August can be both cruel and beautiful, meagre or bountiful. The pest pressure in this year's hot, dry weather has been stronger than usual, especially the flea beetles. I show the damage, and sticky traps are from Gardening Naturally.
In these conditions, whether growth is successful or not depends a lot on applying enough water. I'm doing everything with one hose, on half an acre, economical with water because it's all applied by hand, exactly where it's most needed. No dig definitely helps with moisture conservation.
The result is vegetable sales at the moment of £1,400 each week.
Filmed in Somerset UK, 12th August 2026, by Nicola Smith.
Gardening Naturally Sticky Traps -
https://gardening-naturally.com/products/yellow-sticky-insect-traps-for-whitefly-control?_pos=1&_psq=sticky+traps&_psid=8927e7048&_ss=e
Oasen pa Asen is the farm in Sweden where MaryAnn gave me the pumpkins seeds.
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00:00 Introduction - raspberries, Joan J variety
00:28 Watering - no dig moisture retention
01:02 Strawberries
01:44 Courgettes
02:04 Buckler-leaf sorrel
02:29 Squash, selective watering
03:08 Asparagus
03:34 Lettuce newly planted
04:01 Runner beans Czar, for seed
04:50 Courgettes in bed near to trees
05:52 Compost heaps, 7-bay system
08:07 Empty bed - sweetcorn recently cleared ready for broccoli
08:34 Dig/no dig bed comparisons
09:59 Flea beetle sticky traps
10:27 More dig/no dig comparisons - cucumber La Diva, interplanted with fennel
12:00 Brassica seedlings under cover - still damaged, using a hoover!
12:41 In the greenhouse - brassicas in larger pots
13:34 Padron peppers
14:05 Watermelons and melons Ogen
15:18 Tomatoes - sideshooting
16:37 Polytunnel - cucumbers and tomatoes
17:17 Seed saving - frizzy endive, Wallone
17:51 Amaranth, and lettuce
18:55 French beans, different varieties - timing of watering
20:05 Bed of plants with flea beetle damage
21:16 Outdoor tomatoes
21:52 Sunflowers from home-saved seed
22:18 Plum and apple trees
23:43 Chard - taking water from neighbouring plants
24:31 Radicchio - growth impacted by nearby tree
25:03 Small polytunnel - watering, and management of tomato plants
25:50 Aubergines Long Purple
26:19 Chicory following rocket
26:53 Rhubarb
27:15 Brassicas - cauliflower and broccoli
27:49 Badger damage to sweetcorn plants
28:50 Fennel under fleece
29:07 Leeks and celeriac
29:33 Squash - different types
30:32 Kohlrabi with flea beetle damage, and broccoli
31:26 Cabbage, chicory starting to flower, and endive
33:02 Cos lettuce with lettuce root aphid, and other lettuce varieties surviving
33:55 Flowers - zinnia and dahlia
34:47 The pyramid
36:38 Open Day and No Dig Day
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