Another master class, already seen why my brassica growing is so hit and miss ,apart from anything else I sow way too late ,lesson learnt, thank ýou Charles all the best for you and yours for Christmas and the year ahead.

This guy is like the Mr. Rogers of Gardening. So wholesome. I'm mesmerized.

I enjoy this series of "how to grow" a specific vegetable from seed to harvest. I am rewatching these videos before sowing the corresponding veg. Very useful. Really appreciate the "segmentation" of the video where each "step" is tagged, like in some of the newer videos. It's very useful for going back and forth.

Not only were there great gardening tips in this video, but I now know what I can use my Oxford dress shoes for, seeings how I have no other use for them.

I love these videos! The jump cuts through plant development stages is very helpful!

Charles Dowding is the Bob Ross of vegetable gardens!

Cabbages are so pretty in the garden! Giant flowers!

Mr. Dowding, I really enjoy your videos here in Virginia, USA. You go into great detail to explain so much for beginners & for all the rest gardner's. My husband was a horticulturist and I learned so much from him thru the years. He passed on several years ago so now I'm attempting gardening on my own & your videos are a God send to me. Thank you so much sir.

I love how you do things and your property is just beautiful too. Thanks for sharing.

Rich here from the Heartland of the US: Nebraska!! 🌽 I am thoroughly thrilled with every video I watch of yours Charles!! 😃 I learn SO much!! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge, expertise and experience with us!! 👍 I can’t wait to put many of your methods and practices into motion in my garden. 🌱 God bless you Sir, and may you have a blessed holiday!! 🎄

Thank you! So much great info for the new and the seasoned gardener.

Our friendly slugs

Thanks for the efforts that u put into these videos.

Charles - thanks for the advice, much appreciated

Literally the only channel I watch a video longer than 15 minutes and the time flies. Great content, keep it up!

Thank you for all your teachings. Much appreciated.

The greatest aid in sprouting seed is electric plant heat mats. They are only 17 watts but keep the heats nice a warm until they sprout. I prefer to avoid the fiddly job of pricking out by sowing seeds into plastic trays with 1X3 inch cells. Cheap or old seed I plant 2 or 3 per cell and with scissors cut out the weakest. With expensive seed I put 1 seed per cell as usually the expensive seed is a good germinator and consistent in growth.

Just lovely! I adore your planting style so much!

That cabbage looks delicious!!

Great to hear someone else is plagued by tiny bits of plastic...

The tender upper leaves of the Calabrese can be eaten much the way collards are. So good sautéed or slow-cooked. As always, great insight and techniques. Thank you!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!!🎄 Thank you for your beautiful and informative videos. 🤗❤️

Thank you for all your videos. They‘re not only educational, but also entertaining. Love the format. 👏🏻👏🏻

Lovely video Charles! Thank you. Helps to put a time frame in prospective of when to sow.

awesome demonstration. Masterful teachings.. Thanks again.

Thank you Charles for all the information you share, for all the work you invest - it so worth it. I wish you and your family a merry merry Christmas 🎄 I love to watch your videos!

Merry Christmas! Charles. love your narration and garden. thank you for sharing and inspiring

Seasons greetings Charles, I do prefer a video that gives the stages of growth from sowing to harvest, thank you for sharing. Mike B

this was SO helpful. Thank you. from Rockford Michigan

once again another master class in sowing and harvest GT video and information thanks for your time 🐝🐞🐦👍👍👍👍👍

Good video I am going to do this now .Can't wait to get them cabbages!

Your videos have truly helped me to be a better gardener...Thank you so much for the lessons Charles🥒🌽..I will be buying your books😊

Great and informative as usual....Happy holidays!

Merry Christmas Charles To You and Your FAMILY.

i've started to grow my own veg whilst in lockdown.. its helped my mental health no end. These videos have proven very helpful partilcularly this one when I i found myself with so many Brocolli seedling i don't know how to deal with them. thanks

Thanks Charles. I love your videos!

With your help I’m hoping to grow brassicas like you (I wish) As always, thanks for sharing your knowledge

Thanks you Charles. Demystifying my next challenge cabbage and calabrese. Merry Christmas and Happy new year.

Thank you for an excellent video

This video is awesome! I love the way you demonstrate each step from the seeding, then planting in the soil, and then what the plant looks like all in sequence. I need that to help me. When I grow food, I want to visualize growing the plants from start to finish, and you show that.

This week planting Asparagus in our No Dig garden which I have never planted before zone 8b... Thanks for your Video on it very helpful.

Great video great information. Learn a lot from you. Tqvm for sharing. 🤗

Thanks Charles, exactly the information I need today!!!

Fantastically beautiful

Watching you from PNG. Awesome.

