Wish I had friends in my area who enjoy this kind of thing. It’s so rewarding. Anyone else feel the same?

Recently found this channel, it’s been a big help and ur a wholesome guy with lots of knowledge!

I have found keeping to any kind of time table very difficult this year, it took literally months for my seed orders to come through so my whole time table has gone to pot. Still I am battling on, it will just mean that everything will be a little late this year. My old grandad who was head gardener on an estate, always used to say that Spring was a lot longer than people thought and that one week in warm ground was worth a month in the cold. Thank you so much for all your advice, I just loved your books. Just shows that this old dog CAN learn new tricks.

I always enjoy your videos Mr. Dowding. Much respect to you and thank you for informative videos. Getting my garden going here in Washington State!

For a second I thought this was a video about sowing dates, as in the fruit -- dates.

Could listen to this guy all day long :)

I’ve been sowing furiously in the last few weeks, I’m still amazed when they become plants! This is my first year ever of gardening, and if there’s a space something goes in it, so under the big olives in pots, oak leaf lettuce, strawberries and purple and holy basil. First harvest of strawberries was 10 days ago!

Charles, I broke my fork today - I wasn’t the least bit disappointed..... I have made my first dibber!

I've just recently stumbled upon your videos and I must say your knowledge about gardening is inspirational. I used to garden with my father when i was younger, watching your videos brings back cherished memories.

This is great advice, Charles, you explain everything so well, compliment to you!

Was just hoping there was a new Charles dowding video to watch

i still find a way to keep pots and plant whatever i can in my small balcony after watching your garden... Its so inspiring to see life in those pots. Thank you Great job

Thank you Charles for your common sense and for quietening down my worry about getting everything sown now before it is too late. We are a bit warmer here in France, which is a big help with germinate, but, the weather is so unpredictable too. Many thanks 🙂🌱

Just got your gardening diary, well, it's mine now.😉 Really love it. One of the things I respect about this book is that we can use it til it falls appart as you have only used the callander number, not the day of the week. You may not have your beans in the ground, but looks like everything else is! What a nice video to make us all feel better. 😉😂 🍻

Fantastic! Thank you Charles. I love it when you talk about crops that you have not mentioned in your previous videos or when you are bringing new material to our attention.

Thanks Charles, always there with good advice xx

Hello Mr Dowding! Thank you for your work and positive experience here in youtube. Thanks to you i decided to start my own channel where i will represent my own garden, however it is in the opposite side of Europe :D Thank you again, you are my motivation to keep it going. For now i have total 100 views but it is still great to me :D

Thank you Charles I'm relieved that its still early. I was a little stressed that I'm too late already. Time flies when you garden.

Amazing. You are a real enciclopedia of gardening. Thank you for sharing all this knowledge with us. 🥰

A great sharing Charles, all very useful.. and inspiring! Thanks!!

Nice to get a little positive anything after 6 weeks. Thanks flower 💐

Love this Charles! It was a little quiet on your voice though.

Thank you, a really useful reminder.....and the sound was perfect!

Good advice as always. I've sown my broad beans mid October and they are coming up rather nicely, lots of small pea size beans need a few more weeks.

Thank you! It's what I needed to hear. I hope as I get more in the habit of overwintering more stuff, the urge to leap into action in late winter/early spring will lessen!

We're not here for the audio visual quality, we're here for Charles' pearls of wisdom, passion and ever so slightly inebriated camera presence.

Just found your channel....thank you, Charles. Inspiring...and the sound was fine with earbuds. I look forward to watching all of them.

Ahhhh . I planted my dwarf french in the greenhouse more than a week ago and then it got cold and they just haven’t done anything. I thought I had duds... maybe I’ll sow some inside on a windowsill. Thanks so much for the helpful video xx

another great video it was quite again

Thanks, again! Currently I'm having more "failures" than successes, but between these videos and your 2 online courses, I now have some educated ideas as to why, which is SUPER exciting because that means I can make changes to have more successes. :-)

Great job Mr dowding. Your videos are quite inspiring.

