My mid-July tour shows strong new growth, after a cold and wet spring. Plants are wonderful and impress me so much, because we have had no significant warmth or sunshine..
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Discover how no dig soil quality helps plants through adverse conditions. And makes succession planting quick and easy.
Squash plants in the thumbnail have doubled size in two weeks, to 1.8m high in places.
Homeacres in Somerset UK is classed zone 8: like Texas! However since 1st June the average high temperature is just 19.4°C 69°F and the average low temperature is 9°C 48°F. The low night temperatures in particular have slowed the growth of many plants, especially cucurbits, capsicums and tomatoes.
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Filmed by Nicola Smith on 11th July at Homeacres, Somerset UK.
00:00 Introduction, my trip to the US
00:42 Second plantings
00:55 The effects on growth of unexpected cold weather
01:16 Courses at Homeacres
01:42 Potato plants, signs of age, no rotation
02:21 An interesting source of compost, with good results
03:03 Support for tall plants, onions for seed
03:20 Artichokes
03:35 Beetroot between garlic
04:00 Perennial asparagus
04:19 Chard for seed
04:32 Saving seed, cross-pollination
04:53 Raspberry bed, a mushroom trial
05:40 Weather challenges
06:05 Wildflowers
06:57 Garlic, how to store
07:35 Bed of winter squash, growing through black plastic
08:21 Onions, and downy mildew
09:14 Potatoes, a range of varieties - Jazzy and Setanta - and earthing up, the no dig way
10:25 Leeks following potato harvests
10:46 Brassicas, covered against rabbits
11:03 Carrots
11:49 Broad beans for seed
12:15 Covers and supports
12:35 Beetroot, and how to have strong transplants
13:04 Covers against allium leaf miner
13:27 A swarm of bees!
14:10 Globe artichokes, from seed
14:40 Asparagus from seed, Ariane, and from crowns
15:17 Hedging, a midsummer job
16:10 Melons in the polytunnel
16:40 And tomatoes - Sungold, slow growth, and Sakura
17:20 Leaf roll on tomatoes
17:45 Cucumbers, also slow growth
18:09 Sweet Williams
18:22 Peas, Hurst Green Shaft, some left for seed
18:47 Melons in the greenhouse - Malaga and Emir
19:12 Tomatoes and aubergines
19:36 Broccoli, and what can be sown now
19:59 Cleared bed of peas for shoots - leaving roots in the ground
20:44 Dahlia sowed from seed
21:23 Two more examples of succession
21:54 Carrots, covered against the cat! And birds, rabbits.
22:21 Peas for seed
22:32 Dill
22:55 Dig/no dig beds - harvests and second plantings, see https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post...
24:35 Outro
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