September Tour - vegetable's sweetness| Edging| Rhubarb and composting| Charles Dowding
Harvests, so many! Helped by the no dig abundance with soil in a very fertile state.
I'm growing almost every vegetable which is possible and viable in the climate here, so that's a wide range. It's a temperate oceanic climate with daytime temperatures this September averaging 22°C 72°F by day 13°C 55°F by night, September has been as warm as any summer month. And with rainfall of 72mm or 2.9in.

The sugar test we do at the beginning is with a portable refractometer. If you put those two words in 'search' you should find options for purchasing one. It's a fun device and an easy way to discover more about what you are growing.

00:00 Introduction - I show some harvests in my conservatory
00:18 Celery harvested too late
00:49 Chicory for radicchio, used in my salad bags
01:16 Cabbages and cauliflower
01:44 Onions, garlic and squash – all stored in the house
02:02 Loofahs
02:24 Seed from French Marigolds grown in the polytunnel
02:36 Garlic ‘seed’ (cloves)
02:55 Dry beans – borlotti and Czar
03:31 Sweetness of harvest – I demonstrate using a portable refractometer to measure the sweetness of beetroot
04:56 More results – apples, tomatoes, carrots, tomatillos and garlic
07:10 In the garden – chicory for radicchio and cauliflower
08:08 Tomatoes in the polytunnel with some late blight on the leaves, and some new plantings of chard and kale
09:41 Cucumbers and loofahs, and I cut open a watermelon
11:40 Winter radish outside, Bora variety
12:25 How we manage edging
13:14 Jerusalem artichoke
13:31 Chervil interplanted between lettuce
14:10 Kale and cavolo nero, and asparagus
14:59 Rhubarb
15:58 Pure wood chip on a bed
16:24 Two types of beetroot – a red stemmed variety, and Cheltenham Green Top
17:03 Lettuce just harvested, and broccoli
18:14 A slug, and how to manage them
18:36 Nantes carrots, and some info on carrot root fly
19:28 Cover crop of mustard, and plantings of rye – a trial against wireworm
20:30 Spinach
21:06 Deer damage to chicory and endive
21:48 Onion seeds in the shed, and squash
23:00 Compost in pallet bays
23:10 A bed of squash, some just harvested, and how to know when they’re ripe
24:17 Chicory and endive – different ways of harvesting
25:08 Bed with cleared Borlotti beans, and garlic now planted with compost over – a comparison of compost of different ages
25:26 A caterpillar on a cabbage, which has been sprayed with Bacillus thuringiensis
26:56 Compost in my 7-bay system – adding green and brown
29:43 Outro

Link for the copper tools [ Ссылка ]
The recommended seeds are from [ Ссылка ].
My how to save seed video [ Ссылка ]

For those in Europe I recommend this excellent seed company who save most of their own seeds [ Ссылка ]

Filmed 28th September by Nicola Smith at Homeacres no dig garden in Somerset, UK. Nicola apologises for exporting the file SD rather than HD. It's fine for watching on smaller screens.

For growth and planting comparisons, see my August tour one month before this [ Ссылка ]

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