Unlock the potential of your No Dig autumn planting with these proven tips

In today's video we give you are top tips completing autumn planting!
Today we plant garlic and shallots for a harvest next summer, also brassicas for a harvest next spring, We have cabbage and swede to plant out. I also need to harvest a few things for Mrs W
Gardening in October is a month of transition, there is lots to harvest in the garden, but also many jobs not least finishing off the autumn planting and prepping for next year.
Welcome to the No Dig Norfolk Gardener and our no dig/no till garden where we grow vegetables. We garden in zone 9a. Although we grow our veg from our back garden it is very much set up like allotment gardening UK - allotment life. Our passion is vegetable gardening, bigger harvests and no dig gardening. You will see how growing your own food is so easy.
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[@peterout8729]

You can plant the smaller garlic cloves and use them as green garlic, pull them up like spring onions.

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Thanks for sharing that Peter!

[@albertchalmers96]

Hi i I am new to your channel I have new Allotment just had it for about six months now got ten raised beds two ploytunnel put my garlic in two weeks ago is about six inches high well bye for now. I am in Turkey 🇹🇷 on holiday

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Albert, welcome to our channel! Enjoy your holiday and thanks for watching!

[@noracopse5691]

Hi barry nd mrs w just a tip for the slug problem put coffee grounds around the base of ur plants u can even use the coffee grounds outside too slugs dont like the smell of coffee myself nd john has tried it now on our broccoli plants etc. Nd ut sure works the slugs or snails wont go even near ur plants to eat them there is a filling station near ys nd we takes in a bucket into them for the coffee grounds takes about a week to fill the bucket yry it barry it sure works for me nd john

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Nora, thanks for the tip - we shall give this a try!

[@KPKENNEDY]

Night duty desluggung actually works well. I do it in the spring in my greenhouse about a week before I decide to sow. I count the number of slugs each night and the number caught rapidly decreases. Then my seedlings germinate OK and grow. You can put a plank down on the ground with the soil moist underneath. Then just lift the plank to find the slugs. I put some organic slug pellets beneath my plank sometimes. I use nemetodes in the summer on my strawberries, they work well on the small slugs but not the big ones

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi, thanks for sharing those tips - I like the idea of the plank!

[@zachbartok3676]

👍👍😎 Got most of mine planted …still want to plant more so making another 4*8 raised bed to fill up! 😁 Great video as always.

[@zachbartok3676]

The garlic that is lol

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Zach, good to hear from you! Good to hear the garlic is in!

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

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[@franksinatra1070]

Garlic Time!!! I usually plant mine around Halloween so a couple more weeks. I'm a bit too cold for soft neck here but did try a few last year. They did poorly with only 2 of 6 surviving but you gave me an idea with your poly tunnel. I may try a few under my mini tunnels and see if that makes enough of a difference to give me better results. I would love to be able to grow some here since as you say they do store longer. Sorry about your slug problem. I have slugs here but the problem is not as bad as you folks in the UK with your wet climate. I use slug bait when I see a problem and that helps. It's an all-natural blend of iron phosphate so organic if you want to give it a try give it a search.

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Frank, yes give them a go in the mini tunnels that could be the answer! I will give the slug bait a search - thanks for the tip!

[@bewoodford2807]

I had onion leaf miner on one lot of my leeks and on the other planting site I got rust. I had to throw all the leaf miner affected plants( and they were lovely before the attack) in the incinerator. The ones with rust seem to be going along ok- touch wood. I had trouble with slugs and snails climbing the legs of my staging and eating my seedlings. The i stood the legs of my staging in yoghurt pots which in turn stood in a bowl of salty water. So happy I no longer have my seedlings eaten. I have stopped them eating seedlings in my greenhouse deep bed by putting down shallow trays of fine corn meal, which the gastropods find very tasty. It swells inside them and dehydrates them- I've read that bran also works! I intend to plant my garlic and shallots at the end of the month. I didn't know you could plant swede this time of year- that is so handy to know. I will watch the progress of your swede with great interest. Thanks for a brilliant video. Happy gardening 😃

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Belinda, sorry to hear about the leaf miner! Great solution to the slugs and snails eating your seedlings love it. Like the idea of corn meal thanks for the tip we shall give it a try. I only read you could grow the swede so giving it a try I hope it works!

[@bewoodford2807]

I do so hope it works for you, so satisfying when an experiment works out. Wishing you lots of luck 😃@@nodignorfolkgardener4575

[@mandytaylor1008]

Hi Barrie and Mrs w. We had slugs on the edge of the poly as there was growth outside in other side of poly but rest of poly was ok. We don’t use anything to get rid of pests sometimes we lay rose pruning all round as one year they totally decimated our swedes so we lay rose prickles all over that bed and swedes grew again but weren’t as big as they could have been. Some say coffee grounds deter them. We tried that once and the next day it was all gone something had eaten it all. Anyway I know the bigger the plants the better and pick any leaves that touch the ground. We will always have slugs but they do seem to eat plants that are alone in a bed so our beds are full of different plants like permaculture and this has helped a lot. We don’t net or cover anything and we didn’t have any probs with caterpillars we had a little bit of flea beetle but generally it was the best year ever. We do cover with fleece in march for warmth some things like peas but that’s it. We let nature do it’s thing. We grow lots of different flowers all over the plot which all flows into one and let lots of things go to seed so we have a diverse selection of insects for pollinators. Anyway we only trying out things by what we see others doing like yourselves I have done what you have done at times.👍🙋🏻‍♀️

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Mandy, good to hear from you! I have lots of roses to prune. Great to hear you have cracked the caterpillars. If some of the things we do work for you I am a happy man!

[@KenHJones]

We are planting out our first shallots ever this coming week. All thanks to your channel. I've got Longor - did you plant your Longor shallots that I saw on screen? Our Garlic sets have still not arrived so I will be chasing them up in the morning. Thanks again for your excellent video.

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi ken, you will love your shallot harvest and the lovely taste of them. I said Jermour on the first planting but they were actually Longor and the ones under the potting table were the Jermour!

[@moonwrasse]

It’s all looking good Barry, I am planting my shallots and garlic in 2 weeks. Plenty of compost to put in the beds first. I put out some lettuces last week. They were all gone the next morning! The rest are in the greenhouse for the winter and hopefully slug free.

[@vanessawilkinson7089]

Just catching up Mr & Mrs W great video as always. Do most Shallots from sets multiply? I’m thinking of giving it a go. Our Elephant Garlic was great it’s actually akin to a leek as opposed to Garlic despite the name. Started with 2 and now have 15. My garlic were awful last year with horrendous rust so having to buy fresh to plant.

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hello Vanessa, good to hear from you! Yes most do but the heritage varieties that are grown from seed such as the Zebrune we grew this year don't. Good to hear about the Elephant garlic success ours was good too, and unfortunately garlic rust is becoming more of a problem so we are growing most undercover!

[@chrisdockerty3246]

Never seen you grow over winter seeds. So what are you starting from seed for early harvest ?

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Chris, yes we tried growing plants in the green house last year and were very successful there are videos on our channel. The things we grow re started off from seed back end of August!

[@chrisdockerty3246]

Sorry, no offence meant. I haven't seen them ones yet. I am enjoying your advice as a new No Dig Gardener. My garden is a lot smaller than yours. Please keep up the good work & I have gotta try Mrs.W recipes (When I grow something)@@nodignorfolkgardener4575

[@chrisdockerty3246]

Have you bought everything or brought in on from deed ?

[@nodignorfolkgardener4575]

Hi Chris, we grow everything from seed as a rule, we just happened to be out and saw these were reduced so took a chance!