Salad Leaves for All Seasons

Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

Charles Dowding (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2018 | 2nd edition
Green Books (Verlag)
978-0-85784-466-8 (ISBN)

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Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated the definitive book on salad growing in this hardback, beautifully illustrated edition. In it he shows how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a garden, balcony or windowsill, whatever the weather & grow healthy plants grown in healthy soil using organic, permaculture principles.

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.

Charles Dowding is an organic gardener and author of many books on vegetable growing, contributing articles to leading gardening periodicals and teaching courses. He is an internationally recognized expert on organic, permaculture and no-dig gardening and appears regularly on radio and TV.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One: Growing Leaves
High Yields, Small Spaces, Special Methods
Vital Knowledge for Successful Harvests
Sowing, Planting and Harvesting through the Year
Small Spaces and Micro Leaves
Leaf Flavour
Sowing, Raising, Sustaining
Cosmic Leaves
Unwanted Pests

Part Two: Salad Leaf Seasons of Harvest
Leafing through the Seasons
Recipes for All Seasons

Part Three: A Celebration of Outdoor Leaves
Lettuce
Endives and Chicories
Leaves of the Cabbage Family
Spinach, Chard and Beet
Exotic Tastes and Colours
Herbs and Flowers
Outdoor Winter Salads

Part Four: Indoor Sowing and Growing
Indoor Sowing
Salad leaves through the winter

Resources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.01.2019
Zusatzinfo	Black and white illustrations.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10	0-85784-466-0 / 0857844660
ISBN-13	978-0-85784-466-8 / 9780857844668
Zustand	Neuware