{"product_id":"charles-dowdings-skills-for-growing-sowing-spacing-planting-picking-watering-and-more-9781916092044","title":"Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles' decades of experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrow vegetables easily throughout the year\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUse time creatively to maximise growth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest, and succeed with succession\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eImprove growth while working alongside nature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaster 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSkills for Growing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-colour photographs from Dowding's garden in Southwest UK.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Dowding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e No Dig Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 8.23w x 0.98d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916092044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDowding, Charles:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Dig Garden","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39828939145331,"sku":"9781916092044","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_ec4f533a-fd36-4a29-a555-605c4a04264c.jpg?v=1644605034","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/charles-dowdings-skills-for-growing-sowing-spacing-planting-picking-watering-and-more-9781916092044","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}