July tour after a cool | Dull and wet month | Charles Dowding

[@zachflynn6195]

I love these videos. At this point in my growing experience, hearing the little tid bits that Charles throws out as he’s talking about the different things is more helpful than most vegetable growing KZbin videos. We are learning some of the nuances from a master grower with lots of experience.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Love that!

[@miroslavterzin5117]

Charles how do you keep those Peppers next to each other and not crossbreed? Im just a beginner this is my first year and everyone is telling me that peppers will mix easily

[@joydavis4087]

Charles, your garden is so beautiful. Love it. ❤❤❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much

[@elijahfromamerica]

Thank god for charles dowding and his great advice all these years ❤❤❤master gardener 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So nice of you 🌱

[@gardeningforcatlovers39]

Such a great tour with such fantastic information for all, thank you. So glad you were brave enough to show us your "best" butternut squash, made me feel a whole lot better about my collection of tiddlers 😢

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You are so welcome! We have mini-nuts :)

[@dmk_games]

As someone who lives in a 2 person household, mini butternuts are pretty handy and In Sydney I can get a dozen by putting a late 2nd planting in after some August/September plantings are done. But a radically different climate to England. When, I first started gardening I tried to find my areas last frost date... only to realise frost is so rare that we don't have one. (Depends on what part of Sydney your in, some areas get frost every year).

[@coalacorey]

Where I live in Germany we had near constant rain for the past week, the growth is insane

[@dn744]

Yes, clouds sure have cut lots of light out at a productive month. Many plants are not as big this year, but others are amazing. Swings and roundabouts

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So true!

[@greencutsguelphlandscaping7980]

With their colours and hues, your gardens speak so loudly about how grateful they are for all of your hard work. Thank you for sharing this with everyone.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Many thanks 💚

[@simeonbanner6204]

What a month of well... not a lot here in Birmingham. Grey skies, rain. Let's hope we get the return of some warmth and above all sun.

[@chezelleconroy2951]

Just watching this again as we’re having a cool, dull and wet Summer here in Gippsland Australia 🇦🇺

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I'm sorry to hear that about your lack of summer. Not long ago all that we heard from your country was terrible heat and fires. It's all very strange!

[@tracyhaigh6550]

Following everything you do from Ojai and wanted you to know your harvest and cooking video's are my favorites ❣️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Love that! Check out ojairoots on Instagram, lovely people who came on a course here. I stayed in Ojai 2012 and loved the vibes

[@CassiWooWoo]

Your honesty, enthusiasm & positivity is highly appreciated. Despite the miserable weather here (U.K.), you & your team deserve every success. I’ve been weighing up if I can run a heat lamp from my two 120w solar panels to zap my hundreds of green tomato’s 😂 Typing as I watch…. Whoa!! Slow worms 😍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks and good luck :)

[@СергейИванюк-в6ш]

Ви добрий господар на свої землі бажаємо Вам здоров'я та задоволення від результату праці

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Дякую за теплі слова Сергей

[@VeronicaBerramou]

I’m always inspired to keep growing when I watch your videos. With regard to peppers not ripening I saw Steve from the Allotment and Kitchen Garden Channel put a lot of windfall apples on the ground below his last year which apparently helped them ripen, also last year I had a very productive Butternut squash plant and picked off a lot of young fruit about the size you showed and either sliced and.roasted or lightly blanched them, they tasted great. No waste and I harvested 9 mature ones of a reasonable size from that one plant. Best wishes Charles and thank you.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much

[@haileynorris4928]

When I see your amazing produce, it keeps me growing!! 💚🌱

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's lovely Hailey 🙂

[@glow1815]

Beautiful garden! I wish I am not afraid of worms especially nightcrawlers. So I can create my own Compost for my baby garden

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You can do itI am sure, those worms are so friendly and helpful 😀

[@maudschoenaker5109]

A garden of Eden! So enjoyable to see you walking and talking about growing vegetables. I learn so much listening, thanks again

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MatveySerebrennikov]

Dear Charles, you are a kind and very funny person. I am glad that you appeared in my life. ❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Ah nice thanks

[@minphang9351]

I have watched so many of Charles' KZbin videos that everytime I go into the garden, there he is - standing right beside me! And I haven't been eating any wild mushrooms lately.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

How cool, happy to help! 😀

[@1isaM111er]

I love Charles. Can't get enough of him.

