Charles Dowding
Charles Dowding is an experienced gardener known for his expertise in self-sufficient and sustainable, no-dig gardening practices.
Also a distinguished author, Charles has published 15 educational books and several online courses to share his valuable knowledge and advice with gardeners of all levels - available here. Through his work, Charles aims to guide and inspire people to grow their own vegetables all year round.
A champion of growing healthy homegrown veg, Charles has put together his ultimate seed varieties to guarantee success in the garden and allotment. With 8 monthly collections of seeds to grow that work best at that time of year, and more than 50 carefully selected vegetable and salad seed favourites, you can look forward to an excellent growing season!
Charles Dowding's Seed Collections:
We've partnered with Charles Dowding to select only the best, freshest seed. With over 40 years of veg growing experience, Charles has curated his own range of exceptional vegetable and salad seeds, chosen for their reliability, productivity, and tastiness over the many years - tried, tested and tasted at his farm in Somerset. Available in monthly seed collections or as individual seed packets.
Monthly Seed Collections
Designed to guide and inspire people to be able to grow vegetables all year round. Each box contains a selection of seed varieties that Charles particularly recommends for that month plus a detailed sowing chart.
Individual Seed Selections
Every packet of super-fresh seed has sowing and harvesting times plus Charles’s optimum date for sowing your seeds to ensure your homegrown produce is the best it can be.
No Dig Tea Towel
Designed by local artist Emma van Zeller, these ‘No Dig’ tea towels from Charles Dowding make delightful wall hangings, as well as being fully functional.
Find out more about charles:
Explore the range of in-person courses Charles has to offer, along with his large collection of gardening books.
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