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

Luebbermann, Mimi; Echtermeyer, Faith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811810623 ISBN 13: 9780811810623

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1996

Synopsis

What better way to enjoy the benefits of delicious, healthful salads than to grow your own? This timely and beautifully illustrated guide offers both novice and experienced gardeners simple "recipes" for cultivating a wide variety of lettuces, greens, herbs, and edible flowers in everything from indoor containers to window boxes and backyard gardens.

About this title

Review:

Salad Gardens is an elegant, deliciously illustrated book designed to show readers how to cultivate a salad garden, from the tiniest back-porch planter to an indoor windowsill to the limits of your land and imagination. Author Mimi Luebbermann includes tips on soil preparation, seeds, planting, and growing and harvesting a huge number of garden vegetables. To motivate you to get started on the project, she tempts you with a mouth-watering collection of salad recipes, such as Asian Greens with Sesame Vinaigrette or Ruby-Leaf Lettuce with Blood Oranges, Fennel, and Parmesan. Even those who don't cook will be inspired to toss together the luscious, homegrown ingredients.

About the Author:

Mimi Luebbermann Previous books by Mimi Luebbermann include several in Chronicle Books' Garden Style series. She lives in Northern California.

Faith Echtermeyer is a Napa valley-based photogrpaher whose work has been featured in Chronicle Books' Little Herb Gardens.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0811810623
• ISBN 13: 9780811810623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 107