A pleasure to watch your videos - and no music, halleluia!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks

@deliastanley3921

3 жыл бұрын

Right?! What a relief 😩

@joaquingatti9309

3 жыл бұрын

Va÷3sede3s

@caly6527

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yes such a relief

@lkececi7513

3 ай бұрын

I agree

Tamping it down is a very important bit of instruction. It's true that plants want a firm soil to push through. I'm very impressed with this video, and very thankful for it also.

@przybyla420

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, I think that’s a mistake most people make as novices probably. It dries out much quicker if left loose.

" the joyful moment of filling the bed with compost" ......that sums it up nicely...good on you Charles, love your videos and your passion

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Many thanks Marco

I've always been frustrated trying to learn to garden. You make things easy to understand and grasp. I'll be sure to buy your books when I can.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear thanks James

I am a fan of your youtube videos, didn't find out that you actually published books until just now by watching one of your videos. I immediately got on Amazon and ordered two of them, I will purchase all of the gardening books that you wrote just to collect them, because, I am a fan of yours

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Candace I appreciate your support, enjoy the books!

I love this technique, I start with a thick layer of newspaper on raw ground first, blocks weeds for years. The newspapers are leftovers and self compost. Also consider placement of beds in relation to ease of lawn mowing. What a lush place you have there. A feast for the eyes, the soul and the table.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kathleen 😀

@alwayslearning7672

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it confused me a bit that Charles put no paper or cardboard first to block the weeds,which is what I thought was necessary.

@Elena-zm4fc

4 жыл бұрын

@Charles Dowding What do you think about putting cardboard on the bottom?

Planting in a no dig way made me start gardening again, since before trying to till the hard ground was pretty difficult. I'm glad i found your channel. Thank you sir !

@CharlesDowding1nodig

2 жыл бұрын

You can do it after all, how wonderful

"Joyful moment of filling the beds with compost" . Very true and very satisfying! 😊🌱

I can just imagine the birds giggling in the trees near by, giggling because they see a human paddling the soil, maybe for worms?? . I like the way you constructed your raised garden frame, so much easier than how I was going to do one.Will copy your way. Thank you for sharing, bless you :-)

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rachel and that is a nice thought about the birds!

Thanks very much for that tutorial. I’m trying to supplement my family’s food supply so we can cut our grocery bill, but all the options I was finding were very expensive. This shows me how to use inexpensive materials to get started 😁

Thank you so much Charles. You have demonstrated how easy the process is in reality. I'm inspired to get out there tomorrow, create a new bed and get my hands dirty.

@appleade57

4 жыл бұрын

Just a quick question Charles. Do you think it would be worthwhile mowing the area really hard beforehand?

Charles - Brilliant. I'm in 7b in North Carolina USA and had trucks of woodchips brought onto my lawn to turn it to a permaculture. One neighbor kept arguing with me that I needed to put down cardboard/newspaper but just kept going. Put down at least 6 inches. If/when a weed would pop through I'd just dump a bucket of woodchips on it. Viola! It is beautiful and I'll start putting in blueberries, grapes, etc. (perennial plants) in the spring. I'm so proud of it. I love that you showed this with compost. At 61 I feel like I've learned to garden as if it is a completely different occupation as I learned with rototiller, dig, dig again (oh, a few chemicals for bugs and fertilizer). Now I just push back the woodchips, plant in the beautiful soil and occassionally put down a few more woodchips. I never dig anymore. Just put in plants or seeds. Ann Harlan

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Good to hear Ann although there can be issues with pests such as pillbugs, when using a lot of wood chip.I mention that for others reading this. In your garden, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Such a good, clear video. Thank you for taking the time to do it. It's much appreciate.

Nicely done Sir ! To deal with stubborn weeds I use a re-bar and hammer it into the ground about a foot down.

