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Presents the philosophy, tips and techniques to run a successful organic garden. Based on his experience of a system of permanent slightly-raised beds, the author takes you through a variety of fruit and vegetables: what to choose, when to plant and harvest, and how best to avoid pests and diseases.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #84834 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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Review
One of our most respected vegetable growers . . . Now ordinary gardeners can benefit from his years of practical experience, growing great vegetables in harmony with Mother Earth. --Joy Larkcom, author of 'Grow your own vegtables'

Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener, who grows vegetables of amazing flavour. --Raymond Blanc

From the Back Cover
In Organic Gardening, Charles Dowding shares the philosophy, tips and techniques which have enabled him to run a successful organic garden supplying local restaurants and shops for over 25 years.
Forget the rules: `received wisdom' about gardening is surprisingly inaccurate. Understand better what is going on in the soil and with your plants, in your own garden and climate, and work out your own methods instead.
Respect and encourage life as much as your can, chiefly by spreading good compost or manure.
There is no need to dig in compost and manure - just spread it on top and let worms take it in. Digging can harm soil structure, and is not helpful to plants.
You can reduce weeding to a little hand-weeding or hoeing every ten days.
Based on his experience of a system of permanent slightly raised beds, Charles 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. The book includes recipes to inspire you to culinary heights with your fresh-picked produce.

About the Author
Charles Dowding has not dug, except to clear perennial weeds and
turf, for twenty-five years; he started growing organic vegetables
commercially in 1982 and has farmed in both Somerset and France, and had a
programme of Gardener's World devoted to his farm. He now crops almost an
acre on intensive raised beds, runs courses, and sells salad bags and veg
boxes from his farm. He contributed to The Complete Manual of Organic
Gardening (Headline 1992), and writes for RHS magazine and Blackmore Vale
Magazine. He lives in Shepton Montague, Somerset