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This comprehensive month-by-month journal, authored by Charles Dowding, the UK's leading no-dig gardening expert, equips you with seasonal checklists and invaluable advice on achieving bountiful harvests through the no-dig approach. From tomatoes and basil to carrots and coriander, Dowding guides you on cultivating a year's worth of organic crops while preserving the soil's integrity.
Spanning over 35 vegetables and herbs, the book presents a range of accessible projects tailored for various spaces and environments. It takes you through the steps of establishing a no-dig vegetable plot on virgin or dug ground, enhancing soil quality, mastering mulching and weeding techniques, as well as exploring intercropping, companion planting, seed viability, and crop succession.
Illustrated with photographs, this step-by-step guide from one of Britain's top gardeners teaches you how to plan a vegetable garden, construct raised beds, sow seeds indoors and outdoors in spring, nurture young crops, safeguard plants from weather and pests throughout the season, and ultimately, savour the joy of harvesting. Organised chronologically from January to December, the journal is replete with key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting, and storing, complemented by time-saving monthly checklists to ensure a successful no-dig harvest.
Book ISBN: | 9780711239289 |
Book Author: | Charles Dowding |
Book Format: | Paperback / softback |
Book Imprint: | Frances Lincoln |
Book Publisher: | Quarto Publishing PLC |
Book Dimensions: | 212 x 153 x 17 cm |
Book Publication Date: | 2018-04-01 |
Book Pagination: | 192 pages |
Book Weight: | 462g |