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May is such a lovely month in the garden – the young courgette, pepper, aubergine and tomato seedlings are now well underway, and you can keep on sowing seeds of other vegetable crops such as beetroot and cauliflower.

And if you sowed your peas early enough, you’ll get an early crop by the end of the month. Last year I sowed a few different varieties and was able to harvest enough to give some to my then six-month-old daughter as her first greens (made

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