Charles you are my favorite youtube gardener. I feel that anyone who gives a lick about gardening would be inspired by you.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear, Bossman

You be a Magic Gardener,the Way you are showing,speaking,doing make so much Joy!Thank you!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

So nice of you Christine :)

Make me want to jump out of bed right now and get some dirt under my nails and feet. Inspiring!

Nice one Charles and apt timing with tonight's GW :)

Charles this demo was brilliant and timely as usual. I truly believe that everyone should grow some of their own food. A container, raised bed, or a small plot of land. It is liberating for the mind and body. Thank you and blessings to you and your team.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Yes gardening can be liberating for both mind and body, thanks for your comment

I agree with deep planting. my dad always taught me that. Wonderful video. really enjoy your channel.

I live in Allen, Texas. There are lots of rocks and at the soil is so hard. I'm going to try this for sure, after my nap! Thanks!

@ashercreatives7112

4 жыл бұрын

Joan Parsley I live in Dallas and have just prepped a bit of space in front of my townhome for a super tiny no-dig garden!

@venitaeck8558

3 жыл бұрын

I'm in Terrell. Just found Charles on you tube. I'm starting my beds later next week, mapping out now. So excited!!

Great video and information provided. You have a beautiful garden. Thank you for doing this for us all that have learned something here. Blessings to you sir.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Thankyou

Amazing! Thank you for this video. It's most self explanatory and easy to follow. Stay blessed.

Thank you so much for your amazing tipps. I was builing a few of them yesterday due to the fact, I want finally start to grow my own veggies.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Wishing you every success

Lovely channel. I'm really enjoying your videos. I do appreciate how concise everything is. The editing and production choices are all very much appreciated.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Thankyou

Hi Charles you are an inspiration to all of us, I have made raised beds and used builders damp proof course on the inside works great 10 years on no slugs or pests of any kind as far as I know. Keep doing what you are doing, you are brilliant

@cathysteele924

2 жыл бұрын

Francis McDonagh, what is “builders damp proof course”?

@francismcdonagh5217

2 жыл бұрын

@@cathysteele924 Hi Cathy builders damp proof course, is a type of plastic on a roll,very tough stuff it goes underneath block work,in a building to stop damp from the ground penetrating the blockwork,or walls, I have used it on the insides of raised beds ,which had wooden sides,to stop the dampness, from the soil, rotting the insides,of the timber,so the wood lasts years longer.

@cathysteele924

2 жыл бұрын

@@francismcdonagh5217 Thank you!

I'm glad I found your videos. We're starting our garden soon and now it'll be much more affordable and pleasantly sumple.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

So good to hear this Tracy

Charles, this is still the BEST video!🙂🌻

I wish I knew this sooner, it’s so much easier and cheaper than the way I started my beds. Off to start a bed for strawberries and borage!

Watched Gardener's World last night and was so excited to see Geoff Hamilton and yourself on the program. I still miss seeing Geoff, he had so many great ideas, and made a significant contribution to my gardening. Watching your channel with interest. I raise chickens and rabbits so I get plenty of stuff to chuck in the beds. Thank you for sharing.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

mrsgbee Yes I miss him too, he was so easy to work with, that was my first time filmed for tv

You make everything look so simple. Love watching your videos

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much 😊

I'll be starting on a base of grass so I'm excited to see how the no dig method will work out for us. Many thanks 🇮🇪

Lovely have just seen you on gardeners world 🌺

Thank you Charles, you are excellent at explaining things simply and clearly for beginners. I’m on day 3 of my first allotment as a total newbie - never done more than a few houseplants before - and I’ve watched several of your videos now to try to figure it all out. You’ve made me feel a lot less overwhelmed about what to do next once I’ve trimmed enough space to put a bed in. (I also think my neighbours 3 allotments down are going to ‘adopt’ me, as its very clear as a young girl on my own I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing!!) I suppose my next job is to buy a drill and figure out how to do that too!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear Lucy. Hope you can cope with a whole allotment, it's a lot of space, maybe buy or beg some black polythenes e to lay over half of it to kill weeds while you sort the rest. See No Dig Two Ways to Clear Weeds video. Beds with sides like this are only one option, see Start No Dig, no permanent sides. I wish you well.

