Carrot| spinach| Cauliflower and celeriac plus no dig green manures and Quick bed prep pre-winter
It's late October. The garden is full of vegetables, and we harvest a lot right up to Christmas.
Plus we now start the annual spreading of compost, to feed soil life over the coming year. With no dig it is quick: there is no other soil preparation and weeds grow little.
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No dig saves time, and delivers the harvests.
10 years of results, comparing yields from my three strip trial which we see near the beginning of this video, demonstrate the adverse effects even of just forking the soil and without any inversion. We apply the same compost on the forked beds, as on no dig beds in the adjacent strip.
This year 2023, the forked strip has yielded 86kg harvests, while the no dig strip's harvests (same compost used) are 100kg.
The third strip, no dig with animal manure mostly from cows, has given 116kg up to 22nd October. See link below for details of this trial, running since 2014.
00:00 Introduction - keep gardening through the year and No Dig Day
01:28 Carrots, with root fly damage - how late can you sow them to avoid this? These carrots I pulled, after we washed them, showed bad damage from the maggots of root flies. They were not Oxhella nut Miami F1. We are noticing less damage on Oxhella in another bed.
03:12 Abundant beds - spring onions which followed squash, parsnips which followed spring onions, spinach which followed lettuce which followed broad beans
03:34 Snail damage to spinach, possibly a result of snails in neighbouring leek plants which are also affected by allium leaf miner - leeks are 9th year in the same bed, a trial
04:43 I explain my three-strip trial, and the resulting harvests.
06:07 A new type of compost! and the resulting harvests of squash
06:59 Romanesco cauliflower and Savoy cabbage, all sown on the longest day of the year, transplanted on 17th July
07:42 Celeriac, Prinz variety - remove lower leaves?
08:40 Garlic, planted on earliest possible date, but it’s not too late!
09:20 Broad and field beans as a temporary cover crop
09:48 Also white mustard Sinapsis alba, under asparagus - and how to clear asparagus
10:51 Compost heap that has become a little anaerobic, and how to add some air
11:49 Turnips, with mesh against cabbage root fly, and more garlic, with mustard
12:23 A late variety of raspberries, Paris - fruits ripening early this year
13:38 Lamb’s lettuce and cabbage
13:53 Adam’s mushroom project - Stropharia rugoso anulata
14:33 Autumn raspberries cut down
15:02 Compost spread on recently cleared beds, and new plantings of winter purslane, claytonia, mizuna
16:09 Brussels sprouts, Bridget variety - F1 hybrid
16:43 Medania spinach from homesaved seed
16:54 The dig/no dig trial beds, and harvest comparisons from each - up to 25th October the total harvests are 70kg from the dig bed and 82kg from no dig
17:59 How much compost to put on beds to feed soil once a year, and woodchip on pathways
18:40 Scarole endive - before and after picking
19:04 Celery, and dahlias, then Prinz celeriac deleafed
20:36 More spinach Medania, but with less soil damage
21:29 In the polytunnel - new plantings of salad leaves, plus many marigolds that have grown from their seeds
22:38 Cobea flower
23:25 Small Garden - fennel, spinach, overwintering spring cabbage and cauliflower, and brassicas incl. cauliflower - harvests so far in 2023 are 94kg
24:41 Sowing reminder resources
25:00 Broad beans - still to sow, soon
25:18 Outro
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Filmed by Nicola Smith late October 2023, edited by her too.
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