Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Welcome to a beautiful December tour. It’s a lovely day and there are still some gorgeous vegetables to show — Savoy cabbage, white sprouting, kale, winter salads and lamb’s lettuce. These beds are the result of doing things at different times in the back end of the year, so there’s still plenty of interest now.
We’ve been down to –5.6°C here, and that frost has killed the self-seeded marigolds, while some endive has suffered after the unusually warm November weather we had, with daytime temperatures even up to 17°C.
There’s a nice little winter store of carrots, and these carrots are feeding the deer now — they’re only eating the greens, not the carrot itself, and that doesn’t matter at this point. In the shed, there’s some lovely celeriac, beetroot and chicory keeping well for winter food.
Some broad beans are small and just right to overwinter, while others were sown earlier — like a cover crop — to rot into the ground as they’re killed. Brussels sprouts are looking steady, garlic has had a bit of wood ash against rust, and purple sprouting broccoli is smaller this year after flea beetle, but still looking good.
It’s late November and we’re really coming into the quiet time now. There’s no worries about sowing or planting. You can enjoy the garden — it’s a lovely time of year.
🎥 Filmed 28th November 2025 by Nicola Smith
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00:00 Introduction, Savoy cabbage and white sprouting
00:24 Green Friday offers
00:41 Winter salads in the polytunnel
01:34 Salad plants outside, some frost damage
02:19 Spinach and rhubarb
02:48 Carrots in raised bed
03:13 Kale, Dazzling Blue, and turnips
03:43 Spring cabbage and spring onions
04:02 Broad beans, planted small
04:27 Chicory, lamb’s lettuce and garlic
04:49 Leeks, covered against leaf miner, with broad bean interplant
05:28 More lamb’s lettuce, and Golden Acre cabbage
06:11 In the shed - celeriac, beetroot, chicories
07:01 Brussels sprouts, Trafalgar, with spring onion interplant
07:31 Tatsoi for seed, pink chicory
07:42 Coriander with cover, and endive damaged by frost
08:25 Garlic and purple sprouting broccoli
09:16 White sprouting broccoli, White Eye
09:33 Chervil, and mustard killed by frost
10:04 More Brussels
Welcome to a beautiful December tour. It’s a lovely day and there are still some gorgeous vegetables to show — Savoy cabbage, white sprouting, kale, winter salads and lamb’s lettuce. These beds are the result of doing things at different times in the back end of the year, so there’s still plenty of interest now.
We’ve been down to –5.6°C here, and that frost has killed the self-seeded marigolds, while some endive has suffered after the unusually warm November weather we had, with daytime temperatures even up to 17°C.
There’s a nice little winter store of carrots, and these carrots are feeding the deer now — they’re only eating the greens, not the carrot itself, and that doesn’t matter at this point. In the shed, there’s some lovely celeriac, beetroot and chicory keeping well for winter food.
Some broad beans are small and just right to overwinter, while others were sown earlier — like a cover crop — to rot into the ground as they’re killed. Brussels sprouts are looking steady, garlic has had a bit of wood ash against rust, and purple sprouting broccoli is smaller this year after flea beetle, but still looking good.
It’s late November and we’re really coming into the quiet time now. There’s no worries about sowing or planting. You can enjoy the garden — it’s a lovely time of year.
🎥 Filmed 28th November 2025 by Nicola Smith
👉🏼 Green Friday Deals - shop.charlesdowding.co.uk/collections/green-friday-sale
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#nodig #charlesdowding #wintergarden #winterharvest #vegetablegardening #nodiggardening #wintervegetables #growyourownfood #gardentour #ukgardening #greenfriday
00:00 Introduction, Savoy cabbage and white sprouting
00:24 Green Friday offers
00:41 Winter salads in the polytunnel
01:34 Salad plants outside, some frost damage
02:19 Spinach and rhubarb
02:48 Carrots in raised bed
03:13 Kale, Dazzling Blue, and turnips
03:43 Spring cabbage and spring onions
04:02 Broad beans, planted small
04:27 Chicory, lamb’s lettuce and garlic
04:49 Leeks, covered against leaf miner, with broad bean interplant
05:28 More lamb’s lettuce, and Golden Acre cabbage
06:11 In the shed - celeriac, beetroot, chicories
07:01 Brussels sprouts, Trafalgar, with spring onion interplant
07:31 Tatsoi for seed, pink chicory
07:42 Coriander with cover, and endive damaged by frost
08:25 Garlic and purple sprouting broccoli
09:16 White sprouting broccoli, White Eye
09:33 Chervil, and mustard killed by frost
10:04 More Brussels
