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Oriental Vegetables Joy Larkcom

Oriental Vegetables By Joy Larkcom

Oriental Vegetables by Joy Larkcom


£16.99
Condition - Very Good
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Summary

Revised edition of Joy Larkcom's guide to growing the vegetables of the Far East. Includes 50 delicious recipes.

Oriental Vegetables Summary

Oriental Vegetables by Joy Larkcom

Here is a revised edition of vegetable guru Joy Larkcom's guide to the vegetables of the Far East. Based on 10 years of research, it features a cornucopia of crops: a whole new world of vegetables that includes hardy leafy mustards, komatsuna, Chinese yams, lablab beans, Japanese pumpkin and water bamboo - all full of flavour, versatile and easy to grow.
Joy Larkcom shows how Western gardeners can grow these vegetables, whatever their weather, whatever their soil type. Using organic methods and both traditional and modern techniques, she takes you through each stage of cultivation, and provides over 50 of her own delicious recipes.

Oriental Vegetables Reviews

Joy Larkcom has almost single-handedly promoted oriental vegetables to British gardeners... It is the only book anyone will need on this fascinating subject. Joy brings all her enthusiasm, based on her wide travels and experience of actually growing vegetables, to the book... In a world of vegetable writing, Joy Larkcom towers above her contempories and when it comes to oriental vegetable writing no one else is even in sight. Birmingham Post It isn't very often in gardening that you read a book that stands out from all others and is likely to influence your approach to a subject, written from the heart, and the author's knowledge and passion for the subject is highly contagious... Gardens Illustrated Details of how easy it is to grow. If you like to grow Oriental vegetables at all, it is indispensable. Times If you want to grow great, unusual things to eat that you wont find in the shops, then Joy Larkcom is the queen. English Garden

About Joy Larkcom

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).

Additional information

GOR005223881
9780711226128
0711226121
Oriental Vegetables by Joy Larkcom
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Quarto Publishing PLC
20070511
288
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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