Thanks Charles for a very informative video I had planted my runner beans and climbing French beans too early so after watching your video I repotted them all again hopefully they will be ok now I have them in a mini greenhouse in my polytunnel thanks again

Great calming advice Charles, thanks very much 😊

Very happy that I had your channel recommended to me. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with the world. Any thanks from Raumati, New Zealand 🇳🇿

I really appreciate the “heads up” for sowing and planting. You have taught me how important it is to be ready with seedlings to fill the gaps. I garden in zone 8 in Canada so similar schedule it seems. Thanks again.

I love your channel and content so valuable. I just wanted to say thank you!

Always superb content, thank you for sharing. Sounds very low though. Cheers

stay healty gramps !

Thoroughly enjoyed the advice, and yes, with a little planning, there can be plenty of time for sowing. Reminds me to sow my next wave of lettuce. Earliest wave currently using, next batch coming along, so will do more this week 😊👍🏼🌱🌱

Bless your heart for all this information! I'm glad I found your channel :)

I have your calendar. I live in the same zone as you and it is so helpful. It’s really a nice calendar. Thank you!

Charles you have changed my world...unravelling the mysteries of gardening for me so that I finally have had the courage to take the plunge and now have about 200 seedlings soaking up the sun on my dormant massage table (thanks to lock downs). I may have to move my clinic and call this my conservatory. My mother would be so proud. Thank you and your family SOOO much!!! for the JOY this is bringing me. Now, where, by the way, could I get the fleece you use, living in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Hi Charles, French and runners grow brilliantly in a polytunnel though, I always have a couple of containers. Mine are 6’ tall and flowering : all the best - Steve

Thanks Charles used to plant broad beans in November but don't bother now just plant in Feb.

Get Charles' calendar and diary. (After that you can go blame yourselves ; D) Really, this is top advice. Don't get neurotic, there's lots of time to do lots of things. Don't panic!! Don't panic!!

Thank you, Charles!

Great stuff, I've made a concerted effort to grow my own greens in my little garden this year, its so nice to have fresh food!

You have inspired me to start everything but carrots indoors. I have a grow room from a microgreens business (on hold) and a lean to greenhouse to harden them off in. Got tired of fighting the birds and the weather here in Pennsylvania, USA. They are all coming along well so thanks!

super talented farmer my friend...keep up the good work!

Thank you Charles -- Ray Sussex NJ USA

Such a reassuring, helpful video as usual. Perfect timing too, since I was just today wondering if I should sow my 'haricots mangetout' beans indoors rather than out - it's been suddenly cold out this last week. I'm also growing soy edamame and broad beans, first time for them all. So yes, absolutely wonderful to get your wisdom on what to do. :-)

Thank you for your ongoing efforts to produce content despite lockdown. I’ve been sowing a bit early but I can’t help it. I also sow a few extra because I have a bad habit of digging up a few seeds every few days to see if they have germinated. Despite all this the French beans in polytunnel look happy enough and I’m looking forward to sowing some outside in another month or so.

Great information, thanks!

Charles Dowding you are amazing Thank you 🥰🥰🥰

Thanks Charles! I've just planted out some beans but they don't seem too keen on growing yet. I have spare seed, so more are going in soon. Thank you for all the advice, my garden is looking so much better than last year!

As always, thanks for these handy tips Charles and excellent effort for making these videos in these challenging times Steph. I second that advice re home saved seeds. My Douce Provence peas have shown really good germination and are romping away in the ground.

I really like your video.

Thank you Mr Dowding - I am always in a rush with the beans but won’t be from now

You packed a lot of info into this shortie :) Your garden is always so beautiful with healthy plants, I think it would make a great subject for paintings - wish i was an artist, haha. I think your rows of colorful lettuce are especially beautiful. Now I'm off to sow some cabbage for later plantings.

Thanks for the good tips and lessons. Although my garden is new and small and nothing like yours but I am learning a lot from you.

Can you please do a video in the future explaining the difference between runner beans, broad beans, french beans, etc. Also when to sow/plant them? I'm in zone 9b (Florida) and just sowed sugar snap peas about a week ago (it's already coming up thankfully). According to the seed package, I should have started them months ago. Oh, well. It will be an experiment in growing late.

Thank you!

Answered all my questions in 3 1/2 minutes! Thanks.

