are seeing what is really going on. Hugs and love.

[@annanitschke6727]

It means a lot to me personally too. I have been disappointed by too many who I thought were on the same wavelength only to find out no they are not and think you are a weirdo.

[@jeffreymilton5829]

Brilliant stuff. Two of my favourite You-Tubers together. This has been both inspiring and just a little depressing, seeing Charles' plentiful garden and then comparing it to mine. Many thanks.

[@ThevegGrowerpodcast]

Charles is such an inspiration to many in the gardening world and a damn decent chap

[@the-english-couple]

He is a thoroughly lovely fellow and an amazing gardener. I remember you telling us about him and the no dig technique a few years back when we were filming the kitchen garden bit. Who knew! Lol 💜

[@bridgeovertroubledwater6716]

so happy that Charles is 'one of us'! have followed him for years, a true visionary and pioneer of getting people back on the land and growing nutritious fresh food! brilliant!

[@lat1419]

Just caught up with this - two of my favourite YTs together. Just watching the bit about soil biome. Very very important. With a background in microbial ecology I know the importance of having mixed microbial growth. I love that soil smell, which is down to bacterial (not fungal) mycelium from a group called the Actinomycetes. What an absolute joy to watch. We grow as much of our food possible, and buy what we can't from local growers and small holders. IDK anyone with one of those orgone contraptions, so looking into it now! Off to check on my plants now in the polytunnels as its thundering rain, which in itself is a bonus.

[@lindadoyle2370]

This is just wonderful! I've been trying to start my own veg and fruit gardening but its been so time consuming 😢 So glad to hear it doesn't need to be so difficult ❤❤❤

[@mickhardstaff6605]

Excellent Richard, one of the best programmes I have ever watched 😂 thank you for sharing it with me .

[@Sam-sz8fz]

Food glorious food

[@MollersTheCat]

I watched this and was like wooohooo, Charles has a chem buster in his garden". I have an orgone pendant. Same principle, but on a smaller scale.. lovely to see !!

[@christinewilde110]

Wonderful....and, what a lovely man. He was smiling all the time he was being interviewed...xxx

[@GratefulWarriorMom]

Ive watched Charles Dowding for some time. I love him and have learned a lot! Watch his amazing videos and learn how to garden for self sufficiently

[@betkay1018]

Thoroughly enjoyed this production run. I particularly love the aspect of being drawn outside each day to examine the progress of the plant development - gardening for food is so enormously exciting and rewarding. Wonder if Charles might do a segment on drying seeds for propagation - would be enormously beneficial. Thank you Richard and Charles - just wonderful !!

[@EnlightenedPatriot1]

Absolutely riveting stuff. I have embarked on vegetable-growing on a much bigger scale this year, with raised beds, square foot gardening, buckets and containers full of potatoes all over the place without a square foot wasted. My small green house is also packed with tomato, pepper and melon plants. I am very pleased with the results so far, but I do hope to have a change of direction next season and try the No Dig approach. I loved the interaction between you both and the pure enthusiasm displayed. This is how we should be, in our daily lives. Thank you and God Bless.

[@loisbanks3614]

Charles is a font of knowledge about how to feed ourselves healthily and as easily as possible. Informative dialogue you two! That melon!!! The camera work was spectacular!

[@Mg-bp4zr]

What a wonderful experience this has been! Thank you so, so much to Charles, Richard and the lovely Julia.

[@outdoors459]

Wow, now you've met Charles Dowding. Lucky you, I've followed him for a few years & highly recommend 👌

[@barbaraz5251]

Wonderful visit! Thanks so much for letting us come along and to Charles the host. Julia, great work at going close up shots with the camera.

[@wendycullingworth3879]

I've been a keen follower of Charles and his gardening methods for about 6 years and it has been quite revolutionary after decades(literally) of digging. This has been the most relaxed I have seen Charles whilst being interviewed, so the synergy between you obviously works. I do hope you will do more together and maybe you will even join one of his courses and buy his books - I can highly recommend. I smiled a lot whilst watching, particularly when the elegant hand emerged from behind the camera to beg for food....🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 and the looks and sounds of appreciation at the taste sensation that followed! Bravo! ❤

[@moohall7625]

Loved watching this video, been growing veg for the last 2 years and I'm forever learning so listening to this has helped me even more. Charles Dowding is a fantastic gardener and I'll be watching more of his videos for inspiration. Thank you Richard and also the lovely Julia for yet another fantastic video, love what you are doing to help us in this crazy world we're living in

[@catherines8145]

Thank you Richard, Charles and the lovely Julia. I loved this interview. It was so uplifting I'm sure I smiled the whole way through! I noticed the electro culture around the pole during the introduction as well, good work! With this level of quality of information from beautiful souls, how anyone could still watch the tell-a-lie-vision is beyond me!

