Charles Dowding'S Skills For Growing Av Charles Dowding

<p><strong>The knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles’ decades of experience</strong></p><ul><li>Grow vegetables easily throughout the year</li><li>Use time creatively to maximize growth</li><li>Learn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods</li><li>Learn to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest, and succeed with succession</li><li>Improve growth while working alongside nature</li></ul><p>Master gardener Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need for successful growing. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develop new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.</p><p><em>Skills for Growing</em> 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.</p><p>It gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.</p><p>Dowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.</p><p>The advice given in the book 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.</p><p>The book comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-color photographs from Dowding’s garden in Southwest UK.</p>