Your are right about the warmth speeding up the germination process. In my climate here, early September, it's still just under 20° Celsius. My cabbage and cauliflower seedlings reach the state of those in the video a day or two earlier.

Excellent video! Not just info on how to grow the cabbage and broccoli but all the bites of info related to timing and planning the succession plantings has really made me think! Gardening is not at all as one dimensional as I used to think and the info you put out there really helps! Many thanks for your efforts

I'm so glad you have this video available. I planted my cabbage seeds at the beginning of this week, in a flat, and they are already needing pricked out. Also, my broad beans are coming up nicely, and we are excited to try those this year. Thanks again for sharing. We are learning alot from you. Many blessings!

greetings from Germany! i love your Videos, they're so relaxing and i'm learning a lot!

You can peel the broccoli stalks and then they are perfectly tender, also the leaves can be made into a cabbage substitute for soups ect.

Muchas gracias Charles por presentar los videos con los subtítulos en español!!! Hace mucho tiempo que los esperaba.

Your growi g season is magic, Ontario Canada is much shorter Love your transplant method, Beauty Foods♡♡♡♡♡ thanks for videos♡

Nice video. Love your greenhouse

Merry Christmas Charles and looking forward to more wonderful videos in 2018. Thanks for all the tips and information this year. I started no-dig on my allotment this year and I have been delighted with the success. Just harvested the last of my potatoes,which should see my family through to new potatoes next June. Overall, about the same crop as my more intensive prior methods, but the significant difference is the lack of insect and slug attack - of the 120kg harvested, literally just a handful with holes, compared to perhaps 20-30% last year depending on variety. As my neighbours have lost out to pests on their spuds, I know it wasn’t just the season, so I put that down to no-dig and I can see some of them being tempted to try it next year too. I’ll continue your advice and try the timings recommended in your diary, to see how that works for me. Many thanks again for the time you spend on your quality videos, it’s very much appreciated. Kind regards, Gerry

Incredible!

Thank you😊

8 days before 27th Feb (when you planted the first seeds) and my greyhound cabbage seeds arrived. This video just popped up an hour after my seeds arrived. Perfect timing!

Wow!! Yummy stuff!!

Lovely videos with great instructions. So calm without even knowing, we are in the zone! 😊 Just looking at the plants has so much positive effects on our brain. I think kids need to be taught to take care of a few plants as a compulsory activity from KG to year 12 . It will help their traditional learning activities, their inner being and help cope with stress for sure.

Magnifiques légumes, ça donne envie d'en manger. Merci encore merci de nous donner envie de travailler la terre.

You are so helpful my friend and I love your calming voice. First generation American here, me mum from Liverpool

have a nice christmas

A Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your Family. Thank you for all the excellent videos on gardening. I am storing them in my SAVE folder for reference. Much prefer them to the TV which is becoming redundant.

I love your channel :)

Goodness, it took me a while to figure out what calabrese was. In South Africa we call it broccoli. Once again your planting the seedlings deep makes perfect sense to me. Indeed Charles, your skills are marvellous to acquire and implement.

That is a beautiful head of broccoli sir.

You should do some videos on no dig flowers! You've got a beautiful selection scattered through that vegetable garden! Thanks for another great video. Cabbage is my favorite vegetable!!

Rushing off to sew my calabrese.

That round cabbage you showed us would make brilliant sourcrout. I planted my cabbage and runner beans in hard dry soil, not quite concrete. I didn’t dig it but I watered well and covered the soil in quite fresh manure. It works. It is all doing very well. Thank you for your guidance. I do have club root and I know you don’t use lime. I pull out any damaged plants and clear them away from the site. I will try to limit the amount of brassicas I grow to avoid too much of a build up. I will keep my fingers crossed that this is all the precautions I need to take.

Ur garden looks clean and green

Yes I've seen split cabbage heads, from the exact thing you were talking about. Thankfully not to many times, but even 5 of us weren't always able to eat enough to keep up with what my father grew. Not the greatest fan of cabbage, but I'm going to try Greyhound this year and see if I can find something a way of cooking them, as in a recipe, that encourages me to eat them all. The key is not grow too much, though that's a better problem to have than too few.

Cabbage, cauliflower, calabrese/broccoli - I peel & eat the stems of all, either raw as salad or lightly steamed. To me, cauliflower stems have the best flavour - slightly peppery but very sweet.

Great video, not had much success with brassicas so far, hopefully that will change now! Have a lovely Christmas 🎄

this is gold! I will try this method out with broccoli when I get my no-dig bed established in the near future. The spring comes in bit later here in Denmark, so late March/early April might be too early.

Beautiful beds! Surprisingly it seems quite cool mid June there, growing cool weather brassicas & wearing a couple layers. I haven't been successful growing brassicas that early here because once mature, it's hotter than they like.

