Name: Charles Dowding’S Skills for Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More
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Author: Charles Dowding
ISBN: 9781916092044

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Charles Dowding’S Skills for Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Dowding

Publisher

No Dig Garden

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.6x20.9x2.5 cm

Weight

0.80 kg.

ISBN13

9781916092044

Synopsis "Charles Dowding’S Skills for Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More "

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 maximize 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-color photographs from Dowding's garden in Southwest UK.

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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