Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way - Softcover

Dowding, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903998913 ISBN 13: 9781903998915

Publisher: Green Books, 2007

Synopsis

Based on his experience of a system of permanent slightly-raised beds, author Charles Dowding takes you through a delicious variety of fruit and vegetables: what to choose, when to plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests and diseases. Organic Gardening includes recipes to inspire you to culinary heights with your fresh-picked produce.
Dowding shares his philosophy, tips, and techniques that have enabled him to run a successful organic garden that has supplied local restaurants and shops for 25 years. Encouraging readers to forget the rules, Dowding suggests gardeners will better understand what is going on in your soil, plants, garden, and climate when you develop your own methods of gardening. Most radically, Dowding illustrates a method for ensuring that you never need to till your soil again, instead relying upon the natural balance that comes with respecting life, spreading good compost, and allowing worms to play a key role in your maintenance.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Dowding has not dug, except to clear perennial weeds and turf, for twenty-five years. He started growing organic vegetables commercially in 1982 and has farmed in Somerset and France and had a program of Gardener's World devoted to his farm. He lives in Shepton Montague, Somerset.

Review:

"Whether you dig or not this contains a wealth of personal knowledge about growing vegetables from a man who pioneered vegetable boxes and impressed Joy Larkcom - the doyenne of vegetables." * Oxford Times - November 2010 * "The revised edition, Organic Gardening features new photographs, new varieties and more tips and advice on growing delcious vegetables and tasty fruit the no-dig way. It also includes inspiring recipes by Charles' wife, Susie." * Positive News - Winter 10/11 * "This book works as a brilliant introduction to growing your own, but is also an encyclopaedia of fruit and veg varieties, with practical advice on sowing, planting and growing." * Bristol Evening Post / Western Daily Press *

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1903998913
• ISBN 13: 9781903998915
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224