One's youth? (5,4)

I believe the answer is:

salad days

(Other definitions for salad days that I've seen before include "Time for a vegetarian diet" , "Time of youth and inexperience" , "inexperienced youth" , "Carefree youth" , "times when she was young" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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