Discover the joy & ease of working with nature
Grow plentiful, healthy food while helping the soil & the planet
My no dig method allows you to enjoy productive and easy growing. You don’t have to spend your gardening time on endless weeding and dealing with slugs. Instead, being outdoors can be a real pleasure!
You’ll produce nutritional foods that are great for your health. And the way you grow will actually benefit your garden’s soil and the environment.
‘No dig is a life-changing way to garden. I’ve fallen in love with my garden again. Thank you!’
Donna Creager
No dig saves space so it can work in any size garden. Whether you’re an experienced gardener or new to growing, I can guide you through every step of the way. No dig is such a revelation. I want to share my knowledge from over 40 years of practice so that everyone can appreciate the beauty of it.
On my site, you can find all the resources you need to get started. You’ll discover how the beauty of no dig starts in the soil and grows through your life.
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My latest no dig news
Homeacres Charity Open Day – Sunday 4th September
Browse around the garden and market garden at Homeacres, visit the new piece of land and see the progress we have made.
Read more >Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival
The sun shone, the show looked gorgeous and I spoke about no dig and gardening myths to 200 people at the Get Growing Festival Stage.
Read more >Day and Weekend Courses at Homeacres
We've already had many successful course days and it's always a delight to teach in the garden at Homeacres.
Read more >13th July – Succession Planting Afternoon Course – Places still available
Come and join me for a look at this summer topic.
Read more >Announcement! My new book ‘No Dig’ is out this Autumn
I am so proud of this book because it is such a complete summary of my two main passions in gardening.
Read more >Charles joins Cameo
The Cameo app came to my attention a while ago after a couple of people had emailed to ask me to join up, so I have!
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What to do in your garden this season
July 2022 plant raising, no dig interplant, weekly advice, making compost and different types
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'thank you for always sharing your depth of knowledge and tips. and your energy! you really got me interested to dive head first into gardening this way and i've been taking your courses. its my first season proper and its been amazing.'
Kail Kupbart
Featured products for no dig at every level
Just wanted to thank you for the inspiration to experiment with no-dig, as I’ve tried it with amazing success in my container veg garden.
Erik Storhok
Michigan, 17.9.19
This is our first year of no dig and we are the envy of our fellow allotmenteers.
Jacqui D
You Tube Plan video 15.12.19
A combination of your you tube channel, the books I have bought from you and following on Facebook, have completely turned my gardening life around. Thank you for being so inspirational, informational, educational and thought provoking over this last couple of years.
Steve Randles, Cumbria
I learned of you while studying organic gardening at a community college in San Antonio Texas. I have since followed you on social media. In my book you are the most inspirational horticulturalist for 2019!
Jenna Leigh-Ann
Facebook 8.1.2020
I made the mistake of straying from your advice, and I tried “amending” my clay heavy soil in areas instead of continuing to add on compost with no-dig. This winter we’ve had a lot of rain and the only bed that has not flooded is the bed I left as no-dig! Now I know that digging around helps nothing, certainly not drainage. My no-dig bed absorbs the water like its nothing.
Timothy K
Winter veg 27.1.20
Thank you so much for all the practical information, the exceptional food and the general sense of can-do, my favourite advice of all being ‘Alleviate your worries!’ I spent several enjoyable hours renovating a neglected bed of raspberries using compost and polythene, a job so daunting I had put it off for months. Am feeling very empowered.
Laura Evans
After day course 12.2.20
No-dig is a life changing way to garden. I’ve fallen in love with my garden again. Thank you!
Donna Creager
YouTube Beautiful Veg
I started this method four years ago and I wish I’d known about it decades earlier. We had just bought a big rototiller to start all of our beds before I discovered no dig and ended up selling it. This method works very, very well and for very little effort or money.
Janette Lavender
I am in Northern California, a mile east of the ocean. From your videos I attempted my first No Dig garden at the end of 2018. Even through winter storms it started producing, and by the time spring arrived, I had an abundant, healthy, thriving garden, with my nearest neighbours deciding they must take up the method themselves.
Linda Schneider
This has been my first year of no dig, I had such an amazing time and had loads of produce. Thank you Charles for all your help and amazing videos, and your books are brilliant.
Elaine Hutchinson
You Tube
I thoroughly enjoyed your online course and have learnt so much. I am just starting out on an allotment plot and already notice how few weeds I have compared to my plot-holder neighbours. And I’m loving weed-free paths!
Susan Souter
Cindy Conner
Californian flower farmer
I have learned so much from watching your videos. You’re an excellent teacher — concise and generous at the same time. You helped rekindle my love of growing food. Thank you!
Andrea Berry
I LOVE your videos and the online course was fantastic. Can’t wait for the next one.
Sharon Gunn
gardening in Texas USA
This has been my first year of no dig, I had such an amazing time and had loads of produce. Thank you Charles for all your help and your books are brilliant.
You have changed my approach to gardening, and I couldn’t be happier now than when I’m outside planting and growing and seeing the amazing results of your no dig advice.
Thank you sir for your amazing video advice. I followed every thing to the letter and I now have an amazing garden and abundance.
Completely incredible stuff in under 7 months: took keys of property on 6th December last year, 1 acre, polytunnel in place, my beds are feeding 5 people not fully but incredibly. Thank you for changing our lives.
Tinker bell
August 2018
Many thanks for making the journey to Sheffield last week, and providing such a fantastic and stimulating talk for our audience. Everyone loved it!
Gareth Roberts of Regather
Sheffield’s Festival of Debate Talk Attendee
Charles has become the guru of no dig gardening. He’s a really good grower, organic, has fabulous produce and we went down to Somerset to see how he does it…. I’m a convert now, I want to dig as little as possible.
Monty Don
BBC Gardeners World
I came on a course last August, and it has given me so much direction and understanding in my gardening thinking. And your updates through the winter are an absolute tonic.
Clare Finzi
Course Attendee
Have just received your splendid calendar with the sumptuous pics. An annus mirabilis at Homeacres methinks!! It will take pride of place in the potting shed to remind us what we should be doing.
Jim Buckland
Head Gardener at West Dean College, Chichester.
Seasonal secrets for success in your garden
Read my advice for this season
July 2022 plant raising, no dig interplant, weekly advice, making compost and different types
The weather has been unusual. June for example was sunnier than normal, yet no warmer than normal, thanks to some exceptionally cool nights which really slowed down growth of summer plantings such as
June 2022 first summer harvests, new book, compost value, result of saving beetroot seed, wood affecting growth
Summer is underway with tasty beetroot, broad beans, new cabbage and broccoli, carrots and more. It’s a top time for making a lot of compost too. Below I show the rewards of seed saving. and the
July-early August 2021, no dig potato harvests, bindweed, seed saving, sow and transplant for autumn onwards
Everything happens in July! No dig makes it all easier and quicker. You can replant a lot of your garden, after harvests of early plantings. Clear beds to replant as soon as you can, because every day
July 2021 no dig potatoes, succession plantings, make compost, save seeds, RHS no dig gardens, bees arrive
A growing month, was June. Even though quite dry, with mm in the first four weeks. Average day temperature 21C 70F, average night temperature 10.5C 10F, see my live weather feed. We are fortunate with