[@renatehaeckler9843]

You are so right about the butternut squash! I"m in a much warmer climate and I started mine under cold frames to give them extra heat to start growing and even still my banana squash had a fully ripened squash before the butternuts started making any fruit. The banana squash are very impressive, they can get almost 3 feet long and weigh 15-20 pounds and they're not bothered much by vine borers. It's just a lot of squash to eat, Ha! Ha!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Sounds great Renate!

[@ckoch990]

Anybody else notice that Mr. Dowsing looks younger now than 3 years ago? Really enjoy these videos.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks on both counts, the beard hides my wrinkles 😎!

[@robertling9872]

Thanks Charles for another very beautiful and interesting NoDig video.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it Robert🙂

[@izzywizzy2361]

Thankyou Charles for your enthusiasm and joy in showing your lovely garden. It all looks so lush!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Izzy

[@dorotaguziak8838]

Jak zwykle fascynujące wiadomości. Dziękuję. Super. 😁

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Dziękuję Dorota

[@rickthelian2215]

Loved the walk around Charles , onions drying, onion plants for seeds and other seed collecting. Nice to see the worm dry once again, those large animals do look like snakes compost and worms looking great new compost working fine, wet grasses can be troublesome haveing to demat it can be challenging 😊 Gardens looking great tomatoes and the melons, amongst others.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it Rick

[@stevendowden2579]

all looking great charles

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Steven

[@michael769senett8]

Your Camra person makes you look good 😉😉I do enjoy your volgs thank you.👍🏻👍🏻

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you like them Michael!

[@Constantinului]

dear brother Charles, Thanks for another great tour of your lovely gardens. Very well filmed, as well !

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you kindly, and well done Nicola

[@agnesileikyte1817]

Dear Charles, you are the best teacher for me!! i'm dreaming to come to visit your garden one day :)

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You will be very welcome Agnė and thank you

[@sarahbarton2089]

Just checked a video you posted a couple of years ago, on growing Radicchio . Very helpful. This year with all the rain we've had, the slugs and snails have taken up residence between the leaves of my Radicchio plants. What a horror. Gardeners live in hope. Thanks for all your words of wisdom.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks, so right Sarah!

[@SierraNovemberKilo]

Time flies! Wonderful to see ongoing growth, fruits forming and flowers blooming. I've been making little origami envelopes for my seeds. It's a reminder to me how much progress I've made with my growing following your principles. Thanks very much.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Wonderful to hear!

[@DrNickBailey]

Just a phenomenal video. Not just a wonder what is & can be grown, but also shot in one continuous take. Simple breath-taking all round. Nice to have a shout out to the camera woman!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks so much Nick and I shall pass this to Nicola

[@marchantnick]

Wonderful tour, as always. Every year brings different weather, and with it successes and failures. Our successes this year are brassicas, sweetcorn, cucumbers, padron peppers, carrots, golden beetroot, peas and soft fruit. Our failures are onions (downy mildew forced an early harvest), garlic (insurmountable rust), some varieties of main crop potatoes (blight, early harvest) and outdoor melons (impossible without a hot summer). The biggest tragedy has been the discovery of blight in 16 outdoor tomato plants just as the fruits are starting to ripen. I've removed almost all the leaves, but I can see brown rot in a lot of the tomatoes, so I think we'll lose at least half of the crop. It shows how much difference the climate makes, as we had our best ever crop of tomatoes last year. This year they just couldn't cope with the incessant rain in July. We're based in Dublin, Ireland, which had record high rainfall in July, more than twice the long-term average. The climate is chaotic

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice summary. Yes it's hard to plan!

[@squeezyjohn1]

I have to say I winced when you threw that brick exactly where the slow worm was.

[@buteos8632]

Keeps them on their toes!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Sorry indeed :(

[@josi7836]

Wonderful tour and so many useful reminders for my ‘to do’ list! 👍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it Jo 🙂

[@Fireinthesky67]

Hello Charles. With rainy weather everything appears more green. Your garden looks like a little paradise. 🌻 Thanks for the tour !

