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but today, again, you've got me on my own because I wanted to really get across my passion for sewing things from seed.

Or you can cheat and get them as seedlings, of course,

but as we start the year, I think it's really lovely to plant to sow some seeds.

So last week I talked about my absolute 12 favorite ornamental flowery plants that you might want to sew from the beginning of January till the end of March and giving you the list of which ones to do when.

And I want to do exactly the same today with the edibles.

So before I sort of start on which are my top recommendations, it's just why bother, I guess? Well, I really find in our increasingly troubled world,

the thing of being able to walk out, and I know and I fully admit that I'm extremely lucky,

I live on a farm, I've got plenty of space, and I've got enough time and also people to help me

to grow the stuff. So it's all very well for me and I do know that. But genuinely, wherever I

lived, and I'm not always going to live here probably,

if I lived in a high rise on the 50th floor, I would still want to grow some of my own food,

and flowers, because the thing of walking out or just stepping out onto a balcony and harvesting

something that is cut and come again.

So it's not one minute wonder in that once I've picked it, it's not there.

Once I've picked it, it grows back again.

It just gives me such incredible pleasure.

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