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The knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles’ decades of experience

Master gardener Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need for successful growing. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develop new or lesser-known methods, for easier and better results.

Skills for Growing illustrates how you create planting plans and advises on succession and rotation, interplanting and multisowing, how to propagate plants and quick ways to set them in the ground.

It gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.

Dowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.

The advice given in the book is based on having a clean and fertile area in which to grow vegetables. It may not be large, but that is fine: there are examples of how much food you can grow every year in just one bed, and in containers too.

The book comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-color photographs from Dowding’s garden in Southwest UK.

A unique cookbook, packed with recipes for seasonal vegetables as well as tips on how to grow them, using Charles Dowding's fantastic and time-saving no dig methods.It explains and develops the strong links you can achieve between garden and kitchen, which keep changing according to the season. The garden decides your menu!The recipes are by Catherine Balaam, who cooks for day and weekend courses at Charles' Homeacres no dig garden. Catherine has created and tested over 60 delicious plant-based recipes, inspired by those lunches which see the participants salivating, after an intense morning of learning in the garden. They are simple dishes bursting with flavor, from seasonal vegetables and herbs.To complement them, Charles has written ‘Advice on growing your own’ sections throughout the book. He outlines some key growing tips for many of the vegetables in the recipes. He also includes his own recipe for no-knead bread, another great timesaver.You can also find ideas on how to adapt recipes to your own harvests, using different vegetables which are similar to cook with.Some of the recipes are how to ferment and store vegetables so that you can use any gluts and enjoy them later.Recipes are categorized as follows:• Pestos, dips and sauces• Ferments and vinegars• Salads• Cooked salads• Roasties• Stews and hot dishes• Sweet treatsThere are beautiful photos of the cooked dishes, a few including preparation, and of Charles Dowding's garden at Homeacres.