Focusing on the transformative No Dig system, this guide emphasizes the importance of homemade compost for enriching the soil and enhancing plant growth. Charles Dowding shares practical advice on what to compost, dispels common myths, and offers effective techniques suitable for various gardening settings. By creating your own compost, you not only recycle waste but also contribute to carbon storage and greenhouse gas reduction. The beautifully illustrated book serves as a comprehensive resource for achieving optimal composting results through diverse methods.
Charles Dowding Ordre des livres







- 2024
- 2023
The No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
- 64pages
- 3 heures de lecture
Projects based on Dowding's no-dig technique are broken down into easy, step- by-step processes, designed to be carried out by children. Running throughout the gardening projects are extra little facts about plants and wildlife, as well as things to look out for when you are outdoors.
- 2022
No Dig Cookbook
- 160pages
- 6 heures de lecture
- 2022
"Stop digging and start to truly understand the needs of your soil for bumper harvests of healthier crops. Charles Dowding has spent a lifetime perfecting his no dig sysem of growing. At its core is an awareness that soil vitality is a dynamic process involving a web of organisms which we can easily feed and support, enabling our plants to grow strong and healthy, in a weed-free environment. With clear, step-by-step instructions on how to set up a no dig plot and detailed cultivation advice for more than 80 crops, this book will revolutionize the way you grow."--Back cover
- 2022
How to garden easily and effectively, based on the author's 40 years of growing vegetables. Advice on setting up your garden and planning what to grow, ways to sow and to save seeds, planting, spacing, watering, and harvesting. Plus details of succession planting, winter gardening, and how to use covers for early cropping and pest protection.
- 2021
Grow Organic Salad Leaves and Greens
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
Grow a variety of salad greens all year round in your garden, on your balcony or on a windowsill.
- 2020
Charles Dowding's No Dig Gardening
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
A course book of 18 lessons by Charles Dowding, teaching both theory and practice of no dig gardening.
- 2018
Charles Dowding's Veg Journal
- 192pages
- 7 heures de lecture
The book uses the seasonal checklists, advice and hard-won experience of the UK' s best-known no-dig gardener to plan a year' s veg growing.
- 2018
Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated the definitive book on salad growing in this hardback, beautifully illustrated edition. In it he shows how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a garden, balcony or windowsill, whatever the weather & grow healthy plants grown in healthy soil using organic, permaculture principles.
- 2017
Die vielseitigen Salat- und Kräutersorten, die der preisgekrönte Bio-Gärtner Charles Dowding in seinem neuen Buch vorstellt, verströmen ihren Duft in Haus und Garten. Ob im Beet, auf Balkon oder Terrasse - mit diesem Ratgeber ist der Hobbygärtner perfekt ausgestattet. Neben wertvollen Tipps zu Anbau und Pflege gibt es viel Wissenswertes um den Ertrag zu maximieren und gesunde Rezepte - so bleiben keine Fragen offen. Einfacher geht es nicht!