No Dig Day 2023 - Share the joy| Spread the compost | Prizes for children | Charles Dowding

No Dig Day 2023 - Share the joy| Spread the compost | Prizes for children | Charles Dowding
The first-ever No Dig Day in November 2022 was a huge success and celebration. Do join in this year, and use #nodigday on social media posts.
November is the start month of next year's gardening, the beginning of next year's growing adventures. Plus a chance to celebrate the wonderful no dig method, and to share what we have achieved this year.
Competition Time!
For this year’s No Dig Day, we are running two competitions for children. The first is for ‘Best Veg Garden of 2023’. This is open to children up to the age of 14, and the winner will receive a cash prize of £100! I shall judge this.
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The second is to create some Veg Art - use vegetables to create a mouth-watering artistic masterpiece! This is open to children of any age, and the winner of each age category will receive signed copies of my Children’s No Dig Gardening Book and the No Dig Cookbook. Anna judges this one.
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Please send entries to [e-mail] by the end of the day on Sunday 5th November (whatever timezone you are in!)
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For both competitions, you will need to include the following info:
- Name of child
- Age of child
- Photo of entry, with a description (optional)
Plus how we can contact you, such as email address.
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We look forward to seeing your entries, and good luck! 🌱
See what happened last year www.charlesdow...
For starting out no dig, see this video • No-Dig Gardening for B...
Filmed at my no dig market garden Homeacres, Somerset, UK by Edward Dowding.
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[@jomokids]

I love the initiative this channel's taking to encourage kids to dive into gardening. Cultivating an interest in vegetable growing and gardening from a young age not only fosters a deep connection with nature but also contributes to childhood development. As always, major kudos for running this contest and can't wait to see some of the submissions! ❤️❤️❤️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks

[@robertling9872]

Beautiful NoDig video, let NoDig day a Happy World NoDig Day 🎉🌱🌻

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

💚

[@thetweegarden]

Anything that encourages kids to garden is fantastic. 3rd November is my soon to be 6 year old daughters birthday so it’s a date I’ll remember!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Soo good!!

[@jeshurunfarm]

Also been spreading home made compost, and it looks a lot like yours. I am soooo proud of it. Thanks Charles.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great to hear 🌱

[@itsmewende]

I hope you get so many photos submitted to blow your mind. The kids that get involved in growing food now, I'm sure will for the rest of their life. Watching you has shown them, you don't need much space to grow an abundance.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So kind thank you

[@smas3256]

Great ideas Charles and crew. Zone 6b.USA. Been pruning and laying that on top of finished beds. Compost have enough for now, mostly decomposed and will spread before winter. Looking forward to planting garlic after bush beans are finished. So much to look forward to. In our mid 70's yrs old. YOUR GARDENS ARE ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. Thankyou Charles for your devotion to teaching.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks, and your garden sounds great too 😊

[@euniceh9851]

My eleven year old grandson is very excited about gardening. This Aussie Spring shall be a great year for him. I've purchased for him a membership in the Australian Diggers Garden Club and we will be visiting the Diggers Victorian gardens this Spring Summer. Thankyou so very much for sharing and teaching and encouraging.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Lovely to hear 💚

[@nathanpickett7224]

Just cleared all my beds and topped them up with compost ready for the winter. Can't wait for next season. Slugs can't either I can well imagine 😊

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's great to hear Nathan

[@turtle2212]

YES!!! This week I filled my greenhouse with winter lettuces and garlic and have stiil 2 tiny cucumbers and lots of grapes dangling down from above. AND I can proudly state: the greenhouse windows have been cleaned for more light😊. Happy no dig days all over the world❤.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That is great to hear 💚

[@Gardenway88]

I think you'll be happy because you have a beautiful view, a house, and a nice garden. The lettuce and other garden crops are growing really nicely. I'm here for the first time today and say hello. I'll come visit often ^^

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Fantastic and welcome 🙂

[@euniceh9851]

Gosh Charles! That compost looks Deeeeeelicious!!!😁😂🤣😂😁

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Yup!!

[@seanjcameron]

That's a great date - I think I'll launch my KZbin channel on that day as well to celebrate my new plot at Roots Allotment.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Fantastic that sounds like a great idea 💚

[@terrykingsallotmentgardening]

I will be sharing my No Dig methods on this date, thank you for the inspiration. ♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to hear Terry 🙂

[@joaoesperancinhajope]

Great advice! I had no idea that you could add such a small layer of compost like that and still have great results!

[@helenlatimer9230]

All I can say is FANTASTIC 🤗

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😍 Thank you

[@bethany7072]

Charles Ive never gardened before and I plan on starting this spring in our new house. Your channel has made me SO excited for the process and your method is what Ill be applying. Your kindness and passion shines through your videos, please dont ever stop ❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

So nice to hear this Bethany, I wish you a happy garden

[@fanjiang9317]

It’s busy time to spread out my first batch of compost which I made in spring. I am making my 7th hot compost pile this week using the fall leaves plus garden waste material. Love composting and no dig. Thank you

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

One heap a day, amazing!

