No dig garden in August, new plantings, fruit and summer pests

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From 4th July to 15th August, we had one of our driest ever spells with just 5 mm/0.2 inches of rain in six weeks. Then we had a storm, two days before this video. Now it's dry again!
Summer passes so quickly and often it feels like I am running to keep up. Growth this year has been rapid because of extra warmth, for those plants we have watered.

Tress we don't water. We do water the raspberries and they are Joan J.

No dig is brilliant for conserving moisture and we are not watering everything. The vegetables I show you first though have had water twice a week, applied by hand. They are chicory for radicchio, Brussels sprouts, parsnips, kale, leeks, cabbages, dwarf French beans, and calabrese.
After them I show you new and very small transplants, just two weeks old.

The summer warmth has been great for tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and melons.

00:00 Intro, and a look at Victoria plum tree on St Julien 'A' rootstock, ripe with plums
00:51 Another plum tree - Coe’s Golden Drop
01:16 A look at the grass - dry from drought, and some info on the background of Homeacres
02:22 Some second summer plantings – I explain the progression
04:00 2 weeks since multisown and transplanted today, salad rocket and mustards under mesh to protect against flea beetle, rabbits, butterflies
04:50 A look at an area of soil that is almost white
05:25 Flowers at the end of beds - dwarf French marigolds, Zinnia, Salvia, Rudbeckia
06:07 Asparagus in it’s 10th year
06:35 Broad-leaved sorrel, and sea kale
06:41 Onions for seed are `rose de Roscoff, with some downy mildew
07:47 Buckler-leaved sorrel
07:58 Raspberries in their sixth year
08:44 I explain my water supply
09:13 Borlotti beans for a dry harvest
09:56 Winter radish - tall large ones
10:27 Celeriac, hardly watered
10:57 Watering lettuce to protect against lettuce root aphid
11:45 The benefits of growing endive for late summer and autumn harvests
12:14Chicory to make Raddichio is 506TT
12:34 Lettuce plants just picked, and some soon to be picked - Saragossa, Maravilla di Verona, Valmaine, Lollo Rossa
13:07 Swedes and Brussels sprouts - winter veg
13:17 Carrots under mesh, against root fly
13:30 Runner beans, also for a dry harvest (Czar)
14:09 A look at some flea beetle damage
14:49 Calabrese, sprayed with Bacillus thuringiensis, and purple sprouting under mesh against flea beetle and other insects, also possible rabbits
16:09 Inside the polytunnel – heirloom tomatoes, I demonstrate how to tie to keep upright, then look at sideshoots/suckers
17:30 Peppers, and oxheart tomatoes inc Sonnenherz
18:26 Sungold – I show you how we’ve taken down the stems of this tall plant, and how to take out the top of a plant to stop it growing any more
19:51 Berner Rose tomatoes
20:31 Aubergines, de Barbentane
21:16 Melons, I cut open a Charentais

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Watch this video with Bulgarian voiceover    • Чарлз Даудинг - Градина без копаене през а...  

Filmed by Nicola Smith at Homeacres on 18th August.

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