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no dig

Just wanted to thank you for the inspiration to experiment with no-dig, as I’ve tried it with amazing success in my container veg garden.

Erik Storhok

Michigan, 17.9.19

This is our first year of no dig and we are the envy of our fellow allotmenteers.

Jacqui D

You Tube Plan video 15.12.19

A combination of your you tube channel, the books I have bought from you and following on Facebook, have completely turned my gardening life around. Thank you for being so inspirational, informational, educational and thought provoking over this last couple of years.

Steve Randles, Cumbria

I learned of you while studying organic gardening at a community college in San Antonio Texas. I have since followed you on social media. In my book you are the most inspirational horticulturalist for 2019!

Jenna Leigh-Ann

Facebook 8.1.2020

I made the mistake of straying from your advice, and I tried “amending” my clay heavy soil in areas instead of continuing to add on compost with no-dig. This winter we’ve had a lot of rain and the only bed that has not flooded is the bed I left as no-dig! Now I know that digging around helps nothing, certainly not drainage. My no-dig bed absorbs the water like its nothing.

Timothy K

Winter veg 27.1.20

Thank you so much for all the practical information, the exceptional food and the general sense of can-do, my favourite advice of all being ‘Alleviate your worries!’ I spent several enjoyable hours renovating a neglected bed of raspberries using compost and polythene, a job so daunting I had put it off for months. Am feeling very empowered.

Laura Evans

After day course 12.2.20

No-dig is a life changing way to garden. I’ve fallen in love with my garden again. Thank you!

Donna Creager

YouTube Beautiful Veg

I started this method four years ago and I wish I’d known about it decades earlier. We had just bought a big rototiller to start all of our beds before I discovered no dig and ended up selling it. This method works very, very well and for very little effort or money.

Janette Lavender

I am in Northern California, a mile east of the ocean. From your videos I attempted my first No Dig garden at the end of 2018. Even through winter storms it started producing, and by the time spring arrived, I had an abundant, healthy, thriving garden, with my nearest neighbours deciding they must take up the method themselves.

Linda Schneider

This has been my first year of no dig, I had such an amazing time and had loads of produce. Thank you Charles for all your help and amazing videos, and your books are brilliant.

Elaine Hutchinson

You Tube

I thoroughly enjoyed your online course and have learnt so much. I am just starting out on an allotment plot and already notice how few weeds I have compared to my plot-holder neighbours. And I’m loving weed-free paths!

Susan Souter

I started my compost bins after being inspired by your videos in 2018. I had previously given up on composting because it was too hard to turn them as often as the garden books always insist.

Cindy Conner

Californian flower farmer

I have learned so much from watching your videos. You’re an excellent teacher — concise and generous at the same time. You helped rekindle my love of growing food. Thank you!

Andrea Berry

I LOVE your videos and the online course was fantastic. Can’t wait for the next one.

Sharon Gunn

gardening in Texas USA

This has been my first year of no dig, I had such an amazing time and had loads of produce. Thank you Charles for all your help and your books are brilliant.

You have changed my approach to gardening, and I couldn’t be happier now than when I’m outside planting and growing and seeing the amazing results of your no dig advice.

Thank you sir for your amazing video advice. I followed every thing to the letter and I now have an amazing garden and abundance.
Completely incredible stuff in under 7 months: took keys of property on 6th December last year, 1 acre, polytunnel in place, my beds are feeding 5 people not fully but incredibly. Thank you for changing our lives.

Tinker bell

August 2018

Many thanks for making the journey to Sheffield last week, and providing such a fantastic and stimulating talk for our audience. Everyone loved it!

Gareth Roberts of Regather

Sheffield’s Festival of Debate Talk Attendee

Charles has become the guru of no dig gardening. He’s a really good grower, organic, has fabulous produce and we went down to Somerset to see how he does it…. I’m a convert now, I want to dig as little as possible.

Monty Don

BBC Gardeners World

I came on a course last August, and it has given me so much direction and understanding in my gardening thinking. And your updates through the winter are an absolute tonic.

Clare Finzi

Course Attendee

Have just received your splendid calendar with the sumptuous pics. An annus mirabilis at Homeacres methinks!! It will take pride of place in the potting shed to remind us what we should be doing.

Jim Buckland

Head Gardener at West Dean College, Chichester.

no dig

About no dig – history, trials and myths

All year growing – covers, winter garden and perennials

About No Dig + Compost

About No Dig + Weeds

Pests + Diseases

Planning + Propagation

Propagation + Spacing

About No Dig + Compost + Weeds

Planning + Propagation + Spacing

No Dig, published by DK, signed

Charles Dowding’s Calendar of Vegetable Sowing Dates 2024, signed

Charles Dowding’s Skills For Growing, signed