‘Work less, save your back and harvest more vegetables than ever before…’
Through more than 30 years of practice — and more recently, through writing – Charles Dowding has attracted a growing band of followers including National Trust head gardeners, Sarah Raven and Monty Don who, along with Gardener’s World, proclaimed Charles’s approach as one of the key movements that have changed gardening forever.
Charles will be visiting the flower plot at Blooming Green, Linton, near Maidstone on Sunday May 14th, to talk about the no-dig gardening and the concept than no dig means healthier soil and fewer weeds.
For those unfamiliar with no-dig gardening, it is both wonderfully and fascinatingly complex — the key is having faith in nature and knowing when to leave things alone: “There’s this assumption that soil needs to be loosened and aerated and we need to intervene, that we can improve on nature and the natural processes,” says Charles.
Charles advocates is using plenty of compost, manure, cardboard and / or fabric to cover the surface of the soil and so suppress weeds by starving them of light. “Fertility building up from on top is a copy of natural processes, like on a forest floor, or animal droppings on pasture,” says Charles.
• His talk will start at 11am, and will be followed by a Q&A session, then lunch. Tickets cost £60
Blooming Green, Loddington Farm, Linton, near Maidstone, Kent ME17 4AG
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For more information please theshed@bloominggreenflowers.co.uk
Tel 01622 298676 or visit www.bloominggreenflowers.co.uk
