Esther Deans No-Dig Gardening & Leaves of Life - New softcover book

NO-DIG GARDENING & LEAVES OF LIFE

by ESTHER DEANS

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New softcover book, 160 pages, published 2002. Book measures 14 x 16cm (6 x 5.5in)

Please note that this book does not have the diagrams and photos that were in Esther's original book, 'Growing Without Digging'. Used copies of Growing Without Digging are also available click here

Since 1975, Esther Deans' classic books No-Dig Gardening ( aka Growing Without Digging) and Leaves of Life have inspired thousands of people to grow their own vegetables and flowers at home.

Now a whole new generation of readers can learn all about Esther's unique techniques: her straw garden, comfrey the miracle herb,cannibal snails and about the many creatures which carry pollen from flower to vegetable across the garden. Readers who are not gardeners will be inspired to try Esther's wonderful methods; those who are gardeners will want to discover them.

In this new edition of these 2 old favourites, you too can discover how to build and look after your own no-dig garden 0 and enjoy the rewards it will bring you.

Excellent gardening book for all keen gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

About the author

Esther Deans, poet, writer, gardener, conservationist, became famous in the 1970-1980s for her books which developed a no dig method of gardening by covering her lifeless soil (you can also cover the lawn) with newspaper and then wads of weed-free straw. She did this inside a garden border.

She recommends layers of: (1) of newspaper (2), lucerne hay (3), organic fertilizer (4), loose straw (5), another sprinkle of organic fertilizer (6) compost (7). You can also use little pockets of good compost and seedlings in a top layer of loose straw, or browned grass clippings and rotten straw, which is fertilised by the ducks bathing water or some other organic fertiliser

Esther is still alive in 2008 aged 97 in October. She lives in Waitara, a northern Sydney suburb in Australia. She influenced the work of Bill Mollison and A Sampson-Kelly in Permaculture.

Her original book, Esther Dean's Gardening Book: Growing Without Digging has sold over 130,000 copies. She also wrote From Garden to Kitchen and Leaves of Life

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No-Dig Gardening & Leaves of Life - Esther Deans