I can never finish your videos in one sitting. Not because they are too long, but because I always stop watching to go to the garden.

Thank you Charles for the continuous update on this smaller garden as it's very helpful for us that have a smaller space. I appreciate all the work you put into these videos. Thank you! Love from Canada!

This year's dry weather has made me think a deep rooting perennial kale like yours is an excellent way to grow crucibles in a more drought tolerant, less water intensive way.

The six year old kale plant was an eye-opener!!!

I am so grateful for all your uploads, you have helped me gain confidence in gardening and acquire a wealth of knowledge! I appreciate how you show the things that worked as well as what didnt work and why thank you!

NO DIG HAS BEEN LIKE AN INTENSE OUTPATIENT PROGRAM OR A VEGETATIVE GROUP THERAPY FOR OUR GARDEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU DOCTOR SIR CHARLES DOWDING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really like the updates in the small garden, it is more reflective of my growing spaces in my garden which tend to be dry also don’t get a full days sun . Thanks for taking the time to share your amazing experience.

Thanks again for a lovely video. Watching your videos I've always felt so smug about my no-slug garden. Not this year! Yikes! C'mon, birds! Dinner is served.

A most lovely garden. Slugs run from galvanized steel. Aphids go over, and on and on. :)

Always a pleasure to see your slice of heaven.

ALTHOUGH BOTH CAMBRIDGE GRADUATES, IT IS OUR PERSONAL OPINION THAT SIR CHARLES HAS HAD JUST AS MUCH (IF NOT MORE) OF AN INFLUENCE IN SAVING OUR PLANET AS JAMES BOND !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Charles you leave such an impact on people. You would be so proud of me! I’m trying to sell my house and have a small garden for the next homeowner. But I needed to create something that I could load up in the truck when the house is sold. I quit drinking diet soda but had about 30 2-liter bottles. Chopped them up and ran some nylon string through them, connecting two together. Then built a 3 bar brace and hung the bottles. I have tomatoes, various lettuces, Swiss char, beets for beet tops, asparagus and cucumbers. I go and collect my dinner everyday. Where there is a will, there is a way. Thanks for being such an inspirational gardener!

You are an inspiration, Charles. I don't have space to garden, but I really love your attention to the growing of the soil as much as producing a good food product

Your small garden updates through the growing season are my favorites. I have a small garden and you've shown me just how much I can grow in a little space!

What a wonderful human being! I look up to you, Mr Dowding!

Dowding, you are a beautiful cat.

Great video. I pulled my earlies last week before the slugs got them. Im pleased to say they were all pest damage free.

Thank you Charles , for uploading updates from all your growing. When I don’t have time to visit my allotment I watch your videos, by the I still use your calendar which I purchased 2 years ago and my god fantastic guide so thank you once again , Jiwan Cambridge

I saw in another video someone who would put a plank of wood over the fresh sowing of carrots to prevent it from drying out… and the remove the plank as first signs of growth had appeared… Greeting from Denmark where the garden for the second year has “no dig” beds. Thanks for awesome advice and inspiration.

Thanks for fitting in time for a continuing vid on this little space Charles. Good reminder that the carrot fly has taken a break!

Thank you Charles, informative, very very interesting for me, as I have a small vegetable garden myself, thoroughly enjoyable buddy,

Thanks Charles for this update video. It remains impressive how well your NoDig compost method nourishes the soil and all plants.

great episode! I watch with great interest as usual! greetings from Krakow👍😅🌺

Still rocking it Charles. Looking good.

Next life I'll be a farmer-gardener, fashion designer. Thank you so much for everything Love from Vietnam

Thank you for these inspiring, informative videos... As many have mentioned, they offer not only detailed demonstrations of exactly how to grow optimally, esp. in a small space, but also your manner is extremely encouraging and soothing. Recently ordered a few of your soil modules... Looking forward to applying more of your sowing advice. Thank you, Charles... happy growing!!

A badger has just dug a sett in our front garden flower bed between two rose bushes! A discerning badger! I came fact to face with her last night as she tucked into a bowl of cat biscuits in the porch. The cats were unimpressed.

Pleasant video as always Charles. Badgers can kill Hedgehogs but rarely do, as they have little opportunity to do so. A female Hedgehog will avoid an area with high density of Badgers. The fact that you are seeing hedgehogs (again?) is likely the result of a reduction in badger density. There was a 5yr study by Nottingham University a couple of years back, that demonstrated that 51% of hedgehog deaths were due to fatality on roads and that in that same period there was only evidence of one death attributable to badger.