@francoiselemeur7325

Жыл бұрын

Not particularly economical....considering it takes months and months to make just a small amount of compost... Tha t amount here is what....4,5 barrels? I assure yu ,that's costly

@Robert-vh2cl

Жыл бұрын

@@francoiselemeur7325 Did it ever occur to you that someone might actually ENJOY gardening and making an initial investment in it?

Thank you so much! We really enjoy watching all of your videos and I’m excited to say, that we are going to embark on a no dig veg and hopefully wild flower garden. I’ve ordered your course book 1 and two calendars, one as a gift. Also the sowing wall chart. I hope they will give us the advice we need to make a good positive and productive start this year. Many thanks for all your videos and fantastic advice.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck Helen, that sounds very promising and while you will probably have a few setbacks (don't sow too early!), I'm sure you'll experience a lot of joy, and some nice food!

The guy is just a wealth of information I love his videos

I’m really enjoying your video and thank you for the ideas you shared Sir.🙂👍

Nice video Charles and good appearance on gardeners world last night trying some no dig beds on my allotment this year. Dave

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

That will be good Dave

This is so cool! So well and simply explained! I am definitely going to try to make my own bed. Still have a spot left in my garden for it...hope it works... Thanks!

My lawn soil is hard and i tried to dig but it was too hard for me so i gave up. Thank you. Because of your video i will be growing vegetables your way. Thank you for sharing, much appreciated.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

3 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help and plant roots + soil organisms will gradually open that soil

I was very impressed by your irish danceing on the compost Charles, ; -] nice vid as ever

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!

Been doing some raised beds over the last few weeks using the same treated eased timber and to give it some extra life I've stapled plastic damp course on the inner and lower edges. Great programs. The beds seem the easy part, the knowledge and applying it to create good harvests, I think is another matter. Need to book myself a course me thinks and see what I can do,

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff! Yes the knowledge, good you recognise that, see Sowing Timeline on my website

You have given me the inspiration to make a small raised bed for my kale plants that I have grown from seed.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

3 жыл бұрын

Lovely to heart, may they grow well

Inspirational, I really miss the growing. Looking forward to getting back into it at some stage! Thanks for sharing your time and know-how!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers John, hope you make it

Thank you so much for the advice you give us! Wonderful video.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Moi!

If you can get hold of pallet collars, saves having to have to use tools. Pallet collars can be stacked up to the height you want.

Very nice. Clear explanation. I would add: when using timber I install corflute sheet or plastic to the internall sides of timber to create waterproofing and prevent from decay of the timber caused by moist soil.

Your videos are very inspiring for a new gardener like me. Compost is the key. If I get my good composts going I will have a better garden in the future. Thanks

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Carol. Yes, compost and sowing at best time, then good picking, helps to understand your plants.

Lovely and clear 'how to' guide Charles. Thanks Mike

@howardhoyle9619

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Hurdiss canned heat Canned heat

@howardhoyle9619

6 жыл бұрын

Canned heat livin the blues

So pleased I watched this for several reasons. Easy raised bed obviously. Also as I need a rabbit fence round my veggie patch, I wondered where to put my washing line, which is where the fence needs to be. I noticed you are using a tree trunk, so problem solved, I can go from one existing post across to my huge apple tree, why didn't I think of this? Also realised it's an easy way to make a temporary run for my tortoise on iffy days. He goes free range for the hot summer months, but can't do that in April/May or Sept/Oct, as days can be warm, but nights can be cold enough to kill him, or damage his health (he's African, and can't hibernate). Thanks so much for all of it :)

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Love this, thanks for sharing and happy to help

Wonderful, informative video. Thanks for sharing!

