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Greenhouse growing

Right now, the greenhouse is my favourite place to be. It’s dry, so a welcome place to shelter from the blustery garden, but it’s also where I can get planting again, to add some fresh flavours to my winter harvest.

This month, I’ll be showing you how to use your greenhouse, polytunnel or whatever covered space you have, to fill your family’s plates with mouthwatering home-grown food even in the off season. I wouldn’t be without my little aluminium eight-by-six (2.4m x 1.8m) greenhouse at this time of year: it extends my summer harvests, then lets me reboot my supplies – many crops

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