Tour of Vegetables and Composting in October - November for No Dig Day

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. 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. 00:00 Introducing No Dig Day 00:38 Introducing the garden tour 00:57 Spreading compost at this time of year 01:13 Brussels sprouts, and an effect of planting near trees 01:42 A no-rotation trial with leeks following potatoes, and cabbages following broad beans 02:08 Hoeing tiny weeds 02:54 Calabrese (broccoli) following kohlrabi and fennel 03:40 My main compost heap 04:19 An example of compost spreading on beds after celery harvest 05:02 Something different - garlic and mustard (after borlotti beans) 06:29 Green Luobo winter radish 07:06 Spring cabbage 07:45 Tokyo Cross turnips, with cabbage root fly 09:03 A look at another compost bay 10:38 Chinese cabbage 11:!3 Tomatoes ripening in the store, plus onions and garlic, and hay for the compost loo 12:15 A bed spread with compost and planted with garlic, shop-bought and homesaved 12:47 Celeriac 13:24 Purple sprouting broccoli, following beetroot, recently deleafed and compost then spread underneath 13:59 Savoy cabbage 14:22 More mustard and garlic 14:42 Salads and some kale, after potatoes and leeks 15:08 Multisown leeks 15:17 Recently planted multisown spring onions, which followed rye grain for bread 15:56 Fennel (bulb) 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 17:37 Cabbages Savoy and Filderkraut, following a not very successful potato harvest 18:34 Asparagus Ariane F1, two plantings 19:08 Fennel planted around the asparagus 19:33 Chicories - radicchio 506TT 19:56 Chard 20:08 Spinach from homesaved seed 21:12 In the polytunnel – more homesaved seed of Grenoble Red lettuce, plus more lettuce, mustards, endive and salad rocket 21:34 Leaf damage from wood lice, as a result of woody homemade compost 22:32 Chard and coriander 22:48 Newly cleaned polytunnel plastic! 23:44 Oca, and when to harvest 24:19 Kuri squash 24:53 Beautiful flowers outside the polytunnel - echinacea, helichrysum (straw flowers), dahlias, marigolds, self-sown phacelia, small-flowered sunflower 25:57 Chervil 26:32 Zinnias, and more sunflowers and dahlias 27:18 The greenhouse - rye seedlings (with tops eaten) 28:34 Perennial kale propagated from a stem, and tomatoes propagated from side shoot 29:48 Chillies Apache 29:59 A suggestion for No Dig Day celebrations Full details of No Dig Day on this page of my website: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/3rd-november-2022-no-dig-day/ And see this video about No Dig Day: https://youtu.be/JW89BBji2U4 Filmed by Nicola Smith on 27th October 2022, SW England 51N, zone 8 climate. October's average temperature was 18C day and 8C night (64F-46F), unusually warm. 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: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join