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Your LETTERS TO WENDY

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Spring forward

AS a subscriber and keen gardener, I’ve already started planting, today is 6 February, the garlic is growing well, broad beans are tasting the soil in my raised beds, tomato seeds are planted in 16oz disposable cups in my greenhouse, lettuce plants in abundance all surfacing well, need I go on?

However, my enthusiasm is curbed when you

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