I really like the you are doing with the farm

The garden is looking beautiful! I wish I could come help you for a week or two, not that I dont have my own garden but a change of scenery would be awesome right now. There should be a show called "Garden Swap". Anyways thanks for another great video! Grow on!

I was impatient and started my French beans and squash too early. I wish I’d waited because they’re growing so, so slowly!

Thank You so much. I am learning lots. I live in the mountains our growing season is very short. Last frost date is 2 nd week of June and first frost date for fall is 3rd week of october. Last 2 years i had to ripen my tomatoes in the house. However i have just now set up a grow tunnel for my tomatoes and peppers. We live off grid so my tunnell isnt heated, Wish me luck. Also have discovered i need more sowing trays.. they are a bit hard to find here. Still very excited for this years gardening adventures. Thanks Again.

As always love your sharing 🙏🏼 looks like you have a new videographer.

The current situation with supply chain buffers under strain everyone should be considering gardening even if its microgreens. Be prepared, be healthy, and enjoy a plant based lifestyle. Edit: Charles garden is looking amazing! No Dig 4 Life!

Already transplanted my dwarf French beans last week after having sown them indoors. Admittedly they’ve been very slow to grow third and fourth pair of true leaves but I’m hoping the warmer weather expected next week will help them.

Thank you so much👩‍🌾

valuable information

Another over eager new gardener. I'm in Midlands. Too eager without a greenhouse I planted out my 40 cm cucumbers outside since we had this amazing weather and they are nearly dead after rains. The other two in conservatory already flowering and cherry tomatoes set fruit. Have some kitchen pantry beans growing and they desperately wanted repotting, but was having hard time getting pots and compost so planted outside... Lost all old leaves but made new solid green ones - completely new texture and look! Interesting how condition changes the look of the plants.

I misread the title and thought, "surely Charles isn't planting date trees."

I went on a sowing frenzy yesterday and have filled my cold frame on my patio with seed trays, cos we just got word that we're allowed back into our allotments on 18th May, and I need to have stuff ready to plant. Not looking forward to seeing all my purple sprouting broccoli gone over though, and my kale too. But at least we'll save the growing season. I can't wait 😁🥰

Too late. Already filled my greenhouse with as many seeds as I can with over enthusiasism. 😂 6 weeks with very little rain and being locked down has meant we couldn't help ourselves 😂

It makes sense... I started my indoor, but put them out too early in the greenhouse... The beans stunted😔 I will follow your advice and sow more in a week or so when the weather is warmer.

Zone 5 here but keep getting frost warnings...will try to sow some seeds this weekend and hope for warm weather.

Love your channel Charles, am doing no dig wherever I can...even trying with runner beans this year, though I’m not confident I’ll get a good crop without digging in lots of ‘muck’ in the trench, which is my normal method. Have fingers crossed though...put lots of rotted manure on the surface instead!

I cannot hear any sound other than birds. Still I love the video content. Keep up the inspiring work.

My broad beans are only 3 inches tall. That is actually good for the beginning of May in my area of Canada. I am hoping to sew more in August for a fall crop. I did plant a few things a wee bit early but I am lucky and it has paid off. Nothing so big as to eat any of it yet. We are eating chives, garlic chives, some wild mustard greens and some pea greens. Not bad for this time of year in Eastern Ontario. Wild garlic amps are up but fiddle head ferns are just peaking out. We too are experiencing a bit of a cool week ahead. Thank goodness for row covers and frost blankets!

After listening to the podcast and learning that you are interested in weather as a hobby and after reading your comment some time ago about you want to make a video about the weather - I am very looking forward to it. 😁 Pozdrowienia - warm regards, Llanelli.

Thank you again Charles for all the awesome. One day I would love an opportunity to come from the states to learn from you.

hi charles, nice to see you again does videos without the professional gear are not bad at all!!! I am starting to edit videos to. i wish to share noladge and my growing space with other lovers of this wonderfull world of growing plants. I also started a small no dig space hope u enjoy it it is based on your methodology, soon will refere u in my chanel. Have a good time!!! PS. Iam from portugal, the climat is a litle wormmer but not that muh because iam from the northe of it!