[@Successfulgardendesign]

The chembuster is on my list of things to make! Wonderful to see Charles is awake and trying these things :o)

[@ThyCorylus]

Great collaboration, Charles has been a source of wisdom for years for our family. As an aside, regarding the stalk length of grain crops. Farmers these days struggle to get the volume of baleage and straw for winter feed beasue of the modern genetically modified varieties being bred for increased head weight versus energy into stalk length.

[@debbieplaister979]

OH MY GOD! 🤩😍 I watch both of you independently. So good to hear Charles has awareness. "Something" told me to get an allotment in early 2020. Spoke to hubby, he got straight online, signed up with council, 2 weeks later (unheard of) got invited to look at 4 plots. God given. But blimey, hard work on top of full time shift work and other commitments. We're in our 4th season. When it gets on top of us every year and we say the words, lets give it up. We just walk away for a few days. And we are learning on the hoof, complete novices. Half our allotment is now no dig, my push for that. Watching Charles, he makes it look really easy, and I have to say, weeding, what weeding? Quick 5 mins here and there. Early potatoe crop this year was abundant with no dig, and almost non existent in the dig bed. Hubby is now swayed and I'm thinking next year we will be totally no dig. This year I'm concentrating on how to make compost, I dont think you can ever get enough garden waste, i start out filling darleks, i now have four. This will all be put into a pallet area, then turn every 6 weeks. Takes alot of space, so tempted to try and get another plot just for this side of things and to start learning how to get seed, and maybe grow rye. That would be a challenge. Anyway, ive waffled. P.s. i cant do legacy media much anymore. Hubby still not quite on the same page yet!

[@Qwijebo]

It's amazing what a typical allotment can produce if more people were able to have access to one.

[@jamesrichey]

So glad you interviewed Charles. Because of his influence I have a huge backyard garden.

[@joefization]

I absolutely loved watching this!

[@marysmith6229]

Old friends meet new friends and have adventure. What a Jolly Good time to be had.

[@juliedawn4271]

Always loved Charles and followed him for years. Great to see he is also awake to what's being done to us 💙 love him even more than his melons now

[@omanita7289]

Great to see Charles here together you teach people important ways too garden in little time. Thank you Richard, greeting's from the Netherlands

[@lindasands1433]

THANKS to you both (3)! I loved this video ❤❤❤ Also, I found it funny that Richard exclaimed "look at the lovely butterflies!" 😂😂😂 White cabbage moth - bain of my life 😂

[@babyboomersdownunder]

This was one of the best interviews you have done. So informative and entertaining. Was a joy to watch. My advice to Charles is to put the copper and crystal item directly into the ground instead of the bucket and see how that goes.

[@dianecurtis4574]

Definitely one of my favourite guests Richard.. Amazing thoroughly enjoyed this thank you 😁♥️

[@laydownlays]

What is interesting is that the native Indians of the Amazon basin, did exactly the same thing. The entire Amazon was not a forest but a garden, with naturally poor soil but they devised a way to improve the soil and feed cities which had millions of people living in them.

[@janereynolds7555]

CD is amazing. His channel is well worth watching.

[@AnkhHealingAndHypnotherapy]

How wonderful to see both Richard, Julia & Charles together. Fantastic that Charles is very aware & awake too 😉. Brilliant & informative video - thank you for sharing 🙏 💚

[@rickwills4281]

Great that you made the visit to Charles Dowding, have been following him for the last 3 years or so.....no dig really works!!!

[@maatlove597]

So enjoyable and informative. I was compelled to watch right to the end. Thank you for the breath of fresh air and wonderful, natural abundance ❤

[@PeterJavea]

I was just explaining to a fellow gardener here in Brussels Belgium about Charles Dowding. I started his no dig method last fall. This spring i planted out and so far..."great stuff"

[@chrissiestaples6124]

Great to see Charles on your show, I've been watching him for a while, and growing by his methods here in NZ. And yes, we're getting the chem trails too as well as all the rest of the nonsense.

