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Growing Leafy Salad Vegetables

Growing your own leafy salad vegetables is easy and sustainable. There are many versatile options for growing your leafy vegetables for eating. This ebook goes through the many options for growing leafy vegetables and also helps you understand the many different plants you can grow.

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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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