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No dig organic gardening saves time and work. It requires an annual dressing of compost to help accelerate the improvement in soil structure and leads to higher fertility and less weeds. No dig experts Charles Dowding and Stephanie Hafferty, explain how to set up a no dig garden, including how to: * Make compost and enrich soil * Learn skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg * Harvest and prepare food year round * Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products, and garden preparations The no dig approach works as well in small spaces as in large gardens. The authors' combined experience covers methods of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, and includes recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably, and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.
About the Author
Charles Dowding has made no dig popular. His readers and viewers learn the method and how it's good for soil, healthy for plants and climate, and easier for them. His books and videos are as applicable for small areas as for large ones, and are used by millions of gardeners worldwide. Since 1982 he has created and cropped four no dig market gardens on different soils: in the 1980s he cropped 7.5acres / 3ha of no dig beds, now he grows vegetables from 0.33 acres / 1300 m2 in Somerset, SW England. He has written 11 books and sowing Calendars of which four are self published. His You Tube channel has 500,000 subscribers, he has created online gardening courses, writes for gardening magazines, and gives talks/courses online, at home and abroad.
