Winter vegetables with Charles in January, my no dig gardens in years 1 and 10.
It's 4th January on the 51st parallel, 8 hours between sunrise and sunset. And yet, see how the vegetables think it's spring, after an exceptionally mild December.
00:00 Intro, new area, check playlist and this is last spring • No Dig New Area in Ear...
00:44 New asparagus bed and broad bean cover crop, we shall leave a few to fruit
01:30 Pigeon, deer and rabbit damage
02:34 Direct sown mustards some for salad leaves, and more bean plants
03:58 Bird protection of Claret F1 broccoli for spring harvests
04:46 Overwintering spinach Medania with mesh protection, low light levels and slug damage
05:35 Showing you no dig winter mulch, compost on beds and woodchip on pathways
06:04 Autumn broccoli continuing into winter, small and tender harvests
06:45 Claytonia 'winter purslane' salad plants, cut and with more to come
07:03 260m2 area of garden similar in size to British full size allotment, with autumn raspberries soon to be pruned, multisown leeks, asparagus dormant
08:02 Brussels sprouts Brigitte F1 interplanted June between carrots
08:55 Spring cabbage transplanted September
09:10 Homeacres compost heaps with many woody bits, breaking the lumps, see my other compost-making videos • Composting in a few ea... and this video guide you can buy charlesdowding.retrieve.com/s...
11:05 Lack of weeds with no dig, including a bed of garlic, then peas for shoots planted November
12:26 Swedes interplanted with lambs lettuce, and multisown beetroot transplanted early July
12:50 Trial beds dig and no dig, tenth winter of doing this and planted with cover crops over winter
13:45 Greenhouse salad plants picked 3x already, and propagation trial of two composts, the one with strongest growth is Moorland Gold
15:35 Polytunnel lower door frame and doors always open, no watering for 3 weeks in midwinter meaning leaves stay healthy with no mildew
16:30 Healthy lettuce picked of outer leaves, garlic intercrop, brassica salads, amazing flavours
17:32 Herb garden in winter, see it in June • Growing and using herb...
18:28 Today was Jack my son's first day of digging the pond, starting with a ditch as water source
19:35 Hole dug by Adam showing current level of water table, and the clay subsoil for puddling
20:20 Find more information at my page on Retrieve, about no dig gardening charlesdowding.retrieve.com/s...
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Filmed by Nicola Smith on my iPhone at Homeacres, Somerset, UK
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