Charles Dowding

Grow Organic Salad Leaves and Greens (eBook, ePUB)

Indoors or outdoors, all year round

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Known as the guru of no-dig, Charles Dowding has updated his definitive book on salad-growing in this beautifully illustrated new edition: how to have tasty salad leaves all year round in a garden, balcony or windowsill; how to grow micro leaves and how to serve them in delicious recipes, all using organic or permaculture principles. Great for food lovers keen to eat tasty food with a low carbon footprint. 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, 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 by Stephanie Hafferty, exploiting the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home grown salad leaves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks 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