Latest news from Charles
Homeacres Course are filling up quickly.
We are delighted to be taking bookings again for courses at Homeacres.
Read more >Calendar offer until 30th April
For purchase of any online course this month I offer my 2021 Calendar.
Read more >Course 3 – From Seed to Harvest – 30 lessons, 40 vegetables
I have launched the second part to Course 3. You can purchase the course as a whole or choose between 3A and 3B.
Read more >Homeacres Day & Weekend Courses available to book now
I am excited to be teaching again at Homeacres. We now have the full diary of course dates available in the website shop to purchase.
Read more >RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival is on!
Our ‘RHS No Dig Garden' will be made and from 6th to 11th July you can buy tickets for the show.
Read more >New no dig garden Netherlands
The new garden below is the creation of Gerrit in Friesland. It took him less than three days, late February.


About no dig and using this website.
Charles’s weed free, no dig methods give superb and time-saving results in both small and large garden areas, see Charles’s story for how he developed his methods. Twice a month Charles posts his seasonal advice, see here for the latest, please scroll down for other recent posts and for the latest video. On the Learn tab do check out the useful links page where Charles details his preferred suppliers. See this page for starting out no dig which has the option to translate to Spanish. See Charles’s starting no dig video here. For answers to your questions about no dig, see the FAQs
You can listen to my growing story on podcasts one and two with Joe Lamp’l 2019.
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April 15th in a cold spring, fleece covers, transplant survival, new bed and compost heap
A difficult spring so far, with a lack of warmth and frosts down to -4.5 C here, nine frosts in the last 12 nights. However it has been dry! And although that means watering new transplants, it also m
April 2021 new plantings and beds, growing seed from winter root vegetables, bioreactor of woodchip, cold ahead
Transplanting times are here, but watch out for cold weather too. Plants ready now are frost hardy, such as lettuce, peas, onions and broccoli. I advise to wait until mid April before sowing frost ten
March 2021 update new seedlings and sowings, new land, no dig bed prep, cool spring
It has been a different kind of winter here, somehow cold and damp in a more damaging way than 2018, when we had bitter winds in March but with less damage to plants. See the broad bean photos below.
March 2021 new no dig gardens, starting seeds, potting composts and trays
This is a full on time for a propagation, although also there is no rush to sow tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, sweetcorn et cetera. Spring is also good for making new beds, which you can actually do