No-Dig Gardening Masterclass with Charles Dowding

Infuriating how many times you spoke over the top of him or shut him up by saying ‘yeah yeah yeah’. Honestly, let the man speak.

I am tempted to eat a spoon of soil for my microbiome, but I’d need it from your garden! 😅

How brilliant, do you do courses and where are you. Charles?

Excellent cross-over episode.

My grandparents used to pluck all the weeds out of the garden until the ground was completely bare with the potato steams sticking out of it, and eventually the land would turn into sand. Now I'm an adult myself and in my garden I try to leave the soil alone as much as I can. Even if I pluck out the weeds, I leave them somewhere nearby or bury in soil. I know it can start growing again and I just let it grow. And I try not to dig it, partially because it's hard on my back, but mostly because I don't want to disturb it. Do the crops grow better this way? Idk, I can't compare. But then again, why digging if there's no significant difference?

Beautiful garden! Without peat! Yeah!!!

Absolutely amazing... This is so inspiring but at the same time wholly overwhelming

I used to just throw myself into Charles videos, now as an elderly woman in poor health, no help, very little money, it just makes me sick to see the videos and lifes potentials. What used to inspire me now is so disheartening.

Charlie looks very healthy

I have a question. I was told, 50 years ago, that making compost wasn't the best way to go and that making bucket ferments was both quicker and more effective for supercharging the micro-biome in the soil. The spent solids were heaped and dried, all seeds now dead, and returned to the growing soil. In addition separate buckets made with comfrey, nettle, kitchen waste, weeds and mature manure soaked in sacks. Have you tried these methods as part of the comparative experiments?
I would also add that the improved bacterial diversity yields huge worm colonies.

WHAT A SURPRISE......NATURAL IS BEST......DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM CORPORATIONS....

You gotta be Jeremy Clarkson to be able to afford such a property for growing your own food. Who can afford this nowadays without having to move to the end of the world?

Charles is so gracious and generous. We each are so much the wiser from spending these moments learning from Charles and you.

Knew to this channel please what is the name of the GrowVeg gardener. The other gardener is Charles Dowding lived by millions of amateur gardeners.

Why his birds not eating his greens.

Actually rust can be spread from cedar trees that carry it. Spreads to roses and other vegetables

A labour of love well rewarded and all done by traditional principles albeit without the digging

If you do no dig, how do you get your potatoes out of the ground? 🤔

I hope you don't mind me saying so but what about cardboard rather than plastic to cover the crop. Sorry but...

Brilliant video, thanks 🙏

Thankyou for the sense of calm. I love the experimentation and the lack of haste. Great to see you both.
Definitely will learn from this.

Doesn't work over texas bermuda grass

Instead of using plastic for cover use mulch

I think I will apply this to my long awaited plot down the bottom 😃. I can't afford bed boxes for the size I want to do. Piling each section is just the most efficient and appropriate to retain the bio organism in the rich soil that is already there waiting for me 🥹🥳
Love it! Thank you for this tour 💗

And thank you for telling the kids to eat a bit of soil. gosh as a child we picked fruit and ate it without washing it and pulled little snowball turnips too. still here and never ill.

Very informative. I'm trying to grow vegetables in the very cold Canadian capital, Ottawa. The season is short. I would be grateful if in the later episode s you could include information of growing in poly tunnels. What temperature to start sowing, optimal germination temperature and max temperature each group of vegetables will tolerate etc. Thanks

Water celery in the pond is the bane of my life!

I like no dig but technically you do need to double dig initially, but what bothers me about Dowding's system is - he still plants in straight rows on a grid system there are so many gaps that water evaporates easily and weeds a space to grow and there's a reduced abundance

Does he grow food for the community food bank too ?

Thank you as i have never grown anything myself you have encouraged me to try Charleas

It would be nice to see all the helpers because Charles does not completely do all this planting, etc.

Composting companies have contracts to take grass clippings from councils or other places like golf courses that use herbicides. Be very cautious of any of these so called composting contracting companies.

The peat free thing is really weird. I know farmers who run cow farms in Finland and they only use peat as the bedding for their cows. The horse supplies shops sell peat as animal bedding too. So it begs the question what is the real truth about peat?

I put coffee grounds around carrots. no slugs and no wabbits

Wow Sending gratitude with a hug.

I thought the grand daddy of no dig gardening is the guy from "Back to Eden" gardening

I'm starting in April when I go home to Scotland and am going to try hugelkultur, no dig and some containers and no dig is the way to go as far as I think. It makes sense as does giving your soil the proper innoculation. Charles is one of my favourites alongside yourself!

I find myself again and again realizing how tough plants really are and how little fuzz they need.

Growing your own

No gym membership

Great mental health benefits

Tasty food

Better health

Friendship of other gardeners.

Keep up your strength as you age

A good nights sleep

A feeling of deep satisfaction and calmness.

No dig is a JAPANESE invention

What a fuckin legend, I've learned more about my garden and got more inspiration and excitement for the future of said garden from this video that i am struggling to not put on my head torch and go out in the garden now. Btw it's 21:58 currently.

If you've got Gooch dirt. Some of us have dry lake bed soil. Takes years to fix that stuff unless you want to go hard core with the money.

Where are the universities that teach these important life skills?

Excellent Video, thank you both! It may already be common knowledge, but at 3:45 its mentioned that carbon is the building block of plant growth while talking about the carbon in the soil, I would just like to point out that while the carbon in the soil is utilized by the compost digesters, it is not directly a plant nutrient which I think can be unintuitive. Plants get their carbon from the CO2 in the air, turning it into glucose that ultimately fuels the ecosystem. I think its also interesting that the oxygen we breath actually comes from the oxygen in the H2O being released, not the CO2! Plants are so awesome, keep up the great work guys!