July No Dig Garden Tour: Peak Harvests, New Sowings & Watering Tips

It's the season of peak harvests, meaning also beds coming empty, with opportunities to re-sow and re-plant. July is the peak month for growth, because days are still long and it's normally warmer than June. Seize every moment to keep up with growth so that autumn will be more enjoyable, and your garden will then be full of food. Coming ready to harvest now or soon is a veritable cornucopia of vegetables. From melons, cucumber, tomatoes, and aubergine, to carrots, beetroot, salads of many kinds, onions, early potatoes, and more. Sow any of Florence fennel, kohlrabi, chicory, lettuce, endive, carrots, broccoli for spring, salad onions, and collards. Then in late July, Chinese cabbage and winter radish. August is a top time to sow spinach, salad rocket, mizuna, pak choi and turnips. Use mesh covers on new sowings and plantings for protection against insects, rabbits and more. The advice on watering is just my perspective. I know that there are many other ways to water. My main aim is to make sure all water goes to plant roots and is not wasted on weeds or empty spaces. See my July video of last year for more on watering,    • Dry July Gardening: Interplanting, Waterin...  . See also my Essential Knowledge pack https://charlesdowding.co.uk/products... Up to 14th July, the dig / no dig trial beds have given harvests of 30.54kg and 35.67kg respectively. Filmed at Homeacres no dig garden by Nicola Smith, on 13th July 2026. You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:    / @charlesdowding1nodig   00:00 Introduction - second early potatoes and squash 01:03 Asparagus 01:43 New plantings - beetroot under cover 02:05 Carrots, poor seed quality 02:32 Lettuce, watering 03:13 Beetroot - watering, and cover against rabbits 03:36 Flea beetle damage 04:13 New pantings of radicchio and endive, second planting lettuce 00:44 Carrots re-sown after being eaten by rabbit - watering 05:51 Weather - dry and hot 06:09 Runner beans, not setting through lack of moisture - timing of watering 06:51 The finished pyramid! 07:22 Bindweed removal 08:35 Celeriac 09:11 Compost - chopping stems, proportion of green/brown, watering 10:17 8-month-old compost 10:51 Onions at different stages of maturity 11:35 Tomatoes 11:48 More flea beetle damage - brassica seedlings 12:19 Swede and kale under Thermacrop 12:48 Maincrop potato, Desiree - watering 13:08 Leeks - late sowing, multisown 13:38 Tomatoes in the polytunnel - watering, overhead line 14:10 Oxheart beef tomatoes 14:52 Melons - no need to support, how to know when ripe, different ways of growing 16:12 Aubergines - removing sideshoots, bacterial rot and red spider mite predator 07:17 Cucumbers, watering needs 17:54 Dahlias 18:08 Squash, and celtuce 19:01 Propagation in the greenhouse - beetroot and brassica seedlings 19:41 Own-design module trays 19:52 Celery seedlings, ready to prick out 20:11 Options for sowing French beans 20:25 Sowings of brassicas - broccoli, Romanesco - potting on 20:51 No feed, good potting mix 21:19 Sowings of endive, lettuce, red cabbage 21:57 More sowing options - fennel, kohlrabi 22:27 Watermelon and melon - growing options, importance of starting early 23:56 Tomatoes, de-leafing 25:02 Outside - celery, different sowings 25:30 Dig/no dig trial beds - harvest comparison 26:05 Onions, ready to harvest 26:55 Celeriac - difference between beds 27:36 Beetroot interplanted with spring onions 27:53 Sweetcorn 28:43 A question to viewers! #nodig #july #gardentour #vegetablegarden #sowing #growyourown #CharlesDowding