April Tour in a slow spring and no dig impresses

Cool, dull weather so far, but no dig no problem. Growth is helped by covers, hoop wires, and module trays, see my Crocus page https://tidd.ly/44dEU7d for affiliate links to the products I recommend. I earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for your support.
And speed up your planting with my long-handled dibber https://www.gardenimports.co.uk/product/charles-dowding-long-handled-ash-dibber/

No dig holds the aces in wet and cold, as much as in dry and warm.
We see that in the two bed comparison, starting its 12th year. Earlier years are on this page https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post/dig-no-dig-trial-2019-2022

The pallet compost heaps are homemade and I describe how to make them in my No Dig book https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/no-dig

Filmed by Nicola Smith 22nd April 2024 at Homeacres, Somerset UK.

00:00 Introduction
00:43 Dig/no dig bed comparison, including slug damage
01:49 Reason for using covers
02:23 Propagation in the greenhouse
02:39 Tomatoes, some planted early, replacing winter salads
03:21 Hotbed, with melons and cucumbers
04:08 Potting on
04:31 Chard
05:15 Compost trial, and my recommendations
06:47 Outside - overwintered spinach and peas for shoots
07:28 Overwintered broad beans
07:51 Carrots, many lost to slugs, interplanted with radish
08:37 Apple blossom, and tulips
09:02 Fleece over onions, reason for keeping on the ground not on hoops
09:55 Radish, and I demonstrate removing some bindweed
10:42 Edging
11:38 Salads in the polytunnel
12:02 Turnips, Tokyo Cross variety
12:46 Slugs
12:58 Asparagus - comparison between plants grown from crowns and seeds (Ariane)
13:34 Purple sprouting broccoli, and ideas for succession planting
14:16 Carrots with fleece, slow, reason for removing fleece
14:46 Garlic and brown beans - less compost, slower growth
15:02 Rye with wireworm damage
15:20 Potatoes
15:38 New piece of ground - plastic covering dandelions and creeping buttercup
16:50 Wild rocket, with mesh cover
16:59 Leeks Bandit
17:15 Piece of ground that had been covered with plastic over winter
17:48 Apple trees grafted last spring
18:05 New pond, with newts and dragonfly larva
18:50 Three-pallet compost bays
20:17 Panorama of beds, many with covers
20:52 Trial of fleece made with plant matter
20:59 New partnership with Crocus
21:14 Lettuce under fleece
21:25 Outro

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