Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

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Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing

Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

Charles Dowding

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No Dig Garden
11 January 2022

Self-sufficiency; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables; Organic gardening

The knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles' decades of experience

Grow vegetables easily throughout the year Use time creatively to maximise growth Learn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods Learn to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest, and succeed with succession Improve growth while working alongside nature

Master gardener Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need for successful growing. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develop new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.

Skills for Growing illustrates how you create planting plans and advises on succession and rotation, interplanting and multisowing, how to propagate plants and quick ways to set them in the ground.

It gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.

Dowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.

The advice given in the book is based on having a clean and fertile area in which to grow vegetables. It may not be large, but that is fine: there are examples of how much food you can grow every year in just one bed, and in containers too.

The book comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-colour photographs from Dowding's garden in Southwest UK.

By: Charles Dowding
Imprint: No Dig Garden
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 247mm, Width: 207mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 895g
ISBN: 9781916092044
ISBN 10: 1916092047
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 11 January 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

"Charles Dowding develops and writes about time and labour saving methods of high yielding, nature friendly gardening. He has written eleven books and publishes an annual calendar of sowing dates, runs a YouTube channel with 48 million views, writes for gardening magazines, and gives talks and courses at home and abroad. He has created four online courses: No Dig Gardening, Skills for Growing, and Seed to Harvest in two parts. He has been growing professionally since 1982, and using no dig methods since 1983. His current site at Homeacres is well known for its rapid transformation from weedy pasture to beautiful garden in just a half-year (see the video ""No Dig Abundance"" on Youtube). Currently he crops an intensive 0.35 acres/1300 square metres, and sells GBP20,000 of harvests locally."

Reviews for Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

"""Skills for Growing is overflowing with advice and instructions based on years' worth of detailed data gathering and observation. It is vibrantly illustrated with images of the crops he grows at his market garden Homeacres, which are refreshingly unromantic and so genuinely complementary to the written guidance, making this a feast for both the brain and eyes.""--Claire Ratinon, Gardens Illustrated"