Charles Dowding

How to Create a New Vegetable Garden (eBook, ePUB)

Producing a beautiful and fruitful garden from scratch

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The UK's leading no-dig gardening expert, Charles Dowding, draws on his years of experience to show how easy it is to start a new vegetable garden.

Any plot - whether a building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area. Charles's no-nonsense and straightforward advice is the perfect starting point for the beginner or experienced gardener.

The book takes you step-by-step through everything - from planning, clearing the ground and the early stages of starting a vegetable garden, to growing in polytunnels and greenhouses. There is also helpful guidance on how to use mulch, ways to minimise digging, and planting/sowing tips across the seasons.

Filled with labour-saving ideas and the techniques that Charles uses to garden so successfully, How to Create a Vegetable Garden is illustrated throughout with photos and tales from Charles's first year in his new vegetable garden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857842459
• Artikelnr.: 42427853

Autorenporträt

Charles Dowding is an internationally recognised organic gardening expert, and a former winner of the Garden Media Guild Practical Journalist of the Year award. He contributes articles to many magazines, including Gardeners' World, Gardens Illustrated and Grow It!, talks on radio and television, and runs courses and advises on best practice, including for the National Trust in the UK.

Charles is a veteran organic grower, having practised no-dig gardening for many years. In his gardens he has conducted experiments to compare differences in growth between vegetables on dug and undug soil, showing that the dug beds have slightly lower yields, and more weeds and slugs. He established a new garden from scratch, to illustrate no-dig practice and form the basis for further experimentation.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Steve Mercer Introduction Part One: Clearing ground and
preparing soil 1. Starting points 2. Beauty in the food garden 3. The
setting 4. Clearing ground 5. Mulching 6. Building beds 7. Dig versus
no-dig (with compost) 8. Dig versus no-dig (without compost) Part Two:
Sowing and growing 9. Raising plants under cover 10. Early sowing and
plantings 11. Successional sowings and plantings 12. One bed, one year 13.
Growing under cover 14. Hot beds 15. Perennial vegetables Appendix: Seasons
and climate zones Glossary Resources Index