Beautiful vegetables makes one salivate thinking of what foods could be made. I love the noise of cabbage and calabrese leaves it is a unique squeaky sound. Thanks for all the information- good to know we can maybe outwit the brassica caterpillars if we get to the sowing and planting early. I wish you a "Happy Christmas" and a very special New Year ahead. Enjoy some of your lovely vegetables over the holidays and put your feet up!

Love that you use cm. Im from Sweden and inch a dont really understand👍🏻😁

lovely video have a nice christmas

You can also eat the leafs of the broccoli ! You can make nice cream soup or juice!

All those nutritional greens are to be cooked and eaten also. I can't wait to make a pot of southern collard style broccoli leaves or kale cook recipe.

Wish me luck. Planting out all my cold weather crops in Zone 7 Virginia this weekend. Hoping all my work isn't wasted...

Never ceased to be amazed by your very healthy vegetables, you make it look effortless, ........... I wonder, just like the old Saxon houses that used to add new straw inside to their floors, will your garden s l o w l y rise, up, and up until your house is in a valley ? Lol

Mr. Dowding, you're the best!!!

Nice and scenery garden u have..wish i can have it too..i just started planting some vegs outside my house..its make me feel good and happier..on my way to buy a bigger land to plant more just like u...wish me luck 🤗

Watching this again to see when I should plant out my sowed indoors red cabbage plants...(using a grow light). It’s been 4 weeks and they are still so small! Just 1-2 true leaves..but still very sprout like. Perhaps it’s the store bought seed starting soil I used. Probably just need to get them in the ground already, poor lil things.

That cabbage looks sweet to me. I’m ready to make cabbage soup lol you make me really jealous of your home 🏡 😂

I appreciate your teachings, I sincerely wish I could do an apprenticeship with you. Thank you from Yosemite National Park area, USA

I see the row cover you have .i use this on my strawberries. I shall use it on my cabbages to prevent the worms. I’ve neglected to plant cabbages because of the worms but will plant them this year.

Hey good video thanks for sharing!that was a lot of work!YOU NEEDED A BIGGER BUCKET for your harvest.lol

This clip has really prompted me to suggest/ask/request either deliberate videos or even just albums based on sowing month. I live in Australia so we're hemispherically opposed, this would make it easy for my planning. Thanks again :)

Charles if you ever do anything in pots please show it! I live on a hillside and garden in half wine barrels, smart pots and 18 gallon containers and I am always looking for tips on how to get the most out of the limited soil that I have. I live in a temperate climate (it rarely gets below 7°C in the daytime) in the Pacific Northwest of the USA similar to the south of the UK, so quite wet in spring and winter. Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you Charles. The thing I like about your videos is that you follow through and show us that your methods actually produce results. That is, it is not just a lesson on sowing, or pricking out, leaving us wondering how things went afterwards. May I ask if you do your lettuces the same was, i.e. scatter sowing and then pricking out to modules?

I love the leaves - strip the larger ones from the stems. They are amazing in smoothies with apple & ginger, or sautéed with a little garlic (obv. From the garden!)

I absolutely enjoy your knowledge and love seeing your pristine garden. I've only recently begun to watch your videos; do you have an episode on growing Brussel sprouts? Thank you for your wealth of information.

Just received shipment of various small seedling trays ordered online from Greenhouse Megastore in the USA. Sticker on the bottom says "Made in UK". Lol. Brand name of producer is Garland.

Tus vídeos son geniales aprendo bastante con solo seguirlos.... que pena que no tenga subtítulos en español...pero igual los sigo... felicitaciones..

Interesting how the "pricking out" method allows for correction of leggy, and elimination of weak, plants. Seemingly subtle, but surely has immense influence on quality of finished plants. And allows for germination of more plants in less space as you say. Have never seen another gardener do this. Thank you.! Please make a video on how you overwintered the sungold tomato plant cuttings for the next year? How many years now have you produced from a single tomato plant? That just floored me when I heard you slip that comment into another video!

You actually sowed 40 broccoli seeds! I counted them :P Will watch on to see how many germinated!

I'm going to start mine in individual cells, not got the time or space to prick out. When I get organized (next year) I will be on sowing early. I've started some seeds already but my allotment is a mess! So got to sort out the areas first. 👍

Thank for sharing and Merry Christmas. Can't wait to start my first gardening experience next year. Planted my fruit and nut trees this year and a greenhouse is coming following weeks. I'm combining permaculture with your no dig approach towards the annuals. Can't go wrong with the help of your veg diary and no dig gardening book :) I understand that a chop and drop method from permaculture might not be ideal around some annuals for slug reasons then? Composting the leaves instead and covering the soil this way should work as well is my guess.