Sharing the life here at Homeacres, what we all off-screen. It's 15th to 21st May, as spring turns to summer, so outdoors is suddenly even busier than before. And there's plenty going on apart from the seasonal no dig gardening.

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Monday - a day of filming and gardening
01:18 Preparing for a forecast of frost
02:31 Edward filming
03:08 Tuesday morning, after a slight frost - I explain the preparations we made
04:02 Picking in the early morning - salad leaves
05:17 Nicola and Julia preparing goodie bags for children for a weekend event
05:39 Multisown turnips, Tokyo Cross
06:46 Multisown radish, Rudi - see link below
07:16 Adam washing salad leaves
07:37 Tom and Charlie filling salad bags in the shed, and veg for The Three Horseshoes pub being collected by Josh
08:27 Charlie loading salad bags for delivery
08:40 Discussing next year’s Calendar and the new website with Anna
09:20 Wednesday - a course day, with Julia hosting and Will cooking
09:40 Cucumbers planted in the polytunnel earlier in the morning, and tomatoes restrung
10:29 Plan to relocate pallet compost bays
11:02 Teaching course participants
12:56 Minty the cat, and the course lunch
13:32 Teaching after lunch - I talk about selling salad leaves / a look at tomatillos / pricking out
14:52 Thursday, another big harvest to start the day, even though it's hungry gap
15:05 The Small Garden, see link below
15:12 Harvested veg in the shed - veg boxes and salad bags
15:55 Meetings planned for later in the day with media people
16:08 Charles planting flowers, and Tom making an honesty box
16:38 Edging and planting
16:50 Zoom meeting with the National Allotment Association
17:55 The honesty box is up!
18:10 With Adam in the polytunnel, hanging string and planting melons, loofah
19:07 Friday morning, in the polytunnel with new plantings - melon, tomato, cucumber, loofah, basil
19:43 Veg picked for local pub
19:55 Plans for the rest of the day – a Zoom meeting and lots of planting
20:14 Results from using top quality homemade and mixed potting compost
20:41 Squash plants from the greenhouse - planting them into holes in black plastic
21:21 How we turned a meadow area into the squash beds

22:06 Zoom meeting with a soil researcher - there is a video to follow from this
23:16 Then lunch cooked by Nicola, a delivery of books, Minty, planting beans, putting on mesh covers, sowing wildflower seeds by the pond
24:50 Early Saturday morning, off to Derby - the Electric Daisy garden project for a workshop for children’s gardening, and my morning talk to grown-ups
26:02 Sunday morning I was planting from 5am, too early to film, then it was the Alhampton Village Open Gardens event in the afternoon. In 2024 it will be 19th May
27:04 A look at the dig/no dig trial beds. See link below
28:04 Outro

Filmed by Nicola Smith, which is why we don't see her much I'm afraid, and edited by Edward Dowding.
Music by Rory Dinwoodie @rorydinwoodiemusic6884

Here is information about my courses at Homeacres, and we shall post dates for 2024 in early December https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/educ...

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See how I make potting compost, including 10-20% worm compost    • Make Your Own Potting Compost  

Find the excellent radish seeds at Tamar Organics https://tamarorganics.co.uk/product/r....

Three Horseshoes pub in Batcombe https://thethreehorseshoesbatcombe.co.uk

My 2024 Calendar https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/prod...

Recent two bed trial results are here https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/post...

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