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THERE’S a whole group of leafy vegetables which grow better when sown after the longest day, rather than before.
They are all brassicas, and therefore members of the mustard family, and so have, to varying degrees, hot or cabbagey flavours.
You’ll usually find the seeds and young plants listed in catalogues and online under oriental greens, or as mustard greens.
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