The Salad Lover's Garden

A comprehensive and practical guide, "The Salad Lover's Garden" addresses: where and when to plant, light and soil conditions, preparing the soil, successive plantings, companion planting, and container gardening. Also included are discussions of garden tools, bed preparation, fertilizers, and techniques for intensive planting, thinning, watering, mulching, and weeding; a complete chart of garden pests, plants affected, symptoms, and control; a plant-by-plant discussion of the specific varieties with requirements for growing and harvesting them; a selection of recipes; and a list of seed and accessory suppliers.