Product Description

Revised and updated, this guide to growing salad plants covers every aspect of the topic from site preparation to harvesting, detailing special techniques for growing salad plants and advice on the best varieties for growing and for flavour. "The Salad Garden" discusses more than 200 plants, from traditional salad vegetables, such as lettuces, chicories and endives, through to equally delicious lesser-known ones such as oriental brassicas and striped tomatoes, and including herbs, wild plants and flowers. It explains how to plan a salad garden to obtain maximum yields from limited space and how to grow crops for year-round use.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #926403 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-04
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Review
'The edible gardener's bible' THE OBSERVER

Sunday Telegraph, 2nd December 2001
'will inspire you to create the kitchen garden of your dreams'

The Mirror, 8th December 2001
'Joy covers every single aspect of growing organic salads'

Customer Reviews

Attractive and instructive
An excellent introduction and reference book for growing salad plants. The usual supects are covered as well as some rather more obscure ones. Creatively illustrated with marvelous photography, Larkcom firstly arranges chapters of salad plants such as stems and stalks, fruiting vegetables etc., as you would expect, but also flowers, herbs and wild plants. She then turns her attention to cultivation and finally ends with a few recipes. Anyone interested in starting a small kitchen garden, allotment or potager will find this invaluable and desperately inspiring. Joy Larkcom has been growing food since the seventies and her knowlege and clear style are inspiring.