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Growing Leafy Salad Vegetables
Vegetable leaves are an important part of the human diet. Leaves provide a wide range of critical nutrients in the human diet which are generally not found in adequate quantities in other types of food. They also provide fibre which is critically important to the health of the digestive system.
This ebook helps you understand how to grow and cultivate many different varieties of leafy salad vegetables.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 DECIDING HOW TO GROW
What Leaves are Edible?
How to Grow Leaf Vegetables
CHAPTER 2 PROPAGATING LEAF VEGETABLES
Sourcing Seed
Seed Propagation
CHAPTER 3 HARVESTING, STORING & USING
Harvesting Vegetables
Extending the Shelf Life
Creating a Salad
PART 2 THE LEAF VEGETABLES
CHAPTER 4 LETTUCE & ITS RELATIVES (ASTERACEAE)
Lettuce
Types of Lettuce
Lettuce Relatives
Chicory
Radicchio
Endive
Dandelion
CHAPTER 5 SPINACH & ITS RELATIVES (AMARANTHACEAE)
Spinach and Chard
Spinach
Chard or Silverbeet
Amaranth
Orach
CHAPTER 6 CELERY & ITS RELATIVES (APIACEAE)
Celery
Coriander
Parsley
CHAPTER 7 BRASSICAS
Growing Conditions
Cabbage
Watercress
Garden Cress
Land Cress
Wasabi
Rocket
CHAPTER 8 MICROGREENS (SPROUTS)
What they are
Types of Sprouts
CHAPTER 9 EDIBLE FLOWERS
Flowers as Food
How To Use Edible Flowers
Some Edible Flowers to Grow
CHAPTER 10 OTHER LEAF SALAD VEGETABLES
Chenopods
Salad Burnet
Summer Purslane
Warrigal Greens
Pigface
Corn Salad
Ice Plant
Malabar Spinach
Sorrel
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