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I'm going to copy a lovely combination I saw at a friend's house, also grown at the allotment. My friend's vase contained yellow sunflowers and yellow dahlias (any yellow dahlia will do) and what looked like pale yellow daisies with a chocolate

, but absolutely delicious, and costs a fortune when you have it in restaurants or buy it from a delicatessen. (If you want the soft, round type go for the beautiful, mottled yellow and red R. 'Castelfranco'.)There is no point in planting radicchio earlier

', 'Pikant', 'Hative de Niort', 'Jermor', 'Red Sun' (as the name suggests, a lovely colour to chop and add raw to salsa and salads) and 'Yellow Moon'.Apart from 'Hative de Niort', they all had excellent keeping qualities, but my favourite shallot in looks

favourites:"Yellow Champagne' is a lovely variety, along with 'Golden Drop', he says. "They are both quite sweet"."'Red Champagne' has an attractive colour and 'Langley Gage' is reckoned to have one of the best flavours." Prune gooseberries early in the year