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Sowing winter vegetables
This month's GYO Wicked Leeks gardening column tackles what winter veg to start sowing now to bring colour to your winter veg patch.
By Sarah Brown - 30th July 2020
0Sarah Brown writes and edits the growing advice pages for Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, which aims to get everyone growing ‘the organic way’ through campaigning, advice, community work and research. She also writes a monthly organic growing advice column for Wicked Leeks. A committed and long-term organic gardener, Sarah also produces The Organic Gardening Podcast each month with grower Chris Collins, which was shortlisted for the Gardening Media Guild’s Podcast of the Year 2019.
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