We transformed a weedy pasture into an easy to manage market garden. Here is how. It can be hard work st first, removing regrowth of perennial weeds with a trowel. After two years, we have clean soil and productive beds requiring little management time. See this playlist of the first year in 2021 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7WDfop74y-k1a3lMA0ooD5m8bhiKu5sR Filmed at Homeacres, Somerset, UK by Edward Dowding 24th May and extensively edited by him. https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio 00:00 Introduction 01:15 I explain the ‘new area’ 01:47 First work done on the area - a new bed 01:55 3-pallet compost bay 02:25 How we cleared the wild growth 03:00 Apple trees 03:17 A rosemary hedge 03:48 New pond, just made 04:04 A sunberry 04:29 Apricot tree, and how to protect from frost 05:05 Main garden area from the land purchased two years previously 05:44 I demonstrate removing field bindweed 07:14 A bed with mustards just finished, soon to have beans, plus overwintered spring greens 07:25 Broad beans soon to finish, to be followed by purple sprouting broccoli - some spottiness (Botrytis fabae 'chocolate spot') on the leaves - plants were covered with mesh 08:16 Fleece over ruby chard, very few weeds, homesaved seed 08:55 Purple sprouting broccoli just cleared 09:22 Another type of cover - Thermacrop over celeriac and interplanted spring onion seedlings 09:59 Wood on the beds - from homemade compost, not woodchip 10:39 Courgettes/zucchini, survived a slight frost (covered with fleece) 11:22 Polytunnels with tomato plants (was winter salad) 12:04 Sideshooting a Sungold tomato - how to know which are sideshoots 13:03 Garlic interplant, and when to harvest 13:23 Changes made to one top the Homeacres boundary edges - a bed, a cabin and a new hedgerow with ornamental seedlings 14:14 Veg that were under Thermacrop – peas for shoots, overwintered spinach Medania plus new plants – I harvest some leaves 15:20 Lettuce – plenty of cropping 15:54 Beetroot Boltardy transplanted end of March, fleece removed a week previously 16:58 Asparagus, planted in a bed originally full of perennial weeds, and a newer planting of asparagus - great results from the plants grown from seed, Ariane F1 19:!4 Rhubarb in area originally mulched with black plastic and woodchip, an experiment 20:07 An area of bed with woodchip removed – was cabbage, now potatoes 20:24 Trees - grafting on rootstock, I explain the process 21:45 Kale gone to flower – stem covered in aphids 22:10 A compost corner – cow manure, mushroom compost and green waste compost - I explain how much compost we use at different times 23:15 An experiment to protect against carrot root fly (and removing bindweed), and advice on filling a deep bed 24:53 New beds, made last spring – I describe the dimensions 25:22 Kohlrabi and cauliflower – growth affected by nearby ash tree, lack of moisture 26:02 Rye plants for making bread 27:31 Flowers – ornamental alliums and lupins 28:10 Potatoes in ground that was covered in black plastic last year - how we use plastic repeatedly – squashes grown here previously 28:54 Potatoes earthed up with cow manure because of late frost – wood in the manure from bedding 29:54 Area currently under plastic, with squashes and sweetcorn growing 31:32 Another new bed, mulched with cardboard and compost 32:23 Other new plantings in this area – hazel and birch saplings, wild flowers, willows 33:17 Hawthorn, also called ‘may’ 33:47 The old pond, and bees 34:31 The wormery, and new shed 33:25 Outro See my web shop for new offers on bundles of my online courses https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-category/online-course-pacakages/ 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
