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No Dig Organic Home and Garden and Vegetable Garden Diary, both signed

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No Dig Organic Home & Garden


No dig gardening saves time and work.

Co-author Stephanie Hafferty and I draw on our decades of experience to explain the skills you need for growing great vegetables in less time. We explain and illustrate delicious ways to eat them, and other things you can do with garden plants.

We advise on setting up a no dig garden, and using the produce:

  • Make compost and enrich soil (though it’s ok to buy compost when starting!)
  • Learn the skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg
  • Harvest and prepare food all year round
  • Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products and garden preparations


These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. Our combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts, and many recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

No dig is just the starting point of this book and it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. There are tables for the best sowing times, required soil temperatures and spacings, plus protection, pests and diseases are covered in detail.

Then there are recipes for using your produce to create DIY potions for the garden – sprays, fertilisers and so on – and for the home – soaps, cleaning solutions and laundry powder – as well as plenty of mouth-watering, vegetable-based recipes.

All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency and an alternative lifestyle than a straight gardening book, and it is all the more useful and thought provoking for it. It is a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.

Lia Leendertz's Book of the Month in Gardens Illustrated August 2017


———

Amazingly informative book. It has all the key topics needed for a fully integrated approach to growing and using edible plants. Would highly recommend to anyone wishing to start growing their own food and using their crop.

Andrew, June 2020



———



Vegetable Garden Diary


A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations – introduced by Darina Allen.

Three quarters of the book is my advice on how to grow great crops. One quarter is diary space. 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. You can add your own additions, all in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables, and then keep this valuable information for future reference.

The diary is wire-bound for easy use, and the cover is laminated on both sides for greater longevity and to prevent curling.

The diary was one of six finalists for Practical Book of the Year at the GMG Awards (Gardening Oscars) in London, November 2017. The winner was my joint book, No Dig Organic Home & Garden.


———


Very easy to use on a day-to-day basis when looking for information about no dig. It is suitable to use outside when gardening and there is room to make your own notes. I have found this very helpful. Annabelle Harrison, April 2021

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No Dig Organic Home and Garden and Vegetable Garden Diary, both signed

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Further Description

No Dig Organic Home & Garden


No dig gardening saves time and work.

Co-author Stephanie Hafferty and I draw on our decades of experience to explain the skills you need for growing great vegetables in less time. We explain and illustrate delicious ways to eat them, and other things you can do with garden plants.

We advise on setting up a no dig garden, and using the produce:

  • Make compost and enrich soil (though it’s ok to buy compost when starting!)
  • Learn the skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg
  • Harvest and prepare food all year round
  • Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products and garden preparations


These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. Our combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts, and many recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

No dig is just the starting point of this book and it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. There are tables for the best sowing times, required soil temperatures and spacings, plus protection, pests and diseases are covered in detail.

Then there are recipes for using your produce to create DIY potions for the garden – sprays, fertilisers and so on – and for the home – soaps, cleaning solutions and laundry powder – as well as plenty of mouth-watering, vegetable-based recipes.

All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency and an alternative lifestyle than a straight gardening book, and it is all the more useful and thought provoking for it. It is a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.

Lia Leendertz's Book of the Month in Gardens Illustrated August 2017


———

Amazingly informative book. It has all the key topics needed for a fully integrated approach to growing and using edible plants. Would highly recommend to anyone wishing to start growing their own food and using their crop.

Andrew, June 2020



———



Vegetable Garden Diary


A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations – introduced by Darina Allen.

Three quarters of the book is my advice on how to grow great crops. One quarter is diary space. 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. You can add your own additions, all in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables, and then keep this valuable information for future reference.

The diary is wire-bound for easy use, and the cover is laminated on both sides for greater longevity and to prevent curling.

The diary was one of six finalists for Practical Book of the Year at the GMG Awards (Gardening Oscars) in London, November 2017. The winner was my joint book, No Dig Organic Home & Garden.


———


Very easy to use on a day-to-day basis when looking for information about no dig. It is suitable to use outside when gardening and there is room to make your own notes. I have found this very helpful. Annabelle Harrison, April 2021

No Dig Organic Home & Garden


No dig gardening saves time and work.

Co-author Stephanie Hafferty and I draw on our decades of experience to explain the skills you need for growing great vegetables in less time. We explain and illustrate delicious ways to eat them, and other things you can do with garden plants.

We advise on setting up a no dig garden, and using the produce:

  • Make compost and enrich soil (though it’s ok to buy compost when starting!)
  • Learn the skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg
  • Harvest and prepare food all year round
  • Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products and garden preparations


These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. Our combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts, and many recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

No dig is just the starting point of this book and it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. There are tables for the best sowing times, required soil temperatures and spacings, plus protection, pests and diseases are covered in detail.

Then there are recipes for using your produce to create DIY potions for the garden – sprays, fertilisers and so on – and for the home – soaps, cleaning solutions and laundry powder – as well as plenty of mouth-watering, vegetable-based recipes.

All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency and an alternative lifestyle than a straight gardening book, and it is all the more useful and thought provoking for it. It is a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.

Lia Leendertz's Book of the Month in Gardens Illustrated August 2017


———

Amazingly informative book. It has all the key topics needed for a fully integrated approach to growing and using edible plants. Would highly recommend to anyone wishing to start growing their own food and using their crop.

Andrew, June 2020



———



Vegetable Garden Diary


A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations – introduced by Darina Allen.

