Spring in the no dig garden, Charles shows old and new plantings, harvests and almost no weeds

April 24th at Homeacres no dig garden. See the vegetables I have stored through winter, the current harvests, and plants which will crop in the next two months.
The garden has always been no dig, and my first job was to mulch the heavy weed burden with cardboard, compost and some polythene in 2013. This killed the many perennial weeds and now you see how few weeds grow in the undisturbed soil.
Since 2014 I mulch beds once a year with 4-5cm/1.7-2in compost, half my own and half bought in..This provides food for soil organisms which then mobilise nutrients for plants. I use no fertilisers and there are few pests, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbf7D80j5os
See this video for how to clear weeds without digging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmv2zGfhG8w
I mulch paths with a thin layer of small wood chips or shavings,
Few weeds grow and this frees time to grow vegetables through the growing season. It's a temperate, oceanic climate with light frosts (down to -7 or -8C/18F in midwinter) from late October to mid April.
I raise most plants in the greenhouse, see what was happening there two months earlier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veevYVUBakA
I sell produce to local shops and restaurants, around £20,000 per year.
More information about no dig gardening on my website https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk
I have two online courses which include hundreds of photos and exclusive video content, for more information go to https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/online-courses/
Filming and editing by David Adams, who also made my first video No Dig Abundance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HATC3rG6NbQ

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