Salad leaves for all seasons : organic growing from pot to plot

Title:

Author:

Dowding, Charles author photographer.

ISBN:

9780857844668

Additional ISBN:

9780857844668

9781900322201 (pbk.) 190032220X (pbk.) 9780857844668

Personal Author:

Dowding, Charles author photographer.

Edition:

[Second edition.]

Publication Information:

Cambridge, England : Green Books, 2018.

Physical Description:

255 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

Previous edition: 2008.

Subject Term:

Salad greens.

Organic gardening -- England.

Added Author:

Hafferty, Steph,

Dowding, Edward,

Language:

English

Abstract:

"This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year will inspire you to grow your own greens, whether on a windowsill, in your garden, or on your allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy, and tasty salads. The subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year are discussed and there are delicious and imaginative recipes to try, exploiting the fantastic flavors, color, and vitality of home-grown salad leaves."--Publisher's description.

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The definitive guide to salad leaves, with everything from sowing and growing leaves to delicious salad recipes.

Salad leaves can flourish in a range of settings - whether on a windowsill, in your garden or on the allotment. This compendium of practical methods will inspire you to grow a wide variety of salads throughout the year, including lettuce, spinach, cabbage, beets, endives and chicories. Salad Leaves for All Seasons includes detailed information on how to grow micro-leaves using organic and permaculture principles, enabling you to enjoy fresh salad while also lowering your carbon footprint.

Written by the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding provides an overview of all you need to grow productive, healthy and tasty salads. He shares vital knowledge and gardening tips, from advice on indoor propagation to coping with slugs and other pests. The guide also includes delicious and imaginative recipes by Stephanie Hafferty, exploiting the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.

Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year with this practical guide.

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
Part 1 Growing Leaves
Chapter 1 High Yields, Small Spaces, Special Methods: Learning new tricks	p. 12
Chapter 2 Vital Knowledge for Successful Harvests: Less sowing, more picking	p. 18
Chapter 3 Sowing, Planting and Harvesting Through the Year: An experiment with salad beds	p. 28
Chapter 4 Small Spaces and Micro Leaves: Growing in confined areas and picking baby leaves	p. 38
Chapter 5 Leaf Flavours: An amazing palette to choose from	p. 50
Chapter 6 Sowing, Raising, Sustaining: Healthy plants, indoors and outside	p. 60
Chapter 7 Cosmic Leaves: Bringing new energy to soil, plants and ourselves	p. 72
Chapter 8 The Unwanted: Coping with slugs and other pests	p. 76
Part 2 Salad Leaf Seasons of Harvest
Chapter 9 Leafing Through the Seasons: Changing ingredients through the year	p. 90
Chapter 10 Recipes for All Seasons: Leafy meals month by month	p. 106
Part 3 A Celebration of Outdoor Leaves
Chapter 11 Lettuce: Clean, plentiful leaves	p. 122
Chapter 12 Endives and Chicories: A remarkable range of beautiful leaves	p. 136
Chapter 13 Leaves of the Cabbage Family: Oriental leaves, kales, rockets and others	p. 154
Chapter 14 Spinach, Chard and Beet: Many colours, strong flavours	p. 170
Chapter 15 Exotic Tastes and Colours: Small amounts of large flavours	p. 180
Chapter 16 Herbs and Flowers: More exciting flavours and colours	p. 192
Chapter 17 Outdoor Winter Salads: Difficult but precious	p. 208
Part 4 Indoor Sowing and Growing
Chapter 18 Indoor Propagation: Earlier growth, stronger plants, more harvests	p. 220
Chapter 19 Salad Leaves Through the Winter: Growing indoors	p. 230
Resources (organisations, suppliers and publications)	p. 248
Index	p. 251

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