124-Using Compost the Charles Dowding Way: More Than Just a Great Soil Amendment
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Last week was the first in this two-part conversation with British gardening legend, Charles Dowding. If you missed it, I recommend you start there. That episode focused on Charles’ background and the no-dig garden method for which he is so renowned. Today's discussion focuses on how Charles is using compost for more than just a great soil amendment.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lampel. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, it's Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.4 | Show. |
| 0:24.4 | Today we're picking up on the second half of my conversation with the one and only Charles |
| 0:29.2 | Dowding, British No Dig Vegetable Gardener Extraordinaire. |
| 0:33.7 | He's the author of nine books, YouTube star of his captivating videos, and a busy guy |
| 0:38.8 | with hosting on-site and online courses to teach his fans and followers more about his |
| 0:44.2 | really successful approach to no dig gardening. |
| 0:48.0 | So last week we covered how Charles got his start with no dig gardening, why he started |
| 0:52.7 | from the beginning as an organic gardener, the various places he's honed his skills, and |
| 0:57.7 | the success he's had with no dig gardening over these many years is a market gardener, |
| 1:02.1 | especially with his most recent garden conquest, it is current garden. |
| 1:06.4 | He calls home acres. |
| 1:08.0 | Now if you haven't heard part one yet, episode 123, perhaps pause this episode, and just |
| 1:14.3 | go back to that one, to part one of my conversation with Charles. |
| 1:17.8 | I think you might enjoy this part even more, once you know more of the backstory as it |
| 1:23.2 | builds to this one, because the truth is, when we recorded our conversation, it went |
| 1:27.6 | so fast, and yet as we progressed through a single information pack conversation, we |
| 1:32.9 | were already at an hour and 20 minutes when I finally looked up to check the time. |
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