Charles Dowding’s Skills for Growing : Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Wa...

Description: Charles Dowding’s Skills for Growing : Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More, Hardcover by Dowding, Charles, ISBN 1916092047, ISBN-13 9781916092044, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

The knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles’ decades of experience

Grow vegetables easily throughout the year
Use time creatively to maximise growth
Learn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods
Learn to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest, and succeed with succession
Improve growth while working alongside nature

Master gardener Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need for successful growing. His approach sometimes divergesfrom the mainstream because he assays and develop new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.

Skills for Growing illustrates how you create planting plans and advises on succession and rotation, interplanting and multisowing, how to propagate plants and quick ways to set them in the ground.

It gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.

Dowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.

The advice given in th is based on having a clean and fertile area in which to grow vegetables. It may not be large, but that is fine: there are examples of how much food you can grow every year in just one bed, and in containers too.

Th comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-colour photographs from Dowding’s garden in Southwest UK.

Price: 27.86 USD

Location: Jessup, Maryland

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