Charles Dowding

💨🍃More stormy weather and a few covers needed attention but mostly the garden is ready for spring 🌱

🍃What is no dig？ It's a very simple definition. Leave soil undisturbed as much as possible and feed soil life with organic matter on the surface.🌱

🍃One thing it can be very good to do before winter is really get on top of weeds.🌿

🍃No dig soil really helps with drainage and moisture retention and having few weeds, so it makes growing easier. But all these plants start somewhere. Where do they start？🌿

🍃Keep replanting, second cropping. But how do you know where and when to pop in each different vegetable？🌿

🍃I'm using what's in the garden here to give you some prompts for jobs that you can do in July, which is a fast moving month.🌱

🍃How can you turn something like this mass of weeds, random plants, into something like that？ Incredible abundance. 🌿

🍃A few thoughts on patio growing in containers. And this is not a how to, but it's just things I've done here to give you some ideas of what you could do🌿

🌿🐌 I've never seen quite this much snail damage. We're not seeing so many birds here as we normally do in the whole area here, not just Homeacre's garden. 🌱

🌱🌿 This is seed saving of root vegetables, where you need to grow probably at least ten, some people say more, in a clump, so you get good genes for cross-pollination. 🌼

🌱We've got some healthy cucumbers so they don't mind the humidity. They are still cropping quite nicely, but they're nothing like the quality they were. They're not quite as big🌱

🌱We're probably looking here at three and a half thousand seedlings. How can that be possible in such a relatively small space？ It's to do with the trays partly. 🌿