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Book

Charles Dowding's skills for growing : sowing, spacing, planting, picking, watering and more.

Call Number

  • 635 D745.1 (CEN)

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Publication Information

[Place of publication not identified] : No Dig Garden, 2022.

Physical Description

237 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Includes cost-effective and productive-per-area methods to grow vegetables throughout the year and ways to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest and improve growth.

Notes

"Healthy soil, no dig, fewer weeds"--Cover.

Includes index (pages 231-237).

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Skills and knowledge for a full garden, all year. Chatper 1. Tips for good growing ; Chapter 2. An outline of key skills ; Chapter 3. Planning, with three examples ; Chapter 4. Succession and rotation
  • Part 2. Seeds, sowing and planting. Chapter 5. Seeds and seed saving ; Chapter 6. How to propagate strong seedlings ; Chapter 7. The benefits of multisowing ; Chapter 8. Transplant or sow direct ; Chapter 9. Sow and plant once - perennials
  • Part 3. The importance of spacing, with examples. Chapter 10. The how and why of spacing ; Chapter 11. Examples of close spacings ; Chapter 12. Examples of wider spacings
  • Part 4. Watering and harvesting. Chapter 13. When and how to water, and how much ; Chapter 14. Harvesting methods and amounts ; Chapter 15. Harvesting timings
  • Part 5. Covers and winter gardening. Chapter 16. Covers for speeding growth and pest protection ; Chapter 17. Winter gardening, and how to manage frost
  • Going further
  • New skills for new energies
  • Online courses.

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