October 31, 2024

VIDEO: ​@Charles Dowding's LEGENDARY No-Dig Market Garden (FULL Tour)


I never thought this day would come. I woke up in London with a fever, missed a train (or two), but eventually made it 100 miles to Charles Dowding’s EPIC market garden, Homeacres. The sky opened up for about an hour, and Charles shared the deep wisdom behind his garden.

Charles Dowding is the godfather of the modern “no-dig” or “no-till” approach to gardening, where you NEVER till or dig down into your soil and disturb its structure and the soil life. He applies ~2″ of compost, once per year, and…that’s it. From there, he starts transplants for most everything except for a few root crops and pops them into his beds.

The compost is made on-site, as you’ll see in this video, and the market garden produces around 20,000 GBP of produce every single year.

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25 thoughts on “VIDEO: ​@Charles Dowding's LEGENDARY No-Dig Market Garden (FULL Tour)

  1. San Diego and England are great for composting. Being from the desert southwest of the United States, you have to add so much water. I'm jealous of 9 months of hot composting; the times I had success were more like a year and half the items didn't decompose completely. Especially for the home gardener. The people here that have better luck, are doing it on a much larger scale and spraying with water.

  2. Actinomycetes cause that "rain smell" and often grow in compost bins and moist areas where u have rotting organic matter. Often mycelium is white, but it is a huuuuge phyllum.

  3. The missing head of cauliflower that just grew a nub, is likely to be the result of swede midge, the second (to flea beetle) most destructive pest to brassica crops. The bite/burrowing activity of the female laying her eggs inside causes deformation of plant tissue

  4. Thank you Kevin. Thank you Charles for this tour. I like your idea of No Dig garden. I am a beginner in gardening. Bought the Birdie raised garden bed but it is not in use yet due to the approached winter in Edmonton Alberta, Canada.
    I wasted time and energy in the last 6 days by digging the hard rock-liked soil in the back yard before finding your valuable No Dig video. I regret I did not I watch it earlier because the knuckles on my hands started swelling due to excessive use in the past 6 days. Oh well, I guess I learned my lesson in a hard way this time. Thanks again. God bless.

  5. What a lovely human Charles is. So welcoming, genuine and kind. Gardening seems like it comes so naturally for him. This video brings me so much joy.

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