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Charles Dowding's skills for growing : sowing, spacing, planting, picking, watering and more Cover Image Book Book
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Charles Dowding's skills for growing : sowing, spacing, planting, picking, watering and more / [Charles Dowding].

Dowding, Charles, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781916092044
  • ISBN: 1916092047
  • Physical Description: 237 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : No Dig Garden, 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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  • 2 of 2 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Everett Free Library 635 D (Text)
Bookplate: Presented in memory of Robin Pittman by Bucher Wallace Insurance Agency
15537000141303 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bethlehem Coolidge Branch 635 (Text) 33062009593386 Adult Nonfiction Available -

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