A cup of coffee, headphones in, Mr Dowding for half an hour. Pure bliss.

On Saturdays, I treat myself by roasting my own coffee, and watching something nice. This channel is my new "something nice". No politics, no complaining, nothing emotional, just simple, delightful, innocent, yet totally compelling gardening. ☕

I could listen and watch your videos all day long! So much information and your voice just relaxes me and makes me want to garden more! THANK YOU!

Quite seriously Charles, please keep the videos coming. There is a quality to them that stirs similar qualities in me, some from memories, some from invention and perhaps, even some from fantasies, but mainly they speak of a side to the concept of being British that is never portrayed in the international news or other media. Quintesential gentleness combined with practicality, not a single sign of agressiveness even when pulling out weeds, and the long lost art of gentlemanly conduct is easily understandable when seen in its natural form and in its natural environment.

Dear Charles, a few weeks ago I went to our local composting facility to get some compost for my new no dig garden bed. However, as I noticed before, the compost I was getting wasn't taking water as easy as I thought. As I was shoveling, I noticed a woman comping up with lots of bags to get her compost.. Excuse me, I said to her, do you mind if I ask you a question? Have you used this compost before? Yes, I have. Ok, I noticed that it is not taking in water that much,did you have the same problem? Yes, at first it has a little lotus effect, but once it starts to soak up water it holds it really well. I am builing a whole garden bed out of compost only this year. Really? Yes. Do you know "no dig gardening"? (Me, a little speachless) Yes I do. Do you know Charles Dowding? (Her, a little speachless) yes I do! After giggling for a little while about what the chances are to meet someone who watches your youtube channel and how your method makes so much sense we said goodbye. Just a little funny story how you bring people together here in Germany :)

Such a delight to see a garden fully occupied with veggies at this stage!

Admiring your garden from Germany! I would love a video "Top 10 perennials for the even lazier no-dig gardener" :-)

Your voice is the ASMR of gardening!🙂

Why dose anyone dislike this man's videos. They're so peaceful and informative. It's like hating Enya.

I was feeling a bit stressed from my work day, sat down to watch your latest video--now I'm cool as a cucumber (aren't garden puns the best?)! Our family no-dig garden is coming along nicely, only because I serendipidously discovered your channel in March--congrats on 303K subs--you had 273K then! Thank you to you & Edward for this verdant, mouthwatering Spring garden tour. You help so many of us all over the world!

The thicker part of the broccoli main stem makes a great eggplant substitute in baked dishes like parmigiana. Just peel away the outer fibers. Can be eaten out of hand raw.

Charles and team, the calm in the storm as always!👍

I'm happy because today I picked up from my garden first broccoli 🥦😁 and I also start to harvest peas,salad,radish,herbs,chard, kale,onion, strawberry and raspberry,plenty for Irish weather Thank you for all of the lovely videos and informations. Best of luck🌈

Wild sorrel I'm pleased to report is one of my "weeds". Its a delightfully delicious weed though. Just put some cardboard over some hummocks of them in a new bed, I've probably not seen the last of those.. 😄

I was telling my partner and daughter that I am making a bed today with just cardboard and compost on the lawn. They gave me a funny look because I added that I get to plant on it straight away. I better show them LOL

I was just thinking that I had better start picking some stuff in the garden and was wondering exactly how and when.

new video!!! everybody stay tuned. I started my mini garden already Charles.

Wow shame on me I missed this one earlier- my apologies Charles. Great video as always. Cheers Denise - Australia

My mouth is watering, looking at all those beet leaves. I eat the leaves every day.

A Cos Called Valmaine is an awesome band name.

Charles, with my tiny postage stamp plot i am proud to say that as a result of your tutelage, method and wisdom, i am feeding my entire neighborhood, friends and family. There have been job losses and much suffering here in America. Food security takes the edge off and keeps illness away. The plants are volunteering at many households, I give away starts and actual produce, i have been successful with things i never imagined possible. Thank you Charles. Be well. Be safe. Be present.

Just an absolutely perfect garden....shows years of knowledge fine tuned to a georgous result. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Happy gardening.

A new Charles Dowding video is as exciting as taking a harvest from your veg plot and eating that harvest for lunch immediately. One of life’s little pleasures... Brussels with carrots was just the tip I needed right now :)

And thats the confirmation of my inkling with regards to spinach. Most packets say to seed in February/May over here in germany, which I have not had any real success yet, as they always bolt. Have observed a few stray seeds germinating in the Autumn and those surviving winter and giving great harvest the following spring. Exactly what I'll do from here on out.

