Home Gardener's No-Dig Raised Bed Gardens: Growing Vegetables, Salads and Soft Fruit in Raised No-Dig Beds

The essential guide to gardening successfully with the minimum amount of digging and weeding!
- Over 200 photos clearly illustrate instructions, construction, vegetables, herbs, and fruits
- Step-by-step instructions for DIY projects and simple, no-nonsense gardening methods
- Expert advice on no-dig gardening, including how to tackle pests and diseases
- Concise reference guide is easy to use, with important techniques clearly presented
- A-Z directory of vegetables, herbs, and soft fruits
Are you a first-time gardener daunted by the prospect of endless back-breaking digging? Or perhaps you are a keen vegetable grower battling with poor soil or pest invasions? If so, this helpful guide clearly explains how you can achieve a productive garden without the hard graft, using the no-dig raised bed system.
For those without the time or stamina to spend hours maintaining a garden, horticulture experts Alan and Gill Bridgewater show how to make raised beds, build up layers of soil with mushroom compost, cover weeds with mulch, protect plants with nets and plastic, and much more!
Home Gardener's No-Dig Raised Bed Gardens is a concise, easy-to-use reference guide on all aspects of home gardening, is thoroughly practical, and advocates using organic methods where possible.
Ideal for first time gardeners who want to learn the basics, or busy and older gardeners looking for simple, no-nonsense gardening methods, you'll find a wealth of practical information at your fingertips. Step-by-step instructions, clear color photographs and illustrations, inspirational ideas, and DIY projects accompany expert advice prepared by leading cultivation specialists.
Home Gardener's No-Dig Raised Bed Gardens covers:
- Benefits of the no-dig method
- Raised bed construction
- Growing media
- Manure
- Rotation
- Catch crops and intercropping
- Plant protection
- Sowing seeds
- Potting and planting
- Extending the growing season
- Year-round calendar
- Sowing calendar
- A-Z of vegetables and herbs
- A-Z of soft fruits
- Pests and diseases
- Troubleshooting
This Specialist Guide is a must for busy gardeners everywhere!