The Organic Salad Garden [Paperback]

Joy Larkcom (Author), Roger Phillips (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2006

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.

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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

About the Author

Joy Larkcom is Britain's most respected vegetable garden maker and 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 prestigious Veitch Memorial Medal for horticulture in 1993.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln (December 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0711222045
• ISBN-13: 978-0711222045
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,457,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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When a book is entirely based on organic gardening principles and practices I take notice. And when the focus is on growing more than 200 salad plants, and the book covers every aspect from site preparation to harvesting, and 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 flavor - as one reviewer puts it .... I simply cannot and will not hesitate to purchase it. And I have not been disappointed. Beyond belief. Everything and anything I have EVER wanted to know about salad gardening - whew !!!!!!!!!!! My goodness Ms Joy Larkcom - as you say in your Introduction this book indeed has been a 'voyage of discovery". And likewise for me. You have given me insights and new thoughts I never would have dreamed possible. My salad garden is never going to be the same because you do not just talk about lettuce - you share with us insights into not only the leafy salad plants - but the stems and stalks, fruiting vegetables, the onion family, rooting vegetables, peas and beans, herbs, flowers, and an extra special blessing 'wild plants'. Then to top it all off we are more than blessed throughout the book with the incredible full color photography of Roger Phillips; plus, adding to this Mr. Phillips surprises us with images in an advanced photographic technique in the manner of botanical drawings that gives us a book that you will want to treasure.