Winter Tour of Ground and Store, Compost and No Dig Bed Prep

After a week of freezing weather, and with more to come, see how the plants are surviving. Winters here are normally temperate, so this is unusual for us in zone 8, south-west England. You also see no dig beds prepared and ready for planting in the spring. It's quick and easy with few weeds to worry about. Filmed at Homeacres by Nicola Smith, 14th December 2022. 00:00 Introduction, and some info on upcoming events 00:55 Broad beans for a cover crop 01:38 Rye plants, some with wireworm damage, and mustards - Synapsis Alba 03:18 Spring onions 03:45 Endive and lettuce, coming to the end 04:11 More mustard, later sown, interplanted with garlic 04:43 Savoy cabbage, a brilliant winter vegetable 05:12 Purple sprouting broccoli, covered with netting against pigeons 05:40 Vegetable storage in the shed - all frost tolerant veg… 06:47 …except fennel 07:38 Pigeon damage to Brussels sprouts 08:21 Lamb’s lettuce and swede 08:51 Spinach, Medania variety 09:22 Beetroot Boltardy 09:49 Compost, just spread, with some bits of wood 10:52 The three-bay pallet system 11:50 A pile of fresh wood chip, compare it to 10 months old woodchip 13:07 Another bed of mustard, and garlic 13:31 Fruit radish - Shawo fruit, Sakurajima and Green Luobo 14:26 A different type of Brussels sprout, Red Bull, a non-hybrid 14:54 Broad beans under thermacrop, and Aalsmeer cauliflower under mesh 15:51 The dig and no dig trial beds 16:24 Broad beans just planted in the trial beds 17:01 This year’s harvesting results from the trial, see webpage below 17:38 The greenhouse, with plants under fleece 20:42 The Small Garden, and a look at coriander 22:09 In the conservatory - oca recently harvested 22:40 Tomato plant, F1 hybrid Rosada, propagated from a sideshoot 23:31 I cut open a leek, Philomene, harvested the same morning 24:15 Two fruit radish, recently harvested - Green Luobo and Shawo fruit, the latter with cabbage root fly damage 25:32 Outro Homeacres courses 2023 listed on this page of my website:https://charlesdowding.co.uk/courses/ See the 2022 results of my dig/no dig trial here: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/no-dig-t... 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