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FRUIT AND VEG

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Keep some fleece and a few bricks handy to cover tender crops when frosty nights threaten. Hold the fleece down with the bricks. This covering is enough to protect against light frosts and faster to put in place than cloche tunnels in an emergency.

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Grow rhubarb

Dig some well-rotted manure into the ground to prepare a site for growing rhubarb. Rhubarb does best in a sunny position in soil that offers good

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