Salad Gardens: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens, Indoors and Out (Garden Style Book)

Provides advice on growing arugula, mache, radicchio, and other salad greens in windowsills, in pots on a deck, or in an outdoor knot garden, and shares recipes for salad dressings and combinations of greens

Now that garden salads have progressed from anemic combinations of iceberg lettuce and pale tomato wedges, there is considerable interest in growing exotic-sounding ingredients. This colorfully illustrated handbook offers advice on successfully growing gourmet salad morsels. Luebbermann offers a number of approaches to creating a garden featuring arugula, mache, radicchio, ruby chard, or choice lettuces that when grown at home may be picked when perfectly young and tender. Highlighted methods include potting up containers for an outdoor deck, cultivating sprouts in jars, encouraging a few indoor plants for windowsills, or, outdoor space permitting, designing a knot garden. Recipes include salad dressings and unusual variations on salad themes. Alice Joyce