About the Author

Joy Larkcom is Britain's most respected vegetable garden maker and writer. She runs an experimental market garden in Suffolk, and is a regular contributor to the Royal Horticultural Society journal, The Garden, and to Popular Gardening and The Kitchen Garden. Among her best-known books are The

Reviews

'The woman who has done more to bring our attention to the world riches in vegetables than anyone since John Evelyn... is Joy Larkcom.... She has just written a magnificent book.' Colin Spencer, The Guardian