Great feature on gardeners world tonight, I've been subscribed for a few weeks and already working nuggets of your knowledge into my own grow operation, great channel!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jim

🤴🏼 You should be knighted. Do you have the most beautiful garden imaginable truly magical. Thank you for sharing it with us.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

A funny thought and many thanks

@isabelladavis1363

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with that!

@jonathancorbyn8203

4 жыл бұрын

Sir Charles Dowding!!!

The saw cuts like a new hammer ^^

@claudesclassics

4 жыл бұрын

nothing like a new saw go on Charles lash out a little, like your videos keep it up

@Locke19901

4 жыл бұрын

Hello friendo

@michaelbalfour3170

4 жыл бұрын

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

@fatdad64able

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbalfour3170 I need you to step out of the car Sir!

@michaelbalfour3170

4 жыл бұрын

@@fatdad64able you don't have to do this.

Learning so much from you it's unbelievable! Your channel is outstanding and we are using your videos with my toddler to try and grow all our own food. Moved to Latvia from the UK and loving how useful your content is! Wishing you many many years of health and abundance 😚😚😚

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful to hear this Bee, thanks

Beautiful. Perfect clean I love your video. Thanks for sharing.....

So simple. I used to believe that you have to fill a raised bed with a mix of compost, vermiculite, and coir.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Yes a lot of things are way, way simpler than one often reads or sees!

I am amazed, I thought it was better to have soil soft and fluffy!

@barkershill

3 жыл бұрын

All I can say, riverunner is that I have been following Charles’s methods for nine years and although my garden is not quite as tidy as his , his ideas definitely work . I have grown all the common vegetables successfully , even rootcrops like potatoes and carrots

Thank you, sir for your uploads. I'll echo what others have said and just say it's a pleasure to watch just good, solid instructional videos without over the music, excessively long introductions full of fluff, filler words and just generally foul language. Great to watch. I'll be looking to apply all the knowledge I've gained from you on my homestead back in Uganda as soon as all this covid stuff subsides and borders/international flights open up in earnest again. Bravo, you have a silent, but loyal subscriber here 😎

@CharlesDowding1nodig

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Charles and I wish you success with no dg in Uganda, sounds exciting, a fast paced climate!

Lovely. I will use this simple square to make a bed possibly this fall.

Great video Charles, Im a total convert now to #Nodig

@margaretwarriner6445

6 жыл бұрын

Matt's Plot Allotment channel iiii

Your channel is so valuable. Thank you so much. What is the best way to support you for ensuring more youtube content?

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, keep watching, do buy my talk for extra info, buy a book, I wish to put a link but have too-weak internet connection

hi Charles. I grew my beetroot in clumps this year after watching one of your videos and I have three times more beetroot than I've ever had. a one meter by 700mm plot gave me around 40 beetroots, most of which have been pickled and stored away for the winter. thank you so much for your advice and i'm looking forward already to getting my beds ready for next spring.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

So nice to hear

You do stuff we've been told not to do our whole life.....and I love it! I wish I found you years ago.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

james holcomb thanks James

love ya charles, watch that back tho mate! more knees! lol

@jindriskamachatova5114

6 жыл бұрын

My words :-) When I do gardening I move around like a toddler.

Fantastic video. Lots of myths busted here!!!

Thank you for answering so quickly I will have a go

I tried that, even put down cardboard on the bottom. First year was o.k. no weeds, second year bind weeds were everywhere. I have now switched to putting down sheets of old plywood underneath. I can get old half rotted plywood or old sheets of paneling off the side of the road. That is where I got my wood to make the square from also. Walmart sometimes have that wood in the back of there stores outside.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

Жыл бұрын

That can happen and it sounds like bindweed has spread in from outside your bed. That's where I would lay cardboard, or in your case wood! And keep removing new bindweed from the bed itself, it will weaken.

When I get the money I am buying the books, all of them. Love this channel. One question though, have you a link for the potato harvest from this bed? Would love to see how it did in such a shallow plot.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew. Here is a link to the page where, half way down, you can see the potato harvest in August 2017. After that we planted coriander and dill. Now the bed has become part of a larger bed!

