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Charles Dowding From Amazon.com 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 or a garden. 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 flavors, color and vitality of home-grown salad leaves. Peak Oil Resources Review: I love a good salad as much as anyone. What I was not aware of was how many varieties of salad leaves there were and that a seasonal variety grown at home could replace supermarket fare in both volume as well as quality. But then again salad is salad, right? Not according to Charles Dowding. In Salad Leaves for All Seasons, the case is made for prudently sowing according to the season and periodically harvesting a limited amount of leaves. In doing so, a salad plant yields a much larger harvest than simply taking the entire plant at one time. This extends the effective life of the plant before it goes to seed. When this method is combined with the periodic reseeding of plants that thrive later in the season, the results purport to be amazing with regard to overall yield. Depending on your climate, you can grow a variety of salad leaves through out almost the entire year. And, if the salads taste as good as Dowding suggests, the resulting leaves are obviously going to be much better for you as well. In terms of the presentation in this guide, the writing is clear, with the liberal use of tables, etc., that make referencing the information simple. It is quite obvious that this book is written by a veteran of the organic garden. Even so, you need not be a veteran yourself to benefit from Dowding's wisdom and advice. As a bonus, Charles' wife Susie includes a number of delicious recipes that put the fruit of your labor to good and imaginative use. Suffice it to say that with this book, you can kiss the days of boring and bland salads good-bye! Charles Dowding has grown vegetables and salads organically for over 25 years using surface composting methods. He started growing vegetables commercially in 1982 with one of the first vegetable box schemes, and is currently cropping an acre, selling about 200 salad bags of different sizes every week. He has written about surface composting in his earlier book Organic Gardening: The Natural No-Dig Way published in 2007 by Green Books.
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Leaves for All Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot