A second "gardening course in a book" from master gardener Charles Dowding: 18 lessons, and over 900 photos with detailed captions
Grow creatively, learn new skills, save time, enjoy growing success!
Includes detailed information on:
how to create planting plans: succession and interplanting
plant propagation
spacing, picking methods, and watering
using covers for both warmth and pest protection.
how to grow herbs and perennial vegetables
how to grow in containers
how to multisow
Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need, the essentials of gardening success, whether the space you are gardening is large or small. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develops new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.
Lessons
Skills and Knowledge
Fully Use your Time and Space: how to maximise growth, efficiently
Sketch Out the Year: examples of plans and successions for three beds
Succession and Rotation: How to plan for and succeed with new plantings throughout summer and into autumn, what can follow what
Winter Gardening: Growing and preparing for winter, and harvesting during the hungry gap
Perennial Vegetables and Raspberries A growing manual of 12 perennial food plants,
Herbs: How to sow, harvest and maintain annuals and perennials, from basil and coriander to sage and thyme
Seeds and Sowing: How to source, buy and save seeds, with illustrations of seed saving
Propagation Skills: The biggest lesson, packed with information on this important subject
Multisowing: Inter-sowing is a form of companion planting, because seedlings like 'nurse plants' nearby, and plants generally like being close to other plants: why and how, many examples, a big timesaver and garden filler!
Close Spacings: How and when to do it and why this works so well within reason; details for many vegetables
Wider Spacings: Many examples and explanations, see the results from small plants to harvests
Planting Methods: Sowing direct, ways to transplant and how to do it quickly
Picking Skills: When to pick for different vegetables, seasons, plant growth and harvest requirements
Picking Skills(2): More on picking, including discussions and examples of cutting,
Small-space Growing :Vegetables in containers, sacks, vertical and one bed
Early Cropping and Covers: Using fleece and mesh, their relative values and effects in different seasons
Water, Frost, Moon, Energy: How to water, what you need to know about frost and some of my "secrets" of lateral thinking, plus action
Note that this is a companion, not a sequel to No Dig Gardening, Course 1. Reading the first course book is not a prerequisite for using this book to garden better!
- ISBN10 1916092047
- ISBN13 9781916092044
- Publish Date 17 January 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint No Dig Garden
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English