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you for your kind words 🙂 and my pleasure

[@tedbastwock3810]

Im so envious of your marigolds. One year I bought hundreds of seedlings when they were at a deep discount and covered my garden with them and I loved having them there so much. The next year I thought it would be much better (cheaper) to grow them from seed myself ..... I never had much luck with that, despite everybody saying marigold from seed is easy ... I will try again this next upcoming season, wish me luck! And after I master the marigolds from seed I cant WAIT to try some of the other astonishingly beautiful flowering plants you have shown us in your garden!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Good luck Ted!

[@bettytsang]

Slow worms!! And the cat!! What a treat!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I am glad you enjoyed it Betty

[@camicri4263]

Brilliant! Love your garden, Charles! Blessings 💕 I envy your weather! Cheers from Georgia.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Cami

[@sherriekemper1828]

Such a beautiful garden space; I'm looking forward to seeing the evolution of the mushroom farm.

[@williamconrad-te3dw]

Well done,sincere,and very informative. You are the best

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks William

[@CaitlinFaulks]

A great gift from Charles, a new video on my birthday 😃

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Happy birthday! Lovely time of year for it

[@itsmewende]

It's always a pleasure walking the garden and learning something new. Not to mention how gorgeous it is. Those butternuts, really sorry they are so small, they're actually my favorite. One of the first plants I sowed yrs ago, I had a wheelbarrow and 2 bushel baskets full, I was a happy girl 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great Wende and thank you glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@alanhoughton3252]

Thanks Charles, another great inspirational video with loads o tips.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you were inspired Alan

[@jeffjones4474]

Great video as always! The visual quality is also better than ever. Thank you, Mr Dowding

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Jeff

[@jimchristensen965]

I really liked this tour and appreciated several of your comments "it's nothing to worry about". Your comments for melons and squash regarding leaves and fruit helped me and there were a few more along the way. Many Thanks from central Iowa USA!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cool, thanks Jim, Hope your summer is good

[@johndyer9232]

Here in SW Missouri temps are in the 100’s F. Would love the 60’s again.

[@waynesell3681]

So amazing!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Good morning, Charles, from Windermere, Florida 9b USA 🇺🇸 Your Garden is gorgeous, as always. But those worms 🪱 certainly do look more like snakes. Eisenia Fetida, Red Wigglers are my worms of choice. The compost under roof look like European Night Crawlers. Beautiful creatures, for sure. And still learning...I love it ❤ Take care, My Friend ❤Peggy❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Haha Peggy they are legless lizards! Plenty of the Eisenia too :) A new weather forecast says we may have afternoons in the 70s next week!!

[@turtle2212]

Again so much valuable Information and no question open😊thank you Sir Charles!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you I am glad you found it valuable 🙂

[@wildchook745]

Nice garden tour. I love listening to you talk about your garden. Its inspriring.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@MH-qb9ev]

Goals! Our weather seems to be similar here in the mountains of North Carolina. I will have to pick up the sowing calendar.

[@stevenbp101]

Hi Charles, your garden looks wonderful. I’ve been able to give a ton of tomatoes away this year they’ve done so great. Slowing down now. Always save seed from them. Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, okra, potatoes, squash, different types of lettuces are mostly what we plant not a lot of things but these are our favorites. Another month we’ll be planting our fall and winter stuff. Always nice seeing your garden. Thanks for sharing. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great Steven and my pleasure 🙂

[@farakhparveensheikh8110]

Absolutely loved this video

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Nice thanks

[@therealEEPS]

I have never seen eggplants that tall!

[@emylytle7149]

I enjoyed the tour of your garden Sir Charles, such a lovely garden and makes me feel like I’m there 🥰👍👩‍🌾 really love your flowers as well, dahlias are among my favorites besides sunflower, although I can’t seem to grow nicer one it always gets bugs before it shows their beauty, I’ve grown zinnias and marigolds, I’m trying to dig all my dirt on my flower beds, it’s a bit of labor and now it’s in 104 here zone 9, I’m just waiting for all my sweet potatoes to be done and I’m digging them all up 😂 can’t wait to dig them and steam it. Thanks again for showing us your beautiful gorgeous garden 😊👩‍🌾♥️👍👍 stay safe

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers Emily. No need to dig for flowers 😎

[@jennyjohnson9012]

Loved the video as always Charles and thanks for sharing all your knowledge. Love seeing your compost bins. I definitely love compost!! I did laugh at that watermelon, it's obviously going to look like a bottom!! I love the wonky carrots too. We all need a laugh!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😂

[@barbjot2430]

Dziękuję za fantastyczny film i wycieczkę po Pana niezwykłym, inspirującym ogrodzie💐.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cała przyjemność po mojej stronie!

