No Dig Day - 3rd November

Nicola gets busy filming members of my team, after we have a chat in the greenhouse.
Meet Adam, Taryn, Catherine and Julia.

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If you are watching this on No Dig Day then please do enter our competitions.
Enter our caption competition - on the morning of 3rd November we will post an image taken in the Homeacres garden on Instagram for the funniest caption. The Winner receives access to Charles’s three online courses. Two runners up receive access to the online course No Dig.

‍Enter our two children’s competitions, win cash!!
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A photo of your Garden - The prize is for ‘Best Veg Garden of 2024’ judged by Charles. The winner will receive a cash prize of £100! Second prize is £50 and Third prize is £25. Each will also receive a 2025 calendar. We also welcome entries from children’s school or community gardens.

‍Prepare a veggie dish – And send us the recipe. Use some of your no dig harvests to create a dish, it doesn’t need to be complicated, just tasty! Take a photo of your dish and send it into us with the recipe and a short note about what you have made. The prize is the No Dig Cookbook and 2025 Sowing Calendar.

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We picked this one as there are always so many questions on how you sow a seed potato with no dig. No dig is all about disturbing the soil as little as possible, but yes, Charles uses a trowel to put seed potatoes in the ground. Do think ahead, where to get your seed potatoes from. Around Christmas time take some of your own harvest and put them in a box on window sill to sow in spring. To get your free Potato Growing Guide - add the discount code FREESPUDS at checkout.

00:00 Intro
00:18 Charles removing leaves from celeriac with Septoria
00:49 In the greenhouse, Nicola asks Charles some questions
00:14 What does No Dig Day mean for you?
01:43 Have you found it to be a difficult year for growing veg?
02:19 What about slugs?
03:30 Has there been a favourite memory from your talks and workshops away from Homeacres?
04:42 Are there any highlights from the Homeacres course days that you'd like to share?
06:05 What are your top three tips on composting?
07:15 Is there another book in the pipeline for next year?
08:09 Feedback for the newsletter - please comment!
09:27 The YouTube channel - what drives you to keep making new content?
11:44 What can we expect from the channel going forward?
12:45 Nicola chats to Adam as they walk around the garden and see his channel @myco_ad
15:29 Taryn and Adam picking apples and chatting about soil life
21:33 Julia packing books in the conservatory
22:05 Nicola talks to Cat about cheffing and the No Dig Cookbook

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[kaz]

You got me into gardening once I had retired Charles. It means as you get older and more creaky you can still manage a small veg garden by using the no dig method. I'm proud that I haven't bought a cabbage in years 😂 Thank you

[patriciahill]

I love seeing behind the scenes at Homeacres! And meeting the team that make this prodigious ongoing project possible. Thanks to everyone! Charles, please don't burn out. Take a rest every so often, won't you? Your followers consider you to be a mentor and friend, and we need you to hang around as long as possible. xo

[SierraNovemberKilo]

Congratulations to all in the No Dig Family. It's a pleasure to be amongst so many willing "learners" and practitioners.

[maristermcsorley]

Keep going Charles it was because of you that I have a beautiful allotment after my mum died I needed some thing to keep my mind occupied, only last week I put up a 20 foot poly tunnel from first tunnel so double what I had, and looking forward to next year growing 😊

[christophermee]

I have gained a lot of know how through these videos. Always helps.

[martinhorridge]

❤ all your videos especially when you tell us when a certain crop has been sown and transplanted. Wouldn't change anything in 2025. Nicola is your unsung hero. Part of your increase in followers is down to her expert filming

[patclark]

The soil and mycorrhizal parts of this video are the best - more please - and in the newsletter.

[tedbastwock]

6x 💚💚💚💚💚💚 for the 6 folks in this video, each as brilliant, knowledgeable, easy to listen to and watch as Charles. Charles, I've been growing vegetables on my own since I was a teenager. For years I treated it as a miniature industrial style operation, as many people do. You are changing lives for the better. I would have never known about you, bought your books, calendars, or CD trays if I had not seen you here. You were treated as a rock star because you are already a legend. The YT algorithm is ... whatever it is. Don't let that ever get you down. You built an amazing channel here. Thank you 🙏

[stevenbp]

Charles it’s always good to see and hear what’s going on in your garden. Thanks,

[callumpepper]

Happy No Dig Day!
Thank you, Charles and your extraordinary team for all the hard work going into the insightful videos, shorts on the channel and social pages. Your teachings have been an inspiration for me, 'A No Dig Beginner' since discovering you over two years ago, along with your wonderfully informative books, newsletter and website. Thank you 🙌❤

[mococlimbing]

Knew no dig mainly by.you. been maniging my pyrenean plot that way for more than 5 years and its great. Now that i am starting my agriculture no dig market garden i want to thank you so much for your work and your books !!! Have a beautiful and joyfull No Dig Day Charles and team.
Keep on going

[the_green_anna]

Your joy is contagious, Charles!
Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and all that joy! 💚
Happy 'No dig day' to everybody! 🌸

[conniehusband]

Happy No Dig Day to you Charles and crew!
You are responsible for revolutionizing my outlook toward gardening!
Thankyou some more🤗

[uteberg]

You had such a big impact on my life, I just want to tell you that!! Not only that you enabled me to work my land in denmark, where I bought a farm with really concrete-like claysoil. I started to adapt your method for my slow flowers flowerfarm and it helped me so much!! It actually saved my tulips and narcissi during last winter, when it was raining so much that even the growers in the Netherlands had big problems to save their harvest. Thank you for your work and teaching us how to work the soil sustainable!! Greetings from Denmark!! 🤗🌻🌞

[silviallovet]

I am a super fan of no dig. Thank you!!! Congrats!!

[CherryGoode]

Thank you for all you do!!!! You’re very special to us all ❤

[jaynekennedy]

I got an allotment about 2 years ago and started watching your channel. My plot was covered in plastic compost bags and car tyres. I’ve now managed to remove all of the tyres and 98% of the plastic rubbish and converted about 1/2 the beds to no dig. I started making my own compost last year so that I’ll be able to convert the remainder too. Thank you

[Iamhome]

I'm going to sit and enjoy this when i get my children settled in bed. Right now my garden is a complete and utter mess and my tunnel (40ft) grew more weeds and thistles than anything else, loads of work to be done. Your garden is AMAZING! I aspire to have something like yours in a few years 😊

[turtle]

You are wonderful as you are, Sir Charles, nothing to change at all.❤ You might repeat posting your special sowing videos from a few years ago to save some of your valuable time. I am convinced it helps to review them and for the rapidly growing audience to first view them. These 'older' videos are gardener's gold. You cannot review them too often😊. Dankeschön. P.S. I miss the cooking videos, maybe your Chef has time to do some so that you are not overwhelmed all alone...

[sewnonny]

What a lovely video and insight in to the team. Fascinating to hear about the fungi root research, please update us on progress of that. I would rather watch this than any slick high budget gardening show, it's real and realistic. Charles you are a great, great teacher and hearing the younger ones shows you're building your team too. I know how time-consuming it can be, but your videos have encouraged and enthused me and thousands of others. You answered my queries on celeriac and I'm daily comparing its size to yours! You also wrote a lovely message in my friends book. All round fabulous, please keep being you! 😊