{"id":1644,"date":"2016-07-15T18:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2016-07-15T18:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T22:03:32","slug":"book-indoor-salad-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/book-indoor-salad-gardening.html","title":{"rendered":"Book Spotlight: Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening<\/a>: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days by Peter Burke<\/h2>\n

Published in\u00a02015, 192 pages<\/h4>\n

Get ready for a low-tech, no grow-lights approach to an abundant harvest of microgreens!<\/p>\n

This book shows how\u00a0you 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. All you need is a cupboard and a windowsill.<\/em><\/p>\n

Longtime gardener Peter Burke was tired of the growing season ending with the first frost. Due to his busy work schedule and family life, he didn\u2019t have the time or desire to bother\u00a0with\u00a0high-input grow lights or greenhouses. Most techniques for growing what are commonly referred to as microgreens<\/em> left him feeling overwhelmed and uninterested. So, he\u00a0set out to find a\u00a0simpler way to grow salad greens\u00a0for his family indoors.<\/p>\n

After some research and diligent experimentation, Burke discovered that\u00a0not only was it\u00a0possible <\/em>to grow nutrient-packed microgreens indoors, but it was\u00a0easy, <\/em>too!\u00a0He didn\u2019t even need a south-facing window. And he already had most of the necessary\u00a0supplies sitting in his pantry. His\u00a0result: healthy, homegrown microgreens at a fraction of the cost of buying them at the market. His\u00a0secret: starting them in the dark!<\/p>\n

Burke refers\u00a0to sprouted seeds grown in soil as opposed to jars as “soil sprouts.” His method\u00a0encourages a long stem without expansive roots, and provides delicious salad greens in just seven to ten days–much\u00a0earlier, and with a lot\u00a0less work, than any other growing method. Indeed, of all the ways of growing\u00a0immature greens, Burke’s\u00a0is the easiest and most productive technique.<\/p>\n

So, 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<\/em> using just the windowsills in his kitchen!<\/p>\n

Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers detailed, step-by-step instructions to mastering this method. It’s so easy, it’s impossible to fail! This book\u00a0tells you what supplies you need to have on hand, including tools and accessories, seeds and greens varieties, soil and compost, trays and planters, and shelving. It also covers harvest and storage, recipes, scaling up to serve local markets, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 Days by Peter Burke Published in\u00a02015, 192 pages Get ready for a low-tech, no grow-lights approach to an abundant harvest of microgreens! This book shows how\u00a0you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,16,95,1],"tags":[179,180,175,176],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-spotlights","category-gardening","category-sprouting","category-uncategorized","tag-growing-microgreens","tag-growing-salad-greens","tag-soil-sprouts","tag-sprouted-seeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesteadersupply.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}