Salad Leaves for All Seasons (Φυλλώδη λαχανικά - έκδοση στα αγγλικά)

Salad Leaves for All Seasons
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

Συγγραφέας: Charles Dowding
ISBN: 9781900322201
Σελίδες: 224
Σχήμα: 17 Χ 24
Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό
Έτος έκδοσης: 2008


Small is beautiful, less is more; a salad a day 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 to exploit the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.

Table of 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