Título: Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening
Autor: Peter Burke
Sinopse: The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps, and no greenhouse. Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost, but due to his busy work schedule and family life, didn't have the time or interest in high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as "microgreens" left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. There had to be a simpler way to grow greens for his family indoors. After some research and diligent experimenting, Burke discovered he was right--there was a way! And it was even easier than he ever could have hoped, and the greens more nutrient packed. He didn't even need a south-facing window, and he already had most of the needed supplies just sitting in his pantry. The result: healthy, homegrown salad greens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. The secret: start them in the dark. Growing "Soil Sprouts"--Burke's own descriptive term for sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to in jars--employs a method that encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days, way earlier than any other method, with much less work. Indeed, of all the ways to grow immature greens, this is the easiest and most productive technique. Forget about grow lights and heat lamps! This book is a revolutionary and inviting guide for both first-time and experienced gardeners in rural or urban environments. All you need is a windowsill or two. In fact, Burke has grown up to six pounds of greens per day using just the windowsills in his kitchen! Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed step-by-step instructions to mastering this method (hint: it's impossible not to succeed, it's so easy!), tools and accessories to have on hand, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, shelving, harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening”, de Peter Burke, publicado pela editora Chelsea Green Publishing, em 2024 e com 210 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Chelsea Green Publishing
Páginas: 210
Ano: 2024
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1603586156
ISBN13: 9781603586153
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Chelsea Green Publishing trazem um olhar aprofundado e prático sobre temas ligados à agricultura regenerativa, sustentabilidade e ciência aplicada à saúde e meio ambiente. A leitura costuma mesclar abordagens técnicas e narrativas que conectam história, biologia e práticas cotidianas, como compostagem comunitária, fermentação de alimentos e cultivo de grãos em pequena escala. O catálogo sugere um equilíbrio entre obras mais informativas e outras que exploram histórias pessoais ou científicas, com um tom que varia do didático ao reflexivo. A linguagem é acessível, mas com densidade suficiente para leitores interessados em entender processos complexos e suas implicações práticas.
