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SEASONAL SALAD LEAVES

One of the most rewarding veg plants to grow has to be the lettuce. What other crop can be sown and grown almost all year round, comes in a variety of shapes and colours, and can be eaten raw or cooked?

When I’m talking about lettuce I don’t just mean the traditional ‘Iceberg’ which can be found smothered in plastic in every shop in the land; I mean all the different varieties from romaine and cos, to butterhead and loose leaf ‘picking’ lettuce.

“There are a number of autumn and winter cropping varieties that will grow happily all throughout the

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