Charles Dowding's skills for growing : sowing, spacing, planting, picking, watering and more / [Charles Dowding].
Includes cost-effective and productive-per-area methods to grow vegetables throughout the year and ways to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest and improve growth.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781916092044
- ISBN: 1916092047
- Physical Description: 237 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : No Dig Garden, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index (pages 231-237). On cover: Healthy soil, no dig, fewer weeds. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part 1. Skills and knowledge for a full garden, all year -- Chatper 1. Tips for good growing -- Chapter 2. An outline of key skills -- Chapter 3. Planning, with three examples -- Chapter 4. Succession and rotation -- Part 2. Seeds, sowing and planting -- Chapter 5. Seeds and seed saving -- Chapter 6. How to propagate strong seedlings -- Chapter 7. The benefits of multisowing -- Chapter 8. Transplant or sow direct -- Chapter 9. Sow and plant once - perennials -- Part 3. The importance of spacing, with examples -- Chapter 10. The how and why of spacing -- Chapter 11. Examples of close spacings -- Chapter 12. Examples of wider spacings -- Part 4. Watering and harvesting -- Chapter 13. When and how to water, and how much -- Chapter 14. Harvesting methods and amounts -- Chapter 15. Harvesting timings -- Part 5. Covers and winter gardening -- Chapter 16. Covers for speeding growth and pest protection -- Chapter 17. Winter gardening, and how to manage frost -- Going further -- New skills for new energies -- Online courses. |
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Subject: | Gardening. Growth (Plants) Vegetables > Seeds. Flowers > Seeds. Vegetables > Sowing. Flowers > Sowing. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Everett Free Library | 635 D (Text)
Bookplate:
Presented in memory of Robin Pittman by Bucher Wallace Insurance Agency
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15537000141303 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethlehem Coolidge Branch | 635 (Text) | 33062009593386 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Summary:
Includes cost-effective and productive-per-area methods to grow vegetables throughout the year and ways to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest and improve growth.