[@eadjh98]

Thanks for sharing Charles ,this great video,makes me think of looking at the seed catalogs and plan for next years seeds and bulbs! and hopefully getting some warmer weather! 🤞👍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you and happy planning 🙂

[@glgauge7999]

Brilliant as always Charles

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@captaintreepig993]

I've struggled this year with my toms and aubergines thanks to all the cold, wet days but knowing we still have two months eases the pressure a wee bit. Thanks for the tour and all the wisdom you impart Charles.

[@buteos8632]

No global warming in the UK he? 😉

[@captaintreepig993]

@@buteos8632 I'm not sure what you mean.

[@suttonsplash14]

Thanks for the update! Garden is looking good!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@fjalar4856]

Thanks Charles, Nicola, Lisa and Adam. This is absolutely amazing. Looking forward to the next at the end of August.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@vahlla78]

Lovely video as always. Thank you for the tour and information ❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂 Glad you enjoyed it

[@frankbarnwell____]

Thank you and ALL your crew! Charles

[@dosquats]

Thanks again for another monthly tour of the awesome garden. Best of luck for August

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@barrypetejr5655]

Things really look beautiful......wet and cool here now also.... something's love it some not

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Barry and I agree 🙂

[@Faith-vl4lv]

It is always such a joy to watch your videos. I haven't watched in awhile due to working all the time and I forgot how much I enjoy looking at your gardens. The peace I would have if I had gardens like that to walk through. I try and grow a few things and my beds are bigger than most but nothing compared to your beautiful homestead

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I am glad you enjoyed it Faith 🙂

[@polapietka4839]

Przepięknie to wszystko wygląda, zachwycam się 💚

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@StSdijle]

Nice flick! At least you have some fruit on your butternut squash. My plants do not even flower. Thanks goodness, I have red kuri and some oil seed squash as well both doing great considering the weather.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Oh wow! Yes good old Kuri

[@moirad6579]

Great video! Always happy to see a tour through the gardens and an update on all the crops ...and especially the compost. I just upgraded my beginner compost from a large grow bag to a 40 gallon container. Learning a lot in the process Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience 🎉😅😊🎉

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great Moira great to hear you enjoyed the tour 🙂

[@ObjectTimelapse]

Great video! I really appreciate for growing. You have much experience and share with us.❤❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you 🙂

[@singncarpenter6270]

Amazing garden Charles. Nice work and thanks for sharing. It's very inspiring.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I am glad you were inspired 🙂 and thank you

[@rhysjaggar4677]

Can only speak for my neck of the woods in NW London, Charles, but I've found that Butternut Squash fruit will keep growing into late October, whereas Crown Prince and Red Kuri are generally harvested at the end of September, their growth complete. One year recently I simply let the butternut squash plants continue growing until really cold weather was forecast in mid November and harvested my best crop.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That sounds really good. You are fortunate to have warmer nights above all, and that makes quite a difference.

[@Pixieworksstudio]

That was a great video, Charles. I hope summer goes out a bit more like it came in. I too have the Hungarian hot wax and Astor, so fingers crossed they'll ripen, and at least we won't have a hose pipe ban until next week, haha. How amazing to see the slow worms, beautiful creatures.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I hope so too! Sounds a pain :(

[@nickthegardener.1120]

You doing strictly come dancing this year Charles? The No dig jive👍👍 its been mega wet here, hopefully get some sun soon. 🤠👍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's the plan! Yes we need some dry.

[@nickthegardener.1120]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig It would be a great way to get no dig to the masses! 👍🤠

[@irenesmith5676]

Hi Charles loved looking round your beautiful veggie garden got some tips as well thank you lv Irene 😘 xx

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it Irene

[@veradejong9437]

I will really much like to see a bitter cucumber (sopropo) also growing to your glass house. I'm sure you can grow them very well too.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I did in 1983, half a large polytunnel of Telegraph. All on the compost heap. It was a bitter lesson and I never repeated it.