[@hp-cs7mx]

Are chemtrails the condensation streams you see when a plane goes overhead? Or something different - sorry I don’t understand.

[@JukkaKoveroJKO]

Same inIreland....criss cross chemtrails. Dane Widington of Engineeringwatch here on UT explains what chemtrails are...

[@hp-cs7mx]

Apparently airlines can afford to seed the sky with special chemicals that’s why airfares are getting more expensive. These chemicals make us sick and even die, so the airlines will have no customers. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

[@davidwhite5800]

Wow! This is a collab I never thought I'd see. Excellent stuff. I've been doing no-dig for a few years now in a garden veg patch and it really works.

[@AnnyOKtoday]

Thank you for this amazing chat. I have never grown vegetables but have used no dig beds for flowers. We have a new garden which is a field atm. This back end I hope to plan my no dig veg patch for spring next year. Charles is so inspirational!!

[@WinningOnline]

More knowledge and wisdom in this video than watching 20 years of BBC gardening programs

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

I've been watching Charles and reading his books and several years. He is the Master Guru of Soil, Growing and Simple Life 💚 I'm 73 and gardening over 50 years. I started a KZbin channel 3 years ago, Peggy Helbling's Garden What You've Got 🌿 Use what you have...cardboard, coffee grounds, eggshells, grass clippings = compost 🏆 I'm also a small Vermiculturalist ❤🪱❤ Worms and soil can heal the Earth. BTW, I love your style of interviewing ❤ I believe I will be subscribing to your channel, too ❤ ❤Peggy❤😊

[@Sheila_74]

What a joy Thoroughly enjoyed this episode with 2 of my favourite people ❤ Thankyou ❤️❤️❤️

[@sherlockstu]

Love the bit at the end. I’ve been using cloud busters on my plot for many years. And have orgone scattered around my home and garden. 🙌

[@JukkaKoveroJKO]

Me too works a treat.

[@Pixieworksstudio]

Thank you Charles! As you know I'm a big admirer of all of your work. People can't understand why I only go to supermarkets 2 or 3 times a year, but it can be done. Take care, it's lovely to see you over here.

[@lynn605]

What an absolute joy the past hour has been, thank you so much!

[@WR4SSE]

I've been watching Charles longer than I've been watching you. This was a unexpected dream come true.❤

[@silvercat151]

Two of my favorite people together in this video!

[@carolmorgan6734]

I started out with my granny in her garden in 1958, 4 years old. I have been saying for years, good soil, a good seed and some water, plants WANT to grow. You learned something new every year, unlike people, plants will tell you when they are suffering. Good Luck everyone. PS Cardboard is the bomb.

[@neilforeman]

Very, very impressive. The loving care and attention to detail is a joy to behold. That melon looked yum.

[@andycavalier1920]

Fantastic,the best gardening lesson ever.

[@DebbieRobb-tt5he]

Amazing video. Reminds me of my childhood. All that lovely property grown food.

[@larryjimbob]

If you want to attract a lot of butterflies and bees to the area, plant a buddleia bush Charles 😊🙏 (Edit) Nettles are also the main larval food source for many UK butterflies and moths. Some moth species pollinate flowers at night too.

[@barleyarrish]

Buddleja has a very short flowering season, Evening Primrose has a much longer season and is very attractive to nectar and pollen seeking insects and takes up less space, Cotoneaster's can be selected by species and variety to provide prolific flowers for insects and berries for birds, Native Hypericum's that do not sucker are also of great value. An old gardener once said to me "always leave a space for the old man", meaning a place for wild nature like the stinging nettles, perhaps an old drainage pipe or ridge tiles for hedgehogs and toads don't be too tidy!

[@larryjimbob]

@@barleyarrish If you regularly dead head it you can prolong it's flowering.

[@larryjimbob]

@@barleyarrish Every time a buddleia flower turns to seed remove it promptly. I could keep mine flowering pretty much all summer 😊

[@barleyarrish]

Here in the west of Cornwall Buddleja come into flower after end of June, I very rarely see Butterfly's on mine , in fact at the moment they are mostly on Evening Primrose , Myrtle, Cistus, Hydrangeas, today we had over one hundred Red Admirals on the Joe Pye Weed, My buddleja's are next to my bee hive and during the hour I was working there Admirals and large whites were flying straight past them! Dead heading flowering plants always produces more flowers, with some exceptions.

[@larryjimbob]

@@barleyarrish I lived in Cornwall at the time 🙏