A GOOD READ

Back in the early 1980s, Joy Larkcom was a true salad pioneer. While most of us were still toying with traditional round lettuce, she was cultivating red ‘Lollo Rossa’, chicory, mizuna, winter purslane, pak choi and endive. Joy introduced us to ‘cut-and-come-again’ salad growing and, thanks to her, we can enjoy an array of different varieties harvested straight from the plot. Gain the benefit of her comprehensive advice in the revised version of her musthave book The Salad Garden (Frances Lincoln, £16.99).