Thanks again as always charles. My garden is looking marvelous thanks to you. I have 35 lettuce, 15 broccoli, a dozen strawberry, 30 melons of 5 varieties, 20 cucumber, dozen tomato, bell peppers onions and so much more. Thanks for the push and delightful narrative to go along with extremely educational programming. My first two beds prior are entirely different than my other two made with techniques I've developed with your help.

As always, it's such a pleasure to watch your videos Charles

Inspirational as always Charles.

Charles, I love listening to you. You actually, really inspire me!

I loved this garden and harvesting tour!!

Thank you. What a great idea harvesting the lettuce outer leaves - fresh every time! I have been just picking leaves off my salad rocket. Your advice is so valuable. My onions are doing well by your no-dig cardboard method. I'm recording it on video as I go. No sighs of my beetroot though through the cardboard. Don't know what's happening . My courgettes also are struggling so I have put translucent buckets over them to try to perk them up. I wish I could eat beans and I would grow them. I will try no-dig carrots next year as the weeds are awful amongst mine. I have over-sown them but hope to thin out and eat. I have a couple of buckets with carrots too. Thanks again, much appreciated Mr Dowding.

nice gatheting of veg. thanks for taking us along!

How this great channel has less than 1 million subs is beyond me.

Thank you. Your videos are the perfect accompliment to your book. I'm still learning basics!

Broad beans sound like something I would like

Oh Charles, you have changed my life! I love you for it!

Thank you Charles! Awesome video

I live in a similar climate in the PNW of the states but we did not have the warm dry weather that you have had, in fact it has rained every day in June---since I have to garden in pots (20-30 gallon pots so quite large) I am successfully "growing" crop after crop of fungus gnat larvae, LOL. At any rate, more Americans should grow broad beans, I sow in the Autumn but I also did an early spring sowing, and am harvesting bountiful amounts of delicious beans, the tender leaves can also be added to salads and stir fries, the fragrant flowers are also edible although I have yet to try those, so a most successful and unfussy crop.

love your videos. keep them coming

We don't have a long growing season here but I still ate my first home grown food! It was bok choy thinnings and they tasted like brocoli! Yum!

Stunning Charles, all of the crops looks so clean.

Great video. In my second full year now, I have learned many of the "why doesn't it grow like it should" things, and am now struggeling with harvest timing. Appreciate the help, one step after the next toward knowing enough to start a market garden.

Absolutely brilliant video superb content as always 👍

Brilliant, incredibly helpful!

Always a Great morning when I see a video up here, just wish I was notified the day it was up, seems it's always late for me. I'll be following your planting schedule this late summer and fall. Thanks again for all the info you stuff into your videos.!

Soothing music, birds chirping, greenery, nice narration.. subscribed !

Sir, you have such an orderly vegetable garden..the rows were so neatly spaced.

Wow. Thanks for the great info!

Thanks Charles you're the best. Harvesting my last veg bags of the season today as winter has set in hear in southern Australia. I look forward to your summer posts to warm me up.

Always a start to my weekend. Amazing story telling and tranquil voice.

thank you Mister charles; beautiful garden,so much information very important. congratulations great job!!

I'm both a new subscriber and gardener. Your show is like a poem. Thank you for teaching us what you know. I need to learn so very much.

Always love watching harvesting of what you’ve sown. As always wonderful 😊

You make it look so easy! I love how you explain things. Now I need a cup of coffee!

I’m asking myself why your harvesting is so much further on than mine......however it’ll be the best I’ve had and that’s through using your method, so thanks again and for the great tips/advice x

Wow, love how your garden looks.

you are reminiscent of the late great geoffrey hamilton, who imbued me with his endearing style.you are SUPERIOR TO THE CURRENT GARDENERS WORLD PRESENTERS

I am jealous in those carrots!

Beautiful, healthy looking garden. You have such a soothing voice. I watch and rest at the same time. Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge. I'm a novice gardener (March 2020) I will use some of your advice. Blessings

A big hello from Australia. I didn’t think I could long for warmer weather more but I was wrong! Thank you for yet another great video Charles 💚 Your garden is - as always - very beautiful and it was a pleasure to watch you harvest your gorgeous produce!

There is a deep nostalgia to your videos that I can't place but they make me smile deeply and I can't thank you enough for creating that feeling ❤️

Fantastic video 🤗🤗🤗

Your garden looks so green despite the drought which I imagine you've experienced as well. Very nice to see. Those artichokes looks so delicious! Thanks for sharing all this goodness :)

Oh Charles watching your videos is such an amazing pleasure especially when I am eating fresh produce you helped & taught me grow. Cheers your Friend Denise - Australia

Thank you for another lovely video Charles :) I love watching them :) and my first attempt at growing broad beans and beetroot is coming along very nicely :) not as big as yours yet, 'cause I sowed them later, but very exciting to see and so encouraging to try more things :) Thank you so much for all of the info you share! :) :)

Highly informative and so professionally delivered as always. Thanks Charles.

