Salad Leaves for All Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

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, 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 wife, exploiting the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home-grown salad leaves

From the Back Cover
With Salad Leaves for All Seasons you can bring abundant harvest of delicious and attractive leaves to your table all year round, whatever the size of your growing space. Here is all the information you need for growing healthy plants, including:
– Details of a wide variety of salad leaves.
– Growing outdoors in winter.
– Growing micro leaves.
– Dealing with pests.
No more sprayed lettuce and supermarket imports – reap the benefits of healthy, nutritious meals from your own patio or garden. Discover the secrets of the seasons, and how to work with the weather to create a productive and healthy crop. Learn to grow salad in whatever space you have available – from a window box to an allotment.
And when your table is groaning with the fruits of your labour, delicious recipes from Susie, Charles’ wife, will help you exploit the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of your home-grown leaves.