Charles Dowding Knihy

Jak jednoduše a v souladu s přírodou pěstovat, skladovat a využívat vlastní úrodu. Zahradničit bez rytí – je to vůbec možné? Autoři této knihy se touto metodou zabývají již celá desetiletí, šetří čas a práci a podporují udržitelnost půdy a ekosystému. Spolupráce s přírodou se projevuje v zdravější a úrodnější půdě, která lépe hospodaří s vodou a prospívá rostlinám. Charles a Stephanie sdílejí své zkušenosti, kde se láska k zahradničení snoubí s praktičností. Metoda bez rytí spočívá v odstranění plevelu pomocí mulče, což umožňuje užitečným půdním organismům nerušeně fungovat. Narušení půdy rytím by poškodilo tyto organismy. Zahradničení bez rytí snižuje výskyt plevelů a mulčování kompostem dodává půdě výživu a ochranu. Kniha obsahuje informace od založení zahrady po sklizeň a skladování úrody, spolu s tipy a recepty na zpracování zeleniny, ovoce a bylin. Učíte se nejen zakládat záhony, ale také vyrábět domácí kosmetiku, přípravky proti škůdcům a připravovat chutná jídla.

"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

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.

Grow a variety of salad greens all year round in your garden, on your balcony or on a windowsill.

A look behind the apparent complexities of gardening advice, to find easier and more productive ways of gardening; growing vegetables in particular. Understanding that can save time, money and unnecessary effort.

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.

It is possible, with the help of this book, to enjoy an abundance of vegetables at the darkest time of year, whether stored or ready for harvesting when needed. It also covers growing for the "hungry gap" from April to early June. Not much grows in winter, but a well-organized plot may nonetheless be quite full. This book helps gardeners plan carefully, and well ahead, sowing and planting at specific times through the year. The main part of the book is an extensive month-by-month sowing, planting, and growing calendar. Further sections cover harvesting--from garlic in July right through to the last of the overwintered greens in May--and storing your produce. Many salads can be grown in winters, especially with a little protection from fleece, cloches, or larger structures. The book includes a whole section on frost-hardy salad plants, explaining how to ensure harvests of fresh leaves throughout winter. The beauty of winter and its produce is captured in glorious photographs from the author's garden.

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.

Based on his experience of a system of permanent slightly-raised beds, author Charles Dowding takes you through a delicious variety of fruit and vegetables: what to choose, when to plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests and diseases. Organic Gardening includes recipes to inspire you to culinary heights with your fresh-picked produce.Dowding shares his philosophy, tips, and techniques that have enabled him to run a successful organic garden that has supplied local restaurants and shops for 25 years. Encouraging readers to forget the rules, Dowding suggests gardeners will better understand what is going on in your soil, plants, garden, and climate when you develop your own methods of gardening. Most radically, Dowding illustrates a method for ensuring that you never need to till your soil again, instead relying upon the natural balance that comes with respecting life, spreading good compost, and allowing worms to play a key role in your maintenance.