July the busiest month, keep up with growth!
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Published 2024-06-29
Soil does not need a rest, so it’s good to keep resowing and replanting. There are many possibilities.
Don’t worry about four year rotation unless your soil is depleted and has soil diseases like clubroot.
Make loads of compost!
Link to my page on Crocus www.crocus.co.uk/features/inspiration/charles-dowd…
Harvest second early potatoes, and onions probably later in the month
If it rains a few times there are chances of late bight.
SOW in temperate climates:
1 In the first week sow dwarf beans, beetroot and carrots (direct only).
2 Until mid month sow chicory for radicchio.
3 At any time sow salad onions, chard, lettuce and endive.
4 After mid month sow Florence fennel, coriander, chervil and Chinese cabbage.
Wait until August for spinach and salad rocket.
Transplant leeks, brassicas, salads.
Pest protection against caterpillars, I use mesh for smaller plants and Bacillus thuringiensis when they are larger. In the UK, it's called "Box hedge caterpillar killer".
My three online courses:
No Dig Gardening: www.charlesdowding.co.uk/courses/no-dig-gardening
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Second plantings
01:05 Ridge cucumber and multisown beetroot
01:20 Carrots
01:51 Onions, downy mildew - early harvest
02:51 Kale, and when to water
03:20 Potatoes - Casablanca variety, grass as mulch
04:46 Multisown leeks
05:12 Lettuce - young transplants
05:27 Celery - lots of water needed
05:46 French bean, planted today
06:31 Garlic harvest, and rust
07:25 Compost - making, the temperature of heaps, stage of decomposition, rain, smaller compost bins
10:54 Interplanting - Brussels with carrots
12:31 Mesh cover
13:03 Compost bay pallet system
14:30 Multisown beetroot from early planting
15:22 Early July sowings - Savoy cabbage, broccoli
15:54 Pests, be wary
16:15 Lettuce under Thermacrop, and bindweed - how to remove
16:42 Protection against rabbits, and foxes
17:09 Removing covers, and the benefits of mesh
17:35 Bird netting, against rabbits and deer
18:04 Polytunnel plants - tomatoes, problems with growth, and deleafing
19:55 Melons looking stronger, need pruning
20:41 Cucumber plants - problems with leaves, slow to fruit
21:51 Melons in the greenhouse - good growth, and tomatoes - not so good
22:39 Propagation - a lot! - some ideas
23:42 Potting on
24:26 Four-year rotation, not necessary
24:38 Outro
My new compost book:
Signed copies available from my website: www.charlesdowding.co.uk/product/compost
And direct from publisher DK: geni.us/Compost
Filmed Homeacres 25th June by Edward Dowding.
Music by Rory Dinwoodie, IG: rorydinwoodiemusic
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All Comments (21)
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I've been in hospital for some time so my garden has been quite neglected. A new Charles Dowding video is just what I need to get me back in the garden :) 🙏
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Please keep showing us the fails along with the successes, almost every failure with the tomatos, cucumbers etc you've had are exactly the same issues I've had, I think it's best we share the fails so we don't beat ourselves up not knowing the other factors/variables effecting everyone too
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Looks like you're having a hard time this year just like the rest of us. Thanks Charles for being an inspiration. X
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I love that the tomatoes got a "Sorry guys"😁 I thought I was the only one who apologized to my neglected plants!
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Actually really appreciate you show the bad ones too, my tomatoes and cucumbers are also far behind and that made me feel less bad about it
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I’ve never heard anyone call powdery mildew “bright & cheerful” 😂😂
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Oooh.... it's a brave gardener who leaves their garden mid summer!!! I can hear those slugs yelling 'bon voyage' and gathering their picnic rugs... 😅
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I’ve been gardening for over 50 years (north America) and was a bit discouraged with weather etc. This was a great pep talk! 🙏
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I have an allotment in the Welsh valleys but no greenhouse although I have a small plastic one next to my bungalow. This week is the first consistent warm one we have had and although I have managed eventually to get my seeds to germinate once i get them in the ground they go nowhere. Hopefully now the weather has warmed up they will get growing but I have been growing for over 50yrs and this is the oddest growing year I can remember.
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It all looks great as always. I'm putting in about 4.5 or more hours a day on the allotment. A guy who hardly turns up, family work, says "I wish mine looked like yours". I think people underestimate the effort needed, radically underestimate, even with no dig. It's a lifestyle choice at the end of the day I think. I use it for fitness, growing my own etc.
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How wonderful your vegetable garden Charles ! I remember when I was a child and helping my paternal grandfather make garlic braids ( Ristra de ajos ) .
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I've got a dalek composter and it breaks everything down beautifully, but it doesn't get hot enough to kill seeds, so I get hundreds of tomatoes germinating!
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Thank you Charles for still generously sharing your experience and knowledge. I appreciate you are a very busy man with your finger in many pies and you surely must have an ever expanding business, but you still put out these great vids, packed with down to earth tips. Thank you and please keep doing it Best regards Pat
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The carrot situation is ridiculous, I've sown 9,000 seed in batches of 3,000, starting at the end of march and I've got no carrots 😭 Nematodes deployed, night time murder sprees, upside down pots and beer traps for collecting them, the slugs just keep pouring into my garden! They have even started nibbling my ONIONS after they ate all my carrot seedlings, I've never seen anything like it.
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People need to remember to hit the like button 1,447 views, 179 likes. It's free and really helps with the reach on you tube
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enjoyable video charles
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Wow I wish my melons were as far on as yours Charles. I was late getting them away though, probably was late April early May but they are about a metre high with 2 small fruit on. 1st time grower of them so quite excited to have any in all fairness. Cucumbers also a bit behind but I think thats because we were so cold so late into June. Great to see your garden though and have a lovely time across the pond ❤
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Would you be able to show how you create your row covers? What you use for support, how deep the support goes into the ground, how tall to make them above ground, etc. What has worked well and what has not? I’ve seen where the supports cross diagonally on top of the cover in addition to direct across under cover in order to provide more stability. I would love to see how you make yours ❤
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I wonder if @Charles Dowding do gardening course? I am aware he has a book but a practical no dig course? Thanks
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I got one of those compost thermometers recently. It's interesting to stick it in different areas and depths and see what's going on. Mine is up to around 55~60C but that's mostly in the upper area where there's more greens. The lower area is cooler.
