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I've recently been working my way through 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People', a self-help book by Stephen Covey, and was immensely impressed that it has something to teach us gardeners.In the book, Covey describes how he got his son to look

's unlike anything I've ever eaten before (others in the series like 'Mayan Gold', are equally distinctive). This is a great potato for kitchen gardeners to have in their repertoire, to pull out when something punchy to add contrast or balance is needed. I

in my gardening habits, so you'll rarely find me on the plot on 21 December.There's still plenty of time to order and plant shallots or find them in garden centres - I've got away with planting them in at the end of April and still had a good crop

the garden centre, ready to plant.Plant them 10cm apart (15cm if you want bigger onions) and keep them well watered in dry weather. Onions don't like growing in recently manured ground, but they do like fairly rich soil, so if you have any home-made compost