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    HAPPY HARVESTING

    Sep 28, 2021 4 minutes

    Cooler days and nights means that it is time to harvest the last of the vegetables that are unlikely to survive the winter months outside. Hard frosts can damage hearting chicories and radicchios, so I cut these and store them, still with their outer leaves on, in crates in the shed. They can last for months this way: just remove the outer leaves to reveal the crisp heart before eating. Loose-leaf chicories are left in situ all winter to be harvested as needed.

    FENNEL

    Florence fennel, which I grow in the polytunnel throughout the winter, can be badly damaged by icy weather,

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