How to Create a New Vegetable Garden

Producing a beautiful and fruitful garden from scratch

Charles Dowding (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Green Books (Verlag)
978-0-85784-474-3 (ISBN)

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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.

The UK’s leading no-dig gardening expert, Charles Dowding, draws on his years of experience to show how easy it is to start a new vegetable garden.

Any plot - whether a building site, overgrown with weeds or unwanted lawn - can be turned into a beautiful and productive vegetable area. Charles's no-nonsense and straightforward advice is the perfect starting point for the beginner or experienced gardener.

The book takes you step-by-step through everything - from planning, clearing the ground and the early stages of starting a vegetable garden, to growing in polytunnels and greenhouses. There is also helpful guidance on how to use mulch, ways to minimise digging, and planting/sowing tips across the seasons.

Filled with labour-saving ideas and the techniques that Charles uses to garden so successfully, How to Create a Vegetable Garden is illustrated throughout with photos and tales from Charles's first year in his new vegetable garden.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2019
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 232 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
ISBN-10	0-85784-474-1 / 0857844741
ISBN-13	978-0-85784-474-3 / 9780857844743
Zustand	Neuware