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Charles Dowding's Veg Journal

Year

2014

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Frances Lincoln

Summary

Plan bumper harvests the no-dig way using Charles Dowding's monthly crop calendar. Follow simple steps to: • find success with more than 35 vegetables and herbs from tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander; • start a no-dig veg plot on virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher and weeder; • learn key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and storing using time-saving monthly checklists; • make a raised bed, tackle slugs and snails, and produce the sweetest-smelling compost; • understand the techniques for intercropping, companion planting, seed viability and crop succession. NO-DIG is a long-established way to grow healthy, organic crops while preserving the soil' s integrity: Charles Dowding is the UK' s leading expert.

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