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Kale is not just for the hipsters
by Mat Coward

KALE’S somewhat bizarre trendiness in recent years shouldn’t be allowed to obscure the fact that it remains one of the best crops available for an allotment or vegetable garden.

It’s highly productive, relatively trouble-free, resistant to clubroot – which ruins many other brassicas – and fully hardy from north to south.

Seeds sown in a warm June will soon overtake those sown in a cold May and can be started outside in a seedbed or under cover in small pots.

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