{"product_id":"charles-dowdings-skills-for-growing-sowing-spacing-planting-picking-watering-and-more","title":"Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing: Sowing, Spacing, Planting, Picking, Watering and More","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe knowledge and techniques you need for successful vegetable growing, based on Charles' decades of experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eGrow vegetables easily throughout the year\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUse time creatively to maximize growth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn cost-effective and productive-per-area methods\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLearn to plan, sow, multisow, transplant, space, water, harvest, and succeed with succession\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eImprove growth while working alongside nature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaster 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSkills for Growing\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt gives detailed information on spacing, harvesting methods and timings, watering, and using covers for both warmth and pest protection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDowding describes the skills needed for successful winter gardening, growing in containers and growing perennial vegetables and herbs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book comprises 18 chapters, grouped into 6 parts. Each chapter is illustrated with captioned, full-color photographs from Dowding's garden in Southwest UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Charles Dowding","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44444362408172,"sku":"9781916092044","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781916092044.jpg?v=1708846729","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/charles-dowdings-skills-for-growing-sowing-spacing-planting-picking-watering-and-more","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}