I m glad you like the salad book.
Yes you can remove some leaves when transplanting but I think plants are best left to do that themselves, they are good at shedding unwanted leaves when under stress or ‘losing’ bits of green leaf which go yellow, as on some of my French beans at the moment. Someone did a trial with leek plants and found that those left untrimmed at transplanting grew just as well or better than those which had their ends trimmed off.