Thanks Charles

What an enchanting video.... i love your peaceful demeanour too 🌱🌱

Her şey çok çok güzel görünüyor bayıldım 😍😍😍

💙Soooooo beautiful!

Just. Gorgeous. So much to learn. I will be trying broccoli and first early potatoes next year, once I find an equivalent 'earth apple' here in France :-). And those asparagus and artichokes, gosh, so lovely. That potato harvest was fabulous! Growing your own really does mean less is more, I have discovered. You waste less, use it all creatively, all in all a delight. Thank you again for a wonderful treat of a video. A richly inspiring, beautifully filmed trove of wisdom and counsel (as usual). :-)

Another wonderful video buddy, and good timing. Been looking around my garden and as it's my first grow was starting to let panic set in around when to harvest. :)

Your place it's a paradise for me

That video was so helpful! Also I have purchased your book should get it this week. Thanking you. You make it so relaxing 😊

Great Charles thank you. I pick my Artichokes just a bit bigger than golf ball size and then boil them in salt water about 10 minutes, peel just a few outer leaves until the softer inner leaves are showing and either eat them fresh or put them in oil. This way there is hardly any faff and picking small encourages the plant to grow more fruits

Awesome vid.

Wow! What an abundant harvest!! I'm so jealous of your garden, Charles!! Mine aren't as large as yours. Sadly, I've very little space for planting, but so good to see all your hard work bare fruits.

Thanks for the time you put into these videos Charles! You offer some helpful wisdom. Watching from the maritime, Canada.

Great vid,

Wonderful video of a glorious garden. Thank you so much Cheers from chilly New Zealand. Did a little dance

Great video you are a very clever man love watching

Great content! I was lucky enough to Stumble across one of you’re videos.. Seeing other comments and more of you’re videos, it will help me and my new allotment with some fantastic advice and experience! I’ll be hoping to have some enjoyable harvests in the future to come. A credit to you, a true definition of hard work and passion.

I truly informative video posting ...I truly enjoyed it 🌱

Brilliant Charles. I wish my vegetables looked even half as good as yours! After winning the battle of drought we had a violent storm in Norfolk which caused my veg garden to flash flood washing away the soil and taking much of my crop with it. Never seen horizontal rain with such violence before. However onwards and upwards they say lol. Great video though. 👍😢

Thank you for posting these videos. I love the inspiration and how you explain things very clearly and yet also don't hesitate to say when you don't know exactly why something happened. It's really lovely to follow along.

Love your channel, videos, and tips. You inspired me to plan and start my first garden last year. Watching from SoCal.

Really informative video thank you

Excelente video!!! Gracias por los subtítulos en español!!! Me ha sido muy útil!!

I NEVER EVER DUG AND I ATE THAT YEAR!!!! THE DO NOT DIG DIG!!!! THE DO NOT DIG!!!!!!

So interesting about the elephant garlic bulbils. This is my first year growing elephant garlic and the seed cloves were very expensive. Nice to know I can propagate from the little bulbils!! They have done much better than my ordinary garlic this year.

Fantastic, timely video -- as always! The garden is looking top notch. I'd love to see a video of how you're maintaining your tomatoes at this time of year. I'm having my perennial argument with my better half about removing suckers and lower leaves versus leaving the plant to explode into a jungle mess. I'm a sucker plucker...

I usually peel the tough outer off broccoli & cauliflower stalks, then eat the pithy inner, usually steamed. Peeled, raw cauliflower stalk has a nice, mild peppery flavour.

Yeah, I like the more mature broad beans to the young ones. I grow my own now because shops only supply tiny broad beans. Thanks for the overview of how/when to harvest.

Thank you Edward and Charles! So inspirational :-) Just began harvesting early potatoes for the first time ever. Thanks for teaching that indeed hilling is NOT necessary. Great!

Great advice 👍

great produce well done

Thanks charles this has come at the perfect time. Its 6.45am . Im in Hertfordshire and these are the plants i have in my allotment and your well timed video has inspired me to get down there early and do some harvesting. Great video many thanks.

I always enjoy your videos Charles, such a pleasure to watch. Gentle and nurturing tone, informative. “Father nature”! ❤️

i realy enjoy your films and miss them when you not uplloading regurarly,(also i was worried about you) you are like Bob Ross of gardening:) I feel peacefull listening to your voice. thanks!

New subscriber here from the United States, I just love your videos and your garden❤️

Hermoso!!!!disfruto muchos sus vídeos,aprendo todo lo que puedo,,,gracias por compartir y traducir el video 👍👍👍😃