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Charles Dowding's Veg Journal

Expert no-dig advice, month by month
By Charles Dowding
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Drawing on Charles Dowding's Vegetable Course, this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests the no-dig way. It guides you through growing more than 35 vegetables and herbs, from tomatoes to basil and carrots to coriander. Learn to start a no-dig veg plot on any ground, improve soil quality, and master mulching and weeding. The journal provides key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting, and storing with time-saving checklists. Additional advice includes making raised beds, tackling pests, producing fragrant compost, and exploring techniques like intercropping, companion planting, seed viability, and crop succession. No-dig gardening is an established method to grow healthy, organic crops while preserving soil integrity, taught by the UK’s leading expert.
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Ideal for home gardeners and veg growing enthusiasts seeking organic, sustainable methods. Perfect for those interested in no-dig techniques, beginners looking for clear guidance, and anyone keen to improve crop yields with less effort and better soil health.

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The book uses the seasonal checklists, advice and hard-won experience of the UK' s best-known no-dig gardener to plan a year' s veg growing.

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Drawing on Charles Dowding's Vegetable Course, this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests the no-dig way. 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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Charles's journal is praised as a good aide memoire, filled with useful tips and practical monthly diary pages. It supports gardeners in keeping valuable records to understand successes and failures. Reviewers find it a sensible, clearly presented guide ideal for those wanting to learn no-dig gardening without jargon. Many consider it a useful addition to any gardener's bookshelf and appreciate its straightforward approach.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711239289

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Edition: New Edition with new cover & price

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 192

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Charles Dowding Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charles Dowding grew up on a dairy farm in Somerset. After graduating from Cambridge he worked for a hotel in the Inner Hebrides before starting to grow organic vegetables commercially on the family farm in the early 1980s. In 1990 he left behind what was by then a large market garden to live in France and Zambia. Returning to Somerset in the mid 1990s, he established a bed and breakfast and vegetable growing business at Lower Farm in Shepton Montague, Somerset. There, Charles's salad bags were the main output from his two-acre garden of permanent raised beds and fruit trees. Charles runs vegetable-growing courses and lectures and writes books on his unique growing techniques. Since 2012 Charles has begun a new garden at Shepton Mallet in Somerset which he has designed using no-dig principles.

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