Product Description

This fully revised and updated edition (previously published as The Salad Garden) includes extensive new material, particularly on oriental and fruiting vegetables and ornamental gardening, and is now entirely based on organic gardening practices. A guide to growing more than 200 salad plants, this book covers every aspect from site preparation to harvesting, detailing special techniques for growing salad plants and containing full descriptions of all the main salad vegetables with advice on the best varieties for growing and for flavour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119711 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Review
This illustrated book deals with all aspects of salad gardening and offers details on 200 salad plants while emphasising organic methods of gardening.

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.