Focusing on the transformative No Dig system, this guide emphasizes the importance of homemade compost for enriching the soil and enhancing plant growth. Charles Dowding shares practical advice on what to compost, dispels common myths, and offers effective techniques suitable for various gardening settings. By creating your own compost, you not only recycle waste but also contribute to carbon storage and greenhouse gas reduction. The beautifully illustrated book serves as a comprehensive resource for achieving optimal composting results through diverse methods.
Projects based on Dowding's no-dig technique are broken down into easy, step-
by-step processes, designed to be carried out by children. Running throughout
the gardening projects are extra little facts about plants and wildlife, as
well as things to look out for when you are outdoors.
"Stop digging and start to truly understand the needs of your soil for bumper harvests of healthier crops. Charles Dowding has spent a lifetime perfecting his no dig sysem of growing. At its core is an awareness that soil vitality is a dynamic process involving a web of organisms which we can easily feed and support, enabling our plants to grow strong and healthy, in a weed-free environment. With clear, step-by-step instructions on how to set up a no dig plot and detailed cultivation advice for more than 80 crops, this book will revolutionize the way you grow."--Back cover
How to garden easily and effectively, based on the author's 40 years of
growing vegetables. Advice on setting up your garden and planning what to
grow, ways to sow and to save seeds, planting, spacing, watering, and
harvesting. Plus details of succession planting, winter gardening, and how to
use covers for early cropping and pest protection.
Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated the definitive book
on salad growing in this hardback, beautifully illustrated edition. In it he
shows how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a garden, balcony or
windowsill, whatever the weather & grow healthy plants grown in healthy soil
using organic, permaculture principles.
No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig experts, Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set up a no dig garden. They describe how to: Make compost, enrich soil, harvest and prepare food and make natural beauty and clean ing products and garden preparations. These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. The Authors' combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts and many recipes and ideas for increasing self reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round. Charles' advice is distilled from 35 years of growing vegetables intensively and efficiently; he is the acknowledged no dig guru and salad expert both in the UK and internationally. Stephanie, a kitchen gardener, grows in her small, productive home garden and allotment, and creates no dig gardens for restaurants and private estates. She presents truly delicious seasonal recipes, made from the vegetables anyone can grow. She also explains how to use common plants you can grow and forage for to make handmade preparation for the home and garden.
