Menu
See the whole process of growing “no dig” potatoes from sowing to “earthing up” to harvest, by pulling not digging. Potato plants easily root into undisturbed, no dig soil, while developing potatoes need soft, surface material to grow in.
It’s often assumed that potatoes just won’t grow in soil that has not been thoroughly loosened, but the techniques shown in the video below show the opposite.
Filmed at Charles Dowding’s Homeacres garden from April to July 2018, in a spring that started cool and wet, then turned hot and dry after 3rd May. Charles Dowding’s garden is no dig and you see how few weeds are growing. He spends most of his time planting and picking, about two hours/week on weeding a quarter acre/1000 m2. Check it out below…
You can also check out some of Charles’s best selling gardening books below for more great information on all aspects of growing your own highly productive garden…
If you like this idea, be sure to share it with your friends and inspire someone you know. Anything becomes possible with just a little inspiration…
Our food system is collapsing around us, and some farming practices are destroying the precious soil we have left. It's time to start focusing on solutions...
This epic FREE TO WATCH documentry focuses on how REGENERATING our soils will...
* Store more water in our environment to prevent drought and flooding...
* Create high-powered nutrient density in ways that can restore human health...
* Protect our drinking water and oceans from harmful chemical contaminants...
* And help to reverse climate change by storing huge amounts of carbon in the soil...