[@ramthianthomson601]

Thanks again Teacher x😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You are so welcome!

[@GARDENER42]

Thanks for another glimpse into your fantastic market garden. Had blight arrive here in West Cumbria last week, so cut all the tops off my maincrop (last 2nd earlies in containers too). I'll give the maincrop a couple of weeks, then lift & store where I can keep an eye on them. Sowed some broad beans at the beginning of July just to see if the weather holds & I get a crop.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Cheers and I did the same!

[@amandar7719]

@@CharlesDowding1nodigSorry to latch on, but Charles…did you mean you too have had to chop off the tops of your potatoes because of blight? 😮 or just that you sowed some broad beans. 🙂

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Just that Itransplanted a few broad beans in July!

[@patioverde]

Gracias esta hermoso ese espacio

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Gracias 🙂

[@meapantz1983]

Thanks for the tip on the outdoor tomato tops. I have a ton of flowers and plenty of green ones , so I will be doing that😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

My pleasure Mea

[@jpennturner]

In derbyshire it has been cool, overcast, and rainy following a cold late spring only a bit of warmth in June so things have not grown too well. I knew when the frogs spawned very late that we were not going to have much of a summer it is a good job we don't rely on vegetables from the garden my biggest carrot is all of three inches long.

[@dd7521]

​​@@misterdev521thanks for saying what I'm thinking. People think I'm mad but we are definitely being targeted to push their idiotic climate agenda. I'm disappointed with what I've grown so far. Last year was much better.

[@elizabethgarza4951]

...meanwhile...still triple degree weather in Texas. So hot!!! Everything went crispy in my garden.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Oh damn!

[@sounthonesysavath4390]

I love your videos garden

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you I am glad you enjoy them 🙂

[@demoisellelenina]

This winter i am going to build another greenhouse on my strawberry land. Wet and cold weather upset me alot. So next spring and summer i can have melons and others. Move my strawberry to other beds.

[@demoisellelenina]

Not as big as yours. But apparently a good one able to stand up inside and soil still covered perhaps. my eggplant not growing good at all.

[@karensterling5246]

Hi Charles. I loved the garden tour. Everything looked so wonderful and productive. I enjoy the compost piles as much as the garden tour. I just found a legless lizard whilst emptying a bag of compost. I’ve seen some before from a distance but just realized, with my son’s help, that it’s called locally a glass snake. It was an interesting experience but glad to know that I don’t have to fear them in future. Thanks for sharing your amazing work with us.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So nice thanks Karen

[@Khalinjai]

Its nature that humbles a gardener, i'm a very thought out gardening, researching and planning ahead but then we start with 6 weeks of no rain at all and very warm weather, and then move into rain every single day and very cloudy weather with barely any sun, normally july is very warm and even into august, but this year nothing but rain we had 125mm of rain in the month of july, just this first week of august 80mm is going to fall so the outside summer crops are heaving a very tough time and slowly getting more diseased, the fall and winter crops are loving the weather tho thaths a positive :) One cannot plan for the impact of weather on the crops, so that is what truly humbles me.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So true - and now suddenly, it looks like there might be some warmth and sun coming back!

[@Khalinjai]

The lord knows we can use some of that sunny weather, to atleast ripen some of the crops =]

[@barkershill]

Yes research and planning are definitely good , but at the same time flexibility is also required as our weather patterns are showing us

[@cristiano7878]

It's always a pleasure to see your videos. What an amazing growth in your beautiful garden! It's impressive the differences between our climate. Here in central Italy we have 36° till 7 pm and no rain in one month. We're struggling to protect our vegetables from unceasing heat. All the solanacea and cucurbitacea seems to be blocked in growth, due to mildew cuased by incessant rain in may and June, and now because the heat and lack of rain. It's necessary cover the vegetables with shading cloth and water at least three time per week and spray with zeolite to prevent sunburn and blight. It seems to be normal by now these extreme climate. You're such an inspiration to me. Cheers!