[@fanjiang9317]

Not this week, this year. My mistake

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😂

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

Thanks for the invitation, Charles ❤I hope you have a fantastic turnout👍💚👍 ❤Peggy❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you Peggy

[@nickthegardener.1120]

Hi Charles ive been No Dig for almost a year now and my vegetables are doing great. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.👍🤠

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to hear Nick 🙂

[@HappyFarmsLa]

So fun! I love the idea of spreading knowledge of no-dig this way! I was planting garlic yesterday here in the USA and thinking about how I am not fully no dig, I still rake up some rows because we get so much rain here. But I’m a heavy mulched and I bury my food scraps directly in the garden now. It’s working well :) we have a coffee truck and use organic coffee so all the grinds (5 gal bucket a week) go directly in the garden. Yes I’m wild in the garden! Thank you for your content.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Fascinating, nice adaptation

[@jsbadger]

Looking forward to all of the interesting things No Dig Day can bring! Remember to share this video out on your social media so others can grow in this amazing method to grow the foods (and flowers!) you and they love!

[@annemcguire7792]

Just spread my home made compost this morning. A bit lumpy but we're supposed to get a good soaking on Friday so I hope it'll be broken up a bit. Then I will plant my garlic on the weekend.

[@jugnoothelight8662]

wow beautiful video thanks for sharing

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

You are very welcome

[@pascalxus]

my compost is, how shall we say, a little less finished than that pictured in the video. but i'm going to use it anyways.

[@anitahaywood9827]

I hang my head in shame at my celeriac at the size of yours to mine! In my defence i did have runner beans growing over them. Must try harder lol

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Yes they need every bit of light and moisture

[@marcidevries5515]

I should celebrate by starting a leaf and horse manure compost pile!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

A fine plan :)

[@luisagarcia3961]

Obrigado seus vídeos são de bom exemplo ❤

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Obrigado Luisa

[@gardenonthemoors]

Have a lovely day!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Many thanks

[@registully3115]

November 3rd is my birthday. Having suffered from heart failure I concentrated on gardening - my garden is 1000 M2 and so I decided starting it all over this year. Your no dig method has converted me and I am starting to see results on my piece of land. Anyway it keeps me busy and probably helps me health wise. Thank you for your videos and sorry for living in North France, but I still keep up with your site. Keep up the good spirit!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Sounds great! Thanks for sharing, and stay well

[@RoyHolder]

Nice one Charles, pity I'm on the other side of the world, would love to visit! Cheers from Australia!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Maybe one day Roy

[@eileenalexander3650]

We'll be thinking of you on November 3rd as it is our Anniversary! xx

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

How wonderful, may it be good!

[@yvonnejackson1696]

If you’ve ever commented on the size of your garden I missed it. How large is it and how many people do you think it could supply with an adequate amount of food? ( minimum survival level). It appears that your veggies would supply a nutritious diet for anyone.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

1/3 acre now Yvonne, 1500m2, and I don't know! I sell a lot.

[@smas3256]

Great question for Charles. For me I've experienced a bumper crop of Roma Tomatoes. I got a steam canner great for anything that uses the water bath method. I hang fresh herbs to dry then put them in used glass jars w. lid from food purchased. Crush only when I need some. Stores 2 years on shelve. They lose a lot of the medicinal value when heated to dry them. Also save seeds. Before I store them I test to see if successful.

[@yvonnejackson1696]

@@smas3256 Thanks for the reply. My goal is to raise most of my food in a sustainable way. Every idea on how to accomplish this is helpful.

[@stevendowden2579]

should be a cracking day

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Yup! 🙂

[@rhysjaggar4677]

Charles - I noticed the plastic trays with air holes that you use to dry/store vegetables in in your videos, but you never seem to have said where you got/get them from. I'd really like to buy a few this month as I'll have plenty of winter veg to store, so it would be great if you could make a recommendation on potential sources.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's because I purchased them in 1985 from Sommer Allibert who I think are not working any more. They are very solid and I don't know of current sellers.

[@rhysjaggar4677]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Fair enough! Forty years service is indeed solid products!! I guess I'll have to see what I can find from my own searches....

