See the results of growing these vegetables in the same beds, every year.
I top up all my beds once a year, with about 2.5 cm/1″ or so of compost. I use no feeds or fertilisers. The no dig method means nutrients are more easily found for plant roots, by soil organism such as mycorrhizal fungi.
Broad/fava beans are Aquadulce Claudia, potatoes are Charlotte.
They grow in only half a season, and after the broad beans we transplant cabbage for heads in the autumn. After the potato harvest around mid-July, we transplant leeks. Every year the same, see my Trials webpage https://charlesdowding.co.uk/three-strip-trial-2014-2021/
Filmed by Nicola Smith, 24th May at Homeacres, southern UK. In my no dig garden.
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Thank you for sharing! Always a beautiful garden.
Do you fertilize the garden?
Just start a new channel called No Rules gardening…forget no till, no dig etc etc etc lol
After harvesting potato,do you plant other crops or plant potato again?
Found your channel and absolutely love it, plus I would say even if you are not rotating your crop diversity is so close to each other you are still getting the added benefits of intercropping to reduce host specific pests and their population.
hi Charles hope you doing well.
I had a quick question. I started collecting rain water from roof this year (Metal roof, with very little paint left on it). After 3-4+ days without raining, when it starts raining again I noticed that the first few liters are pretty dirty, and I also noticed some bubbles in my barrels.
The dirtiness I can deal with it, probably bird poop and stuff I don't care, but the bubbles are worrying me.
If it rains more then the water gets very very clean (8ppm) and my barrels washes out whatever might be causing those bubbles, but I was wondering if you experienced the same thing and if so, do you worry about those or not.
Thank you !
Potatoes in Dumfrieshire; First year bad attack of blight, dug up and saved some. Second year really bad back so what was left in the ground before grew. Perfect crop, no blight!
Each year left some behind as seed, no blight!!
IK YT is pushing this shorts thing … I don't yet like it 🙁
Please share the " how" of what u do .
Your crops are perfectly beautiful!!!!
And what is the secret ??
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We have been growing red gram since 4 years in same soil nothing has changed like quantity and quality of the harvest. Growing red gram is easy and give decent money so we showing in this year also.
These shorts are a great addition to your channel, thank !
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Like your potatos and pink shirt looks good on you. You stand outxx
Do you have any tips for keeping brown leaf spot off potato leafs.thank you for your hard work.
You have to sustain perfect soil during each year to avoid diseases. That's why people rotate their crops. More often than not people have less than optimal soil. If you get to where his soil is then yeah.
I’m a farmer’s daughter, and I never heard anything about crop rotation when it came to gardens. I asked my dad about it a couple of years ago and he said it’s just a bunch of nonsense. Perhaps it’s necessary if someone is into big agriculture, but certainly not for little ordinary farmers.
Your plants are very healthy. Good job Charles
Hi Charles, can I grow the same crop just after harvesting it? Where I live the only season that can grow things is from September to April, the temperature is from 20 degrees to 32 degrees, though we still have to endure the stormy and pouring rain time from Sep to Dec or more. For example, the cucumber that I want to grow has two seasons which are Sep and Mar, so can I continue growing cucumber in March after harvesting it from the previous crop?
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Rotation can be important in places where there are a lot of pests and diseases. In more tropical climates for instance, if you were to plant tomatoes in the same place every year you would likely develop a nematode problem