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Make Your First No Dig Bed | Start Growing Your Own Food | No Dig Day 2025

Here at Homeacres, I show you how simple it is to make your first no dig bed — starting from a patch of weeds and transforming it into a thriving space for growing food. Using just cardboard and compost, I’ll share tips on dealing with perennial weeds, keeping neat edges, and creating healthy soil for abundant harvests all year round. No Dig Day is our celebration of this wonderful method of growing healthy abundant vegetables. If you are watching this on No Dig Day, Monday 3rd November please do enter our competitions. 🎉 Caption Competition – open to everyone Check my Facebook and Instagram for the photograph of me somewhere in my garden and add your caption in the comments. We’ve also posted it on the No Dig Day 2025 page of my website: 👉 https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/no-d... 🏆 Prize: free access to the revised No Dig Course AND the Essential Knowledge Pack, which is packed full of all the precise details you need to grow vegetables successfully. ⏰ Closes: 6pm (GMT) on Monday, 3rd November 2025 🎨 Children’s Drawing Competition – open to 12 year olds and under Theme: What are the worms doing when I’m not looking?! We say it’s a drawing competition but you can use any medium you like. 🏆 Prizes: • 1st – £50 and a Children's No Dig Book • 2nd – £25 and a Children's No Dig Book 📩 Deadline: Friday 7th November, 12pm GMT Send your entries to Anna at [email protected] Filmed by Nicola Smith at Homeacres on Thursday 23rd October. Edited by Carly Dutton-Edwards Drone footage by Antonia Salter You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:    / @charlesdowding1nodig   #nodig #nodigday #nodiggarden #growyourownfood #growingvegetables 00:00 Intro 03:00 How to start no dig when you have many weeds 00:54 Making a bed - cardboard and compost 01:52 The importance of edges to a bed 02:30 Raspberries in recently made bed 03:15 Positioning a new bed, best away from trees and hedges 04:13 A bed made over 10 years ago - maintaining edges 05:09 Mixed plantings in the one bed, and second plantings 05:39 Harvesting carrots from the bed 06:17 The Small Garden 06:29 Growing in barrels