No Dig: Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Veg with Less Effort
£20.20£28.50 (-29%)
Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops – without back-breaking effort!
Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can!
By following the simple steps set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionise your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day one!
Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need to dig over the soil, but by minimising intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables.
So put your gardening gloves on and get ready to discover:
– Guides and calendars of when to sow, grow, and harvest.
– Inspiring information and first-hand guidance from the author
– “Delve deeper” features look in-depth at the No Dig system and the facts and research that back it up.
– The essential role of compost and how to make your own at home.
– The importance of soil management, soil ecology, and soil health.
Now one of the hottest topics in environmental science, this “wood-wide web” has informed Charles’s practice for decades, and he’s proven it isn’t just trees that benefit – every gardener can harness the power of the wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles’s beautiful market garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less time and effort, and in harmony with nature – so join the No Dig revolution today!
A must-have volume for followers of Charles Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like organic and No Dig.
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Additional information
| Publisher | DK (1 Sept. 2022) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241541816 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241541814 |
| Dimensions | 18.7 x 2.7 x 27.2 cm |
by Matthew
I nearly didn’t buy this book; I felt the images of the cover on Amazon looked really cheap and uninspiring. I ended up bying it simply because the knowledge containted within it is only available from Mr Dowding, so glumy waited for my rather drab book to arrive.
I could not have been more wrong. The build quality of the impressive fabric covered leaf bound hardback is possibly one of the best i’ve seen. the pages are thick, and full colour photogtraphs throughout make the content much easier to understand a read.
Not just an invaluable source of info on modern gardening and allotmenting using Charles’ patented ‘nodig’ method, but a genuinly lovely coffee table book Bravo Sir!
by Florin Puscasu
We are starting to do no dig this year abd the book was of great help
by Miss K L Burns
Given as a gift, they were delighted
by Andrew
Why wouldn’t you grow this way????
by NHP
You don’t need to be a fan of ‘no-dig’ to appreciate this book. Dowding is the propagator of this method of growing and he explains and demonstrates it beautifully. This book is exceptionally written and well researched.
by Andrew
I love this book. It is filled with such useful information, I cannot wait to put into action all I have learnt.
by Richard Davies
The cover and illustrations are beautiful and the key aspects of achieving a no-dig approach are clearly set out
by nicole wilde tang
I have all the Charles Dowding books, except the recipe and children one, and wish No Dig came out first as it would have saved me money buying all the others (apart from the calendar/planner one which is great for organising one’s thought, though NOT the old Veg Journal one, which really isn’t the most useful).
No Dig has so much information, concisely and beautifully presented, that I refer to this more than his youtube videos now. It is less than half price of all the other books combined, but manages to cover the same info and whole lot more. The soil cycle bit and plant by plant profile for sowing, care, harvesting and seed saving with timeline really stands out. Unless you are specifically interested in Charles’ bed by the shed and small garden year by year output per kilogram (Veg Course), spacing diagram (Skills for growing), then this one pretty much does it all.
Don’t let the retro cover graphic put you off – as some other commenters said, it’s a well made, gorgeous book in real life. You’ll be a smarter and more motivated person having read just any page/chapter in it. Very highly recommended.