[@exscapegoatpowerfulhealer9685]

That's excellent, all the friendly competitions. For the First time in years, because I discovered it was water retentive, I've gone ahead & put flat cardboard boxes down in the tiny backyard garden & some decent mulch mix on top, now that you've shown me what not to do, I your numerous videos. Plus I've stuck some pots of vegetables on it as well. & have finally located a bale or two of Lucerne hay & an earthmoving company to transport some soil in ( as I don't have a compost heap as such, she mumbles because as a gardener of 40+ years, the scraps & trimmings are scattered on the footpath. 😀

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Great to hear :)

[@evasosa50]

3 de noviembre,fecha especial tambien para mi,mi nieto hermoso cumplira 8 añitos ,y para mi es un brote en pleno crecimiento que me hace muy feliz!!!!! 🌱🌱 Gracias🦋🦋🦋🦋 Charles,deliciosos tus videos!!!👋👋👋❤️🇦🇷❤️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Que encantadora !!

[@evasosa50]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig ❤️

[@evasosa50]

Saque dos o treshojas de mi apio para una ensalada y las lave en un tanque donde junto agua de canilla para q se vaya el cloro,para despues regar mis plantas,inmediatamente me acorde de vos,cuando lavabas tus lechugas asi,salvando las distancias claro!!!!😂😂😂Gracias Charles,sos un genio!!!!!👋👋👋🌱🌱🦋🦋🦋❤️🇦🇷❤️

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

¡Qué bueno escucharlo!

[@evasosa50]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig ❤️

[@silvanac5739]

👏👏👏👏👏 Que lindo! Hermosa idea ! Besos desde🇦🇷

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Gracias

[@pascalxus]

it's so great to get the kids involved. i motivated my 8 year old to go into the garden by allowing her to build a "smurf garden". NOV 3rd is No Dig Day! i look forward to celebrating it!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That is awesome, nice thought for your daughter.

[@pguk83]

Howdy Charles - never been first before 🙂

[@jeshurunfarm]

It's a great feeling.

[@tara981]

Wenn ich ein Foto von meinen Garten oder mir einsenden würde > Der Trostpreis wäre mir sicher 👻 Gruß aus der Eifel 💚

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Ahhh! xx

[@rubyquinonez5966]

con ese color naranja brillas mister charly

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Ah, gracias Rubí. Y, por favor, anime a algún niño que conozca a enviar fotografías de su jardín para el concurso. Nos encantaría saber de México, incluso podrían ganar premios.

[@rubyquinonez5966]

en que sitio mister charly🤔tengo un hermoso video de mis niños del jardin de infantes

[@alistairwylie6730]

Hi Charles, thanks for your videos. I was looking for a video you did a few weeks ago along with a lady about water and its memory properties etc. I can't seem to find it, I was going to watch it again. Would you have a link to it? Thanks again.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

That's nice Alistair and I'm afraid I deleted it because I had not paid enough attention to presenting a new subject matter. I look forward to making another one, before Christmas I hope and see her website www.vedaaustin.com

[@alistairwylie6730]

@CharlesDowding1nodig I didn't see much wrong with it and although it's a pretty big and relatively new subject, I thought it was a good taster to possibly a more in depth video. For the past seven years or more, I've seen the effects of structured water in relation to my health, which are in high water content fruits and high water content veg. This would be a great addition to the growing of fruit and veg as well as water we use in and on ourselves, especially when the stuff coming out of our taps is full of chemicals and structurally dead.

[@user-fs4ld8bg4n]

Please set Greek subtitles because your work is brilliant

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

I can't do tha I'm afraidt, no option given. It's not free to me, would cost around $10-12 / minute

[@user-fs4ld8bg4n]

@@CharlesDowding1nodig Thank you very much for your response and you for all your work in ytube,its very helpful for me.

[@franksinatra1070]

Your celeriac looks amazing. How deep do you plant. My first year at growing them only did so so and I think part of the problem may have been planting the transplants too deep.

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thanks and these went in deep as usual here, then they rise while swelling

[@animalcharacteristics]

Did you fertilize your Vegetables?

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

No never

[@chaddamp2894]

Great !! should I plant my elephant garlic in my no dig bed this time?

[@jeshurunfarm]

Yes

[@karinmartinazimmer2463]

Now would be perfect.

[@samuelecantarutti383]

Charles I need advice, my kale has had the top growth eaten on all of them, can I cut it leaving a few feet for side shooting or is it not viable?

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Oh dear! I reckon that's not viable for any significant new growth before early spring, sadly, and then it would be mostly flowering shoots rather than leaves

[@locke6531]

👍

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

👍

[@nickhammersonrocks]

DO THEY HAVE TO BE “HUMAN” CHILDREN TO ENTER THE CONTEST !?????? OUR OFFSPRING ARE MORE LIKE WILD ANIMALS AND MOST OF THE TIME THEY DEFINITELY DON’T ACT LIKE THEY ARE FROM THIS PLANET !!!!!!!

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

😂

[@theanalyticgardener]

Woot woot 🎉🎉🎉 No Dig Day! Thanks for all that you do. I'm a big fan. 🫶🏽

[@CharlesDowding1nodig]

Thank you and my pleasure