Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45962 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 234 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781900322201
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Charles is a passionate and accomplished gardener who grows vegetables of amazing flavour - Raymond Blanc.

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Salad Excellence
Directions for growing and recipes are easy to follow. Divided into growing times with recipes in each section. I will bring to market to help patrons get ideas for eating. I will also use to try new lettuce types. Not just lettuce which is really nice.

Review on 'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' - Charles Dowding
Review on 'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' - Charles Dowding

For those who purchased, perused, and put into practice Dowling's earlier book, 'Organic Gardening - The No Dig Natural Method', there is now more good news. His book, 'Salad Leaves for All Seasons', is as valuable to an organic gardener as the first. This year's 2009 growing season has proven it's worth, and the know how Dowding gives you works without a lot of expense and back breaking labor.

We have watched the price of green groceries go up as world wide economic conditions go down. Some of us have to eat a green salad every day (and all of us should) for good health. 'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' tells you how to grow your own in plain English. In a very cost effective manner, this book frees you from a grocery cooler shelf looking at price prohibitive items laden with more and more poisons as time goes by. You do not have to endure price or poisons when you find out how easy it is to grow your own. Dowding has been an organic grower for over 25 years and lets you draw from his well of practical knowledge.

I've grown tired of buying books that promise much, but do not deliver. 'Salad Leaves for All Seasons' is exactly what the title says it is. It does not leave you wondering why you spent your hard earned cash to purchase it. The book is an investment, not an expenditure, and should provide a return on the investment. The information in it is useful and worth keeping, enough said.

Burton Dale