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No dig with Charles Dowding, showing his fourth summer at Homeacres

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The result in summer 2016, of using mulches to transform 3/4 acre (0.3ha), from weeds and grass to intensively cropped vegetables for market on 1/4 acre, using organic methods, no synthetic chemicals. Plus I show you the fruit trees, flowers, compost heaps, undercover spaces and dig/no dig trials. In South West England, 51N temperate oceanic…
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NO DIG ABUNDANCE, a weedy field becomes garden in 9 months, using mulches only

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Turning an uncultivated plot with many perennial weeds, into an abundant garden using the no-dig approach. all within a few months in 2013. I describe the process in detail in "How to Create a New Vegetable Garden", pub. Green Books 2014. To see how the garden evolved over the next few years. we made another…
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No dig, two ways to clear weeds

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Charles demonstrates and explains two methods of clearing weeds to grow vegetables, without digging soil or removing any weeds or soil. Mulches were applied at his Homeacres garden during the past 6-12 months, and you see the results: crops taken, while soil is being cleared of weeds, some of which were vigorous perennials. Homeacres is…
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No Dig: feed the soil not the plants for many, easier harvests and few weeds

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After 11 months of no feeds or fertilisers, see the fine growth of Homeacres vegetables, many planted in summer after clearing first harvests, and no compost or other food added. In undisturbed and mulched soil, organisms manage resources better plus plants root more easily, as you see here. No dig FAQ's, see the blog of…
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How to start a no dig bed and compost differences, I take you though the early stages of mulching weeds, which means smothering or covering them, I show examples of composts you can use, which serve to feed soil life and get plants off to a great start, as well as smothering weeds! Use any…
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No dig conversion of weedy ground into a productive garden. Follow the progress we made from February to November, using mulches to smother the weeds, and compost to enable rapid, successful transplanting. Then we made second plantings and even in November, almost all beds have something still growing, or new seeds starting such as broad…
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Starting no dig and planning on new land. It's less than two months since I bought this acre / 4000sqm of pasture and weeds, and I think out loud with some possibilities of what I may do. Meanwhile we continue to grow vegetables for sale on the existing quarter acre of no dig beds, which…
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How to start a no dig bed and compost differences, I take you though the early stages of mulching weeds, which means smothering or covering them, I show examples of composts you can use, which serve to feed soil life and get plants off to a great start, as well as smothering weeds! Use any…
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