No-Dig Gardening Masterclass with Charles Dowding

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This No-Dig method of organic gardening is regarded as the best way to build soil health. It’s a method that has boomed in popularity due to its success in boosting crop yields and overall garden health, as well as being easier on your back. Win-win!

Charles Dowding is reputed as the absolute Godfather of the No-Dig method and when you watch this video it’s clear to see why!
Here at Grow Veg we are advocates of the No -Dig approach to organic gardening. In this week’s episode Ben goes to pay Charles a visit and learns a few tricks of the trade from the king of No Dig.

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@RahmatullahKapadia
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

This method is a game-changer! Thank you, Charles, for making gardening so much simpler and more sustainable.

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@KRZYSZTOFANDRZEJBEDNAREK
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

This method has completely changed the way I see gardening. Thank you, Charles, for making it so accessible!

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@carolglynn8260
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Won't work if soil is high level of red clay. Kills the plants…………..

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@jaytee7279
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Oh hi Ben, mic in place 😂😂😂 love these two

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@Sonja-qp5gf
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Nice video but I also seen another good video and it's very knowledgeable and it's very very good just watching him 😉 😉wink wink.@igteg

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@j.b.4340
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

That was an enjoyable video. You two are my favorite garden educators. It’s the passion, the knowledge, and grade-A personalities, which you both possess.

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@catcrap-j9n
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Paul Gautschi has been doing this type of gardening for 40 years and this guy for 10? Paul Gautschi invented this type of gardening, so how is this Brit more famous???

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@don5125
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Thanks again 😇👍

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@Ditharenhopper
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Hi! I have a question. Due to limited garden size, I'm considering making a bed, approximately 50 m2, with two apple trees inside. Will there be a problem with the trees inside, for example sucking water or taking too much nutrition?

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@PotatoHead-w4r
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

W

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@CarmensitaMclaughlin
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Incredible masterclass! Charles explains the no-dig method so clearly and makes it feel accessible for gardeners at any level. I’m excited to try this approach—thank you for sharing such practical, sustainable advice!

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@robynblake4841
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Amazing! So inspiring!

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@PinealLiveDifferently
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Love it!! Keep up the great work 😊

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@dd7521
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

❤❤❤

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@julialewis7231
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Brilliant, my 2 favourite gardeners ❤

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@AngelicPaws-m3u
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Watching this in 2025, and the simplicity and impact of no-dig still blow my mind.

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@xanmontes8715
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

No crop rotation? That's nuts! I wonder what science would say about that.

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@gofres
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

I ran this experiment the last few years in the 2 small raised beds i have in my small garden. 1 no dig, the other turned as usual.
The no dig has been noticeably lower in slugs and weeds, however, after 4 years, I've noticed an acid build up lower in the soil in the no dig patch so had to add lime.

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@wobbem007
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Is the string around the tomato plants in the poly tunnel secured at the bottom or just hanging from above?

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@GillWhitehouse-
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Thank you! That was fascinating! I love this guy, especially his attitude to rules. It seems that a lot of knowledge is lost in quick fixes. Hot beds – I grew courgettes on top of a very simplified hot bed and it worked! Luckily we have a horse to supply manure – that also meant hay bales which I've also grown things in, as I see you do with straw bales. I need twenty years of gardening life back to experiment 🙂

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@sherimatukonis6016
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

So , I tried teh cardboard with a few inches of compost on top… nothing is growing, good healthy seedlings, hardened off, planted, and they've just stayed stunted where they were. Didn't die, but they aren't growing either.

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@college1963
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Hi Folks…I'm watching sky's being sprayed with chemtrails..I'm just back from Spain…where I saw it happening over there…My crops last year failed…there was literally no sun last summer, here in Ireland..
My tomatoes stayed green..nothing flourished…lm hoping for better this year..but if the sun doesn't shine on my greenhouse this year…..or on my outdoor plants…who do l call ?😢

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@tovegranli92
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

I wonder how you do this in slope? I have a few m2 that is almost flat, the rest is slopy🙈

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@floydbertagnolli944
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

I’m guessing crop rotation made sense when they weren’t adding any new material to the soil but if you’re adding compost every December, then the soil is being fed. Thank you very much for sharing this. It was terrifically insightful.

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@classicrocklover5615
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

I am a market gardener, selling my produce at a farm market in my small hometown in Michigan, USA. Yes, people sometimes ask "Why should I buy from you instead of Walmart?" But more often they buy something small to try and return next week saying "That was the best ___ I've ever eaten!" People don't realize a vegetable commercially grown 1,000 miles away is days, if not weeks old when they buy it in the grocery store. My vegetables have been out of the garden for less than 24 hours when i sell them. And I grow with biochar and azomite to replenish minerals in my soil. It makes a huge difference!

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@classicrocklover5615
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

A garden walk with two friends… thanks for taking us along! ❤

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@mmladyg
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Such dynamic, compelling chemistry between you two as you present together. May be my TOP favorite veg gardening video. It's now saved in "Favorites on Repeat." Thank you, Gentlemen, for sharing this conversation with us.

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@LaurieWelborn
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

I have been gardening using Charles's practices and having great success. Thank you for spreading the word.❤

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@thomasmills3934
May 31, 2025 @ 3:56 pm

Idk man. Where i live the clay is unworkable for gardening and nothing grows in it. Its mostly like 3-4 feet under the black dirt (its like that everywhere in my property). And only tree roots grow in it. But in some places its closer to the surface and you never see any roots growing through it at all. I dont think clay is good for growing in. Sometimes people read something somewhere and then just spout it out as fact.

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