What is No Dig Gardening

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This week we welcome Charles Dowding, the godfather of the no dig method! There is no one better to give us the scoop on no dig. In this method, you don’t disturb the soil as much as possible, add mulch on top to stop the weeds, and feed the soil with organic matter. EG shop homepage: https://growepic.co/477s2QX EG book collection page: https://growepic.co/3DBkEzU EG homesteading book: https://growepic.co/43GSJsM Connect With Charles Dowding: Charles Dowding has made no dig popular with millions of readers and viewers. They love how it’s good for the soil, healthy for plants and easier plus time-saving for them. His growing methods are applicable for small areas and large ones, and are used worldwide. Since 1982 he has created and cropped four no dig market gardens on varied soils from stony to silt, and on two types of clay. Currently he grows vegetables on 0.35 acres/1300 meters 2 in Somerset, SW England, for local sales of salad leaves and vegetables. He has written 14 books, runs a YouTube channel and Instagram account, has created and sells online gardening courses, writes for gardening magazines, and gives talks plus courses at home and abroad. Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitter Pinterest Website Online Course Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back my friends to the Epic Gardening podcast. This week we have a very special guest.
0:18.6	We have none other than Charles Dowding. Probably not a name you would give yourself Charles,
0:24.2	but for me I would say the godfather of no dig, or the person who's made the no dig gardening
0:29.2	method popular with a really millions of people around the world. I think your garden has been
0:35.3	a huge inspiration to me. I was fortunate enough to come out and visit it a couple of years back
0:39.4	and do a video with you and we've done a couple things since then, but it's great to have you on,
0:43.6	officially on the beat, our new name for the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:47.5	Well thank you. It's a pleasure to be here and to see you again as well and to track.
0:52.1	Yeah, yeah. It's been a long time. I'd love to get back over there and see. I understand you,
0:56.7	you just bought another acre and have been expanding the space. I did. Yeah, it wasn't planned either.
1:03.0	The Nova said there might be a possibility. I actually didn't want to buy it at first. I thought,
1:07.5	oh no, you know, I don't need more jobs. Right. So it's slightly relaxing. I'm really glad I did
1:13.3	now. It's been a fantastic chance to experiment and try any things. Yeah, so is that the reason
1:19.1	primarily that you purchased the extra space is to have more growing areas to test out different
1:23.9	theories. Yeah, when I moved home because 10 years ago, 11 years, that was my original intention.
1:30.5	And it's always underlaying a lot of what I do is to do that exactly. It's a teaching garden.
1:35.4	And I've got the space and a bit of spare time to do that. And I can try out new things and share
1:41.7	that with everybody else. Got it. And is that whole new acre? That's I know dig space still, right?
1:49.2	Well, a lot of it's still wild. Actually, probably about half of it haven't yet.
1:52.8	I've got anywhere with it. I've never had a plan, but it's just given me room to try new things.
1:56.6	And I'm cropping on it around a tenth of an acre, maybe. I've got my big new shares and I've
2:03.9	tried to make a couple of ponds and yeah, lots of little projects. Nice. Well, that kind of brings
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