Charles Dowding

How to Create a New Vegetable Garden

Producing a beautiful and fruitful garden from scratch

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Produktbeschreibung

A practical book to take you through the stages of creating a new vegetable garden from scratch - using any plot of land. Filled with useful advice and and guidance, it will help you to realise the full potential of your garden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 167mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780857844743
• ISBN-10: 0857844741
• Artikelnr.: 53977380

Autorenporträt

Charles Dowding is a veteran organic grower and has written several books on vegetable gardening. He contributes articles to numerous magazines, including Gardeners' World, Gardens Illustrated and Grow It!, and gives regular talks and courses. Charles is an internationally recognised organic gardening expert and frequently appears on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4's The Long View and BBC's Gardeners' World.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Steve Mercer
Introduction
Part One: Clearing ground and preparing soil
1. Starting points
2. Beauty in the food garden
3. The setting
4. Clearing ground
5. Mulching
6. Building beds
7. Dig versus no-dig (with compost)
8. Dig versus no-dig (without compost)
Part Two: Sowing and growing
9. Raising plants under cover
10. Early sowing and plantings
11. Successional sowings and plantings
12. One bed, one year
13. Growing under cover
14. Hot beds
15. Perennial vegetables
Appendix: Seasons and climate zones
Glossary
Resources
Index