I absolutely love the No Dig Cookbook!! Leafing through I was delighted to see how few ingredients are required for each dish, some books have huge lists that really puts me off! I have so far made the Celeriac Remoulade which is just delicious, and also the Spanish potatoes, amazing. Thank you Cat and Charles for my new favourite Cookbook!

This combined with the calendar is brilliant. You get so many seeds you could feed an army. I have a 0.6acre plot and I think I will fill it. If only I could calculate how many containers were required as I keep running out. Found that pumpkins were not in the April box but in the calendar. Just not sure if you plant the entire box or save some for other monthly entries in the calendar. If this was aligned there could be an allotment pack or family of 4 pack etc. Include the containers and you would never buy another vegetable. Just need a greenhouse now to propagate everything

The book has opened a door in my mind, and I am wondering which of the earth enhancing actions to take first. I enjoyed this little book, and will be keeping it in my summer house so that it is close by and I’m able to refer and get inspiration easily

No sh#t Sherlock!!!! Although it is a book to keep coming back to, i read half within a day. Addictive!!!!
JJ Rasta 22.04.25

Honestly, i love this badass cooking book! Its our first year trying the ND Gardening and we are already seeing the difference. Love you Charles

JJ Rasta 22.04.25

Marvellous, wish I had bought it in January, so nice to have a nose at the garden, but best of all, day by day guide to what to plant.. thanks great instagram account too ..

Charles Dowding did it again. The information and references in his Energies book have given me new avenues to explore in my gardening journey. Yes, gardening for me is a journey of discovery to find more beautiful, abundant, healthy, and easier ways of growing food. Charles has earned my respect and admiration.
Charles' contribution to society and culture is immeasurable and will forever improve lives around the world. My wish is that one day King Charles of England knights Charles Dowding for his increasingly important work spreading the word on no-dig gardening. Kevin W.

No Dig is easy to read. It's set out in small sections & the language is inclusive. It is a wonderful sharing of years of experience of growing veg! I took a degree in Horticulture 50 years ago but found it hard to get my head around the tight time scales needed to succeed with vegetable growing. No Dig was mentioned as a possible method but without the underlying theory that Charles Dowding explains so I never had the courage till now. I am 70 & I have taken on an allotment that has been cultivated by the same person for 30 years. He died 2 seasons ago & left 8x4mx1m beds covered in black plastic & 2 bays of well-rotted compost which I am barrowing out as fast as my unfit, ancient body can manage! I've also connected with 2 village shops to collect their cardboard weekly & yesterday one had 2 pallets going free! I am in heaven each time I go down there & after working for an hour I sit in my gifted folding chair & listen to the birdsong . Thank you Charles for enabling my dream of an organic No Dig allotment to grow along with my plants!

Need help with No Dig around established, weedy fruit bushes & trees, though. Is there a book for this?

I’ve been gardening semi successfully for 30 years. The skills book just helped me so much as did many of Charles’s other books. Thank you x

The least I can say is that I am delighted at all levels, the quality of the content is top of the list, the graphic quality is high, the teaching is clear and straightforward, and the list could go on... I have made a few attempts to plant a small family garden, but this course, and I am still only halfway through "No Dig Gardening", is motivating me to use the method and make my garden a place of leisure for me and my family, and who knows, maybe start a small commercial farm. Congratulations to Charles Dowding for the way he runs the course and to the entire team. Definitely money well spent.

My friend has an allotment in Winchester and she was so impressed with mine, I bought a calendar for her. She was thrilled!

Really pleased with the No Dig starter pack! The books are so informative, a thoroughy comprehensive explanation of all aspects of No Dig and more.
I will use them for many years to come as my virtual gardening partner, it’s the next best thing to having Charles stood by my side advising me in person!
We moved into our new house just over a year ago, following my retirement, specifically because it has the room and facilities to really get stuck into gardening on a much larger scale than we have in the past. I spent last year sorting the basic infrastructure out by refurbing 2 large derelict greenhouses (a 60ft & 40ft one) and building a 40+ft compost building similar to the one at Homeacres. So excited to pursue our No Dig garden adventure armed with the great advice from Charles!

I love making compost......its the best part of allotmenteering

this diary is full of Fantastic information and will be of great help to me in the coming months as I start planting my new no dig garden looking forward very much in to putting into practice the advice and information that Charles Dowding and his team have supplied.

No dig beds early spring
Old orchard poles great for tomatoes an peas