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And this is episode five of our Kitchen Garden mini-series, which are the nuggets I think you need as a beginner or somebody who wants to sort of reset and re-enthusing about their veg patch

or their veg window box or whatever it is.

In the previous two episodes, I did my favourite herbs and then my favourite salads.

And to be complete, to give us the full gamut, I wanted to do favourite veg.

So you might think, well, they're all veg, but, you know, herbs are herbs.

Salads are salads and veg is veg.

And what I mean by veg is leafy greens, fruiting veg like tomatoes and cucumbers and chilies, etc. Rootty veg, no, that's what I

consider to be veg. And if you listen to an earlier episode, you will hear me saying very clearly

that I divide my year between August and April with hardy annuals mainly and perennials and April to

August with half hardy annuals.

And that applies with veg chew.

So I've picked four, as I did with the herbs and the salads.

And the first is a leafy green.

And I guess these are probably the thing I eat more than anything else.

And that is Swiss chard.

And Swiss chard is the one with the big chunky white stems and the green leaf.

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