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to discover even more. Welcome to Grow Cookie to Range, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and this is episode

three of our mini-series, so these little short bites of information based on the kitchen

garden. And in this episode three, I really wanted

to concentrate on the plants. I would recommend anyone who came to me who had a small amount

of time, a small amount of space and a small amount of knowledge so far to grow. But even if you've got tons of knowledge,

this is worth just doing a sense check, I think,

as to are all these on your growing list?

Because for me, I really have thought about it,

and these are my prime life enhancers.

As I explained in episode two, I divide my year between August and April, i, about now and middle

of spring, and between April and August. And my favourite four herbs between August and April to grow and enjoy and harvest pretty

endlessly are flat-leave parsley. And I rather, in a way, have always been quite surprised that the one

called Giant of Napoli is, in our

trials here, the hardiest and the one we go and pick most. And actually, I was giving a talk at

Hay Literary Festival when my veg book came out in May June. And someone from the audience said,

they were so sort of bored of all chefs who ever write and do

TV cooking and stuff, always saying when parsley is mentioned, they always say use flat leaf

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