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lucky the Central Committee for Agriculture may plant some of my annual flowers for the cutting bed I had planned, but for all I know they could be planning to dig the whole lot up and plant nothing but potatoes!

with genetic make-up as it does with horticultural aptitude.  The subject was on my mind a while back when I went on my annual pilgrimage to see my mate Natasha in Rugby who tends to three plots. Her acreage backs on to a plot owned by John, a lovely man who

centre. The latter turned out to be an annual chrysanthemum: 'Eastern Star'. All of the above are easy to grow and will also help attract vital pollinators to your vegetable crops.There's still time to get dahlias started now and get a head start

of lettuce etc.A word on fruit crops: this is taken to mean anything which has the seed in the part where it's edible, so: artichokes, courgettes, cucumbers are all classed as fruit as well as what we traditionally call fruit.Annual flowers should be planted