Peter Burke - Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days
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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.
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Praise for Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening is not your fathers garden book. This book presents a new way to grow salad greens that doesnt require a greenhouse or grow tunnel or cold frame or sprouting jars. Step by step, in clear prose with helpful photographs, Peter Burke shows you how to grow an amazing range of greens and gives you tasty hints on how to use what youve grown. Buy this book and use it. You wont regret adding it to your garden library.
EDWARD C. SMITH , author of The Vegetable Gardeners Bible
Astounding and important, simple and doable. Every dollar you invest in Peter Burkes book can be returned to your pocket by next week.
SHANNON HAYES , author of Radical Homemakers
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening is proof that you dont need a lot of space, time, or resources to produce nutrient-dense food for you and your family. Peter Burke has written a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to growing real food indoors. His soil sprouts method redefines the word garden.
BEN HEWITT , author of The Nourishing Homestead
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers an empowering path to growing food in any season and any living space, no matter the size or location. As a longtime grower of soil-sprouted greens, I appreciate Peter Burkes easy-to-understand style of teaching the basics. His book opens the door to an accessible way of integrating high-vibrational produce into our daily lives. This is an essential book for deepening our practices of self-reliance for greater quality of life.
KATRINA BLAIR , author of The Wild Wisdom of Weeds
Not just another sprouting book! Peter Burke offers new information that will inspire would-be sprouters, who never got started due to lack of space or time, as well as veteran growers of sprouts. This book is the answer for those who desire a fast crop with the least amount of effort, equipment, and expense. Im sold! Im dusting off my windowsills now.
NOMI SHANNON , creator of RawGourmet.com
and author of What Do Raw Fooders Eat?
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening is thorough and concisely written, making it a highly useful guide for both novice and advanced gardeners. Peter Burkes straightforward instructions are easy to understand and provide clear insight on how to produce an abundance of fresh soil-sprouted greens at any time of year. A helpful and inspiring resource for the inquisitive gardener.
STEVE RODRIGUE , crop specialist for Johnnys Selected Seeds
Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening is for anybody interested in eating local food; how much more local does it get than your windowsill? It is for anyone who wants to grow fresh greens in the winter. It is for anyone who likes a bargain; you spend pennies for greens that you could spend many dollars on. It is for anyone who is interested in eating greens for health; these sprouts are packed with health-promoting substances. It is for anyone who already gardens and for those who think they cant. Peter Burke makes growing easy and puts eating local, healthy, delicious food within everyones reach. This book is a game changer. I love it.
DR. CLAUDIA WELCH , author of
Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life
Peter Burkes book is a great resource for growing indoor salad greens. The chapters are set up in a simple sequence that is easy to follow. The excellent photos help to show what you should expect along the way. I have been using Peters method to teach my students how to grow indoor salad greens, and its also an excellent way to teach students of any age about sustainability, soil nutrition, and healthy eating, as well as basic plant requirements such as water, sunlight, and nutrients. Students love to grow soil sprouts because the results are so fastand delicious!
STEVEN COLANGELI , science and agriculture teacher
at Middlebury Union High School, Vermont
Year-Round Indoor
Salad Gardening
How to Grow Nutrient-Dense,
Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days
PETER BURKE 
Chelsea Green Publishing
White River Junction, Vermont
Copyright 2015 by Peter Burke.
All rights reserved.
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs by Peter Burke.
No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form
by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Developmental Editor: Makenna Goodman
Project Manager: Patricia Stone
Copy Editor: Deborah Heimann
Proofreader: Brianne Bardusch
Indexer: Shana Milkie
Designer: Melissa Jacobson
Printed in the United States of America.
First printing August, 2015.
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Our Commitment to Green Publishing
Chelsea Green sees publishing as a tool for cultural change and ecological stewardship. We strive to align our book manufacturing practices with our editorial mission and to reduce the impact of our business enterprise in the environment. We print our books and catalogs on chlorine-free recycled paper, using vegetable-based inks whenever possible. This book may cost slightly more because it was printed on paper that contains recycled fiber, and we hope youll agree that its worth it. Chelsea Green is a member of the Green Press Initiative ( www.greenpressinitiative.org ), a nonprofit coalition of publishers, manufacturers, and authors working to protect the worlds endangered forests and conserve natural resources. Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening was printed on paper supplied by QuadGraphics that contains at least 10% postconsumer recycled fiber.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burke, Peter, 1950 author.
Year-round indoor salad gardening : how to grow nutrient-dense,
soil-sprouted greens in less than 10 days / Peter Burke.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60358-615-3 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-60358-616-0 (ebook)
1. Salad greens. 2. Indoor gardening. I. Title. II. Title: How to grow
nutrient-dense, soil-sprouted greens in less than 10 days.
SB351.S25B87 2015
635.5dc23
2015013330
Chelsea Green Publishing
85 North Main Street, Suite 120
White River Junction, VT 05001
(802) 295-6300
www.chelseagreen.com
Introduction
This book is full of only good news. In a few simple steps you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months or throughout the entire year without a lot of special equipment. No lights, no pumps, no greenhouse needed. You probably already have most of what you need to get started, without even realizing it. More good news is that you can do this for a fraction of the cost of buying fresh greens from the market! As we struggle to find ways to change course from a consumer society to a sustainable society, here is one small step we all can make and be rewarded for the effort. I have seen it over and over in my classes, the excitement of gardeners who now know they can grow fresh greens every single day. I know it well because I am right there with them. And it is good news.
From spring to fall I harvest a wide variety of salad greens from my gardenbaskets of spinach in early spring, handfuls of tender young dill, tender Bibb lettuce leaves, snippets of mesclun, claytonia, corn salad, arugula. Adding to the leaves we have sugar snap peas, radishes, and early carrots, sweet and crisp. In the warmth of summer we harvest iceberg, romaine, Red Sails, and a variety of other lettuces to fill the salad bowl. By the end of summer we are eating salads of cucumber, tomato, peppers, and scallions. Good salad greens are like an artists palette of color to make delicious and beautiful salads. In the winter by contrast, sadly I am left with what is offered at the market and our coop. Grocers certainly do their best to offer salad greens in the winter, but even at their best the offerings are weeks old and have traveled many miles by the time they get to the store. Often enough the leaves are browning at the edges by the time I get them home from the store, or they have started to wilt in their plastic clam-shell containers. I notice that with the freshness goes the flavor!
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