No more sprayed lettuce and supermarket imports - reap the benefits of healthy, delicious and nutritious meals you can pick in the morning and eat that same afternoon. Salad Leaves for All Seasons is a wonderful compendium of inspiring yet practical advice on how to grow your own salad - from chicory to rocket and everything in between - all year round, in as little or as much space as you have available. Whether on a windowsill, on a patio, in your garden or on the allotment, find out what to plant and when to get the best out of different varieties. Charles Dowding has grown vegetables and salads organically for over 25 years using time saving no-dig gardening. 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.You will 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.
200pp, 155mm x 235mm, illus. in colour, softback, 2008