Charles Dowding's Skills for GrowingMaster gardener Charles Dowding explains the skills and understandings you need for successful growing. His approach sometimes diverges from the mainstream because he assays and develops new or lesser known methods for easier and better results. Skills for Growing illustrates how you create planting plans and advise on succession and rotation, interplanting and multisowing, propagating plants, and quick ways to set them in the ground. It gives