I love that this garden is shoved between a shed and house with not ideal conditions. It shows how growing works just about anywhere. You may not grow exactly what you want but it always tastes better than bought produce.

Charles, thank you so much for sharing your extensive knowledge and wisdom with us. I purchased a signed copy of your book and sowing dates calendar earlier this year, and both are wonderfully useful; it's clear that you put a lot of effort into them. I bought them, in part, because I was in a quandary over issues I had last year with crop yields from my then-newly constructed raised veg beds, but I would still really appreciate your advice if possible. In a nutshell, I wanted to create a potager-style veg patch (more attractive!) as part of my suburban Greater London garden (5-10m wide, ~30m long, landscaped + large patio, SE-facing), so I bought kits and built 9 wooden raised beds. Each bed is 80x80x40cm; I have a bad back so need raised beds. I sealed the exposed wood of the beds with outdoor wood paint, laid them out on top of black waterproof weed sheeting in a 3x3 grid with 40cm path space around each bed (to be topped with gravel in due course), lined the beds with the sheeting to prevent the wood rotting, and cut away most of the sheeting at the bottom of each bed, to expose the garden soil. I then laid a decent layer of cardboard over the soil, and on top of that the beds were filled with compost apparently designed for growing veg. I grew a variety of crops in the beds but had very mixed results: brassicas, sweetcorn and cucumber grew well, legumes weren't great (but I put that down to errors in how I planted them), however root crops were a total failure - I tried three varieties of beetroot, two of carrot and four of radish, but all failed. The leaves grew but the root never swelled or lengthened much more than an inch, even after two months in the soil. I thought this could be down to insufficient phosphorus in the compost; the beds have been empty since early winter, so last month I ran NPK tests on samples from three beds, each of which had different crop types in them last year. On a 0-4 scale of depleted to excess, P levels were consistently lowest (0-2), however K levels weren't much better either (1-3). Could this be the reason for my root crop failures, in your opinion? Should I fertilise the beds, and if so, what with? I do have Carbon Gold's Biology Blend biochar, which I was planning to add to the compost to increase its microbial content. I also have superphosphate inorganic fertiliser and sulphate of potash, however after reading your book, I'm concerned that inorganic fertilisers might kill or damage the soil microbes. Is this likely? The problem is, I have several chronic and often debilitating health conditions, including severe chronic fatigue syndrome (my mother and uncle did the bed building work, not me!), which forces me to be homebound most of the time. My memory is affected too, so all this combined meant that I forgot to mulch the beds in winter, and they've still not been done. They need to be topped up before anything can be planted in them anyway, because the compost level has dropped significantly (~25% in some beds). I'm aware that it's far too late now to use an organic fertiliser and still be able to sow/plant anything in that soil for the next month at least. I just don't know which, if any, modifications to make to the compost. If you've read this far, thank you so much, and I apologise for the essay! Any advice you'd be kind enough to offer me would be extremely gratefully received 🙏 P.S: cheeky final question! 🙈 Why do you multisow beetroot seeds when they are often multigerm anyway? Would each 'cluster seed' not produce multiple seedlings on its own?

Good luck with the strawbs CD. My marshmellos have been amazing this year so well worth the gamble. Raymond would approve...

Always good content, audio and editing. Best wishes from the Gulf coast of Florida. Thanks for all you do.

So nice to see all you have growing🌱💚

The love of dirt. When you fall in love with it .. it never goes away . Awesome video and plenty information. Thank you Charles! God bless!

Love it as always

Brilliant update as always, thank you Charles. Have a great week!!!

absolutely beautiful

So lovely, so helpful. Thank you

Your garden tours and knowledge are so timely and appreciated. Started with your no dig method two years ago, and reduced work load while increasing production on suburban lot. Outdoor tomatoes are a gamble here at the 45th parallel, but heritage Brandywine and Sungolds have thrived in the sunny areas amongst the shrubs. Enjoy visiting your beautiful classroom. Blessings from Oregon.

Awesome video Charles! I’ll be planting leeks next time! Thank you for all you do for us!

What inspiration!

Bardzo miło było jak zawsze ,Dziękuję i pozdrawiam z Polski!

Great video, leeks and swedes are exactly what I used as my successional plantings this year! 😊

Garden looking fantastic, enjoy those potatoes, onions looking well too.

