Download Course Brochure: Growing Edible Greens and Flowers-20hr

Learn to grow not only lettuce, but an amazingly diverse range of vegetables that can be eaten raw in salads.

Salads can be anything but boring; and the commercial opportunities for growers and cooks can be vastly expanded after doing this course.

We have spent decades growing, researching and using all sorts of edible leaves and flowers for salads. We’ve collected an amazing array of reference books to support this course; many which are now difficult to find; nevertheless rich, valuable references to support our students.

CONTENTS OF THE COURSE

LESSON 1 – DECIDING HOW TO GROW

• What leaves are edible?
• How to grow leaf vegetables
• Review what you have been learning

LESSON 2 – PROPAGATING LEAF VEGETABLES

• Sourcing seed
• Seed propagation
• Review what you have been learning

LESSON 3 – HARVESTING, STORING USING

• Harvesting vegetables
• Extending the shelf life
• Creating a salad
• Review what you have been learning

PART 2 THE LEAF VEGETABLES

LESSON 4 – LETTUCE ITS RELATIVES (Asteraceae)

• Lettuce
• Types of lettuce
• Lettuce relatives
• Chicory
• Radicchio
• Endive
• Dandelion

LESSON 5 – SPINACH ITS RELATIVES (Amaranthaceae)

• Spinach and chard
• Spinach
• Chard or silverbeet
• Amaranth
• Orach

LESSON 6 – CELERY & ITS RELATIVES (Apiaceae)

• Celery
• Coriander
• Parsley

LESSON 7 – BRASSICAS

• Growing conditions
• Cabbage
• Watercress
• Garden cress
• Land cress
• Wasabi
• Rocket

LESSON 8 – MICROGREENS (Sprouts)

• What they are
• Types of sprouts

LESSON 9 – EDIBLE FLOWERS

• Flowers as food
• How to use edible flowers
• Some edible flowers to grow
• Review what you have been learning

LESSON 10 – OTHER LEAF SALAD VEGETABLES

• Chenopods
• Salad burnet
• Summer purslane
• Warrigal greens
• Pigface
• Corn salad
• Ice plant
• Malabar spinach
• Sorrel