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Salad Leaves for All Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot (illustrated edition)

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'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' Description

Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day A- but not the supermarket way. This compendium of practical methods for growing a wide variety of salads throughout the year, will inspire you to grow your own, whether on a windowsill, on a patio, in your garden or on the allotment. Here is all the information you need for productive, healthy and tasty salads. Learn the subtleties of salad seasons and virtues of different leaves throughout the year. And when your table is groaning with the abundance of your harvests, there are delicious and imaginative recipes from Susie, Charles's wife, exploiting the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.

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Title: Salad Leaves for All Seasons

Pages: 224

Imprint: Green Books

Edition: illustrated edition

ISBN 10: 190032220X

Illustrations & Other Content Notes: 32pp colour plates

ISBN 13: 9781900322201

Sub Title Of Text: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

Publisher: Green Books

Publication Date: 17/03/2008

'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' Contents:

Part 1 HIGH YIELDS; Essential Know How; Potential of Small Raised Beds, Containers & Window Boxes; Sowing, Raising, Sustaining; Part 2 THE SALAD CALENDAR; Spring, Summer, Autumn &Winter Harvests; Part 3 A CELEBRATION; OF LEAVES; Lettuces, Chicories & endives; Oriental leaves, Other Winter leaves, Spinaches & chards; Exotic ideas, Herbs & flowers; Part 4 INDOOR SOWING; & GROWING; Sowing in Greenhouses, Polytunnels, Conservatories, Coldframes Windowsills; Growing & Harvesting in; Greenhouses & Polytunnels

Charles Dowding has not dug, except to clear perennial weeds and turf, for twenty-five years; he started growing organic vegetables commercially in 1982 and has farmed in both Somerset and France, and had a programme of Gardener's World devoted to his farm. He now crops almost an acre on intensive raised beds, runs courses, and sells salad bags and veg boxes from his farm. He contributed to The Complete Manual of Organic Gardening (Headline 1992), and writes for RHS magazine and Blackmore Vale Magazine. He lives in Shepton Montague, Somerset.


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