Charles Dowding

Grow Organic Salad Leaves and Greens (eBook, ePUB)

Indoors or outdoors, all year round

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'An essential book for every kitchen and garden.' NIGEL SLATER
'The number one book for anyone who loves salads.' ANNA PAVORD
'Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener'. RAYMOND BLANC

An updated edition of 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. Beautifully designed with colour photos throughout, Grow Organic Salad Leaves and Greens 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 the virtues of different leaves throughout the year with this practical guide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857845559
• Artikelnr.: 67388638

Autorenporträt

Charles Dowding is an internationally recognised organic gardening expert, and a former winner of the Garden Media Guild Practical Journalist of the Year award. He contributes articles to many magazines, including Gardeners' World, Gardens Illustrated and Grow It!, talks on radio and television, and runs courses and advises on best practice, including for the National Trust in the UK.

Charles is a veteran organic grower, having practised no-dig gardening for many years. In his gardens he has conducted experiments to compare differences in growth between vegetables on dug and undug soil, showing that the dug beds have slightly lower yields, and more weeds and slugs. He established a new garden from scratch, to illustrate no-dig practice and form the basis for further experimentation.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Flavours
Sowing, Raising, Sustaining Cosmic Leaves - bringing new energy to soil,
plants and ourselves The Unwanted - coping with slugs and other 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 Propagation Salad Leaves Through the
Winter - growing indoors Acknowledgements Resources (organisations,
suppliers and publications) Index