Salad Gardens: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens -- Indoors and OutA Garden Style Book [Paperback]

Mimi Luebbermann (Author), Faith Echtermeyer (Photographer)

Book Description

Series: Garden Style Book | Publication Date: February 1, 1996

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.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com 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.

From Booklist

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

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Product Details

• Paperback: 108 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 1st Edition/1st Printing edition (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811810623
• ISBN-13: 978-0811810623
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,626,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars A Standard Book on Salads, March 14, 2002

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Ken Scheffler (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Salad Gardens: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens -- Indoors and OutA Garden Style Book (Paperback)

The outstanding feature of this book is the numerous beautiful photographs. Aside from this, though, the book is fairly routine in terms of information and instructions. Still, it is a fun way of passing an hour or two one afternoon during the depths of the winter.

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely ideas for beautiful salad gardens large and small, June 1, 1997

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This review is from: Salad Gardens: Simple Secrets for Glorious Gardens -- Indoors and OutA Garden Style Book (Paperback)

Lovely ideas for unusual salad gardens like salad in a wheelbarrow or an Easter basket, lovingly photographed. A gem of a book.
Havi Hoffman