NO-Dig Childrens Gardening Book The

Charles Dowding the UK’s leading nodig guru shows how to grow a years worth of healthy organic crops while preserving the soils integrity. Using seasonal checklists and expert nodig advice this monthbymonth journal helps you plan bumper harvests the nodig way. From tomatoes to basil carrots to coriander follow simple steps to find success with growing more than 35 vegetables and herbs. Start a nodig vegetable plot on virgin or dug ground improve the soil and become an expert mulcher and weeder as well as learning the techniques for intercropping companion planting seed viability and crop succession. This easytofollow stepbystep guide by one of Britains top gardeners is illustrated with photos to help you learn how to plan a vegetable garden construct a raised bed sow seed indoors and outdoors in spring grow on young crops protect plants from the weather and pests through the season and finally celebrate the joy of harvesting. Organised monthly from January to December this journal is full of key dates for sowing staking harvesting and storing as well as timesaving monthly checklists to help ensure a successful nodig harvest.