Thank you Charles 😊 xx

Thank you 💖

Thanks, Charles, I just love seeing what can be done with a small space, and it can obviously be really successful. It gives beginners so much confidence too

As always Charles , loved the video. I doubt that you'll remember, but, I mentioned beer slug traps, and that a hen blackbird was getting legless drinking the beer from the traps. Update. We, Gretna Green area SW Scotland, have been in a drought, hence slugs have been nil problemo. The traps had filled with debris and the blackie was never seen. Today we had a really heavy couple of showers, so I washed out the two main slug traps and refilled with new beer. Within ten minutes the alcoholic bird was down. Honestly she's a piss head. I left a leaflet about drug and alcohol awareness next to the trap, just in case she can read, but I doubt she'll take heed. I also got an email from an eighteen year old California cheerleader who wanted a date with me. She wanted my bank account details so she could send me money, and she'd be over next week she said. I never got any money I don't think I'll check tomorrow, and she never turned up. Bloody women.

So excited to see this video up loaded, thank you for the time you put into these. I’m new into gardening and especially veg, but I’m learning so much binge watching your videos that you have made over the years 😊

Great tour Charles. Always an inspiration. Fun to see not everything “works out” on your garden too 😁 Makes one appreciate the process and not just the outcomes of gardening 😃

Helpful information as always Charles. Thank you very much!🌱☀️

Beautiful organic garden.❤️❤️ love It.,I am from India 🇳🇪

Very interesting. Thank you.

Love the videos

For outdoor tomatoes, I can recommend the Swedish determinate variety called Glacier. It's actually frost tolerant, but most importantly it produces a very early crop and keeps on bearing fruit well into autumn. Tasty small tomatoes. I'm also trying Grushovka this year, another tasty cold-tolerant determinate variety that's from Siberia, said to be suitable for canning.

I always learn so much from his videos, many thanks.

Just getting our first stretch of summer sun here in Oregon! Cheers Charles!!

enjoyable video charles

Awesome thanks Charly D keeping me clued up and motivated for my garden.

Always a pleasure, nice you show the fails as well as the grand successes. Hope you're having a wonderful weekend.

thanks charles

Aww… I wish we had hedgehogs 🦔 in the U.S. ! I look forward to your video on gambling with tomatoes outside a greenhouse. It is a huge gamble here . We have extreme temps that fluctuate by 40 + degrees daytime / nighttime often , throughout the Spring . Judging when to plant them out is my biggest challenge. That , and watching the nighttime lows for when to cover . Out of 24 plants , only 6 remain this year , due to our cold , lingering nighttime drops . And those are small and rather sad looking. I will keep persevering, year after year . Last year , we had an abundant harvest ! This year we will see

Hi Charles loved your video very interesting thank you

A sowing of parsnips. I need to try that now Charles.. i was of the mindset that after May it was hopeless. But a crop of smaller snips will be welcome to augment the earlier sown crop. The answer lies in the compost! Many thanks again and again

Wonderful - you have transformed my gardening experience, we have so much produce to choose from that its hard to keep up with it!

I absolutely love to listen to your interesting narrative about your gardens and your struggles and successes. Please continue with your stories! 🦔🍓🍅🥬

Nothing like a bucket of freshly harvested spuds to put a smile on your face!! Thanks for sharing the life of the small garden... very interesting to see how it progresses through the year... I'm finding it difficult to grow carrots... somewhere between germination and a full carrot top some critter is eating them... slugs or wood lice... but I will prevail!!! 😀

hello charles what a beautiful garden thanks for the video I send you greetings

Brilliant man!

I grew borage last year after reading it tasted like cucumber. It does but the stems are fibrous even when peeled and the leaves was quite abrasive to eat. I enjoyed the flowers but you don't get that many. I did notice that the bees absolutely loved them though so I've grown more this year to attract pollinaters to the garden.

Thank you for these small garden segments, Charles! My 11 year old grandson and I just began a raised bed at their house - they hadn't grown veggies for several years, I had his dad mow the cover cover crop so we could lay down newspaper and compost. Their dogs love to go into the back garden, so we put up a little fence of chicken wire around the bed. Hoping it does ok in our heat wave this week!

Great to see you again.Im very impressed by the size of the tomatoes, mine are like peas! The salad picking is still going well,thankyou.You've now become the hot topic of discussion at our head office.👍

Lindo video. Gracias por estar y compartir su experiencia. Felicidades.

Thanks for the name of the weed. Rose Bay Willow Herb- I have loads of this in the flower borders! Just harvested some potatoes. I was really taken aback by how dry the soil was despite all the watering!

