Name: Charles Dowding’S Vegetable Garden Diary: No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 3rd Edition
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Author: Charles Dowding
ISBN: 9781916092013

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Charles Dowding’S Vegetable Garden Diary: No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 3rd Edition

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dowding

Introduction by

Darina Allen

Publisher

No Dig Garden

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

168

Format

Spiral Format

Dimensions

23.1 x 16.5 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781916092013

Edition No.

0003

Synopsis "Charles Dowding’S Vegetable Garden Diary: No Dig, Healthy Soil, Fewer Weeds, 3rd Edition "

An updated 3rd edition of Dowding's full-color gardener's journal with perpetual diary--75% advice on how to grow great crops, 25% writing space for each day of the year--a manual to inform and inspire, from a no-dig pioneer and one of Britain's most trusted vegetable gardeners Use this journal year after year to make the best decisions, with your notes alongside Charles Dowding's suggestions for future reference. Advice in the diary section is linked to each week of the season, and takes you through the annual cycle, from clearing weeds, feeding soil, and sowing to harvesting and storing vegetables. Advice on sowing and planting methods, plus raising plants at home Best sowing dates: seeds neither fail in cold nor start too late Advantages of no dig: saving time, fewer weeds and bigger crops How to maintain control of weeds through timely mulching and hoeing How to feed soil just once a year, for strong and healthy growth When and how to make all the harvests, with advice on storing produce too Charles' garden beds grow two crops a year, are cheap to establish and easy to maintain. His growing methods are easy to understand and work on small areas as well as large ones. Charles' gardens are famous for the absence of weeds, and it's a fact that untilled soil, with a humus-rich surface, germinates fewer pioneer weed seeds. By feeding and favouring the life in your soil and working in sympathy with how nature runs things, you create a clear path to bigger harvests with less effort. The diary explains these methods and weaves them into a timeline of action, to increase your success rate. Good timing is good gardening! Book is most appropriate for zones 8/9, for other zones the dates need adapting: for example he has great feedback from zone 6 gardeners using his methods. And readers can flesh out the detail with his You Tube videos, where over half the audience is North American.

Charles Dowding

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Readers and viewers of Charles Dowding learn the method and how good it is for the soil, healthy for plants and the climate, and easier for them. His books and videos are applicable for both small and large areas, and are used by millions of gardeners around the world. Since 1982, he has created and cultivated four no-dig commercial gardens on different soils: in the 1980s he harvested 7.5 acres / 3 ha of no-dig beds, now he grows vegetables on 0.33 acres / 1300 m2 in Somerset, southwest England. He has written 11 books and Sowing Calendars, four of which are self-published. His YouTube channel has 500,000 subscribers, he has created online gardening courses, writes for gardening magazines, and gives talks/courses online, in the country, and abroad.

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