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  • The English Home

    FROM PATCH TO PLATE Matthew fort

    Dec 02, 2020 3 minutes

    This is the season of hope, dreams and visions. This is the season of the seed catalogue. The spirit of cheery optimism floods the brain. In my mind’s eye, I see trim lines of frothy lettuces; fine, upstanding broad beans; the leaves of courgettes spreading like green umbrellas with yellow flowers flaming beneath them; feathery carrot tops; glossy beetroot leaves; sturdy turnips and elegant dandyish pea shoots curling this way and that. There’s room for radishes and onions, french beans and

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