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{Vegalicious} Rhubarb Salsa

March 29, 2009
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 Vegalicious March 2009:   Rhubarb Salsa     Rhubarb is such an amazing vegetable, used as a fruit. It’s so fun to go out in the garden on an early spring morning, still chilly with fog, and see the little red nubs of the rhubarb plant beginnin
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Community Garden {March}

March 16, 2009
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 New Routes: March 2009  by Jill Coleman     It has been so nice to see the sun at last and actually to feel warm when we are at work. Only a couple of weeks ago we could only make out the first stirrings of early growth on the New Routes site. Now t
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Winter Colour

March 14, 2009
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Hellebores are perfect plants for dull positions. Their beautiful paper blossoms are a league above many other plants grown for their winter colour such as hideous primula. They prefer part-shade and rich soil.
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Here we go round the mulberry bush

March 12, 2009
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Photo courtesy of Steve Thoroughgood Coming across a mulberry tree is always a lovely surprise. These beautiful trees awake a childlike enthusiasm in quite serious adults, as harvesting their fruit involves clambering through their gnarled branches a
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Shallots by Helen Lehndorf

March 2, 2009
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:shallots:, by Helen Lehdorf Hoorah for March turning up on our doorstep, fresh faced and full of beans. Now’s the time to sow your shallots indoors. Space about 5cm apart or grow in toilet roll tubes. Plant out in April after hardening off, an
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