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An essential book for every garden and kitchen --Nigel Slater
Exciting ... fascinating ... very inspiring --BBC R4 Gardener's Question Time
This is the No 1 book for anyone who loves salads --Anna Pavord
Exciting ... fascinating ... very inspiring --BBC R4 Gardener's Question Time
This is the No 1 book for anyone who loves salads --Anna Pavord
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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
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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A completely invaluable book for anyone who likes to grow food. The thing about salad is that even the tiniest spot can be made to produce something (look at Dowding's discussion of microleaves for windowsills...) But the big advantage of this book is the brilliant month by month sections containing detailed suggestions and growing instructions for salads that will flourish at different times of year. Forget sowing the same thing over and over again, says Dowding. Instead, choose seasonal plants - mustards and rockets in winter, soft watery leaves in summer - which will flourish, needing less care and getting less pests, because they are growing at just the right time for them.
This book made me get out the seed catalogues and start ordering more unusual varieties - this winter I've grown red mustard and lambs lettuce which are both really sharp and tasty, and which I probably wouldn't have been brave enough to try without Dowding's ever-encouraging book. Really, at the price of three supermarket mixed bags of leaves, it's a book that we should ALL have a copy of!
This book made me get out the seed catalogues and start ordering more unusual varieties - this winter I've grown red mustard and lambs lettuce which are both really sharp and tasty, and which I probably wouldn't have been brave enough to try without Dowding's ever-encouraging book. Really, at the price of three supermarket mixed bags of leaves, it's a book that we should ALL have a copy of!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've used this book to guide my salad growing for over a year now. We've not needed to buy any salad from shops in that time- even through winter!
The information is detailed and great for guiding the new determined salad grower. This is my first Amazon review and I had to write how great this book is.
The information is detailed and great for guiding the new determined salad grower. This is my first Amazon review and I had to write how great this book is.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the second book I bought by Charles Dowding, having enjoyed his other titles so much. I love his practical approach, his obvious love of his subject and his wealth of experience - which he freely shares. If you relish salads this is the book for you. You can grow juicy leaves all year round and know that you're doing your bit for the planet as well as your tummy! This has got to be the ONLY way to grow stuff in my opinion. If the garden and wildlife benefit by these tried and trusted methods - it's a no brainer that we do too. Do yourself a favour and do what Charles does. Buy this book and love it.
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Really wonderful
This is one of my must have books. It has changed the way I garden for the better and increased the range of plants I grow to eat. Read more
Published 5 months ago by betii
A Must For Any Salad Leaf Grower
If you want to grow an interesting, tasty and colourful mix of salad leaves, surpassing anything that the supermarket sells, then you need to buy this book. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Darren McGrath
Salads All the Year
As other reviewers have mentioned this is pragmatic down to earth (literally) advice on how to grow your own salads virtually all year round. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Justine
Salad know how.
As someone who want to get the most out of my veg plot by growing those veg that cost the most to buy; this book is helping me to plan my contual supply of leaves for salads,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. S. Carter
so many words for such a simple act
found this book a bit disappointing and rather complicated to understand. the author seemed to repeat himself and duplicate things under different sections. Read more
Published 19 months ago by nik
Invaluable advice for growing salads
This is a very inspirational, well-written book, and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in growing their own salad leaves. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Shefford
Salad Leaves for all Seasons
A very informative book for anyone passionate about feeding themselves from their own plot throughout the year. Read more
Published 23 months ago by D. Ellison
Salad Leaves for all Seasons
An excellent book on the subject...having been a gardener for 40 years plus...I did not realise that there was so much more to learn about salads..
Published on 13 May 2010 by Mr. Peter J. Potter
Exceptional
The most comprehensive book to be produced on salads that I have ever read. As a professional salad grower for 7 years I am still learning from his 25 years experience and... Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2010 by J. Billington
health from pot to plate
this book is a must have for everyone who wants to eat well. for a small ammount you can eat fresh,organic salad every day of the year and no food miles! Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2009 by Mrs. Joan Berry
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