Vegetable Garden Diary Charles Dowding

A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations.

I give advice on how to grow great crops. Use it year after year –  it has an ‘any year’ format.

Advice in the diary section is linked to each week of the season, and includes:

• The advantages of no dig, for less time needed
• Sowing seed at the best moment – seeds will neither fail in cold nor start too late
• Sowing and planting methods, plus raising plants at home
• Maintaining control of weeds through timely mulching and hoeing
• How to feed soil, for strong and healthy growth, more easily
• When and how to make all the harvests, with advice on storing produce

This is a garden companion of seasonal prompts, in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables.