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Thanks to the mild winter leaf crops are still harvesting well with only protection from pigeons, Miss Haversham style under fine white netting. They are looking very pretty on the plate and tasting very nice on the palate. L – R: Lettuce ‘Valdor’ (sweet), blood-veined sorrel (sour), radicchio ‘Rosso di Treviso’ (bitter), lettuce ‘Lattughino’ (also …

This is a brilliant winter salad that you still just about sow direct into soil now outdoors here in central-ish London if it’s a sheltered spot, I reckon. The soil is still beautifully warm. I sowed these about two weeks before this picture was taken and they’ve been in the ground for ten days, doubling  …