Salad Leaves for All Seasons
Organic Growing from Pot to Plot

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, on a patio, 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’s wife, exploiting the fantastic flavours, colour and vitality of home-grown salad leaves.

Part 1 HIGH YIELDS
Essential Know How
Potential of Small Raised Beds,
Containers & Window Boxes
Sowing, Raising, Sustaining
Part 2 THE SALAD CALENDAR
Spring, Summer,
Autumn &Winter Harvests
Part 3 A CELEBRATION
OF LEAVES
Lettuces, Chicories & endives
Oriental leaves, Other Winter leaves,
Spinaches & chards
Exotic ideas, Herbs & flowers
Part 4 INDOOR SOWING
& GROWING
Sowing in Greenhouses, Polytunnels,
Conservatories, Coldframes &
Windowsills
Growing & Harvesting in
Greenhouses & Polytunnels

Charles Dowding

Charles Dowding has been growing organic vegetables for nearly 30 years and was an early pioneer of vegetable boxes. He runs organic gardening courses from his farm in Somerset, where he crops an acre of intensive raised beds, using no-dig methods, growing an extensive range of vegetables and year-round salads for local shops and restaurants. His website is www.charlesdowding.co.uk.