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No dig soil is always ready for second plantings through summer, many examples by equinox

See how no dig gardening makes succession planting, autumn harvests, and composting easier after a dry summer. September in the no dig garden is a time of abundance. After a dry summer, I’ve been keeping beds full with second plantings, mostly into very dry soil after the vigorous growth of spring crops. Watering is all by hand with a hose and only where most needed, and the plants survived well. Then, in the last month, there has been phenomenal growth after 85 mm (3.5 inches) of rain. No dig makes this a lot easier by conserving moisture, reducing weed germination, and making perennial weeds simpler to remove. Looking ahead, the first frost will be before a month has passed, even though officially this is zone 8. In fact, we are forecast a ground frost on 23rd September. In this tour I share succession plantings, autumn harvests, composting, and simple pest control – practical ways to keep beds productive. You’ll see: – Harvests of squash (Crown Prince, North Georgia Candy Roaster, Marina di Chioggia), plus onions, beetroot, carrots, beans, spinach, endive, sweet potato, celeriac – Succession and interplanting: lettuce with corn salad; mustards, tatsoi, rocket; later spinach and herbs – Using Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) for caterpillars on brassicas – Compost heaps, turning, and woodchip piles – A three-strip trial: no dig, forking, composts, no rotation – Protecting leeks from allium leaf miner, and planning for frosts Learn more about succession planting in my Skills for Growing book: https://shop.charlesdowding.co.uk/pro... Sowing times are important too. Use my Calendar of Sowing Dates (print and digital) and my Sowing Timeline to plan your plantings: Print: https://shop.charlesdowding.co.uk/pro... Digital: https://shop.charlesdowding.co.uk/pro... Timeline: https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/reso... Courses and events at Homeacres: https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/educ... For more on woodchip, see this video:    • How to Use Wood Chips & Shredded Wood for ...   Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) – on eBay is Dipel - https://www.agrigem.co.uk/product/dip... Timestamps 00:00 Intro – courses and events, https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/educ... 00:25 Recent weather 00:50 Squash and onion harvests – Marina di Chioggia is the one whose name I forgot 01:49 Range of crops in different beds, polyculture method 02:15 Carrots, late sowing, not covered 02:53 Lettuce interplanted with corn salad 03:35 Beetroot Boltardy transplanted 9 weeks 03:59 Summer plantings of mustard, tatsoi and rocket, and unintentional winter purslane/Claytonia 05:30 French beans, soon to finish, and collards, under mesh 06:12 Medania spinach, home-saved seed – harvesting first outer leaves, 5 weeks after transplanting 07:15 Beans – Borlotti and Czar 07:55 Herbs – dill, coriander, parsley 09:00 Endive – harvesting outer leaves 10:27 Sweet potato Beauregard 11:28 Celeriac – comparisons between two sowing dates 12:37 Chinese cabbage, mesh just removed 13:14 Spraying Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) 13:31 Courgettes 13:46 Purple sprouting broccoli – flea beetle damage 14:45 Compost heap – ingredients, pipe in middle, finishing time 16:14 Method for turning heaps in 7-bay system 16:32 4/5-month-old compost in final bay 17:12 Spinach, filling space 17:58 Caterpillar damage cabbage plants, sprayed with Bt 18:38 Autumn cauliflower incl. Romanesco 19:14 A three-strip trial comparing no dig, forking, different composts, no rotation 20:21 Weeds from woodchip, and manure made from compost toilet 20:59 Squash harvests from each strip 21:57 Mustard, Sinapis alba, cover crop 22:31 Chioggia beetroot 23:05 Red cabbage – removing outer leaves 24:11 Globe artichoke 24:30 Chicory for radicchio, and chervil 25:04 White sprouting broccoli 25:23 13-year-old asparagus, and protecting leeks against allium leaf miner 26:08 Small transplants of winter radish, turnips, endive 26:38 Mustards and ever-bearing strawberries – removing flowering shoots 27:11 Buckler-leaved sorrel, and autumn raspberries 27:46 More raspberries in newly made bed – removing shoots of weeds (see my Beginners online course) 29:04 Wooden edges for managing weeds 30:05 Woodchip – three piles, varying ages, and see    • How to Use Wood Chips & Shredded Wood for ...   Filmed by Nicola Smith with iPhone 16, 19th September at my garden in Somerset, Southwest England, latitude 51°. You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support my work in helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:    / @charlesdowding1nodig   #nodig #charlesdowding #successionplanting #vegetablegarden #soilhealth #composting #gardentour #autumnharvest #wintervegetables #growyourown #homeacres