Charles Dowding’s No-Dig Organic Gardening Book

No-Dig Children’s Gardening Book is a fun easy book to grow own organic food, without using forks or spades. Good for earthworms, stag beetles, soil and your back! This book is easy to read and packed with user-friendly information and illustrations.

Use no-dig gardening (and avoid netting) to help wildlife (and ensure ponds have sloping sides). Also read our post on pet-friendly gardens.

Although designed for children, there’s no reason why it can’t be read by adults too. The more people that embrace no-dig gardening, the better for wildlife!

No-dig gardening prepares your soil, then adds organic matter, for nature and earthworms to do the work. It improves soil health as organisms are preserved, so weeds are reduced naturally. Healthy soil therefore produces better plants.

This book begins with an overview of no-dig gardening and healthy soil. Then learn how to create a no-dig garden bed in a day, and what to plant in it. You’ll learn how and when to sow common garden vegetables, along with tips to grow giant sunflowers!

You’ll also learn of the benefits of no-dig gardening to native wildlife, and how to create a no-dig market garden in your community. Plus learn how to save your seeds for next year, so you can plant them again, without having to buy more at garden centres.

About the Author

Author Charles Dowding has a degree in geography from Cambridge University, and grows all his own food in Somerset on his no-dig plot. Rather than using chemicals to deter wildlife, this vegetarian gardener simply shares a little of his bountiful harvest with local creatures.

He says that local wildlife often ‘wave at him’ as they go by his garden beds, to help themselves to a bit of dinner!