Charles Dowding's Skills For Growing : Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More Hardback

A second "gardening course in a book" from master gardener Charles Dowding: 18 lessons, and over 900 photos with detailed captionsGrow creatively, learn new skills, save time, enjoy growing success!Includes detailed information on:how to create planting plans: succession and interplantingplant propagationspacing, picking methods, and wateringusing covers for both warmth and pest protection. how to grow herbs and perennial vegetableshow to grow in containershow to multisow Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need, the essentials of gardening success, whether the space you are gardening is large or small.

His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develops new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results. LessonsSkills and Knowledge Fully Use your Time and Space: how to maximise growth, efficiently Sketch Out the Year: examples of plans and successions for three bedsSuccession and Rotation: How to plan for and succeed with new plantings throughout summer and into autumn, what can follow whatWinter Gardening: Growing and preparing for winter, and harvesting during the hungry gapPerennial Vegetables and Raspberries A growing manual of 12 perennial food plants,Herbs: How to sow, harvest and maintain annuals and perennials, from basil and coriander to sage and thymeSeeds and Sowing: How to source, buy and save seeds, with illustrations of seed savingPropagation Skills: The biggest lesson, packed with information on this important subjectMultisowing: Inter-sowing is a form of companion planting, because seedlings like 'nurse plants' nearby, and plants generally like being close to other plants: why and how, many examples, a big timesaver and garden filler!Close Spacings: How and when to do it and why this works so well within reason; details for many vegetablesWider Spacings: Many examples and explanations, see the results from small plants to harvestsPlanting Methods: Sowing direct, ways to transplant and how to do it quicklyPicking Skills: When to pick for different vegetables, seasons, plant growth and harvest requirementsPicking Skills(2): More on picking, including discussions and examples of cutting,Small-space Growing :Vegetables in containers, sacks, vertical and one bedEarly Cropping and Covers: Using fleece and mesh, their relative values and effects in different seasonsWater, Frost, Moon, Energy: How to water, what you need to know about frost and some of my "secrets" of lateral thinking, plus action Note that this is a companion, not a sequel to No Dig Gardening, Course 1.

Reading the first course book is not a prerequisite for using this book to garden better!