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How resilient are your vegetables in weird weather?

Vegetable growers may be lamenting the weird winter – warm and cold, wet and windy, incessant rain, consistently unpredictable.

“There’s no longer seasonality as we were previously used to,” says Kim Stoddart, author of The Climate Change-Resilient Vegetable Garden, a new book which outlines a clear path toward building resilience in your vegetable plants and your soil.

Editor of Amateur Gardening magazine, Stoddart runs courses on climate change-savvy growing from her training gardens in west Wales. She says: “Weather systems are getting stuck. We’ve just

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