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The sputnik-shaped veg that’s easy to grow
MAT COWARD explains how to cultivate a tasty crop of kohlrabi that’ll be ready to eat by midsummer
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ONE of those vegetables that appears in all seed catalogues, but rather fewer gardens, kohlrabi is the Sputnik-shaped brassica that produces a ball of crisp, juicy, sweet flesh on its stem, just above the soil.
It’s relatively easy to grow and yields a decent amount of food for the space and time it takes up.
It’s also an easy crop to find uses for, cooked as a root vegetable or grated in salads.
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