Who is Charles Dowding?

Who is Charles Dowding?

When researching modern no-dig gardening methods, there was one name that continually popped up…Charles Dowding. Charles Dowding is an English horticulturalist and author who has pioneered modern no-dig and organic soil management in the UK since 1983. He is...
A lesson in optimism

A lesson in optimism

I’ve always said that gardening is a project for optimists because no matter how many failures I have had, how many seeds don’t sprout or how many healthy plants become the food of neighbouring fauna, still each season I plant, tend the soil and hope that my hard work...
‘Waste not, want not’

‘Waste not, want not’

There’s a certain thing that happens to you when you start to garden in the no-dig way. You’ll go to a park and observe the piles of fallen leaves carpeting the earth beneath the trees. You’ll visit a coffee shop with a friend and note not only how...