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Grow your own Popeye power

Spinach is a great crop to grow if one is new to gardening or has limited space available for growing food. Although it is one of the more inexpensive items in the produce aisle it is often not fresh enough to look very appetising.

Growing your own food has a much larger beneficial impact on scarce resources such as water than most people realise. Vast amounts of produce never make it to consumers’ tables and end up as waste somewhere, rotting away, causing environmental hazards or attracting vermin. One does not need a dedicated vegetable patch either: productive

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