The Organic Salad Garden [Paperback]

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

The book is a must. It is beautiful to look at and the photographs enable me at last to identify the many different leafy salad plants I can grow. (Southern Star )

'will inspire you to create the kitchen garden of your dreams' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Joy covers every single aspect of growing organic salads' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'...a book which is difficult to recommend too highly' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'...every gardener growing for their tastebuds will learn so much from Joy.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'If the descriptions of individual crops don't inspire you to have a go, then the mouthwatering recipes at the end will certainly convert you.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'This book should turn 'Eat your greens!' from an order to an enticement.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Bursting with practical advice... a great range of easy-to-grow tasty things and down to earth suggestions on growing' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'Roger Phillip's glorious images of salad vegetables...combined with Joy Larkcom's wealth of knowledge, make this a must for food-producing gardeners.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

Joy Larkcom is Britain's most respected vegetable garden maker and gardening writer. She has contributed to many magazines and newspapers, radio and TV programmes and has lectured all over the world. Her accolades include the Garden Writer of the Year award (three times); Lifetime Achievement Award from the Garden Writers' Guild in 2003, and the Veitch Memorial Medal for horticulture, the RHS's highest honour, in 1993. Her other titles for Frances Lincoln are Oriental Vegetables (ISBN 9780711236128), Grow Your Own Vegetables (ISBN 9780711219632) and The Organic Salad Garden (ISBN 9780711222045).