Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here at Homeacres, I show you how simple it is to make your first no dig bed — starting from a patch of weeds and transforming it into a thriving space for growing food. Using just cardboard and compost, I’ll share tips on dealing with perennial weeds, keeping neat edges, and creating healthy soil for abundant harvests all year round.
No Dig Day is our celebration of this wonderful method of growing healthy abundant vegetables.
If you are watching this on No Dig Day, Monday 3rd November please do enter our competitions.
🎉 Caption Competition – open to everyone
Check my Facebook and Instagram for the photograph of me somewhere in my garden and add your caption in the comments.
We’ve also posted it on the No Dig Day 2025 page of my website:
👉 charlesdowding.co.uk/no-dig-day
🏆 Prize: free access to the revised No Dig Course AND the Essential Knowledge Pack, which is packed full of all the precise details you need to grow vegetables successfully.
⏰ Closes: 6pm (GMT) on Monday, 3rd November 2025
🎨 Children’s Drawing Competition – open to 12 year olds and under
Theme: What are the worms doing when I’m not looking?!
We say it’s a drawing competition but you can use any medium you like.
🏆 Prizes:
• 1st – £50 and a Children's No Dig Book
• 2nd – £25 and a Children's No Dig Book
📩 Deadline: Friday 7th November, 12pm GMT
Send your entries to Anna at anna@charlesdowding.co.uk
Filmed by Nicola Smith at Homeacres on Thursday 23rd October.
Edited by Carly Dutton-Edwards
Drone footage by Antonia Salter
You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:
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#nodig #nodigday #nodiggarden #growyourownfood #growingvegetables
00:00 Intro
03:00 How to start no dig when you have many weeds
00:54 Making a bed - cardboard and compost
01:52 The importance of edges to a bed
02:30 Raspberries in recently made bed
03:15 Positioning a new bed, best away from trees and hedges
04:13 A bed made over 10 years ago - maintaining edges
05:09 Mixed plantings in the one bed, and second plantings
05:39 Harvesting carrots from the bed
06:17 The Small Garden
06:29 Growing in barrels
Here at Homeacres, I show you how simple it is to make your first no dig bed — starting from a patch of weeds and transforming it into a thriving space for growing food. Using just cardboard and compost, I’ll share tips on dealing with perennial weeds, keeping neat edges, and creating healthy soil for abundant harvests all year round.
No Dig Day is our celebration of this wonderful method of growing healthy abundant vegetables.
If you are watching this on No Dig Day, Monday 3rd November please do enter our competitions.
🎉 Caption Competition – open to everyone
Check my Facebook and Instagram for the photograph of me somewhere in my garden and add your caption in the comments.
We’ve also posted it on the No Dig Day 2025 page of my website:
👉 charlesdowding.co.uk/no-dig-day
🏆 Prize: free access to the revised No Dig Course AND the Essential Knowledge Pack, which is packed full of all the precise details you need to grow vegetables successfully.
⏰ Closes: 6pm (GMT) on Monday, 3rd November 2025
🎨 Children’s Drawing Competition – open to 12 year olds and under
Theme: What are the worms doing when I’m not looking?!
We say it’s a drawing competition but you can use any medium you like.
🏆 Prizes:
• 1st – £50 and a Children's No Dig Book
• 2nd – £25 and a Children's No Dig Book
📩 Deadline: Friday 7th November, 12pm GMT
Send your entries to Anna at anna@charlesdowding.co.uk
Filmed by Nicola Smith at Homeacres on Thursday 23rd October.
Edited by Carly Dutton-Edwards
Drone footage by Antonia Salter
You can join this channel by paying a monthly fee, to support our work with helping gardeners grow better, and to receive monthly videos made only for members:
youtube.com/channel/UCB1J6siDdmhwah7q0O2WJBg/join
#nodig #nodigday #nodiggarden #growyourownfood #growingvegetables
00:00 Intro
03:00 How to start no dig when you have many weeds
00:54 Making a bed - cardboard and compost
01:52 The importance of edges to a bed
02:30 Raspberries in recently made bed
03:15 Positioning a new bed, best away from trees and hedges
04:13 A bed made over 10 years ago - maintaining edges
05:09 Mixed plantings in the one bed, and second plantings
05:39 Harvesting carrots from the bed
06:17 The Small Garden
06:29 Growing in barrels
