Grow Together
50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests is a gardening guide by the English horticulturalist and no-dig proponent Charles Dowding, published by Dorling Kindersley in April 2026. Drawing on more than forty years of market-garden experience in Somerset, the book presents fifty tested crop combinations intended to increase yield per unit of space while maintaining soil health. Dowding describes interplanting techniques including succession planting, catch-cropping, cover-cropping, companion planting, planting for pollinator support and multi-sowing. Each combination specifies recommended timings, spacings and varieties, with guidance adapted for temperate climates and adjustable for warmer or colder zones. Examples include carrots between lettuces, fennel between spinach, garlic interplanted with coriander, broad beans around asparagus, and cucumbers between peas and strawberries. The book extends the approach introduced in Dowding's earlier titles No Dig (2022) and Compost (2024), both also published by Dorling Kindersley.