Three quarters of the book is my advice on how to grow great crops. One quarter is diary space. 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. You can add your own additions, all in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables, and then keep this valuable information for future reference.

The diary is wire-bound for easy use, and the cover is laminated on both sides for greater longevity and to prevent curling.

The diary was one of six finalists for Practical Book of the Year at the GMG Awards (Gardening Oscars) in London, November 2017. The winner was my joint book, No Dig Organic Home & Garden.


———


Very easy to use on a day-to-day basis when looking for information about no dig. It is suitable to use outside when gardening and there is room to make your own notes. I have found this very helpful. Annabelle Harrison, April 2021

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No Dig Organic Home & Garden


No dig gardening saves time and work.

Co-author Stephanie Hafferty and I draw on our decades of experience to explain the skills you need for growing great vegetables in less time. We explain and illustrate delicious ways to eat them, and other things you can do with garden plants.

We advise on setting up a no dig garden, and using the produce:

  • Make compost and enrich soil (though it’s ok to buy compost when starting!)
  • Learn the skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg
  • Harvest and prepare food all year round
  • Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products and garden preparations


These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. Our combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts, and many recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

No dig is just the starting point of this book and it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. There are tables for the best sowing times, required soil temperatures and spacings, plus protection, pests and diseases are covered in detail.

Then there are recipes for using your produce to create DIY potions for the garden – sprays, fertilisers and so on – and for the home – soaps, cleaning solutions and laundry powder – as well as plenty of mouth-watering, vegetable-based recipes.

All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency and an alternative lifestyle than a straight gardening book, and it is all the more useful and thought provoking for it. It is a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.

Lia Leendertz's Book of the Month in Gardens Illustrated August 2017


———

Amazingly informative book. It has all the key topics needed for a fully integrated approach to growing and using edible plants. Would highly recommend to anyone wishing to start growing their own food and using their crop.

Andrew, June 2020



———



Vegetable Garden Diary


A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations – introduced by Darina Allen.

Three quarters of the book is my advice on how to grow great crops. One quarter is diary space. 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. You can add your own additions, all in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables, and then keep this valuable information for future reference.

The diary is wire-bound for easy use, and the cover is laminated on both sides for greater longevity and to prevent curling.

The diary was one of six finalists for Practical Book of the Year at the GMG Awards (Gardening Oscars) in London, November 2017. The winner was my joint book, No Dig Organic Home & Garden.


———


Very easy to use on a day-to-day basis when looking for information about no dig. It is suitable to use outside when gardening and there is room to make your own notes. I have found this very helpful. Annabelle Harrison, April 2021

No Dig Organic Home and Garden and Vegetable Garden Diary, both signed

£ 24.99 
Buy now

No Dig Organic Home & Garden


No dig gardening saves time and work.

Co-author Stephanie Hafferty and I draw on our decades of experience to explain the skills you need for growing great vegetables in less time. We explain and illustrate delicious ways to eat them, and other things you can do with garden plants.

We advise on setting up a no dig garden, and using the produce:

  • Make compost and enrich soil (though it’s ok to buy compost when starting!)
  • Learn the skills you need to sow and grow annual and perennial veg
  • Harvest and prepare food all year round
  • Make natural cosmetics, cleaning products and garden preparations


These approaches work as well in small spaces as in large gardens. Our combined experience gives you ways of growing, preparing and storing the plants you grow for many uses, including delicious vegetable feasts, and many recipes and ideas for increasing self-reliance, saving money, living sustainably and enjoying the pleasure of growing your own food, year round.

No dig is just the starting point of this book and it goes on to cover every possible aspect of growing, cooking and preserving, combining all of Dowding and Hafferty’s knowledge, ideas and recipes. There are tables for the best sowing times, required soil temperatures and spacings, plus protection, pests and diseases are covered in detail.

Then there are recipes for using your produce to create DIY potions for the garden – sprays, fertilisers and so on – and for the home – soaps, cleaning solutions and laundry powder – as well as plenty of mouth-watering, vegetable-based recipes.

All of these extras combine to make this more of a manual for self-sufficiency and an alternative lifestyle than a straight gardening book, and it is all the more useful and thought provoking for it. It is a brilliant place for a beginner to start and will also give old timers pause to consider doing things in this alternative way.

Lia Leendertz's Book of the Month in Gardens Illustrated August 2017


———

Amazingly informative book. It has all the key topics needed for a fully integrated approach to growing and using edible plants. Would highly recommend to anyone wishing to start growing their own food and using their crop.

Andrew, June 2020



———



Vegetable Garden Diary


A manual of gardening to inform and inspire you, packed with illustrations – introduced by Darina Allen.

Three quarters of the book is my advice on how to grow great crops. One quarter is diary space. 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. You can add your own additions, all in the context of precise information about how to grow great vegetables, and then keep this valuable information for future reference.

The diary is wire-bound for easy use, and the cover is laminated on both sides for greater longevity and to prevent curling.

The diary was one of six finalists for Practical Book of the Year at the GMG Awards (Gardening Oscars) in London, November 2017. The winner was my joint book, No Dig Organic Home & Garden.


———


Very easy to use on a day-to-day basis when looking for information about no dig. It is suitable to use outside when gardening and there is room to make your own notes. I have found this very helpful. Annabelle Harrison, April 2021

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla, ut commodo diam libero vitae erat.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse varius enim in eros elementum tristique. Duis cursus, mi quis viverra ornare, eros dolor interdum nulla, ut commodo diam libero vitae erat.