00:20Welcome to my channel. I'm Charles Dowding in the UK, Temporate Climate. My channel is now 10 years
00:28old and I've been gardening and market gardening for 40 years and through the experience I've gained
00:34I can share with you ways of gardening which can save you a lot of time, energy, even money
00:43and bring you more enjoyment. This is a happy place and it's all through working alongside nature.
00:50I'm a no-dig gardener. That's a really lovely thing to do because it means you don't need
00:59to worry about cultivating your soil, you don't need to worry about feeds and fertilizers.
01:04I simply spread around an inch two and a half centimeter of new compost once a year
01:09on all the beds here. Whatever I'm going to grow and then that feeds the soil life.
01:18Another remarkable aspect of no-dig is watering. You need to do much less because the soil
01:25has not been disturbed so it hasn't lost moisture through cultivation but also all the life in there.
01:30The mycelial structure can bring more moisture to roots. It's helping plant roots to grow and so we
01:38in here in the undercover we water just twice a week. Most of the time we certainly don't water every
01:43day
01:43and in January I don't water at all and we can easily do two crops a year. It's very quick
01:49change
01:50over time with no-dig because you quickly finish one, planting you twisted out, leave most of the roots
01:56in the ground. You've got no soil preparation. You could just stick your next lot of plants in.
02:01I show you quite a bit of how that works and it's very simple methods, really easy to grasp. It
02:06all makes
02:06sense and even better one than all of those is the absence of weeds. Not total absence. There's always
02:13some weeding to do but we never do a weeding in here. All we do is when we're picking or
02:18doing some
02:19other job, we're often in here harvesting, we'll have a separate bucket to pop any little weed seedlings
02:24in and that is it. Job done. I'm running quite a large garden here but with no-dig you can
02:28scale down
02:29very easily and you could run just one bed for example and that's another beautiful aspect that
02:35you don't have to worry about rotation. I've been doing a lot of trials over the years into all sorts
02:41of things including do you need to rotate? I'm growing potatoes this year for the eighth year in a row
02:46in the same bed and you can find videos all about that and I do a lot about harvesting as
02:54well. How you
02:54harvest vegetables, that's such an important part of successful gardening like this method of leaf
02:59picking on the lettuce and how you can have beautiful abundant harvest regularly.
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