Drawing on Charles Dowding’s Vegetable Course this month-by-month journal helps you plan bumper harvests the no-dig way. Follow simple steps to: find success with more than 35 vegetables and herbs from tomatoes to basil, carrots to coriander; start a no-dig veg plot on virgin or dug ground, improve the soil and become an expert mulcher and weeder; learn key dates for sowing, staking, harvesting and storing using time-saving monthly checklists; make a raised bed, tackle slugs and snails, and produce the sweetest-smelling compost; understand the techniques for intercropping, companion planting, seed viability and crop succession. NO-DIG is a long-established way to grow healthy, organic crops while preserving the soil’s integrity: Charles Dowding is the UK’s leading expert.