Alan Chamberlain

Charles's books and videos have been unbelievably helpful, instructive and inspiring and I pass on details to all gardening people I know! At the moment I have three books and two calendars - far from finished!

I was already "no-digging" from about 2016 onward in my previous garden on Essex clay, but without the knowledge and experience which Charles and his books and videos provided from winter 2020-21 onwards, in my new garden in Norfolk. (Removers' cardboard boxes, stored since the summer, were invaluable.) His use of multisowing, path/bed proportions, compost-making, interplanting and succession were all novelties for me, and all have worked brilliantly. Course Book 1 was read over and over. Sowing dates and the planning for winter crops in the greenhouse and early spring in and outdoors are the icing on the cake: we just have so much more food from the garden now.

My vegetable plots are one area of 7 x 5.5 m, plus a strawberry bed and a bean row. I'd like more but it would mean losing a beautiful apple tree or some of the ornamental garden.

The photo is from May 2022.