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With Salad Leaves for All Seasons you can bring abundant harvests 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.

Charles Dowding has been growing organic vegetables commercially for 30 years, without soil cultivation. He is the author of How to Grow Winter Vegetables and Organic Gardening. He also writes articles for several gardening publications, lectures, and runs courses on how best to look after soil and plants.

Acknowledgements	p. 8
Introduction	p. 9
Growing Leaves
High Yields, Small Spaces, Special Methods: Learning new tricks	p. 12
Vital Knowledge for Successful Harvests: Less sowing, more picking	p. 16
Sowing, Planting and Harvesting through the Year: An experiment with salad beds	p. 23
Small Spaces and Micro Leaves: Growing in confined areas and picking baby leaves	p. 31
Leaf Flavours: An amazing palette to choose from	p. 39
Sowing, Raising, Sustaining: Healthy plants, indoors and outside	p. 47
Cosmic Leaves: Bringing new energy to soil, plants and ourselves	p. 57
The Unwanted: Coping with slugs and other pests	p. 60
Salad Leaf Seasons of Harvest
Leafing through the Seasons: Changing ingredients through the year	p. 68
Recipes for All Seasons: Leafy meals month by month	p. 78
A Celebration of Outdoor Leaves
Lettuce: Clean, plentiful leaves	p. 94
Endives and Chicories: A remarkable range of beautiful leaves	p. 104
Leaves of the Cabbage Family: Oriental leaves, kales, rockets and others	p. 117
Spinach, Chard and Beet: Many colours, strong flavours	p. 129
Exotic Tastes and Colours: Small amounts of large flavours	p. 135
Herbs and Flowers: More exciting flavours and colours	p. 144
Outdoor Winter Salads: Difficult but precious	p. 157
Indoor Sowing and Growing
Indoor Sowing: Earlier growth, stronger plants, more harvests	p. 166
Salad leaves through the winter: Growing Indoors	p. 174
Resources (organisations, suppliers and publications)	p. 191
Index	p. 195
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Salad Leaves for All Seasons Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

Salad Leaves for All Seasons Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

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