[@buteos8632]

Of course it's getting hotter which leads to more rain (evaporation), we just came out from a mini ice age little more than 200 years ago. These weather is cyclical, as you may have noticed they only talk of high temperatures when to push the green house money grab, green house effect doesn't lower the temperature always rises, so there is no men made global warming...my friend do you know how many ice ages have happened in the past??? Climate change is the most natural thing in the world and our less than 100 years of monitoring mean nothing, specially when most stations are in urban areas and sometimes, like recently the UN published a sensationalist article with ground temps, not air temps, your being fooled and robbed, as they say you'll own nothing and you better like it!!!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks. You have had such difficult weather. I would definitely look to shade plants in the excessive heat, especially salads

[@cristiano7878]

Unfortunately all the leafy vegetables are going to seed. Except for some brassicas. Next year's priority will be drip irrigation and shade.

[@donnabailey5325]

Oh god. Slow worms my worst nightmare 😢 Fabulous gardens though 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Donna

[@kit2130]

Nice weather there! Every day we’re under a heat advisory in Kansas with over 100 degrees. I’m watering thoroughly every morning. Getting lots of cucumbers after harvesting lots of onions & potatoes. Looking forward to tomatoes & cantaloupe with a few zucchini next.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Phew sounds baking. Still sixties here!

[@shawnfromportland]

Charles Dowding is the kinda guy where you'll find random Rye sprigs in his jacket pockets

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😂

[@annashiegl]

love the compost dance 😂

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😂

[@lenkasurianska]

It has started to get a little cold here, and there are a lot of green tomatoes on the plants. Cucumbers are also still blooming, if only we had warmer nights... 🙏 I believe there will still be some harvest. Your new video is again perfect and very helpful. Thank you 🙂

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I am glad you enjoyed it Lenka good to hear your cucumbers are blooming 🙂

[@lenkasurianska]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig thank you Charles 🙏👌 no dig is best ☺️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

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[@rubygray7749]

What a glorious tour! 6 inches rain in July for you! That would be February in Tasmania, when we usually get about 6 mm. Our wonderful summer sunshine energy is limited by drought. Love those slowworms. I don't think I've ever seen one. They are certainly healthy specimens, like every other living thing at Homeacres. We stopped just short of the sweet corn! What a towering block of corn! I'm sure that will feature soon. Nice to see the rye straw-mushroom project too. Another subject for a future video? And of course we want to see the rye dance and bread making process this year, comparing your crop from home saved seed to last year's from purchased seed. Your channel is better than going to the movies! August 2nd tomorrow means we have passed the 'Persephone months" here. We then achieve 10 hours of sunlight daily, increasing fast now. This is when plants really begin to grow, although the warmest winter I've ever had here, has kept the grass growing strongly. Thankfully this year I have many new no dig beds ready to jump into life, if ever the deluges subside.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Ruby, it's always fascinating to hear from you and your comparisons, at six months difference. That is a lovely feeling, passing the Persephone threshold. And yes we shall follow up next month.

[@rubygray7749]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig I'm hoping to enter the competition on World No Dig Gardening Day this year! Do you have an Antipodean section? It would be unfair to compare high spring growth with autumn harvests! I have made a no-dig convert after plying her with my no-dig turnips. My friend has bought your latest book, is watching through your playlist with her two boys, is forging ahead with preparations for spring, and has built new compost bays. We're ready!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Ah good idea Ruby! And that is all great news

[@nnnnnnnn2125]

Şimdi beğenirim vaktim olunca zaten izlerim 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

🙂

[@lindabonomi7274]

New sub, saw Gaz Oakley video...your garden is beautiful!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks and welcome

[@stuartmanvell8663]

Need to do a guide to melon growing, yours are fantastic and i always struggle with them

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks and it's here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJa4cqBrrZJkjc0

[@robtaylor6233]

Great tour off your garden I have planted similar crops but don’t see the fruits as yet think I’ll invest in crop covers keep the rain off and the temp up 🪴

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks Rob. Use fleece on new plantings until early May.

[@lolaseymour1532]

Great video Charles! I have been wondering about the mushrooms popping up in my raised beds. Good to know about snipping off the tops of my tomato's & removing cucumber leaves!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Glad you enjoyed it Lola