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Growing Leafy Salad Vegetables

There is little more satisfying than growing your own leafy salad vegetables. Healthy, fresh and sustainable. Having an abundant supply of salad leaves available in your own garden is both rewarding and satisfying.
This ebook helps you understand how to grow common and some more unique leafy salad vegetables.

Vegetable leaves are an important part of the human diet. They are eaten fresh in salads or on sandwiches. They may be preserved (e.g. Sauerkraut) or cooked and eaten as a hot vegetable. 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.

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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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