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Planning my veggie patch

I see I've failed to make the Telegraph's list of top 30 British gardeners.

Despite getting a runner-up prize one year in the local village gardening competition in my part of Essex, I doubt I'd even make the top 300,000.....

I shall have to console myself by planning the veggie patch for the year ahead. I have dug in lots of manure and ash - and added a sprinkling of lime.

Once again, I'll be ordering my seeds online from Alan Romans. I recommend this firm as they manage to provide me with first class seeds each year at a very reasonable price. What I fail to do with them afterwards is my fault.

As I imagine all the rows of beans and peas and lettuce I'll be sowing in the spring, winter somehow seems shorter.

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