It's been a very busy month since the last tour. Also unusually sunny with 200+ hours in April, just 25mm rain, and temperatures of 16°C/60°F, by day, and 4°C/39°F by night.
Already I'm running low on space for new plantings. The few empty beds are for squashes, sweetcorn and courgettes, which we plant in late May mostly.
In this garden tour from Homeacres, I show how to make more of your space by interplanting between garlic, and sowing radish with carrots. There are potentially many more interplants through the summer, between different crops that finish quite soon — a simple way to grow more in the same space, especially as crops finish at different times.
The trial beds are explained here
https://charlesdowding.co.uk/blogs/trials/dig-no-dig-trial-2019-2022
For more about the Bosnian pyramids, see the work of Semir Osmanagich https://www.semirosmanagic.com/en/
Homeacres no dig garden is in SW England, zone 8b.
Filmed in one take by Nicola Smith, April 28th 2026.
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00:00 Introduction - building work
00:55 Dig/no dig trial beds - potatoes interplanted with turnips
02:04 Celeriac between spinach, and kohlrabi not covered
02:34 Woody surface no dig bed
02:53 Celeriac between garlic, and radish between carrots
04:09 Celery with mesh cover
04:41 The greenhouse - tomatoes ready to plant
05:16 Celeriac with leeks, under cover
05:43 Sunflowers and marigolds
06:05 Lettuce, already picked, and onions under cover
06:46 Shallots, dill and spring-sown cabbage
07:17 Comparison with autumn-sown brassicas - calabrese and cauliflower
08:08 Peas - direct sown and module sown, weevil damage
09:14 Sweetcorn, radish and turnips
10:10 Potatoes, some frost damage, and bindweed
11:23 Sweet peas and compost heap
12:27 Polytunnel mulching - garlic interplanted with winter salads, then tomatoes and cucumbers
13:41 Blackberries just emerging, with spring onion and poppies for bread seed
14:16 Spring onion, dill and coriander
15:13 Herb garden - liquorice, Siberian chives, elecampane
16:17 Bed ready to plant with chard, after leeks, and spinach
17:06 Two beds of garlic, second interplanted with beetroot
17:55 Second polytunnel with remains of winter salad - endive and lettuce
18:15 New lettuce, being picked
18:44 Broad beans and wild rocket
19:48 Asparagus
20:37 Rhubarb, and potatoes with some frost damage
21:19 More garlic, strongest growth
21:45 Beds covered with Thermacrop, over cabbages
22:37 Celeriac and leeks, also covered, with marigolds
23:08 Empty beds ready for plantings
23:32 Bulb fennel and collards
24:15 Broccoli/calabrese
24:42 Lamb’s lettuce, corn salad and beetroot
25:14 Another build - a pyramid!
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