@andrewmoon1898

6 жыл бұрын

Hi, I have left a reply to this until trying on a computer, I cannot see the link mentioned. Sorry to be a bother.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

sorry its here www.charlesdowding.co.uk/august-17-update/

@andrewmoon1898

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That looks about the same I dig up from a bigger bed at my dad's allotment but with far less work. Defiantly the way to go when I get my own plot.

Love your simplistic methods and soothing presentations. I have to ask though with all the emphasis I see put on soil tests how would one really do this realistically with several raised beds filled with various materials including compost? It seems to me that you can safely just keep adding good quality compost to your raised beds and not really concern yourself with soil tests to analyze nutrients. Any truth to this assumption?

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Rob I am glad you like the simple, not simplistic approach. The point of using compost is that it holds nutrients in water insoluble form. Then the undisturbed soil life helps roots to find them, when needed. Soil tests are only a snapshot of what is there and cannot measure availability to plants, in most cases, nor assess the balances needed. Soil life is doing a kind of "nutrient test" all the time, when there is enough warmth for growth.

@robwasnj

7 жыл бұрын

This will be my first year not tilling my beds but rather leaving the soil intact and just adding compost on top. I had to dig a few small holes for trellises and I can say the ground is full of worms, so many I actually felt bad digging the hole because I must have hit several of them with the spade. No dig makes so much sense, it's how nature seems to have intended things. Thanks for the reply, love your channel and videos.

Just started a no border bed at the house for the first time using your theories. Covered the soils with black plastic for the first month due to snow, hail and all sundry of things. Trying potatoes and garlic for the first phase, which I paper bagged for that month with eventually immersing the garlic in a small amount of water, which made them grow like they were on steroids. All the troops are in the garden as of yesterday..........time to see. Thanks for the inspiration

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Have fun with that, sounds promising

Just stumbled across your channel and I love it! I just built 10 raised beds and will begin filling on Saturday. It's going to take a ton of soil compost and a lot of work, but I am so excited! I'm glad I saw this, I wasn't planning to compact the compost down.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Good to hear and use more compost than soil if possible

It's funny seeing the small bed in front of your giant garden. Did you pick the spot just to demonstrate, or you have some other purpose for keeping it separate?

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Yes it was to demonstrate, and the cameras needed somewhere to line up!

@spsaik

2 жыл бұрын

I think the bed was in the perfect spot.

A layer of cardboard / thick layers of newspaper under the compost is what I personally do, as it hopefully it totally eradicates those weeds / grass.

@pacificdragon1452

6 жыл бұрын

Steve R the

@shiny_x3

6 жыл бұрын

better to put it over the compost, under the mulch, and just punch holes for the plants.

I've been pulling weeds out of my raised bed for days and too scared to place anything in there. But after seeing this I have a new found hope! Might just put a layer of cardboard and a new layer of compost and get on with the growing. Thank you so much! Invaluable.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Good to read this and go Vrinda, your bed will grow well.

A proper gardener. I had a no dig plot for years. Disabled now but lovely to see this practical man at work.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Thankyou

@teamuncle

4 жыл бұрын

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What the hell! I can just do this without digging up ground!?

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

yes!! have fun with that

@katatatatafish

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Dowding I most certainly will 😄

@colepeltier8472

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the real world =) Modernized agriculture is a sham, no dig is as THE CREATOR INTENDED! ha

@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS

5 жыл бұрын

@@colepeltier8472 Iv made raised beds with old car tires. Put them on weeded ground as is and filled with compost. Job done.

