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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />00:00 Introducing No Dig Day<br />00:38 Introducing the garden tour<br />00:57 Spreading compost at this time of year<br />01:13 Brussels sprouts, and an effect of planting near trees<br />01:42 A no-rotation trial with leeks following potatoes, and cabbages following broad beans<br />02:08 Hoeing tiny weeds <br />02:54 Calabrese (broccoli) following kohlrabi and fennel<br />03:40 My main compost heap<br />04:19 An example of compost spreading on beds after celery harvest<br />05:02 Something different - garlic and mustard (after borlotti beans)<br />06:29 Green Luobo winter radish<br />07:06 Spring cabbage <br />07:45 Tokyo Cross turnips, with cabbage root fly<br />09:03 A look at another compost bay<br />10:38 Chinese cabbage<br />11:!3 Tomatoes ripening in the store, plus onions and garlic, and hay for the compost loo<br />12:15 A bed spread with compost and planted with garlic, shop-bought and homesaved<br />12:47 Celeriac<br />13:24 Purple sprouting broccoli, following beetroot, recently deleafed and compost then spread underneath<br />13:59 Savoy cabbage<br />14:22 More mustard and garlic<br />14:42 Salads and some kale, after potatoes and leeks<br />15:08 Multisown leeks<br />15:17 Recently planted multisown spring onions, which followed rye grain for bread<br />15:56 Fennel (bulb)<br />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<br />17:37 Cabbages Savoy and Filderkraut, following a not very successful potato harvest<br />18:34 Asparagus Ariane F1, two plantings<br />19:08 Fennel planted around the asparagus<br />19:33 Chicories - radicchio 506TT<br />19:56 Chard<br />20:08 Spinach from homesaved seed<br />21:12 In the polytunnel – more homesaved seed of Grenoble Red lettuce, plus more lettuce, mustards, endive and salad rocket<br />21:34 Leaf damage from wood lice, as a result of woody homemade compost<br />22:32 Chard and coriander<br />22:48 Newly cleaned polytunnel plastic!<br />23:44 Oca, and when to harvest<br />24:19 Kuri squash<br />24:53 Beautiful flowers outside the polytunnel - echinacea, helichrysum (straw flowers), dahlias, marigolds, self-sown phacelia, small-flowered sunflower<br />25:57 Chervil<br />26:32 Zinnias, and more sunflowers and dahlias<br />27:18 The greenhouse - rye seedlings (with tops eaten)<br />28:34 Perennial kale propagated from a stem, and tomatoes propagated from side shoot<br />29:48 Chillies Apache<br />29:59 A suggestion for No Dig Day celebrations <br /><br />Full details of No Dig Day on this page of my website: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/3rd-november-2022-no-dig-day/<br /><br />And see this video about No Dig Day: https://youtu.be/JW89BBji2U4<br /><br />Filmed by Nicola Smith on 27th October 2022, SW England 51N, zone 8 climate.<br />October's average temperature was 18