The sound is way to low to hear.

I must start planting out soon, I can barely move in the Polytunnel, trays of seedlings and potted plants everywhere. I’ll be lucky if I don’t break my neck. The greenhouse is worse, I have to crawl on my hands and knees under the peach and nectarine trees that are waiting to go out, they are on lock down, I don’t want them catching anything. I don’t know what the neighbours must think, when they see me crawling in and out. Thanks for the video Charles.

I was planning on setting out most of my warm weather seedlings this week, but now we are getting a cold front coming through the midwest with the weekend lows down to 32° F!! The worst thing about my climate seems to be the weather fluctuations. Nearly 80° F this weekend and now, unexpectantly back down to freezing. I will probably have to bring ALL my potted plants and seedling trays BACK inside this weekend. It's going to be a huge chore, since I drive my family crazy by transforming my kitchen into a temporary grow room from Feb. to May. I just took down all the shelving and lights and cleaned everything up thinking it was over.😥😧😕

I now have trays of lettuce, cabbage, peas, potted up tomatoes, bell peppers and courgettes from sowings made at beginning of lock down crowding out my greenhouse and every available space on window sills! I think I may have gone overboard a bit and am becoming impatient waiting for the weather to warm up so they can be planted outside. Keeps me busy though. 🙃🇬🇧👍

I’m running out of sowing space so I planted out some tomatoes and marigolds. We have a few chilly nights in the mid to low 40’s, so I’ll cover with reemay and hope that is all they need..

In the spring we mix up all the dirt in the planters as it's the first material thawed, so we can start seedlings in the window, but every year as the season continues, this material starts to become more and more like a composite base, and when we water in the seeds, the surface becomes a solid mat that is difficult for the seedlings to split open. We use all sorts of materials in the soil, specifically to keep this from happening. It's as if the short-tiny fibers of the dry moss is stitching together the soil. we've looked up different causes for hardpan, including iron, and ran through the dirt with a magnet to pull out the excess, which there was some, but not enough for that to be the cause. It's definitely a bit of a puzzle, should we slake down the dirt in water to separate the ingredients and start over? It's already mixed completely so that the material has a single quality. It's almost like the soil is too light and fluffy by the time the mix starts to create this layer on top, and it's a little spongy too.

I am surprized to hear the beans need a warm soil to germinate , always thought beens were a big tuff seed.

Thanks for that. I do often feel like I'm a bit slow off the mark seeing all the stuff you get going under fleece in February. I did sow my brassicas a month ago and they're doing well in the greenhouse, I shan't be planting them out for another month, however. Broad beans are basically vetches aren't they? Now the hawthorn's out I'm starting to think about planting out beets and turnips, but I shall take the hint and not feel pressured about it yet.

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Thanks Charles. THis is what I most needed to hear today. I'm very new to growing veg and get so enthusiastic that I try to grow everything all at once come about March/April and certainly I was feeling I should have everything in seed trays by now. I will try and temper my ambitions and work with nature more. I'd like to know if it's too soon to try Sweet pea because I'm not having that much luck. On the other hand I've sewn some peas weeks ago from saved seed and they're going great. Again, great info

Zone 8 in England! What the heck! How is that possible? I thought for sure you were closer to the same latitude as Canada. Lucky!

I love ur videos it's always inspire me from India #otmfarming

Thanks Charles another few tips you gave me for free. Cheers.

No rush is difficult for me, the anxious gardner 😅 Already planted out French beans and sowed sprouts and PSB - whoops! Hoping it should all be ok!!!

Hello Charles, aaah the impatience is my weak side when it comes to sowing/planting. A good example was when this years i sown heirloom tomatoes from saved seeds as early as in February, indoors, good soil from the shop, even a bit of auxiliary lighting, fertilizing once per week. Beautiful plants arose up to 0,5m and then i transplanted them in mid April to my poly tunnel when i got chance to move them by car from my flat. Just one night with 0°C was enough to do the ugly damage. eventually they are shooting new leaves but anyone who could see them would believe they just died (leaves brown, stems bent/crumpled). not hardening them slowly by bringing them outdoors was a mistake..

Sound appears very low and poor.