@DrCorvid

4 жыл бұрын

@@colepeltier8472 The no-dig Great Plains soil failed naturally and famously due to compaction, so Universities of Laval and McGill stress the "paramount importance" of mixing the layers a bit as you are laying down more mulch. Their agronomy courses tout ramial or young hardwood mulch as "the" best soil remedy bar none. Horticulture courses stress the importance of having clay and sand components in soil, something that is scarce in the lasagna method of making or laying compost on top of compacted soil. Such a practice works only very slowly and as the courses point out, you'd be turning the compacted beds every 4-5 years or lose 40% of the garlic crops for example due to wet and anaerobic compost where you really wanted soil. The leywords bois raméal fragmenté or RWC for ramial wood chips, shredded ramial wood and so on will get you to the latest and best research into soil building on farm and forest. Even hedgerows are now being chipped onto the raised beds as an asset to the farm.

Nice video. Although I'm not a fan of using treated wood anywhere near food plants. It's really not good.

Wonderful, thanks, Charles! 🤗

Brilliant idea!!! thanks for teaching ,Great video!!

i can tell this guy hates digging

@lilli1259

3 ай бұрын

Who does?

I bought instruction from woodprix and I build it very very cheap.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Romaine, now that is clever!

@paulnjackson

6 жыл бұрын

Not so cheap once you have paid Woodprix. And their paid content is almost exclusively stolen from its original creators who are mostly making it available online at no cost. Their business model is the complete antithesis of the excellent public-spirited, free content that Charles provides. Transparent shills like you appearing here and sullying good faith content makes me sick. Sorry Charles, but they are a bad lot.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Paul thanks for this comment, keeping things straight!

@romaineathey3663

6 жыл бұрын

cool you like it:)

hello Charles, I saw you on Gardeners world this weekend, it's great to see you getting the no dig word out!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed being given the opportuniity and I am glad you liked it

Very inspiring! Thank you, I'm definitely going to give this a try :) love your channel!!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear Kim

So glad I did find this video!

Thank you very much. Garden to begin this weekend, all supplies in hand. I will let you know how it goes.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

You make it seem so effortless! Thank you for your wisdom :)

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Anna and it is still a workout! Gardening makes you fitter.

awesome update thank you for sharing Charles

Love this simple method. I just bought some of your books and look forward to practicing the no dig method

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them and go well

@sinemetu9037

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Dowding, thanks Charles... next year I fully intend to come on one of your courses. You have through your videos given me the inspiration and confidence to have a go. For quite a while I have been lacking direction for one reason or another and getting stuck in on the garden was a good thing during the lockdown. However, finding you are the quality videos you and your team produce helped me abundantly. Thanks so much

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

@@sinemetu9037 Nice to hear and I hope we can meet up soon, meantime go well

I like this Charles howerver many people don't have such a flat area when weeds have taken over for a year of so like my mum's garden. My mother has about 10 car tires dumped in her Garden. I don't know why they are there but Iv been putting them as they are onto the ground then filling with compost for successful raised beds.

I love these beds. They look like it will really be easy to make a few do them.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

5 жыл бұрын

Yes and at any time of year

Masterfully gardening

You are my gardening hero! LOVE your videos!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

4 жыл бұрын

Cheers Lou

I’ve been using this method ever since I read Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew…..it has served me well….as always, thanks Charles!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

Жыл бұрын

Nice to hear P.J.

I wish you were my hubby!!!! LOL. I garden alone!!!! I wish my compost could look this black...gotta love good British soil!!!! I live in the South, USA...all I have is red dirt that can be hard to make into a good quality compost. But, I try and am getting better at it as I go along. Thanks for the wonderful advice and knowledge you share with us. Love it!!!!

@CharlesDowding1nodig

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jessica and best of luck with your red soil. You can improve it and will.

I love your method and practical way of gardening. Very easy to follow. I think I will also wear my boots so I can use my 2 feet compressing the soil. I learned a lot from your no dig gardening and other techniques that are very useful to enthusiastic gardener. Share more of your gardening experience. Thank you.

@CharlesDowding1nodig

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and I think you mean compressing compost!

thank you for such a informative video.

Realmente, é uma delícia a hora de despejar o composto. 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great video, thank you very much, it’s going to be made here very soon !

Thanks very much. Greetings from Poland.