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.
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
Publication Details:
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages ISBN: 9780711226128 Format: 245mm x 192mm
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