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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening, Course Book 1 – From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly (DIGITAL VERSION)

A DIGITAL VERSION OF NO DIG GARDENING, COURSE BOOK 1 (NOT DOWNLOADABLE)

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Once purchased, you will have unlimited access to the digital No Dig Gardening book via this website, by creating a personal login and then accessing in ‘My Memberships’.

Please note that purchase of the digital book is for reading on the website only, and does not give you the option of downloading its content.

PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT DIGITAL PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE ACCESSIBLE VIA TABLET DEVICES

(The print version of No Dig Gardening can be purchased here.)

Compared to my other books, this one has much more about no dig, compost and compost making, and using compost. There is also a history of no dig vegetable gardening in the last hundred years. I want you to understand the context, and the reasons why no dig has not been much valued until recently, and why it is now.
Plus there is a chapter on site evaluation and planning your layout, and a whole section on clearing weeds by mulching, with all the associated details.
Although the book is not a manual of vegetable growing, it has two chapters with detailed planting plans for small spaces. These are based on what I grew there in successive seasons together with the results, and how no dig helped to achieve these results. For the 25m2/270ft2 small garden, there are two years’ of planting plans, and tables of the subsequent harvests.
I use the results of my Homeacres trials to help you understand how no dig works, and the value of different composts. I also question and demonstrate the need, or not, to grow vegetables in a different place each year.
This book is based around the written content and photos of my no dig online course. It has 19 chapters, covering the key methods and wonderful results of no dig.
From starting with weeds, to sowing and planting straightaway and cropping soon after that.
You learn how to:
  • Use no dig on different soil types
  • Ask questions and recognise gardening myths, to save time and unnecessary effort
  • Create and look after beds and paths, with a whole lesson on paths and their value.
  • Recognise and massively reduce the different types of weeds
  • Understand and use different types of mulch or soil cover
  • Know the differences between soil, compost and different types of compost
  • Make your own compost
  • Grow an abundance of vegetables using the no dig method. There are growing plans for one bed and for the small garden, with photos and tables to illustrate the results.
Each lesson is comprehensively illustrated, with time-sequences of captioned photos from Charles’ highly productive gardens. Lessons finish with a multiple choice quiz to consolidate learning. 

This is a highly detailed resource for anyone wishing to learn and garden with the no dig method.

There are 85,000 words and 900 photographs.

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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening, Course Book 1 – From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly (DIGITAL VERSION)

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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening, Course Book 1 – From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly (DIGITAL VERSION)

Rated 5.00 out of 5 based on 2 customer ratings
(2 customer reviews)

£16.50

A practical course book written by Charles Dowding – invaluable for anyone wishing to learn the no dig method, and to consolidate what they already know.

SKU: 043-1 Categories: Books, Front Four Tags: Charles Dowding, course book, intensive gardening, no dig
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2 reviews for Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening, Course Book 1 – From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly (DIGITAL VERSION)

  1. Rated 5 out of 5

    Julia Scott – December 16, 2020

    This method and book has completely changed my garden, I’m now having a wonderful time growing way more usable food. This past year, using Charles Dowding’s No Dig method for the first time, was the first time I could ever grow carrots and beets in our heavy clay soil. (I’d been trying for the past 11 years or so.) The tomato crop was superb, too. This was also the first time cucumbers were able to produce heavily and not succumb to fungus (a huge problem here in humid, trapped-air Pittsburgh, PA.) And I learnt that kale could survive long into the winter; I learnt to harvest the outer leaves correctly; biggest harvest ever! The kale tips (with a few friendly leaves remaining) are out there right now looking super dark green and healthy as the new snow is falling on them. Thank you, Charles!

  2. Rated 5 out of 5

    Florante Bartolome – December 15, 2020

    Hi Charles, i’ve been watching your videos and you inspired me a lot when i’m going back to my country Philippines i will do the no dig garden on my piece of land at the moment i’m working here in Malta.Thanks a lot for the videos on you Youtube channel.Keep it up and looking forward for more videos.Thanks a lot

    • Charles – December 16, 2020

      Hello Florante and thanks a lot for writing.
      I wish you successful vegetables in both Malta and the Philippines, that sounds exciting!

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