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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening: Course 1

From Weeds to Vegetables Easily and Quickly

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Charles Dowding’s No Dig Gardening: Course 1

By: Charles Dowding
Narrated by: Charles Dowding
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Compared to Charles' other books, this is more about no dig, eliminating weeds, garden layout, compost making, and using compost. There is also a history of no-dig vegetable gardening in the last 100 years. I want listeners to understand the context and the reasons why no dig has not been much valued until recently, and why it is now.

There is a section on site evaluation and creating beds and paths. Then comes a whole section on clearing weeds by mulching, so that you can have clean soil and less weed pressure. More time to be creative.

There are two sections with detailed planting plans for small spaces. These are based on what Charles grew then harvested there in successive seasons, and how no dig helped to achieve these results.

This audiobook has 18 sections, covering the key methods and wonderful results of no dig, from starting with weeds to sowing and planting straightaway, and cropping soon after.

You learn how to:

  • Start out no dig
  • Save time and avoid unnecessary effort
  • Create and look after beds and paths, with a whole section on paths and their value
  • Recognize and reduce the different types of weeds
  • Understand and use different types of mulch or soil cover
  • Know the differences between soil, compost, and different types of compost
  • Make compost
  • Grow an abundance of vegetables
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Pleasantly narrated. A lot of information about his various experiments and yields interspersed with good information. I found when listening that I switched off at points.

Pleasant listen

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This is a fascinating book, inspirational and above all, logical. I think the biggest obstacle to understanding and adopting Dowding's method is an inertia, born of adherence to the Protestant work ethic, i.e. grinding toil is good for you. Great job Charles. I dig ya!

The bleeding obvious

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A good start, useful information. I think I would have enjoyed it more with slightly fewer pauses within sentences!

Good content, but spoken very slowly!

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I learned a lot about how to compost and why to compost. Wish this book covered a bit more about growing potatoes.

Great description of the no dig method!

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I did wonder how well a gardening book like this would work on audio, but I really enjoyed it. The author’s speaking voice is familiar to anyone who watches his informative videos, and he delivers the information as if talking to an audience (which works very well) rather than straight reading the text of the printed book (which wouldn’t have worked so well). It is a great presentation of his methods and I learned a lot from it. Things that I might have skipped through quickly in text thinking ‘I know that’ I had to listen to slowly and gained new understandings.

Works surprisingly well on audio

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