January sunshine for your tour of Homeacres

After nine days of dark grey, we were blessed on this morning. I show how no dig soil with compost mulch is growing productive winter vegetables and looks promising for spring. I teach this on courses here https://www.charlesdowding.co.uk/educ...

And my No Dig online course is https://shop.charlesdowding.co.uk/pro...

Filmed 21st January by Nicola Smith at Homeacres no dig garden, 2/5 acre of no dig beds, running since 2013.
My first video here was October 2013, No Dig Abundance    • NO DIG ABUNDANCE, a weedy field becomes ga...  

Magnetic water improver https://plantsurge.co.uk/ and enter nodig at checkout for 10% off price
The water softening is not about removing anything at all. Magnetic charge alters the form of calcium carbonate ("scale") by changing the aragonite to calcite ratio. Those two compounds are calcium deposits in hard water. Calcite makes scale cling to surfaces whereas aragonite is less likely to form scale and keeps moving along with the water.
Philosophical Magazine Vol. 92, No. 31, 1 November 2012, 3857–386 Magnetic water treatment – how might it work J.M.D. Coey, School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Many scientists do not agree with this understanding, from what I can discover on the Internet. But I'm confident to that the above is correct because of the results I see. I trust results more than theoretical analysis.

Urban Wyrm potting compost peat-free https://www.urbanwyrm.co.uk/collectio...
Mushroom compost in SW England https://woodlandhp.co.uk/product/mush...

00:00 Intro, light levels
00:51 Plants in the ground, under cover, frozen - Red Russian kale, coriander, Claytonia/winter purslane,
01:53 Slug damage on outer leaves of cauliflower, mesh cover on against pigeons
02:46 Worm compost
03:59 Broad beans for cover crop and few harvests of bean tops - frost damage, recommended sowing times
04:50 Compost trials in greenhouse
05:49 Still in the greenhouse, broad beans and peas for shoots
06:10 Comparison between green waste and mushroom compost
06:45 My homemade compost - not doing very well!
07:15 My monthly seed collections, with Premier Seeds
08:15 Salad plants in the polytunnel, overhead watering with Plantsurge, magnetic water
09:15 Claytonia, winter purslane, how to harvest using knife
10:56 Chervil, also harvesting with a knife
11:38 Spring cabbage, another hardy plant
11:45 Coriander, and lack of weeds with no dig
13:02 I explain the magnetic water device I use
13:51 Using a rake to break up lumpy compost
15:00 Overwintered broad beans, not surviving
15:19 Veg storage in the shed - green and red cabbage
17:48 Elephant garlic, onions red and white, apples
18:49 Chicory, beetroot and celeriac
20:16 Back in the garden, Savoy cabbage
20:55 Perennials - rhubarb
21:27 Outro

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