A guide to compost making for no dig gardening with Charles Dowding - Episode 216

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Sarah Raven

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Charles Dowding is world-renowned as a pioneer of no dig growing, and while it’s great for saving time and effort, it’s also proven to be more productive and better for the environment, and the soil, too. Who better to hear from on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’ than the pioneer himself, as Charles joins Sarah and Josie to share his decades of experience with no dig, tips on creating your own fertile garden compost at home, and inspiring ideas for what to sow in late-March. In this episode, disco...

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by sarahraven.com, which is home to everything you need for a truly
0:06.3	beautiful and productive garden. You'll also find great and essential gardening kit and stylish,
0:12.9	lovely things to have in your house to bring the outside indoors, all inspired by the garden
0:19.8	and the house being tied together. There's also plenty of
0:23.1	garden inspiration, how-to videos and specialist growing guides. So head over to sarahraven.com today
0:29.4	to discover even more.
0:44.9	Welcome to Gr Kokita Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven,
0:48.9	and often our head gardener, Josie Lewis, who is here this morning, and our guest today is the pretty much world-renowned no-dig hero, Charles Dowding, who I've known for a very
0:57.7	long time, we share a mutual friend called Penny Hophouse. Penhapney Hophouse is a garden designer,
1:04.1	and now in her 90s. Welcome both Josie and Charles. Thank you. Nice to be here.
1:10.6	Thank you, Sarah. Great. Pleasure to be here.
1:12.8	So we're going to talk about Charles is incredibly a specialist. I mean, he is a specialist
1:19.5	subject. So we're going to do kind of mastermind on both no dig veg and composting, because
1:26.2	Charles has written many, many books, 15 books in total,
1:29.1	I think, but his new book out at the moment is on the basics of compost and I've listened to it
1:35.2	on Audible and Josie has read it and it's a very, very brilliant, simple guide that is really
1:42.1	suitable for beginners on one of the most important subjects of gardening.
1:46.2	And if anybody are around in London, then you may have been to the exhibition at Somerset House
1:52.4	on soil. And, you know, there we will know about the incredible importance in gardening of
1:58.6	mycorrhizian vertebrates and the rest in our soil.
2:02.8	So, Charles, will you tell us just a little bit about homemakers and your setup over the
2:08.2	last 42 years?
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