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    Edible eye candy

    Apr 14, 2022 2 minutes
    WORDS BOB PURNELL
    PHOTOS
    JASON INGRAM

    can yield a tasty bounty of fresh veggies and herbs, and every morsel of home-grown food is not only a treat but helps reduce your carbon footprint, even if only a little. Where space is precious, plants that look as great as they taste leap to the front of the queue and, happily, many cropping plants are very handsome.

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