August No Dig Garden Tour – Harvests, Successions & New Plantings at Homeacres

Описание: August is a wonderful time for harvests and for sowing seeds. Sometimes it’s called a second spring, because of there being so many opportunities for starting plants to crop for a long time – in the autumn, then a little through winter, and even into next spring.

Join me at Homeacres for a summer tour filmed on 13th August, where I share the joy of harvesting onions, beans, squash, chard, and more, plus tips for keeping beds full with successive plantings right into the cooler months.

You’ll see fresh sowings of mooli radish, endive, chicory for radicchio, kohlrabi, and cabbage, alongside summer harvests of Czar dry beans, Jolant leeks, and other crops. I’ll also share how no dig makes it easy to keep beds in constant production – no digging, no crop rotation worries, very little weeding, and soil that’s always ready for planting.

The garden is weed-free thanks to thorough mulching, and even bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), which was once abundant, is now almost gone – saving huge amounts of time.

In this tour, I cover:
How to succession plant for year-round cropping
Watering strategies in dry weather
Interplanting and companion cropping ideas
Protecting crops from flea beetles and caterpillars naturally
How I use Bacillus thuringiensis (Dipel) and a magnetic water device

Links mentioned in this video:
Bacillus thuringiensis (Dipel) – https://progreen.co.uk/dipel
Magnetic Water Device – https://www.abimax.co.uk/?ref=CHARLES... — use code NODIG at checkout for 10% off
My Module Trays – https://containerwise.co.uk/product-c... — includes links to international distributors

🌱 Homeacres Open Day – 6th September: https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...

📍 Filmed 13th August at Homeacres, Somerset, UK
🎥 Filmed by Nicola Smith
Summer Success thumbnail by Daniel @cojuart, the other two by Nicola. Which do you prefer?

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00:00 Introduction
00:13 Recent sowings - spinach, salad rocket, red mustard, endive, fennel
01:13 Advantage of no dig for keeping the garden full
01:42 Sunflowers, and celosia
02:08 Runner beans from homesaved seeds, Czar variety - options for picking
03:47 Borlottis grown in teepees, when to pick
04:11 Carrots, slow to grow, and growth affected by nearby wild cherry tree
04:59 Chicories for radicchio, leeks Bandit
05:25 Carrots intersown between lettuce, watering needs
06:06 Endive for autumn
06:22 In the polytunnel - an unexpected melon, growing amongst peppers
07:22 Leek interplanted between celeriac
08:14 Lettuce that followed onions
08:47 Chard, highly tolerant of dry conditions
09:09 Bed of asparagus, with potential to interplant broad beans as cover crop
10:06 Rhubarb, grown from seed following broad beans - ground watered before planting
10:58 Watering by hand only
11:11 Chicories, growth affected by hedgerow trees
11:37 Interplant of chard with French bean - first time doing this
12:51 Kale - how to harvest
13:24 Winter squash - Marina di Chioggia, Sugar Candy, first time growing, Uchiki Kuri, Onion and Butternut squash
14:39 Flea beetle damage to mooli radish
15:24 Kohlrabi, covered with Thermacrop - how to water
16:22 Frizzy endive that followed onions, chicory that followed tall peas
16:44 More squash, Crown Prince - how to know when ready
17:28 Lettuce - Little Gem, and Red Velvet that has bolted rapidly - cleared and replaced with chicory
18:16 Batavia lettuce Saragossa
18:35 Issue with caterpillars on chicory plants
19:06 Cabbage, Golden Acre, with mesh over
19:37 Using Bacillus thuringiensis
19:51 Harvest of multisown onions, Rose de Roscoff from homesaved seed, and Long Red Florence or Tropea Lunga
20:54 Garlic harvest
21:12 Red onions, Red Baron
21:29 Homecares Open Day, 6th September