Had to start my garden plot over from scratch this year sadly. After miscommunication someonone went on to till my whole garden area after I specifically asked not to do so. I just started to get the plants into the ground yesterday! I do not know what kind of a harvest I will get but I can guarantee you that each plant will be tended too delicately! As always thank you Charles for the continued inspiration.

Always look forward to your very informative videos Charles! We all learn a great deal from them which helps us improve our growing standards making us more successful than failing! Please keep up all that you do and share with us! 👍

Thank you. ThT was fabulous. I learned a lot.

Brilliant. Love watching your videos. Being new at the allotment game, I pick up many tips from you. Keep up the good work, and thanks for taking the time to post. 👍

💯 thanks you for shearing and help lots of people. It is good for the mindset to hear the easy calm voice talking with passion for gardening. When it hit me i had to step back. Now new beginning step by step making the best i can bendy buth strong 😉watching you and learning helps a lot. So thank you again from the sound Netherlands

Inspiring and exciting video Mr Charles. Thanks for the tour 🙏. New subscriber from Kenya

Nice video Charles, love the update on the small garden. Everything seems to change overnight with growing veg. I love to go out with a coffee first thing and check it all! I cant keep up with it all. Thankyou for all your tips and information and instilling positivity in us new veg growers!

Hello Charles, your channel has been my inspiration to grow my own food. Thank you so much! Dee from South Africa

😬 Don’t tell anyone, but we’ve had an unquashable hankering for new potatoes and successfully scraped the now extremely healthy permanent B2Eden potato patch for fresh produce. Absolutely no scab now and eating large new Charlottes for second day in a row. We were spurred on to do this after purchasing store bought new potatoes that were most definitely last year’s batch! Love your small garden updates. Thank you SOOOOO much. ❤️

New Zealand cordyline-cabbage tree I have found to be one of the greatest water robbers of all Time, I could not water enough once it got under a raised bed. Water and food was removed as fast as I added it to the soil so we had to take it out.

Great update as always. trying had to get as organised as you - but I think that is just in my dreams

Hi Charles thanks for the update on the small garden your a inspirational guy showing us just how much food can be grown in a small space so much so my small veg garden 18ft x26ft is busting at the seems following your multi sow methods the amount of food I’ve had out of my little veg garden is unbelievable using the no dig method I’ve even got 3 laying hens there run is a 12 ft by 7 ft deep litter compost system everything goes through there before ending up in the compost bins to finish decomposing to make my own compost for the beds

Envious of warm days. Here is South Africa we in middle of a chilly winter. C'est la vie. Spring will come soon. Enjoy watching these clips. We do no dig here and it works well for us

Sungold has worked really hood for me in Sweden i dont have a greenhouse so i grow them in pots. Gardeners Delight is another good variety!

Thank you very much for the advice you shared. I got a huge amount out of this video which will prevent me from getting a poor harvest.

The point you made about missing potential issues because you were too busy to regularly monitor your garden is the perfect example of what happens in real life for most people growing vegetables in their back garden.

Brilliant video Charles. More information on what varieties of veg to interplant or what follow on crops work best could be useful. The successful plant “combinations” of say sowing carrots with onions is another planting practice to try.

Great video, as usual Charles, thanks for sharing your valuable knowledge. I started as an independent market gardener last year and your videos are very inspiring on many points !

Thank you for the tour of your small garden. My urban garden isn't much bigger than that! I was going to hill up my potatoes right now but it's 31° and the sun is fierce. I'll go out after 6 pm when the potato bed is shaded. I have the most beautiful homemade compost to add to my garden!

Get a couple Dachshunds to ward off the badgers!

I really like the small garden segments, because that is what I have. My problem this year are rabbits. They have really multiplied this year and are helping themselves to everything in my garden. I have had to replant pole and bush beans 3 times. Love your channel and have watched for several years. I always learn something new.

Hi, Charles your garden looks amazing this year, so do you! Just an idea, if your outdoor tomatoes don't color, try to pickle some with original pickle recipe( salt and vinegar base) I hope you get to try because we love pickled green tomatoes here in Turkey but I haven't seen in it any other place yet. ❤

Great to see the parsnips coming up! I sowed some three weeks ago and am still waiting for them. But we get rain tonight, so that might help :)

Little and often… Stopping problems before they really happen… Thanks Sir Charles for these gems - very useful, and not just for gardening Also love the story about the hedgehog

Thank you 👍 pozdrawiam 💚💚

A couple of months Charles. Sorry we can’t wait that long 😊🌱