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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 gardenersUse 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 homeBest sowing dates: seeds neither fail in cold nor start too lateAdvantages of no dig: saving time, fewer weeds and bigger cropsHow to maintain control of weeds through timely mulching and hoeingHow to feed soil just once a year, for strong and healthy growthWhen and how to make all the harvests, with advice on storing produce tooCharles' 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.
Contents
Introduction by Darina Allen 7 Preface 8 Seasonal gardening: the benefits 12 Being there, little and often 14 Time-saving tips 16 Advantages of no dig 18 Soil structure the easy way 20 No dig perennials for food 22 No dig flowers 24 Making compost 26 Compost: the process 28 Sourcing compost 30 Weeds in a compost mulch 32 Weeds sign off 34 Mulching to clear perennial weeds 36 Sowing timeline 38 FAQs no dig 40 Perpetual Diary 42Comparing growth 150 Sowing by the moon 152 More on rotation 154 Second crops/succession 156 Edible elegance 158 Paths, mulches, no dig 160 Planting and caring for fruit trees 162Last thoughts and acknowledgements 164 Bibliography 165Index 166
