https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/9b9b46cf-ca4b-4364-af62-79f80760242d Sharing the life here at Homeacres, what we all off-screen. It's 15th to 21st May, as spring turns to summer, so outdoors is suddenly even busier than before. And there's plenty going on apart from the seasonal no dig gardening. 00:00 Introduction 00:45 Monday - a day of filming and gardening 01:18 Preparing for a forecast of frost 02:31 Edward filming 03:08 Tuesday morning, after a slight frost - I explain the preparations we made 04:02 Picking in the early morning - salad leaves 05:17 Nicola and Julia preparing goodie bags for children for a weekend event 05:39 Multisown turnips, Tokyo Cross 06:46 Multisown radish, Rudi - see link below 07:16 Adam washing salad leaves 07:37 Tom and Charlie filling salad bags in the shed, and veg for The Three Horseshoes pub being collected by Josh 08:27 Charlie loading salad bags for delivery 08:40 Discussing next year’s Calendar and the new website with Anna 09:20 Wednesday - a course day, with Julia hosting and Will cooking 09:40 Cucumbers planted in the polytunnel earlier in the morning, and tomatoes restrung 10:29 Plan to relocate pallet compost bays 11:02 Teaching course participants 12:56 Minty the cat, and the course lunch 13:32 Teaching after lunch - I talk about selling salad leaves / a look at tomatillos / pricking out 14:52 Thursday, another big harvest to start the day, even though it's hungry gap 15:05 The Small Garden, see link below 15:12 Harvested veg in the shed - veg boxes and salad bags 15:55 Meetings planned for later in the day with media people 16:08 Charles planting flowers, and Tom making an honesty box 16:38 Edging and planting 16:50 Zoom meeting with the National Allotment Association 17:55 The honesty box is up! 18:10 With Adam in the polytunnel, hanging string and planting melons, loofah 19:07 Friday morning, in the polytunnel with new plantings - melon, tomato, cucumber, loofah, basil 19:43 Veg picked for local pub 19:55 Plans for the rest of the day – a Zoom meeting and lots of planting 20:14 Results from using top quality homemade and mixed potting compost 20:41 Squash plants from the greenhouse - planting them into holes in black plastic 21:21 How we turned a meadow area into the squash beds 22:06 Zoom meeting with a soil researcher - there is a video to follow from this 23:16 Then lunch cooked by Nicola, a delivery of books, Minty, planting beans, putting on mesh covers, sowing wildflower seeds by the pond 24:50 Early Saturday morning, off to Derby - the Electric Daisy garden project for a workshop for children’s gardening, and my morning talk to grown-ups 26:02 Sunday morning I was planting from 5am, too early to film, then it was the Alhampton Village Open Gardens event in the afternoon. In 2024 it will be 19th May 27:04 A look at the dig/no dig trial beds. See link below 28:04 Outro Filmed by Nicola Smith, which is why we don't see her much I'm afraid, and edited by Edward Dowding. Music by Rory Dinwoodie @rorydinwoodiemusic Here is information about my courses at Homeacres, and we shall post dates for 2024 in early December https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/education/homeacres-courses Small garden's productive summer https://youtu.be/GYgtwWVXuL8 See how I make potting compost, including 10-20% worm compost https://youtu.be/AcGclgWgtIQ Find the excellent radish seeds at Tamar Organics https://tamarorganics.co.uk/product/radish-rudi#:~:text=Rudi%20is%20a%20short%2Dleaved,outside%20between%20March%20and%20August.&text=brassicas.,site%20from%20March%20until%20September. Three Horseshoes pub in Batcombe https://thethreehorseshoesbatcombe.co.uk My 2024 Calendar https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/charles-dowdings-calendar-of-vegetable-sowing-dates Recent two bed trial results are here https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post/dig-no-dig-trial-2019-2022 Will's cooking company is https://www.figandspoonfood.com 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: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join #nodig #nodiggardening #nodiggarden #compost #growyourownfood Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:46:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/9b9b46cf-ca4b-4364-af62-79f80760242d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.