Tour of Vegetables and Composting in October - November for No Dig Day

To celebrate No Dig Day, I'm publishing this as a Premiere on 3rd November. It's a tour of Homeacres on 27th October, one week earlier, in weather which continues mild and without frost.

As autumn draws on, you can see how the garden is still incredibly full, and how we are giving soil its annual mulch of compost underneath plants and before new plantings such as garlic.

00:00 Introducing No Dig Day
00:38 Introducing the garden tour
00:57 Spreading compost at this time of year
01:13 Brussels sprouts, and an effect of planting near trees
01:42 A no-rotation trial with leeks following potatoes, and cabbages following broad beans
02:08 Hoeing tiny weeds
02:54 Calabrese (broccoli) following kohlrabi and fennel
03:40 My main compost heap
04:19 An example of compost spreading on beds after celery harvest
05:02 Something different - garlic and mustard (after borlotti beans)
06:29 Green Luobo winter radish
07:06 Spring cabbage
07:45 Tokyo Cross turnips, with cabbage root fly
09:03 A look at another compost bay
10:38 Chinese cabbage
11:!3 Tomatoes ripening in the store, plus onions and garlic, and hay for the compost loo
12:15 A bed spread with compost and planted with garlic, shop-bought and homesaved
12:47 Celeriac
13:24 Purple sprouting broccoli, following beetroot, recently deleafed and compost then spread underneath
13:59 Savoy cabbage
14:22 More mustard and garlic
14:42 Salads and some kale, after potatoes and leeks
15:08 Multisown leeks
15:17 Recently planted multisown spring onions, which followed rye grain for bread
15:56 Fennel (bulb)
16:06 An area that was weeds and pasture eight months previously, now with mustard and rye (following squash and potatoes), plus some info on wireworms
17:37 Cabbages Savoy and Filderkraut, following a not very successful potato harvest
18:34 Asparagus Ariane F1, two plantings
19:08 Fennel planted around the asparagus
19:33 Chicories - radicchio 506TT
19:56 Chard
20:08 Spinach from homesaved seed
21:12 In the polytunnel – more homesaved seed of Grenoble Red lettuce, plus more lettuce, mustards, endive and salad rocket
21:34 Leaf damage from wood lice, as a result of woody homemade compost
22:32 Chard and coriander
22:48 Newly cleaned polytunnel plastic!
23:44 Oca, and when to harvest
24:19 Kuri squash
24:53 Beautiful flowers outside the polytunnel - echinacea, helichrysum (straw flowers), dahlias, marigolds, self-sown phacelia, small-flowered sunflower
25:57 Chervil
26:32 Zinnias, and more sunflowers and dahlias
27:18 The greenhouse - rye seedlings (with tops eaten)
28:34 Perennial kale propagated from a stem, and tomatoes propagated from side shoot
29:48 Chillies Apache
29:59 A suggestion for No Dig Day celebrations

Full details of No Dig Day on this page of my website: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/3rd-nove...

And see this video about No Dig Day:    • Enjoy No Dig Day 3rd November  

Filmed by Nicola Smith on 27th October 2022, SW England 51N, zone 8 climate.
October's average temperature was 18C day and 8C night (64F-46F), unusually warm.

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