Salads all year round in my garden. Lettuces, mescluns, endives...
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How to sow, grow and harvest your lettuces seasonally!
What do lettuces, chicory, arugula, lamb's lettuce, Chinese cabbage, Swiss chard and many other vegetables that grow in our gardens from spring to winter have in common? The answer is simple: these leafy greens can be used to make a salad, either on their own or in a mixture!
They can all be grown according to the main cultivation principles outlined in this book: working the soil, sowing, transplanting, watering, protection... Xavier Mathias goes through them all, without forgetting to suggest solutions to the little problems that can sometimes discourage the gardener: slugs, various larvae, diseases... Sowing, transplanting and maintenance gestures, so important for getting a crop off to a good start, are extensively detailed with numerous step-by-step photos.
45 species are then presented in sheets detailing their characteristics, the quantities to sow for a family of 4, the particular conditions for growing them and the different varieties to sow according to the season: lettuces (butter, leaf, romaine...), chicories (curly, Italian, forcing...), lamb's lettuce, young shoots (arrowroot, Chinese cabbage, spinach...), "small" leaves (Cuban claytone, Alen cress, stag's horn plantain...), flowers (agastache, amaranth, shiso...) and wild greens (white chickweed, Venus navel, dandelion...). Incredible, isn't it?
Finally, a "4-season calendar" lists the salads to be sown and harvested, month by month.
Everything you need to grow a successful crop, enjoy it all year round and discover new flavors!
Xavier Mathias - Éditions Terre Vivante - 120 pages
