Contents

Preface to the second edition

Foreword by Patrick Holden

Introduction

PART 1: LETTING NATURE NURTURE
YOUR GARDEN

1      The art of not digging

2      The basics

3      Deciding what to grow

4      What’s in season?

5      Living with pests

6      Sowing seeds, raising plants

7      Making compost

8      The moon

PART 2: HEALTHY HARVESTS

9      Summer salads

10    Winter salads

11    Alliums

12    Choice of roots

13    Savouring summer

14    Brassicas

15    Tomatoes, greenhouse vegetables and unusual vegetables

16    Perennial vegetables

17    Herbs and edible flowers

18    Tree fruit and nuts

19    Soft fruit (berries)

Postscript

Appendix: Dig/no-dig experiment at Lower Farm

Resources

Bibliography

Main index

Index of recipes