A raised bed with a pile of compost with a wheel barrow in the background

Create a no dig raised bed, compost on weeds, with tips on planting and see the growth, by Charles Dowding

I wrote the following notes watching the video published on Charles Dowding's channel

Creating a raised bed with no dig is easy. Let’s look how it is done.

Thanks to Charles Dowding for sharing his wisdom and knowledge! I wrote the following notes watching the video published on Charles Dowding’s channel. You can watch it using this YouTube link.

Materials

You will need to:

  • two pieces of wood: 2.4 meters long, 5 cm thick and 15 cm tall.
  • eight screws in stainless steel of 80 mm in length.

Construction instructions

  1. Cut in half each piece of piece of wood
  2. Drill 2.5cm deep holes on one end only of the 1.2 m long wood pieces.

Charles is drilling some holes in the wood pieces

  1. Choose where you will want the bed to be.

4 sticks making a square in a lawn

  1. Screw each piece of wood to each other using two screws peer corner.

Charles using a drill to set the screws in

  1. Fill the bed with the least decomposed compost. It won’t fill the bed completely. You will want to firm it up with a shovel.
  2. Apply the second layer with a more mature compost (10 month old for Charles’s compost). Firm it up again.
  3. Finish with the most mature compost (16 month old in the vlog).
  4. Plant your seedlings
  5. Water the seedlings depending on the season and your climate.

A raised bed with some cabbage seedlings

A raised bed with small plants growing

A raised bed with large vegetables ready to pick

Tips about planting

For seedlings with long stems, plant them deep.

You can plant carrots and radishes in the same trench.

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