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.

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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.

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Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

by Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More

by Charles Dowding

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781916092044
Publisher: No Dig Garden
Publication date: 02/03/2022
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 7.87(w) x 9.45(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Charles Dowding develops and explains time- and labour-saving methods of high-yielding nature-friendly gardening. He has written ten books and an annual calendar of sowing dates, runs a YouTube channel with 36 million views, writes for national gardening magazines, and gives talks and courses at home and abroad. He has created three online courses: No Dig Gardening, Course 1; Growing Success Course 2. His third online course appeared in 2021.

He has been growing professionally since 1982, and has been experimenting with No Dig methods for the past 20 years. His current site at Homeacres is well known for its rapid transformation from weedy pasture to beautiful garden in just a half-year (see the video “No Dig Abundance” on Youtube). Currently he crops an intensive 0.35 acres/1300 square metres, and sells £20,000 of harvests—mainly salad leaves—locally.

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

Part 1 Skills and Knowledge for a Full Garden, All Year

Chapter 1 Tips for good growing 8

Chapter 2 An outline of key skills 15

Chapter 3 Planning, with three examples 22

Chapter 4 Succession and rotation 34

Part 2 Seeds, Sowing and Planting

Chapter 5 Seeds and seed saving 49

Chapter 6 How to propagate strong seedlings 64

Chapter 7 The benefits of multisowing 82

Chapter 8 Transplant or sow direct 93

Chapter 9 Sow and plant once - perennials 106

Part 3 The Importance of Spacing, with Examples

Chapter 10 The how and why of spacing 118

Chapter 11 Examples of close spacings 127

Chapter 12 Examples of wider spacings 133

Part 4 Watering and Harvesting

Chapter 13 When and how to water, and how much 144

Chapter 14 Harvesting methods and amounts 156

Chapter 15 Harvesting timings 166

Part 5 Covers and Winter Gardening

Chapter 16 Covers for speeding growth and pest protection 190

Chapter 17 Winter gardening, and how to manage frost 202

Going Further

New skills for new energies 219

Online courses 226

Publications 227

Testimonials to Charles' work 228

Glossary 230

Index 231

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