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Perpetual Spinach

Perpetual Spinach spinach

Not a true spinach but a chard in disguise — and all the better for it, cropping for months after ordinary spinach has run to seed in the first warm spell. Cut it often and it simply keeps coming.

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Wilted greens with garlic and chilli

Hot pan, slick of olive oil, sliced garlic until golden, a pinch of chilli flakes, then the leaves for thirty seconds. A squeeze of lemon and it's done. The simplest good thing.

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